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[Illustration:  Customer. “AND WHAT DO YOU THINK OF LLOYD GEORGE?”

Barber. “THINK OF ’IM, SIR?  WITH A MOP OF ’AIR LIKE ’E’S GOT—­A NICE EXAMPLE TO THE NATION!”]

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“A photograph of the Olympic games at Antwerp was transmitted yesterday to Paris, a distance of 200 miles, over a telephone wire.  It is in the nature of an experiment, and if it succeeds Messrs. Cook hold out promises of further day trips to the Continent.”—­Daily Paper.

Intending trippers must, of course, be proficient in the tight-rope wire.