Mrs. R. wants to Know.—"Who was the celebrated Scotchman," she asks, "who took 'the Cameroons' to East Africa?"
SIR AQUARIUS TO THE RESCUE!
Or, The Valiant Knight of the Watering Pot, and the Laidly Dragon of London.
["The Report of the Royal Commission appointed for the purpose of ascertaining whether the sources available within the watersheds of the Thames and Lea are adequate in quantity and quality for the water supply of the metropolis, has been laid upon the table of the House of Commons.... The Commissioners are convinced that much filth of various kinds is discharged unnecessarily and illegally into the rivers.... They insist upon the necessity for frequent inspection by an authority appointed for the purpose.... The treatment of the water after abstraction from the river is a subject to which the Commissioners have devoted a good deal of attention ... they suggest that regulations should be drawn up after competent inquiry, and strictly enforced, the enforcement being entrusted to a Public Water Examiner, who should have the legal right of entry to all the waterworks."—The Times.]
Air—"The Dragon of Wantley."
Old stories tell how Hercules
A dragon slew at Lerna,