COMMERCIAL CANDOUR.

From a Native Tender for Works:--

"In last we hope to be favoured with your orders, in the
execution of which we will neglect nothing that can cause
you any inconvenience."

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"In the past quarter there were 19 births (6 males and 13
females), comprising 10 between 1 and 65 years, and 9 65
and upwards."--_Huntingdonshire Post_.

The method of dodging the Military Service Acts adopted by these
elderly infants strikes us as distinctly unpatriotic.

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LOOKING AHEAD.

"Comfortable Home for young lady as paying guest; every
convenience; near Cemetery."--_Local Paper_.

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"Nothing which happens in Russia ... can alter the bare fact
that Germany is _in extremis_. I am not sure that _articula
mortis_ wouldn't be the correct term."--_John Bull_.