The ill wind that's blowing to-day is bestowing
A number of negative gains.
THE IDEAL CHRISTMAS CARD.
"Are we sending Christmas cards this year? Yes," said Blathers, "but not next year, or the year after that, as we shall be retrenching. They are quite modest trifles, yet at the mere sight of the envelope each recipient will, cheerfully, I hope, pay twopence towards the sinews of war. One hundred of these contributions will amount, I am told, to sixteen shillings and eightpence; not much, but it is my little offering to the country in her hour of need. This is the card I propose to send out in a sealed and unstamped cover":—
Mr. and Mrs. Blathers wish you A Happy Christmas 1914, 1915 and 1916, and A Bright New Year 1915, 1916 and 1917.
The Ferns, Tooting.
"The Russian mining engineers who have been sent to Galicia since the occupation report that the oil districts will suffice to supply the whole of South-Western Russia. The working of the fields will start in the spring; moreover salt and iron abound, also sporadicalli, silver, copper, lead and the rarer metals."
Cork Examiner.