The record-union., 1897-01-29

clared that 1.-The British lion, whether
1T Is roaming the deserts OF India or
climbing the forests Of Canada, will not
draw in it's horns nor retire into its
SHE'LL
A reporter, in describing the murder
or man named Jorkin, said: THE
murderer was evidently in quest of
money, but luckily Mr.. Jorkin had de-
POSTED all his funds in the bank the
day before, so that he lost nothing but
his life
A merchant who died suddenly left in
ms bureau a letter to one of his cor
respondents which he had not sealed
His clerk, seeing it necessary ITO send
tne letter, wrote at the bottom: Since
writing the above I have died"
An Oklahoma editor expresses his
thanks for a basket of oranges thus:
We have received basket of oranges
from our friend Gus Bradley for which
he viii please accept our compliments,
some OF which are nearly six inches in
diameter"
The Morning Post" in 1912, made the
following statement: 1--WE congratulate
ourselves most on having torn off Cor
petts mask and revealed his cloven
loot. 1t was high time that the hydra
head or faction should be soundly
wrapped over the knuckles."
An English lecturer on chemistry
SAID: One drop of this poison placed
on the tongue of a cat is sufficient to
XIII the strongest man." and an Eng
l1sh Lieutenant said that the Royal
Niger Company wished to kill him to
DTeV4nt lin fla viz
next year.
A clergyman in an Eastern town
warned his hearers lately mot to walk
IN a slippery path lest they be sucked.
maelstrom-like, into its meshes!' This
metaphor suggests that of another
clergyman, who prayed that the word
might be as a nail driven in a sure
place, sending its roots downward and
its branches upward.
The present Duke of Leeds is re-
ported to have accused the late Gov
ernment of making a direct attack on
the brewers by means of a side wind
1t was during the late administration
that one of the Irish whips telegraphed
to Dublin that the silence of the Irish
members would be heard in the House
of Commons no longer
It was the celebrated Sergeant Ara
bin who, at the Central Criminal Court
informed the prisoner before him that
If there was a clearer case of a man
robbing his master that case was this
case" and after passing sentence con-
ciuded: L, therefore, give you the
opportunity of redeeming a character
irretrievably lost
In the Irish House of Commons of
1I9o, during a debate on the leather
tax, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Sir John Parnell, observed that I'm the
prosecution of the peasant war every
one ought to be ready to give his last
guinea to save the remainder of his for
tune" Mr.. Vandeleur replied that "a
tax on leather would press very heavily
on the barefooted peasantry Of Ire
land"
At recent temperance gathering an
orator exclaimed: The glorious work
will never be accomplished until the
good ship of temperance shall sail from
one end Of the land to the other, and
with a cry of victory at each step
she takes, shall plant her banner in
every city. town and village of the
United States" Another speaker said
that "all along the untrodden paths of
the future we can see the hidden foot
prints Of an unseen hand. We pursue
the shadow, the bubble bursts, and
leaves the ashes in our hands Ram 8
Horn.