audience sang the pathetic 'Ave Maria' that Desdemona sings in the
last act of Verdi's _Othello_ when she feels her predestined doom
approaching."--"_Evening Standard" on a Society wedding_.

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"Mr. Bottomley objects to By Jingo."

_Daily Paper_.

Yet in one or another of his "powerful" articles we seem to have seen
something like "Damn the Kaiser" and "To Hell with Hindenburg."

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[Illustration: THE PHILANDERER.

SINN FEIN. "BE MINE."

PRESIDENT WILSON. "I DO HOPE I HAVEN'T GIVEN YOU TOO MUCH
ENCOURAGEMENT--BUT I CAN NEVER BE MORE THAN A BROTHER TO YOU."]

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[Illustration: _First Australian_. "'OO's YER SWELL PAL,
DIGGER?"

_Second Ditto_. "I DUNNO HIS NAME, BUT I REMEMBER HIS FACE. I GIVE HIM A
BIT OF BACON JUST OUTSIDE ST. QUENTIN."]