Lord R. to Brit. Min., B.—Sorry to say, European complications have now arisen from Jones incident. Swiss Government has offered its fleet to Russia and France. Triple Alliance tottering. Can't you get Swiss Government to apologise to Jones, and end business?
Brit. Min. to Lord R.—Business is ended. Jones not a British subject after all, but a Swede, who's travelled in America! Recall gunboat.
THE SPREAD OF CULTURE DOWNWARDS.
"Ullo, Mary, what's this? Name of the 'Ouse?" "No, Mr. Ignorance; it's a Latin word, and means 'Please to Wipe your Feet!'"
"RESH'PROSH'TY."
["What struck the Tzar ... in the recent festivities, was the feeling of fraternity which seemed to pervade the multitude.... The feeling of concord and fraternity appears to survive the last echoes of the festivities ... The word now most frequently heard is 'Amnesty.' This, indeed, is the fittest coping-stone to prolonged festivities characterised by universal concord."—Times' Paris Correspondent.]