note of the cuckoo in Epping Forest.

***

Several suspicious cases of sickness are reported among the aborigines
of New South Wales. It is not yet known whether they are due to
influenza or to the native custom of partaking heavily of snakepie on
the eve of Lent.

***

Nottingham will hold its six hundred and fifty-eighth annual Goose
Fair this year, and a local paper has made a distinct hit by stating
that it is "the oldest gathering of its kind except the House of
Commons."

***

President EBERT, according to the _Frankfort Gazette_, is to have a
Chief Master of Ceremonies. One of his first duties, in which he will
have the advice of prominent musicians, will be to fix an authorised
style of eating _Sauerkraut_ which shall be impressive yet devoid of
ostentation.

* * * * *

[Illustration: [Taxi-drivers who consent to pick up fares at a
certain London restaurant at night have supper given to them by the
management.]

_First Taxi_. "WHATEVER 'AVE YER GOT THEM TOGS ON FOR, ALBERT?"

_Second ditto_. "ALWAYS DRESS FOR SUPPER DOWN TOWN NOWADAYS, OLD
BEAN."]

* * * * *

"A woman's sphere was her own home, that she should earn her own
living was inimical to domestic happiness; it was almost contra
bonus morus, which is a very serious thing indeed."--_Scots
Paper_.

It certainly would be for Smith mi. if he said it in class.

* * * * *

"The speaker of the evening was Dr. Charles ----, a full-blooded
Sioux Indian, and the only full-blooded literary man among the
North American Indians."--_American Paper_.

We could spare some of our full-blooded, literary men if there is a
shortage in America.

* * * * *

MONUMENTS OF THE WAR.

Let those who fear lest Memory should mislay
Our triumphs gathered all across the map;
Lest other topics--like the weather, say,
Or jazzing--should supplant the recent scrap;
Or lest a future race whose careless lot
Lies in a League of Nations, lapped amid
Millennial balm, be unaware of what
(Largely for their sakes) we endured and did;--

Let such invite our architects to plan
Great monumental works in steel and stone,
Certain to catch the eye of any man
And make our victories generally known;
Let a new bridge at Charing Cross be built,
In Regent Street