BABY-WORSHIP. (THE POINT OF VIEW.)

"Your Nieces seem very fond of Babies, Mr. Sinnick. I suppose you are too?"

"Oh yes; like 'em awfully; especially when they begin to Cry."

"Ah, you think the dear little things are in pain?"

"Yes; and somebody rings the Bell, you know, and the Nurse comes, and the dear little things are taken away to the Nursery!"


THE HANDY BOY.

["In the office he held, which in reality was much too heavy for any single man to bear, it was necessary to live almost a monastic life, and the eight hours which some persons regarded as a maximum of toil seemed to those who occupied that position a dim and distant and golden vision."—Lord Rosebery, at the opening of the Battersea Town Hall.]

The Missis soliloquiseth:—

Ah! he's really the usefullest boy, that