storing by individuals in the shape of rusks."--_Daily Chronicle_.

No authority for this remarkable statement is given, but we suspect the
_Russky Invalid_.

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"A trifle of a trinket for his women-folk is the only saving as an
insurance for the poor against famine and starvation for a rainless
day."--_A Native Writer in "The Times of India."_

KIPLING was right, East is East and West is West.

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"The undersigned has great pleasure in informing all the ladies,
gentlemen and the other travellers in the Station that a very nice
comfortable motor car can be obtained on hire from him for a walk in or
out of the Station for any period of time at very reasonable
charges."--_Peshawar Daily News_.

The petrol shortage evidently extends to India.

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"Ireland is accustomed to disappointment; she is accustomed to what she
signalises as betrayal, but her spirit remains unbroken, and she goes
on her way undaunted to seek, it may be by new methods and a new road,
her appointed gaol."--_Manchester Guardian._