And the great harts roar a challenge as the twilight meets the dark,
And at half-past five or so,
There are lights that flash and glow,
Thrilling upward in the quiet out of Kingston down below?
"RICHARD THE THIRD" ADAPTED
London Smoke (tyrant and murderer): "Methinks there are two Richmonds in the field."
(A Mr. Richmond writes to The Times in support of the Anti-Smoke campaign of Sir William B. Richmond, K.C.B., R.A. Mr. Punch says, heartily, "Let 'em all come, and more power to their elbows!")
The End of the Westminster Aquarium
I do not find that Punch in his record of "disappearances" notes the disuse of hatchments, but he duly chronicles at the close of 1895 the termination of the last of the old turnpike trusts on November 1. "Vanishing London" generally moved him to elegy. Over the Lowther Arcade, which was closed in 1898 by the sale of the Crown lease, he did not waste many tears, and the end of the Westminster Aquarium in January, 1903, did not excite any passionate regret. Still, Punch had seen many strange shows and celebrities within its walls—Blondin, Zazel and Zaeo, Slavin and Sullivan, Pongo the Ape, Sandow the strong man, John Roberts the master of the cue; and a certain mitigated melancholy broods over Punch as we watch him