ES."

_O'Bear._ "JAMAICA?"

_MacBull._ "NO, IT WAS HER OWN IDEA."]

* * * * *

"He is only a tame duck who with sheepish timidity attempts to
controvert the determination of a body of frontiersmen from their
purpose by firing at them with a water squirt."

_Bulawayo Chronicle._

It sounds more like a wild duck.

* * * * *

From Publishers' Announcements:--

"'BORROWED THOUGHTS.'

(A Handbook for Lent, with an Introduction by a popular Bishop.) Limp,
9d."

* * * * *

"Lot 3. Extra Dry, Cuvee Beservee, 60/-. A really excellent pure Wine,
which we bought lying abroad."

We trust they won't sell it lying at home.

* * * * *

"Generally crime is normal and no increase in mortality is reported.
Little wandering, emigration, or emaciation is noticed. Cattle are
being sold in large numbers in Hamirpur. Blankets are being
distributed to the poor.

(_For other Sporting News see page 8_)."

_Advocate of India._

There is nothing narrow about the sporting tastes of our Oriental
contemporary.

* * * * *

[Illustration: _Larry._ "TRESHPASSING, IS UT? JUST WAIT TILL WE GIT HOME
RULE. IVERY MAN'LL DO AS HE LIKES THIN--AND THIM'S THAT WON'T'LL BE MADE
TO!"]

* * * * *

THE INVADERS.

From all sides news pours in concerning the rush for American managers of
English concerns. At last the excellence of the American businessman's
habits are being recognised, probably not a little owing to the vogue of
such plays as _Get-rich-quick Wallingford_, _Broadway Jones_ and _The
Fortune Hunters_, wherein we see hustling methods justifying by their
success all the odd measures which led to dollars. That the dominating
business man who thus rises to greatness has to marry a clerk or typist is
perhaps only a detail, but if the plays are to be taken as a guide it is
expected of him.

The great tailoring house of Tarn, which has just appointed a manager from
Cleveland, Ohio, on the advice of Lord CLAUD HAMILTON, has completely
transformed its cutting department. All jackets are now made to reach to
the knees, with shoulders that project beyond the wearer's body one foot on
each side. The trousers are wide at the knees and tight at the ankles, and
are very effective