On "How to Dig," from a recently-published military manual:—
"To dig well one must dig often. Any series of complex co-ordinated movements can be performed with the greatest economy of effort only when they have become semi-reflex; and for this to happen the correlated series of nervous impulses must be linked up by higher development of the brain cells."
A spade is useful, too.
"I did not hear yesterday of the insufficiency of bread supplied at Restaurants being made up by cakes and guns brought from home."—Irish Paper.
We have heard, however, of an insufficiency of alcoholic refreshment being made up by a "pocket-pistol."
"After all, the custom of marrying only into Royal houses came to us from Germany, and dates from the Hanoverians.... The case of Henry VIII. is well known. Four of his wives were plain Englishwomen...."—Sunday Herald.
Not so plain, however, as the German one, ANNE OF CLEVES.