"CHAR-À"-VARIA.

[_The Manchester Daily Dispatch_ gives a most distressing
account of the bibulous hooliganism which is becoming more
rampant week by week among char-à-bancs trippers.]

The patrons of the charabang
Employ the most outrageous slang
And talk with an appalling twang.
Their manners ape the wild orang;
They do not care a single hang
For sober folk on foot who gang,
But as they roll, with jolt and clang,
For parasang on parasang,
They cause a vulgar _Sturm und Drang_.
They never heard of Andrew Lang,
Or even Mr. William Strang;
They are, I say it with a pang,
A most intolerable gang;
In fact I wish them at Penang
Or on the banks of Yang-tse-Kiang--
_Some_ folk who use the charabang.

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"Wanted, a good, clean General, for private."--_Provincial
Paper_.

Discipline is going to the dogs.