"All eyes in the boat" is their coach's first care,
And "a spin of twelve miles" is as naught to the fair.
Theatrical News.—During the absence of Beckett from London, and The Second Mrs. Tanqueray having left town, The Tempter in the Haymarket tried to entice Charley's Aunt from the Globe to go in for A Life of Pleasure at Drury Lane, but The Other Fellow from the Court induced her to go for A Trip to Chicago in The Vaudeville, where he cruelly abandoned her, to take up with La Fille de Madame Angot, at the Criterion. But she soon let him know what A Woman's Revenge at the Adelphi was like, and he sailed away in the Shaftesbury, Morocco Bound, pursued by Don Quixote, who had watched the proceedings from the Strand. The lady who in the meantime had obtained the fortunate talisman of La Mascotte from the Gaiety, was provided by Daly's Company with Dollars and Sense, and is now doing uncommonly well. But the villain, who would have made her his victim, will soon experience the result of Sowing the Wind at the Comedy.
"Subgraduatus Indignans" writes.—"Sir,—Within the last fortnight on one day I find in the Standard that 'seventy degrees were recorded at Cambridge!' How's this? During Long Vacation!! Who conferred these degrees? What degrees? Who got 'em? Where's the Vice-Chancellor? I pause for a reply. P S.—Beg pardon! Find I have overlooked head of paragraph, 'The falling barometer,' &c., &c., so that perhaps I may be in error."
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