Oswestry Guardians have accepted an offer to supply Bibles to tramps. This
is the first occasion on which the current belief that the tramp class is
nowadays being recruited largely from the ranks of the minor clergy has
received formal recognition.

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A bricklayer has been summoned for not sending his son to school. It
appears that the father, finding his boy could count up to twenty and
wishing him to follow his own occupation, thought further schooling
unnecessary.

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"When the country really understands the need of the Government," says an
essayist, "we shall travel far." But not at twopence a mile, thank you.

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[Illustration: TRUE POLITENESS.

"YOUR EEL, I THINK, SIR?"]

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