'Tis only fair that all should share
The stipends of Archdeacons!"

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[Illustration: HONORIS CAUSÂ.

[The University of Dublin has decided to confer the Degree of D.C.L.
on Mr. HENRY IRVING.]

_J.L.T._ (_to Dr. Irving_). "I SAY, HENRY,--'SCUSE MY GLOVE,--I'VE
BEEN A DON MYSELF, DON'TCHERKNOW. I CAN GIVE YOU A TIP OR TWO ABOUT
PLAYING THE PART!"]

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A GIFTED BEING.--The _Daily Telegraph_ of June 11, in giving us
some news from Cambridge about the Mathematical Tripos, had this
paragraph--

"The Senior Wrangler, Mr. PHILIP HERBERT COWELL, son of Mr.
H. COWELL, Privy Council Bar, was born in 1870, and was
previously educated at Rev. E. St. JOHN PARRY's School, Stoke,
Slough."

Now didn't such a start in life as being educated "_previously_" to
being "born," give Mr. COWELL a somewhat unfair advantage over the
other competitors? Very few come into the world with such a chance.
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness
thrust upon them," says SHAKSPEARE. But to come into the world, like