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ABOUT SLEEP

... morning fell asleep again and did not wake until August 8. She must have been in a cataleptic state, for, though unable to speak, she managed on the seventh day to make it understood, by drawing her hand slowly to her mouth, that she needed something to ...

Published: Tuesday 13 September 1892
Newspaper: Halifax Comet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1179 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

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... can assure you that you sae Very well, I wish you would - L°rlxt my nephew—but break the news gently to him. AN Irishman, speaking of a relative who hanged, said h e di e d d ur i ng a tight°Pe performance. ( t f ) A r t _THE PHILHARMONIC. Sliinpkins ...

Published: Tuesday 20 September 1892
Newspaper: Halifax Comet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

HALIFAX LOCAL OPINION, TUESDAY, SEPT. 20, 1892

... tionists, and a meeting of and every other sort, to secure direct rel sentation in the Town Council. Why, when Mr. Beever speaks of the C poration securing to itself the profits tramways, he says nothing about ~ losses, which are the only result arril ...

Published: Tuesday 20 September 1892
Newspaper: Halifax Comet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1513 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CuRIOUS ORIGIN OF BEEFSTEAKS

... StevennUtl,e'e aPparently going on with his h Well, but the duel! You haven't ho w the duel ended, said several e agerly, and speaking at once. Oh, it didn't end! It didn't begin ! said Mr. Stevenson solemnly. You see, Blackburn began to talk before sunrise ...

Published: Tuesday 20 September 1892
Newspaper: Halifax Comet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 606 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

THE HORSE KNEW HIS BUSINESS

... Why, you must remember her. She made two-thirteen last season, and not half-trained at that. she: Oh, I thought you were speaking of a marriage-engagement. He: Now, Miss Bella, that's pretty hard. I know I spend half my time in the stable, but that's ...

Published: Tuesday 20 September 1892
Newspaper: Halifax Comet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1038 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

THE SENSITIVENESS OF GREAT ORATORS,

... GREAT ORATORS, OME of the greatest orators have been aisconcerted by very trivial circumstances. Daniel Webster, rising to speak at a poultry show, was unable to continue in rivalry with a shanghai, which began to air its lungs at the same moment, and ...

Published: Tuesday 20 September 1892
Newspaper: Halifax Comet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 494 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

... Your exposure of the company fraud to which you were a victim should be published. It would probably cause other victims to 'speak out, and, if so, redress is not out of reach, as the parties are still flush' with ill gotten gains. ...

Published: Tuesday 20 September 1892
Newspaper: Halifax Comet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 485 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Oct 1 1892

... letters per word, and we shall find that a fairly expert deaf-and-dumb person will speak forty-three words per minute. A person in possession of speech will probably speak 150 words in the same space of time. THE onion was almost an object of worship with ...

Published: Tuesday 27 September 1892
Newspaper: Halifax Comet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1184 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

HALIFAX LOCAL OPINION, TUESDAY, SEPT. 27, 1892

... house, as William in 'Black Eyed Susan, or as Mr. Chevalier is to-day in his coster songs. Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay', figuratively speaking, was 'not in it,' in comparison with the wild enthusiasm with which the refrain of Rice's imbecile song was received in this ...

Published: Tuesday 27 September 1892
Newspaper: Halifax Comet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 987 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

1, 1892 -h, to bi o ivell°ll HUMOURS OF PREACHING. NORANCE on the part of the Preacher has sometimes been

... to write beautiful Rtelvagorous Greek, and that he spent a i R I ' Portion of his life n the intimate tioh„'3 7 of Greek-speaking people, the of this observation will be very 15'%rent. F r ° IP Preachers lacking knowledge we to one who lacked a dinner ...

Published: Tuesday 27 September 1892
Newspaper: Halifax Comet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 575 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AND THE BOX HELD THEM EASILY,

... AND THE BOX HELD THEM EASILY, SPEAKING of bantam chickens, remarked Dinwiddie, when the conversation turned to poultry, I have a hen whose eggs are so small that I put three dozen of them in a collar-box the other day. Give him the Ananias Club ...

Published: Tuesday 27 September 1892
Newspaper: Halifax Comet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 177 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

HALIFAX LOCAL OPINION, TUESDAY, OCT. 4, 1892

... TUESDAY, OCT. 4, 1892. sinners, and were likely enough to collapse under the searching light that shines on saints. But we speak well of the departed, and the private aspects of these worthies' lives shall be sacred in our hands And thus the half score ...

Published: Tuesday 04 October 1892
Newspaper: Halifax Comet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1343 | Page: 4 | Tags: none