Dr. MARY WILLIAMS, medical inspector of schools under the Worcestershire County Council, has discovered, as a result of investigations, that there is a higher proportion of nervous, excitable children among the red-haired ones than among the others. We have ourselves known more than one such lad lose all self-control merely upon being addressed as "Carrots." *** Is a motor-car, it is being asked, feminine--like a ship? A correspondent in _The Times_ refers to her as a lady. Presumably because she wears a bonnet. *** A correspondent writes to _The Pall Mall Gazette_ asking whether there is anything in the idea that a large number of used penny postage stamps will enable a person to be received into a charitable institution. We have always understood that the collector of one million of these stamps is admitted into a lunatic asylum without having to pass the entrance examination. *** A lion from the bush, attracted by the roaring of its caged relatives in a circus at Wankies, South Africa, suddenly made its way into the menagerie. The beast was ultimately driven away by attendants armed with red-hot pokers, but five persons were seriously injured in the panic. The ticket-collector who let the animal in without payment has been reprimanded. *** Speaking of MEDWIN'S _Revised Life of Shelley_ a critic says, in a contemporary: "He puts the well-known boats of Archimedes into blank verse." These boats were, we presume, fitted with ARCHIMEDES' famous screw? *** The Hindujah barrage on the Euphrates has now been completed by an English firm, and will provide water for the Garden of Eden. The structure, we presume, is a blend of the ADAM style with NOAH'S architecture. *** "TRAINING SHIP OFF THE EMBANKMENT" is a heading which attracts our attention. This seems a much better idea than having the vessel _on_ the Embankment, where it would be in everyone's way. * * * * * THE LAST STRAW. ["The way in which individual taste is allowed to assert itself lends a curious charm to the present modes."--_Fashion Note_.] This is the finish, Josephine. Through every swift sartorial change Constant and true my love has been, Nor showed the least desire to range. The hobble only brought to me These thoughts with consolation laden:-- "Lo, this is Fashion's fell decree; One must not blame the maiden. "It is not hers this hideous choice; She blindly follows Fashion's lead, And deference to a ruling voice Proclaims her just the wife I need. Nought questioning, she answers to That voice, as soldiers to a trumpet;" And thus I choked the thought that you Were barmy on the crumpet.