* * * * * Wanted, a Faith-healer. Dear Madam,--We have received your enquiry for Sergeant ----, and wish to inform you that he was transferred to ---- Hospital, suffering from a slightly sceptic toe. Trusting this information may be of some value, Yours faithfully, ---- * * * * * "It scarcely seems as if the Premiership of Graf Moritz Esterhazy, with all his Oxford education and the vigour of his thirty-six years, will be able to bruise the serpent's heel."--_Observer_. The serpent is so beastly cunning; he always sits on it. * * * * * "MARRIAGES.--All contemplating Marriage consult Proprietors ---- Matrimonial Bureau, Melbourne, opposite Old Cemetery. Specially erected for the purpose."--_The Age_ (_Melbourne_). This recalls the description of a famous football-ground in Dublin, "conveniently situated between the Mater Misericordiae Hospital and Glasnevin Cemetery." * * * * * "Margaret was clinging to Dick's arm as she walked, looking up adoringly into his handsome, tanned face, with her blue eyes. A week later Dick led Margaret into Suburban Garden, where he had wooed and won her so long ago. Dick's voice was very tender as he looked down into two grey eyes."--_Manchester Evening Chronicle_. If Margaret is not careful to be a little more consistent she will finish with two black eyes. * * * * * [Illustration: THE SAVING OF THE RACE.] ["National Baby Week" is being celebrated during the current week. The object of the movement is to educate the Mothers of the Nation in the care of their children's health and their own. Universal sympathy will be felt for a cause to which our heavy losses in the War have given an added urgency. Those who desire to give practical help towards the cost of the scheme will kindly address their gifts to the Hon. Treasurer, National Baby Week Council, 6, Holles Street, Oxford Street, W.I.] * * * * * ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. _Monday, June 25th_.--Mr. LYNCH is beginning to pine for the return of Lord ROBERT CECIL. He does not quite know what to make of Mr. BALFOUR, who politely represses his honest endeavours to elucidate the situation in Greece, and actually declared to-day that the difficulties of the Allies would only be increased by the hon. Member's attempts to deal with them piecemeal. Mr. LYNCH was not entirely done with, however. "Is that reply," he asked in a "got-him-this-time" manner, "given by reason of freedom of choice or ineludible necessity?" "Sir," replied the apologist of philosophic doubt with Johnsonian authority, "questions of freewill and necessity have perplexed mankind for ages."