"Genius consists in an infinite capacity for giving pain."
The Air Candidate for Mile End sends the following witty and topical
epigram:--
"Mid war's alarms there is no time for cooing, But Billing may
prevent our land's undoing."
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"We are all familiar with the poetic words: 'There's many a gem
that's born to blush unseen, and waste its fragrance on the desert
air.'"--_Kilmarnock Herald._
Our own ignorance of this gem makes us blush (unseen, we hope).
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"How To Keep Warm.--In Great Britain I think a shirt, vest and coat
enough covering for the ordinary man. I wear no more."
_Reynolds Newspaper._
No one who follows this advice need fear a chill. The police are sure to
make it warm for him.
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"When Sir Stanley (now Lord) Buckmaster succeeded Mr. (now Sir) F.
E. Smith in the chief responsibility for the Bureau he made a point
of betting on friendly terms with the representatives of the Fourth
Estate."
_Bristol Times and Mirror._
Several of them, it is well known, have been charged with book-making.
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"Lady (Young) seeks Sit. in shop; butcher's preferred; would like
to learn scales."
_Morning Paper._
Why not try a piano-monger's?
[Illustration: _She._ "And are you only just back from the trenches? How
interesting! You will be able to tell us the real truth about the
Kaiser's illness."]
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