***

"Is the potato the saviour of the Fatherland?" asks the _Deutsche
Tageszeitung_. Another slight to the ALL-HIGHEST.

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[Illustration: _Both together_. "NOW, MY MAN, WHY DON'T YOU SALUTE
WHEN YOU PASS AN OFFICER?"]

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From a review of Lord LISTER'S "Life":--

"It was in Edinburgh that he struck his most famous patient,
Henley, who has a record of the 'Chief' in his rhymes and
rhythms, 'In Hospital.'"--_Daily Paper_.

But it was not in reference to this incident that HENLEY wrote, "My
head is bloody but unbowed."

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"If all fools were rationed there could be no fixed
scale."--_Star_.

Of course not; we have always noticed that the bigger the fool the
more he eats.