at a West Hartlepool wedding party. One fell down the
back of a schoolboy, burning him, and has been awarded
£5 damages."--_Eastern Dally Press_.

And did the poor boy get nothing?

* * * * *

"The Lower House of the Convocation of Canterbury has a very full
agenda. Reports of the respective Joint Committees on the Royal
Letters of Business, Purity of Life and the Revision of the
Dictionary ... will be taken into consideration; and, afterwards,
several motions on a variety of topics will be brought forward.
One of these begs the War Office to provide some means of
protecting, when necessary, ladies of education working in
munition factories 'from the profane language and swearing of
the officials under whom they work.'"--_Church Courier_.

The dictionary certainly needs revising if this sort of language
appears in it.

* * * * *

"After doing a few rounds of the field a wha he 'naives' call a
errific speed, he calf leaped a high wall inoa nohehr field, and,
followed by a number of men, made sraigh for he cliffs. Fearing
nohing, he animal jumped from the cliff."--_Daily Dispatch_.

It is conjectured that the unfortunate animal was missing its "t."