From Young India, the organ of Mr. Gandhi:—

"In our last issue the number of those in receipt of relief is given at 500. This is a printer's devil. The number is 5,000."

Mr. Gandhi ought to exorcise that devil.


"The tests were entirely satisfactory, and the pilot manœuvred for a quarter of an hour at a height of 500 metres and a speed of 150 millimetres an hour."—Aeronautics.

This is believed to be the nearest approach to "hovering" that has yet been achieved by a machine.


NITRATES.

All alone I went a-walking by the London Docks one day,