ANOTHER THREATENED INDUSTRY.
CHANNEL STEWARD (infected with the prevailing strike mania). "ANY MORE TALK ABOUT THIS TUNNEL AND I DOWN BASINS!"
Commercial Candour
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"They were manufacturers of aeroplanes—in their opinion the best aeroplanes in the world and the most suited for commercial lying."—Provincial Paper.
"A hospital nurse interrupted evidence given in Portuguese at Thames Police Court on Saturday."—Provincial Paper.
Very rude of her.
"An experimental air service for Army mails only was begun a few days ago between Folkestone and Boulogne, with intermediate points in Belgium, said Mr. Illingworth, Postmaster-General."—Daily Chronicle.
"We are a long way yet from the mastery of the air. Out of fifteen days the Prime Minister's Paris postbag, which it had been arranged should be sent 'via aloft,' had to go by the old land and water route in fourteen days."—Daily Mirror.
Even that, we suppose, was quicker than to send it by the circuitous air-route viâ Belgium.
"Section-Commander ——, who has had charge of the —— Special Constabulary since their inception, has been presented by the members with a Sheraton clock at a wind-up dinner."—Local Paper.
It was, of course, the clock that had the wind up, not the Section-Commander.
"FOREIGN DIPLOMATS TAKE TO PRESIDENT. His Ability in Dealing with Them Exceeds the Most Sanguinary Expectations."—New York Times.
We shall have to revise our conception of Mr. WILSON as a man of peace.
Rearguard Officer of Demobilization (collecting stragglers on route-march). "WHAT THE DOOCE ARE YOU?"
Straggler. "I'M WOT T' MULES BROKE AWAY FROM."