_A Jacobite Exile_ is a tale of the Swedes. Hardly necessary, perhaps, or as SHAKSPEARE puts it, "Swedes to the Swede,--superfluous." To the English reader, therefore, it is not a superfluity. Then here is The _Penny Illustrated_. It is called "_Roses_" and whatever any reader may require, here he will find it "all among the roses." The rearer and cultivator of these "Roses" is JOHN LATEY, whose "Rose of Hastings" is among the best of the contributions. "We can't do better than provide ourselves and our families with this specimen of a Flowery Annual," quoth, THE BARON DE BOOK-WORMS. * * * * * [Illustration: A NEW ADJECTIVE. _Customer._ "YOU'LL FIND I MEASURE A BIT MORE ROUND THE WAIST THAN I DID LAST TIME YOU TOOK MY MEASURE." _Tailor._ "AH, WELL, SIR, IF I MAY BE ALLOWED TO SAY SO, YOU _ARE_ A TRIFLE MORE--AH--MORE _LOBENGULOUS_ THAN FORMERLY."] * * * * * 1,000,000 A. D. ["The descendants of man will nourish themselves by immersion in nutritive fluid. They will have enormous brains, liquid, soulful eyes, and large hands, on which they will hop. No craggy nose will they have, no vestigial ears; their mouths will be a small, perfectly round aperture, unanimal, like the evening star. Their whole muscular system will be shrivelled to nothing, a dangling pendant to their minds."--_Pall Mall Gazette, abridged._] [Illustration] What, a million years hence, will become of the _Genus Humanum_, is truly a question vexed; At that epoch, however, _one_ prophet has seen us Resemble the sketch annexed. For as Man undergoes Evolution ruthless, His skull will grow "dome-like, bald, terete"; And his mouth will be jawless, gumless, toothless-- No more will he drink or eat! He will soak in a crystalline bath of pepsine, (No ROBERT will then have survived, to wait,) And he'll hop on his hands as his food he steps in-- A quasi-cherubic gait! No longer the land or the sea he'll furrow; The world will be withered, ice-cold, dead As the chill of Eternity grows, he'll burrow Far down underground instead. If the _Pall Mall Gazette_ has thus been giving A forecast correct of this change immense, Our stars we may thank, then, that _we_ shan't be living A million years from hence! * * * * * ONE DOWN T'OTHER COME ON.--King Log is a most useful substitute when King Coal has temporarily abdicated. * * * * * ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. EXTRACTED FROM THE DIARY OF TOBY, M. P.