SYDNEY RICHARDSON, the London messenger-boy who went to America for Mr. DAREWSKI, has just returned. It is said that one American wanted to keep him as a souvenir and offered him a job as a paper-weight for his desk. * * * The Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich, famous of old for its whitebait dinners, has been turned into a Trades Union Club. The report that the Parliamentary Labour Party has decided to preserve the traditions of the place by holding an annual red herring supper there is not confirmed. * * * A certain brass band in Hertfordshire now practises in the evening on the flat roof of a large factory. We understand that the Union of Cat Musicians are taking a serious view of the matter. * * * A vagrant was before the magistrate last week, charged with tearing his clothes and destroying all the buttons on them whilst in a workhouse ward. It is not known at what laundry he served his apprenticeship. * * * After announcing that the fox which had been causing severe losses to poultry had at last been killed a local paper admits that the wanton destruction of fowls is still going on. It is thought that another fox of the same name was killed in error. * * * "The Irish will take nothing that we can offer them," says a Government official. Outside of that they seem to take pretty much what they want. * * * We think that the attention of the N.S.P.C.C. should be drawn to the fact that several stall-holders on the beach of a popular seaside town are offering ices at twopence each, or twelve for one-and-six. * * * A man was charged at the South Western Police Court with throwing a sandwich at a waiter. Very thoughtless. He might have broken it. * * * A new instrument for measuring whiskey is announced. The last whiskey we ordered seemed to have been squirted into the glass with a hypodermic syringe. * * * * * The Bull-dog Breed. "H. Prew, b Staples, c L. Mitchell, c Ryland, b Rajendrasinhji, 17."--_Daily Paper._ The gallant fellow doesn't seem to have known when he was beaten. * * * * * "Wanted, thoroughly capable Woman, to take management of canteen; one with knowledge of ambulance work preferred." _Provincial Paper._ A "wet" canteen, presumably. * * * * * "UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE." ["A Skilled Labourer," writing to _The Times_, speaks of "the extremists" among the working classes as "cherishing a belief that the intelligence of educated persons is declining."] Doubtless, my Masters, you are right As to the lore which they delight To teach at Cambridge College; Contented with a classic tone, Those useful arts we left alone By which we might have held our own Against the Newer Knowledge.