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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 129, 24 February 1908, Page 3

> In speech, as in writing, distinctness is no longer so highly esteemed as it deserves to bo. Wo have somehow picked up the silly notion that it is "good form" to niumblo our words and scrawl our letters. —"Lady." Tho storm wind which. Tyhisti.ed around'the German Chancellor has given place to tho most pleasant of zephyrs. But will , this reconciliation prove lasting?- Princo'Buelow cannot faco the future without qualms whenho considers his small majority; fifty votes at most, which may bo reduced by half in somo circumstances.—"Aurore," Paris. It is no use pretending that women are incapable of understanding political affairs. Wliat they cannot understand is ; that men' should say one thing beforo an election and act altogether differently afterwards. Women have not'been "oducatod" lip to an appreciation of tlieso things. They are beyond their comprehension.—"Gentlewoman." . Perjury sits too lightly on consciences. There is very littlo sanctity about tho affidavit, and far less, than thero ought to be in tho more solemn oath taken by a witness.— "Record," Philadelphia. The registration of births, deaths, and marriages in England is absolutely primitive. You need not- prodiico any papers or documents of identity before tho registrar if you wish to marry. Bigamy becomes, in consequence, an easy game. Tho. English registration and marriage laws are barbarously chaotic.—'"Algemeen Handelsblad," Amsterdam.