The Little Duke and The Big Duck respectively personified by Signor
RAVELLI and GIULIA RAVOGLI. Three "R"s in such a combination. Quite
"_R's Poetica_." Beg pardon.

"Tag" on the week,--if our friends in front are pleased as they appear
to be, then DRURIOLANUS and Council--not the County, but the Covent
Garden Council--are satisfied. _Curtain._

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[Illustration: HONEY-MOONING IN ITALY.

_Fair American Bride_. "OH, JOHN! TO THINK THAT PERHAPS VIRGINIUS
STABBED HIS DAUGHTER ON THIS VERY SPOT, AND THAT JUST OVER THERE
TELLIA DROVE OVER HER POOR FATHER'S DEAD BODY!"

_John_. "AH--VERY SAD--VERY SAD, INDEED! BUT, SAY, MATILDA, I GUESS
WE'D BETTER LET BYGONES _BE_ BYGONES. AND NOW LET'S GO AND HAVE A LOOK
AT THE NEW POST-OFFICE."]

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THE ALARMED AUTOCRAT!

"The Czar declared that he was determined to continue
resolutely to the end the policy upon which he had entered,
with a view to the solution of the Jewish difficulty, adding
that it was the Jews themselves who had forced that policy
upon him by their conduct.... 'Down to the present time' (His
Majesty remarked), 'there has never been a single Nihilistic