Surely it is only hindering matters for people to keep writing to the Press on the matter of the appointment of a Minister of Health. It seems to be overlooked that so far _The Daily Mail_ has not indicated who should be appointed to that position. *** The Government having reaffirmed their statement that they have "no further fear of submarines," it is felt to be high time that someone in authority should break it to the U-boats that they might as well give it up and go home. *** The gentleman who wrote to the Press offering to sell eggs at _4s. 7d._ a dozen has since explained that he merely wanted to show how much higher the market price is than his would have been if he had really had any eggs to sell. *** We understand that it has not yet been decided in Berlin what the Sultan of TURKEY thinks of the capture of Jerusalem. *** Four letters of QUEEN ELIZABETH have just been sold by auction. Strangely enough, nothing is said in them about her having no quarrel with the Spanish people, but only with their Monarch. *** "Is the potato the saviour of the Fatherland?" asks the _Deutsche Tageszeitung_. Another slight to the ALL-HIGHEST. * * * * * [Illustration: _Both together_. "NOW, MY MAN, WHY DON'T YOU SALUTE WHEN YOU PASS AN OFFICER?"] * * * * * From a review of Lord LISTER'S "Life":-- "It was in Edinburgh that he struck his most famous patient, Henley, who has a record of the 'Chief' in his rhymes and rhythms, 'In Hospital.'"--_Daily Paper_. But it was not in reference to this incident that HENLEY wrote, "My head is bloody but unbowed." * * * * * "If all fools were rationed there could be no fixed scale."--_Star_. Of course not; we have always noticed that the bigger the fool the more he eats. * * * * * "Bassano is a nice town, by a dam site."--_Canadian Paper_. But a Canadian friend tells us there are others "a dam sight nicer." * * * * * "The German government has a terrific explosive, which is being held in reserve to the last.... It is said that a bomb weighing scarcely ten kilometres can annihilate everything within a radius of two thousand feet."--_New York Herald_. We do not mind saying that we are frankly afraid of a bomb that weighs about six miles. * * * * * "TIPPERARY BURGLARY.--Tipperary Temperance Club premises have been gurgled."--_Cork Examiner_. GILBERT'S burglar up-to-date: "He loves to hear the Temperance Club a-gurgling." * * * * * "General Allenby, no doubt, will go in due time to the House of Lords, and military men are taking a jocular interest in his selection of a title. Lord Bathsheba might serve, or Lord Hebron. Lord Jerusalem smacks of the jocose."--_Birmingham Daily Post_.