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THE ART OF SPEAKING

... ultimate In ill success. The moment they try to speak, all tlseir asfeelings, thoughts, facts, and purposes, either crowd to the tongue or fly altogether, and leave it d.utterly bankrupt of words. Those who can speak r asdo 'not often hring credit on the gift ...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE CHKAFB3T FOOD KNOWN. 811,-Dr in kit popular work, speaking on diet, says cnsii* or ..

... LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE CHKAFB3T FOOD KNOWN. 811,-Dr in kit popular work, speaking on diet, says cnsii* or Indian meal very - nutritious, and the cheapest food known. Ia It preferred floor. I gate , t trial by a qusrter a stone at and found product ...

AGRICULTURAL REVIEW. Aberdeen, Friday. The state of matters, meteorologically speaking, is really becoming ..

... AGRICULTURAL REVIEW. Aberdeen, Friday. The state of matters, meteorologically speaking, is really becoming serious. Here we are with St Patrick’s Day behind us, and large tracts of country still covered with snow ; turnips, in many cases, daily deteriorating ...

Literary Notices

... utterance. All men, bellmen and hawkers excepted, speak much more than they spout. Indeethere are numbers-we do not allude to ladies of eburse-wlto tnever speak ia. publir, 'and yet possess a capacity of speaking in private 'whicho is absolutely boundless ...

LITERATURE

... preliminaries to the d he art of speaking. His chief advice in regard to reading v e is that the reader should understand what the author A a means, and seek to give expression to the meaning. In ir A, regard tito speaking, his advice may he summarised as ...

MR GLADSTONE AND THE ZULU WAR

... the effect that in consequence of the right lion, gentleman's personal friendship for Sir Kartle Frere, had retrained from speaking in the House Commons against the policy of the in reference to the Zulu war, he has replied that there is not the slightest ...

MK EDISON S DESCRIPTION

... about this invention is that the baby's voice is exact representation of the human voice. In fact, it is my own voice, for I speak to the phonograph, and the record is made of the tones of my voice upon the little waxen cylinder. Then, ingenious contrivance ...

MR C. & READ, M.P., ON THE DEPRESSION OF TRADE

... C. & READ, M.P., ON THE DEPRESSION OF TRADE. Speaking at largely-attended meeting at BcvciM Diktat, t>. .M. I'., Hi present |io»iuou simple ' development 01 h« raue, was one-Huled system. As to England ever being starved, there was nothing they wanted ...

MR BURT, M.P., ON LABOUR REPRESENTATION

... MR BURT, M.P., ON LABOUR REPRESENTATION. Mr Burt, M.P., speaking at a Liberal Association meeting in Newcastle, last night, said he thought that in principle labour representation was unsound ; not that it was wrong itself for working men to desire to ...

THE THEATRES

... finest periormance of the Colloen Bawn we have seen in Glasgow, the representation of last evening is by no weans the worst. Speaking first of the ladies, we do not know that Mrs Margaret Eburne's 21rs Cregan, or Miss Clara Rose's SIheelah., has been surpassed ...

HIS FIRST APPEARANCE AS BUTLER

... potatoes towards the visitor, and, motioning her to take some, said, Tatters, Barbara, tatters.” He had heard his mistress speak of the lady as Barbara. We can imagine what his mistress’s chagrin was. ...

THE SQCTAX SCIENCE CONGRESS

... an**admirable safety-valve for verbose sociologists and enthusiastic crotchetmongers, who, if not allowed annual opportunity of speaking in public, might do more serious damage to themselves and their neighbours* This is view of the congressional proceedings ...