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... AN AUTHORITY SPEAKS. Citizen: Mr. Greatmann, I hec,rd a curious de bate the other evening. The subject was: Cia l ,, politician be a Christian? What's your oPin i° ? . Mr. Greatmann: He can, but he'll get lickea• UR POWDER PUFF ALWAYS HAN dies find ...
... COMPARATIVELY SPEAKING CAN you decline a mine! interrogated a tutor. Yes, sir, said a sharp pupil, it it's a Welsh gold mine I wouldn't have one at a gift. Ali. but I mean grammatically, remarked the tutor. Humph ! positive, a gold mine; comparative ...
... speaks of and shard to stroll thus man ...
... MRS. BROWN SPEAKS HER MIND You mean young 'umbug, I ses. Shorely, if you take a lady out you can stand 'er a drink. If you think I'm a-goin' to drink out of a bottle you're very much mistaken. Gho , ts or no ghosts, I'm not a-goin' to carry no bottle ...
... SOME PLAIN SPEAKING FOR PRETTY SPINSTERS. PRETTY spinsters, on being introduced to male eligibles, should tuna the head gracefully. N.B.—But if they can't bend it gracefully, they must bend it somehow else. With regard to presents, the gifts made by pretty ...
... 4 4 • • — IS • L --- .. — . at,w- • mole, you know, Miss Speak/11s, is —ww•—• bone oruserd with • donkey. thou, Arise Mr. SPearls (ilestr ? Is your horse • nu* glupplus ...
... herself. but could neither see nor speak, but was sensible of what was said to her, and, slier awhile , she lay her head upon the bar of the court with a cushion under and her hand and apron upon that, and there she lay a good space of time. Again, •• ...
... NAVAL AND THEATRICAL . This little contrivance will, it is expected, supersede the speaking-trumpet in the navy. It will also be found useful to stage-managers. It is not very unsightly after all when eo.ed, is it now ; . / 1/1 /4 '. - ,•,,,, 111 103 ...
... ormts, and desired to speak to the captain, who would not hear a word, but trade the soldiers do their duty. Murray was then tied across the mouth of the gun. The captain asked for a cap but, as it was not forthcoming', he fetched one of his own. Whilst ...
... 15th March, 1879.—The mermaid, or, to speak more correctly, the manatee, died this day at the Westminster Aquarium. No other instance is on record in which a specimen of this Creature has existed in captivity for so long a period. 15th March, 1655.—Sir ...
... TROUBLESOME HUSBANDS. Ix speaking of secret poisoning, the Abbt. Galiani says : At Naples the mixture of opium and oatharides, in known doses, is a slow poison—the surest of all, and the more infallible as one cannot mistrust it. At first it is given ...
... let June, 1867.—A writer in the Argyllshire Herald of thin date, speaking of the Macleod. of Dunvegan, says :— I found that a curious tradition prevailed in the district in connection with the return of the laird to Dunvegan after a considerable absence ...