American women-bathers with an inclination to embonpoint, it is stated, have taken to painting dimples on their knees. The report that a fashionable New Yorker who does not care for the water has created the necessary illusion by having a lobster painted on her toe is probably premature.


A Bridgewater, Somerset, man of eighty (or octogeranium) has cancelled his wedding on the morning of the ceremony. A few more exhibitions of that kind and he will end up by being a bachelor.


First Indian Chief (of travelling show). "Brother Bellowing-Papoose, which is the way back to the circus?"
Second Ditto. "I know not. Let us ask this paleface."


There was a young lady of Beccles

Whose face was infested with freckles,