People ought not to say these things about chemists.

* * * * *

"ESCAPED GERMAN FLYING MEN.

"One of the men is Lieut. Josef Flink. He has a gunshot wound in
the palm of the left hand. The second is Orbum Alexander von
Schutz, with side-whispers. Both speak very little English."
--_Southern Echo_.

But VON SCHUTZ's sotto-voce rendering of the "Hymn of Hate" is
immense.

* * * * *

AT THE PLAY.

"THE INVISIBLE FOE."


MR. H.B. IRVING has elected to play villain in a new mystery play by
Mr. WALTER HACKETT. Essential elements of the business as follows:
Obstinate old millstone of a shipbuilder, _Bransby_, who simply will
not give up shipbuilding for aeroplane making (and no wonder in these
days!); nephew _Stephen_, with an unwholesome hankering after power
and a complete inability to see the obvious; nephew _Hugh_, lieutenant
lately gazetted, with much more wholesome and intelligent hankering
after _Helen Bransby_; Clerk, mouldy, faithful, one who discovers