e something to annoy him.

* * *

Thirty thousand years ago, says a weekly journal, the seas around England
were at a higher level than at present. It is difficult to know what can be
done about it, but it is just as well that the matter should be mentioned.

* * *

According to Mr. M. T. SIMM, M.P., there are many wayside inns of a
passable nature. The trouble, of course, is that so many people have a
difficulty in passing them.

* * *

We understand that Mr. Justice ----'s question, "Who is Mr. LLOYD GEORGE?"
has been postponed to a date to be fixed later.

* * *

A trade journal advertises a new calculating machine which will total up
stupendous figures without any human help at all. A correspondent writes to
say that in his house he has the identical gas meter which gave the
inventor his idea.

* * *

The contemporary which refers to the discovery of a gold ring inside a
cod-fish as extraordinary evidently cannot be aware that many profiteers
who go in for fishing are nowadays using such articles as bait.

* * *

A purse containing nearly a hundred pounds in treasury notes, picked up by
a policeman in South Wales, has not yet been claimed. It is now thought
probable that a local miner may have dropped his week's wages whilst
entering his car and that his secretary has not yet called his attention to
the deficit.

* * *

"The way some newsboys dodge in and out of the moving traffic is most
dangerous and a serious accident is sure to result before very long,"
complains a writer in an evening paper. For ourselves we cannot but admire
this attempt on the boys' part to make history while in the act of selling
it.

* * *

We learn from an evening paper that a large woollen warehouse in London was
completely destroyed by fire the other day. We cannot understand why some
people use such inflammable material for building purposes.

* * *

An old pleasure-boat proprietor at Yarmouth has stated in an interview
that, although all his skiffs and dinghies are ten to fifteen years old,
they are much more trustworthy than those being built at the present time.
We await, fearfully, the comments of Lord FISHER.

* * *

Dutch wasps, says a news item, are very much like British. Only the
finished expert can tell the difference on being stung.

* * *

It is said that the Dutch are the most religious race of to-day. Of course
it i