It was built from 1648-1655 for a town hall, and only became a Royal Palace in 1808, when Napoleon first abode in it.

Moreover, the spirit of the 'town meeting' ruled the camp.

Both this and his town house were entirely furnished, as he wished each to be complete in itself.

Besides these, there are chosen a town-clerk, a town-treasurer, a school-committee, assessors of taxes, overseers of the poor, constables, surveyors of highways, fence-viewers, and other officers.

As they grow up much of it is merely economic acquirement: if they are to work on the land, or rear cattle, or drive a van through the country, it is all to the good; but one thing is noticeable, that they take very quickly to such allurements of town life as a cinema, or a picture paper or gramophone, and this points to unsatisfied cravings of some sort, not necessarily so unworthy or superficial as the means sought to satisfy them.

" "We think we have the only suitable town-site in this immediate locality," said Mr. Rose, "and as a town is already started, we have saved the company considerable expense.

" "You know as well as I do," said Dr. Webb, "that the company expects to make money by selling lands and town lots; and as you are not disposed to give the company a show, or share with me, I shall probably have to start another town near you.

He never struck a man but once in real earnest, and that was over in Keeseville, and on that occasion the people said the town clock had struck one.

That said business would be entertained in the following order: 1stThe election by ballot of town officers, the polls to be kept open throughout the day.

I came back and slept for an hour amid some rubble under the archway inside one of the town gates.

All along upon the green meadow beneath the town wall stretched a row of benches, one above the other, which were for knight and lady, squire and dame, and rich burghers and their wives; for none but those of rank and quality were to sit there.

They could not fail to be amused at the interest they excited, and as they personally knew every one of the town people they pleasantly nodded to each arrival and inquired after their health and the welfare of their families.

'Way back when I was a kid, Blutch, I remember how he used to" "I know there ain't no medals on Joe, Babe, but if you don't stop listenin' to town talk, you're going to get them pretty little ears of yours all sooty.

This was the only place where we adopted the vulgar mode of giving notice by the town-crier, so common on all occasions in this country; but the time was short, and many of the people were not able to read our English notices, which we generally filled up for the purpose.

Belize, the capital of British Honduras, has just given the right to women to vote for town council.

The travellers must have been very thirsty, for the children who followed them saw them pause at the town-pump and drink again.

Town governments in New England.

" It was when the meteor-like popularity of little Betty was at its height that poor Suett fell ill, at what he termed his town residence (a second-floor in a low street), and the pigmy Roscius, having eaten too much fruit, kept all London in intense agony for his fate at the same moment.

Her late companions stood looking back in sheer amazement, for the town end of the trail was black with figures.

" So I set off up the town road.

"I knew mighty well and good that it was going to rain, and I ought to have named it to you, because you town folks don't understand the weather as well as we do.

He fought the town-boys.

She used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was Minnie Foster, one of the town girls singing in the choir.

I am confirmed, by what I have witnessed on this expedition, in the doubts which I have long entertained as to the accuracy of the popular estimates of the amount of the town population of China.

Soon they became a worry and an enigma to the town authorities; but especially and inevitably they turned to the churches of their own color, of which Delafield could boast but two, a Methodist and a Baptist.