That Mr. Punch kept young whilst she grew older!

Yet if it is indeed the Fourth Centenary

Or Jubilee the Ninth since holy 'ENERY

Became the founder of a Royal College—

Well, Mr. Punch prefers to have no knowledge.

He only does not know—has never known a

More worthy toast than "Floreat Etona!"


The New Crusaders.

["Kaiser Wilhelm, according to a Berlin Journal, has given his consent to a lottery being instituted throughout the Empire 'for combating the slave trade in Africa.' Tickets to the amount of eight millions of marks will be issued, five and a half millions of which will be devoted to prizes."—Daily Telegraph Berlin Correspondent.]