Kent's choice 'twixt Party seems, and pup,
The question stirs the town,
Whether the Tories will give up,
Or Chaplin will climb down!
STUDIES IN REPARTEE.
Heavyside (Author of "Epaminondas" and other unread Epics). "By the bye, how much do you weigh, Binks?"
Little Binks. "Fourteen Stone!"
Heavyside. "Dear me! You don't look very Big, to weigh all that!"
Little Binks. "'Epaminondas' doesn't look very Big—but it's precious Heavy!">[
SLAPS FOR SLIPPERS.
Sir,—I am at a loss to understand what is the meaning of all this futile discussion as to the respective merits of the various kinds of road pavement. There cannot be a moment's doubt, as to which is, far and away, the cheapest, the safest, and—in a word—the—best. Without any hesitation, I maintain that it is the Asphalte. And I do not speak without experience. For many years I have picked mine up from the box-seat of a hearse, which I think my most virulent opponents will admit, from the ticklish character of its cattle, accustomed as they are to a stiff, formal and lugubrious method of progression, affords a test that must be regarded as supreme by all candid and unprejudiced inquirers into the matter under dispute.