THE TIP.

'Tis the voice of the Sluggard, I hear him complain,

You have waked me too soon—an unpleasant surprise!

In an hour or so later pray call me again,

When, if feeling refreshed, I will straightway "Arise!"


QUITE IN KEEPING.—The Earl of DYSART has left the ranks of the Liberal Unionists and become a Gladstonian Home-Ruler. "What more natural?" asked one of his former Unionist friends. "Of course he's dysarted us!"