... Burns two-stepped an esoteric escritoire and selected gold-mounted bulger brassie. Before I pound you from my presence, now that I am safe from your spurious spoon, I demand to know why you are such a premier dub—why you have played such pictorially ...

... he loved like Barlow Hall. He often sent from Glentana cuttings from illustrated papers, of which she made scrap-books and sent them o hospitals in Manchester. During the summer flowers and fruit were sent from Barlow Hall to the hospitals. Sir William ...

... upon many he meets with in the newspapers. Some that I got on the subject of Parish Clerks were kept together in a scrap-book, and from it the following are culled. The first man was exceptional, his ideas being limited : — Here lies, within his tomb ...

... letters B.C. and C.B. are already appropriated, and the title 8.C0m., the only alternative, cannot defended from the point of view of elegance. Apart from this circumstance, however, there can doubt that a University training in the principles commerce will ...

... compares with £126 paid for a copy last December. More remarkable was the price obtained for the same author’s Citizen of the World, first edition, uncut, issued in 1762 at ss. It now brought £lO6. Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, first edition, £37. 10s. The first ...

... attempts made by Hindoos to write English that come under her notice, and has many ludicrous specimens in her scrapbook. Recently she got from Bombay a letter that two brothers &ent out to their patrons on the death of their father, who had been the head ...

... Eden of the sphere you occupy. Do you wish the world were wiser? Well, suppose you make a start, acenmlating wisdom in the scrap-book of your heart. 1:oo not waste one page on folly; live to learn and learn to live, Li you want to give men knowledge, you ...

... a hammock somewhat, in on attic if you have not a garden or sunny room, and Its In that hammock, gently winging until the world-otherwise yourself—gro ws and drowsy, is the advice of another daughter of Eve. Yon will soon ad yourself book at your duties ...

... to him by the . - ' bim to witness the ' . militar y jlft ns from their inh-,U U r,>. pletion. The present >h that all his opportunities ?^H. *ork ' underlying prinhi l 1S quotation from Witness, however dull and '{*.» *J«th a wilderness sentimental ...

... Victoria, there has passed away one of the brightest ornaments of the pedestrian world of the late 'sixties. Bird was a distance runner of considerable repute in England from 1865 to 1869, and left for Australia in the latter year in company with the Millwall ...

... pearls are made from mother of-pearl, but their lustre is not up to the mark. The Chinese have long introduced grains of sand, and little knots of wire into the shell of the pearl oyster, in order that the animal, to relieve itself from the irritation ...

... Japanese themselves, too, he has the highest opinion. Their patriotism an object lesson to the world : I fear I have been writing as if Japan had everything to learn from us. We can still teach her something, no doubt; but, in the greatest quality any nation ...