A correspondent asks in the weekly press for a new name for charabancs. We wish we could think there was any use in calling them names.
Seaside bathers are advised not to enter the water after a heavy meal. The seaside visitor who could pay for such a meal would naturally not have enough left to pay for a bathing-machine.
A Thames bargee was knocked down by a taxi-cab at Kingston-on-Thames last week. A well-known firm has offered to publish his remarks in fortnightly parts.
The West Dulwich man who struck a rate-collector on the head with a telephone claims credit for finding some use for these instruments.
Sir Eric Drummond has purchased the largest hotel in Geneva on behalf of the League of Nations. It is said that he has been taking lessons from Sir Alfred Mond.