We understand that a proposal to send a relief party to Americato rescue Scotsmen from the threatened Prohibition law is underconsideration.
It is rumoured that The Times is about to announce thatit does not hold itself responsible for editorial opinionsexpressed in its own columns.
A correspondent, complaining of the tiny flats in London, statesthat he is a trombone-player, and every time he wants to get thelowest note he has to go out on to the landing.
In Essex Street, Shoreditch—so Dr. ADDISON explained tothe House of Commons—there are seven hundred and thirty-threepeople in twenty-nine houses. A correspondent writes that a singlehouse in the neighbourhood of Big Ben contains seven hundred andseven persons, many of them incapable, and that nothing is beingdone about it.
"The Original Dixie Land Jazz Band has arrived in London," saysan evening paper. We are grateful for the warning.
Over two hundred season-ticket-holders live within a mile radiusat Southend. We suppose there must be some attraction at Southendto explain why so many season-ticket-holders live there.
We are pleased to be able to throw some light on the mystery ofthe Russian who was not shot in Petrograd last week. It appearsthat he ducked his head.
We await confirmation of the report that an American has offeredto defray the cost of the War if the authorities will name it afterhim.
The Surplus Government Property Disposal Board is making aspecial offer of eighteen-pounder guns to golf clubs. For a longshot out of a bad lie the superiority of the eighteen-pounder overthe Sammie cleek is conceded by all the best golfers.
Westgate-on-Sea has decided to abolish bathing-machines. Infuture visitors desiring to bathe will have to do it by hand.
Mr. KELLAWAY informed the House of Commons the other day thatthe War Office has forty million yards of surplus aeroplane linen.It seems inevitable that some of it will have to be washed inpublic.
A woman aged twenty-six, mother of five children, told the OldStreet police magistrate that she could not read. How she managedto have five children without being able to read the Defence of theRealm Regulations is regarded by the authorities as a mystery.
At the Royal Drawing Society's exhibition there is a picturepainted by a child of two. Pictures by older artists, with all theappearances of having been painted by children of this unripe age,are, of course, no novelty.
"Whitehall Wakes Up," says The Evening News. An indignantdenial of this charge is hourly expected.
A Northumberland man last week declined to draw his unemploymentpay on the ground that he was not actually wanting it. Hisworkmates put it down to the alleged fact that a careless nurse hadlet him fall out of the perambulator on to his head.
"Unless Russian women join the Bolshevist movement," says HerrRADEK, "they will all be shot by order of Lenin." This confirms ourworst fears that these Russian revolutionaries are becoming ratherspiteful.
A new fire-engine has been provided f