Vanitas.

(Captain M—, in the Arbitration Court declared that for the first time in thirty-four years the Union S.S. Co. had failed to pay a dividend. —Daily Paper).

Vain! shortest drinks at longest price in Maori's private bar,

Vain! shrewdest thoughts of Inchcape's brain in London town afar,

Vain! mightiest fleets of iron framed, vain! those all-highest fares—

The Union Company cannot pay a divvy on its shares!

Ike O'Noclast.