There's a proper sphere for everyone, beyond the slightest doubt."


TECHNICALITIES.

First Amateur Water-Colourist. "DO YOU WASH MUCH?"

Second Ditto Ditto. "NO; I SCRATCH A GOOD DEAL!"


"PUTTING ON THE HUG."

[During President CARNOT's tour he received at Aix-les-Bains "a delegation of children." One of these, clad in a Russian dress, offered him a bunch of flowers, repeating a stanza written for the occasion. M. CARNOT, amid cries of "Vive la France!" "Vive la Russie!" "Vive Carnot!" "Vive la République!" kissed the little girl, saying, "J'embrasse la Russie!">[