... MOTHER. One old man in Pondoland, when told of the death of the Queen, thought for a moment, then said, “I shall in the sky to-night for a new star.” Another old chief said, “We are men who have lost our mother.” THE KAISER TO STAY FOR THE FUNERAL. Té ...

... ne bi = a at An old head-man in Pondoland, t l the Queen's death, vhought fer a moment. ...

... tidines of the beloved Sovereign’s passing away he ex- pressed in the folowing poetical words: “ When I look up into the sky to-night I shail see another star.” A TAX UPON INSURANCE POLICIES. Among the many rumours afloat concerning the new means of taxation ...

... glories, like those of St. Valentine, are becoming rather faded. Yet the noise of the crackers, the mysterious glare in the sky to- night, will remind many people of the pranks of their boyhood. And it is well to feél young now and then; ‘to shake off the ...

... friend Mars, which the cod this month rill be near ever hope see it. Just now Mar* rises about p-m., and dominates the sky all night moving from due east due south, until croesea the meridian cf Greenwich soon after midnight Aa to its apparent rapid speed ...

... Ellison Hawks, of to-day), the Leonid meteors are frequently eeen dashing across the evening sky. Last night a large number of these shooting stars wore seen, and to-night, perhaps, wo ehall see more, although the maximum of the shower was calculated for three ...

... through the clouds yesterday, as if to soe the lest of a dreadful January, has warmed our hearts ayain to-day. The ciear sky last night favoured evaporation, and the moisture caused by the heat of yesterday’s sun me!ting the snow, soon frozo again as evening ...

... morning, after the fire had been got under control, the shell of the old wing of the mill stood silhouetted against the sky. The night watchman went off duty at six o'clock, and about seven o'clock one of the mill firemen found smoke issuing from one of ...

... this morning, I was not thinking «o much of the ancient tag, “Red at night, shepherd’: delight ; red in the mora- afferent. ing, warning,” as of something very The red sky at night is part of a phenomenon which has not necessarily anything to do with ...

... Where dreams the dark-back'd trout I lie, Underneath an August. sky—- Au August sky at night, As falling stars bring swiftly nigh Their fitful leams of light Sweet Esk, w, what o you bear, From the ...

... CANTON METEOR EXPLODES NEAR THE FARTH. FLASH UMBLE GREENWICH EXPLANATION 0 STRANGE SKY The strange sky-lights ebserved in various parts ef the particularly Yorkshire, last night, are attributed by an official of the Reyal Observatory te a brilliant fireball ...

... said nothing. I thought of it afterwards as a dramatic tableau in tho last act-—-the Commander-in-Chief gazing on that red sky at night which was a presage of the coming of dawn and tho silencing of the guns not long after. The Shiny Nese Unheeded. Powdering ...