Deputy-Adjutant-General, Royal Marines, had been altered to
Adjutant-General, Royal Marines.

* * *

"Arising out of" KID LEWIS'S victory last week over PAUL TIL, it is the
opinion among a good many Germans that the French Government, being
determined that the Entente should not be imperilled, decided to send
over a French boxer whom an Englishman could defeat.

* * *

Letchworth Garden City is now considered large enough to possess its own
police court, and the Herts County Council has sanctioned its erection.
Four Letchworth residents have been made J.P.'s, and it is now up to the
residue to supply sufficient criminals to make the venture a success.

* * *

Last week, in the City of London Court, a man was ordered to pay L15
damages and costs for pouring a basin of thick ox-tail soup over another
man. We are glad that this action has been held to be illegal, as thick
ox-tail is such nasty sticky stuff.

Meanwhile what the law is as to clear soup is a point which still
remains to be tested.

* * *

According to figures published in our bright little contemporary,
_Fire_, property amounting to L359,875 was destroyed by fire in Great
Britain during the past year. This seems to us more than enough, but it
is not easy to satisfy a militant suffragette.

* * *

Mr. "MARK ALLERTON" has suggested that London ought to have a special
golf course for beginners. If it could be arranged for spectators to be
admitted at a moderate charge we believe this might become one of the
most successful places of amusement in the Metropolis.

* * *

A suggestion that school children shall be taken to museums, as a reward
for good school work, has been made by Lord SUDELEY. This is scarcely a
new idea. We remember that when we were at school there was a feeling
that the very good boys ought to be in a museum.

* * *

We have been favoured with the sight of a letter from a money-lender, in
which the following remarkable passage occurs:--"The above terms are for
short periods, _to be repaid_ as mutually agreed upon _before the
advance is made_." The italics are ours, but the proleptic idea is a
happy invention of the author himself.

* * *

"SPRING IN THE AIR."

_Daily Mail_.

We are sorry not to oblige our contemporary, but advancing years have
taken something from our resiliency.

* * *

ANOTHER IMPENDING APOLOGY.

"Dr. Glover, in giving