sage for rubbing things in.

* * *

Herr BALLIN, head of the Hamburg-American Line, and Herr HEINEKEN, head of
the rival North-German Lloyd Company, came to London last week, and are
said to have concluded peace in the Atlantic rate war. We understand that
the arrangement is to be known as the Pool of London.

* * *

The authorities at Barotse, _The Globe_ tells us, have put a price on the
heads of all lions there. One can picture the mean sportsman, with a pair
of field-glasses, picking out the cheapest before firing.

* * *

"61,000 TERRITORIALS SHORT."

_Daily Mail._

Still, it is pretty generally recognised now that a small man may make
every bit as good a soldier as a big one, and, besides, there is always
less of him to hit.

* * *

Among the temporary teachers appointed to carry on schools in Herefordshire
during the teachers' strike was an asylum attendant. This confirms the
report that many of the children were mad at finding that the schools did
not close in consequence of the strike.

* * *

It is denied that the name of the Philharmonic Hall, where Mr. PONTING'S
moving pictures of the Antarctic Expedition are being shown, is to be
changed to the Philmharmonic Hall.

* * *

RICHARD STRAUSS'S new work, dealing with the story, of JOSEPH and
POTIPHAR'S wife, is to be produced shortly in Paris. A musical play version
of it, entitled "After the Man," may be looked for here.

* * *

From Rome comes the news that a young man who was being examined in a
hospital there has been found to have two separate stomachs. This
announcement that the ideal man has at last been evolved has caused the
greatest excitement here in Corporation circles.

* * *

"LYCEUM CLUB.
100 YEARS OF PEACE."

_Daily Telegraph._

Surely a record for a lady's club?

* * * * *

[Illustration: CLOSE OF THE COURSING SEASON.]

* * * * *

"CHANGE OF NAME.
FROM
JACOB GALBA IWUSHUKU-BRIGHT
TO
GALBA IWUCHUKU OLUKOTUN."

_Sierra Leone Weekly News._

We notice no improvement.

* * * * *

Commercial Candour.

Notice in a shop window at Reading:

"TRY ----'S SAUSAGES: NONE LIKE 'EM."

* * * * *

CIVIL WAR ESTIMATES.

(_A Ministerial Apology._)