2 MARCH 1901, Page 3

Mr. Bennet Eurleigh tells a pleasant story in a recent

issue of the Daily Telegraph. The incident, which happened in his sight and hearing, was as follows. Two officers, total strangers, new arrivals from up-country, rather lonely and bored, were awaiting luncheon. The elder having proposed that they should sit together, a mutual friendliness developed so rapidly that at last one said to the other, "Do you know, I rather like you, and there's something about you seems familiar, as if we had met before. I'm Major S—, of the Blanks." "Hub! are you ? I thought so ; and I'm Lieutenant S—, of —'s Staff, just joined—your youngest brother."