Five million four hundred thousand pigs, says Herr Batocki, have "mysteriously disappeared" in Germany in the last year. The idea of having the Crown Prince's baggage searched does not seem to have been found feasible.
A festival performance of Parsifal is to be given in Charlottenburg, to celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of Jutland. The proposal to substitute the more topical opera, The Flying Deutschmann, has been received without favour.
"With such troops," says the Crown Prince, "we could fetch the Devil from Hell." We have always maintained that the German military route lay on a direct line to Potsdam.
A Manchester man writes to say that he has not heard the cuckoo this year. What England hears to-day Manchester may hear next month.
A Norfolk lady has left an annuity of seventy pounds for the support of her two favourite cats. Since the announcement of this windfall we understand that the beneficiaries have been overwhelmed with offers of marriage.