And that's an A and a couple of S's!


Another Meaning.—I Rantzau is the title of Mascagni's new Opera. The title, anglicised, would be suitable for an old-fashioned transpontine melodramatic tragedian, who could certainly say of himself, "I rant so!"


Shakspearian Conundrum.

At what time would Shakspeare's heroine of The Taming of the Shrew have been eminently fitted to be a modern Sunday-School teacher?

Answer. When Petruchio kissed her; because then she was a Kattie Kiss'd. (Hem! A Cate-chist.)


ALL ROUND THE FAIR.