has received a number of wireless telegrams from the station
at Naten, a distance of 3,348 miles. The Kamina station will
not be able to reply until its new plant, which is being set
up with the utmost speed, has been completed."--_Reuter_.

Indeed, the opinion is held by some that it would be quicker to reply
by post.

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"The prison buildings themselves are separated from this
wall by a yard measuring twenty-five years across."--_Daily
Dispatch_.

Of course a yard ought to measure thirty-six inches.

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[Illustration: _English Horse Dealer (to Irish horse dealer from whom
he is buying a horse)._ "HOW'S HE BRED?"

_Irish Dealer_. "WELL, HOW WOULD YE LIKE HIM BRED? IF HE WAS FOR SIR
PATHRICK UP AT THE CASTLE HE'D BE BY RED EAGLE OUT AV AN ASECTIC MARE,
BUT YE CAN SUIT YERSILF."]

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OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.

_(By Mr. Punch's Staff of Learned Clerks.)_