A vagrant was before the magistrate last week, charged with tearing his clothes and destroying all the buttons on them whilst in a workhouse ward. It is not known at what laundry he served his apprenticeship.
After announcing that the fox which had been causing severe losses to poultry had at last been killed a local paper admits that the wanton destruction of fowls is still going on. It is thought that another fox of the same name was killed in error.
"The Irish will take nothing that we can offer them," says a Government official. Outside of that they seem to take pretty much what they want.
We think that the attention of the N.S.P.C.C. should be drawn to the fact that several stall-holders on the beach of a popular seaside town are offering ices at twopence each, or twelve for one-and-six.
A man was charged at the South Western Police Court with throwing a sandwich at a waiter. Very thoughtless. He might have broken it.