"ARE YOU READY?"
(S-l-sb-ry and R-s-b-ry starting the Bicyclist Competitors B-lf-r and H-rc-rt.)]
SCRAPS FROM CHAPS.
A Real Uncrowned King.—At a meeting of the Town Commissioners of Kinsale, a report of the proceedings discloses a conversation of a truly remarkable kind—
"The Chairman thought that if they paid Mr. Punch his quarter's salary up to the 1st February they would be dealing very fairly with him, especially as they had appointed his son as his successor.... Messrs. Kiely and P. S. O'Connor contended that as Mr. Punch was never dismissed by them, and the non-performance of his duties was through no fault of his own, he was entitled to some remuneration."
MAKING ALLOWANCES.
The Little Minister. "How well you're looking, Mac-Cullum!"