are too poignant for utterance.

***

According to the statement of a German paper "A Partial Crisis"
threatens Austria. One of these days we feel sure something really
serious will happen to that country.

***

The Medical Officer of the L.C.C. estimates that in 1916 the total
water which flowed under London Bridge was 875,000,000,000 gallons.
It is not known yet what is to be done about it.

***

The Army Council has forbidden the sale of raffia in the United
Kingdom. Personally we never eat the stuff.

***

Nature Notes: A white sparrow has been seen in Huntingdon; a
well-defined solar halo has been observed in Hertfordshire, and Mr.
WINSTON CHURCHILL was noticed the other day reading _The Morning
Post_.

***

A boy of eighteen told the Stratford magistrate that he had given
up his job because he only got twenty-five shillings a week. He will