men. The cocked hat into which Mr. SMILLIE hopes to knock the country is,
of course, excluded from the competition.

* * *

A horse at Chichester has been run down by a train. Asked how he came to
catch up with the horse the driver said he just let her rip.

* * *

Despite the repeated reports of his resignation in the London papers, Mr.
DAVIS, the American Ambassador to Britain, states that he does not intend
to retire. This contempt for English newspapers will be justifiably
resented.

* * *

Mrs. LILLIAN RUSSELL, of Rockland, Mass., is reported to have offered to
sell her husband for twenty thousand pounds. It is a great consolation to
those of us who are husbands that they are fetching such high prices.

* * *

The road-menders in Oxford Street who went on strike have now resumed work.
The discovery was made by a spectator who saw one of them move.

* * *

A contemporary reports the prospect of fair weather for another three
weeks. It looks as if Mr. SMILLIE is going to have a fine day for it after