_A._ I take care to make the sum I give a little larger than that contributed by my opponent, and take it as a general rule that lawn tennis is of more importance than dispensaries, and polo, from a benevolent point of view, takes precedence of associations established to relieve dire distress. _Q._ Is there any other method which may be adopted with advantage by those desirous of nursing a constituency? _A._ Speaking frequently in assembly rooms, taking nursery gardens for the same purpose, and generally improving trade in the neighbourhood. _Q._ Then the money paid for the hirings to which you refer is commercially popular? _A._ It is, and (joined of course to the eloquence of my friends and myself) should distinctly influence the election. _Q._ And should you be elected, what do you suppose you will have to do? _A._ To thoroughly enjoy the honour of being able to treat the House of Commons as a club, and being asked by the leaders of my Party to all their entertainments. I shall see my name in every newspaper report when I have happened to take part in a popular function. I shall find that I have mounted the social ladder by leaps and bounds, and be able to pleasurably patronise or cut direct those who now become my inferiors. _Q._ And what consideration will support you in your general demeanour? _A._ The conviction that all I do, and have done, is and has been actuated by the purest patriotism. * * * * * "DALY NEWS! SPECIAL!" Once again we welcome the return of Miss ADA REHAN, with JAMES LEWIS the Lively, and Mrs. GILBERT the Good, to DALY'S, in Leicester Square. But so short is their season, and so many are the pieces announced, that to take more than a snap-shot at any one of them is impracticable, seeing that the Daly changes are weekly. Ere anyone sees these lines AUGUSTIN DALY'S train of thought will have passed over, and beyond them. _The Railroad of Love_ will have served its purpose, and become a siding. _Two Gentlemen of Verona_ will be travelling first-class on Shakspearian main line leading to _Midsummer Night's Dream_, which, with its fairy revels and its music, will represent the terminus of this short journey. When will DALY & CO. come to stay? * * * * * THE SOMALIS AT SYDENHAM. IN THE STABLES. _Miss Simplicia Simpson_ (_looking at the native saddles on brackets_). I suppose those are what they put on the ostriches! _Her Companion._ They don't _ride_ ostriches. _Miss Simpson_ (_in a tone of pity and reproof_). That only shows you've never read your _Swiss Family Robinson!_ _A Gobe-mouche._ Well, I never see a white lamb with a black 'ed before; that _is_ a curiosity, ain't it'? _His Phlegmatic Friend._ Not arf such a curiosity as if it 'ad 'ad a black 'ed be'ind.