With reference to the report that a service man had received a letter from the Intelligence Department admitting that a certain mistake was due to a clerical error, it is now reported that this admission was due to another oversight. *** A terrible tragedy was only just averted last week, when a husband, who had travelled from the City by tube, and his wife, who had been to the Spring bargain sales, failed to recognise each other on their return home. *** The War Office, the Board of Trade and the Zoo have formed a Triple Alliance for a campaign against rats. As a result of this it is said that quite a number of the more timid rodents are afraid to go out alone after dark. *** The Society of Public Analysts has been asked by the Food Ministry to define a sausage. A number of pedigree sausages are to be submitted for classification. *** The Minister of Foreign Affairs in the late Bavarian Soviet Government has been placed in a lunatic asylum. The reason for this invidious distinction is not assigned. * * * * * MR. CHURCHILL ON THE HULL ELECTION: "Nothing in these reactions should be taken by the Government as in any way deflecting them from their clear and definite course of reviving the posterity of this country."--_Daily Telegraph_. All very well, but they must get it born first. * * * * * [Illustration: _Old-fashioned humorous Cow_ (_suddenly_). "Moo!" _Lady_ (_who all last year was a land-worker_). "Pooh!"] * * * * * "MUTABILE SEMPER." To such as have a humorous bent Pleasant indeed it was to cull From rival organs what was meant By the enlightened vote of Hull; What process of the mind (if any) drove her To execute that ludicrous turn-over. Some held the Peace was too severe, And others not severe enough; The latter cried, "The cause is clear-- LLOYD GEORGE is made of flabby stuff;" The former took the line that he had blundered In letting Fritz (their friend) be grossly "plundered." Then came a still small voice which said, "The thing that sent the coupon West Was Woman; something in her head Told her that second thoughts were best; To Party laws she hasn't learnt to knuckle (This was the view advanced by Mr. BUCKLE). "Men know a 'pledge's' worth by now; They take it with a touch of salt; To Woman 'tis a sacred vow, And for the least alleged default She gives her Chosen One no minute's grace, But treats it like a breach-of-promise case." O "Ministering Angels," ye Who yet are mobile as the breeze, Have you alone the right to be "Uncertain, coy and hard to please?" Our Ministerial Angels (GEORGE and kind)-- Aren't they allowed, poor males, to change their mind? O.S. * * * * * THE SPOIL-SPORT.