With reference to the private view of a collapsible hut at the College of Ambulance last week it is only fair to say that there is good reason to believe that not a few of those already erected will shortly come under this description. * * * The Russian Minister of Finance, M. BARK, paid a visit to this country last week, and it is rumoured that he had an interview with another financial magnate, Mr. BEIT, with a view to forming an ideal combination. * * * Says an advertisement of the Blue Cross Fund:--"All horses cared for. Nationality not considered." This must save the Fund's interpreters a good deal of trouble. * * * The Corporation of the City of London reports that diminished lighting, so far from increasing the dangers of the City streets, has reduced them, the accidents during the past quarter being only 331 as compared with 375 a year ago. However, a proposal that the lights shall now be entirely extinguished with a view to reducing the casualties to _nil_ has not yet been adopted. * * * A gentleman has written to _The Globe_ to complain that at Charing Cross Station there are signs printed in German indicating the whereabouts of the booking-office, waiting-room, etc. We certainly think that, while we are at war, these ought, so as to confuse the enemy, to point in wrong directions. * * * Germany is now suffering from extreme cold, and the advice to German housewives to cook potatoes in their jackets is presumably a measure of humanity. * * * To Mr. WATT'S enquiry in the House as to how many German submarines had been destroyed, Mr. CHURCHILL replied, "The German Government has made no return." Let us hope that this is true also of a good few of the submarines. * * * _Der Tag_, it is announced, is to be withdrawn from the Coliseum. They could do with it, we believe, in Germany. * * * Theatrical folk will be interested to hear that in the Eastern Theatre of War there has been furious fighting for the passes. * * * * * [Illustration: _Turk._ "I SAY, YOU FELLOWS! DO YOU SEE THE OTHER ALLIES ARE POOLING THEIR FUNDS? CAPITAL IDEA!"] * * * * * "The power of Great Britain and her Allies was increasing daily in strength, whereas the power of her enemies was distinctly on the wane. The existing situation had been brought about without the vest resources of the Empire having yet been called in to play."--_Daily Mail._ Are we to understand, that, so far, we have only called out the socks and body-belts? * * * * *