What a wonderful little man he will be when he is grown up! A clergyman friend of mine told me of a German _Kurhaus_ to which he was sent for his sins and his health.

It was a resort, for some reason, specially patronized by the more elderly section of the higher English middle class.

Bishops were there, suffering from fatty degeneration of the heart caused by too close application to study; ancient spinsters of good family subject to spasms; gouty retired generals.

Can anybody tell me how many men in the British Army go to a general?
Somebody once assured me it was five thousand, but that is absurd, on the face of it.
The British Army, in that case, would have to be counted by millions.
There are a goodish few American colonels still knocking about.

The American colonel is still to be met with here and there by the curious traveller, but compared with the retired British general he is an extinct species.