... possessed was derived from a legacy from her aunt, Lady Rivers, who divided her property between her sister and the daughters of Mrs. Butterfield by a first marriage with a gentleman's coachman. Lady Rivers was the daughter of a Brighton policeman. Altyre ...

... were no introductions. A conspicuous place in the room was assigned to a lay figure fantastically dressed as a sandwich. board woman, a/a Japonaise. She might have stept down from off a saucer on the wall, but ...

... CHAT FROM MAYFAIR. I understand that Mr. P. A. Taylor, M.P., is about to sever his connection with the Examiner. This decision has not been taken because the hon, member has made a for Ame out of the paper. • We are likely to hear a great deal more ...

... Portsmouth people are now beginning to think that a , Dickens memorial is essential to his birthplace. The suggestion is that a statue shall be erected in the People's Park, and that the funds shall be raised by a Dramatic and Musical Festival to be held in ...

... is an evolutionist, but not a mate‘ialist. He is a believer in new forms, but not a destroyer of the old. He is generous to a fault. He is, in fine, one whose name, despite the cloud that has shadowed it, is a powerful and ...

... CHAT FROM MAYFAIR. A German paper states that a new use has been found for the leaves of the cherry tree in the adulteration of tobacco and cigars. Large quantities of these leaves carefully dried are used in Germany, while the exports reach a very ...

... wantexcept a wife. Will you please to step this way? said the prince of shopkeepers, leading his customer up to one of thc apprentices, a lady-like girl, whom he introduced as the daughter of a deceased officer. Wooed and married an' a in ...

... member to get up a speech on topics like either of these, to endcw it with a series of epigrams and argureents, and then, after having sat all night through a debate, to find himself suddenly cut off from opportunity of utterance. I hear a story in connection ...

... CHAT FROM MAYFAIR. In a few days the literary 'journals will announce what lam sure will prove to be a most admirable popular Lite of M. Thiers for the English bookstalls, written by Mrs. Crawford, of Paris, to whom we are indebted for the brilliant ...

... Surely it is a hideous anachronism to keep a dark/some gaol full of traditions of horror in the heart of a great city, while the legal business could certainly be provided for without the necessity of overshadowing a whole quarter with a ...

... MEIKLEJOHN AS A THIEF. Referring to the detective trial, the Birmingham Daily Mail says :—Meiklejohn was not only a clever thiet-taker, but he could palm money, abstract a watch,or relieve a gentleman of his ECM f-pin as adroitly as the most experienced ...

... feeling in France on the subject. A class of persons for whose special benefit a trade journal has not yet been started is the lightkeepers. If excursionists, passing a lightship on coast journeys or yachting trips, will wrap up a few newspapers tightly, and ...