The huge waterspout observed offGuernsey last week "travelling towardsFrance" is believed to have beenmaking for the Peace Conference.
The Captain of a Wilson liner onbeing torpedoed ate his pocket-book toprevent his sailing instructions fromfalling into the hands of the Germans.The report that the ex-Kaiser has whiledaway the time at Amerongen by chewingup three copies of the German WhiteBook and one of Prince LICHNOWSKY'SMemoirs is probably a variant of this story.
"Our chief hope of control of influenza," writes Sir ARTHURNEWSHOLME of the Local Government Board, "lies in furtherinvestigation." Persons who insist upon having influenzabetween now and Easter will do so at their own risk.
Writing to a provincial paper a correspondent asks when Mr.PHILIP SNOWDEN was born. Other people are content to ask "Why?"
"We think it prudent to speak with moderation on all subjects,"says The Morning Post. There now!
We mentioned last week the startling rumour that a CivilServant had been seen running, and a satisfactory explanationhas now been issued. It appears that the gentleman inquestion was going off duty.
According to the Malin, the Bavarian PREMIER told a newspaperman that the Bavarian revolution cost exactly eighteenshillings. This seems to lend colour to therumour that Dr. EISNER picked this revolution up second-hand in Russia.
"Springfield and Napsbury LunaticAsylums," says a news item, "are tobe known in future as mental hospitals."Government institutions which havehitherto borne that title will in thefuture be known simply as "Departments."
A German sailor, who is described as"twenty-seven, 6 ft. 9½ in.," has escapedfrom Dorchester camp. A reward hasbeen offered for information leading tothe recapture of any part of him.
The servant question is admittedlyacute, but whether sufficiently so tojustify the attitude of a contemporary,which deals with the subject under thesinister title, "Maxims for Mistresses,"is open to doubt.
The case of the North Country workman who voluntarily abandoned hisunemployment grant in order to take a job is attributed to a morbid craze fornotoriety.
As a result of the engineers' strike and the failure of the heating apparatus,we understand that Government officials in Whitehall have spent severalsleepless days.
We gather that the mine reported to have been washed up at Bognor turnsout to be an obsolete 1914 pork pie—but fortunately the pin had beenremoved.
The Daily Express tells us that a crowd of new monkeys have arrived atthe Zoo. We are pleased to note this, because several of the monkeys therewere certainly the worse for wear.
A contemporary anticipates a boomin very light motor cars at a hundred andthirty pounds each. They are said tobe just the thing to carry in the tool-boxin case of a breakdown.
A sensation has been caused inScotland, says The National News, bythe passing of a number of counterfeitTreasury notes. As we go to press welearn that most of the victims are goingon as well as can be expected, thoughrecovery is naturally slow.
Mr. WILLIAM LE QUEUX is said tobe very much annoyed at the wickedway in which Russia has beenappropriated by other writers.