... THE SPEAKING MACHINE. Dear Mr. Editor, —Will you kindly tell me who invented, and all about, the gramaphone? Being a reader of the Leeds Mercury Supplement,” I thought this subject might interest children generally, well ...

... TOO IDLE TO SPEAK. At Halifax, on Saturday, a bearded loafer, and evidently a stranger to both soap and water, was before the magistrates charged with begging. He replied to the charge an almost inaudible voice. Why, he’s too idle to speak,” was the comment ...

... DR. CLIFFORD TO SPEAK. TORIES ANGLING FOR MR. CHAMBERLAIN. [From Our Special Correspondent.] Middlesbrough, Sunday. For the nonce the sounds of political strife are hushed, and while a bright autumn sun causes the ripples the restless, heaving waters ...

... PLAIN SPEAKING AT DRIGHLINGTON A -w-ell-attended meeting held last evening tn protest against the Education Bill. Mr. Wm. Firth, of Drighlington, presided. Mr. 0. Cowling (.'•ecretary of the Free Church Council) stated that signatures would taken for ...

... Mrs. Runciman Speaks. Mrs. Runciman, who was enthusiastically cheered as she entered the room on her arrival from a previous meeting, delivered a short but effective addrss behalf of her husband, whose regret at his unavoidable absence she expressed ...

... LADY HENRY SOMERSET SPEAKS. Lady Henry Somerset, president of the National Executive, and the Rev. J. M. Horsley, late chaplain of Clerk Prison, -were the principal speakers at a popular meeting which was held in the evening in St. George’s Hail. Mrs ...

... OTHER FACTS THAT SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. A YORKSHIRE WOMAN’S PECULIAR CASE AND HER REMARKABLE CURE. A reporter of the Bradford Daily Argus” has been conducting an investigation into a lady’s peculiar case. The lady in question, Mrs. Alice Jane Kettlewell ...

... Plain Speaking by Dr. Rogers. Dr. Rogers warns Sir Henry that even members of the Liberal party have right to think for themselves, and that he is misled by any advisers who encourage him to believe that he has only to speak in order to secure immediate ...

... A 'WOMAN WHO SPEAKS COURAGEOUSLY FOR THE BENEFIT OF HER SEX. A.‘’Cardiff Time*” reporter the other day gleaned some interesting particulars *hen P^° Mrs. Alice sGulliford, of 42, Bemrford-road, Roath. Cardiff. Mrs. Gnlliford a stout, but robustwoman of ...

... A RECTOR SPEAKS FROM EXPERIENCE At Ellend Parish Ghorch, the Rev. E. Winter, Rector, asked, if there was not something learnt from the splendid heroism with which the King had borne the blow? He (the rector) had more than once suffered from the malady ...

... CHAPTER VII FR.KDA SPEAKS A little pile of letters lay upon the breakfast-table on* morning when Mark Garside, now almost recovered, came down. He turned them over expecting the ueua4 little list of epistles from publisher and editor, and a blue, leg ...

... MR. LLOYD-OEOROE “SPEAKS HIS MIND.” Mr. Lloyd-George, who was received with loud cheers, which was answered by counter-cheers by the crowds outside the hall, said that he had to congratulate those assembled upon being able to hold a meeting at all in ...