Amendment To Land Bill.—"That any tenant unable to pay his rent should sell his holding before the next gale day. That this process should be known for the purposes of this Act as 'The Sale before the Gale.'"
A CAUTION TO THE UNWARY!
He. "Allow me to take you in to Supper."
She. "Oh, do wait a minute! Look—there's that Man proposing to May Thissledown on the Balcony! I must see what she says!!"
A CHESS-SHIRE CHEESE.
Frankfort.—Had no end of a good time over here, at the Chess Congress. Played all the cracks, and beat 'em all! You mayn't have heard of this in the newspapers, because, for reasons which would not be of any general interest, I felt bound to enter under a false name. Blackburne said he'd "never seen such gambits as mine." Zukertort was so irritated at my beating him three times running, that he actually exclaimed, "Gambit all!"—Excuse the force of the expression; perhaps he thought he was in the Lobby of the House of Commons.—"I'll never play that fellow again as long as I live!" You'll see from this that, though the games weren't drawn, some of the competitors were.