Motherly Solicitude

Miss Ante - It's funny about our old cat. We can 't keep her away irom the poker table. Mr. Age - Nothing strange about that. Naturally she's looking after the "kitty. " - New York Tribune. The London Echo gives a list of large landowners in Australia. One of them has 620,000 acres, another 1,200,000, a third 8,600,000, while the Union bank owns no fewer than 7,800,000 acres.