Hostess. "You've eaten hardly anything, Mr. Simpkins!"
Mr. S. "My dear lady, I've Dined 'wisely, but not too well!'"
THE COREAN COCK-FIGHT.
Bruin. "HA!—WHICHEVER WINS, I SEE MY WAY TO A DINNER!"
THE COREAN COCK-FIGHT.
["Russia's love of peace is outweighed by her duty to safeguard her vital interests, which would seriously suffer were Japan or China to modify the present state of things in Corea."—Official Russian view of the Corean situation, given by "Daily Telegraph" Correspondent at St. Petersburg.]
Bruin, loquitur.