"We thought it was to be a Peace Conference," remarks theBerliner Tageblatt sadly. Instead of which it turned out tobe another Diet of Worms.
"Wanted a Dock Examiner," says a technical paper advertisement.Now if they had only wanted a Duke examiner we have the very man inmind.
Several correspondents have written to The Daily Expressasking whether it is not unlucky to be married on a Friday. Our ownexperience is that it doesn't make much difference which day itis.
We learn on good authority that an airman recently flew fromNewfoundland to the English coast, but immediately returned as heconsidered that the weather was unfavourable for landing. As thewhole affair appears to have been hushed up it is thought that hewas of American nationality.
"A seasonable dish," says Household Hints, "is crab augratis." We can only say that in our own experience it neverseems to be in season at the smartest restaurants.
An American Army doctor has discovered that sea-sicknessoriginates in the ears. This confirms the old theory that personswho sleep with both ears pressed against the pillow are neversea-sick.
Presents given prior to engagements, says Judge CLUER, are inthe nature of bait and cannot be recovered. Once the angler issafely hooked a different situation arises.
"I am confident," writes "J.E.P." in The Daily Mail,"that nineteen out of twenty men do not know what they should do onbeing bitten by a mad dog." The common practice of trying to bitethe dog back is admittedly inadequate.
The London County Council have decided not to remove the marksof damage done by aircraft to the base of Cleopatra's Needle. Itseems that they have also had to refuse the request of somecurio-hunters who asked if they might have the indentations asmementos.
Owing to the inflated price of silver, a contemporary pointsout, the shilling now contains only ten-pence half-penny worth ofsilver. More important however is the fact that, owing to theinflated cheek of dairymen, it only contains three pennyworth ofmilk.
"Singing," says Dr. HENRY COWARD, "is a valuable preventiveagainst influenza." It is also known that certain streptococci havean intense dislike to the trombone.
The parishioners of All Saints' Church, South Acton, are invitedby the clergy to say what they would like to be preached to about.The little boy who wrote that he would like a sermon on the properway to feed white rats is still hopeful.
It appears that a Wallasey licensee, in order to satisfy hiscustomers, sent a sample of Government ale to be analysed. Weunderstand that the analyst reported that there was nothing init.
"I don't go to the pictures," says Mr. H.G. WELLS. It is notclear whether the Academy or the cinema is meant, but it shows thatthe famous novelist is, after all, only human, like so many ofus.
As a result of high prices, says The Daily Express,ladies may now be seen at Longchamps without stockings. We havenoticed similar signs of the high price of ladies' dresses in thiscountry.
Sir NEVILLE MACREADY'S statement that "burglars to-day oftenresort to violence" has caused much annoyance, and the famouspolice chief is to be asked to receive a deputation of Londonburglars to discuss the point.