--South
Streatham."--_Local Paper._
Nothing is said of their third dimensions.
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A REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.
"To-day is the birthday of Lord Durham and his twin brother, the Hon.
F.W. Lambton, both of whom are sixty-five." _Provincial Paper_.
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"Prince Arthur is well fitted for the high post to which he has been
called. He is the tallest member of the Royal Family."--_Daily Paper_.
But it is only fair to his Royal Highness to say that he has other
qualifications as well.
* * * * *
From the recent debate on "Doctors and Secrecy":--
"If you begin to open the door you take away the sheet anchor upon
which our professional work is based."--_Daily Paper_.
We trust that the speaker mixes his medicines more discreetly than his
metaphors.
* * * * *
ON WITH THE DANCE.
I have been to a dance; or rather I have been to a fashionable restaurant
where dancing is done. I was not invited to a dance--there are very good
reasons for that; I was invited to dinner. But many of my fellow-guests
have invested a lot of money in dancing. That is to say, they keep on
paying dancing-instructors to teach them new tricks; and the dancing-
instructors, who know their business, keep on inventing new tricks. As soon
as they have taught everybody a new step they say it is unfashionable and
invent a new one.
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