President WILSON is stated to have played several keen games of"shuffle-board" on the George Washington. As it is an opensecret that Lord ROBERT CECIL has been polishing up his"shove-halfpenny" in the billiard-room of the Hotel Majesticinteresting developments are anticipated.
Primroses, daisies and wallflowers are in full bloom in manyparts of the country and young lambs may now be seen frisking inthe meadows. Can the POET LAUREATE be waiting for someone to getsun-stroke?
The Commission on the Responsibilities and Crimes of the Warhave not yet decided that the ex-Kaiser is guilty. At the same timeit is said that they have an idea that he knew something aboutit.
At a Belfast football match last week the winning team, thepolice and the referee were mobbed by the partisans of the losingside. Local sportsmen condemn the attack on the winning team as adangerous innovation.
The L.C.C. is training munition girls to be cooks. We understandthat the velocity and range will be clearly stamped on the bottomof all pork-pies.
A Stromness fisherman, on opening a halibut, found a largecormorant in its stomach. Cormorants, of course, are not fastidiousbirds. They don't mind where they nest.
The eclipse of the sun on May 28th should be a great success, ifwe may judge by the immense time it has taken over rehearsals.
Inspector J.G. OGHAM, chief of the Portsmouth Fire Brigade, whois about to retire, has attended over two thousand fires. Indeed itis said that most of the local fires know him by sight.
"Ghost stories," says a contemporary, "are being spread aboutvacant houses in Dublin to decrease the demand for them." The oldcaretaker's trick of training a couple of cockroaches to jump outat the house-hunter is quite useless to-day.
Hull merchants complain that only one train leaves Hull per dayon which wet fish can travel. The idea of bringing the fish toBillingsgate under their own steam has already been ventilated.
Found insensible with a bottle of sherry in his pocket, an EastHam labourer was fined ten shillings for being drunk. It isbelieved that had he been carrying the sherry anywhere else nothingcould have saved him.
An absconding Trade Society treasurer last week hit upon a novelidea. He ran away with his own wife.
"Is nothing going to be done to stop the incursion of the sea atWalton-on-the-Naze?" asks a contemporary. Have they tried theeffect of placing notice-boards along the front?
For the first time the public have been admitted to a meeting ofthe Beckenham Council. It is pleasant to find that the importanceof good wholesome entertainment is not being lost sight of in someplaces.
Asked by the Wood Green magistrates for the names of his sixchildren, a defendant said that he did not know them. It is a goodplan for a man to get his wife to introduce him to thechildren.
It appears that a certain gentleman has managed to overcome thedomestic servant problem. He has married one.
A Salford man giving evidence in a local court told themagistrates that his