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COMMERCIAL CANDOUR.

From a butcher's advertisement:--

"TOUGH & INDIFFERENT MEAT
IS DEAR AT ANY PRICE.
TRY
------ & Sons
And prove it for yourselves."

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"A certain amount of discussion took place, and it was
acknowledged that the number of horses in training had been
exagggerated."--_Daily Chronicle_.

Nevertheless there is certainly one gee too many.

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The _Lokalanzeiger_ publishes an appeal for a new German National
Anthem. We understand that the best composition that has been sent in
up to the time of going to press begins as follows:--

Who is WILLIAM? What is he
That all our swine adore him?