MUM'S THE WORD!

[Mr. CHAMBERLAIN presided lately at a Deaf-and-Dumb Meeting.]

JOSEPH _reflecteth_:--
Deaf-mutes make the best audience, I see;
_They_ gave me no rude flood of gibes to stem.
True, they were deaf, and so could not hear _me_,
But they were dumb, so _I_ could not hear them!

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MADAME ROLAND RE-EDITED (_from a sham-Japanese point of view_).--O
LIBERTY! what strange (decorative) things are done in thy name!

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JACK'S APPEAL.

["It is impossible for warrant-officers in the Navy not to
see that they are placed at a disadvantage as compared with
non-commissioned officers in the Army, and it must be
very difficult to persuade them that the two cases are
so essentially different as to afford no real ground for
grievance."--_The "Times," on "An Earnest Appeal on Behalf of
the Rank and File of the Navy_."]

_Jack Tar to Tommy Atkins, loquitur_:--

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