of London? or a political prisoner, on her way to Siberia? Neither!
She was merely a _débutante_, attending her first (and last) Spring
Drawing-room at Buckingham Palace!

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NOTE (_by Our Own Noodle_).--_Father Buonaparte_, at the Olympic,
judging from the account of it in the _Times_, seems to consist of
"a part" for our WILSON BARRETT, the remainder being skeletonish, or
"boney."

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[Illustration: "MATTHEWS AT HOME." (NEW VERSION OF AN OLD
ENTERTAINMENT.)]

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RAIKES REX!

Somebody once said that ultimately the Solar System would
probably become a branch of the General Post Office. The
present Postmaster-General is obviously of opinion that that
state of things has already come about.

To rule a realm as limitless as space,
With the great G.P.O. as Central Sun,
RAIKES is the man. Of Great Panjandrum race,
He's Autocrat and Oracle in one.
The Universe indeed were no great shakes