... MAKING THE DUMB SPEAK. Henry Cronin, a bricklayer, who too lazy to work, stood Battersea Park-road with a card round his neck intimating to the benevolent that he was deaf and dumb. Sarah Sweeney, tailoress, was moved to compassion by his forlorn appearance ...

... WELSH SPEAKING ONLY. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] The amateur census makers of the Gladstoniau party in Wales have besn for years past producing figures which show extraordinary predominance of Welsh-speaking people the Principality and Monmouthshire. We have ...

... GHOST-SEEING AND SPEAKING We examples of ghost-hearing, of ghosts that present no visible image, but address themselves to the ear alone. Captain Rogers, commander of a ship called Tho Society, bound to Virginia 1664, while asleep m his cabin, dreamed ...

... SPEAKING IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Speaking hut night at dinner of the members the Stockport Parliamentary Debating Society, Sir Joseph Leigh, ex-M.P. for the borough, replying to the toast The Houses of Parliament, said what struck him the House of ...

... and appro- priate facial expression, the cuo for which must be | taken from the face of thespeaker, When thestudent ‘is not speaking, this word properly played upon will keep the other man going all the time. Geib ...

... THE GAELIC-SPEAKING- POPULATION. A return was issued among the parliamentary papers on Monday of the numbers the Gaelic-speaking people of Scotland under the Scottish census of 1881, from which it would appear that of a total population in Scotland of ...

... SPEAKING PASSING SHIPS. NEW EFFORTS TO REVIVE SEA COURTESIES. The London Daily Mail says the fine old custom of speaking passing ships is rapidly dying out among the skippers of to-day, and the general opinion seems to be that the modern master is, as ...

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... DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH. hard *> called upon to see the point of a joke without being given sufficient time to see it in. A gentleman with a serious face said at> recent small gathering of people— What are we coming to? Statistics show that Massachusetts ...

... understand the manner in which this speaking Is done It goes without saying that the two levels have not approached near enough to enable their captains to ho.il a conversation the one with the other; yet, speak they do, a silent language, which enables ...

... DUMB MAN SPEAKS. Dr. Drouot, professor at the National Imtitofe» the and Dumb in Paris, contributes to paper on singular case of dumb person sun recovoriug the power of speech. A child livvag Commune of Tremeaux, in the department of the • was struck ...

... WHO FEARS SPEAK OF '98 Last night very largely attended meeting was held in Belfast, for the purpose of commemorating the death of William Orr.a co. Antrim Presbyterian,who, 100 years ago, was hanged for his connection with the United Irishmen. P ...