"Princess ---- wore a black hat, a cloak of tailless ermine,
and a black and silver toque."
_Daily Telegraph._
"Then came Mrs. ---- in a dull golf hat."
_Daily Graphic._
As a protest, we suppose, against the other lady's extravagance in
wearing a couple of hats.
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"John ----, a coloured man, was charged with using obscure
language in Maria Street. The magistrates fined him
5s."--_Welsh Paper._
Most unfair! Lots of men do the very same thing in Parliament and get
paid four hundred pounds a year for it.
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Heading from pp. 516, 517 of _Punch's_ official rival, _The Telephone
Directory_:
"SUBSCRIBERS SHOULD NOT ENGAGE ****** THE TELEPHONISTS IN
CONVERSATION."