a
favourable division were destroyed by Mr. SNOWDEN in a speech whose
character may be judged by the comment passed on it by Mr. O'GRADY,
just back from Russia, that "LENIN had preached the same doctrine
in Petrograd."

* * * * *

THE REST CURE.

TRIBUNALS PLEASE COPY.

"It is understood that the French Consul at Lourenco Marques,
M. Savoye, has, owing to ill-health, asked his Government to
allow him to return to Army duties."--_Cape Times_.

* * * * *

"Lady ---- set the fashion of arriving at the altar with empty
hands. She is the first bride to have had such an important
wedding without the etceteras of bouquet or prayerbook,
bridesmaids, pages, or wedding-cake."--_News of the World_.

Far too big a handful.

* * * * *

"150 YEARS AGO--JULY 20, 1767.

Reports of the borough treasurer of West Ham show a loss of
L41,000 on the municipal tramways and a loss of L35,000 on
the electricity undertaking."--_Northampton Daily Echo_.

So the eighteenth century was not so much behind the present time as
we had been led to believe.

* * * * *

"Piano wanted by a lady to teach little girl to
learn."--_Provincial Paper_.

One of those player-pianos with the new knuckle-rapping attachment,
we suppose.

* * * * *

[Illustration: _Tommy_ (_"mopping up" captured trench_). "IS THERE
ANYONE DOWN THERE?"

_Voice from dug out_. "JA! JA! KAMERAD!"

_Tommy_. "THEN COME OUT HERE AND FRATERNISE."]

* * * * *

MILITARY AIDES.

Last year, owing to the pressure of other engagements, we did not
mark out the tennis-lawn at "Sunnyside." This year the matter has
been taken out of our hands by the military powers.

Nevin was the first to think of it.

"What about a game of tennis?" he suggested one bright morning in May.
"Keep us from going to seed."

It was his second day of leave after three months in the Ypres
salient, so the change may have been too sudden for him.

"That's a toppin' notion," echoed Bob; "let's raid 'old Beetle's'
museum and dig out the posts."

So Captain Richard Nevin, R.E., and Second-Lieutenant Robert Simpson,
R.G.A., took the affair into their own hands.

Having seen the same forces cooperating on previous occasions, I
determined to keep clear of them.