... RANDOM REA)INGS. Gentlemen find but one use for the nose. They use it to hang their spectacles on. But the ladies use it as a ora of hitobinx-post when they tie on their hats with a piece of veiling. ' I wouldn't he in your shoes for a good deal,' said one school girl to another. 'I wouldn't have you in them, either,' was the tart reply; ' you'd stretch 'em all out of shape.' Teacher: Define ...

... To the Editor of the Hull and Lincoltnshire Times.- Sir,-With your permission I should like to say a few 'words to your readers on the above, having taken great interest in the ensilage movement. I last year witnessed a most successful experiment on a large scale made by a tenant farmer entirely at his own cost, and the report of the Royal Agricultural Society's secretary, Mr R. M. Jenkins, is ...

... FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' NOTES AND COMMENTS, BY WATCHMAN. , .a ?? Lin presenting his Notes and Comments, Watch. man wishes to assure his readers that, although he is a member of one of the Friendly Societies, he will not laud that society at the expense of others, but will deal fairly with all Orders, praising where praise is due, and finding fault only where it is deserving. He proposes to ...

... I A second meeting of the creditors of this company was held on Saturday lest, at; the Imperial Hotel, Mr B. 1B. Newton, ohairman of the committee, presiding. Mr W. B. Peat, the liquidator, read the minutes of the last meeting. Mr Whitehead read a letter which he had received from Messrs Hloxley and Co.,.of Rothe, ham, who are largely interested in the concern, expressing their hope that the ...

... AO 0-M - 39istrirt New . I ? I The 2ad West York Artillery are ?? on the C stle Hill at scarborougll, gA sl. B. Harmston, the well-known circus proprietor, js erecting a building in York capable of holding 2,500 ParsonsL A new convent antl schools for boarders and day cholars is about to be erected at Scarborough by the Eanof the Order of the Ladies of Mary. m3r Ralph Disraeli (brother of the ...

... C The quarterly meeting of Yorkshire districts of the Ancient Order of Foresters was held at Hull on Satur-n day. There was a large attendance of officers of the e various districts, and all assembled at tea in the evening I at the Salisbury Hotel, George-street. Bro. T. Horneby, ?? presided; and the vice-chairman was Bro. ,R. Robson, D.SC.R. Among the brethren present were ...

... LANDOM READINGS. Creditor: How often mush I climb three pair of stairs before I got the amount of this little account ?-Debtor : Do you think I am going to rent a place on the first floor to accommodate my creditors? 'No one would take you for what you are,' said an old. fashioned gentleman a day or two ago to a dandy, who had more hair than brains. 'WVby?' was immediately asked. 'Because they ...

... FAdNCHISE AGITATION. GEAT CONSERVATIVE MEETING IN HULL, LAST NIGHT. SPEECH BY gg. ASHMEAD BARTLETT, M.P., Dot night a, great meeting of the Conservative party v held i' the Public Rooms, to protest against the .of the Government in Egypt, and to support the F1 Of the House of Lords in connection with the 10chlse Bill. The, large hall and gallery were tded. dhe CHAIRMAN (Ur Frederick B. ...

... (All Rights Reserved.J I I BY JAMES S. BORLASE. CHAPTER X2RLVIIL THE AMIABLE WOMAN WHO MURDERED HER HUSBAND ANfD CHIILDREN. When the evidently nervous gentleman bad complied with the professor's request by seating himself on the very edge of a chair, and had furthermore placed his hat on the carpet and performed a trumpet blast on his nose with the assistance of an old-fashioned yellow ...

... DiStrid NeWS. The 5team tlg Scotia, of Shields, sank off Scarborough f oonday mornTng1 The crew were saved. ii sayor of Lincoln has reported to the City ncil that the Skegness Railway Bill has been abandoned for want of funds. Thnoas Willey, the farm foreman at the Thirsk T died on Wednesday from the injuries he received etheprevious day, being attacked by a beast. en the raely servants in ...

... The committee have this year much reason to be grateful for the amount of siuccess which has attended their efforts on behalf of this praiseworthy institution. The novelty of securing the female elite of the town to preside at the collecting stands would thus appear to afford a sufficient proof of its desirability, and encourage the committee to do likewise in forthcoming years, wherever it ...

... THE CHOLERA EPIDEEMIC. if A telegram from Toulon says :-There is nownotthe a slightest doubt but that the epidemic raging here I d cholera of the Asiatic type. Dr Koch has dissected the d body of a marine who had been attacked by cbolerana r succumbed in two hours. He commenced hi' inveltiga. y tion directly after death, and discovered the bame byap. g tows as in the case of those who died ...