... the fleet which first Holland and then France has been compelled to neglect. There are those who already feel nervous and speak of contracting the Empire as a possible alternative to a great and perhaps too burdensome extension of the army. But contraction ...

... The prisoner treated her fairly well. She discovered that had a wife living about three months after the roar- The prisoner—Speak the truth, now. Didn't you know that had been married before when yon and got married? The witness—No, I did not. The prisoner- ...

... excellent. _ _ LA ToscA.—Yo.t will marry Your hand is not but you look too much on the dark side of things. The ma' k you speak of bbows that you are rather a fatalist. JENNIE WREN.—I think you will marry, and anyhow there is a change for the better very ...

... MERCANTILE SHIPPING NEWS. (From Llotd's List.) SPEAKINGS. Glenbnrn. Pisajrua for Falmouth, all well. Dee. 17. 9 >*. 25 W. Withebtirn. steering N. all well. Dec. 12. 2 N. 23 W. Arnn, (British), steering S, all well, Dec. 12, 4 N, 29 W. Jordanhill {suppose ...

... so learnt by heart that an actor would have described bins as letter perfect. In oonsequence of this practice be would speak for an boar at a time without a momeet's hesitation or uncertainty, ,seissing a point, never misplacing a comae's, at a loss ...

... one of the characters in No. 5, John-strxt, I'm going to do it in a new way. Mr. Richard \Vhiteing had this test to speak from at a dinner given to him by his colleagues on Saturday night, on the occasion of his retirement from the staff of the ...

... oommaadeered. AdmL Mon Jo admonished court and placed on Retired LM tor beintf defeated by AdmL Dsamy Oarite. A Mr. wk~l«. speaking in the Capa Town Heals of Amenably, accused sereral members of treason. 24. Pro-Boer demonstration Tralalgar-squsre prored ...

... door. ““Oh, well, I—l give you my worl that [ didn't hear. . . , But althocugh we are wery interesting—to ourselves—l want to speak of m(goor father. . . . liowdid—er——? *“When the daylight comes,” Mark interrupted, **l shall send for a ?ootor. 1 can't very ...

... scouts and sharp : - shooters in South Africa. WELLINGTON, Saturday. The Right Hon. P. J. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, speaking at Westland on the Transvaal War, said that fighting men were not faultfinders, and at the present juncture the former were ...

... just the same. My appetite was hardly fit to call by that name. What little food I took did not give me any strength to speak of, and, after eating, I had a sense of weight and coldness at the stomach, pain at the chest, and an uneasy feeling around ...

... few weeks, and the tremendous differencos thal bad to be settled as the resuit of the floctuations of the past aceount, it speaks volumes for the solidiiy of the London Btock Exchange that the strain has been met with suoh a trifling show of damage. Between ...

... American people and ourselves have happily continued to be of tisme cordiality, though sober Americans somewhat resented Mt. in speaking of anything so definite as an Anglo-American It is that the Commission for considering certain points at issue between ...