TRUE HYPERBOLE.

He. "What a lovely Frock!... Worth, I suppose?" She. "Monsieur Worth is dead."

He. "Ah! it looks as if it came from Heaven!"


THE OLD CHIEFTAIN'S FAREWELL.

["The impending Dissolution brings into its practical and final form the prospective farewell which I addressed last year to the constituency of Midlothian."—Mr. Gladstone's Farewell Letter to the Electors of Midlothian.]