"The length of a bee's sting," says Tit Bits, "is only one thirty-second of an inch." We are grateful for this information because when we are being stung we are always too busy to measure for ourselves.
Those who maintain that nothing good ever comes from Russia have suffered a nasty slap in the face. A news message states that the Bolshevists have invited Mr. Smillie to visit Petrograd.
"Horsehair coats have made their appearance," says The Outfitter. Surely this is nothing very new. We have often seen horses wearing them.
A man who stole the same fowls twice has been charged at Grimsby. He pleads that his bookkeeper omitted to enter them in the day-book the first time.
It is now being hinted in political circles that Mr. William Brace, M.P., has consented to bequeath his moustache to the nation.