Angry newspaper men are now calling a certain institution the Suppress Bureau.


A solicitor having announced that he is prepared to make the wills of the men of a certain regiment free of charge, another enterprising legal gentleman, not to be outdone, would like it to be known that he is willing to act as residuary legatee without a fee.


In his interesting sketch, in The Times, of the Prince of Wales' career at the University, the President of Magdalen mentions that His Royal Highness "shot at various country houses round Oxford." We hope that this will not be quoted against the Prince by a spiteful German Press, should any bullet marks be found one day on the walls of some castle on the Rhine.


It came as quite an unpleasant surprise to many persons to learn from Mr. Asquith that the War is costing us a million pounds a day, that being more than some of us spend in a year.


THE RULING PASSION.