According to an official of the R.S.P.C.A., as Punch informed us last week, dogs do not possess suicidal tendencies. Yet the other day we saw an over-fed poodle deliberately loitering outside a sausage factory.


"The number of curates who seem to be able to find plenty of time for golf is most surprising," writes a correspondent. We suppose the majority of them employ vicars.


Spanish toreadors are on strike for a higher wage. There is talk, we understand, of a six bull week.


"What is your little brother crying about?"

"Oh, 'im—'e's a reg'lar pessimist, 'e is."