The Hippopotamus (of the Zoological Gardens).
"P.S. Will you believe it, the fashionable world is now running, 'like mad,' after two little monkeys they call Aztecs? The ladies actually kiss them! It makes one sick merely to think of it."
Fearful Accident to a Great Civic Authority.
The Times, in describing the late accident on the Great Northern Railway, assures us, first, that the Lord Mayor escaped with a trifling injury, but on the next day informs us that his Lordship continues "to swallow with difficulty." As his Lordship was on his way to the Cutlers' Feast, and as his Lordship's tenure of office ceases on the 9th November, Punch does not see how the Times can reconcile its first with its second statement.
MR. PUNCH IN CHINA.
Since each gobe-mouche is speaking of Nanking or Peking,