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.
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.
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.
