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While visiting Seaton College, New York, the other day, Mr. Roosevelt saluted a statue of Alexander the great.  We have always maintained that there is nothing petty about the ex-President.

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The most striking announcement of the year 1917 comes just when it is almost used up.  “There is a steady demand for money,” says a Stock Exchange report.

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A mummified duck, estimated to be two thousand years old, has been discovered in a sandstone stratum in Iowa.  It is not often that the poulterers of Iowa are caught napping.

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An American policeman is said to have written two successful musical comedies.  If we remember rightly it was an English policeman who first composed the Frog’s March.

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At a Guildford charity fete the winner of a hurdle race was awarded a new-laid egg.  If he succeeds in winning it three years in succession it is to become his own property.

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The L.B. & S.C.  Railway desire to state that the train from which the deserter jumped without injuring himself was not really doing its best.

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A burglar was discovered concealed beneath the counter of a Leicester butter-merchant’s shop.  It is understood that he came early to avoid the rush.

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[Illustration:  Manager.  “Why don’t you get in the middle of the stage?”

Tenor (haughtily).  “I prefer staying where I am.”

Manager.  “All right—­all right!  I suppose you think you’ll be able to pop down the euphonium if there’s an air-Raid.”]

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    “Affairs in Russia.

    [printed upside down:  “Military dictatorship”] “Expected.”—­Egyptian
    Daily Mail.

It looks as if the expectation has been upset.

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