"Mrs. —— Requires useful Ladies' Maid, for Bath and country; only ex-soldier or sailor need apply."—Provincial Paper.
A job that will obviously need a man of proved courage.
WISDOM UP TO DATE—12TH EDITION.
[The Times has announced, in two consecutive issues, that Mr. Hugh Chisholm has retired from the control of its financial columns in order to resume his editorship of the Encyclopædia Britannica. One seems here to catch a faint echo of the proprietary booming of the 10th Edition by The Times and Mr. Hooper. The present publishers are the Cambridge University Press.]
It is a common object of remark
How many things in life are periodic,
Some punctual (like the nesting of the lark,
Or Derby-day), and others more spasmodic,