Householder writes: Please turn the Pessiphone off at the main. None of my family has been able to get near the house for five days.
Golder's Green says: The other day the butcher's boy, cheerful as usual, was coming up the garden path whistling, and though it may hardly seem credible this so affected the Pessiphone that it actually jumped off the table and bit the boy.
A Change of Cure.
"The Infectious Diseases Hospital at Colchester has been appointed to the vicarage of Hurst Green, Etchingham, Sussex."
Essex and Halstead Times.
From a chemist's reminiscences:—
"In the early part of the last century the sale of leeches was one of the most important. Doctors bled their patients for every imaginable ailment. To-day all that we can say of leeches is that we just keep them."—Observer.
As pets, we suppose.