The Ruling Passion.
"A Russian official accredited to this country, in an interview with a representative of the Morning Post yesterday, said:—Potatoes."— Evening Times and Echo (Bristol).
"I could well enter into the feelings of this lad's colonel when, with a lint in his eye, he descrihimbed as 'a riceless youngster.'"—Civil and Military Gazette.
We fear that the insertion of the bandage in the colonel's eye must have prevented him from forming a true appreciation of the young fellow.
Headline to a leading article in The Evening News:—
"WATCH ITALY AND RUSSIA."
Extract from same:—
"We ought to keep our eyes fixed on the Western front."