Tommy (to Caller). "Oh, we've been having such Fun! Papa has been putting on Mamma's Hair and frightening Baby!"


LITTLE MASTER MINORITY.

A Dialogue in Dialect, some way after Bret Harte's "Jim."

[Referring, in the course of conversation, to the deadlock in the Senate, Mr. Chamberlain said:—"My opinion is that the Americans are the most patient people on the globe. Such an outcome from an organised system of obstruction would be impossible in England, which I venture to say, with my foot on New York soil, is far more democratic than America. Democracy, as I take it, means the government of the people by the people."—The "Times'" New York Correspondent, Oct. 13.]

"Cœlum, non (?) animum, mutant, qui trans mare currunt."

Jonathan to Joseph, loquitur:

Say thar! P'r'aps

You're of them chaps

Approve this child,