MRS. DEPUTY BOTOLPH would sign "because the dear EMPEROR had asked herself and JEMIMA to the ball at the Tooleries; besides, His Majesty looked such a hero upon horseback." MISS AGNES BOCHURCH signed "with a sense of gratitude to the dear EMPRESS, who had brought in such a darling style of dressing the hair." Miss A. B. was, when in Paris, _once_ taken for the EMPRESS. * * * * * THE FAT OF THE LAND AND LAMBETH. One MR. RHODES, of Carlisle Street, Lambeth, is summoned before the Lambeth Street Magistrate to answer for the--what shall we call it--indiscretion (?) of boiling down putrid fat on his premises to the prejudice of the health of his neighbours, causing thereby "nausea, and even vomiting." MR. SECKER turns to the wisdom of Parliament enshrined in the Nuisance Act, but found that-- "The words relating to any dwelling-house or building being found in a filthy and unwholesome condition _applied not_, as he took it, to places where _a trade or business was carried on_, but to common lodging-houses and places of that description, and the other part of the clause _did not apply to the premises described_." That is, if you can make a trade of a nuisance, if you can "carry on a business" by fat-melting, the evil to the public is to be allowed because of the profit to the individual. You may turn a whole parish sick, if you can turn the penny upon their "nausea and vomiting." * * * * * EDITORIAL CANDOUR. The _Morning Herald_ has recently made an approach to the principle of abolishing the anonymous in newspaper writing, and has made a sort of indirect disclosure of its editorship, by meeting the public half-way in authorising an impression that has long existed in the minds of the community. The _Herald_ of Tuesday, the 20th of September, after saying, "_we_ have been favoured with the following letter," prints a communication beginning "My dear Mamma." It is clear that to have made the avowal of its severally imputed editorship complete, the letter should have commenced with the words, "My dear Grandmamma." * * * * * THE RUSSIAN BEAR AND THE TURKEY COCK. We have heard a good deal lately about the "position taken by Turkey;" and as the attitude assumed has been undoubtedly rather warlike, we may come to the conclusion that the "position taken by Turkey" is in fact standing on her drum-sticks. * * * * * ALARMING ACCIDENT. (_From our Own Four-Mil-a-Liner_) [Illustration: M]