ot out than gpractically the whole house cae mdown."--_Pioneer
(Allahabad)_.

On this occasion, contrary to the usual rule, Nature appears to have
been more careful of the individual than of the type.

* * * * *

"You, too, reader, if you have not already visited ----'s, have a
pleasant, bright happy experience before you. Why not visit this
modern Forum to-morrow?"--_"Callisthenes" in the evening papers,
June 23rd._

One of our reasons for not taking this well-meant advice was that June
24th was a Sunday.

* * * * *

"Great fires continue in Germany. The latest include gutting of the
Moabit Goods Station in Berlin wherein tanks of petrol, hydrogen,
_et cetera_, exploded, resulting in the destruction of a part of
Vilna and the township of Osjory near the Grodno conflagration
station and a basket factory at Happe."--_Ceylon Independent_.

The effect of this remarkably extensive explosion seems to have been
felt even in Colombo.

* * * * *

WOMAN AS USUAL.