The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-01-11 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

QUIPS" BY "QUIZ."  • LICHFIELD SEE-SAW! See-saw, Jack-a-Paw, What a curious thing is episcopal law, It's one foot up and the other foot down, A laughing stock to all the town. St. Andrew's down, and Christ Church up : St. Andrew's may nee the Romish cup, But it most not touch the hand of a Glover— 'Tis thus common sense is toppled over. flee skein that Ritualists have tangled Is by Maclagan hopelessly mangled. To %mike matters pleasant to his flock around Between two stools he falls to the ground. And never before such see-saw was seen As this new of the Lichfield See. I ween.  The following is not an inappropriate motto for the casket presented by the Californian State of pea shooters and bowie knives to Lord Beaconsfield:—  From a Rowdy State To a Rowdy Statesman.  Apropos of the vote of the Bishops for bloodshed the following ver, from Burns is aot a bad commentary '  Ye hyp •.1 ! are these your pranks ? To mu: men and gi'e God thanks! For sham,! gi'e o'er proceed no further— God won't ace, pt your thanks for murder! A Dean is a degree lower than a Bishop in official ecclesiasticism, but a degree higher in Christianity, if the six war Bishops are conioared with the Dean of St. Paul's, who lately declared in his sermon that peace was of the essence of a Christian 'character, and God would not accept the" proud instincts of an imperial race" as a plea for needless war. There is satirical point in the following epigram upon this Bishop blessed war—  The Ameer is Charged with Getting 17p a Jehad ,"  or Religious War. What! get up a religious war— Oh ! wicked Afghan King! An irreligious war is ours— That's quite another thing.  Some people may wonder why most of our popular pantomimes are founded upon the fairy tales of our childhood. There is wisdom in the selection. The woman is only the girl overgrown and overdressed, and the man is but the boy encrasted with cares and troubles, and both are glad to catch some scintillations of childhood's bright gleams of merriment and undefined joys. But in this age of innovation even the traditions of our childhood are sometimes rudely shattered. As an illustration I take the charming pantomime, " Cinderella's Glass Slipper." Cinderella may be left, but the magical glass slipper is to be taken from us. correspondent writing to the Times says that it was a pan:eel/7e de rut—not de verre that was given by the fairy granimother—vair being an expensive kind of fur. I suppose in , the course of time some sage will tel' I us that " Little Red Riding Hood" was alway dressed :in green, and that the '• man with irm mask- only wore a respire:or.  We shsll have another sensational trial for murder shortly, as Mrs Dyson, the widow of the murdered Dyson, has arrived. Now then duchesses 1 countesses, and female aristocrats in general, get up' ! your scent bottles and bins, and haste to witness the armies of a wretch being tried for his life.  The price of a poor man's dog, valued at .£5, is, according to the great uupaia at Sedgley, ten shillings. A gamekeeper shot a poor fellow's dog which had ran from its owner into a wood. Now, had the latter shot a hare, which is a wild animal, and may belong to anyone on whose land he sojourns, imprisonment would 1. how. The gamekeeper is in the employ of Lord Dudley, and this explains the toadying of the local magnates of t'-- Bench la awarding the poor fellow only ten tilling,. • '  *See the letter published tn reply to the Bleh,p of I.l^hteete.n in two well kntrm ca.es of Stet tr.l-t-ore