Professors and Companies, if you would
Invent some sort of appliance
To dry "liquid air," on which we could
Repose implicit reliance,
Arranged to diminish this H2O,
Which, as every schoolboy ought to know,
The Germans call wasser, the French call eau,
We should bless your chemical science.


CON. FOR CAPITALISTS.

Q. Why is it clear the Sparrow is an advocate of Free Competition?

A. Because his everlasting cry is, "Cheep-Cheep!"


"The Gothenburg System."—Mrs. R. warmly espouses the cause of Temperance. She is very strong on what she has heard is called "The Gotobed System," in Sweden.


PILL-DOCTOR HERDAL.

(Translated from the Original Norwegian by Mr. Punch.)