took off the chill, and warmed them into new life. This was quite cheering to those of a lymphatic temperament, especially to a'beGinner, who, as he warmed on the subject, could not think How anyone could Put-land in any part of the world where it ought not to be; and as such had been done, he, for one, would support any attempt to remove it, How-ses, Trees, and all."
Settled at Last - During a long and eventful period, the orthography at Battle has been a topic for disputation. It is now decided, however, that as the town itself owes its origin to the famous battle of Hastings, and has ursurped for nearly eight centuries a title not its own, persons will be sent thither to write on every corner house the word Hastings. How Beakesbourne and the Grange, in Kent, first obtained their name which they have held so long a time is not accurately known, but as those places are in the Borough of Hastings, they, too, must in future bear the name of that town and borough."
As but very few present-day readers would understand the forgoing reference to "nose-pulling" in the paragraph "What Next?" it may be well to explain that it was a suit for damages by Anthony Harvey against Alfred Vidler for pulling or twisting his nose at a meeting of the Board of Guardians. The "Western coal-merchants" were Councillors How, Putland and Tree. In the paragraph "Wonderful if True" White-Rock Bazaar refers to Alderman Rock, coach-builder, as well as to the White-rock Bazaar then existing. In the same paragraph "the Ghost of the Old Commission" refers to the metrical production of that title written by Mr. J. Pitter, who, in a serio-comic vein makes the Ghost revisit the scene of his former days and compares the past with the present. Of the latter, the ghost is made to say
"The East and West fall out and fight
And vex each other out of spite
On victory each side is bent,
And 'tween the tow the money's spent,
What one sets up the next knowck down
And chaos regulates regulates the town"
"The Paint-pot Society"
After the carrying out of Ald. Ross's resolution on the 4th of December to write up "Hastings" on every corner house in the district known as St. Leonards, private meetings were immediately held and legal authorities consulted, the outcome of which was the offers of volunteers to form themselves into a paint-pot association for the daubing out of -
