It is reported on good authority that Mr. C.B. Cochran will visit America daily until the signature of Dempsey's manager is obtained.


Lenin, says a contemporary, has completed his plans for the overthrow of civilisation. It seems that all our efforts to conceal from him its presence in our midst are doomed to failure.


"A search for combined beauty and brains," says The Daily Mail, "has been instituted by The Weekly Dispatch." We gather, however, that a good circulation will also be taken into consideration.


According to the Technical Secretary of the Civil Aviation Committee a vehicle has been designed which is equally at home in the air, on land, on the water and under it. It is said to be distinguishable from Mr. Winston Churchill only by the latter's eloquence.


We understand that certain members of the betting classes have demanded that the starting price for coal should be published each day in the early evening papers.