Hope Dispelled.—The music-hall proprietors must have been in high spirits at the commencement of the sittings of the Licensing Committee when they heard that "Mr. Roberts" was to be the chairman. Of course, to them there is but one "Roberts," which his prénom is "Arthur"—and unfortunately there appeared as chairman "not this Arthur, but another."
In the course of conversation, the other evening, Mrs. R. remembered that "The Margarine" is a German title. "Isn't there," she asked, "a Margarine of Hesse?"
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A PIER OF THE EMPIRE.
(By a Commoner of the Nation.)