s the potato the saviour of the Fatherland?" asks the _Deutsche
Tageszeitung_. Another slight to the ALL-HIGHEST.

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[Illustration: _Both together_. "NOW, MY MAN, WHY DON'T YOU SALUTE
WHEN YOU PASS AN OFFICER?"]

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From a review of Lord LISTER'S "Life":--

"It was in Edinburgh that he struck his most famous patient,
Henley, who has a record of the 'Chief' in his rhymes and
rhythms, 'In Hospital.'"--_Daily Paper_.

But it was not in reference to this incident that HENLEY wrote, "My
head is bloody but unbowed."

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"If all fools were rationed there could be no fixed
scale."--_Star_.

Of course not; we have always noticed that the bigger the fool the
more he eats.

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"Bassano is a nice town, by a dam site."--_Canadian Paper_.

But a Canadian friend tells us there are others "a dam sight nicer."

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"The German government has a terrific explosive, which is being
held in reserve to the last.... It is said that a bomb weighing
scarcely ten kilometres can annihilate everything within a radius
of two thousand feet."--_New York Herald_.

We do not mind saying that we are frankly afraid of a bomb that weighs
about six miles.

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"TIPPERARY BURGLARY.--Tipperary Temperance Club premises have been
gurgled."--_Cork Examiner_.

GILBERT'S burglar up-to-date: "He loves to hear the Temperance Club
a-gurgling."

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"General Allenby, no doubt, will go in due time to the House of
Lords, and military men are taking a jocular interest in his
selection of a title. Lord Bathsheba might serve, or Lord Hebron.
Lord Jerusalem smacks of the jocose."--_Birmingham Daily Post_.

For our part we thought "Lord Bathsheba" rather funny too.

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AN HISTORICAL CURIOSITY.

"At Blenheim is a small glass-topped table, which contains the
sword of the great Duke of Marlborough, also a letter addressed by
him to Sarah Duchess from the field of Waterloo."--_The Queen_.

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OUR PACIFISTS.

Far as my humble daily round extends,
There's none but longs to see us lay the foe low;
I cannot trace upon my