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JOTTINGS & GLEANlJy US.

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JOTTINGS & GLEANlJy US. CABINET MINISTERS, AND OTHERS. With acknowledgments, foe the metre, to the Authors of "Biography for Beginne-s.") j^Phe Eight Honourable John Burti3 Diffuses a spirit of breeziness wherever he tarns; But Local Government Board clerks will not feel easy If he expects them to be breezy. Yr. Winston Churchill Would lead an army admirably, and not conduct a. North Pole search ill; What, however, we want to know Is whether he can protect the Colonies against Joe? Honest John Morley Has started learning Bengali; He does not care for the Hindoo religion, But he can almost talk its pidgin. Mr. Lloyd-George. I Ahead has certainly begun to forge; He may yet be of assistance TO other things besides Passive Resistance. -The Bystander. TWO QLIAINT, EPITAPHS. —A Desperate attempt at an epitaph in the Nonconformist Campo ia Bunhill «lelds, where Bunyan, Defoe, the Cromwells, Mrs. Wesley lie buried, is found, says Chambers's Journal," on the tomb of Lady a8e> a person who seems to have suffered ^n" v from what we call "dropsy," but which gAig4thave had another name in these days: Here lyes Dame Mary Page, Relict of Sir Gregory Page (Bart.)- She departed this life March 11th, t/28, In the 56th year of her age. In 67 menths she was tapped 66 times, Had taken away 240 gallons of water, Without ever repining at her case, Or even fearing the operation. A Ctore successful attempt is that found on the tomb of Vavasor Powell, who seems to have Jiffered eleven years' imprisonment for pjeaching Gossel. He was known as the Whitfield Wales Tain oppressors do themselves perplex Ao flad out arts how they the saints may vex; spoils their plots and sets the oppressed tree, Ahus Vavasor obtained true liberty. jLjnrist him released and now he's joyned among Martyred Souls, with whom he cries, ilow long?'" THE BATTERSEA BRUMMEL. Mr. Burns has trod the narrow plank of popularity without losing his head. He has received enough flattery to sap the character of a man. But his outlook upon life is so aud h• has such a strong sense of humour 40 often denied to Labour leaders, that he has Passed through the ordeal unspoilt. He never Poses, though he has his little fads, of which the blue suit and the bowler hat is one. It is his wesa of ceremony, and it should be remarked that the blue suit is of irreproachable cut, and the bowler hat most scrupulously brushed. Of his manners, it may be said that he is of the kind *J?*t adorns' any society he happens to be in,— Bystander.. HOLIDAY HAUNTS. Arrangements are being made by the Great yi estem Railway Company for the preparation Jfan Official Guide for the coming season, giving rortnaiiuu in regard to the Health Resorts ^7 their system, to take the plaee of the Publication issued on behalf of the Company in v?vi?D? years. Several new features of interest ahl introduced so as to make the guide valu- to intending travellers, and it will at the t.me contain a list of the principal Hotels, Farmhouse and County Lodgings at the rttereat holiday centres. Hotel and who may desire to have particulars of the Ccotnmodation they can place at the disposal of he travelling public inserted in the guide, will furnished with the necessary details upon application to any of the Compony's Station Rasters. It is proposed to issue the new guide the commencement of the ICaster holidays. A CHRISTMAS MYSTERY. What becomes of Christmas presents ? They to me to vanish at least as mysteriously as PjOs, unless they happen to have taken the form library, which cannot be got into the box- reoIn, and will serve as a stumbling-block for 10111, months to come, until the unhappy **cipient goes out and bribes a second-hand "Ooksefter to take it away. Most men could no Inore say what they were given last year than can say what they will be given next. But are content. They know that whatever it £ as> a razor-case, perhaps, with holly-berries aand-painted upon it, it will soon vanish into a rawer and bother them no more. It is not as if monstrous inventions which the shop-keepers ,°i8t upon a dazed public will constantly be turn- tOg up again. These things are not made to last We have much to be thankful for- "e Bystander. THE CABINET TABLE. As the Premier has decided to hold all Cabinet ^eetiDgs at his official residence as First Lord of Treasury, the Cabinet table has just been **»oved from the Foreign Office to No. 10, —owning-street. This is not the historic table *«ich is associated with the memories of Mel- bourne, Palmerston, Russell, Derby and Beaeoas- T^ld, and which has never been removed from official residence of the Premier. The Cabinet table of to-day is of simple deal, covered Vrith green baize, unlike its historic predecessor, -bICh is of the oldest and heaviest mahogany. :the table now in itse was originally square, but It "as lengthened, by the addition of two leaves, made oval during Gladstone's second t*«miaistration, and it has been regularly used *°r Cabinet meetings ever since, Mr. Gladstone, Lord Rosebery, and Mr. Balfour all having presided at it in turn. Nevertheless, there is talk of again utilising the old mahogany table, and it iii certain that it will sometimes be called into Service at Downing-street when committees and ,aiall meetings of the Cabinet take place. THE STIMULUS OF THE ELECTION. A general election gives a great impetus to PartIcular trades, and there are some industries which hope to make a very considerable profit Out of the turmoil of the next few weeks. The COming election will be memorable for the -niversal employment of the motor car. Some the motor manufacturers here have had large orders from several candidates for the hire of *otor vans, omnibuses, and automobile# of all fl°rts for the purposes of the election. One candidate is taking twelve motor omnibuses to 8 far aortb. of Scetland, M he found their aid most effective in impressing the voters when he last contested and won the seat. But it is prob- ably the printing trade that gets the greatest stimulus from a general election, and the pnblishing presses of London are now every hour turning out loads of election literature, pamphlets, leaflets, and posters. The drapers, too, are busy making election favours, rosettes and ribbons, for both parties, and judging by these preliminary but significant signs the general election of 1906 will be one of the most exciting in the last half-century. But why the silk hat trade should receive a stimulus from the eleotion is not apparent. Even if every candidate buys a new silk hat to impress the voters, that would only account for a thousand and an odd hundred or so. Can the explanation be in the bets that are made on electoral chances? It is notorious that worthy people who would shudder to bet on a horse race think it not even a peccadillo to bet "a new hat." VALUE IN CIGARS. The unprecedented success attained by the Marcella Cigar is a striking evidence of the demand that there is for a high-class cigar at a moderate price, being only 3d. each, or 5 for Is. It would hardly be possible to turn out such a remarkably fine cigar at such a moderats price were it not for the great advantages the Proprietors are able to obtain through the magnitude of their purchases of leaf. The greatest care is taken in their manufacture, and the finished product is a cigar that is appreciated by the most fastidions smoker. They may be recognised everywhere by their narrow red band on which the word Marcella apeara in white letters, and obtained at all Tobacconists, Stores, Hotels, &c.

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