"HE BELIEVED THAT EVERYONE OF THEM WOULD PREFER THAT SOMEONE ELSE
SHOULD HOLD THAT HIGH AND HONOURABLE OFFICE."--SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH
_at Stockton-on-Tees_.]

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[Illustration: WATER V. WINE. "HOLD! ENOUGH!"]

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HARRYING OUR HAKIMS.

[A medical journal suggests that all candidates for Medical
Degrees should be required to give proof of good handwriting,
in order to put an end to indistinct prescriptions.]

A few additional requirements, we believe, have been under
consideration, of which the following are a sample:--

All candidates for the M.B. Degree to be able to count up to fifty.
Candidates who are more than fifty not to count.

Nobody to become a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons until he
has mastered Simple Addition and Compound Fractures.

Members of the Royal College of Physicians will henceforth be expected
to know their Weights (with boots off) and Measures (round the
waist). Troy weight only. "Scruples" not allowed. Good knowledge of
Multiplication Table indispensable for dispensers.