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... ^TbeS K^T Cfl No. 322.-- Yol. XXV. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29. 1899. SiflTnt ...
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CITY NOTES: MARKET NOTES
... CITY NOTES. The Next Settlement begins on April 11. Market Notes. Nineteen-day Accounts are never satisfactory, and the one now coming to an end has proved no exception to the rule. The very first sign of dear money seems to have dried up all spirit of speculation, and there will be no all-night working of Stock Exchange clerks to get balances out this time. It is probable that after Easter ...
AN ACCIDENTAL INTERVIEW
... . Thot be a good one, thot be! Ah 'm sure! Aye, Ah must tell thot ter Mr. Raven-'Ill fer to put in his Poonch stories, thot Ah must. These words, accompanied by a loud bucolic guffaw, startled me (writes a Sketch representative) out of the half-slumber into which I had fallen on the hardest of hard wooden seats at Devizes Sta tion, and, rub bing my eyes, I inquired whether Mr- Raven- Hill, ...
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THE OMAR KHÁYYÁM CLUB DINNER
... THE OMAR KHAYYAM CLUB DINNER. We dined at Frascati's Restaurant, as usual-- some fifty members and guests. Mr. L. F. Austin was in the chair, and made a most witty speech, lie quoted from a letter by Sir George Robertson of Chitral, our Vice-President, who is at present in India, his impression that the Persians of to-day know nothing of their great poet, and that it would not be a bad idea to ...