By this I mean that the great HUGH MILLER thinks as I do.

He must be a bold man to contradict such authority.

This, however, is a boulder!

JUAN FERNANDEZ,

An island in the Pacific.  It is called an island, as it is entirely surrounded by water.  It is famous as the residence of ROBINSON CRUSOE, who, to avoid taxation in his native land, lived here in great retirement.  He had a faithful servant, FRIDAY, whom he enjoyed as much as one of these boys here does Saturday afternoon.

There is quite a local look to this view, which renders it valuable to the enthusiastic student of geography.

Ships sometimes stop here.  Our artist’s ship stopped fifteen minutes, thus giving him ample time for this spirited and life-like representation.

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“DE TEA FABULA NARRATUR.”

The women have embarked in the tea business.  Tea at net prices is to be one of the chief tenets of the woman’s rights party.  The middle men now engaged in the business are all to be abolished.  All the women lecturers are to become tea-totallers, and go before their audiences laden with packages for sale, in lots to suit, for cash.  Intimations of all this we gather from the recent news from Japan, where the agent of the Woman’s Tea Company, who has undertaken this reformation, has arrived, and been interviewed, on her way to secure the stock.  But really, if the women do manage to give us our tea at a reasonable rate, we will buy it gladly, even though, perhaps, we should be forced to attend the lectures in order to obtain it.  It is an ill wind which blows nobody good, even though the tempest originates in a tea-pot.

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The Spanish Question Settled.

AUNT BATHSHEBA’S mind is very chaotic as regards the throne of Spain.  She heard them talking about D’AOSTA for the situation, and says:—­

“A Oyster sit upon the Spanish throne, my dear!—­ay, ay—­it just serves the Spanish right.  They was always in a Stew, and is the most Shellfishest of people as crawls the earth!”

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Anomalous.

A despatch announces that the Pope is about leaving Rome.  As nothing is said with regard to his Holiness’s particular destination, however, it seems as though he were about going to Roam.

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From Our Special Cockney.

If, as the Tribune says, this is an “off year” with the Republicans, shouldn’t they be satisfied with an ’OFFMAN for Governor?

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Interesting to the Public.

There is a new envelope machine now in use in the Post-Office Department at Washington, which will dispense with the use of TOOL(E)S.

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[Illustration:  A PRACTICAL (?) SUGGESTION.