Daring Prophecy.—When it happens, it will be remembered how Mr. P.'s own prophet said of the retirement of President Faure, that it was "a Faure-gone conclusion." Verb. sap.
Note.—That Russia was to be allowed to occupy Port Arthur seems to have been a Port-"Arthurian legend."
SUMMER OUT OF SEASON.
["There is a theory.... according to which Texas owes its torrid climate to the fact that it is separated only by a sheet of brown paper from a reservoir of heat not of solar origin. During the last few days it must have occurred to many to suspect that the partition between ourselves and that great store of caloric must by some untoward accident have been reduced to something of Texan tenuity."—The Times.]
The summer had gone, from city and park,
But—in mid-September—came back for a lark!
And banged the thermometer up again.