... would shrivel i p so as to be an unrccognizable mummy of its former self. Many speeches would disappear entirely, like a jelly-fish stranded on the bare sands. But the difference between the good and bad speakers is twofold. The good speaker, like a French ...

... far-fetched theory regarding the origin of this deadly disease. In the second week of July last, he writes, the medusa, or jelly-fish, was cast ashore on the island of Achill, off the west coast of Ireland, in the fullest stage of its growth, and in such ...

... left the poet Poupette the other day much put out by the necessity of working four hours every morning instead of admiring jelly-fish on the beach of Treport with Mdnmes. de Pomponnette and de Lestincelle. His enforced industry, however, has had this effect ...

... left the poet Poupette the other day much put out by the necessity of working four hours every morning instead of admiring jelly-fish on the beach of Treport with Mdmes. de Pomponnette and de Lestincelle. His enforced industry, however, has had this effect ...

... Cabinet that has made itself known to the present generation. It wants backbone. It wants to be less like a better sort of jelly-fish. It wants mind and purpose. It decides on nothing, faces nothing, means nothing. Its bills benefit no one, and hurt no one ...

... inconceivable how swiftly the waters advance at such momrents. The pools on the sand seem to fill in an instant ; the star-fish, jelly-fish, cockles, and seaweeds, which lihd but a minute before delighted the eve, disappear as though by magic tie sand becomes ...

... from the plague of meters, ill-smelling fumes, and blackened ceilings and picture-frames? In all such matters we are in the jelly-fish stage of social organization -unable, however, to even sling those who knock up against us. Otherwise should we continue ...

... thoughts recurring S riiewliat amusing if not quite seemly rush for priority in describing C chris tnng the new fresh-water jelly-fish. It is suggestive in this ~Cti) cthat the lrght of christening appears to be the matter most ge-roher exil that springs ...

... ?? to ask strange questions of him that discourseth touching his oe( When one had treated of the nature and history of jelly-fishes ?? mentioned how some that weighed many pounds were cast in oim upon the sea-shore, it was inquired whether this mass ...

... events believe that they care more for science and less for priority than seemed the case last year. Let us have no more jelly-fish acrimonies. Every few months a mysterious paragraph appears in the columns of the papers pretending to supply on the authority ...

... which they are usually credited by those who see nothing incon- sistent in talking of the confident despotic will of a jelly-fish Ministry, they would simply propose to-night to erase every amend- ment inserted by the Peers on Friday night, and send ...

... the success of the meeting in connection with Mr. Herbert Gladstone's candidature on Saturday. There is not much of the jelly-fish about Mr. Herbert Gladstone, as he showed both in the course of his vigorous and admirable address and in the replies which ...