If an Unparalleled Service Order were to be voted by popular consent 10 those who have deserved best of their fellow-men, the Editors of and contributors to the "Rattle," the artists and the pen-thrusters, would certainly head the. list of recipients, It seemed actually insane to expect a new number from sufferers from such a climate as has cursed the opening year of the century in Shanghai, insanity to expect it, brutality to demand it. Yet spontaneously it has blossomed; this busy plant, luce the orange-tree which is never without leaves and fruit, and here before us is No. 5. There are' most excellent pictures in it too; "Jim" on an emu; the Provost Marshal with an eye like his first syllable; Edward the Great with his nose a little exaggerated; "Their Hais," not from the Oaford St. studio of Henry Heath; a perfect portrait of "Joe" of the M.M. receiving a telegram to say that another stern tube has given out; and one of the most trenchant cartoons we have ever seen in the "Rattle," representing the situation at Peking. "A Chinaman is doling out Mexicans: to a group of foreign soldiers China.—Ran away and squabble somewhere else."
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The Porcers.—We won't go till we are And there are still other sketches, for instance, a portrait of a charming girl with a poem beginning "Sweet mouth so cool, calm, so bright the Interview with Major Bootlace of the S.V.C." has a trifle of subacidity in it; and the letter-press generally is worthy of the pictures,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.