... off than ourselves. Such is the heat in London, where the streets are even wider than our own, that apoplexy is there, so to speak, quite an epidemic. Last Sunday Lord Riglaw (0, a sportsman and dandy, was seen crossing Hyde-park in hie shirt sleeves and ...

... me as if I had been under a strong and irresistible temptation of the deviL Ido not remember discharging the carbine, or speaking to any one, but my next conscious moment was when I was being handcuffed in the guard-room, as one of the handcuffs nipped ...

... election of gentlemen who would use their utmost endeavours to uphold the constitution. Their member, Mr. Pemberton, would speak for hiraself ; and as the Hon. G. W. Milks had so many times occupied the position of chairman at their meetings, any words ...

... made since many of us were children. 1 17 8I 11 tempted for three hours, but unavailingly. Mr. Harry Year's day, and cannot speak 10 words at a time without Isi 81, 101 We remember light as it was in the days of Solomon ; le Maund was only 21. uttering ...

... period of 186:, the decrease in the number of inmates being 10.4 per oent. The saving in expenditure and decrease in pauperism speak well for the management of the present Board of Guardians. A WIDOW NAMSD Da Lguw, of Berne, in Switzerland, has just celebrated ...

... themselves up—island; cannibals, and all—for annexation to the United States. This may be almost called an indirect, and, so to speak, inclusive, restitution of the Yankees who have disappeared ; but we doubt whether it can be considered quite satisfactory ...

... this section lies in °hallow water, probably slob than wallas of cable will be required. It must be borne in mind that we speak of nautical miles, or knots. In deep water a considerable percentage of slack, or cable in excess of distance, is paid ...

... to at a previous meeting from which he was absent! But what can be expected of a Board which allows one of its members to speak 54 times in the course of one evening? Knowing how he is smitten with the cacoethes loquendi, as a matter of curiosity we were ...

... Linlithgow, last week, Mr. Denbolm, shipping agent, Bo'ness, said that Mr. Lender had often used the word England when speaking of Great Britain, and he (Mr. Denholm) maintained that it was very offensive to Scotchmen (hisses►. Mr. Pander said he would ...

... wickedly affirms that there was one genius and 200 heterogeninses at the Dickens dinner in Sew York. TRUE !—An American paper speaks of a man who died without the aid of a phybieian, and adds that each instances are very rare. REALLY, Mr. Johnston, there's ...

... last month. The sub-constable stated that on the day named be met a young woman, about two o'clock in the day, and stopped to speak to her for a moment, when the Rev. Mr. O'Reilly and his curate came up. Mr. O'Reilly struck the girl several times with his ...

... and intensely sallow, with the eyes set far hack, and the gleam of them only to be distinctly seen when the old man was speaking, and a burst of passion for a moment animated his ball-torpid vitality. He bad a club foot, and walked with difficulty. His ...