A Lazy Horse.—The Pegasus of Genius seldom stirs without the spur of necessity.
TERRIFIC SITUATION!
Heroine of Domestic Drama pursued by the Unprincipled Villian is about to cast herself headlong from a tremendous precipice!
LIFE AND DEATH ASSURANCE.
Among our Provident Institutions are Life Assurance Societies for Parents, which are Death Assurance Societies for Children. They are otherwise called Coffin Clubs. They engage to find the money for the coffin: the subscriber, father or mother, finds the occupant for it—by murder.
The Grand Jury at the Liverpool Assizes has expressed its opinion that the temptation thus afforded should be destroyed by law. That might be done, perhaps, by prohibiting the club from paying anybody on account of a death but the undertaker. But what need of such clubs at all?