... details of the armoured train fight, and of his capture. Mr Churchill, after giving a vivid description of the fight, goes on speak of his capture. He says: A private soldier who was wounded, in direct disobedience of the positive onders that no surrender ...

... belongs to team, was given trial as inside left to Findlay, and bad the credit of acoriug all three goals, whioh of it*elf speaks volume for the recruit. SKA SON I'OR IIIfcRKN. The present has been a most unfortunate season for St Mirren, whose Laague ...

... purely Scottish character. Latterly it ha* been very mixed multitude, as I have amply learned from the varied attempts made to speak in the Caledonian dialect, such as How are ye the nicht? The painful struggles after kailyaird Scotch are very amusing to one ...

... statement, like most others of the kind made by those who are still labouring under the old delusion that the language men speak is the sign of their blood, requires considerable qualification. There a Teutonic element the Dutch, especially of the North ...

... PRESENT-DAT is, of course, vastly different. treks but little, for the country having been won for him—-licked into shape, so to speak—he settler, cultivating a farm, and increasing hie family'as well as his farm stock. Though the «elf-rehanee which served his ...

... with aquiline nose, and dignified. He shook hands with separately. Then the chief dragoman to our Kmbassy presented each one—speaking in Turkish. The Sultan spoke in Turkish. The dragomau translated the Sultan's speeches into English, and our replies, which ...

... car. reach it;it is the shorthand the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room. A miii may look a sentence as soon as speak wora ; the strokes are small, but so masterly drawn that you may easily collect the image and proportions of what they resemble ...

... Yards. Doz. Exports for 1898, .. 49,7*7,100 203,016,000 2.253,38 ~1399, .. a6,257.«00 216,472,9 0 2,333,000 Those figures speak for themselves. In raw jute, im porta for— 1398 329.593 tons. 1899 ~ 238,800 „ Firsts were quoted at the beginning the year ...

... to answer. Do rone of you understand English? he asked. The reply came in Dutch. We all understand it, but we refuse to speak the language! Ms Davitt, who was taken suddenly ill on Christmas Eve, has been confined to his bed his home Darkey during ...

... of the Legion of Honour, and one of the Generals who went through the Crimea and took distinguished part the war of 1870, speaks in Sigh ttrms of the British in interview published the Matin to-day. You must not ran down the British too much, said ...

... correct for more than day or so, as reinforcements are continually being sent forward the different columns, but generally speaking think the list is nearly as possible accurate one the forces are situated at present. The sis Divisional commanders now in ...

... elaborate the aphorism considerably. man meets a girl, who rather takes his fleeting fanoy. a fact she is not long finding out—l speak, of course, of the up-to-date girl, not the shy, modest, little ingenu» of our grandmothers' time; should the man familiar ...