Some years ago one of the French comic papers published a: caricature of oan acrobat walking on his hands along a bottles on hie head, spread with glass and cutlers of his eet, and varrging in his mouth a large dish of fruit. Underneath the picture was the Ingend: "Championnat des ultés—Lnutiles." The jest is:
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