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"To-day there are 2,000,000 muskrats in Bohemia, and, like
rabbits in Australia, they are spreading all over the fruitful
regions of the province and destroying fish in the breeding
ponds."--_Daily Mail._

You should see our rabbit destroying our trout.

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"She was a flesh and blood woman, fit to be the mother of
husky sons."--_"Daily Sketch" feuilleton._

They would constantly rise up and call her blessed, and this would
account for their hoarseness. (Jones's jujubes are the best.)

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"The sturgeon ... consists of fish, flesh, and fowl, the
latter part commanding a good saleable price."--_Carlisle
Journal._

The wings are particularly tender.

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Fashions for Men.

"Lord Salisbury came with Lady Beatrice Ormsby-Gore, wearing
blue charmeuse."--_Daily Mail._

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[Illustration: _Village Worthy._ "AH, I USED TO BE AS FOND OF A DROP
O' BEER AS ANYONE, BUT NOWADAYS IF I DO TAKE TWO OR DREE GALLONS IT DO
KNOCK I OVER!"]

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OUR COLOSSAL ARRANGEMENTS.

One of the most appalling scandals of modern times is the disgraceful
suppression by the Ginger-beer Press of news relating to the state of
affairs in the Isle of Wight. For some weeks we have not flinched
from filling our columns with picturesque accounts of the epoch-making
events taking place there; and yet the Ginger-beer Press has cruelly
put off its readers with the scantiest details, or else refrained from
any sort of reference. We make our protest all the more vigorously
because many of those readers have been driven to read our own journal
in preference to the erroneous and misleading sheets to which we have
referred.

This distressing state of things has forced us to make the fullest
arrangements for a constant stream of news to be supplied from our
branch offices at Ventnor, Totland Bay, the Needles, and other points
of the Island. We have despatched a huge staff of world-famous war
correspondents, descriptive writers, poets, photographers, Royal
Academy artists, gallopers, commissariat officers, and trained
bloodhounds. Field kitchens, field wireless equipment, and field
glasses are included among their impedimenta, and no single message
will be printed in our pages that has not been sent i