... CROCODILE SPEAKING IN R.AJPUTA4VA4 SF CAPTAIN E. i. PENSOSE \VilttN Captain Sutton-Joncs and myself set out from Deoli after big game, our shikarrics, who had been out for sonie time previously, had sent us in good news, and our Iros- pects of sport were ...

... the speaking telegraph of Professor Bell is more wonderful still. This telephone actually reproduces the human speech. The sender, or person sending the message, speaks into the apparatus in a loud voice, as if he spoke into the mouth of a speaking- trumpet ...

... EDISON'S LOUD-SPEAKING TELEPHONE SOME months ago we gave a description in these columns of the new telephone devised by Mr. Edison which depends for its action upon chemical decomposition. The instrumentithen described was in a rough, experimental form ...

... \When a war palaver is on the boards, none of lower rank than a caboceer are allowed to speak ; but, upon ordinary oc- ?? _n, nf thir voices with- casions, nob and snob veciferate at the top 01 tneir vui'a nab out distinction of caste. In these palavers ...

... his inimitable pencil. No, I do not speak of the stinkin' woilets, or, as I would prefer to say, quoting the Laureate in preference to the huntsman, The smell of the violets, hidden in the green. Nor do I speak of those other country smells of which ...

... cowardly, was d-seib1ed both by M. Gambetta and the Duc de Broglie as a model of true courage, wisdom, and statesmanship. Speaking of the army, he said that the service was now more popular than ever, and that not only was the number of recruits increasing ...

... himself, who announced that he did not mean to speak. Evern on Monday, when the debate reopened, the important matter was in doubt. But when it became clear that this was the last chance, and that if he were to speak at all it must be now or never, Sir William ...

... immediately preceding the opening of the Parliamentary campaign, and all. or nearly all, turned on the Irish question. Mr. Cowen, speaking to his constituents, strongly condemned coercion as the nostrum of all timid political physicians, said that there had been ...

... not the man to speak harshly of anyone, even of the House of Lords setting itself up to dispute the supremacy of the popular assembly. On what he called the crucial point, upon which all eyes were bent, he had but a few sentences to speak, and these he ...

... I'Narcisge Pelletier of St. Gilles. The captain left me among savages. I was boy on board. I do not know how to speak F rench. I know how to speak ' savage.' I am not dead, but alive. They Adould not give n e to drink. It is certainly curious that after ...

... admirable foundation on which. to build a literary knowledge of other languages ; collo- quial proficiency only comes from speaking a tongue and hearing it spoken. It is too often forgotten that the method of teaching the dead languages in vogue at schools ...

... , in persisting in opposing it, were acting contrary to the voice of an influential section of their sup- porters, not to speak of the Opposition generally. It was thought that, profiting by the experience of last year, they would now accept the position ...