... Speak: Qrowp, who deelled (st the connt must take plaoe ia the usus! way, it being leit open to either M. Mac'ae or Mr. Bsillie to oha'le ge the resalt, There were 118 wctlegpep s in .be Leggan box; aud 1t appesrs thet, after some seallig-wsx bal becn ...

... PUBLIO SPEAKING, A London evening paper has been publishing suggestions on ‘* How to Bicome an Orator.” Caunon Basil Wilberforce, who was written to by the paper, replied :—Being in no sense an orator, I am unable to judge of this accomplishment so far ...

... DEAD, BUT SPEAKING. Oardinal Manning’s volos, as of one who though dea’, yet m& was heard, on Friday last, at Whitchall Coust. g Oardiaal Maculog’s last lllaess he was persuaded, partly as » diversion o his mind, pertly becsuse the idea commended itself ...

... RUTHERFORD SPEAKS. Clement's first feeling, as he silently left the office of Morris Loader and went quickly down the stairs, was one of deep gratitude, in that he now knew where Ruth was to be found. His second thought was onme of dismay, when he remembered ...

... THE BAILIE SPEAKS OUT. A dillo;lsu occurred at the Motherwell (Lanark) Town Council after Bailie Grant declared that the lightinf committee scrapped some up-to-date appliances when Bailie Fe;]uson was a member of it:— Bailie erfuson: «“You are & plausible ...

... DICKENS. ON PUBLIC SPEAKING. Mr. Henry muu:; Dickeas's letter to Mr. Fravk Lockwood, apropos of the latter gentleman’s lecture on | the Lawyers in * Plokwick,” comprises an interesting anecdote besring on his father’s views on public speaking. ** My father ...

... Some Plain Speaking. A greai deal of discussion took place in relerence (o the leiter. Mr, Johnson thought the letter was most, uncalled for. Mr. Burley remarked that more than once the Council had refrained from taking proceedings against the Company ...

... A COLONIAL SPEAKS. Mr. Phillipston Stowe submitted the toast ‘“Success to the Liberal Party.”” In a brief speech he said he was a Colonial, and ‘that until the time of the Transvasl war he was ‘a Conservative, but came back to the Liberal ‘cause after ...

... LET A CUSTOMER SPEAK:— M-, B. H, Croap, 2 Bt Paul's View, Newport, L. of W. writimr in July, 1906 nil: - “PROPLE NEAR US AL', TAKE THR RIGRT TIME FPROM THR CLOCK 1 PURTHASRED PROW YOU SOME 8 YEARS AGO. IT HAS NEVER BREN IN THE WATCHMAKER'S HANDS OR LOST ...

... A PLAIN-SPEAKING VICAR. The Rev.T. B. Dover, Vicar of Old Malden, Sarrey, is plain and out-spoken in his pulpit utterances. Preaching on reverence, he commended the Biblical injunction to kaneel in worship. Addressing the men, he urged them not to be ...

... A BISHOP SPEAKING PLAINLY. It is only once in seven years (says a writer in The Daily News) that the Bishop of Norwich (Dr. Sheepshanks) conducts a visitation. On the present occasion his hn'ug could not be accused of ambiguity. Pn‘:r for the dead he ...

... MR. JOHNSON SPEAKS OUT. There was quite a small attendance at last Friday’s Council meeting, only Messrs.| Johnson (chairman), Privett (vice-chairman), Neighbour, and Luker being present. This led Mr. Johnson to remark that if the representatives of the ...