... CLIPPINGS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS. I (From Punch.) 'SANiITAS BANITATDM.' 'The angel of death is, so to speak, hovering over a doomed land, and he descends on those spots which are the ?? Richard Temple's Address at the Social Science Congress. The Angel ...

... gossip both grown-up people and children are much too fond. Somehow or other it seems pleasanter to speak unkindly of our friends than it does to speak well of them. Why is this? I cannot tell you. 'Ill news flies fast'-much faster than good new's-and ...

... streamers, the masts 'by the board I' The sea o'er the deocks of the good ship is breaking; They segnal I Distress ?? the crew speaks not a word. Y'heave.ho. with a will, lads,' the good skipper cried, 'The life.boat rides bravely the crest of the tide.' 3Right ...

... cultivated opinion on the matter. It was Perhaps mom agreeable to speak smooth things of a place to which one be- longed, and which was dear to one; but it was necessary at times to speak plain things, and if be were right in what he said, then surely they ...

... not caD. - I t'ought, perchance, some atwien ded lance might hearten yoU; Th? bar was strong, you might have 1esau*: T 'o speak a word or two. - It ,s not much to hope ' oiX tha'. Yet was it all her need, wlp offered incense at the hrine of one who paid ...

... summereault, all the while playing an air on the violin, and return in safety to the line of hemp from which he sprung. Need we speak of the sire of Mr Hengler, whom also we remember as a performer of marvellous ability, or of Mr Charles Rengler him. self, ...

... Pea -1 For Innisfail were steering, To ev'ry heart It did impart A joy as rare as thrilling; Tho' pen be weak Such i oy to speak The spirits more than williig. OhI old Erin! That home of hearts-sweet Erin! A kindly deed Will find its meed For ever in old ...

... problem among the Stoics, which ran thus:- When a man says ' I lie,' does he lie, or does he not ? If he lie, he speaks the truth; if lie speaks the truth he lies.' Many were the profound works written on this wonderful problem. Chrysippus favoured the world ...

... but not the less do we believe, that it confers real happiness when, beneath its leaves, soft eyes look love to eyes which speak again. As for the freedom, pardon, or liberty that was granted in the days of old,it didnot exceed the privileges which the ...

... darling to the skies, Yet the sunshine of her infant life still lingers round our home, And in the quiet evening hours we speak of her alone. We cannot move the little chair, it has its corner still, Tho' we have lost the tiny form that ones its space ...

... *was appointed to deal with the allotment can of space. Tl COMMEtRCIAL TRAVELLERS' DINNRE AT NEW- Stib ?? I lavenswnrth, speaking at the Conunercial iobl3 Travellers' Dinner, at Newcastle-rn-Tyne, last night, said as tt there were some good natured people ...

... novels which he d ribe with a -great deal of 'accuracy as prose tho did not wish to liit himselt to them a~lthoug he should speak of them. What was in his mind was simply the reflection of the enormous force which the novel had become in modern lifo. Hie ...