... dealing with the marriage customs of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, the Isle of Man and the Channel Isles, the editor goes on to speak of Hebrew marriages, and describes, in a molt interest- ing manner, a modern Jewish wedding. The marriage customns of the Greeks ...

... he does not as a rule speak on such rmatters, though his vote is always given most steadily in favour of every reformer who tries to check abuses. Indeed, the secret of his success in Parliament lies in this-that he only speaks on matters to which he ...

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... Villifying me for bribes; In your irnamy to wallow, Hogs, I leave you, and, above All such brutes, the rule shall follow, Still to speak the truthin love. (FROM FUN). WOM&N'S BEST BooK.- Self-help, by Smiles. DxFIrITION I BY ?? HOUSEMAED. - My Pale Comanion ...

... FALLING-OFF ?? Men- ken is improving herself, we learn from a contempb- rary, inFrenchelocution, withaviewto appearing ina r speaking rdle in Paris. This will be a more plea. 3 sant performance than the rolls she has lately had on the French stage owing to ...

... the Queen's health Continues and her Majesty is to return to the south to-day (Fri day). The Rev. Dr. Norman Macleod, in speaking ata public meeting last Friday, said that her Majesty has entirely recovered from the severe attack of neuralgia and gout ...

... No, my dear Mr3 Jooe'; I said you were a great aristocrat. A very polite young man wishing to ask a young lady if be might speak to her a few moments, wanted to know if he could roll the wheel of couversation around the axletree of ber understanding for ...

... to confirm the resolution of tbe public meeting of the inhabitants called by the Mayor.-Lord Yarborough said he was Hure, 'speaking on behalf of the society, that the members would much appreciate the privilege of coming to Grimsby with the show of next ...

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... the tree -she said with igh I may not be buried at home- Where the tree falls there let it lie. Resigned, but too feeble to speak; She died at the close of the day Praise the name of the one living Lo!. Who giveth and taketh away. I've returned to my desolate ...

... adversely aualyse it. There I is a smack of Tom Hood, Mark Lemaon, Guy loslin, and I Bobby Burns all together. Thus Mr. Barr speaks to his baby treasure We deem you not a fairy, a In human guise on earth, A goblin light and airy, l We shelter at our hearth ...

... that open sleeves will be worn, but of this, perhaps, it is rather too early to speak defi. nitely. Of the fact that dresses are no longer made quite without plait we may speak positively: they have either one very large plait at the back, or are frequently ...