Ninth Seaforth Highlanders.—Field glasses are required for the use of N. C. O.’s and scouts, and will be gratefully received and acknowledged by Captain Petty, Salamanca Barracks, Aldershot.
Playing Cards (used) urgently required for wounded soldiers.—Gratefully received by Miss Peck, Maidencombe, St. Mary Church, Devon.
Urgently needed, socks for the Eighth Irish Service Battalion, King’s Liverpool regiment, shortly leaving for the front.—Gratefully acknowledged by Miss Cox, The Priory, Royston, Herts.
Elizabeth Motor Ambulance.—Will every one named “Elizabeth” in Great Britain and Ireland send me contribution toward above—in connection with Lady Bushman’s Ambulance Fleet—and save our soldiers much unnecessary suffering?—Mrs. F. Ford, Rushmere, Wimbledon Common, S. W.
Wounded Soldiers “Margaret” Fund.—“Lady Margarets” subscribe a guinea. “Margarets” over sixteen, half guinea; “Little Margarets,” 2s. 6d. Lady Margaret Hospital, Bromley, Kent. Lady Margaret Campbell, Hon. Treasurer.
Loses Leg After Fifty Years.
Fifty years after a Confederate shell had struck and injured his right leg, Ellet Ramsey, of Huntingdon, Pa., had the leg removed at the Blair Hospital. The amputation was made necessary by suffering from the old wound received half a century ago. He stood the operation well and will recover.
Angry Lamb Injures Woman.
Mrs. Garret Smith, of Liberty, Pa., is suffering from severe injuries received by being butted by an angry lamb. Dan Carroll, a neighbor of the Smith family, is the owner of the lamb, which escaped from its premises and went into the Smith yard. Before Mrs. Smith realized what had happened, she was knocked to the ground and seriously injured, one of her arms being broken.