THE FIRST GERMAN VICTORY.
Hostess (to small guest, who is casting lingering glances at the cakes). "I DON'T THINK YOU CAN EAT ANY MORE OF THOSE CAKES, CAN YOU, JOHN?"
John. "NO, I DON'T THINK I CAN. BUT MAY I STROKE THEM?"
A NEW SCHOOL.
An evening newspaper informs its readers that arrangements are being made for "a school for M.P.'s"—"a weekly meeting of Unionist M.P.'s new to Parliamentary life, who will receive instruction in the forms of the House. They will be taught how to address the SPEAKER, how to frame a question," and so forth.
This intelligence is of particular interest in that it conveys an admission that our new M.P.'s do not know everything.