"Although the stern and screws of the vessel were well out of the water she was able to make the port under her own steam."—Daily Mail.


"Portatoes in the usual forms have disappeared this week.—LORNA."—British Weekly.

These must be the Devonportatoes of which we have heard so much.


AT BEST.

[Baron MORITZ FERDINAND VON BISSING, the German Military Governor-General of Belgium, the murderer of Nurse CAVELL and instigator of the infamous Belgian deportations, after being granted a rest from his labours, is reported to have died "of overwork.">[

Tired of pillaging and sacking,

Tired of bludgeoning and whacking,

Tired of torturing and racking,