"Drink is Scotland's greatest sin," said a Prohibitionist speaker at Glasgow. The gentleman does not seem to have heard of haggis.
Asked what he would have, a Scotsman, taking advantage of its high price, replied, "A small petrol, please."
The National Gallery with its three thousand pictures is practically priceless, we are informed. This probably accounts for the fact that the hall-porter invariably takes visitors' umbrellas as security.
What is now wanted, says a contemporary, is a good spell of fine weather. We feel that no good can be done by rubbing it in like this. The Daily Mail is doing its best.
We understand, by the way, that The Daily Mail has definitely decided not to offer a prize of a hundred pounds for a new world, but to leave the matter entirely in the hands of Mr. Lloyd George.