expenses.

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We understand that Mr. Justice DARLING'S weekly denial of the reports
of his retirement will in future be issued on Tuesdays, instead of
Wednesdays, as hitherto.

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When hit by a bullet a tiger roars until dead, says a weekly paper,
but a tigress dies quietly. Nervous people who suffer from headaches
should therefore only shoot tigresses.

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Two out of ten houses being built at Guildford are now complete.
Builders in other parts of the country are asking who gave the word
"Go."

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"Marvellous to relate," says a Sunday paper, "a horse has just died
at Ingatestone at the age of thirty-six." Surely it is more marvellous
that it did not die before.

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It is said that the Paris Peace Conference cost two million pounds.
The latest suggestion is that, before the next war starts, tenders