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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2722, 17 March 1916, Page 4

Sir Andrew Clarke, the well-known physio Tan, advised an old'lady nh'o took ■her daughter to hdm suffering from anaemia to, "give her claret.";' Six weeks later the old lady returned with the girl, now rosy cheeked and healthy. "I'm glad she has taken her meitlclne," said oil' Anffirew. "Oh, yes," replied the old ladv, "I gave her plenty of them. We "boiled them and'stewed them, and gave them to her at every meal." She thought the doctor had ordered "carrots!"

London has slied some of its unalluring street names, such as Blow-bladder Street, Cut-throat Lane, Demi Donkey Lane, Bandy-leg Alloy, Crackbrain Court, and Deadman's Place; but all attempts to abolish the' name of H.o\md<;ditcni have been opposed by ', the majority of thoso carrying on business there. The- same holds true of Gutter Line, Cheapsidc, ami liTeeding Heart Yard, familiar to readers nf "Little Dorrit," is still to l>o fouim oS jTatton Garden. Other London thoroughfares" tlve names of which could hardly be altered for the worse are Crooked Usuge, Tiger 13ay, Back Alley, Beer Lane, Shoulder of Mutton Alley, Hot Water Court, Pickle Herring Street, Bear Garden Buildings, T'weczer's Alley, and Cosh's Buildings.

A commutes nf the Cambonvell Borough Council recommends that, should the war continue after November next, the animal allowance for the Mayor's purse be reduced to -£200, but that in the wont of jioacal being doclwml . the allowance -vert to the oriainaj sum a£ £SQO a