"Please tell Colonel W---- I was asking for him. Tell him this is a rough war, not the same as in his time. It is all brains now, and machinery." * * * * * Extract from _The Seamanship Manual_, vol. ii., chap, vii., "Disembarking Troops":-- "This method is satisfactory for horses, mules, or cattle, but does not answer with the camel. The latter, if not drowned on the way ashore, is very little use when landed." This disparaging remark about the "ship of the desert" is attributable, we fear, to professional jealousy. * * * * * "The impression I carried away was that the Kiel Canal was a splendid bit of engineering, and that in case of war it would be invaluable, not only as a refuge for the German Fleet, but also as a quick means of getting the Kiel squadron quickly into the North Sea, or _vice versâ_."--_Sunday Chronicle._ The British Fleet has proved even better than the Kiel Canal as a quick means of accomplishing the vice-versâ operation. * * * * * "The last sale of home mad cooking will take place on Saturday." _Avonlea Advocate (Saskatchewan)._ If only it were the last!