[Illustration: A BROTHER PASTELLIST. [Messrs. GOUPIL admit Artists and Students free to Mr. WHISTLER'S Exhibition.] _Gatekeeper (stopping squalid Stranger)._ "NOW THEN, WHAT DO YOU WANT?" _S.S._ "COME TO SEE JIMMY'S SHOW." _Gatekeeper._ "ONE SHILLING, PLEASE!" _S.S._ "NOT ME! I'M A ARTIST--CORNER O' BAKER STREET--CHALKS. LE'MME THROUGH!" [_Chucked!_] * * * * * "Signs" of the Times. ["He was brought up to speak in the ante-stumping era."--_Lord Rosebery on Lord Granville._"] You do well, my dear Lord, to spread GRANVILLE'S renown. Knightly, loyal, and courteous to monarch or clown, He had pluck, and swift speech, though no mere Party Pump. To our late platform level he hardly worked down; But the popular sign of _his_ day was "The Crown," Of _ours_ 'tis "The Magpie and Stump." * * * * * A PROPHECY AS TO THE U.B.R. When the Eights are reaching Chiswick, One will give the other physic. * * * * * TWO DROMIOS.--One day last week at Highgate, a certain or uncertain WILLIAM PEA, horsedealer, was summoned by the Police for furious driving. The Police knew him well by sight, but not well enough, as he clearly proved what _Mr. Weller Senior_ called "a alleybi." Evidently Mr. PEA has a double, and "as like as two Peas" is peculiarly applicable in this case. For if the other one isn't a Pea, he has been taken for one by the Pee-lers. * * * * * QUESTION OF POLITENESS.--Except in the case of a man's father having been "a big gun" at any time, to call anyone "a Son of a Gun," has hitherto been considered a gross insult. Is it equally insulting to speak of a Lady as "a Daughter of a Canon?" * * * * * AN EMPTY TRIUMPH. (_A Story of Show Sunday._) It was Show Sunday; lovers of Art were streaming in and out of every Studio they could hunt up, fired with a laudable ambition to break the record by the number they visited in the hours between luncheon and dusk. [Illustration]