"Mutiny aboard a German U-boat, aided by the demolarizing effects of a
submarine bomb, made the diver a prize of the British Admiralty and her
crew the willing prisoners of a patrol boat."--_Ottawa Evening
Journal._

This kind of bomb--the demolariser--is just what we want to draw the
enemy's teeth.

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[Illustration: THE END OF THE THOUSAND-AND-ONE NIGHTS.

THE OFFICIAL STORY-TELLER (_to Wilhelm-al-Raschid_). "I CAN'T THINK OF ANY
FRESH FAIRY TALES. WOULD YOU LIKE A TRUE ONE NOW?"

[April 30th was the thousand-and-first day of the War.]]

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ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

_Monday, April 23rd._--Any intelligent foreigner who obtained admission to
the Distinguished Strangers' Gallery in the expectation that on the
feast-day of our national saint and the birthday of our national poet he
would be privileged to listen to a series of eloquent speeches upon
patriotism, delivered by our most accomplished orators, must have been
deeply disappointed. The one subject that the House of Commons seems to
care about is food.

The CONTROLLER has hit one section of the House in its tenderest portion.