" "And in speaking of this matter," said Sir Henry, "I may tell you that bankers' clerks are the very best that ever could be invented as tests for handwriting.

But the rate clerk was a stolid, a suspicious person, and he was gnawed by a low and common jealousy.

The first colored mail clerk in the Jacksonville Post Office was Camp Hughes.

We also called on the Mayor, at the City Hall, and went through Jordan & Marsh's great mercantile establishment, where the clerks are chiefly young girls, who are well fed and housed, and have pleasant rooms, with a good library, where they sit and read in the evening.

The medium through which the clerks express their opinions and desires is the Filene Co-operative Association, of which every clerk and every employee in the place is a member.

The justice of the peace was made secretary of government, his clerk became secretary of finance, another clerk was made secretary of justice, and the lessee of a cockpit secretary of state.

It is reported that they contain the Decalogue and the Apostles' Creed; and if this be so, the incumbent, the curate, and the clerk must have been the parties for whose delight they were put up, for they are the nearest to, and can consequently best read, them.

The first Negro railway mail clerk according to Willis' knowledge running from Tallahassee to Jacksonville, was Benjamin F. Cox.

He's wanting a stewardsomebody that can keep accounts, and letters, and look after the estate, and he's been looking round for a likely man, and he's heard that Lindsey's clerk, Hugh Moneylaws, is just the sort he wantsand, in short, the job's yours, if you like to take it.

He was to be, from June twenty-seventh till August twenty-seventh, Bill Harmon's post-office clerk and delivery boy, and the first that the family would know about it would be his arrival at the back door, in a linen jacket, with an order-book in his hand.

The crowd retire with an oath The dust in streets goes down, And clerks in counting-rooms observe, ''T was only a balloon.' XXIV.

'Yes, Sir, a parish-clerk should be a man who is able to make a will, or write a letter for any body in the parish.

The clerk was politeness itself.

These clerks were students of astronomy, concerning themselves diligently with the courses of the stars.

[Footnote 6: Of these two officers the vestry clerk is the counterpart of the New England town-clerk.]

The average woman clerk is invariably a person of better education and manners than the male clerk at the same salary.

A clerk in his office was an incorrigible drunkard.

The clerk at the registry office was an officious little chap, bent on carrying out the letter of the law.

Vide Lord Palmerston's report of the Clerks in the war office (Debates, this morning's Times) by which it appears in 20 years, as many Clerks have been coughd and catarrhd out of it into their freer graves.

At home I had no kin to defend; my elder brother had sailed to England, my superintendent, my overseers, my clerks were all Tory; my slaves would join the Minorcans or the blacks in Georgia, and I, single-handed, could not lift a finger to restrain them.

The crowd retire with an oath The dust in streets goes down, And clerks in counting-rooms observe, ''T was only a balloon.' XXIV.

I was vaccinated severely, while clerk to a substitute broker at Troy, N. Y. Q. Are you a graduate of any College.

These clerks are simple fellows, simple fellows.