Or perhaps, like O'Brien, in bed.
In the Standard's report of Mr. Labouchere's after-dinner speech to the members of the Eleusis Club, the warier of the two Northampton Members observed, "that we lived in critical times, when it was absolutely necessary that Radicals should hang together." Mr. Labouchere speaks trippingly, but he is not often to be caught tripping. The Conservative Standard missed an opportunity.
Latest Addition to Fairy Land.—Mr. Irish Secretary Balfour must be all over the country at once. For this he requires Seven (Land)-League boots.
The Real "Empire of the Hittites."—The prevailing passion for pugilists.
A sporting tandem-driving Doctor of our acquaintance calls his leader the Hoss frontis.