... clean doorstep. Mrs. Grainger was jealous witness, and used'to meet Mr. Grainger the gate, as she was frightened witness might speak to ' him. (Laughter.) ' Mr- Henry Ross, asked Mr. Stevenson why did not get his wife to apologise when he had the j solicitor's ...

... means business, and not only the despised lst*, the armchair military men home. who have a right mew of. their past records speak with some authority, agree in tba view that General Natal has laid his plans alter mature dehberetion, and is developing them ...

... was, much as he owed the critic: and Ruskin heard such accounts of his dignation that he wroto to regret that he oould not speak more favourably of ths picture criticised, and to' say that he hoped this tvould make no difference in their friendship. The ...

... claimed direct descant from Dr. Doddridge, the eminent Nonconformist Divine, whose hymns are known throughout the English-speaking world. ...

... full-dress Parliamentary dinner to his supporters in the House of Commons on Monday. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannernian, M.P., will speak Nottingham March 28, in connection with the National Liberal Federation Congress, to be hold there, The strike of miners in ...

... tea, Adam's koife and fork, boy*, Nature'a cutlery. But tberc'a tea for Kruger the moraine;. THE SPIRIT OF GREATER BRITAIN. Speaking York last night, Lord Charles Ber-»- few lines a Colonial paper the other day were an embodiment of the Colonial spirit War ...

... his rank novelist would inevitably judged Ly Lorna Doone,'' and that delightful i-oma-.rc clone. Oa tho contrary, used to speak with amused impatience of tho persistent attempt was nude many quarters to his c'an.ia to [a story which and kept the public ...

... another ? advance of about Is. 6d. per ton, making an advance os. within the past month or two. ■„ The Chinese Minister, speaking Bristol yesterday, staled tbat had translated Lord v Charles s book for distribution amongst ■> the member, oi Chinese Government ...

... Thereupon the Boer officer gave our fellow some hi* own tobacco, tel.nig him :n tbat tried get away would shoot him finished speaking, one our shells burst just above the party, killing Ova Boers, and the rest ran away. leaving prisoner, who was uninjured ...

... week, and that the number oi Boers round the town was lees than before, their present strength being estimated two thousand. Speaking Liskeaxd, last evening, CoiiTtnoy, M.P., condemned the wax in South Africa unjust and and said that settlement would be ...

... drunk that he fell down. was assisted from the premises, and afterwards taken home by Mick Wlnttam. third officer would able speak as to Groocock's condition. was given Beatoi., Sergeant Altoft. and Constable Atkin.—Mr. Wilson, defence, stated that Grcnoock ...

... 'Irish HorMstead,'Mr. Thomas Adair, 8.A., Belfast, while referring to the development the mineral resources of Ireland, says: Speaking to a Belfast gentleman the effect the present war on general prices, and especially on coal, he told had just given order ...