Owing to the surveyor receiving increased powers the work of conscientious objectors on the roads in East Essex has improved. Mr. Outhwaite, we hear, will ask in Parliament whether under these powers the surveyor has actually threatened to give one conscientious objector a good hard slap.
We understand that Mexico has promised to stand by America on condition that if she takes this step on the side of law and order America will raise no objection to her having a revolution now and then just to keep her hand in.
Allotment-holders in all parts of the country say that their gardens need rain very badly, and The Daily Mail is going to take the matter up.
It was stated by a defendant at Wandsworth County Court that his house was haunted, the bell being rung several times without any visible human instrumentality. The "Hidden Hand" again!
To enjoy good health, says Dr. A. Fisher in an American journal, we should occasionally sleep for twelve hours on end. We confess that we may be faddy in these things, but when sleeping we prefer the horizontal position.