According to the Correspondent of The Daily Mail whodescribed the festivities at Nish, the King of Bulgaria "has a curious duck-like waddle." This isbelieved to be the result of his effort to do the Goose-Step whileavoiding the Turkey-Trot.
Owing to the extraction of benzol and toluol from gas for thepurpose of making high-explosives it is stated that consumers mayhave to put up with some decrease in illuminating power. It isexpected, in view of the good object involved, that theannouncement will be received in a spirit of toluoleration.
We cannot agree with the actor who complains that his managerforbids him to wear his armlet on the stage. The sympathies of theaudience might be entirely deranged by the discovery that theelderly villain was an attested patriot while the young andbeautiful hero was either ineligible or a slacker.
Describing the depressed condition of the laundry trade awitness at the Clerkenwell County Court said, "We are eight milliondouble collars short every week." It is shrewdly conjectured thatthey are in the neighbourhood of the Front.
Nothing in the course of his Balkan pilgrimage is reported tohave pleased the Kaiser so much as asteamer-trip on the Danube. It was looking so sympatheticallyblue.
The Government is going to close Museums and Picture-galleriesto the public. No one shall accuse us of being Apostles ofCulture.
It is said that the Australian and New Zealand soldiers now inLondon are very fond of visiting the British Museum, and take aparticular interest in the Egyptian antiquities. But it is not truethat they now refer to England as "The Mummy Country."
Austrians and Hungarians are said to be quarrelling as towhether the occupied Serbian territory should eventually belong tothe Monarchy or the Kingdom, and the jurists on either side areransacking the history of the past for arguments to support theirrespective cases. Here we have another instance of the fondness oflearned men for disputing about purely academic questions. Serbiawill belong to the Serbians.
An American gentleman, who started out to visit his wife whenshe was staying with her mother and failed to find her after threedays' search, excuses himself on the ground that he had forgottenher maiden name. He puts it down to absence of mind; and hismother-in-law is inclined to agree with him.
Soap is the latest article to be placed on the list of absolutecontraband; and it is now more certain than ever that the Germanswill not come out of the War with clean hands.
In view of the impending paper-famine a widely-circulatedjournal announces its readiness to receive back from the public anyparcels of old copies marked "waste paper." In the opinion of itstrade-rivals the inscription is superfluous.
A suggestion has been made by a Registrar in Bankruptcy that theTercentenary of Shakspeare's deathshould be celebrated by the performance in every large town of oneof the Bard's plays; and some regret has been expressed thatanybody should take advantage of a national celebration to boom hisown business.
"'How many of us realise that, were it not for America, the Warto-day in Europe, as fought, could not even exist?'" is thequestion put, according to a New York correspondent, "by Mr. GutzonBorglum, the great Ameri