She. "Oh—well—mine is hardly a Cheque. A—it's a Postal Order, you know, for Fifteen Shillings!"


OUR OWN AMBASSADOR.

Mr. Punch, meeting Columbia at the World's Fair, thus greeteth her:—

Columbia by Lake Michigan

A treasure-dome did late decree;

And all the world, in summer, ran,

In numbers measureless by man,

The Wondrous Show to see!

There many miles of fertile ground