Here's to Nansen! Here's to his crew!
We know they'll venture what men may do.
Good luck and good cheer be Heaven's gift
To the Fram and her men on that long, long drift!
And if they win through the Polar pack,
May Punch be foremost to welcome them back.
ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
Extracted from the Diary of Toby, M.P.
House of Commons, Monday, July 3.—The fat in the fire again. Who put it there? "I," said Joey C., "with my ready ladle; I swooped it in." So he did, lighting up with sudden flame embers that seemed quite dead. At end of speech on Wolmer's Amendment, seeing John Dillon sitting opposite, asked him what about few remarks made at Castlerea, in which he had threatened, when Irishmen came to their own on College Green, they would have police, sheriffs, and bailiffs, under their control, and would "remember" their enemies? Dillon, amid scene of tumultuous excitement, admitted that phrase not in itself defensible, but pleaded that words had been spoken amid great provocation. The massacre at Mitchelstown had taken place just before; its memories were hot within him, and, out of the indignation of his heart, his tongue had spoken.