"Foxes are to be found within an omnibus ride of Charing Cross," says
Mr. RICHARD KEARTON. Young omnibuses with plenty of bone and stamina
are the best for suburban meets.

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Anemones, said a lecturer at the Royal Institution, will live as long
as sixty years in captivity and are very intelligent. Nevertheless we
refuse to swallow the story about their being taught to jump through a
hoop. The man who told it must have been thinking of an Egyptian king
of the same name.

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The LORD-LIEUTENANT, it is stated on good authority, threatens that
if Sinn Fein prisoners destroy any more jails they will be rigorously
released.

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[Illustration: _The Fare_. "I DEFY YOU!"

_The Driver_. "WHO ARE YOU?"

_The Fare_. "I AM A RETIRED TAXI-DRIVER."]

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"Sir Eric Geddes speaks of £50,000,000,000--a sum so vast that it