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AFTER-DINNER SPEAKING

... AFTER-DINNER SPEAKING. When more than eighteen people (of the male sex) dine together (for to do society justice, nobody is now permitted to propose toast at a private party), there is always a chauce of somebody rising with permission of the chair, ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1866
Newspaper: Westmorland Gazette
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 494 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PENALTIES FUR SPEAKING POLISH

... penalties, to speak Polish. Servants, coach. men, and artisans are invited by the Russian officials to watch fur and report cases in which their employers speak Polish, and when any such report has been made, the commis,.ioner of police at one rewards the informer ...

Published: Friday 01 March 1889
Newspaper: Lakes Herald
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 478 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TENANT FARMERS SPEAKING OUT

... TENANT FARMERS SPEAKING OUT. The practical tenant farmers of Suffolk, believing there is prospect of relief from return to protection, some mouths since formed themselves into a Relief Asso i ciation, the objects of which are of an eminently practical ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1851
Newspaper: Kendal Mercury
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1499 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GOD SPEAKS FOR LAW AND ORDER

... GOD SPEAKS FOR LAW AND ORDER. Since the following was received our attention has been called to the singular natural phenomenon by mare than a dozen correspondents in Scotland, who all corroborate the remarkable letter published herewith. There has not ...

Published: Friday 30 September 1887
Newspaper: Lakes Chronicle and Reporter
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 989 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DR. PARKER SPEAKS OUT,

... DR. PARKER SPEAKS OUT, The Rev. Dr. Parker, of the City . Temple, London, has been entertained at breakfast in the Junior Reform Club, Liverpool. In his address, Dr. Parker said he made the acknowledgment, with a hesitation amounting to pain, that he ...

Published: Friday 12 April 1889
Newspaper: Lakes Herald
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 623 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Speaking Along a Ray of Light

... Speaking Along a Ray of Light. Professor Alexander Graham Bell believes that telephoning by means of a beam of light will yet be commercially practicable. This belief has grown out of a long course of experiments with selenium, which is marvellously sensitive ...

Published: Friday 19 July 1895
Newspaper: Lakes Herald
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 497 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Original Comedy WIIO SPEAKS FIRST,

... Comedy WIIO SPEAKS FIRST, Captain Charles Ernest Militant Roller Mrs. Militant SMART Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. J. C. Mr. K. F. SHEPHED. Mr. E. 0. LoNGsiooN. Mr. J. SHEPHERD. The neat piece, by the author of the Wonderful was Who speaks first. This play ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1880
Newspaper: Lakes Herald
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 692 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TREY DO NOT SPEAK ANY MORE

... TREY DO NOT SPEAK ANY MORE. She had yawned, looked at the clock, pretended she was sleepy, and In other ways had given him to understand that it was time to go. He felt nettled on observing these signs of her desire to get rid of him, and determined to ...

Published: Friday 19 May 1893
Newspaper: Lakes Herald
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 199 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A DESPISER OP SPEAKING TITRES

... seeker for employment. No need of that, replied the man. Just whistle in that tube, and he'll speak to you, pointing at the same time to a speaking tube. Tee old Irishman walked over to the tube and blew a mighty blast in it,. Mr. Hobart heard the ...

Published: Wednesday 30 August 1899
Newspaper: Lakes Chronicle and Reporter
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 597 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

There is an ancient story of an Eastern sage who undertook to the Sultan to make an ass speak. Twenty

... There is an ancient story of an Eastern sage who undertook to the Sultan to make an ass speak. Twenty years were to be allowed for the experiment, and the wise man was to be kept magnificently during that period. If, at the end of it, the donkey remained ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1857
Newspaper: Westmorland Gazette
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 228 | Page: 3 | Tags: none