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BALANCING THE BOOKS.—1874

... resistance of Mr., Gladstone, was passed by an overwhelming majority, the ?? closest and ablest political( associates voting and speaking against him on the question. In financial affairs the new Chancellor of the Exchequer manifested singular coolness, soundness ...

Literature

... tissirna it was fearful I As the light increased, I iutld see Carola's face-it was likq that of the dead ; -lie could scarcely speak--her voice sounded faint and far off. As the morning drew slowly on, it became bitterly toll : aud, worn out and drenched as ...

Poetry

... h him where lie was going. He replied Home; what h have you to do with me ? This drew forth the remark, If you don't speak to us properly we will a nose-end you. Further wiarm expressions followed, a . and in a few minutes afterwards all three men ...

SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE MUSIC HALL

... a direct invitation to Come to Jesus. He then expatiated cm the narrative, and set fosth that the leper was, I Imnanly speaking incurable. Having tried every resource to be healed of his loathsome disease, he was &iven from the society of men, outside ...

SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE MUSIC HALL

... of having two or three short addresses, as opposed to one long, laboured sermon, is infinitely to be preferred. A man may speak in ten minutes that which shall pro- duce a present and lasting effect; and thus in hlomeo. pathic doses truth may be disseminated ...

HULL PIGEON, RABBIT, AND CAT SHOW DINNER

... Exhibitors. The Vice-chairman gave the healths of the judges of rabbits (Mr. llobt. Dobson, of York, and Mr. Fletcher, of Hull), speaking of the services they had rendered the society in their hour of need. He begged to couple with the toast [the name of Mr. ...

CHORAL CONCERT

... extant), will long linger in the memory of those present. There was perfect precision, harmony, sympathy, and, if we may so speak, soal, displayed by the choir throughout, and it may be said fairly and justly that in its way the part singing was perfect ...

DEAN HOWSON ON FASHION

... the Corinthians- The fashion of this world passeth away. Having in his introductory remarks intimated that he intended to speak chiefy of fashion, as the word is now most commonly understood in connection with, dress, he remarked on the extraordinary ...

JOKES OF THE PERIOD

... young man, as he put the coal black fluid on his moustache. HEIGHT OF THE IXPALPABLE. -Gus (newly breeched): lOh, ma, please speak to Erny; I've got nothing in my pocket, and he wants it ! MILITARY DISSIPATION.-Private Pipeclay - Here, Stock, how much money ...

A [ill] WHIT-MONDAY EXECURSION

... to her sex, she proved the force of the wvomen's motto- For we won't, and we can't, and wo don't, and we shan't Let us all speak our sinids if we die for it. Well, two heads are better than one, any day, and you have no doubt experienced how rain it is ...

JOKES OF THE PERIOD

... sea-you stand five feet le- eleven, thirty inches across the chest, and we'll say edeleven inches deep-well, I should say, speaking at rE andom, you would lift at about eleven stun' three ce quarters ! [Horror of invalid-his fellow passenger was a.n ...

Literature

... detail of his women. Of all poetry capable of dispensing perfectly with grossness, finding a more striking substitute in speaking innocently of sin, his love-pieces ought to be the most immoral sing ing in the world. Yet somehow no one seems to f'e! much ...