"Your rifle is your best friend, take every care of it; treat it
as you would your wife, rub it all over with an oily rag every
day."
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"The court was crowded by Gaelic Leaguers and the proceedings
were marked by some disorderly scenes, until the magistrates
ordered their continuance."--_Dublin Evening Mail._
Then, of course, being in Ireland, they ceased.
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A Provincial Paper, reporting a speech upon heroes of the present War,
represents the speaker as referring to "Bill Adams in Leigh Hunt's
poem." This is the first time within our knowledge that our old friend
_Abou Ben Adhem_ has been confounded with that other popular figure, the
fictitious hero of Waterloo!
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[Illustration: THE NEW FRIGHTFULNESS.
_Admiral von Tirpitz_. "PIRACY IS DEAD. STILL, I LIKE TO THINK THAT,
UNDER ANOTHER NAME, THE GOOD WORK GOES ON."
[Berlin contends that, piracy being extinct, the arming of liners and
merchant vessels is no longer legitimate, and that German submarines are
therefore entitled to sink them at sight. The New Frightfulness is due
to begin to-day.]]
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