... should become too rapidly the owner. There was probably the faintest twinkle about Mr Hewitt’s lips as he threw that little story to his Sootch but the little romance is only the e Kaggeration of a questioner : truth. The Scotch do get on, particularly ...

... having got it and swallowed it offered 20?. for a full pint, so great was his thirst This may be an exaggeration, but still the story passes muster and is generally believed. The tract of country alluded to is the only portion of the colony where the rain bas ...

... to their brilliancy were the time-honoured regimental standards o: many regiments, all covered with glorious names of vi stories achieve I, some dim and dusty looking in their faded glories,aud others mere tatters of discoloured sill: hanging to the poles ...

... once or twice daily. Westbury, Gloucestershire, is a dirty place, and not fit for any beast to sleep in. The straw was so short as though it had not been renewed for a month or more ; a closet at one corner ; and when the shutter of the open window was ...

... Wednesday evening, February 28, 18G0, house of the bride's widowed mother, Mr. A. A. V'tbrille to ss Lizzie Milligan, after short but most hcious courtship. strange accident has happened rear Rhymney. men demanded to be conveyed the railway to Phil, and ...

... be impossible to poll the consti- tuencies within the present statutable hours. Even now in large boroughs the time is too short. The only remedies will be an extension of the time for polling the votes, and the addition of many more polling places. Influx ...

... of the summonses was dismissed and the other withdrawn. Other proceedings against the prisoners are intended to be taken. A Story left Untold. —On Tuesday one of the gamekeepera employed by Lord Stamford was cutting down fern in the New Park Dunham when ...

... two are very good, perhaps the best. Several pieces of white paper with holes through them would also be found useful. The short-time movement is making many converts amongst the flax spinners and powerloom weavers of Belfast and the surrounding districts ...

... Johnstone, \ Hunter, 4* Co. The style in wbich this little serial is got is very attractive, and the contents, which embrace Stories about Birds, Minnie's Visit, The Infant Astronomer, The Hare bell, Tables from the Farmyard, The Whispers the Leaves, Ac. ...

... fear the public would refuse buy anything else ? Amenities of Life the States. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican tells this story :— •'There was a noteworthy illustrative incident on rail-car out of Springfield tho other day. A big, black, but clean and ...