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MORE SECRETS OF THE FLEET.

“Few people realise the difficulty senior officers in the Navy who are married and have children have in making both ends meet.  Naval officers who entered over fifteen years ago did not, as a rule, come from the married classes.”—­Sunday Paper.

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“Whilst waiting to be bathed, an old blind female inmate of the ——­ Institution fell to the floor, breaking her thigh.  Her injury has accentuated her death from bronchitis.”—­Birmingham Post.

With a grave accent, we fear.

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“The war broke Germany’s hold on world’s wild animal trade, the New York Zoological Society chairman states.  Zoos and circuses are now turning to British dealers to fill their cages.”—­Evening Paper.

Provided that the above paragraph has made the British dealers sufficiently wild.