... proper direction, and treated with tact, good tempger, and firmness, the natilves make good labourers, e and here M~r. Piecairn speaks from personal knowledgYe, since he was able to carry out several contnracs in. the I island for clearing the land, felling ...

... in the long run anything but a godsend to the burghers. The good people of Schneide- I muhl did not require, comparatively speaking, a vast amount of water; yet here was a supply forced upon I them which atciumulated at an alarming rate, and I defied their ...

... would have been a risky enterprise. At the historical ball in Devonshire House, the Princess of Wales represented, so to speak. Margaret of Valcis, and Her Royal Bighanes, as she appeared on that occasion, is now the chef-d'ceuvre of the Crown Point ...

... 000 franc last year. _} THE NICARAGUA CANAL. Washington, Thursday (Rbuter).-In the Senate yes- terday evening, Mr. Morgan, speaking in defence of the Nicaragua Canal Bill, declared that Great Britpin would not protest against the right of the United States ...

... (cntertaitiiig coimments01 onmen. wovttome, . -I l'ss. anld it kcvers a wide fiell of observation. W i} illiaim Fraser, so to speak. button-boles the --ides. atld tells him with ai vinaeity xxhtich never i- 1! t'9 ri'. g(tid. r)sdl aitl indifferenlt Of this ...

... the presence of a large and brilliant assemblage. Hie said he brought wit him the atmosphere of the stage, ad he proposed to speak on one or two matters which lay very tohe to his heart, He knew that, for an actor to address , himsf to damatisc art as a ...

... which ste maX'e th following extrac-t - Mlost People know wthat happiness Ifeendcissohn fouind in his matned life, for he speak; moitc about it lin his! I letters,, which are among th e most delightful things if Itheir kind. As his frieed Ferdlinanid ...

... detail a-id with str.ct impartiality . MNr. lodder declares that it is absurl to speak of South Australia at the presiti time a poor, since she has an area roughly speaking equal to that of -New South Wales, Victoria, New Zealand, with Germany and France ...

... appeared with attractive and unconventional features, its readers will turn with regret to the rodest obituary notice that speaks of the present irene as the last number. Mr. Quiter retires grnnfluY and with credit; for it is doubtful if in all the eight ...

... else! On oecasicn, to encourage the students in ex- tempore speaking on the spur of the moment, Mr. Spurgeon gave topics on slips of paper. As a student drew a slip from a hat, he had to speak straight away. This is how a student dealt with the word Zaccheus:- ...

... are-2a few examples of wood-oarving and repouss6, the latter by Miss Dobsolln. 'THE GRIMSBY FISHERMEN. THE LIVES 0' MEN. Speaking at the annual fishermen's Weloome Home neeting at Griinsby last night, Mr. T. Porteous, the superintendent of mercantile ...

... congratulated upon their courage and discrimination in resuscitati this too-long neglected work. Of the performance we con only speak in terms of commendation. To say there were a few points of imperfection is but to state the inevitable with regard to sech ...