Volume 104 — "HAPPINESS IN——FOLKESTONE."

["He said, 'Go and be——' I accordingly went and stayed at Folkestone."

See last Thursday's "Daily News;" Evidence in the De Walden Case.]

Hitherto Unreported.—Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Asquith received deputations on the Eight Hours' Question last Friday. The chief speakers were Mr. Parrot and Mr. Onions. Mr. G. observed that in all his vast experience, frequently as he had tasted a savoury dish of rabbit and onions, yet the combination of Parrot with Onions was something really novel. Perhaps Mr. Parrot would be useful at any bye-election, and would give them the state of the poll. As to Mr. Onions, well, he (Mr. G.) hadn't words of welcome sufficiently strong for him. Why hadn't he brought "Brer Rabbit" with him? In approaching the Eight Hours' Question, no time must be lost, so he would at once proceed to business.

FROM OUR VILLAGE.

Mrs. Sharply (to the Doctor, who has looked in, having heard that her "good man" is ailing). "No, I thank ye, Sir. You see I've heerd of you, Sir, as you've been 'Practising' here for the last Three Years, and so I'd rather you went 'Practising' elsewhere, as I don't want no 'Speriments on my Old Man!"

At a recent Monday Pop Concert, Mr. Borwick put any amount of powder—everyone has seen or heard of Borwick's Powder—into his performance of "Suite Anglaise. "As a pretty lady observed, "He might just as well, or better, have put the name in English, and called it, 'The Sweet English Girl.'" Messrs. Joachim, Ries, Strauss, and Piatti, played a string-quartette in C Sharp Minor, and out of respect to the Ecclesiastical Season of the year, they gave marked prominence to the "Lento" in G. Flat.

A Genuine Building Society.—The Birds, just now. And its members are not even waiting for a Re-leaf Fund, which will, however, soon come, with "the flowers that bloom in the Spring, tra-la!"

The G. O. M. from a Musical Point of View.—When preternaturally alert, he is "Mr. G. Sharp." When depressed, he is "Mr. G. Flat." When himself again, he is "Mr. G. Natural." As being second son, he is "G. Minor." He is also hors ligne. But he refuses to be musically translated to the House of Lords, and become "The Upper G."

Q. What is the difference between a lover asking the object of his affections to marry him, and a guest who ventures to hint to his host that the Pommery '80 is rather corked?

A. The one pops the question, the other questions the pop.

Mrs. R. saw the heading of a paragraph in the Times, of Monday. Feb. 27, "Jade in Upper Burmah." She laid the paper down, and exclaimed, "Dear me! I wonder who she is!"

If we ever do adopt Bimetallism, it is evident, from Mr. Gladstone's masterly speech, that holders of Consols will obtain very little consol-ation.