COUPLET BY A CYNIC.

(After reading certain Press Comments on the Picture Show.)

Philistine Art may stand all critic shocks
Whilst it gives Private Views--of Pretty Frocks!

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THE WORLD ON WHEELS.

MR. STEVENS, the American gentleman who rode round the world on a
bicycle, says, "The bicycle is now recognised as a new social force."
Possibly. But certain writers to the _Times_ on "The Tyranny of the
Road," seem to prove that it is also a new _anti_-social force, when
it frightens horses and upsets pedestrians. Adapting an old proverb,
we may say, "Set a cad on a cycle and he'll ride"--well, all over
the road, and likely enough over old ladies into the bargain. Whilst
welcoming the latest locomotive development, we must not allow the
"new social force" to develop into a new social despotism. To put it
pointedly:--

We welcome these new steeds of steel,
(In spite of whistles and of "squealers,")
But cannot have the common weal
_Too_ much disturbed by common "Wheelers"!

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THE ROYAL ACADEMY BANQUET.--After the Presidential orations, the