Scientific Writer takes it up.—They were, of course, desirous of transmitting their important despatch to head-quarters.
"You want to know upon what system the telephone is worked?" queried the operator, as he prepared a black-board, and took up a piece of chalk. They bowed acquiescence. "You must know," said he, "that if we represent the motive-power by x, we shall—."
Lady Correspondent turned on.—Before he could complete his sentence, Lady FLORA uttered a cry.
"What a charming gown! Why, it is the prettiest I have seen in my life!" and she gazed with increasing delight at the lady beneath on the boulevard. Then she began to explain the costume to her two male companions. She showed them that an under-skirt of snuff, with a waist of orange-blue, both made of some soft fluffy material (which can be obtained, by the way, at Messrs. SOWE AND SOWE), made an admirable contrast.
Naval Correspondent puts finishing touch.—[Please end up briskly.—ED.].—And they left Paris, and embarking on H.M.S. Ramrod, met a gale, and foundered. When they were picked up they were both dead.—[THE END.]
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No. IV.—TO POMPOSITY.
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