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"EX-KAISER TO PAP THE PENALTY."
_Sunday Paper_.
We always feared he would get off with a soft punishment.
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[Illustration:_Docker_ (_by way of concluding a heated argument with
Scotsman_). "WELL, GO UP THERE, THEN, AN' TALK TO YOUR BLINKIN'
SCOTCH PALS."]
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OUR POPULAR GUIDES.
"HOW INFLUENZA MAY BE SPREAD."
_Headline in a Daily Paper_.
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A correspondent writes: "It may interest you to know that I recently
received the following statement from a provincial branch of a
floor-cloth company:--
'Owing to some of the principal ingredients used in the
manufacture of floor coverings having been taken over by the
Ministry of Food, the price of the material is again advanced.'
Have you noticed it at all in your soup?"
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THE HOUSE-HUNTER
Unless something is done for Higgins without delay the nation must
prepare to face a tremendous rise in the rate of mortality among
house-agents.
Soon after he came back from the War he began to adopt a threatening
attitude (as the police-court witnesses say) towards these gentlemen.
Recently he has gone beyond the threatening stage. If rumour can be
trusted, he has thrown at least six of them through their office
windows. He has taken a dislike to the whole tribe.
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