SHEER IGNORANCE.
Benevolent Person. "Come, my little Man, you mustn't Cry like that!"
Boy. "Garn! 'Ow am I to Cry then?"
"THE COMING OF ARTHUR."
["We understand that Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, the dramatist, intends to drop the surname by which he has hitherto been known to the public. In future he will accordingly be known as Mr. Henry Arthur."—Daily News, October 30.]
An eminent dramatist having abandoned one of his names, it is believed that the surname Arthur, henceforth so illustrious, will become extremely fashionable, and it is rumoured that the following gentlemen, amongst others, will re-arrange their names, and will immediately be elected members of Arthur's Club:—
The Right Hon. James Balfour Arthur; Mr. Justice Charles Arthur; Mr. Justice Kekewick Arthur; Sir Arnold Arthur; Sir Sullivan Arthur; Sir William Blomfield Arthur, A.R.A.; Mr. Hacker Arthur, A.R.A.; Mr. W. Pinero Arthur; Mr. Cecil Arthur; Mr. Robert S. Arthur.
*** Our "Enry Hauthor" is, as far as concerns dramatic authorship, "The Only Jones." Why descend from this pinnacle?—Ed.