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The Ostrich and Jelly-fish Administration

... combined the foresight of the ostrich with. the firmness of the jelly-fish. Nevertheless, the friends of the Government appeal to the electors to send the ostriches and the jelly-fish back with undiminished authorit to serve ad save teir country. The ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1900
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1152 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

EARTH'S FIRST INHABITANTS. -I

... the London Institution yesterday afternoon, but very lovely creatures, not higher in the scale, if indeed so high, as the jellyfish. Beginning with 'the beat known of the eatly organisms, the Olinellus trilobite, found in the foot of the Cambrian system ...

Published: Tuesday 27 November 1900
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 173 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

WHAT CANNOT BE

... regard to the wishes of all sections of itself; and is, therefore, driven to make the whole a collection of ridiculous jelly-fishes, feebly flapping in a sea of troubles, and destined to be cast up at the General Election and left to desiccation on the ...

Published: Monday 26 March 1900
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 609 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

... Irish Nationalist abuse for fifteen years, are to stand aside in some fifty con- stituencies to give a walk-over to fifty jelly-fish Glad- stonian miP.'s? who, according to the author of the brilliant suggestion referred to, are Liberal Unionists in everything ...

Published: Tuesday 12 June 1900
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1781 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ELECTION NOTES

... possibly six, years like the last, during which British policy has united the foresight of the ostrich to the firmness of the jelly-fish. The Oldest Voter. t Writing to the Times on the sub- ject of the oldest voter, Mr George Heath, of Exeter, ?? was ...

Published: Wednesday 10 October 1900
Newspaper: Northern Echo
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 1085 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE BASKING SHARK,

... unquestionably prompted many a sea-serpent story. In warmer seas possible sea-serpent could be readily evolved out of gigantic jelly-fish which might have tentacles thirty feet in length. There are various species of whales that might be mistaken for sea-serpents ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1900
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1491 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

... the foresight of the ostrich to the firmness of the jelly-fish. What a Tory tribute to the strongest Government of modern times -to compare the lot to blind ostriches and invertebrate jelly-fishes! We are finally assured that another spell of the spirit ...

Published: Monday 01 October 1900
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3392 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... Seal. In C one of his scathing speeches in reference to 31r. 1 Gladstone's Irish policy he described ?? Govern- ment as a jelly-fish Administration- In fact, he wos always a combative politician -whether in office or in the cold shade of opposition. Many ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1900
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1825 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

OTLEY

... conduct of the Govern- c cut dutrinag the war as a ccmt'ination of the 'foresight o- thes ozroh.il with the firnlnese of the jelly-fish. (Laugh- ter and applau,.c.) Meat had bout doeal to deatzh 'by s-he Crass tgncra-nic of too men sent nut 'by thle W-ar Office ...

Published: Friday 05 October 1900
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1745 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

... last five years the policy of Lord Salisburry's Government had united the foresight of the ostrich to the firmness of the jellyfish. It is evident from the tone of these remaarks that the new Parliament will see some interesting developments in the Tary ...

Published: Monday 03 December 1900
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2092 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

WITH ROD, GUN AND HOUNDS

... pestilent urge, salmon not caring to come within a mile the river where jelly fish abound. I was syr- ised at this statement, as jelly-fish abound in a the Norway fjords, and I have seen them in hundreds at the mouths of noted salmon rivers, and a long way up ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1900
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2546 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

CHILDREN'S HOUR, AND ORDER OF THE ROUND TABLE.

... in their littie beds and heard the old woodwork ereaking, and the mice nibbling at the wainscot, they shook like wobbly jelly-fish, and hid their heads nndee the bedclo hes. Sometimes the vagae terror became too bad even to be stifled by the blankets ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1900
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2548 | Page: 7 | Tags: News