glad to hear that the little sixpence which
was found wandering in Piccadilly Circus has been given a good home by
an Aberdeen gentleman.

***

Aeroplane passengers are advised by one enterprising weekly not to throw
bottles out of the machine. This is certainly good advice. The bottles
are so apt to get broken.

***

Germany, it is expected, will sign the Peace treaty this once, but
points out that we must not allow it to happen again.

***

Of two burglars charged at Stratford one told the Bench that he intended
to have nothing further to do with his colleague in future. It is said
that he finds it impossible to work with him owing to his nasty grasping
ways.

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Sixty-seven fewer babies were born in one Surrey village last year than
in previous years. It would be interesting to have their names.

***

A grocer, according to a legal writer, is not compelled to take goods
out of the window to oblige a customer. The suggestion that a grocer is
expected to oblige anybody in any circumstances is certainly a novelty.

***

Uxbridge, says _The Evening News_, has no bandstand. Nor have we, but we
make no fuss about it.

***

The Bolshevists in Russia, we are told, are busy sowing seeds of
sedition. For some time it has been suspected that the Bolshevists were
up to no good.

***

HERBERT WELSH, aged sixty-seven, has started to walk from New Jersey to
New Hampshire, U.S.A., a distance of five hundred miles. In the absence
of fuller details we assume that HERBERT must have lost his train.

***

"Postage stamps," says a weekly snippets paper, "can be obtained at all
post-offices." This should prove a boon to those who have letters to
write.

***

It is thought if a certain well-known judge does not soon ask, "What is
whisky?" he will have to content himself with the past tense.

***

"What to do with a Wasp" is a headline in a contemporary. We have not
read the article, but our own plan with wasps is to try to dodge them.

***

We hear that complications may arise from an unfortunate mistake made at
a Jazz Competition held in London last week. It appears that the prize
was awarded to a lady suffering from hysteria who was not competing.

***

A taxi-driver in a suburb of London was married last week to a local
telephone operator. Speculation is now rife as to which wil