SKETCH OF THE DAY 28: You know the fat deputy from opposite, who's a representative at 25 francs a day, well, this morning I read off the newspaper that they'd given him a commission! －A commission pays generally seventy five centimes without even a written decision... on that day he should've made 25 francs 15 sous, what luck!

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 40: －For three months, your grace has been posing always like that... now the portrait's no longer a likeness... it's no longer that!..

Caricatures of the Day: The bourgeois at the Salon: Let's see... What's that?... (reading from his catalogue) "No. 387. Portrait of Mr. B*** stock-broker"... well... well!... oh! how stupid I am... 386 is the portrait of Mr. B***, this is a portrait of a bull by Mr. Bracassat... I'd also say... that the idea of having yourself painted with horns as big as that... after that, you can't refuse a stock-broker anything

NEWS 233: All the same we never doubted that one day we'd sail in that ship

PEOPLE OF THE LAW 24: －What a pity that charming little woman didn't ask me to defend her... how I would have argued that her husband is a rascal!..

NEWS 28: － I told you just now that I wouldn't be annoyed if the Oriental affair put itself to rights. － Yes, and so? － Well, it's funny, but since I've drunk that Mars beer, I'd like it if we had a war

TENANTS AND LANDLORDS 22: Is the account exact?... now you're going to ask me if I can give you a receipt... under the pretext that if one's rich one should always give something!..

NEWS 62: －Got to admit that it's very odd that the grapes have caught the potatoes' disease!

NEWS 37: A STUBBORN OLD MAN. －Clerk of the court, would you be kind enough to tell me when they'll punish the individual who, at the place du Havre, put my eye in the condition in which you see it. －But sir, it's unthinkable that you should continue to wear such an eye-patch when we've proven to you that no one was punched in the place du Havre... do you know that the ex-members of the Society of the Tenth of December would have the right to demand compensation for the harm that you're doing to their reputation!

A Photograph of the Plastic Model That I Can't Put Together after Eight Years Because I Want Make a Neat Job of It

NEWS 130: －What an odd game!...each player finds that he has the King!..

TRIVIAL THINGS 1: Eleven degrees centigrade! what a bad turn it gives you! and they call this a year of mercy!

NEWS 177: UNNECESSARY REGRETS!: －What a pity that this phenomenon should die on the very day of its birth!... it should have been admired by all the courts of Europe!..

News 124: A day of the eclipse

PARISIANS TYPES 30: －My God! Missus Bombec, what hit you? －Don't mention it,dear lady, the horror! the world's become so ferocious that I'd rather be the gatekeeper at the zoo. You know that Bezuchet on the fifth floor who tells everyone that her not-so great daughter, whose filling out nicely round the waist, has become Whatdropical. Me, I just said: oh yeh! －And that's the creature that... －by Jove, flew into my face

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 17: THE WORKER FOR A LABOUR EXCHANGE: Employed at fifteen sous a day, as a secret bill-poster, what a fate! They're asking for a replacement, by Jove, as are my hat and my clothes, and above all my last night's supper's asking for a replacement!

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 27: COUNTRY ACTORS: －Yes,my dear fellow,yes the barbarians hissed at me in Cinna;and what's more you've seen me in Cinna! －Yes, I flatter myself that I've seen you, but don't you see that the provincials are hard up; open at the Français, go and find Mr.J.J.,get yourself looked after, ask for one hundred thousand francs per year and they'll applaud you...but you want success with 1500F[rancs] salaries and at Beauvais...greenhorn!

NEWS 24: － What... the paper says that it's rumoured in the Stock-Exchange that the Russians have crossed the Prut!... － Well! Mister Panelet... all the same... because the Russians have begun hostilities that's no reason for you not to finish off shaving

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 8: 2 O'CLOCK: Azor's snack: What's the matter, dear chap, this animal has only me, you, you've got everyone

The Good Bourgeois 20: －It appears they have just seen the sea serpent again in the Indian Ocean! －Is that possible, for goodness sake! －Certainly it's possible, for goodness sake, because I told you that it says so in le Constitutionnel! so!..

The Good Bourgeois 20: －It appears they have just seen the sea serpent again in the Indian Ocean! －Is that possible, for goodness sake! －Certainly it's possible, for goodness sake, because I told you that it says so in le Constitutionnel! so!..

IN CHINA 13: －Here, look at that case..., it contains the American envoys who are going to Peking!... －You'd think that that carriage contained curious animals... －To be sure! if they are curious..., too bad for them, because they won't see much of the country they're travelling through!..

IN CHINA 13: －Here, look at that case..., it contains the American envoys who are going to Peking!... －You'd think that that carriage contained curious animals... －To be sure! if they are curious..., too bad for them, because they won't see much of the country they're travelling through!..

THE ALARMISTS AND ALARMED. 6: －Sir, it's a three sou letter... －Is it the done thing to knock on the door for a three sou letter...I had a fright!... I thought they'd come to ask me for my weapons..

THE ALARMISTS AND ALARMED. 6: －Sir, it's a three sou letter... －Is it the done thing to knock on the door for a three sou letter...I had a fright!... I thought they'd come to ask me for my weapons..