_Meconopsis cambrica_ (Welsh Poppy). Owing to the wide popularity of
the energetic daughter of the PRIME MINISTER we understand that the
authorities at Kew have decided to re-name this plant _Meganopsis_.
_Digitalis_.--The spelling of the homely name of this well-known plant
is to be altered in the Kew List to _Foch's-glove_; the suggestion of
an interned German botanist that _Mailed Fist_ would be more suitable
not having met with the approval of the Council of the Royal
Horticultural Society.
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"SPAIN'S REPUBLICAN PARLIAMENT.
Lisbon, Wednesday.--It would seem that the Cabinet just formed
by Senhor Tamagnini Barbosa will have in the next Parliament a
moderate Republican majority."--_Liverpool Daily Post_.
No other journal seems to have noticed the re-annexation of Portugal
by Spain.
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"The task of fitting the square men created by the war into
square holes is certainly going to be one of tremendous
magnitude."--_Lancashire Daily Post_.
From some of the new Government appointments we gather that the PRIME
MINISTER gave up the task in despair.
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"Wanted to purchase elephants, sound and without vice, and to
sell a variety of pigeons at reasonable prices."--_Pioneer
(Allahabad)._
But we doubt if the advertiser will be able to get all the elephants,
however free from vice, into the old pigeon-house.
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[Illustration: BRIGHTER CRICKET.]
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