A friend who was in France last week tells me that the only cheap article of diet just now is eggs, which are about 1½d. each. Meat, he said, averages 5f. a kilo, which is about the equivalent of 5s. a pound."—Daily Mirror.
No wonder we are not allowed to have the metric system.
HUMOURS OF A REMOUNT DÉPÔT.
Sergeant. "FRIGHTENED OF 'IM, ARE YOU? DIDN'T YOU 'AVE NOTHIN' TO DO WITH ANIMALS BEFORE YE JOINED UP?"
Recruit. "YESSIR. I WAS A LION-TAMER."