The idea of giving raid warnings by the discharge of a couple of Generals has been unfavourably received by the Defence authorities. *** A German shell which passed through a Church Army Hut was found to have been stamped with the initials "C.A." in its passage through the building. The clerk, whose duty it is to attend to matters of this kind, has been reprimanded for not adding the date. *** A small boy at Egham, arrested for breaking a bottle on the highway, said that he did it to puncture motor tyres. If the daily bag included only one Army motor-car, with nothing better than a Staff-Colonel as passenger, the entertainment was considered to be well worth the risk. *** "If I saw the last pheasant I would kill it and eat it," says Lord Kimberley. Food hog! *** We hear that, as a result of Herr Michaelis' disclaimer, the Germans are about to appoint a Commission to find out who (if anybody) is carrying on the War. *** Women have reinforced the bell-ringers at Speldhurst, Kent. As no other explanation is forthcoming, we can only suppose they are doing it out of malice. *** A man charged at a London Police Court with being drunk stated that he had been drinking "Government ale." It appears now that the fellow was an impostor. *** Another man who wrote a letter protesting against the weakness of the official stimulant inadvertently addressed his letter to the Metropolitan Water Board. *** A correspondent who has just spent a day in the country hopes the Commission now dealing with Unrest will not overlook one of its principal causes--namely wasps. *** There has been a great falling-off in the number of visitors to Stratford-on-Avon, and it is expected that a new and fuller Life of the Bard will shortly be published. *** A Surrey soldier, writing from The Garden of Eden, says, "I think it is a rotten hole, and I don't blame Adam for getting thrown out." Still it is rather late to plead extenuating circumstances. * * * * * [Illustration: _The Bantam._ "AN' I DON'T WANT NONE OF YER NARSTY LOOKS NEITHER, OR IT'S ME AN' YOU FOR IT."] * * * * * "James ---- was remanded at the Thames Police Court on a charge of stealing nine boxes of Beecham's pills, valued at £5."--_The Times._ So little? What about those advertisements? * * * * * "I was surprised to hear of Baron Heyking's dismissal from his post of Russian Consul-General in London. I had only been talking to him the day before--and then came his dismissal by telegram!"--_"Candide," in "The Sunday Pictorial."_ Some of our journalists have a lot to answer for. * * * * * THE KAISER'S ORIENTAL STUDIES.