Thousands of weary souls who came before us—
No wonder, when the Huns, who ban our fiction,
Were fain to free him from their malediction.
"WHAT PEOPLE SAY.
"One of the collectors for the —— Hospital Sunday fund seems to have got more than either he or the committee desired.
"On approaching a house he was received by a dog which persisted in leaving its compliments on one of his legs.
"Happily the injury, though treated by a chemist, was not serious."—Provincial Paper.
People ought not to say these things about chemists.
"ESCAPED GERMAN FLYING MEN.
"One of the men is Lieut. Josef Flink. He has a gunshot wound in the palm of the left hand. The second is Orbum Alexander von Schutz, with side-whispers. Both speak very little English."—Southern Echo.
But VON SCHUTZ's sotto-voce rendering of the "Hymn of Hate" is immense.