Poor Old England!
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These are hard times, and the oracles of the newspapers teem with thrifty suggestions. The last advice to the hard-pressed agriculturists is, to go in for cultivating mushrooms and blackberries. What a prospect for the country children! Fancy every mushroom-meadow tabooed to the early rural rambler, and all the blackberries strictly "preserved," in the sense of partridges, not of plum-jam. And what a fate for the land of the oak, the apple-tree, the wheat and the bearded barley, to come down, like tramps and village-urchins, to fungi and bramble-fruits!
Political Economy.—Lord Rosebery, when next in power, will insist on the Government being "short-handed."
JUSTICE AT FAULT.
Mr. Punch. "YES—YOU'VE GOT ONE OF 'EM! BUT YOU OUGHT TO HAVE BOTH!!"
"It is intolerable that a Railway Company should, for the sake of increasing its receipts, play fast and loose with the safety of great numbers of human beings. The block-system ought, in fact, to be made compulsory, and it should not be in the power of a Railway Company to suspend it."—Morning Paper.