Third Gen. Off. (voice heard in the distance.) Yes.  General-Postman!

    [Scene closes in upon political official language unfit for
    publication.

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MUSICAL NOTES.—­Saturday Afternoon.—­Albert Hall jubilant.  M. PLANCON or PLANCON—­the production of the “c” depending on the state of his voice—­was encored and “obliged again.”  So did Madame ALBANI, who was in superb voice.  But her accompanist, M. CARRODUS, who had given us one violin obbligato, did not obbligato again, and so Madame sang, admirably of course, the ever-welcome “Home, Sweet Home.”  GIULIA RAVOGLI gave her great Orpheo song, and DRURIOLANUS, practising courtly attitudes, as one preparing to receive a German Emperor, smole beamingly on the gratified audience.  At The Garden, Mireille, revived on Wednesday last, hasn’t much life in her, but Miss EAMES charming.

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