Lady (buying music). "Oh, and have you got 'A Lover in Damascus'?"

New Girl. "Well, Ma'am, my fiancé was in Mespot, but he's back in Brixton now."


MODERN MOON-RAKERS.

Porta, the once notorious Michigander,

Who launched the now exploded solar slander,

Whereat ten thousand negroes stood aghast,

In one short month into oblivion passed,

But Pickering's momentous lunar screed