THE GENTLE EGOTIST.
The Doctor. "AND WHICH OF YOU TWO LADIES IS THE INVALID?"
Elder Sister. "I'M SORRY TO SAY IT'S ME, DOCTOR!"
THE ROAD TO RUIN;
Or, The Real Military Long-Distance Ride.
["A quarter of a century hence, France will have more than four million trained soldiers, and Russia more than four millions and a half. We may deplore, as we will, this conversion of Europe into a vast camp, but the German Government, witnessing the development of such colossal armies on either hand, cannot be said to propose anything excessive or unnecessary when it asks, as it now does, for the means of raising the trained soldiers of the Empire to 4,400,000."—The "Times" on the German Army Bills.]