"--_London Magazine_.
Personally, we prefer a roll on the top of an American desk.
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"By Regulation 35B of the Defence of the Realm Regulations, it is an
offence for any person having found any bomb, or projectile, or any
fragment thereof, or any document, map, &c., which may have been
discharged, dropped, &c., from any hostile aircraft, to forthwith
communicate the fact to a Military Post or to a Police Constable in the
neighbourhood."--_Scotsman_.
Why this mistrust of Scottish policemen?
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EARLIER FOOD PROBLEMS.
Peace, I remember, had her alimentary perplexities not much less renowned
than war. At any rate I can think of two.
The first was some years ago, in Yorkshire, on one of those sultry and
stifling days of August which in winter, or even in such a March as we have
been suffering, one can view as something more desirable than rubies, but
which in actual fact are depressing, enervating, and the mother of
moodiness and fatigue.
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