Student (with taste for natural history). Please, sir, a tomtit.
Irish Item.—There have been floods in Cork. Cork, as usual, kept afloat notwithstanding.
ALLOPATHY.—Paddy (he has brought a prescription to the chemist, who is carefully weighing a very minute portion of calomel). "Oi beg yer pardon, sor, but y'are mighty nare wid that mid'cine! And—(coaxingly)—I may tell ye—'tis for a poor motherliss child!!"
