THE RULING PASSION.

"A Russian official accredited to this country, in an interview with a
representative of the Morning Post yesterday, said:--Potatoes."--
_Evening Times and Echo_ (_Bristol_).

* * * * *

"I could well enter into the feelings of this lad's colonel when, with
a lint in his eye, he descrihimbed as 'a riceless youngster.'"--_Civil
and Military Gazette_.

We fear that the insertion of the bandage in the colonel's eye must have
prevented him from forming a true appreciation of the young fellow.

* * * * *

Headline to a leading article in _The Evening News_:--

"WATCH ITALY AND RUSSIA."

Extract from same:--

"We ought to keep our eyes fixed on the Western front."

Correspondents should address their inquiries to Carmelite, Squinting House
Square.

* * * * *