Another Impending Apology.
"Dr. Glover, in giving up the Editorship of this most valuable periodical, has earned the grateful thanks of the whole Diocese."
Chichester Diocesan Gazette.
"A ridiculous fad that some society ladies are adopting at the present time is not to place any month on the date of their correspondence, simply giving the day of the year. Thus to-day will be marked '34, 1914.' This is not very difficult, but when it comes to, say, '271, 14,' it will need more than a little calculation to discover the actual date."
Pall Mall Gazette (Feb. 4th).
Even "to-day" is too difficult for our contemporary.
"Potatoes, Potateos."
Advt. in "Bedale Chronicle" (its full title being "Bedale, Leyburn and Hawes Chronicle," but that would make the name of the paper longer than the quotation from it—always a mistake.)
We don't care for the second helping.
"'Ha! ha!' the others laugh in their native tongue."—Evening Dispatch.
You should hear us gargle in German.
The Editor of Punch has reproved his Dramatic Critic for referring to It, in The Darling of the Gods, as "a precocious babe." He is assured that Mr. Burtie, who plays this neutral part, "has seen some five-and-twenty summers, and has advanced intellectual views about most things." Mr. Punch's Dramatic Critic has been instructed to "give him double bowing" by way of deferential compensation.
The Colonel. "Dash it, Sir, what do you mean by not having a light on your confounded hoop?"