"A family of eight was stated to be living on £3 a week in the
Bow County Court, and counsel said it was a marvel how they did
it."--_Bradford Daily Argus_.

It is supposed that they take it in turns to sleep on the Bench.

* * * * *

"A Republic is derported to have been declared at Zagazig. In
Cairo stdikes have added to the difficulties of the public, the
latest being one by the cabddivers. Crowds ottempted to storm
the Government printing works, but were dispersed by the
military."--_Daily Paper_.

Not, however, until they had worked some havoc among the type.

* * * * *

THE MUD LARKS.

I was motoring homewards across the old line. A ghost-peopled dusk was
crawling over the devastation and desolation that is Vimy, and in the
distance the bare bones of St. Eloy loomed like a spectre skeleton
against the frosty after-glow. We hummed past Thélus cross-roads,
dipped downhill and, _hey presto_! all of a sudden I was in China.
(No, not Neuville-St.-Vaast; China, China, place where they eat
birds'-nests and puppy-dogs' tails.) There were coolies from some
salvage company all over the place, perched on heaps of broken
masonry, squatting along the ditch side, banked ten-deep in the
road--tall villainous-looking devils, very intently watching