* * * * * "Owing to congestion on the railways there is a food shortage in Petrograd, which has led some of the less irresponsible citizens to demonstrate during the session of the Council of the Empire and the Duma."--_Daily Sketch._ Subsequent news shows that "less irresponsible" was not a misprint but a prophecy. * * * * * [Illustration: _Sympathetic Newsboy (to proprietor of Coffee Stall.)_ "WOT YER TRYIN' TO DO WIV THE OLD 'OTEL, GUVNER? TAKIN' IT 'OME FOR FEAR OF 'AVIN' IT COMMANDEERED?"] * * * * * "It is claimed that about thirty Merman firms construct the Diesel motors originally used for submarines."--_Daily Telegraph._ We wish these motors a speedy return to the fishy scenes of their origin. * * * * * "Several eligible sires for workmen's dwellings, of which some 300 are needed, have been selected by the Southport Town Planning Committee."--_Daily Paper._ They must not be confused with "the rude forefathers of the hamlet" mentioned by GRAY. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917, by Various