This must not be confused with the miners'
threat to strike. That is merely a method of ensuring unemployment.
* * *
The arrangement by which a hundred-and-fifty amateur brass bands are
to play at the Crystal Palace on September 25th looks like an attempt
to distract us from the miners' strike fixed for that day.
* * *
A Ramsgate man charged with shooting a cat denied that he fired at it.
The animal is said to have dashed at the bullet and impaled himself
upon it.
* * *
It has been agreed, says a news item, that milk shall be tenpence a
quart this winter. Not by us.
* * *
The War Office announces that Arabs in Southern Mesopotamia have
captured a British armoured train. It should be pointed out to these
Arab rebels that it is such behaviour as this that discourages the
tourist spirit.
* * *
Upon reading that another lady had failed in her attempt to swim the
Channel a Scotsman inquires whether the Cross-Channel steamer rates
have been increased, like everything else.
* * *
We are informed that at a football match recently played in the
Rhondda Valley the referee won.
* * *
General OBREGON, says an unofficial message, has been elected
President of Mexico.
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