Meanwhile we are informed that Mr. Tasker Jevons is at work upon a trilogy of vast dimensions and meticulous detail, of which the heroine is Miss May Sinclair.
"The General Manager, in reply, said: Seeing that the privilege of addressing you in annual meeting comes to me once only in every forty-four years of service, and having regard to the vast interests included in this vote of thanks, there might be found some excuse for elaboration of acknowledgment were it not that discursiveness is entirely at variance with the habits of the staff."
Pall Mall Gazette.
After another forty-four years' silence we hope he will really let himself go.
An Exchange of Ivories.
"Wanted, piano; dentist willing to make artificial teeth for same, or part."
Edinburgh Evening Despatch.
A Hint to the Censor.
"To cool hot journals apply a dressing made of 11 lb. blacklead, 23 lb. Epsom salts, 9 lb. sulphur, 2 lb. lampblack and 5 lb. oxalic acid, mixed and ground together."—Ironmonger.