been in receipt of unemployment pay has not yet been disclosed for
publication.

***

A dog has returned to its home at Walsworth after being absent for two
months. It is feared that he has been leading a double life.

***

"Throughout the country," says a well-known daily paper, "the
hedges and trees are now budding forth into green leaves." This, we
understand, is according to precedent.

***

"Is your rent raised?" asks a contemporary. With difficulty, if he
_must_ know.

***


Newcastle Justices have extinguished eight licences for redundancy.
There is no reason for supposing that the offence was intentional.

***

The report that the prehistoric flint axe recently found at Ascot had
been claimed by Sir FREDERICK BANBURY, M.P., is denied. Sir FREDERICK,
it appears, merely expressed warm approval of it.