Volume 25 — THE GOOSE CLUBS.
Reading edition
Our eyes are again edified by the announcement so familiar to us at this season—"A Goose Club held here." We really should like to have a set of the rules of one or more of these Clubs, for we are puzzled to think what amount of goosedom can be a qualification for membership. Surely the Peace Society people must be honorary members for life of every Goose-Club in the kingdom, if merit has its reward, and admittance to a Goose-Club is to be obtained by personal gooseishness, or a corresponding amount of quackery. We have heard that the manager of a certain highly patronised theatre has consulted his solicitor upon the advertisement of a Goose-Club near Oxford Street, with the view of ascertaining whether the word goose is meant to apply to himself in a libellous manner. The legal sage not being prepared, the Goose question is in abeyance.
REVIEWING.
The review of a young girl's life is frequently like any other review—a quantity of smoke, and noise, with here and there a red coat seen through it.
BAD NEWS FOR THE PEACE SOCIETY.
Although we have lost the Hero of a Hundred Fights we are promised a Sovereign of a thousand mils.
A Paper War.—Some monarchs fight for gold; but the Czar and the Sultan are at war about notes.