"After fifty years of good conduct in the Ancona Penitentiary, the life sentence of Giacomo Casale has been remitted by King Victor Emmanuel. Casale's astonishment at the altered world in which he found himself on coming out of prison was unbounded. He immediately"--_Daily Express._ Unfortunately our contemporary stops there, and leaves us all in an agony of doubt. Our own view is that CASALE bought the Mimosa Edition of a certain rival journal, and that the Editor of _The Express_ only just censored the paragraph in time. * * * * * "The wireless station at Kamina, in Togo, German West Africa, has received a number of wireless telegrams from the station at Naten, a distance of 3,348 miles. The Kamina station will not be able to reply until its new plant, which is being set up with the utmost speed, has been completed."--_Reuter_. Indeed, the opinion is held by some that it would be quicker to reply by post. * * * * * "The prison buildings themselves are separated from this wall by a yard measuring twenty-five years across."--_Daily Dispatch_. Of course a yard ought to measure thirty-six inches. * * * * * [Illustration: _English Horse Dealer (to Irish horse dealer from whom he is buying a horse)._ "HOW'S HE BRED?" _Irish Dealer_. "WELL, HOW WOULD YE LIKE HIM BRED? IF HE WAS FOR SIR PATHRICK UP AT THE CASTLE HE'D BE BY RED EAGLE OUT AV AN ASECTIC MARE, BUT YE CAN SUIT YERSILF."] * * * * * OUR BOOKING-OFFICE. _(By Mr. Punch's Staff of Learned Clerks.)_