school-house will be decorated with bunting.

The second half was largely a repetition of the first. We continued to
keep up a powerful pressure all along the line, varied only by frequent
occupation of new strategic lines, occasional postponements of decision,
several stages of development according to anticipation, and some rapid
re-grouping of our forces. The whistle found us pressing heavily, just
outside the goal-line (the Tonbury one).

(Result: Haileybridge, 43 points; Tonbury, _nil._)

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Illustration: THE JOY OF BILLETING IN A FRENCH CHATEAU.

_Time, 6 A.M._

_Brigade Major._ "I SAY, SIR, MAY I FINISH DRESSING IN HERE? THEY'RE
SHELLIN' THE NORTH BEDROOMS!"

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THE BERLIN CHRISTMAS SEASON.

YULE LOGS.

Made from the finest Belgian church carved oak. A Prussian General
writes: "This wood burns admirably. I speak from personal observation of
experiments carried out under my orders."

An admirably suitable present for this year is a

WAR MAP.

Those we offer are calculated to be particularly popular, the little
Imperial flags _not being detachable but painted on to the map_--at
Paris, London, Petersburg, etc. Thus, whatever may be happening in the
field, you may continue cheerful.

AMERICAN MIRRORS.

As many of our most exalted customers complain of the quality of these
goods, considering them too crude and glaring in their effect, we have
prepared, with the help of our Ambassador at Washington, a special glass
which provides a less realistic reflection. Sold in various shapes--the
Kaiser mirror, the Dernburg reflector, etc. Try one.

A BEAUTIFUL SOUVENIR.

CALAIS-BEACH PEBBLE BROOCHES.

(We regret to announce that at the last moment our buyer writes that he
is unable to procure the last-named article.)

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TOPICAL GEOGRAPHY.

STUDIES IN THE ART OF DRAGGING-IN.

["Though the Falkland Islands are dreary and uninviting enough, they
have added their quota to the gaiety of the world. It should not be
forgotten that Miss Ellaline Terris is a native of Stanley, the
capital of the islands."--_Pall Mall Gazette._]

The town of Bonn, in Rhenish Prussia, which has recently been in
evidence owing to the enterprise of French aviators, is the seat of a
university, of an Old Catholic bishopric and a school of agriculture.
But it owes its chief title to fame to the fa