For the benefit of seedsmen and orchardists I would say, I have found “Lyons’ Magnetic powder” effec[t]ual in driving insects from seed and away from all places they infest, and have no doubt a few flasksful thrown in the crevices of fruit trees, would drive the pests from their fortresses.
I shall never see my merfather or my mermother any more, or the mermaids, or the fish-king, or the merry dolphins, or-r-r-r —
Never mind! cried Elfie, crying too, and she put her arms around the sad little mermaid's neck.
At the January 16 meeting of the Railway Club, Mr. Charles E. Lee, Vice-President, read a paper entitled Class Distinction, in which he traced the very gradual development (at any rate, with main-line railways) of provision for lower-class passengers; the reduction in discrimination; and the preponderating position of the third class today.
[…] now, while I stick to my good friends here, I am very contented; but when I ever so little run after sights and fine things, I begin to hate my work, I grow sad, and have no heart to mend shoes any longer.
