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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 210, 29 May 1908, Page 8

In tho courso of an action in the Shoroditeh County Court to recover compensation for an injured eyo a plaintiff was asked by hia counsel to close his uninjured c'yo and look towards him. "Now," said counsel "can you'sec mo?" "No, sir," said plaintiff; "only an object." Sixty-five British Marines have passed through Ottawa, en route from Esquimaultto England. Tho newspapers comment on the fact that the calculations of tho caterers along the route were oonipletoly upset by forty-two men out of the sixty-five . being teetotallers. ; . Sir William Ramsay, speaking at tho Royal Sanitary Institute, said that, in consequence of the growth of population, tho water supply of tho Old Country would soon bo insufficient. Enthusiasts agree that, such being the case, it would bo a suicidal policy to raiso the tax on beer. Tho Bishop of London has raised the question as to why there is a national projudico against goloshes. ' The reason is that, if a man over does slip them over' his pumps when he goes out to dinner, ho invariably finds that, as ho crosses the drawing-room to greet his hostess, be has forgotten to take them off,