According to The Evening News two miners recently played a quoit match for a hundred pounds. In all probability they are now agitating for the two shillings' increase to enable them to have a little side bet.
"We cannot choose how we will be born," says a medical writer. No; some are born poor and others are born into a miner's family.
"Where stands England to-day?" we are asked. While travelling in the Tube we have often thought that most of it was standing on our feet.
"With the outgoing of September we face once more the month of October, with its falling leaves and autumn gales," states a writer in a daily paper. This, we understand, is according to precedent.
A Glamorgan collier, summoned for income-tax, stated that he earned eleven pounds a week and wanted every penny of it. It is said that he is saving up to buy a strike of his own.