Kieff has been retaken by the Bolshevists.It looks as if the Poles willhave to win the place three times insuccession before it becomes their ownproperty.
Annoyed by a small boy who wassucking sweets and laughing a parsonrecently stopped in the middle of hissermon and refused to go on with it.We are informed that the boy in questionhas since received several temptingoffers from other parishes.
A motorist, summoned the other week,admitted to having knocked three peopledown one day andtwo people the next.If only this progresscan be steadily maintained!
Traffic in FinsburyPark was considerablydelayed the otherday by a crowd whichcollected in the mainstreet in order towatch two bricklayerswho had deliberatelyremoved their coats.
A weekly paperstates that the windingup of the Ministryof Munitions will notbe completed untilnext year. After all itis just as well not torush things.
"Only the smallboy knows the joysof ice cream," saysan evening paper. Inside information,we presume.
A New York writer thinks that a manwith a large family of girls is fortunate.On the contrary, in these days, just ashe gets the last one married off, the firstgets a divorce and comes back home.
"The secret of health," said ProfessorDarsonval of the French Academy ofScience, "is to walk on the toes." Thisis better than the plan adopted by Tubetravellers of walking on other people's.
At the Business Exhibition there wasshown a waistcoat-pocket calculatorguaranteed to juggle with figures up tofive thousand pounds. This shouldbe just the thing for persons orderingdinner at a London restaurant.
"In 1924," says a contemporary,"Mars will be only thirty-five millionmiles from the earth." It has not yetbeen decided what can be done about it,but we understand that Lord Northcliffehas the matter in hand.
Scotland Yard is warning peopleagainst a man who perpetrates fraudby means of the telephone. It is to behoped he will soon be captured so thatthe secret of how he gets through canbe wrested from him.
"An expedition in search for gold,"says a contemporary, "will leave Glasgownext week." In view of theirobject no surprise is felt that theyhave decided to leave Scotland.
Mr. Robert Hyde, a chemist of Pittsburg,claims to have obtained sugarfrom sawdust. This is not so veryremarkable. Several people in thiscountry have succeeded in obtainingsugar from a grocer.
"On July 1st," says an official notice,"all banks in the United Kingdomwill be closed." To avoid disappointment,holders-up are requested to enterthe date in their engagement books.
Whilst assisting with the repairs tohis church a clergyman in the Midlandshas had the misfortune to injure histhumb with a hammer. It still remainsa mystery what the clergy sayon such occasions.
Although this year the majority oflady-shoppers are practising in privatefor the summer sales there are still afew who have again adopted theUnderground Railway as their trainingquarters.
The principle of the League ofNations has now been accepted by allthe Great Powers with the exceptionof America and Mr. Bottomley.
A bargee summoned in