"More butter is coming from Victoria," says the P. M. G., "to the Mother Country." Our Colonies are not given to supplying us with this article of food to any great extent. It is generally the Mother Country that has buttered the Colonies.


On Three Poets.

(By the Fourth Party.)

Swinburne, Austin, Morris,

Bardic busybodies,

Threnodies they wrote:—

They were the Three Noddies!


Mrs. R. says that, in this cold weather, whenever she wants to know if there is to be a change, she consults her thawmometer.