On the principle that it is better to make sure of the rabbit before
arranging about the stuffing.

* * * * *

"Stockholm, Tuesday.

"News from Finland shows that the Socialist leaders have lost control
of the workmen, and all kinds of excesses are taking place. The
present Commandant at Tornea was a sailor, the head of the
passport office was a tailor, and the chief telegraphic censor a
tinker."--_Central News_.

We miss the soldier, to say nothing of "apothecary, ploughboy, thief."

* * * * *

"Scholars and tragedians between them seem to have appropriated
the right to keep Shakespeare's memory green. But there are other
Richmonds in the field, humble Richmonds, not well read ... John of
Gaunt, crying that his England 'never did nor never shall lie at the
proud foot of a conqueror....'"--_The Times_.

The writer who thus deprived the _Bastard_ in _King John_ of his famous
lines was, we infer, one of the "other Richmonds."

* * * * *

SUGAR.