Most interesting canine specimen this. The Managers of the Zoological Gardens should at once apply, if by this time they have not already done so, and secured the "Forty-tonner Bloodhound," with complete inventory, "built by Fife of Fairlie."


Nursery-Rhyme for the Neo-Crinolinists.

Girls and Matrons, who wins the day,

Now Winter and Jeune have had their say?

Come with a hoop to concert or ball,

Come with balloon-skirts, or come not at all!


A Candid Friend.

Scene—Brown's Study—the well-known "Brown's Study," of course. Brown is reading the fortieth chapter of his three-volume Autobiography to Jones.