"Um hurt me, um did,
Um buttlefly bites—in Japan!!!"
Modern Mangers.—Nearly all hotel advertisements prominently announce as among the principal attractions of each establishment "separate tables." It looks as if the "all-together-table-d'hôte-system" had failed by reason of "incompatibility of temper." Hence the divorce a mensâ. The long table with all the noses in a row down in the feeding-trough is by this time a remnant of barbarism. Yet the "boxes" common to the old eating-houses, such for example, as may still be seen in some parts of London both east and west, were "pernicious snug" and sufficiently private, too, for business conversation and confidential communications.
Serious, Very! Latest from China.—The Emperor has been consulting his physician, who, after careful diagnosis, has pronounced "Tung in bad condition, and Lung queer."
LYRE AND LANCET.
(A Story in Scenes.)