... that of a miser in garret Only a little before his death he was heard to lament that he had the better part of a quarter of million lying idle for want a reasonable assurance of per cent. The tact is that unless a millionaire is either ...

... separated in a despondent mood. Even Mr. tailed to etactiv convince it th we ha. got a •■nod thing as a counterpoise. I have, the result of inquiry in best quarters, to believe that Ministers will nothing wi'h WerHai-Wu iievond as place observation. A couple ...

... or money. replied the poet. Tennyson could, on occasion, cover his geniality unuer a rough manner. To a clergyman a wife, who wiote from Richmond asking him explain a certain jkis-®*-e in one of his wrote follows : 44 Dear Madam, merely supply poetry ...

... without a break. Mr. Davitt, to whose striking history Sir Charles made effective reference, will, I hear, not offer a speech on his own behalf at this point, but will give autobiographical account of himself in the witness-box the form of a sworn statement ...

... withstanding the influential isomusatioa he has received from all parts of the country, a tory deter. mined attempt is le ing mule to set him aside. I understand that a second nomination paper in favour of another minister, bearing the signatures of no Ina ...

... induced the police magistrate deliver a lecture the greater da.iger there from motor cab than from a horse cab. This however, a delusion. obviate the temptation of furious driving, the new 9 are constructed to run at a speed not exceeding eight miles hour ...

... CHAT FROM THE CAPITAL. EXTRACTS FROM LONDON LETTERS. It is many years since a Parliamentary session was looked forward to with such widely-spread Interest tbat which gathers round that which opens to-morrow. We have within recent years approached many ...

... necessity and its efficacy, and that proof has not yet been given. Mr. G. Wharton Simpson, M.A., F.S.A., died at his residence, Catford Bridge, yesterday morning, a few hours after apoplectic seizure. Mr. Simpson was the editor and proprietor of the Photographic ...

... once, but took extra prominent part in the religious life of Belfast. panted after purity Parliament, and made a great pretence to piety and to a love of the higher life unofficially. Twelve months' imprisonment is most inadequate sentence. He ought either ...

... peasant by a liberal use of the stick. Tolstoi was more hated, and the same time more feared than any other official in Russia. Count D. Tolstoi most no* be confounded with his namesake, the novelist. The former was a strong,determined man, a mixture of ...

... Balfour, who one time a member of thu board. A portrait Mr. Balfour is naturally not a pleasing thing just now to hang a boardroom, and if it wero alono, it would no doubt consigned to the cellar. But iv this case it one of a great group, ...

... foe it the past terrible a reputation. 11 was the case of a man of business in the City. He married a young lady who had the misfortune ward Chanoery. The money she then had, namely £430, was secured to her a settlement of a must ...