And barbers will soon have to work the treadmill,

If their razors are brought to a daily stand still.

For now, with its works nearly hid from our view,

In the very same chair in which we must sit too,

While a music-box plays like a musical elf,

The High-Mettled Razor doth shave us itself!


WHYS FOR THE WISE.

Why cannot a "Constant Reader" write a letter to a newspaper without an allusion to its "widely circulated columns?"

Why can a young gentleman never take to yachting without strengthening his language with "fo'ksle" expletives?