To say we weren't unravelling their own,
And marked it _urgent_, and designed
That it should reach them while they dined.
All night they toiled, till half the crowd were crazy
And bade us breathe its burthen o'er the 'phone.
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But now they want it back--_and it is missing!_
And shall one patriot heart withhold a throb?
For four high officers have been here, hissing,
And plainly panicky about their job.
I know they think some dark, deluded bandit
Has gone and given it to KAISER BILL.
But though I'm grieved the General's cross,
I have no qualms about the loss--
If clever men like us can't understand it,
I don't suppose the Wilhelmstrasse will!

A. P. H.

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SPREAD OF THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT.

"I, J.A.H. De la Bere, of Woolsevy Rectory, Morchard Bishop,
Devon, desire to Alter my Surname to De la Fontaine."--_Times._

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"WANTED

"end August in Swiss family (2 persons) living in villa near
Lausanne

"NURSERY'S MAID

"able to saw, iron attend at table and take entire care of
healthy baby 19 months old Good English accent serious
references." _La Tribune de Lausanne._

We are glad to hear that the baby has a good English accent; he will be
able to employ it with effect when the Nursery's Maid begins to saw and
iron him.

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"In the cases in which the surgeon his obliged to vast empty a
bone so that offers then itself difficulties therapeuticals not
little because of pus and consequenty becauses of impossibility
of transplantations, plastics, plombages ecc., the A. propose to
go on the bone with specials inesions, not on the surface when
the bone is most superficial, but from the surface in which are
aboundings and easily cessible wet tissue, removing the margin
of the bone's cavity and mathing in mode as, by cause of
repaidis process, this tissue by hemselves adhere to a ground of
cavity and full it."--_La Clinica Chirurgica._

That makes it perfectly clear.

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[Illustration: AVANTI, SAVOIA!]

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A DAUGHTER OF THE BACK STEPPES.

_(Russia may not yet be quite sufficiently herself to be the martial
ally that we could desire,