Davos Platz, Engadine.
“Stop, gaze, and live!”
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.
“A sweet open summer’s resort.”
A very appropriate anagram that exactly describes its subject is this:—Cleopatra’s Needle, London—“An old lone stone replaced.” Very suggestive, too, are these short ones, which assure us that skeletons are “not sleek,” and that editors are “so tired!”
No. LXXV.—HOGARTH’S PUZZLE
A soldier, a dog, and a door can be thus drawn by only three strokes of a pen:—
It is said that this originated with Hogarth, who made a bet with his boon companions that he would draw a soldier, a dog, and a door in three strokes. For the bayonet he drew a pike.
No. LXXVI.—A REBUS
Why is this “Joker” like a poor joke?
Because he is in an E (inane).