... contributed songs. Several selections aud pa- triotic songs were given on the graphophonc by Mr. S. Lings. A reading entitle;! April Fool by Mr. J. Hail caused roars of laughter. The first part concluded with a dialogue, The Barber's Courtship, Miss Holmes ...

... report being current that a steamer had been wrecked on the coast and several lives lost, was first 3e regarded as a cruel April fool hoax, but this evening the t Cunard agents here received news that it was all true, and 3 that only a little of the truth ...

... Making green misses spoil their work at school; foil A mclanchdly man, cross-gartering P S . Grave ripe-fac'd wisdom made an April fool ? t A youngster, tilting at a wedding ring P fo L A sinner, sitting on a cuttie stool ? A Ferdinand de Something in a hovel ...

... recognized them, and ran to advertise the snti. di, neL The sentinel thought, himself too cunning for hrr. ha April fool ! cried he-, April fool echoed the whole DO guard..Aprl fool Iepeated the Governor- when h r; neard it. Ife gave orders, nevertheless ...

... regard to his Irish pro- I posals.-The resolution was carried amidst cheers, and the meeting terminated. A PRACTICAL JOKE. On April Fool's Day a rather extraordinary joke was perpetrated in Trinity College, Dublin, on a quiet un-r assuming scholar by some fellow ...

... thought he a the was joking, and wished to frighten them into doing some- the thing which should entitle them to be called April fools,, Anzani being known to be fond of a lark of any kind, In soon sbout 20 minutes afterwvards, however, he was found to ...

... cleared off, and there stood the 40 Patneyites as a laughs- ing stock to the town of Kingston, and, the largest batch F of April fools on record. AIDS TO ANTI-WOn~ieNu ALOEB3RAISTS.-Q. What 'I is a i' continued fraction? A. The life of a careless rs . servant-Q ...

... fessor Geoll's late flight in one of the aerial machines from B . a hill near Glasgow, is neither more- nor less than an 0 April-foole u d'es.prit. [WVhether te hoaxer or those B wif believed'so silly a rogue capable of telling truth were P tise greater ...

... Commons to approve his wily w ld dodge of drawing a herring across the track, and th vd leaving himself perfectly free till April Fools' hi my Day There is only one fault to find with the speeches MC delivered last week at the Crystal Palace by Lord toi SALISBURY ...

... Buith, botb gentle and simple, were I capitally hoaxed oni Monday, by it plttetrd (pri ated in f London, tomd dated oni April--Fools day,) aitintouicing thit c the new acrial maciniie would arrive at Bthti at uohont itidlay, in 20 tltinimtes from Londoit ...

... he al ways called him Mr.-Rogers-his reacued or companions being known aboard by the unflattering sobri- fn que of 1the April fools. Mr. Rogors told him that ha le, Wiad been in Brazil, and'mentioned people in Rio, but he wite tr always deraniged,1 ...