BUDA-PESTH.

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[Illustration: _Neutral Waiter_. "I SHALL NEVAIR ONDERSTAND ZIS LANGUAGE.
ZAT OFFICER--I SAY TO HIM, 'GOOT MORNING, 'OW ARE YOU?' 'E SAY, 'DAM 'ONGRY
AND FED OP'!"]

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SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

[The management of _The Times_, of which the price was raised on Monday
to twopence, is anxious, in view of the paper famine, to restore the
old custom by which this journal was subscribed for jointly or loaned,
whether gratuitously or by newsagents at one penny a perusal. Having
"determined to restrict the sale and encourage the circulation of each
copy in several houses daily, the managers will not hesitate, as a last
resort, to increase the selling price to sevenpence per copy."]

_From_ "_The Evening Uproar_."

BATTLE IN THE WEST-END.

Piccadilly Circus was the scene of an appalling fracas this afternoon.
Shortly after two o'clock a quietly-dressed middle-aged man, at present
unidentified, was observed stealing cautiously from the Tube station with a
thick wad of Treasury notes in one hand and _a copy of "The Times" in the
other!_ The sight of this latter seems to have sent several passers-by
completely mad. The wretched stranger was instantly set upon, his journal