rhubarb and Spanish onions, the table being softly illuminated by tinted
electric lights concealed in hollow turnips, fashioned to represent the
heads of famous statesmen.

* * * * *

FROM THE SERIAL STORY.

"Sick at heart, Adela tottered across the room and, opening her bureau,
drew from its secret hiding-place an old letter. As she tremblingly removed
it from the envelope a few faded leaves fluttered down to the floor. It was
the brussels-sprout he had given her on the night they parted."

* * * * *

AN INDUCEMENT.

"WANTED, Nurse, £30, for three children, 13, 7, and 3 years: nurseryman
kept."--_Evesham Journal_.

To help, we suppose, in making up the beds.

* * * * *

"The stream proved treacherous in the extreme, being a succession of
rapids and whirlpools. Often their magazine rifles and automatic
revolvers were all that stood between them and death."--_Observer_.

We always use a Winchester repeater for shooting rapids.