A Liverpool grocer was fined last week for overcharging formargarine, eggs, cheese, ham, bacon, cocoa, jam and suet. Any othernation, it is pointed out, would have had a man like that at thePeace Conference.
The strike of wives, as proposed by a weekly paper, did notmaterialise. The husbands' threat to employ black-legs (allegedsilk) appears to have proved effective.
A Reigate resident advertises in a daily newspaper for therecovery of a human jawbone. It is supposed that the owner lost itduring a Tube rush.
"London from above," says a Daily Mail correspondent, "isgloriously, tenderly, wistfully beautiful." We rather gather thatit is the lid of Carmelite House that gives it just that littlenote of wistfulness.
"How to Prepare Marble Beef" is the subject of a contemporary's"Hints to Young Housekeepers," We had always supposed that thatsort of thing could be safely left to the butcher.
The demobilised members of a Herefordshire band have all growntoo big for their uniforms. The contra-bombardon man, weunderstand, also complains that his instrument is too tight roundthe chest.
"The one unselfish friend of man is the dog," said Sir FREDERICKBANBURY, M.P. A less courageous man would certainly have mentionedthe PRESIDENT of the United States.
A correspondent who signs himself "Selborne" writes to inform usthat about 9 A.M. last Thursday he noticed a pair of labourersbuilding within a stone's-throw of Catford Bridge.
A Hendon man has just completed sixty-two years in a churchchoir. Few choir-boys can boast of such a record.
One of the young recruits who joined the army last week inDublin is seven feet two inches in height. It is satisfactory tonote that he is on our side.
It is reported that seven cuckoos have been heard in differentparts of the country during the past week. It is felt in somequarters that it may be just one cuckoo on a route march.
"Bacon Free Yesterday," says a headline. Somebody must have leftthe door open.
An American scientest claims to have discovered a harmless germlikely to defeat the "flu" microbe. It is said that some medicalmen have put up a purse and that the two germs are being matched tofight a ten round contest under National Sporting Club rules.
Those who have said that the unemployment donation makes forprolonged holiday have just been dealt a sorry blow. It appearsthat one North of England man in receipt of this pay hasdeliberately started work.
Plans for the housing of 12,000 Government clerks have just beenpassed. While 12,000 may suffice for a nucleus, we cannot helpthinking that once again the Government isn't really trying.
A postman going his rounds at Kingston found a deserted baby onthe lawn of a front garden. It speaks well for the honesty ofpostal servants that the child was at once given up.
We are pleased to announce with regard to the German waiter who,in 1913, gave a Scotsman a bad sixpence for change, that reassuringnews has just reached Scotland that the fellow, is still alive.