Can Ossa speak? And would

they say 'Canossa?'"

A would-be Competitor sends this,—

"Here lies BISMARCK—

He made his mark."

A Correspondent writes:—"I haven't an epitaph handy about BISMARCK, but here's one on a billiard-marker, buried, of course at Kew:—

"'Rem acu tetigi,' let this attest,

Now he has gone away for his long rest."

Yours,

NIL DE MORTUIS."