Following so closely upon the report that a Wallasey woman had discovered a German coin in a loaf of bread we were not surprised by a contemporary headline, "Seymour Hicks in a new Rôle."
Damage to the extent of twenty-five thousand pounds is said to have been caused to the crops in Australia by mice, and the Australian authorities contemplate the purchase of a mouse trap.
Economist (soliloquising). "We must all deny ourselves something. And to think, despite the paper shortage, people are still smoking cigarettes."
An Irish Settlement.
"Miss ——, who elected to serve fourteen days' imprisonment rather than pay a fine for an alleged assault arising out of a little commotion in Cork, was, on her release from prison, presented with a gold mounted umbrella in compensation for the one she broke on a policeman's head."—Evening Herald (Dublin).
In view of the admission in the last sentence, "alleged" is good.