... METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING. Lct Y us nip this monster in the bud before it overwhelms us as an oncoming tidal wave! shouted the young politician. Perhaps.' said an experienced campaigner in the Lick of the hall. it uould be better to smoke it out of ...

... SPEAKING TIORTICULTURALLY. Oldest Inhabitant: Yes, sir, seventy-nine long years I've-a-lived ; an' Parson sex that come next April I shall be an octogeranium ! FRETFUL FATTIER. We're going to learn fretwork at school. mother. Then I shall send you ...

... SPEAKING PLAINLY. Mr. Dash : Now, sir, let's have an:underatanding. You owe me 200 dot Mr. Smash : I know I do. Let me ask you a plain question, then• Do you intend to pay me? No, air, I do not. Confound it, why didn't ion say so before? Dere ...

... lIAD NO FOR SPEAKING A solenimlooklng Irishman entered a business house the other day and, walking up to one of the men .mployesl On the lower door, askd: le &ere army elnunit ter a more t' get a job av trtir-rk here' I don't Mum. anivrere.l the man ...

... SPEAKING TO JURYMEN. WHAT A POLICE-DPIPICEit °VERA.. HEARD. It was stated, at the °outlines:6. ea effeeass beard on Saturday at the Old, Bailey is which Stephen John Shuster (fliirty-eight) ? hairdresser, was charged rty Hone tout with having received ...

... Teaching the Dumb to Speak. A writer in the (juicer gives an account of the wonderful work done in teaching deaf mutes. Let us look into the class-room, he says, at the Clerkeo• well school which is occupied by the lowest class, and watch the very first ...

... SPEAKING ACKUSS THE OCEAN. We are informed (say. boo) that a di-covery baa bees made in elsctriasl maims br which the problem id telephoey sari se the ocean through any el the existing Atlantic cables is amd to have been practically solved. The inventor ...

... SPEAK TRUTH. Speak thou the anti'. Let others fence And trim their words fur pay; In pleasant sunshine of pretence Let others bask their ua%. Guard thou the fact : though clouds of night Down on thy watch-tower stoop: Though thou sloul•.lat see thine ...

... THEY DO NOT SPEAK NOW. I am very fond of Paris, said Miss Passee. 1 is the only place for any one to live. My childhood was passed there. •And have you any recollection of the great I eon r asked Miss bebutante.—Henver's Bazaar. ...

... KESWICK SPEAKS TO AMBLESIDE. Even a little ray of light shines large on a dark night, and she smallest crumb of comfort is eagerly matched at by those who are starving. How greatly then will be this splendid news from Keswick, bear. leg with it a message ...

... BETTER SPEAK THE TRUTH. Shorts: Say, Dingley, have you got a five dollar bill ? singly (who has a hill, but is afraid Shorts wants to lorrow it): No, Shorts; haven't got a bill of any kind. Shorts: Well , no matter. I wanted to pay you till• five ...

... PLAIN SPEAKING BY CIII-REHPEOPLE. Mr. W. D. Crewdson The obje:Sion to the Education Act of 1902 was not an educational objection, but a platform or sectarian objection by people who were not friends of the Church of England. The whole question of education ...