... one day on guard with another officer at Gibraltar, when the latter fell over the roek and was killed. The subaltern, how- ever, made no mention of the accident in his guard report, hut left the addendum, Nothing extraor- dinary since guard mounting ...

... section; the Tartar or inner section has been bombarded and fired, and is now in the hands of foreigners who are sorely tempted to plunder; the innermost, or Forbidden Citv. is empty and strictly guarded; and the Palace, which is the axle of the wheel, is-deserted ...

... sad, this weeping Jeremiah. Let him live on, yet heed him not. But patiently endure your lot, ?? we asr tried by fiercest fires, We'll seek no help from Jeremiahs. * -4. S. Aslhburner, Sunny Lea, St. Annes. WHAT HE WOULD HAVE. My boy, said her Majesty's ...

... off. Ydu: need make no mistake about the bullet not flying straight-this time. It wvas fired at short range, by one of the most expert marksmen ini the civil guard, and I amn open to bet any sum you like to name that it, has done the trick for the fugitive ...

... in a provincial newspaper office, the composing room was suddenly enveloped in smoke, and there was the cry of Fire! Fire or no fire, we must get to press, snarled the overseer, giving out a late telegram to the com- positor, out of copy, at the ...

... horse standing, patient and readly, for its jnurney to the North seemed to intensify a thousandfold the overwhelming heat. The guard of the van next the engine stepped from his compartment, and taking his red hand- kerchief from his pocket passed it over his ...

... attack on your maid clenches the matter. That fire was no accidentel. I never saw or knewv of such a rapid destruction of any building, and with all that water supply available, too. The emiassy must lave been fired from a dozen places, I should think, and ...

... shouting:| e Holp 1 help I the Rooineks are upon us. I But they wernt upon them or even after Ithem; they did not so much as fire at them, for, e being only a small reconnoitring party, they had . no wish to stir up a hornets' nest, lest presently Ithe ...

... darted back into the Travers' shrubbery, raised his weapon and fired twice. Crack I Crack ! The pistol boomed through the night like a little cannon. He ran a dozen yards, stopped, and fired again. This time he pointed at thle sky; for the time befure, ...

... recently witnessed one of the most daring rescues in fire annals would li no doubt unite in voting that a teamster, a sailor, fi and a fireman should have a tablet in the proposed ir Hall of Fame. st A fire started in a Nelow York tenement, and spread1 with ...

... wrest from its veil of mystery the secret of the North Pole, and the magnificent measure of success which crowned them., have fired the scientists and adventurers with an ir- resistible desire to solve the still more arduous and difficult problem presented ...

... rambling sounds described were produced hy the firing of the cannon, and this lias Rld Dr. C. Davison to ralke an inquiry as to ihe distaxwee to whiell such sounds oan be conveved. The sound of tihe firing of the French guns was heard at Brightoni, which ...