A New Reading.
"Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, after first posing for screen purposes in California, promises to produce his Henry VIII. in New York, with himself as Cardinal Richelieu."
Munsey's Magazine.
"Mr. Birrell in the Dock."
Dublin Evening Mail.
This is quite a mistake. He has only been in the nettles.
"The excitement in the Lobby yesterday was reminiscent of the Irish crisis, Members remaining to discuss numberless humours long after they had risen."
Civil and Military Gazette.
The correspondent who sends us the above extract suggests that the Members in question must have been Scotsmen.
GETTING THE MASCOT ON PARADE.
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Kindly old Gentleman (distributing cigarettes to soldiers returning home on leave). 'And where's your home, my man?'
Scotsman. "I come fra Paisley—but I canna help that."