... pored in English gum•ery and English weights and measures employed; again. the French-speaking British commercial traveller is a rarity. The Gennan comes and speaks French. eße•rs good.. marketl in French nomenclature and quoted at prices in French cum•ncy ...

... your essays will be very useful as sermons. Never preach them: speak living words to living men.' Would that Bishops would repeat to every candidate for Holy Orden these few words, 'Speak living words hying men'; and then we should not have mush discussion ...

... parson is a corruption of the Latin phrase room nrlrsin er representative of the Church. properly speaking, parson should only be used in speaking of a rector. ...

... English. There are about 500,000,000 people who speak colloquially the teu or twelve chief modern languages, and of these some 150,000,000, less than one-third of all speak English. About 90,000.000 people speak Russian, 75.000,000 German, 55,000,CC0 French ...

... all my troubles to. AN OBEDIENT BOY. Manna, May I speak ? You know that you must not talk at the talAe. May I not say just one thing ? No, my boy. When papa has read hie paper you may speak. (Papa reads through his paper and says kindly): Now ...

... stlhe last meetly, of the Metropolitan Ay/In= Board, Mr. G. S. Elliott (one of the Islington repelssentattves) persisting in speaking and voting although a motion had been adopted that Mr. Elliott be not beard until he had withdrawn an expression used at ...

... on Chimneys and Flues, a subject which has rwceived but small attention in engineering works. We are told that generally speaking chimneys should be at least 100 ft. high if inferior coal is to be used, though 80ft., or even 60ft., may often be sufficient ...

... Plammanom the Mrench astronomer, has suggested that in Mars they are a great deal more advanced. intellectually speaking, than we are our. ly speaking. rm selves,and that they there have optical instruments which excel ours as much as the Lick telescope ...

... MR. CHAPLIN. Mr. Chaplin, at.r.. speaking at • fan•Prs . ordinary at Lincoln, said the degree of agricultural d• ession varied in different parts of the country. Be had always held that there had never been anything the matter with agriculture except ...

... pretend you cannot speak our language. You understand all defendant says. How long have you been in England i• —Time plaintiff: Five years.— Judge flacon: Then, of c•:trse, you can speak English —The plaintiff: :rein, I can no English speak. (Laughter. )—Judge ...

... that we will speak the truth, and that I object to.—The Under-Sheriff: All you see required to do is to take some oath according to your conscience.—The Juror: I consider it a scandal that jurymen should be called on to swear that we shall speak the truth ...

... It is. irritat,. one of the most difficsilt things in the wittil to govern the tongue; and he that would excel herein must speak but srldom—rarely, if seer, is (4ssi..n of any kino. For it is not only in we are apt to ttansgress, but all of ithsr ;A,3 ...