doctor-ruled, sulphur-drenched region, May potions and baths, and those brisk plateau-paths cure my pains as before, though they're legion (And spare me that narrow gate). But--here's to that Home for Incurables! Rome was not built in a day, so they tell us, But Charity always beginneth at home, and I'd say, if Bath will not be jealous-- That Home is--at Harrogate! * * * * * Q. E. D. [Mr. CHAMBERLAIN said that Sir E. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT "appeared to be intellectually incapable of distinguishing between charges and proof."] What, only just found out _that_ fact? As soon expect sense from Dame _Partlet_ As reason, in speech or in act, From rash, indiscriminate BARTLETT. In foreign affairs he's a ferret, But sense from his "charge" holds aloof; For all know that SILOMIO'S spirit, Is many degrees above "proof"! * * * * * We hear that the salmon-fishing season on the Dee has been a satisfactory one. Some especially good sport was obtained in a pool "near Overton Bridge where the fish collected, when unable, owing to the lowness of the water, to get over the weir." Notwithstanding an equal inability of Members "to get over the Weir," there was not much sport during the recent Session "near Westminster Bridge." * * * * * TORR-RESTIAL NOTES. [Illustration] _Happy Thought._--Ilfracombe, just now. If it be a question of "Ways and Means," then Ilfracombe offers you "the ways" in the matter of drives, walks, rides, excursions by rail, by sea, likewise by river and road almost _ad infinitum_, and sometimes by sea _ad nauseam_. Sea-bathing naturally excellent, but still open, considerably open, to improvement. Still, as the man of no politics replied, when asked why he belonged to the Reform Club, "There is in this world nothing so good but what it is capable of improvement," and Ilfracombe cannot claim exemption from this rule of universal application. Should an Ilfracombe-ination require suggestions, mine are at the service of the I. I. C. (Ilfracombe Improvement Committee). * * *