JARGON.

From a speech at a Medical conference:--

"He was ashamed of the term 'shell-shock.' It was a bad word, and
should be wiped out of the vocabulary of every scientific man.
It was really molecular abnormality of the nervous system,
characterised by abnormal reactions to ordinary stimuli."--_Daily
Paper_.

We must try to remember this.

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A MODEST ESTIMATE.

From a publisher's advertisement:--

"Baroness Orczy has laid the world under a fresh debt of
gratitude. 7/- net."--"_Times" Literary Supplement_.

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"The question one could naturally put is, 'Has the
millennium arrived, when the lion and the lamb shall lay
together?'"--_Monthly Paper_.

Let's hope, at all events, that the produce won't be a cockatrice's
egg.