And, from the deeper depths that lay

Beyond the farthest reach of day,

A thin voice wailed, and, mocking it,

Crackled the laughter of the pit,

"Excelsior!"


Some Jumbo.

"Jumbo, the giant elephant of the Stosch-Parasani Circus in Berlin, has been killed for food, telegraphs the Amsterdam correspondent of The Daily Express. He yielded fifty-five tons of flesh."—Evening Paper (Glasgow).

If this statement had not come from Amsterdam we should have found some difficulty in believing it.