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THE CHRISTMAS PANTOMIMES

... Rottentubber, is also a very ecceitric a person, who is always shouting the most oonfidential I things he has to say through a speaking trumpet and taking observations of the nearest objects through a i wonderful telescope constructed like the Irishman's musket ...

VARIETIES

... up his wrath likely to die of effusion on the brain ? Mrs. Partingeon says that Ike, who lns just returned from France, speaks Frenuh like a Parishioner. Why are broken beads in an Irish row like Madame Tussaud's Exhibition ?I-Because they are whacks'-work ...

ENGLISH OPERAS AT THE AMPHITHEATRE

... appreciative, and the culiosity excited by the representation of the work was about as ; keen as any shown for a long time. Speaking .generally of the opera, It i only right to say that it does not. show any great; origina~lity of ideas, little skill In ...

ENGLISH OPERA AT THE AMPHITHEATRE

... heart, given by M~r. Packard, the first net last evening closed writb a tuneful and piquant waltz-like duct, Well,if Imust speak mymind, t which was sO well given by MSiss Gaylord and blr.1 Santley as to evoke a call to the front. Thp ?? fentures of the ...

From Fun

... he been breached when he discovered a rapid method of converting pennies into peg-tops, and at the age of thirteen he could speak with experience upon gunpowder as au active agent in the rapid removal of eyebrows. Aisyeearswore on and he attained the only ...

MISS MARJORIBANKS

... greater evil behind impelled her to some action, and shame and pride combined at the same time to keep her eilent. She could not speak to her father, because the poor man lost his head atraightway, and made piiteous appeals to her not to make a fuss, and threw ...

HEALEY;

... She had very dark brown hair and eyes. and a pale but clear complexion. She looked up at Katharine as she waited for her to speak, and, could you have seen them, you would have said that the rich woman was am plain and awkward as the poor one was lovely ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... Sir John Lubbock are e discussed in a thoroughly scientific spirit, B although the author is only at guess-work when 1. he speaks of man being probably destined to g be the progenitor of a still more highly-organised a heing, since progress is the i ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... afterlaborlons and conscientious Inquiry, without any regard of r persons. As I would speak of a, stranger, I would speak of a fr'eni; and as I would speak of a friend, I would speak of a brother or of a son, of living and of dead alike. There can be no doubt ...

VARIETIES

... VARIETIES. GEMlS OF THOUGHT. One unrtfl.ndoes an injury to all who stand in need of aid. it. ii never more difficult to speak well than when we are getting is-bas'ilL .filir Sienice. Many peoiple conmider this world as a worm does the in- terior of a ...

MR. CHARLES [ill] ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS

... passing reference is needed to its stately allegro, sO elaborately Introduced and carried out; its sombre funeral march, which speaks in tones so impres- sively solemn, and the subsequent dagto assa£, thoroughly Handellan in every part; the crlsp and catching ...

FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY

... offered S25,000 reward for the return of the property and the conviction of the burgars. RAILWAY SIGNALMEN AND SWITCHMEN. Speaking at the annual dinner of the R&ailway Signalmen and Switohmen's United Aid and Siok Society, at the restaurent of the Mansion ...