r bags are no longer being used by greengrocers in Bangor, and their
customers are patriotically assisting this economy by unpodding their green
peas and rolling them home.

***

"Bacon, as a breakfast food," says an evening paper, "is fast disappearing
from the table." We have often noticed it do so.

***

"It is pitiful and disgraceful," says the _Berliner Tageblatt_, "to watch
women-folk walking beside their half-starved dogs. There is no room in
warfare for dogs." We have all along felt sorry for the poor animals at a
time when one half the dachshund does not know how the other half lives.

***

A Felicitous Juxtaposition.

"EGGS FOR LINCOLN HOSPITAL.
COL. ---- LAYS A FALSE RUMOUR."--_Lincoln Leader_.

***

"PULLETS, laying 3s. 6d. each."--_Provincial Paper_.

Yet farmers persist in telling us there's no money in fowls.

***

"The first description of how the German Fleet reached Rome after the
battle of Jutland is furnished by a neutral from Kiel."--_Johannesburg
Daily Mail_.

Of all the roads that lead to Rome this is certainly the roughest.

***

The New Greeting: "Comment vous Devonportez-vous?"

* * * * *

TO GERMANIA

FROM SOMEBODY WHO OUGHT TO BE IN PRISON.

_Air_--"To Althaea from Prison."

When Peace with wide and shining wings
Invades this warring isle,
And my beloved Germania brings
Wearing her largest smile;
When close about her waist I coil
And mouth to mouth apply,
Not SNOWDEN, patriot son of toil,
Will be more pleased than I.

When round the No-Conscription board
The wines of Rhineland flow,
And many a rousing _Hoch!_ is roared
To toast the _status quo_;
When o'er the swiftly-circling bowl
Our happy tears run dry,
Not PONSONBY, that loyal soul,
Will be more pleased than I.

When sausages and sauerkraut
Fulfil the air with spice,
And loosened tongues the praise shall shout
Of Peace-at-any-price;
When German weeds our lips employ
And hearts are full and high,
Not CHARLES TREVELYAN, blind with joy,
Will be more pleased than I.

Stone walls do not my feet confine
Nor yet a barbed-wire cage;
I talk at large and claim as mine
The freeman's heritage;
And, if this wicked War but end
Ere German hopes can die,
Not WILLIAM'S self, my dearest friend,
Will be more pleased than I.