M. LANDRU, the Parisian Bluebeard (alleged), is said to be very morose and ill. It is felt that something or other must be worrying him.
Latest information points to the fact that Jazz has spread to the Hebrides, where two suspected cases are under observation.
"Jumpers are to be very fashionable at the seaside this year," says a fashion paper; and yet lodging-house keepers will keep on assuring us that their bed-linen is scrupulously clean.
There are still twenty-three wars in progress, declares a Sunday contemporary. The belief is rapidly gaining ground that several of them are being allowed to continue merely to spite Colonel WEDGWOOD.
Cricket, we are constantly told, must be brightened. Why not allow spectators to assault the umpires, just as if they were football referees?