'Hope you backed the Winner?'
"My dear Fellow, only too delighted. But you never told me!"
A Really Big Purchase by a Private Individual, at a very Moderate Figure.—For 260 guineas Mr. W. Agnew purchased "Lambeth Palace—in the distance." It is no "distance" to speak of, as twopence more will take the purchaser by steam-boat from almost any landing-stage across the river to Lambeth. It should perhaps be added, so as not to frighten the Archbishop of Canterbury, that in the purchase were included "Old Westminster Bridge (a view of), with State Barges and Boats." The whole Thames-water-colour having been painted in oil by Scott. This lot, by Great Scott, went as above-mentioned.
Musical Exercise for Bicyclists.—Try Wagner's "'Cycle."
"Wants To Know."—"Dear Sir,—I saw a paragraph in the Times quite recently headed 'A Confirmed Pickpocket.' I am all for the religious improvement of the dangerous classes, and what I want to know is Firstly, Was the lad a pickpocket before he was confirmed? Secondly, Or, did he become a pickpocket after confirmation? Thirdly, What bishop or curate was responsible for his confirmation? Other questions arise out of this case, but these are enough for the present.
Yours, A Female Searcher."