A youth charged at a police-court in the South of London with stealing five hundred cigars, valued at threepence each, admitted that he had smoked twenty-six of them. We are glad to learn that no further punishment was ordered. * * * _The Waste Trade World_ states that there is a great demand for rubbish. Editors, however, don't seem to be moving with the times. * * * Off Folkestone, a few days ago, a trawler captured a blue-nosed shark. Complaints about the temperature of the sea have been very common among bathers this year. * * * "No one has yet been successful in filming an actual murder," states a Picture-goers' Journal. It certainly does seem a pity that our murderers are so terribly self-conscious in the presence of a cinematograph man. * * * _The Daily Express_ states that Mrs. BAMBERGER has decided not to appeal against her sentence. If that be so, this high-handed decision will be bitterly resented by certain of the audience who were in court during the trial and eagerly looked forward to the next edition. * * * A _Daily Mail_ reader writes to our contemporary to say that he found forty-two toads in his garden last week. We can only suppose that they were there in ignorance of the fact that he took in _The Daily Mail_. * * * A pike weighing twenty-six pounds, upon being hooked by a Cheshire fisherman, pulled him into the canal. His escape was much regretted by the fish, who had decided to have him stuffed. * * * It is possible that Mr. TOM MANN, the secretary of the A.S.E., will shortly retire under the age limit. It is rumoured that members have started to collect for a souvenir strike as a parting tribute. * * * * * [Illustration: _Bus Conductor_ (_after passenger's torrents of invective on the subject of increased fare_). "RIGHT-O, MA. I'LL TELL 'EM EVERYTHINK YOU'VE SAID WEN I TAKES THE CHAIR AT THE NEXT DIRECTORS' MEETING."] * * * * * THE ETHIOPIAN AGAIN. "COAL STILL BLACK." _Heading in "Church Family Newspaper."_ * * * * * "The output in the first quarter this year was at the rate of 248,000,000 million tons a year. It fell in the second quarter to 232,000,000. Between and beyond these lines there is an ample margin for bargaining." _Evening Paper._ Abundantly ample. * * * * * LESSONS FROM NATURE. TO AN AUTUMN PRIMROSE. "If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?" _Wordsworth._ Symbol of innocence, to Tories dear, Whom I detect beside the silvan path Doing your second time on earth this year That I may cull a generous aftermath, Let me divine your reason For thus repullulating out of season.