Prohibition meetings in Scotland,says an official, have been attended byfifty thousand people. We should nothave thought there were so many aliensin Scotland.
At an Oldbury wedding the other daya brick was thrown at the bridegroom.There is no excuse for this sort of thingwith confetti so cheap.
One of the Pacific Islands, we read,is so small that the House of Commonscould not be planted on it. Agreat pity.
"Do hotel chefs use cookery-books?"asks a home journal. Our own opinionis that quite a largeproportion of them cookby ear.
Fourteen thousandartificial teeth recentlystolen from premises inEast London have notbeen recovered. Whilenot attempting to indicatethe guilty party,we cannot refrain frompointing out that severalLabour leaders have recentlybeen showing agood many more teeththan they were thoughtentitled to possess.
At the Trades UnionCongress a protest wasmade against the UnemploymentInsuranceAct. This must not beconfused with theminers' threat to strike.That is merely a method of ensuringunemployment.
The arrangement by which a hundred-and-fiftyamateur brass bands are toplay at the Crystal Palace on September25th looks like an attempt to distractus from the miners' strike fixedfor that day.
A Ramsgate man charged with shootinga cat denied that he fired at it. Theanimal is said to have dashed at thebullet and impaled himself upon it.
It has been agreed, says a news item,that milk shall be tenpence a quartthis winter. Not by us.
The War Office announces that Arabsin Southern Mesopotamia have captureda British armoured train. It should bepointed out to these Arab rebels thatit is such behaviour as this that discouragesthe tourist spirit.
Upon reading that another lady hadfailed in her attempt to swim theChannel a Scotsman inquires whetherthe Cross-Channel steamer rates havebeen increased, like everything else.
We are informed that at a footballmatch recently played in the RhonddaValley the referee won.
General Obregon, says an unofficialmessage, has been elected Presidentof Mexico. The startling report thathe has decided to reverse the safepolicy of his predecessors and recognisethe United States requires corroboration.
Everybody should economise after agreat war, says an American film producer.We always do our best afterevery great war.
According to an official report onlyfifty policemen were bitten by dogs inLondon last week. The falling off issaid to be due to the fact that it hasbeen rather a good year for young andtender postmen.
Some highly-strung persons, says amedical writer, are even afraid of inanimateobjects. This accounts for manynervous people being afraid of venturingtoo near a plumber.
"I only want the potatoes in theallotment and not the earth," said acomplainant at Deptford. It is evidentthat, if this man is a trade unionist, heis a raw amateur.
Doctors at Vicenza have threatenedto strike. This means that people inthat neighbourhood will have to diewithout medical assistance.
"Chief Hailstorm," of the TexasRangers, has arrived in London. Hisbrother, Chief