"Epsom Spring Meeting."—In former times this used to be a fashionable rendezvous for invalids who went there to drink the beneficial waters of the Epsom Spring. Now there is not much water taken at these Spring Meetings; and what water is taken is not "an unmixed good."


A Lesson in "Book-keeping."—Never lend one.


AFTER THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW.

Scene—An Office. Brown and Jones discovered talking over the incidents of the recent holiday.

Brown. Yes; I was up at six on the Monday.

Jones. Well, you were in luck; for I had to be ready by four. The battalion had to be drawn up at the station by 4·45.

Brown. To be sure. You went down before we did.

Jones. Yes. I wish we had got some coffee before starting.