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are not without interest. They are related by Sir Charles Dilke. Writing from France in 1881, he says:

*On the night before I left

I dined with Foayer-Quertier, i who had been Finance Minister. of France under Thiers at the the time of the Frankfort Treats. He told me a wonderful story about how, when the negotiations

had been all but bruken off, he

went to bed in despair. But in

MJANUARY, 15. 1919

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was a knock at his door. He got up in his nightshirt, and there was. Bismarck in full uniform, who made him get back into bed, saying he would catch cold. Then, | drawing a chair to the bed-side, Bismarck spread out the treaty on a night-table and wrangled on, till after a while he said that it!

was dry work, and got up and

rang and asked for beer. "After} the beer had been brought by a

sleepy waiter, he rang again and

asked for kirsch, and poured a quantity of the liquor into the] beer. Then he made the poker red-hot in the fire, which he had relighted, stirred up the mixture, and invited Pouyor Quertier to drink. Pouyer-Querțier said:Į "I drink it thinking of my country, and Bismarck clapped me on the back and said that I was such a good follow that the evacuation should take place at once, and this is how the final article was signed; it was signed on the table at my bed-side."

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The High Court has recently held that a ci ilian who was detained in Gerraany on the outbreak of war, and who was

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After the strentions times. We Instead of seeing the Peace have recently passed through, Conference at the. Hague, wo what with the Constitutional;

Tahall soon see Haig at the Peace Reform agitation, are, the

Conference. "Vanity Fair" perforu:ances] have been like a gentle dropofdew: There have been my run- from heaven. Within two days the

ours in the air as to what will be Company's first edition was sold) Jone with the tanks from the afterwards allowed to return to unt, necessitatingascond elition western Front. Someone has England on giving his sworn being produced last evening,

parole not to serve against Ger- This should make Mis Marie shoubi use them as platforms in Military Service Acts, and the suggested that the politicians many. exempt from the Curelli and Mr. Rudyard Kiplingen-air meetings. A very good wisdom of such a decision în green with envy.

idea. They are quite eggshell dealing with an etemy like The troupe were in excelleut

prof.

Germany will be generally "Form last night. They were in

applauded. Under military law the prou lest of spirits and the There was quite a large only commissioned officers are programme went with a swing gathering of the fair sex at the from beginning to and The Theatre Royal last night It house was very full. H. E. the Officer Alministering

was quite a Vanity Affair. Such a feminine quality, don't you Government (the Hon. Mr. Claud know. Severn, C. M. G. and à party from Government House were among the audience.

the

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entirely re-edite and revised. almost entitles one

The second edition was alıntcertainly plenty of frills. Which by any just and honourable. The majority of the parts were one's opinion as to these kind of

new and the artists were seen in their real glory this time. There was a sight overdose of lea

plays.

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to revue means.

Surely the Jadge. tuust have

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operatie effort from rag-time, in an English Court of Justice, never better instanced than in The traps of journalese were dramatic parodies to melodrama,

recently remarked that "a man's the seizure of the word etc. ME Leslie Holmes

well

wife should be able to eat his adventure from Mr. Wilson and to the

isir. That's a simple task its use in and out of season of throughout the evening with humourous scenes such as bisompared to a man's baby who nauseam. I would wager a small sum (writes "K. C.) that not one of the writers who are flourishing their "peradventures "now would have thought of using it as a

witty yarna, his unmusical in terlude with Messrs. Georgel-

cats his teeth."

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I see all the mails have been Titchener and Sydney Mamaer stopped from going a Turkey. ing, and the musical quartette What a pity. The girls there are who run out of their metals by faulty harmony.

ather pretty, I believe.

substantive or at all—a month ago, and the state of mind suggested by this sudden dis- covery reminds one a good deal But the ladies in that country of Pinkerton in "The Wrecker" are not more harem-scarem than and his discovery of "hebdomad-

The farcical burlesque was entitled "The Mummy" in which.

to

is

a crank professor (a man with those of the Western World. As ary That's a good catching. the same name) shown ļa matter of fact, a married friend phrase, though it's hard to say.

experiment with & of mine, who had been to Con- Well, you're a boss word, I said.. mummy, being armed with a elixir, a drop of which if instantinople, once told me that Before you're much older. I'll jected into the body is believed they look very demure as they have you in type as long as to revive a dead body. The it tailor-fashion on an Ottoman. Yourself." For good or ill, "per- I mean on a piece of furniture." word in journalese, after lying all burlesque bristled with humour-

of course. ous situations and Mr. Leslie

those years concealed in Eliz- Holmea acted his part to a nicety.

abethan and Stuart English. It ducer to hitch it to a show. remains only for some revue pro

to

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Hadge Griffth has a fine contralto Which is a decided contrast to refers to a temporary lodging of a Llanllowell Rectory, Mon- Optional cargo, will be landed THOMAS W. SIMMONS & CO. voice and she sang "Don't you the pretty young thing who was few hours only, and that Raleigh monthshire, calls attention to a unless police has been given mind it, Honey" effectively. Miss nice it would be if we in Burrey, where, as we know which was printed in the Empire.

Miss heard to say the other afternoon, was really buried at Beddington, prophecy by General Gordon Pribe to steamer's arrival. Shirley Cooke went through the

could have dinky little bells on from a pathetic letter written by Magazine af April, 1911. new edition process thoroughly; and she was again her best as the coolies' chairs. Quite a Lady Raleigh on the day after letter to Mr. James the pieno, Miss Eileen Boyd game of musical chairs for the sang Will you remember coalies. and had to obligs with an encore.

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