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[Illustration: _Earnest Lady_. "OF COURSE I UNDERSTAND MEN MUST DRINK
WHILE DOING SUCH HOT AND HEAVY WORK. BUT MUST IT BE BEER? CAN'T THEY
DRINK WATER?"
_Mechanic_. "YES, LADY, THEY CAN DRINK WATER, BUT (_confidentially_)
IT MAKES 'EM SO GIDDY."]
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"Boy, to heat at hearth and to strike occasionally."--_Sheffield
Daily Telegraph_.
A case for the N.S.P.C.C.
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Appended to a quotation from _The Globe_ on German intrigues with the
Vatican:--
"[NOTE: The above is obviously from the pen of Mr. L.J. Maxse,
the editor of the _National Review_, who, as recently announced,
has become associated with the editorial direction of the
Pope.]"--_Manchester Evening Chronicle_.
In pursuance of this arrangement His Holiness will in future take the
style of _Pontifex Maxsemus_.
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