"All new demands for capital, whether for private or public purposes, had been met out of the sayings of the people."—Daily Paper.
Mr. Punch may perhaps be permitted to mention that he has himself given currency to a number of capital stories.
"It is to be hoped that, now that their unhappy country is in the throes of the most ghastly terror of her history, the irreconcilable elements in the Irish nation will see an all-compelling reason for exercising the demon of strife.—Indian Paper.
Unfortunately they seem to be doing so only too freely.
ANOTHER WAR TO END WAR.
[An address to the League of Nations on learning that it is considering a scheme to tackle the rat plague.]
Not yours to lure the lands of Cross or Crescent
Back from Bellona where she bangs her drum,