POLLIES.--Will all the Pollies of England kindly help a poor Polly to continue her lessons in voice production.--Write POLLY, 2, Birdcage Walk. * * * TO OFFICERS and MEN whose letters contain good vivid accounts of picturesque occurrences at the Front. _The Daily Inexactitude_ places no limit on the writer's imagination. * * * YOUNG MAN, full of fun and robust health, who has failed in everything he has yet undertaken and does not approve of warfare, would like situation as gamekeeper and rabbit-killer to wealthy absentee landowner.--Apply Box 29, Office of this paper. * * * * * The _Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger_, speaking of the four Turks who succeeded in crossing the Suez Canal and who have since been taken prisoners, says: "It is to be hoped that the four gallant Turkish swimmers will now do good work in Egypt." We have no doubt that work will be found for them and that the prison authorities will shield them from the dangers of a life of indulgent idleness. * * * * * [Illustration: "SOUND AND FURY." KAISER. "IS ALL MY HIGH SEAS FLEET SAFELY LOCKED UP?" ADMIRAL VON TIRPITZ. "PRACTICALLY ALL, SIRE." KAISER. "THEN LET THE STARVATION OF ENGLAND BEGIN!"] * * * * * ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. (EXTRACTED FROM THE DIARY OF TOBY, M.P.) _House of Commons, Monday, 8th February._--Debate on Army Estimates prefaced by statement from PRIME MINISTER casting gleam of lurid light on a War of which this is the 190th day. Answering a question he said the total number of British Army casualties in the Western area of the War is approximately 104,000 of all ranks. This, of course, does not include the death-roll in the Navy, a heavy tale of losses due far more to mine and submarine than to fair fights on the open sea. But standing alone it is not much less than one-half of the number of men, including Militia, voted in the Waterloo year now dead a century. Numerically a trifle compared with the huge gaps made in ranks of the enemy. Nevertheless it represents sufficiently appalling sacrifice, chargeable to the account of one man's whim. [Illustration: "EXCEEDING THE WILDEST DREAMS OF MARLBOROUGH OR WELLINGTON."] Army Estimates for year, introduced by TENNANT in a speech equally lucid and discreet, unique in their Parliamentary aspect. With an Army on active service and in training exceeding in number the wildest dreams of MARLBOROUGH or WELLINGTON, the aggregate sum asked for is £15,000. Seems odd since, as UNDER SECRETARY FOR WAR in interesting aside stated, the Army costs more in a week than the total estimate for the Waterloo campaign, which stands on record at the modest sum of £6,721,880.