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Evening Star, Issue 12882, 3 August 1906, Page 1

Apropos of. British e.xclnsiveness, '•V.V.V." describes in the 'Sphere' an instructive incident which he saw recently as- a contrast to the gregarious habits of the French:—-"On the journey to Norfolk our train stopped at a junction where another train was waiting. It was emptv, and just opposite me were two long third class coaches, each containing six compartments. From my part of the train twelve -third--.class passengers emerged, and'each got into a different compartment of the waiting train, shut the door, pulled up the window, and composed himself in comfortable, isolation." The impossibility of such an unsociable thing happening in a Latin countrv! .-".''.'

A gentleman who had the gift of shaping a great; many tilings out of orange peel was displaying his abilities before Theodore' Hoo'i and Thomas Hill, and succeeded in carvhi", • a pig, to :the-admiration of the compan\ D Mr Hill tried the same feat, arid after strewing ihe table with the peel of a dozen oranges gave it up, with the exclamationI. must give up the pig! ...I can't make I? ... .f y ' Hook, glancing at the _ table, you have done more. Instead of a pig you have made a litter."

Sing the song of the five-starred cross. Hung low o'er Southern Seas; Then tell about our frightful loss From cougte and cold and sneeze. Again, again let voices ring In one great, grand bravure, To praise the magic healing king— Woods'- Giftai Pennermint Cure.—£A<JrtJ