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"At a special meeting of the Duma held to-day, the Minister for
Agriculture, M. Rittich, in reply to an urgent question on the measures
for supplying Petrograd, stated the supplies were sufficient for the
present. Difficulties in purchase are due to excessive building and
storing by individuals in the shape of rusks."--_Daily Chronicle_.
No authority for this remarkable statement is given, but we suspect the
_Russky Invalid_.
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"A trifle of a trinket for his women-folk is the only saving as an
insurance for the poor against famine and starvation for a rainless
day."--_A Native Writer in "The Times of India."_
KIPLING was right, East is East and West is West.
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"The undersigned has great pleasure in informing all the ladies,
gentlemen and the other travellers in the Station that a very nice
comfortable motor car can be obtained on hire from him for a walk in or
out of the Station for any period of time at very reasonable
charges."--_Peshawar Daily News_.
The petrol shortage evidently extends to India.
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"Ireland is accustomed to disappointment; she is accustomed to what she
signalises as betrayal, but her spirit remains unbroken, and she goes
on her way undaunted to seek, it may be by new methods and a new road,
her appointed gaol."--_Manchester Guardian._
Irishmen may justifiably resent this cynicism on the part of an old friend.
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[Illustration: A MODIFIED SALIENT.
_The Old 'Un (surveying recently called-up warrior)._ "WELL, JARGE, YOU'M
STILL TURR'BLE FAT, BUT THE ARMY DO ZEEM TO 'AVE REARRANGED IT, LIKE."]
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