Ex-sailors on the reserve need not be alarmed by the repeated rumours that a surprise mobilisation of the Fleet may be ordered very shortly, as we now have it on good authority that, in order to ensure its complete success, plenty of notice will be given to them beforehand.
Women are said to be fonder than men are of morbid stage plays. Weddings also have a greater fascination for them.
Mr. T. A. Edison is reported to have invented a machine to record communication with the other world. As a final experiment an attempt is to be made to get into touch with the Poet Laureate.
The motor-car of polished steel and no paint-work is the latest innovation. It is said that this will do away with the objection of pedestrians that under present conditions one cannot be knocked down without soiling one's clothing.
"Water," says an official of the Metropolitan Water Board, "costs far too much to waste to-day." Adulterated with whisky, we believe it costs about eightpence a time.