"Refusal to Pay a Levy in Ireland."—This was what Mrs. Ram saw as the heading of a paragraph in an evening paper. "Well," said the good lady, "if they won't pay a Levy, why not send a Moses, and see if he will get it."
The Plentiful Lac.
[The Rajah of Kupurthala, emulating the Nizam, has offered five lacs towards the defence of the frontiers of India.]
The Laureate, patriot of sense,
Writes with a pungent pen
Of "That eternal lack of pence
Which vexeth public men."
But India's public men, with pride,
In Princes such as these,