"HOPS.

CANTERBURY, Saturday.--Trade was quiet, with prices steady, as follows:
--Kent mixed fleeces, 36d; lambs' wool, 22d to 24d; downs, 41d to 42d;
and half-bred fleeces, 38d to 39d per lb."--_Financial Paper._

This may help to explain the taste of "Government ale."

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"By systematic and scientific training is it possible to produce that
perfect type of manhood gifted with the best powers of what we are wont
to call the 'lower orders of creation'--keen sighted and swift of
motion as a bird, sharp-scented as a greyhound, faithful and acute as a
dog, and full of sentient wisdom as an elephant."--_Daily Paper._

We are doubtful about the rest, but the greyhound part should be quite
easy.

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[Illustration: INTERNATIONAL EURYTHYMICS.

AN ALLIED _PAS DE TROIS_ AND AN "ASSOCIATED" _PAS SEUL_.]

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ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.