Is this a dream? Then waking would be pain.

Oh, do not wake me! Let me dream again!


Golf is becoming quite the rage in the United States. A game which has been described as "hitting a ball in the morning and spending the afternoon in search of it" might have been thought too slow for Cousin Jonathan. Not a bit of it. The lynx-eyed American eagle has developed a keen eye for the links, and the best green is said to be in the neighbourhood of Bunker's Hill.


Gross Ingratitude towards Two Old Public Favourites.—At Portsmouth municipal elections Messrs. Cox and Box were at the bottom of the poll in their respective wards.


THE IMPERIAL FEDERALIST'S VADE MECUM.

Question. Is not the idea of the Federation of the British Empire merely a dream?

Answer. Scarcely, since the matter has attracted the attention of Mr. Chamberlain, who is hardly a visionary.