is rubber lady.

5. The man will walk on wire tight. He is doing so nicely because he is
professor of that.

6. Then will come grand dramatic.

NOTICE.

No stick will be allowed in the spectators and he shall not smoke also."

* * * * *

EXCELSIOR.

"Our ascent to the sun makes our enemy envious."--_Koelnische Zeitung._

The night fell fast, but faster still
A youth came down the darkening hill,
A super-youth, whose super-flag
Flaunted the strange but hackneyed brag,
"Excelsior!"

His eyes betrayed through gold-rimmed prism
Myopia and astigmatism;
But, head in air, he proudly strode,
Declaiming down the fatal road,
"Excelsior!"

The sign-posts clustered left and right