London Punch sent a pleasant greeting to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes on his retirement from the professorship at Harvard, in this form:
Your health, dear “Autocrat!” All England owns
Your instrument’s the lyre, and not “the Bones.”
Yet hear our wishes—trust us they’re not cold ones!
That though you give up bones, you may make old ones.
Take care, girls! A professor in Jefferson College, Philadelphia, says that the habitual use of arsenic “for the complexion” causes the clearness of the skin it produces at first to be succeeded by a puffy, dropsical condition.
President Arthur’s New Year reception was interrupted by the sudden death of one of his callers—the Minister from the Hawaiian Islands. The music ceased, but the handshaking went on.