"Frightfulness" in England.

"Boys wanted for Kicking. ------ Stamping Works."--_Midland Evening News._

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"'THE MAGIC FLUTE.'

One ingenious commentator has suggested that the opera has some basis
in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' Sarastro is Prospero, Pamina Miranda,
Tamino Ferdinand, and perhaps Monostatos Caliban."--_Glasgow Herald._

The fact that these Shakespeare characters all occur in "The Tempest"
enhances the ingenuity of the suggestion.

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"The biggest fire in living memory occurred in Chapelhall on Monday
morning, when the Roman Catholic School was partly destroyed along with
the recreation rooms, damage amounting to £2,000."--_Scotch Local
Paper._

The parish pump was probably out of order when this unparalleled
conflagration occurred; but is seems to be at work again now.

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[Illustration: "MOTHER, D'YOU KNOW I'VE ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT BECAME OF OLD
TOP-HATS."]