"Many coolies of the savage tribes from the hilly places, who have been enlisted for the labour corps, were seen passing this town by train lately. Some had too few clothes. Our late Chief Secretary, the Hon'ble Mr. ----, was seen among them."--_Times of Assam_. * * * * * "All can sympathise with Mr. ---- and his teetotal party in deploring the excesses of 'liquor' of any description, and the vice, want and misery it brings in its course. But we cannot for a single moment listen to their selfish and pitiful beatings, when we know that if their methods were carried out through the land it would people our beloved country with a virile race of effete degenerates."--_Provincial Paper_. "Virile" is good, and should encourage the teetotalers to proceed with their "beatings." * * * * * GERMAN CAVALRY IN (AND OUT OF) ACTION. "'Polybe,' writing in the _Figaro_, estimates the German losses at 20,000 horse de combat on the first day of the battle."--_Local Paper_. * * * * * "Following the Franco-German war an epidemic of smallpox raged throughout Europe, which was not checked until Jenner's famous vaccination discovery."--_Liverpool Echo_. It is sad to think that JENNER's discovery, made in 1796, should have remained dormant till after 1870. * * * * * "Mr. Gerard's reminiscences have caused much perturbation in German Court circles."--_Daily Paper_. Little scraps of paper, Little drops of ink Make the KAISER caper And the Nations think. * * * * * "A money prize offered to boys at Barcombe, Suxxes, for killing cabbage butterflies resulted in over 4,000 insects being destroyed. The winner, Victor King, accounted for 1,395."--_Liverpool Echo_. We congratulate him on his Suxxes. * * * * * "One new thing he [Mr. HENDERSON] disclosed was that in his pervious statement that carried the Conference to the Stockholm vote, &c."--_Daily Mail_. As "pervious," according to WEBSTER, means "capable of being seen through," we think the printer is to be congratulated. * * * * * [Illustration: BREAKING IT UP.] * * * * * [Illustration: _Member of Committee (interviewing candidate for training for farm work)_. "AND ARE YOU FOND OF ANIMALS--HORSES AND COWS?" _Candidate_. "WELL, NO--NOT VERY." _Member of Committee_. "BUT I'M AFRAID THAT'S RATHER NECESSARY." _Candidate (brightly resolute)_. "OH, BUT I SHOULD TRY NOT TO THINK ABOUT THEM."] * * * * * AN IDEAL MEDICAL BOARD. (_A DREAM OF THE FUTURE_.)