Goblet and flagon, hurry-skurry,

My brain was bursting with the worry—

And then I started from my dream!


The Results of Striking.—It is as strange as it is lamentable that strikes should so commonly end in broken heads, since the moment the men have once struck there is a stoppage of the mill.


Not Far Out.—A cynical old Cockney of our acquaintance says he considers the moustache movement to be only a new way the young fellows have got into of giving themselves 'airs.