Five million typhoid germs, the property of Mr. John Gibbon, are said to be at large in Philadelphia, according to The Daily Express. One of them is said to have got away disguised as a measle.
According to The Daily Mail a panic was recently caused in a Manchester tea-room by a rat which took refuge in the leg of a gentleman's trousers. This may not mean that the need of a new style of rat-proof trouser has attracted the interest of Carmelite House publicity agents, but we have our apprehensions.
"Hard work will kill no one," declares a literary editor. Most people, of course, prefer an occupation with a spice of danger about it.
Son. "Muvver, tell me 'ow farver got ter know yer."
Mother. "One dye I fell into the water an' 'e jumped in an' fished me aht."