... not in the Tabernacle. Mr. Nunan ] expressed regret, and said that he would have to I act upon his own responsibility. In a short time heard the sub-inspector order the crowd to leave the road. Some one replied, We have as much right to be here as you ...

... by cocking and snap- ping the hammer — an operation which, with a little practice, can be performed in an astonish- ingly short space of time. Another valuable qua- lity of the improved pistol, or of its ammunition rather, is the saving of the metallic ...

... Secunde- rabad. The printing, the work of the soleliers theinsedves, would be creditable to professional workmen. The following story therefrom is worth quoting : — The drill instructor — one of the old stamp of martinet sergeants — who was the terror of ...

... insignificant compared to the shaft ofa mine, the heat, nevertheless, becamo so intense that the workmen had to be relieved at short intervals. Their wooden shoes soon got intolerably warm, and they could not lie down to rest themselves on the hot ground. ...

... small-bore calibre. It has been proved by tho recent experiments that its rapi- dity of fire is very great, especially at the short range. These mitrailleuse, or volley guns, are most likely to produce effects when masked in battery ; or in great operations ...

... year. After passing her hundredth birthday, she. signed her name in the parish books of Hampstead, and wrote more than one short ler- ter to hor friends ; so that even the late Sir G. C. Lewis would have been obliged to own that in her we have, or had ...

... tiary for the term of his natural life, or for a term not less then fourteen years, as they may decide. Treasure Trove. — A short time ago s great robbery was perpetrated at the Ocean Bank at New York, and property to the value of a quarter of a million ...

... military fashion. Through this helmeted avenue the lady walked to her carriage, while hats were raised, handkerchiefs waved — in short, an ova- tion offered analogous to the homage which we are wont to pay to royalty. Mdlle. Nilsson could hardly have received ...

... He was received by General Bourbaki who commands in chief here, and his Staff and at once entered one of the pretty one-storied wooden pavilions reserved for the use of the Em- peror. Soon after dusk came la retraite aux flam- beaux—a spectacle which ...

... newspapers, a couple of American officers who served in the late American war, some clerks, and Beveral skilled mechanics. A short time since some of the Fenian prisoners confined here were amnestied unconditionally. The political convicts have to work the ...

... Boswellian record. It is replete with interest; modest, unaffected, and simple; without an atom of gall or ill-nature, but short and condensed, as if the style had been formed after the model of the sententious brevity of Tacitus. It seems to have been ...

... rate of five words a minute; and though, even when tbe Falmouth and the British Indian are both open, there will still be a short span of land lines through Egypt, it is already thought possible to organise sub- marine substitutes for these, and so to send ...