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villainously misinterpreted. My friend DIcl SAVAGiE had returned
from a wild harum-scarum frolic in the hop districts. I remarked to
GOLDSrITII, of SbAVAGE, who was an adept at word contorting, that he,
who could make a pun, could pick a pocket-of hops. Soe you ? But
come; how stands the exchequer?
 Mn. B.-Sir, the funds are exhausted.
 Diu. J.-Then leave your sword-a sort of guard in tierce-and let
 us leave the house. (They emerge to the street.) Really I am in
 spirits-I shall sing-(sings):-
 "Oh, ruddier than the cherry,
 Your nose is-and how very
 Blithe and light
 I feel this night,
 Let's dance then and be merry." .
(Takes BoSWELL, andZ dances hiim into the road.) Stay-I shall smoke. '
You, MI. BOSWELL, smoke not the contemplative weed, and have no
love for a pipe.. i ./
 MR. B.-Sir, you are mistaken; I love-I clearly love-the bagpipe.
 At the name of this instrument-one of the doctor's antipathies-- "'- .
our medium could no longer retain the learned man. His spirit no I / /
longer responded-and BOSWELL of course followed.


 '"CROWNERS 'QUEST" LAW. /


 -- --- if lErE must be something very rotten
 .. rit e system upon which our
 .- 1 -.il .. .-.er's inquests are based. A
- L -,' '1 few days ago GEoRGE DAVIES and
 JEMIsMA MORGAN attempted to com-
 i -mit suicide by swallowing laudanum.
 S Fori some time the man had been in
 a desponding state of mind, and had
 frequently declared his intention to
 Commit suicide. The girl, who
 J t i A appears to have been strongly
 S attached to him, attempted to
 Dissuade him from his purpose, but
 i i in vain; so she resolved to die with
 I him. Each of them accordingly
 Swallowed a wine- glass full of
 S laudanum in a tumbler of bitter
 beer. They then retired to bed "as
 -[" if nothing had occurred." DAVIES
 died and MonciAN recovered. The
 7 coroner's jury found "that the de-
 ceased died from taking laudanum,
 whilst in a sound state of mind, by
 his own hand, and that the prisoner
 was accessory to the act." So the
 Spoor girl stands committed to take
 S her trial for wilful murder at the
 Snest Chester assizes. Now, when-
 -l' ever a man commits suicide without
 o any apparent provocation, the law
 charitably regards the act as that of
 -- -- a madman; and a jury in such a


AN IDEA SUGGESTED B7Y MODERN iFASHION--S'I TI1 CRlCODII.E
 EONNET AND THE SEAL SKIN CLOAK.


FUNERAL ODE TO 3M'2MANUS,
 BY PATrRIiCK LA\EII,I P.P.
 Ocui, TEsENCE': 'M'slAIILNUS
 Ye died in your harness,
Just barring, 'twas not in the liel ;
 Sure tlih Saxon, the villin',
 By inches was killing ,
The patr'ot that niver would yield.
 \Vlhilliloo whoop !
 Whlilliloo whoop !
 Down with the Saxon, and
 Whoop whilliloo!
 Och, CUi.lEx's provi-iied


 ease invariably returns a verdict of Yor wake (he's not sinted,
 "temporary insanity." What could the Chester jury have seen in The' he wears the Episcopal lawn);
 this case to distinguish it from the thousands of cases in which Och, CULLEN by me,
 verdicts of" temporary insanity" have been returned ? The despond- Ye'll never more be
 ing condition of the unhappy man for many days before the com- Called CtU.LN, nmy ownl CrI.ui IlAir.
 mission of the suicide, the horrible calmness with which the poison Whillio, etc.
 was taken, the subsequent going to bed, "just as if nothing had
 occurred," all tend to point out this case as one which should have
 formed no exception to the general rule. But if the Chester jury had RDnLE BY THIE INIMITUIBL I MAC-KEY.-Yah yall! yah! (,,,
 found that DAVIES, who died, was suffering from temporary derange- s ildly.) Lookyo he-arce, nigger. Why am me like MISTEiR ER VIN
 ment at the moment of taking poison, MORGANT, who recovered, would JUA s? (Stam2s his foot rorf nhistlrs.) 'Cause me am dis-.ard.
 have been acquitted on the ground of insanity, so in order to punish Yah! yah! yah! (Chuckles ani dances in ar inimitable manner.)
 the unhappy girl, his accomplice, they brand the dead man as a
.responsible self-murderer. For if JEMIMA IMORGAN had died with THi re-elected Loan) MAIvon has great expectations for tIh y,':
GEORGE DAVIES, a verdict of "temporary insanity" would have ensuing. He finds in himself a resemblance to SiAK.sr.Eain:; Ihis
followed as a matter of course. most delicious inspiration being "A Midsunmmer (K)nilght'C I)nream.":
 There are three conclusions to be drawn from this melancholy case, THE author of the following can havo a cheque for any amiiour1m, iiulpol
 and they are these :-1. He who attempts to commit suicide, alone, calling at our office,-provided lie will not annoy ius fblr tihe fitiiin.: -
 and succeeds, is a man to be pitied, for he is mad. 2. He who Why is a man walking on wet grass lil:ke a ank draft unpaidl ?-
 attempts to commit suicide with another, and succeeds, is a man to Because lhe is over dew !
 be blamed, for he is sane. 3. Ho who attempts tocommit suicide with OPENING OF A NE: LoNnoN AssuAiNxc;: CowI.I'Y. MR. and Mits.
 another, and fails, is a man to be hung, for he is a murderer. CHARLES r ATHIIEWS At Home."
 WHY is DEERFOOT sure to win all matches?- -1lcausie e F ins
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