... CHAT WITH A FAMOUS FOOTBALLER. Mr. John Robertson, a miner, is one of the load ing players in the Shettleston Swifts Football Club. At hix house at Barrocknie, near Glasgow, he told a story interesting to all foothallers. He said, 1 am 26 years of age ...

... on Monday there was only one, when a man fell from a slack wire, along which he was being propelled by bin own momentum, holding on, ith outstretched arms, to a handle attached to the wire, above his head. This is a new form of amusement,' which comes ...

... swings for a few minutes on any Saturday afternoon or night, and those who wilfully risk their in such a way have only thentsct‘ es to blame if they escape with nothing more serious than a broken limb, The kiloton Town Council, several months parsed a rerolution ...

... ly persecute it wires. A carte of this kind was heard in a neighbouring police court a day or two since, tt hen a poorly. clad woman begged for protection against her hu s band. Ile refused to work ; she laboured hard to keep a home for ...

... polished off—to put it, per haps a little irrevently—his three Inquiries on the same day. All the cases were of a rather painful character. the first tieing that of a railway clerk, who died front the rupture of a blood vessel, after returning front ...

... stagnant on Any, e.rh or. The law t. b► mean. of nenaltirn, and a man Oned £4 far .Mina a pennyworth of rice on a Church holiday. What a very. place Servia moat be to spend Sunday In A lady *Mat applied, the other day. to • local Board ...

... introduced into a little function of the kind in a neighbouring towu the other day. One of the gu ests —a collier, by. theway—had indulged so freely that it WILY deemed advisable to ask him to withdraw, whereupon he promptly produced a revolver and commenced ...

... cy, although. as a matter of fact, it was simply a coincidence. All the same. however, it a orded .iliundant proof of Mr. tlatch's desire to render to his constituents any service cf which he might be capable, and it also furnishes a practical refuta• ...

... of a holiday there must be method in the planning of it i day's rest and relaxation is, no daub', recupera. live In Itself, but there Is a marked absence of what is conveyed by the terry'chnge about .inch a holiday. S uch a day really more than ...

... will again date a document without using a '1). It now stands on the extreme right—lt4 4 9. Next year it o ill take second plaee—le9o, where It will remain ten years. It will then move into third place-1900, and there will rest a century. A licensed victualler ...

... realised in Ashton of late. A number of aide loafers, who are well able to work get admitted to the Workhouse, find that they Inv, comfortable quarters there, remain a' !cing as, thee ran, do little or nothing. and heroine a per ',Anent charge on the rate ...

... few ago to Mr. A. a promt ber of the Ashton Football Club, during a mtch i n which he olonteerod to take a part at L a et in Staffordshire. Mr. ii.nowkon w end tog t h e to the s ewe as an intending spectator, but club short of 3 man, he ...