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"SAMMIES."

_À propos_ of the note in our issue of August 1st, a Correspondent
suggests that the Americans might go into action to the tune of "Tommy
make room for your Uncle."

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"A Leghorn pullet, belonging to Mrs. G.R. Bell, of Coxhoe,
Durham, has laid an egg 3-1/4 oz. in weight, 7-1/2 in. in
diameter, and 6-1/4 in. in circumference."--_Scotch Paper._

Most interesting and novel, but very disconcerting to the
mathematicians.

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"The procession was headed by the choristers and songmen, and
included the surplus clergy and the Very Rev. the Dean."

_Yorkshire Herald._

No support here, you will note, for the recent suggestion that Deans are
superfluous.

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[Illustration: THE FAILURE OF THE FILM-THRILL.