"It is understood that the French Consul at Lourenco Marques,
M. Savoye, has, owing to ill-health, asked his Government to
allow him to return to Army duties."--_Cape Times_.
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"Lady ---- set the fashion of arriving at the altar with empty
hands. She is the first bride to have had such an important
wedding without the etceteras of bouquet or prayerbook,
bridesmaids, pages, or wedding-cake."--_News of the World_.
Far too big a handful.
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"150 YEARS AGO--JULY 20, 1767.
Reports of the borough treasurer of West Ham show a loss of
£41,000 on the municipal tramways and a loss of £35,000 on
the electricity undertaking."--_Northampton Daily Echo_.
So the eighteenth century was not so much behind the present time as
we had been led to believe.
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"Piano wanted by a lady to teach little girl to
learn."--_Provincial Paper_.
One of those player-pianos with the new knuckle-rapping attachment,
we suppose.
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[Illustration: _Tommy_ (_"mopping up" captured trench_). "IS THERE
ANYONE DOWN THERE?"
_Voice from dug out_. "JA! JA! KAMERAD!"
_Tommy_. "THEN COME OUT HERE AND FRATERNISE."]
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