ACCI-DENTAL QUERY.--Let me ask the _Patres Conscripti_ of our Academy Royal, why Dentists are not admitted A.R.A. _ex officio_. We have all for ever so long, since the memory of the oldest JOE MILLER, which runneth not to the contrary, known that Dentists drew teeth. But they nowadays add to their accomplishments by painting gums. The other day a friend of ours had a gum beautifully painted by a Dentist-artist in a certain Welbeck Street studio. It was a wonderful gathering; our friend in the chair. * * * * * THE OLD JOE AND THE NEW. To the humorous mind of a cynical cast, Party change many matters for mirth affords; But of all the big jokes, we've the biggest at last, In CHAMBERLAIN's backing the House of Lords! They toil not, nor spin? That's a very old jeer! _Won't_ the Lilies take back seats when JOE is a Peer? * * * * * [Illustration: TRYING IT ON! RUSSIA. "SS--S--T! (_Whispers._) I WANT TO SPEAK TO YOU, MY DEAR!"] * * * * * [Illustration: "LISTEN TO MY TALE OF WOA!" (_Not much Gaiety about it._)] * * * * * TO MY LORD ADDINGTON. [Lord ADDINGTON, speaking recently at a Harvest Festival, said, "If he were a labourer, and saw a rabbit nibbling his cabbages, he would go for that rabbit with the first thing at hand." (_Enthusiastic cheers._)--_Daily News_.] [Illustration] Lord ADDINGTON, most wonderful Of people-pleasing peers, You certainly contrived to raise "Enthusiastic cheers." The villagers come flocking in From all the country through, To hear Your Lordship speak his mind And tell them what to do. You did it well, you told them how You'd have them understand A lucky chance has made you own A quantity of land. Though very fond of shooting, yet Your love of shooting stops At letting rabbits have their way At decimating crops. And so, if you a labourer were, (The which of course you're not), And saw a rabbit in your ground A-nibbling--on the spot You'd go for him with spade or fork, At which, so it appears, There rang throughout the crowded room "Enthusiastic cheers." A Peer's advice is always good, So doubtless they will grab it,-- _But_ no one will be happier than The cabbage-nibbling rabbit! * * * * * A LITTLE STRANGER. ["At the meeting of the Bermondsey Vestry, the Medical Officer reported that water drawn from the service-pipe of a house in the Jamaica Road, had been submitted to him. The water was clear, but it contained a live horse-leech."--_Daily Paper_.] Oh, into our domestic pipes They crawl and creep by stealth, The gruesome creatures known unto An Officer of Health! Harken to him of Bermondsey, Think what his murmurings teach, "The water seemed quite limpid, _but_-- It did contain a Leech!"