CHARIVARIA.

The threatened shortage of paper has led a few unkind persons to enquire

upon what our diplomatic victories are hereafter to be achieved.

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An interned German was recently given a week's freedom in which to get

married, and the interesting question has now been raised as to whether

his children, when they reach the age of twenty-one, will be liable to

the Conscription Act or will have to be interned as alien enemies.

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According to Miss ELLEN TERRY but little attention has been given by the

critics to the letters in SHAKSPEARE'S plays. We rather thought that one

of Germany's intelligent young professors had recently subjected the

letters to a searching analysis, the result being to establish beyond a

reasonable doubt that England started the War.

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