Cat skins are advertised for in Essex. A suburban resident writes to say he has a few brace on his garden wall each night, if the advertiser is prepared to entice the cats from inside them.


Much alarm has been caused in foreign countries by the report that British scientists are experimenting with a machine that makes a noise like Lord Fisher.


According to a witness at a police court in London nearly two hundred people stood and watched a fight between dockers in City Road last week. The way some people take advantage of Mr. Cochran's absence in America seems most unsportsmanlike.


Horse-radish from Germany is being sold in Manchester at six shillings a bundle. Even during the War, thanks to the efforts of the local Press, the Mancunian has never wanted for his little bit of German hot stuff.


Asked how old he was by the magistrate a railway-worker is said to have replied, "Thirty-nine last strike."