: Gods of the North by Howard Robert E Robert Ervin - Short stories; Fantasy fiction American Science Fiction

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Editor: Francis Burnand

VOL. 109.

JULY 27, 1895.

THE LOST RECORD.

OF COURSE.--Directly it was known that Sir WILLIAM HARCOURT had accepted an invitation to contest West Monmouthshire, and that Mr. WARMINGTON had generously offered to retire in his favour, there was a rush for the evident joke of styling the self-effacing Q.C. "Mr. WARMINGPAN." It is uncertain which paper was the first to get the Warmingpan into its sheets. Sir WILLIAM did not find the vacated seat too hot to hold him. Just nice.

NEW TITLES.--Sir HENRY LOCH is created Baron LOCH of Drylaw. The title will be appropriately written out on parchment. For was there ever a more dry-as-dust title than that of a Barren Loch and Dry Law!! Mr. STERN comes to the front as Baron WANDSWORTH: not of Wandsworth Common, "and so," as a Shakspearian clown might say, "the title is uncommon." Finally

Cock a doodle doo! Lord HOUGHTON'S Earl of Crewe!

being, evidently, the living representative of SHAKSPEARE'S "Early Village Cock."

SCRAPS FROM CHAPS.

BALLOTERY.--The Cork Agricultural Society had before it a proposal of the County Board to rent their ground for holding sports. The Chairman said,

"LITTERAL" TRUTH.--The effects of the General Election on the Press seem to be most marked in Ireland. An Irish contemporary has the following:--

"IRELAND. THE VICEROYALTY TO BE ABOLILHED.--Colonel SAUNDERSON, addressing the Orangemen of Diamond, near Armagh, said that Lord LALISBURY'S Government would bring in a Bil to obolieh the office of Irish Viceroy."

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