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 A IITNOWIITN- rFELLiIJOW.

 JMr. Wardour Heolyzwell:-" WELL, I 'UNT COS I THINK PARTIES IN HOUR POSITION ORT TO IIENCOURAGE A NOBLE BREED O' IIANIL3AL."
 Mr. Pititcoat Lane:-" HAIR, MY DEAR SELLER, I CONFESS I 'UNT COS THERE'S NOTIIINK SETS IIORI A SELLER'S FIGGER LIKE TIIE
CORSTOOS3 DER CHASSE."


 EXAMINATION PAPERS.
 IT often happens that there is a good deal of fun to be extracted
from an examination paper-after the examination is over. In the
papers on Natural Philosophy in the Matriculation Examination (1860),
at the University of London, we find the following:-
 "Explain why a man getting out of an omnibus in motion is in
danger of falling on his back."
 Setting on one side all question as to the manner of his getting out
of the omnibus: whether, that is to say, he got out of the omnibus as
he would go down stairs, or as he would go down a ladder; and taking
it for granted that the-former method is the one adopted by the sub-
ject of the investigation, we find that he is in danger of falling on his
back from seven divers causes, viz.:-
 1. By reason that the road is miry.
 2. By reason that he is a young man from the country, and un-
 accustomed to metropolitan omnibus travelling.
 3. By reason that he is shaky on his pins.
 4. By reason that he trod upon a piece of orange peel.
 5. By reason that e has just met a friend from Scotland.
 6. By reason that his coat-tail caught in the omnibus door, and
 pulled him back.
 7. By reason that he left the omnibus hurriedly, having just picked
 a pocket.
 In the same papers we find the following ungallant question:-
 "A lady, five feet four inches high, stands before a looking-glass :
 how much of the looking-glass is concerned in producing her reflec-
 tion ?"
 To suppose for one moment that a well-bred, gentlemanly looking-


glass would feel at all concerned at a lady's standing opposite to it, is
to cast a most unworthy reflection upon a highly polished piece of fur-
nituro. We feel convinced that an article so popular with the fair sex
as a looking-glass would never plead guilty to so contemptible a piece
of hobby-de-hoyism. Instead of feeling concerned at the presence of
a lady, five feet four inches in height (the exact height of the Floren-
tine VENUS), we should be disposed to imagine that the momentary
absence of so customary a vis-a-ris would tend to destroy its
equanimity. A looking-glass without a lady before it would feel,
we should say, about as awkward as ourselves after the extraction of
four contiguous front teeth.


 SCHOLASTIC INTELLIGENCE.
 MR. SPEAKER'S young gentlemen will assemble to resume their
studies on the 14th instant. MR. S. hopes that his young friends will
be good boys, and get on with their work faster than they did last
term. A little less talking, and a more earnest desire to profit by a
Liberal education, are the chief requisites that are needed to gain for
the St. Stephen's Academy the approval and support of those who
send up pupils to share in its curriculum of study.


 THE LITERARY WONDER OP THE AGE.
 To be had Everywhere,

 FUN ALMANAC FOR 1862,
 Containing upwards of 7 Comic Engravings by Eminent Artists.
 ONE PENNY.


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