76 F U T. [NOVEMBER 9, 1861.


 CAUTION TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.
 WHEN WAITING AT A RAILWAY STATION, YOU SHOULD ALWAYS TAKE CARE TO SIT ONLY ON THE RECOGNIZED SEATS OF THE COMPANY,
AND NEVER ON LARGE PACKAGES OF MERCHANDIZE. OF THE NECESSITY OP OBSERVING THIS PRECAUTION WE HERE FURNISH A PROOF-
AFTER LETTERS.


 THE THREE OTHELLOS.
 Swinr, light-footed, and strange, with his own dark face in a rage,
 Scorning the time-honoured rules
 Of the actor's conventional schools,
 Tenderly, thoughtfully, earnestly, FECHTER comes on to the stage.
 Strong, dcop-throated, slow, measuring fully his rage,
 Portraying his passion with might,
 Follows the second in sight,
 Pondering, rumbling, thundering, BROOKE rushes on to the stage.
 Grand, impulsive, and quick, flashing forth fiercely his rage,
 The heart of the mystery at length,
 Forth plucking with wonderful strength,
 Such an Othello we saw ere EDMUND KEAN went from the stage.


 LORD MAYOR'S DAY.
 S(By the Lord Mayor's Fool.)
 WHVAT celebrated prizefighter ought to be a member of the cor-
poration ?-JEM MACE.
 WHAT is the difference between the LORD MAYOR'S day and the
man in armour ?-One's the LORD MAYOR'S day, and the other's the
LORD MAYOR's knight.


 HOW TO MAKE ONE POUND OF GREEN TEA GO AS FAR AS FOUR
POUNDS or BLACK.-Buy the above quantities in London, and imme-
diately send them both down to Bristol.


 LISPING IN NUMBERS.
 IN the new Education Code (which is certainly anything but a
 Code of Honour, for it systematically breaks faith with every certifi-
 cated schoolmaster in the government employ), we find that in order
 to entitle a school to a grant, a child of three years of age must not
 only be able to read a narrative in monosyllables, and to form on a
 black board from dictation capital and small letters, but also to form
 and name at sight figures up to twenty, and to add and subtract
 figures up to ten, orally. To take a baby of three years of age, and
 bid her play the part of a BIDDER, or to expect every specimen of
 mortality to display at such a babe-age the proficiency of a BABBAGE,
 appears to us unreasonable in the highest degree. It is true that at
 three years of age we not only read and wrote fluently, but even
 contributed articles to the Saturday Review (of linen for the wash),
 and cut up (with a pair of scissors) everything within our reach.
 But then we were always considered a remarkably intelligent child,
 and to look upon such a star as a standard by which other folks'
 children should bejudged, would be as unreasonable as to feel dis-
 appointed because the every day (or rather every night) heavenly
 bodies did not, in the matter of brilliancy, come it as strong as the
 comet of 1858; whereas we know very well that had they shone their
 utmost, not a planet or fixed star in nature's repertoire could have
 hoped to have done a. tie with DONATI.


 EVERY one who has been to Margate by rail must recollect the
 Wye station. A neat thing in jokes was made here last week by
home-returning young BoPPS, who, when the porter put his head
through the window and shouted, "Wye! Wye!" smilingly replied,
"'Pon my soul, I don't know."