"It was reported to the Sanitary Committee yesterday that the Inspector of Nuisances had made arrangements for the repair of the meteorological instruments."—Local Paper.
Judging by our recent weather, quite the right man to look after it.
From a money-lender's circular:—
"Having been, perhaps, the richest nation in the world before the war, and wealth being only comparative, it is our empirical duty to achieve a like position again."
So that's why they are "trying it on."
"The news, says the Paris correspondent of The Times, in itself is serious enough as showing the dangers of letting the Adriatic settlement continue to be at the mercy of a coup de theatre or coup de d'etat, whichever one may like to call it."—Evening Paper.
We fancy the Paris correspondent of The Times would prefer the former.