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 DISTRESSIING- OCCUITJRETECE.
 Harry (in wild despair):-"BY Jovr! THE LONGEST HAIR OF MY MOUSTACHE. ... .GONE!"



 ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY. VICE GRATIS.
 SMATERFAMILIAS, writing to the papers some little while since, laid
 ON of the daily papers has the following :- down some excellent rules and precepts for the decrease of Infant
 NEW BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF LIVING CHARACTERS.- Mortality." Warm rooms and beds, well-made clothes, and tender
 MEN OF THE TIME (INCLUDING WOMEN). A new Edition, attention, combined with Ronn's biscuits; are among the various
 thoroughly revised, and for the most part re-written, with the addition of
 Thirteen Hundred New Articles. By EDWAR WALFORn, ..A., late Schlar of "necessaries" in her catalogue. But the good lady seems to forget that
 Baliol College, Oxford. some people have not the money to procure these things, necessaries
 What in the world are we to understand by this? Howare"men" though they be. Poor people have ill-ventilated cellars, and rags
 of the time to include "women?" We know, to our cost, that women only, for their children. As for ROBE'S biscuits, they know those
 of the time can include men within the voluminous skirts of crinoline, would be out of the question, unless they turn Robbers themselves, and
 steel hoops, etc.; but it is not quite so easy to see how men of the steal them.
 time include women. We had rather thought, from the complaints of
 the fair sex as to clubs, club chambers, and so forth, that they rather A QUESTION OF TIME.-The ugly theme of the new sensation piece
 excluded them; and, considering the capacities of omnibuses at the Princess's suggested to an indignant pitite the other evening
 "licensed to carry twelve inside," we are not surprised that the that the sooner the "Angel of Midnight" went off to a dawn the
 miserable men should wish they could exclude their women oppressors. better.
 Again, what are "Thirteen Hundred New Articles?" Are men of
the time articles of haberdashery, or what ? and why are the noble Now ready, in Magenta cloth,
army of thirteen hundred men of the time (including women) selected Now r in n co
for notice ? If men are articles, we suppose the included women are CASES for BINDING the FIRST VOLUME of FUN.
objects, for such they certainly make of themselves with their present Price Is. d.
style of dress.
 On the 15th will be published.
 THE TITLE, PREFACE, and INDEX to the FIRST
 A CONSUMMATION DEVOUTLY TO BE WISHED.-Amongst the Law VOLUME of FUN, beautifully Designed and Engraved, forming an Extra Number.
Notices," a few days ago, we observed the following :-" Before Price One Penny.
VICE-CHANCELLOR SIR J. STUART, short causes, to be mentioned." O t y b in .
When shall we have the pleasure of seeing" Before Silt C. CRESSWELL, h y bd in M a c p .
long causes, not to be mentioned"? THE FIRST VOLUME of FUN; Containing nearly
 Three Hundred Comic Engravings by celebrated Artists, and Humourous Articles by the
 Vox STELLARUtM.-The voice of the stars-Miss Louisa PYNE'S!- most Popular Writers.
Free Translation. LONDON: 80, FLEET STREET.

 London: Printed and Published (for the Proprietors) by CHARLES WHYTE, at the Office, 80, Fleet Street, E.C.-Saturday, March 1,1862.