MOTTO OF STALKERS.--"Going for deer life!" * * * * * [Illustration: _Curate._ "SO SORRY TO HEAR YOUR HUSBAND'S MET WITH AN ACCIDENT, MRS. SNAPE." _Mrs. Snape._ "YES, SIR, 'E'S VERY BAD, PORE MAN! 'E WUR WORKIN' ON THE RAILWAY LINE TH' OTHER DAY AN' A ENGINE COME ALONG AN' RUN CLEAN OVER 'IS PORE LEG; AN' NOW 'E'LL BE LAID UP ABED FOR WEEKS. IT'S WHAT I B'LIEVE THE DOCTORS CALLS _LOCOMOTIVE ATTACKS YE!_] * * * * * NET PROFITS.--Mr. CUMMING MACDONA, M. P.'s recent letter to the _Times_ about the hundred French boats that he saw starting from Dieppe for a three months' fishing cruise off the west coast of Ireland, has led to a demand by Irish papers for Government help to Irish fisheries. Why, they ask, should money be given to farmers and not to fishers? The _Cork Constitution_, however, goes to the root of things by saying that "want of enterprise and thrift," not want of pence, leads to Irish fish being caught by the anglers of Dieppe. The State has already constructed improved harbours and light railways. It is for the fisher-folk to respond by getting boats and nets, and using them; until which time the early Gaul will get the best haul. * * * * * SIMS REEVES AT THE EMPIRE. My pretty JANE! My pretty JANE! The contract did I sign! So meet me, meet me at the Empire! I sing at half-past nine. It may be earlier, or later, JANE. For time your SIMS sims to defy, But read the posters of the Empire-- The boom will catch your eye! * * * * * MUSICAL NOTE.--A "_Mass in B_" has been composed by MASS-EN-ET. * * * * * A SHAKSPEARIAN LINE.--The one that takes you to Stratford-on-Avon. * * * * * CABBY; OR, REMINISCENCES OF THE RANK AND THE ROAD. (_By "Hansom Jack."_) ["Gentlemen, the way to see London is from the top of a 'bus--from the top of a 'bus, gentlemen!"--_Mr. Gladstone to American Visitors._] No. VII.--'BUSSES, BILKS, AND BOOSYS. Top of a 'bus! Well, I've nothing to say against knifeboards or garden-seats, quite the contrairy. Looked at as look-outs on London itself, _as_ a city, they're easy, commanding, and airy. G. O. M. hit it in once to those Yankees. But still, if you'd view London _life_, as a wholer, Not mere bricks and mortar and lamp-posts, I'll back what cute BENJAMIN D. called the London Gondōler.