A Tall Order.
"SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL POLICE FORCE.—Police recruits are now required. Applicants must be unmarried, of good physique, with sound teeth, about 20 to 25 years of age, not less than 57 ft. 10 in. in height."—Weekly Paper.
"Lloyd's agent at Chriseiansund telegraphs that wreckage marked 'Wilson Line' drifted ashore near Switzerland."—Provincial Paper.
Following the WILSON line the seas appear to be already behaving with unusual freedom.
"'George Eliot' (Mary Ann Evans), the gifted Warwickshire authoress, who wrote 'Adam Bede' and several other popular works."—Daily Telegraph.
We have noticed the name from time to time, and we are glad to know who "GEORGE ELIOT" was.
From a "multiple shop" catalogue:—
"SMOKING ROOM.—The decorations are well worth a special note, and are quite unique of their kind, being without a match anywhere."
Surely not "unique." We know a lot of smoking-rooms equally matchless.
