A man has been sentenced at Barmen, Prussia, on three separate counts to terms of imprisonment totalling 175 years. It is proposed that all the proprietors of specifics for prolonging life shall be given a free hand to enable the prisoner to cope with his sentence. * * * All German actresses, whether married or single, are, in accordance with the ruling of the German Theatrical Union of Berlin, to be styled henceforth "Frau Schauspielerin," _i.e._ "Mrs. Actress." We are confident that this does not mean that those who are not married ought to be. * * * An advertisement from _The Times_:--"BIG GAME EXPEDITION. Private and public shooting. Polar bears, musk oxen, walrus and seals arranged." This is not so easy as it sounds, for, ten to one, as soon as you have got the beasts arranged one of those plaguey musk oxen will spoil the whole thing by moving out of its place. * * * A remarkable story is being told of the sagacity of a horse belonging to Captain WATSON, of Ardow, Mull. It lost a shoe, and, managing to get out of the field where it was grazing, travelled a considerable distance to a blacksmith, who was astonished to find the horse standing in front of the door holding up a fore-leg. The horse was shod, and then--we are afraid the rest of the story makes ugly reading--coolly galloped off without paying. * * * * * "After the annexation of Alsace by Germany the baron stayed some years in Paris, and became an intimate friend of Chopin." _Andover Advertiser._ Never realising that CHOPIN had died more than twenty years before. * * * * * From a beauty specialist's advertisement:-- "How a poet of such a 'profound subtlety of instinct for the absolute expression of absolute natural beauty' as Keats could have penned the lines:-- '_Beauty is Fat, Fat Beauty. That is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know._' must remain one of those unfathomable curiosities of the working of the human mind." We hope the writer hasn't been bothering about it for long. The good news we have for him--that KEATS didn't--will remove a great weight from his mind. * * * * * "The bride's going away costume was of Parma violet cloth, with waistcoat effect, in brocaded silk. She wore, also, a large blue wolf, the gift of the bridegroom." _Newcastle Evening Chronicle._ _Bride_. "Of course, dear, one is bound not to look a gift wolf in the mouth, but are you _sure_ the large blue ones don't bite?" * * * * * HOW TO GET ON OFF-HAND. (_A New Way With Employers._)