THE NEW COALITION.
Mr. Asquith (to Viscount Chaplin and Lord Robert Cecil). "THANKS, MY FRIENDS—THANKS FOR YOUR LOYAL SUPPORT. DO MY EYES DECEIVE ME, OR DO I SEE BIG BEN?"
Son of House (entertaining famous explorer and distinguished professor). "It would astonish you fellows if I told you some of the things I've seen and heard— though I'm, comparatively speaking, a young man—twenty-two, to be exact."
THE INSOMNIAC.
Miss Brown announced her intention of retiring to roost. Not that she was likely to sleep a blink, she said; but she thought all early-Victorian old ladies should act accordingly.