"TIPPERARY BURGLARY.—Tipperary Temperance Club premises have been gurgled."—Cork Examiner.
GILBERT'S burglar up-to-date: "He loves to hear the Temperance Club a-gurgling."
"General Allenby, no doubt, will go in due time to the House of Lords, and military men are taking a jocular interest in his selection of a title. Lord Bathsheba might serve, or Lord Hebron. Lord Jerusalem smacks of the jocose."—Birmingham Daily Post.
For our part we thought "Lord Bathsheba" rather funny too.
An Historical Curiosity.
"At Blenheim is a small glass-topped table, which contains the sword of the great Duke of Marlborough, also a letter addressed by him to Sarah Duchess from the field of Waterloo."—The Queen.