Those who deny that Mr. LloydGeorge is ruining land-owners willperhaps be impressed by the followingadvertisement in The Bazaar, Exchangeand Mart:—
"To be sold, small holding, well stockedwith fruit trees, good double tenement houseon good road and close to station, good outerbuildings. Price, Four Marks, Alton, Hunts."
The fact that the price should betranslated into German looks unpleasantlylike an attempt to entrap anignorant foreigner.
Meanwhile it looks as if the Socialistideal of driving our landed gentry intothe workhouse is already being realised.The Abergavenny Boardof Guardians, we read,has decided to acceptan offer by Lord Abergavennyto purchasethe local workhouse for£3,000.
Three of the newpeers have now chosentheir titles. Sir EdgarVincent becomesBaron d'Abernon;Major-General Brocklehurst, BaronRanksborough, and SirEdward Lyell, BaronLyell. Rather lazy ofSir Edward.
A lioness whichescaped from a circusat Bourg-en-Brasse,France, the other day,was killed, and a gendarmein the huntingparty was shot in the leg. As thelioness was not armed it is thoughtthat the gendarme must have beenshot by one of the party.
It is frequently said that, if theSuffragettes were to drop their militanttactics, the suffrage would begranted to-morrow. A Suffragette nowwrites to stigmatise this as a hypocriticalmis-statement. She points outthat recently the experiment was triedof allowing an entire day to pass withoutan outrage, but not a single vote wasgranted.
Dr. Hans Friedenthal, a well-knownProfessor of Berlin University,declares that, as a result of the highereducation, women will in the nearfuture be totally bald, and will wearpatriarchal beards and long moustaches.They will then, no doubt, getthe vote by threatening that, unlesstheir wishes are granted, they will kissevery man they meet at sight.
Portsmouth Town Council has carried,by eleven votes to nine, a Labouramendment refusing to place officialguide-books to Pretoria in the publiclibrary unless the nine deportees areallowed to return to South Africa.General Botha could hardly have foreseenthis result of his action, and itwill be interesting to see what happensnow.
"Poison after a Duck's Egg."
Evening News.
Our cricketers would seem to begetting absurdly sensitive. This isscarcely the way to brighten the game.
The Guildhall Art Gallery is to berebuilt. Some of the pictures theremight be at the same time re-paintedwith advantage.
Apparently the Moody of the Moody-MannersOpera Company is gainingthe upper hand. This Company openedits London season with The Dance ofDeath.
The appearance in Bond Street lastweek of a lady leading a little piginstead of a dog as a pet is being widelydiscussed in canine circles, though ithas not yet been decided what action,if any, shall be taken. In view of thefact that so many dogs are pigs it ispossible that no objection will be raisedto one pig being a dog.
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