SIR,--I have an infallible plan for diminishing the consumption of
good food, at any rate among Members of the Government. Let them give
up all other forms of nutriment and eat their own words. The PRIME
MINISTER might begin. I am,
Yours, etc.,
ORGANISED OPPOSITION.
"FOOD HOGS" SUPERSEDED.
SIR,--I am told that there are people so lost to shame that they are
still, in spite of the KING'S Proclamation and all the other appeals
to their patriotism, eating as usual. I suggest that they be branded
as the "Alimentary Canaille."
Yours, etc.,
DISGUSTED.
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"Sir G. Cornewall Lewis made the best speeches in the moist
manner."--_British Weekly_.
We had always understood till now that he was one of our dry speakers.
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"Mr. R. M'Neill was surprised that the hon. member should have
thought it worth while to make a point of that sort. Surely he
knew the rule 'Qui facit peralium facit perse.'"--_The Times_.
The maxim seems to have jammed.
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"Mr. Bonar Law replied: 'The Imperial War Cabinet is both
executive and consultative, its functions being regulated by
the nature of the subject of the Bandman Opera Coy.'"--_The
Empire_ (_Calcutta_).
As one of the subjects of the Company (according to its advertised
programme) is a piece entitled "The Rotters," we feel confident that
Mr. BONAR LAW has been misreported.
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