Lisbon, Wednesday.--It would seem that the Cabinet just formed
by Senhor Tamagnini Barbosa will have in the next Parliament a
moderate Republican majority."--_Liverpool Daily Post_.

No other journal seems to have noticed the re-annexation of Portugal
by Spain.

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"The task of fitting the square men created by the war into
square holes is certainly going to be one of tremendous
magnitude."--_Lancashire Daily Post_.

From some of the new Government appointments we gather that the PRIME
MINISTER gave up the task in despair.

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"Wanted to purchase elephants, sound and without vice, and to
sell a variety of pigeons at reasonable prices."--_Pioneer
(Allahabad)._

But we doubt if the advertiser will be able to get all the elephants,
however free from vice, into the old pigeon-house.

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[Illustration: BRIGHTER CRICKET.]