America. The question of a standard long-distance expletive for foozlers
is held over.

* * *

A youth charged at a police-court in the South of London with stealing
five hundred cigars, valued at threepence each, admitted that he had
smoked twenty-six of them. We are glad to learn that no further
punishment was ordered.

* * *

_The Waste Trade World_ states that there is a great demand for rubbish.
Editors, however, don't seem to be moving with the times.

* * *

Off Folkestone, a few days ago, a trawler captured a blue-nosed shark.
Complaints about the temperature of the sea have been very common among
bathers this year.

* * *

"No one has yet been successful in filming an actual murder," states a
Picture-goers' Journal. It certainly does seem a pity that our murderers
are so terribly self-conscious in the presence of a cinematograph man.

* * *

_The Daily Express_ states that Mrs. BAMBERGER has decided not to appeal