Intensive Rainfall.
"CUMBERLAND and WESTMORELAND.—After a ten weeks' drought we have had three weeks' rain every day."—Daily Paper.
"Officer's camp kit wanted, in good condition, Sam Browne belt (5 ft. 7), haversack, &c."—Scotsman.
In readiness for this hero's arrival at the Front the communication-trenches are being specially widened.
"I WISH—
"That it were possible to get frying-pans that would stand LEVEL when one is cooking in them."—Home Chat.
It is so awkward to be tilted out of the frying-pan into the fire.