Could not contribute, since his Ninety-One

Was mortgaged to the Editors already.

'Twas rough on you, indeed, in such a way,

By thinking you were he, to dim your glory.

Yet pray believe I really grieve to say

I mixed you up with quite "another story"!


DRAMATIC ILLUSTRATION OF AN ADVERTISEMENT.—In one of the advertising columns of the Times the paragraph appeared one day last week. The newspaper containing it lay on the table of a drawing-room. Elderly beau was making up (he was accustomed to making-up in another sense, as his wig and whiskers could testify) to charming young lady. Such was the scene. He asked her to accept him. Her reply was to show him the heading of this advertisement in the Times:—"YOUTH WANTED." Tableau! Exit Beau. Curtain.