Yankee. Which I calc’late it’s all owin’ to the vast improvements effected in clocks by our great country.

THE REAL.

Mary Jane in reply to Olivia.

“The same romantic creature as ever! His name is not Algernon, but plain Robert; and he’s not an Apelles, but a hard-working fellow, with enough of genius to make me proud of him. As to his model—etc., etc. [For “The Ideal,” see [p. 156].

PLEASURES OF THE STUDIO.

At the beginning of April, when every moment is of consequence, Mr. Flake White’s model for Hamlet appears with a black eye, which he declares is the effect of influenza.

A HAPPY MEDIUM.

Dealer. Ah! there’s good transparency there. What do you mix your colour with?

Artist. Brains.