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"Mr. Isaac L.---- is in Cape Town. We hope the change will do
Mrs. L.---- good."--_Weekly Paper_.
We trust that no domestic differences are indicated.
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"The bread ...had been collected from local hostels and
barracks for pigs."--_Daily Mail_.
Does the writer delicately hesitate to call a sty a sty, or has the
internment of the food-hog really begun?
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"Lord Robert Cecil concluded: 'There is a well-known French
proverb, Que; messieurs, les assassins commencement--let the
murderers begin.'"--_Daily News_.
Our contemporary has begun.
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REVENTLOW RUMINATES.
I have no wounds to show; the cannon's thunder
Does not impair my rest. It's just as well,
For, though I dote on blood, and thoughts of plunder
Act on my jaded spirit like a spell,
I could not but regard it as a blunder
If Prussia's foremost scribe should stop a shell.
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