resolved that the following inscription should be placed on the ruins
at Westminster:--"To the lasting disgrace of the English Nation, this
Building, together with the other beautiful and interesting parts
of London, was ruined, for the sake of some impossible and imbecile
schemes, by an assemblage of the most Despicable Dolts that ever
lived."

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[Illustration: "WHEN PAIN AND ANGUISH WRING THE BROW."

_The Minister._ "WELL, JANET, HOW DID YOU LIKE YOUR NEW DOCTOR, DR.
ELIZABETH SQUILLS?"

_Janet._ "WEEL, SIR, ONLY PRETTY WELL. YE SEE, SIR, DR. ELIZABETH
ISN'T SO LEDDYLIKE AS SOME OF OUR AIN MEN DOCTORS!"]

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MIXED.--Under the heading "A Tragic Affair," it was recently stated
in a paragraph, how "a Lady had been shot by a discharged Servant." It
would have been better if the Servant, on being discharged, had gone
off and injured nobody.

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[Illustration: IN DIFFICULTIES.

_Effie_ (_who can't make her sum come right_). "OH, I _DO_ WISH I WAS
A RABBIT SO!"