... MARK TWAIN AND THKE CUP, Mark Twain said at the Independence Day banquet, last night:—“l have tried to convince people from the beginning that T did not take the Ascot Cup,” he said. ““I have failed to convines anybody, so I might as well confesg that ...

... by the late J. T. Brown. His average this season is just short of 20 runs for seventeen innings. To-day i 5 American “ Independence Day.” An earthquake shock was experienced at Swansea yesterday. It is esti_ina@ed that the bad weather we are experiencing ...

... speculative, a has not helped it. e Greater New York is said to have spent over .£1,000,000 in fireworks alone to celebrate Independence Day yesterday. In the Cape House of Assembly yesterday, a resolution in fayour of the granting :f women’s suffrage was rejected ...

... last few decaes. A Tall Order, “ America has been accused of doing large things.,” said the American Ambassador at an Independence Day banquet at the Savoy Hotel by the American Sociely in London, “but 1 have heard an English propositien which will mateh ...