The mutiny of the German sailors at Kiel is now explained. Theypreferred death to another speech from the KAISER.
A Constantinople poet has translated the plays of SHAKSPEAREinto Turkish. The rendering is said to be faithful to the text, andit is assumed that a keen appreciation of Turkey's militarynecessities alone accounts for his reference to the "Swan of Avon"as the "Bulbul of Potsdam."
The use of flour as an ingredient of sausages is now forbidden.Young sausages which have hitherto been fed on bread and milk musteither be broken to bones or killed for the table.
An optimist writes to express the hope that by this eliminationof flour the dreadful secret of the sausage may be at lastrevealed.
The German Government has created a Pulp Commission. We havealways said they would be reduced to it in time.
The King of SIAM'S royal yacht has been turned into a cargoboat. Reports that the Sacred White Elephant has been commandeeredfor use as a floating dock are still unconfirmed.
For giving corn to pheasants a fine of ten pounds has beeninflicted on a merchant of New York (Lincs.) The removal enbloc of this village from the mouth of the Hudson river to itspresent site should finally convince the sceptics of the magnitudeof America's war effort.
The Vacant Land Cultivation Society offers a prize of tenshillings for the heaviest potato. Some of our most notoriouspotato-tellers are expected to compete.
The provision of steel helmets for the Metropolitan Police isall right so far as it goes, but the Force is still asking why itcannot be furnished with some protection for its otherextremities.
From China it is reported that an aboriginal priest now claimingthe Throne has been accustomed to eat the flesh of tigers, wolves,leopards, &c., also the human heart. It is, however, only fairto our own restaurateurs to state that, though China is alleged tobe on the eve of war, there is as yet no food-control in thatcountry.
An unusual scarcity of wasps is reported from various parts ofthe country. Nothing is being done about it.
A calf has been sold for two thousand seven hundred guineas inAberdeenshire. The plucky purchaser is understood to have had forsome time past a craving for a veal cutlet.
A new form of frightfulness is evidently being practised upontheir guards by our interned Huns. "Some of them," says acontemporary, "purchase a hundred cigars with a portion of the onepound a day which is the miserable maximum they may spend onluxuries."
"People who speak of suicide seldom do anything desperate," saysa well-known mental expert. So that the KAISER'S threat to fightEngland to the death may be taken for what it is worth.
An extraordinary meeting of German Reichstag Members has arrivedat the decision that the Germans cannot hope for victory in thefield. We see nothing extraordinary in this.
Professor BERGEN was once described as "the well-known inventorand philanthropist." He still invents (his latest is a gas-thrower,reported by the Berliner Tageblatt to be "a veritablemonst