O--Telegram from Motherwell saying, that
owing to police intervention, train starts the day after to-morrow.
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[Illustration: ARBITRATION.
THE SEAL. "BELAY, YOU TWO JOHNNIES!--AVAST QUARRELLING! GIVE ME A
'CLOSE-TIME,' AND LEAVE THE 'SEA' AN OPEN QUESTION."]
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[Illustration: SHOCKING!
_Fair New-Englander_ (_spending the Winter in the Old Country_). "OH,
WHAT A LOVE! AND IS IT THE FIRST YOU HAVE SHOT THIS YEAR, CAPTAIN
RASPER?"]
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TOO CIVIL BY HALF; OR, PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.
(_A DRAMA FOUNDED--MORE OR LESS--UPON FACTS._)
ACT I.--"PAST."--_Interior of the Savings Bank Department of
the G.P.O. Employes engaged upon their work. The hour for
customary cessation of labour strikes._
_Official of a Higher Grade_. Officers and Gentlemen, the exigencies
of the Public Service require your presence for some time longer. I
beg you to continue your work.
_A Hundred Employes_. Never! (_Aside.
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