With a few brief words he set us right, Pulz, Perdosa, and I listening intently; the others indifferent in the hopelessness of being able to comprehend.

Brief Items of | | Satire, News, Sarcasm, and Burlesque.

" He rests the elongated orifice of the diaphanous flask upon his lips for a brief interval of critical inspection, and then applies it thoughtfully to the mouth of OLD MORTARITY.

Brief is the rainbow and brief the Borealis.

Brief is the rainbow and brief the Borealis.

It was as though one brief minute of a glorious youth had come back to her.

In brief, fewer opportunities were accepted to make runs by a much larger percentage than was the case with the New York club, which can easily be verified by a careful study of the scores of the two teams as they opposed one another, and as they played against the other clubs of the league.

A third contributing force, though less continuous, was the brief spurt which was made by the Chicago pitchers in the middle of the season.

The time soon arrived for my departure for the West; so packing up my traps I started for home, and on the way thither I spent a day with my Westchester relatives, who did everything in their power to entertain me during my brief stay with them.

And he spent the serious hours of this brief time writing notes and charts and pamphlets that perhaps some hundred men in all the universe might care to readpamphlets no better and no more accurate than hundreds of other men were writing at that very moment.

Yet, when they strolled together in the open air during the brief recreation period following the meal, Dalzell suddenly asked: "Dave when do you fight with Treadwell?" "To-night, I hope," replied Darrin.

I have seen it coming on" The woman, the petitioner, had grown silent, watching this brief conflict with the terror and interest with which women watch a struggle between men.

it is to begin in others?" "I wanted you to be good enough," said Yen Yuen, "to give me a brief synopsis of it.

" "And 'tis brief!" nodded Beltane.

"Brief!" quoth the knight, "brief!

"Brief!" quoth the knight, "brief!

They were indeed unpleasantly active, constantly sweeping the road just behind our Battery, putting down violent, though brief, concentrations on the cross roads at Pria dell' Acqua, less than a hundred yards to our right, and apparently also endeavouring to carry out occasional counter-battery shoots after our own pattern.

The passengers on the steamship America, from Bremen for New York via Southampton, found the brief period of their stay at the latter port almost unendurable; and while some paced the wet decks impatiently, others grumbled both loudly and deeply in the cabins, or shut themselves up in their state-rooms in sulky discomfort.

The active and energetic girl who had acted as spokeswoman and directress throughout the brief scene we have just described had let fall her waterproof cloak and stood arrayed in a black velvet jacket and dark silk skirt, both much the worse for wear, and contrasting sadly with the neat but simple traveling costume of her companion.

"Business of importance" was the sole explanation he vouchsafed to those who questioned him respecting the motive of his brief European tour; and with that answer public curiosity was perforce obliged to content itself.

A brief order was given that he should be buried in the river that very night, and then, save for a sailmaker who fastened the canvas round him, mankind had done its last for Theophile Catinat.

When he left Somerville after his brief visit, for his trip through the Western States, China and Japan, a broken-hearted mother in Charlestown, Mass., asked him to find her wandering boy, whom she believed to be "somewhere in China."

Growth of Sunday School Class at Tremont Temple from Four to Six Hundred Members in a Brief Time.

BABY BELL, the infant whose brief beautiful life is given in the poem that first drew the eyes of the world to the young American poet, T.B. Aldrich, then but nineteen years of age.

But in the brief intervals of the deafening cannonade can be heard one soundblinds and curtains fluttering against empty window-frames and perhaps the idle, faint banging of a loose shutter.