EXTREMES MEET.

It is a noticeable thing
That when Kent bines produce their crop,
Swelldom is always "on the wing,"
And Slumdom "on the Hop"!

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THE LATEST WEATHER-WISE DOGGEREL.

_BY A SCIENTIFIC RAIN-MAKER._

[It is stated that rain may be brought down by the explosion
of dynamite and blasting-powder attached to oxyhydrogen
balloons and kite-tails.]

Evening red and morning grey
Will send the traveller on his way;
But--blasting-powder on kites' tails spread,
Will bring down rain upon his head.

_RETORT BY A WASHED-OUT WAYFARER._

If dynamite would bring _fine_ weather,
Scientists might be in fine feather,
As 'tis, I sing, to the schoolboy tune,
"Yah-bah! (oxyhydrogen) balloon!"

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