TO CAPITALISTS.
It is rumoured that Macready is desirous of disposing of his “manners” previous to becoming manager, when he will have no further occasion for them. They are in excellent condition, having been very little used, and would be a desirable purchase for any one expecting to move within the sphere of his management.
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REASON’S NE PLUS ULTRA.
A point impossible for mind to reach—
To find the meaning of a royal
speech.
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AN APPROPRIATE NAME.
The late Queen of the Sandwich Islands, and the first convert to Christianity in that country, was called Keopalani, which means—“the dropping of the clouds from Heaven.”
EPIGRAM ON THE ABOVE.
This name’s the best that could
be given,
As will by proof be quickly
seen;
For, “dropping from the clouds of
Heaven,”
She was, of course, the raining
Queen.
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CAUTION TO SPORTSMEN.
Our gallant friend Sibthorp backed himself on the 1st of September to bag a hundred leverets in the course of the day. He lost, of course; and upon being questioned as to his reason for making so preposterous a bet, he confessed that he had been induced to do so by the specious promise of an advertisement, in which somebody professed to have discovered “a powder for the removal of superfluous hairs.”
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OUT OF SEASON.
A LYRIC, BY THE LAST MAN—IN TOWN.
Chaos returns! no soul’s in town!
And darkness reigns where
lamps once brightened;
Shutters are closed, and blinds drawn
down—
Untrodden door-steps go unwhitened!
The echoes of some straggler’s boots
Alone are on the pavement
ringing
While ’prentice boys, who smoke
cheroots,
Stand critics to some broom-girl’s
singing.
I went to call on Madame Sims,
In a dark street, not far
from Drury;
An Irish crone half-oped the door.
Whose head might represent
a fury.
“At home, sir?” “No!
(whisper)—but I’ll presume
To tell the truth, or know
the raison.
She dines—tays—lives—in
the back room,
Bekase ’tis not the
London saison.”
From thence I went to Lady Bloom’s,
Where, after sundry rings
and knocking,
A yawning, liveried lad appear’d,
His squalid face his gay clothes
mocking
I asked him, in a faltering tone—
The house was closed—I
guess’d the reason—
“Is Lady B.’s grand-aunt,
then, gone?”—
“To Ramsgate, sir!—until
next season!”