... favourable conditions,” and though our contemporary is prepared for great variations in quality and quantity, and does not speak very decidedly, it is coufident that hot weather will produce an improved crop. The 'lurk Lane Express hardly so sanguine. ...

... tribes, in order to keep silence, fill their months with water. Onr women fill theirs with tea, and gossip more than ever. Speaking ot a New York paper, a contemporary says, Too religious to commit suicide it has doubled its pries, and seeks a natural mode ...

... same extent as wheat through the superabundance of moisture, are now stated to rather pining for want of rain. Generally speaking, however, the accounts from the agricultural districts respecting Spring-sown corn are favourable, and good yield is confidently ...

... there was balance of £lB6B favour of the society. The Rev H. Johnson, Wesleyan, said during the few moments allotted him for speaking he should like to say something best calculated to promote the cause for which they had met. Not long since there were only ...

... bewailing piteous tones his untimely departure, observed, It’s pity he’s dead, for'bis teeth are good as they ever were.” Speaking of the sudden death of lady in Vermont, the local paper says, apologetic manuer, death having occurred in the family for ...

... convent can only obtained with great difficulty, and the nuns are so thickly veiled that the judge never knows to whom he is speaking. The lady superior declared that Barbara Übryk was kept in close confinement since 1848 order of the physician, because of ...

... Irishman says he can see no earthly reason why women should not be allowed to become medical men. A malicious correspondent speaks of young lady atone of the watering-places who has been nineteen for five seasons. argument with the ladies. In spinning varns ...

... It was cool transaction, especially for the sheep. Aw!” exclaimed an English cockney to a Western traveller in England, speaking of the law of primogeniture, 'ave you bentailin Amewica ?”—“ Hentail 1” said the American, looking at his interrogator with ...

... are once pricked. Of bills which hare proved failures, the Scotch Parochial Schools Bill is the only one that is, strictly speaking, a Government bill; and it richly deserved its fate. The attempt to whip it through the House of Lords by a coup de main ...

... under the impression that the regular blower at the place of performance was not equal to the task. Local organists, too, speak of the man remarkably steady blower. However wheezy and imperfect the bellows, was sure supply steady wind. Illneas, however ...

... and ray dear mother, and my late dear brother, always had the greatest esteem and regard for yourself and Mrs Lotherington. Speaking for myself and for those here present, and for others of your friends, I can say that for 27 years we have very highly valued ...

... among the crowd who conducted and ordered the attack were many wearing the regalia which appeared the procession, and they speak confidently of their ability to identify some of the ringleaders. After tho attack on the houses hud been mode, it was feared ...