A new form of frightfulness is evidently being practised upon their guards by our interned Huns. "Some of them," says a contemporary, "purchase a hundred cigars with a portion of the one pound a day which is the miserable maximum they may spend on luxuries." *** "People who speak of suicide seldom do anything desperate," says a well-known mental expert. So that the KAISER'S threat to fight England to the death may be taken for what it is worth. *** An extraordinary meeting of German Reichstag Members has arrived at the decision that the Germans cannot hope for victory in the field. We see nothing extraordinary in this. *** Professor BERGEN was once described as "the well-known inventor and philanthropist." He still invents (his latest is a gas-thrower, reported by the _Berliner Tageblatt_ to be "a veritable monster of destruction"), but has dropped the other job. *** A swallow-tail butterfly which escaped from the Zoo has been re-captured at Eastbourne. When caught it gave the policeman to understand that it would go quietly. *** Two men, we read, took twenty-two hours to chisel a hole through the three-foot flint concrete roof of the London Opera House. The report that they did this to avoid the Entertainment Tax has now been contradicted. *** "The American Winston Churchill," says _The Daily Express_, "has to plod through life without a middle name." We all have our little cross to bear. Even the MINISTER OF MUNITIONS has to plod through life with the knowledge that there is another Winston Churchill loose about the world. *** It is proposed that Parliament shall sit from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M., instead of from 3 to 11 P.M. We do not care for this crude attempt to mix business with politics. *** The Boundary Commission Report advocates the creation of thirty-one new M.P.'s. It will be a bitter disappointment for those who were sanguine enough to hope that Redistribution would spell Reform. *** The Government has commandeered all stocks of rum. The rigours of war, it seems, must be suffered even by our little tots. * * * * * [Illustration: _The Wit._ "AH, NOW YOU'RE FOR IT, ALBERT?" _Tractor-Driver._ "WOT'S THE MATTER?" _The Wit._ "WHY, YOU'VE BEEN AND GONE AND COME ON PARADE WITHOUT YOUR SPURS."] * * * * * "The bridegroom, 6 ft. 35 ins. in height, was wearing the full-dress uniform of a captain in the Army."--_Great Yarmouth Independent_. He would need it all. * * * * * Headline to a description of a recent push:-- "VONDERFUL RESULTS."--_Evening Paper_. The "Hidden Hand" in the composing-room? * * * * * THE INNOCENTS ABROAD.