There is a man living in the Edgware Road, it is stated, who has never been on an omnibus. He has often seen them whizzing by, he declares, but has always resisted the temptation to take the fatal plunge.
There will be no Naval manœuvres this year, it is announced. How under these conditions Mr. Pollen can continue to teach the Navy its business is a very grave question.
At a St. Dunstan's auction at Thornton Heath autographs of Mr. George Robey and the Premier were sold at ten shillings each. Mr. Robey, it appears, generously insisted on treating the matter as a joke.
A Manchester scientist claims to have discovered a means of making vegetable alcohol undrinkable without impairing its usefulness. It looks as if the secret of Government ale must have leaked out at last.
We are in a position to deny a report which was being spread in connection with a certain Model Village scheme, to the effect that the model bricklayer had refused to perform unless he was provided with a model public-house, while the model public-house could not be provided until the model bricklayer started work.