"Two Russian battleships and some cruisers set out from Cronstadt
to meet the British warships in the Baltic, and were fired on from
the Flemish coast."--_Yorkshire Paper_.
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"After four incessant years across Dora's knee the peace New
Year ought surely to hold something good in its kindly lap for
well-strafed automobilists."--_Sketch_.
But after four years across Dora's knee the New Year is probably not
thinking about its lap, but quite the reverse.
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"The announcement of a ball in Brussels gave plenty of scope for
imaginative scribes to quote, in some cases almost correctly,
the lines about 'there was a scene of revelry by night.'"--"_Mr.
Gossip_" in "_The Daily Sketch_."
"MR. GOSSIP," too, quotes "almost correctly."
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It is hoped that if M. PADEREWSKI becomes President of the new Polish
Republic he will experience the truth of the old proverb, _Chi va
piano va sano._
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[Illustration: _British Officer (Army of occupation)_. "LOOK OUT, OLD
BEAN! WE'RE GETTING THE GLAD EYE."]
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