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The article presents the 2nd series of Foreign Affairs Secretary John Jay's federalist papers about developing a union of thirteen states in the U.S. It includes letter from Congress Secretary Charles Thomson regarding Jay's appointment by the House of Congress as secretary of Foreign Affairs, and his negotiations with John Adams, an England minister.

Presents news briefs on politics, science and social issues as of March 1940. Estimated number of divorces conducted in Miami, Florida; Amount of Washington relief apples shipped by the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation to Bentonville, Arkansas; Research conducted in London, England on the effects of radium exposure on the human body.

The article traces the history of the England-based humorous weekly paper "Punch." Kenneth Bird, popularly known under his pseudonym Fougasse, is the first editor to express himself in images rather than in words. The most famous cartoon of the periodical is "Dropping the Pilot," featuring German chancellor Otto von Bismarck which appeared in 1890. The periodical was founded by Mark Lemon and two other British journalists in 1841.