, 7, and 3 years: nurseryman
kept."--_Evesham Journal_.

To help, we suppose, in making up the beds.

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"The stream proved treacherous in the extreme, being a succession of
rapids and whirlpools. Often their magazine rifles and automatic
revolvers were all that stood between them and death."--_Observer_.

We always use a Winchester repeater for shooting rapids.

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"Merely as photographs these postcards are remarkable. As ikons for men
to vow by; as lessons for women to show their children in days to
come--when the Hun octopus roots himself again in the comity of
civilised nations, lying in wait at our doorways, stretching out his
antennae, like those foul things that lurk at sea-cavern mouths--these
eight pictures have historical value."--_Daily Mail_.

Biologists too will be glad to have this description of the habits and
characteristics of that fearsome beast the _Octopus Germanicus_.

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[Illustration: "WHAT'S FOR YOU, MISSIE?" "I FORGET ITS NIME--BUT IT'S
A PINT O' WOT IT SMELLS LIKE."]

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ANTICIPATORY INTELLIGENCE.

(_Items gathered from the Dally Press of April 1st_, 1927).

LORD KENNEDY-JONES, Grand Editor to the Nation, announced yesterday that he
proposed to take no notice of the protest against the use of the words
"voiced," "glimpsed" and "featured" in official documents.

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The Earl of Mount-Carmel has left London on a protracted tour in Pulpesia.
He requests that no mention shall be made of his movements during his
absence in any newspapers. A special correspondent of _Chimes_ will, we
understand, accompany his lordship.

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Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL gave further evidence yesterday before the
Dardanelles Commission.

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Lord BILLING left England yesterday for New York in the Transatlantic
air-liner _P.B._

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"Polymachus," the famous descriptive journalist, yesterday published his
five-thousandth daily article on the policies, principles and opinions of
the house of Pelfwidge. An ox was roasted whole on the roof garden of the
famous emporium in honour of the event.

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Mr. GINNELL created