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ALL schoolchildren in Berlin and Vienna were given a day's holiday on the occasion of the re-capture of Przemysl. This makes one wonder whether they were all made to work overtime when the Russians took the fortress.

By the way, it is not generally known that the name Przemysl is onomatopoeic and indicates the noise the town makes when it falls.

We must anyhow give the Germans credit for constancy. In spite of the entry of Italy into the War the mass of the Germans are still true to their old hate of our country.

According to Reuter the Turks have been using wooden shells. It would look as if they were beginning to lose their heads.

"Paradoxical though it may sound," says the Lokalanzeiger, "Germany is destined to win either way, whether she emerge victorious or defeated from this titanic struggle, and the greater her defeat the surer and more lasting will be her ultimate triumph." In these circunstances it seems rather stupid of her not to give in at once.

The effect of the hot weather is now evidently being felt at the Front. A recent communiqué wound up with the statement, "On the remainder of the front there is nothing fresh."

The members of the Coalition Cabinet have decided to pool their salaries with a view to their being divided equally. The sum, we learn from The Express, has been worked out in detail by Mr. McKenna. So much for those who declared that the new Chancellor of the Exchequer would be unable to cope with his duties!

"Yesterday," says a writer in The Daily Chronicle, "I dropped on the photograph of an American writer on the causes of the war. I mistook it at once for President Wilson's face. But the face was that of Mr. James M. Beck. From the camera's point of view the likeness is surprising—only that the one is a slightly handsomer edition of the other." We suspect that that tactless word "slightly" has annoyed them both.

"At the Palladium last week," we read, "Mr. Charles Gulliver presented Max Erard, the pianist, with his gigantic cathedral organ, which weighs eight tons." We hope that Mr. Max Erard is not a Lilliputian.

According to the New York papers the wife of a Methodist minister of Sedalla, Missouri, while cooking eggs for breakfast, broke one, and, seeing some foreign substance removed it, and it turned out to be a scrap from a newspaper. The explanation probably is that it was a duck's egg containing a small canard.

The cry of "Eat Less Meat" has, we hear, caused no little alarm in canine circles, where it is feared that, if prices continue to rise, humans may discover the nutritive value of bones.

The newest railway station of the Bakerloo line is staffed entirely by women, and it is proposed to call it Maiden Vale.

Answer to Lady Correspondent:—Yes, we agree that those respirator-masks are unbecoming to nine persons out of ten and are apt to lead to a loss of individuality, but have you tried the effect of adding a little lace insertion and a few hanging beads?

We are glad to see that Ireland is Ireland still. The Clerk to the Local Authority, Omagh, publishes in The Mid-Ulster Mail an advertisement which begins as follows:―"Sheep Dealers, and others, are reminded that all Sheep imported into the County from other Counties are required to give to the Sergeant of Police in the District in which he resides, within three days, his Notice of Intention to Dip."

"Tuesday, 8th June, 1915. 'The more waist the less speed.'"

Murray's Edinburgh Railway Timetable.