A MOST ENTERTAINING OCCUPATION.

Smithson, having recently bought a Country Place and gone in for Sport, has been advised by a Friend to do his own exercising during hard weather, "as it insures your Horses against the neglect of Grooms, and also keeps you in form."

[He tries it, and finds it—as above.


"Hale Fellow, well met."—"Pierre Blanc, the hale Savoyard of eighty-eight, took his usual place in the French Chamber," reports the Times correspondent last week, "and delivered one of his customary addresses."

What a charming party of three,

Bismarck, Blanc, and Mr. G.,

Decidedly very much alive,

United ages Two Four Five!