A Denver newspaper points out that the "Wild West bandit" has died out. Our own impression was that he had got a job as a waiter in London.


Things are settling down in America. A news report states that Willard Mack, the actor, has only been divorced three times.


"We have an innate modesty about advertising ourselves," said Sir Robert Horne at the International Advertising Exhibition. A certain colleague of his in the Ministry is reported to have said that Sir Robert can speak for himself in future.


We understand that the idea of producing a filmed version of Mrs. Asquith's Diary has been shelved for the present, owing to the difficulty of procuring actors for the more dangerously acrobatic incidents.


An old lady writes to us with reference to wild-cat taxation that she has always advocated it, but that she has understood that the difficulty was to determine the ownership of these unfortunate vagrants.