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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9685, 13 June 1917, Page 6

Londoners who sorely feel the pressure of ever-increasing price of their daily food will be' inclined to linger over the experience of Dr Johnson when he first came to live in the metropolis, writes Sir Henry Lucy in the Sydney “Morning Herald.” Hit first lodgings were at the house of •a stayinaker in Exeter street, adjoin, ing Catherine street, in the Strand. “I dined,” ho once told Boswell, “very well for eightpence, in very good company, at the Pineapple, in New street, just by. Several of them had travelled. They expected to meet every day, but did not know' one another’s names. It used to cost the rest of them a shilling, for they drank wine. i had a cut of moat for sixpence, bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny. So that I was quite well .served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing.” Apparently all Dr Johnson’s days were potatoless, nor was substitute found in other vegetable. There arc no more cuts of meat for sixpence in restaurants or clubs. At the latter, in addition to enhanced prices ah round, one pays the full eightpence of the doctor’s meal under the heading “wpr tax,” which we are assured is only temporary.” The armament of some of our modern first-class battleships is capable of discharging in two minutes over 30,0001 b of metal, not including the discharge from the small machine-guns. The tallest soldier in the British Army U an Irishirsn nanaed O Connor, at present sf’rviri'j hi tin* Australian infantry. O'Connor -lami* Tit ainl is o wuli setup man oi miclUle as®. ,