You could bet they'd get with the best-born Britons,

For they're all at the Ball in the Soss-Soss-Sausage Roll."

(CRASH! BANG! The roof falls in.)

A.P.H.


A Tall Order.

"SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL POLICE FORCE.—Police recruits are now required. Applicants must be unmarried, of good physique, with sound teeth, about 20 to 25 years of age, not less than 57 ft. 10 in. in height."—Weekly Paper.


"Lloyd's agent at Chriseiansund telegraphs that wreckage marked 'Wilson Line' drifted ashore near Switzerland."—Provincial Paper.

Following the WILSON line the seas appear to be already behaving with unusual freedom.