The Halifax Comet. — 1893-01-24 (Halifax, West Yorkshire, England)

NARROW ES:UTE. JACK " lon know how I love Clara Gushington? " HIR SISTza "Yes, Jack; and I think she likes you." JACK: "Well, I have bought her a lovely pair of bracelets, but I am afraid they are a little large." His SIsTZB (faintly) : "Heavens, Jack ! these are not bracelets."  slowly, though it remained cold to the last, and he hailed the arrival of that oyster into the heel of his stocking with more delight than he had experienced a year previously on hearing that he was the heir to a large fortune.  PHYSICIANS are disputing whether it is possible for a man to commit suicide by holding his breath. There are some who think that perhaps a man could do it, but they unanimously agree that a woman  half - sovereign thatlodgedinhis gullet, and came nigh towards ending his life." "I remember the story," interpolated the interviewer; "the doctor held him up by the heels and shook him, and the half- sovereign rolled out." "Yes, and it formed the subject of conversation at the dinner-table. When Horace Twist; had narrated it, with all the details, the host observed: " It was a very close thing; Pm glad I was not the party experimented on.' "Had it been you, sir,' observed Disraeli, a merry twinkle in his eye, not the whole College of Surgeons could have extracted the hail-sovereign.' "The room roared, and none enjoyed the joke so much as Mr. Quinton Dick himself.*  rr'• ',/ / t i ~$ /, / ' t• or/ I. 1 .., 1 . cc) Ifl i : 1 , /Ai P 1 _ . t . 1 . . ..., .".., : .01,.. ~. :.. : ::::: .. .' . ; 1E a . . . .., 1 f,r r ..) ...,...; 4 .r i, . . . .... ; .: ,I.c':l\ ~.1 1 .sl : '.l ,t's 11 il 11.: :I\III ...111ii s ' 4111: : ~..07.1111111iff 1:: si . i I It: 1•, , . .„--.., i , • ---.- V4,4.i ' ,k.\.. 1. ''l. , " 1,1,\ 0.1 /47, --~., .-::„.„-.. ci ' , .--:-,.;, - lir ,:tk, ;: pe 1 ~.,,;-,..:-: f ~,"...:,"/ II: 11 •je:!.• I !. ...,.,..,,, i, , t ~ . i.,_ ... ..i. .f: • " 1 ) C. ,q I '. 'd• • :11 I' '. .V *r.,.. . 1 111 l!'t I i . i c • hiqu , ' .\ \ ~, , l," •••'' - ":?;•-•; ' 4 pill i • r 1 , /,':;'•-• tr.;::: -- - .A., . , . . • "..1-, 57:".i • y 114 7 / 47, pi& P. 1 Spi• '. . ...:----•• .1 14 elf,Pfi.*•,o;4l et; .r.fYllit pi-. .0141:..... .........14: --.,.=-:1-4'-' -,Pi,g•e'lli ~.; ~ ,„... i,.7 ~,cr- .1 i ,• /, IL. oi , . - Al I: • - -F.; :-.• :' .:,r ~ i , ,e' ! :,) 1 . ~.), ~.......-lrii ../. / ... --- • . ' , . 0 . + 14.7 ( Z' ; '. z• ~. t ;4'il e-•/ - /?.0,,, . .1, k ---- -;-: .. . .. :., - • .- . . ,4„,, -40frif - • • _.ar.it-'4411 . ..11 i • 11 •,;01.:* ‘7‘. i 1 ~.''' ~..",11,1,Aiet.;:••,,i , - . • C,'P'. ‘..• t ....1 il "drimmii.„l6ll 5-' .! ~4) -5. ,i4w, • •-.` ....,.:, , ..;,.,..Thie j... ..i.. ~... ...,, 1 ire,„..t,,,,,,,,, , - -9, . A .'' 7 • • . 4,5, r--- .1., ( '‘--'4. • rri*:, ''t ,'. ;4,,, t4' ' El g I ... , ~,,, i. ~,,,,;(.;, ....„, \ \.,.. ‘, ; i ."';''' illilli s\st ''' `. . ii. -7! 11 , . i',' •• t ' . s !, • 10.1,1 'l-1 .: Ni r, 1 V (ill A •, •:'• . ..-::•:*.v .., • , -/ •, , I ;', 10,1 • i 1 ‘ • I , 1.111 l • ..... . ••••!:./..••• ' I . I/ I Li:: / /41 11. \.,\,, ~,, ill k, , . \: \ . '" : \ • I t lit.1111;1 4 . •/.. A, .... 1 ,4, _--- 7; : \\ 1 \ .- Di '•; , , ..4-4-1:.! .' 1 i 4 i \I I ' ' • 41i • ,-, / I \ • ~7 . ...:li-- ....-r,- • i h• , ii 's ."..N, . ; . - 1 • I lifl ~.. .',. , • i' , F 1 • . ~... ' .i . . ';: ~ • . i ..i.:l' !!ell 1 I 1 ‘,4 ~•, \\ ~ p,•• , • I .1 1 i , 1,1 • • •• 1 11 , . • 11, 1111 k ' i i,\ \ \ ri 1 . . ii, ~, ~ .•1 ,\ . .• • 01, , I ,110 •i . )1, . ~,, .. ti ' , _____. -,...• ••7  I', ;4,1.  (0,.. • . (ji