THE WAVE OF CRIME.
Gent. "What made you put your hand into my pocket?"
Doubtful Character. "Just absent-mindedness. I once 'ad a pair of pants exactly like those you're wearing."
"The eternal combustion engine has become recognised the world over as a factor in modern civilisation."—Provincial Paper.
But surely it is many years since Lord Westbury in the Gorham case was said to have "dismissed h—— with costs?"
THE SWEET INFLUENCES OF TRADE.
[The revival, in certain quarters, of commercial relations with Germany has already begun to blunt the memory of the War. And now the proposal to open up trade with the Co-operative Societies in Russia, to the obvious benefit of the Bolshevists, who practically control the whole country, looks like an attempt to bring about indirectly a peace which we cannot in decency negotiate through the ordinary channels of diplomacy.]