Alas! We haven't mastered the transplanetic code; Your canals are yet a riddle, in vain your fires have glowed! Still, do not let your efforts each August-tide abate— You furnish us with "copy," which maintains the Fourth Estate!


Distinguished Visitors to Bournemouth.—The Royal Bath Hotel announces "Private Suites." Is "General Bitters" there also?


Educational Motto. (For Mr. Acland's use.)—"A place for every child, and every child in its place."


ON A CERTAIN CONDESCENSION IN FOREIGNERS.

He. "Oh, you're from America, are you? People often say to me, 'Don't you dislike Americans?' But I always say 'I believe there are some very nice ones among them.'"
She. "Ah, I dare say there may be Two or Three nice People amongst Sixty Millions!"