Somebody must have taken a bone away from a dog at the other end. He growled horribly.


Flapper (shyly). "COULD YOU TELL ME WHAT A STAMP STUCK ON AT THAT ANGLE MEANS IN THE LANGUAGE OF POSTAGE-STAMPS?"


From an account of the Ministerial crisis in Sweden:—

"Two imperialist minstrels, however, Von Melsted and Lengquist, did quite enough mischief."—Daily Mail.

Members of the pro-German band, no doubt.


Mr. Punch desires to record thanks to the innumerable correspondents who have drawn his attention to the statement in The Daily Chronicle that among the German officers who escaped and were afterwards recaptured was "Von Thelan, a lieutenant in the lying corps." The existence of this unit in the German Army has, as most of them point out, been long suspected, but never officially confirmed till now.