_Peste_ on this Panama affair!
Egyptian sands sucked not our savings
As did those swamps. Still I can't bear
To see _him_ suffer. 'Midst my cravings
For _la revanche_, I'd fain not touch
Our Greatest Frenchman--'tis too much!

* * * * *

SHORT AND SWEET.

["The Young Ladies of Nottingham have formed a Short-skirt
League."--_Daily Graphic_.]

Ye pretty girls of England,
So famous for your looks,
Whose sense has braved a thousand fads
Of foolish fashion-books,
Your glorious standard launch again
To match another foe,
And refrain
From the train
While the stormy tempests blow,
While the sodden streets are thick with mud,
And the stormy tempests blow!

See how the girls of Nottingham
Inaugurate a League
For skirts five inches from the ground;
They'll walk without fatigue,