Whatever may be happening elsewhere in the world--mutinies
in the German Navy, revolutions in Russia, advances in France,
advances in Flanders--Leicester Square keeps its head. Armageddon
may be turning the world upside down, but it cannot cause those old
antagonists, STEVENSON and REECE, to cease their perpetual contest;
and if the War lasts another ten years you will read in _The Times_
of October 17th, 1927, a paragraph to the effect that "at the close
of play yesterday in the billiard match of 16,000 points up between
Stevenson and Reece, at the Grand Hall, Leicester Square, the scores
were: Reece (in play), 4,676; Stevenson, 2,837."
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NOT CANNIBALS AFTER ALL.
"The first contingent of the American troops brought food for six
months, and hence the fears of the peasants in France lest they
should be eaten up are groundless."--_Adelaide Advertiser_.
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"If the public continue to spend the same sum of money on bread
at 9d. as they did when it was 1s., it is easy to see that the
consumption will rise by a quarter or 25 per cent."--_Glasgow
Evening News_.
We are always timid about questioning a Scotsman's arithmetic, but we
make the increase a third, or 33-1/3 per cent.
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