... brief outline of his remarks. Public attention at the present time, he remarked, was almost entirely taken up with the war in South Africa, but he hoped that unfortunate business would speedily be brought to an and the promoters of the tunnel scheme would ...

... Stamp Act. the Battle of Trealger. 9. What circumstances led Britain to engage in the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, Seven Years' War 9 and what did she gain respectively by them? 10. Trace the influence of the French ...

... the need of a tax-gatherer. Ile is, in fact, the backwoodsman of last century in the United States come to life again in Africa. At the first hint of grey in the eastern sky, at the first crow of the Cook the farm household is up and st i rring, and ...

... many countries people eat horse-flesh — Russia, Bavaria, Austria, Prussia, and Prance being among them. • In certain parts of Africa crocodiles, toads, and spiders are eaten. Ancient Romans ate caterpillars, and some Africans do the same to-day. The natives ...

... is three times the distance from Bto C. What are the respective distances? Ans., 12, 4, 18 miles. • 4. A abepherd,in time of war was plundered i a party of soldiers) , wbo. took i of his flock and mother . of a sheep; ' perty took iof what he , left and ...