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VERY NATURAL ERROR.—­A gentleman who up till now has been a quiet sort of man, with nothing suggestive of the “P.R.” about him, sent to excuse himself from appearing at our old friend Mrs. RAM’s dinner-party, because as he wrote to her nephew, who read the letter aloud, “I am off to see Woodhall Spa.”  “What!” she exclaimed, “Prize-fighting beginning again!  And isn’t Mr. WOODHALL or WOODALL a Member of Parliament?  He ought to know better.  Where are the police?”

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“IT WILL WASH!”—­“Abolition of the House of Peers!” No, stop—­spell it with an “a,” and make it “Pears,”—­now a Company Limited.  Going along in first-rate style.  The Pears’ Soap Christmas Book, illustrated, is to be a new edition of “His Soaps Fables.”  Next form of advertisement,—­“Very good morning!  Just bought Pears’ Soap Shares.”

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FRENCH PLAYS IN LONDON.—­The old saying applies, “They do these things better in France.”  London prefers to go to Paris for its French plays; but when two rivals, a BERNHARDT and a COQUELIN, come over to London, Londoners give the lady a chance of making her charming voice heard, but the clever French actor has, literally, to “shut up.”

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ROYAL DECISION.—­When the QUEEN goes from Balmoral to Mar Lodge, Her Majesty takes a Deesided course.

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