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"MIGHT BE DUE TO PICTURES.
"Magistrate and three Leeds youths charged with warehouse-breaking,"
_Yorkshire Evening News._
We regret to see that the demoralizing influence of the cinema appears
to have extended to the Bench.
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"On arrival at the Hook there was nothing left whatever in the
way of eatables, and even the greater part of those saved were
still in their nightdresses."--_Scotsman._
_Pommes de terre en robe de chambre_, we presume.
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"A MEMORY.--Thirty-nine years ago Miss Mary Rorke was playing
with John Hare, now Sir John, in the famous old play, 'Old Men and
New Acres.'"--_Daily Paper._
A treacherous memory.
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[Illustration: THE REPUDIATION.
MARTIN LUTHER (_to SHAKESPEARE_). "I SEE MY COUNTRYMEN CLAIM YOU AS ONE OF
THEM. YOU MAY THANK GOD THAT YOU'RE NOT THAT. THEY HAVE MADE MY
WITTENBERG--AY, AND ALL GERMANY--TO STINK IN MY NOSTRILS."]
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[Illustration: GRANDFATHER'S NEW HAT.]