AN applicant for the position of cook at Clogher Infirmary forwarded to the Guardians her latest testimonials, which were found to be 23 or 24 years old. She was not successful.

UNEXPECTED EVENTS

Social – Sunday tennis playing has been resumed in Enniskillen.

Financial – Reduction of price of gas in Enniskillen is announced.

TO THE DISTRICT INSPECTOR

The Enniskillen police having eradicated the evil of Sunday drinking, it has taken root elsewhere.

The parade of drunken bona fides on Sunday evening last on the Sligo Road was a public scandal.

THE DEAD TO LIFE

The account will be found in another column where a man, who was dead, was restored to life for 27 hours.

Strangely, a smart newspaper reporter did not secure from the patient an account of his hour’s sojourn on the other side.

If the same happening had taken place in America, the newspaper men there would not have lost such a golden opportunity of a journalistic coup.

THE PROOF

Dreams, some say, go contrary to fact. I did have a vivid dream, when on Monday night I saw Mr. Cahir Healy, of Enniskillen (at present residing on the Argenta in Belfast Lough).

We warmly greeted each other, and my astonished eyes beheld Mr. Healy in the full uniform of a District Inspector of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

The greeting part would be quite natural – but Mr. Healy as a D.I.!