A few days ago the industry suffered a check which, lasting not more than two minutes, lost several hundred pounds of hand-fired tea.

Set a hundred of the world's greatest spirits, men of fixed principles, high aims, resolute endeavour, enormous experience, and the modesty that these attributes bringset them to live through such a catastrophe as that which wiped out Nagoya last October, and at the end of three days there would remain few whose souls might be called their own.

People have no more than just begun to discover the place called the Banff Hot Springs, two days west of Winnipeg.

Once at Seattle, when that town was a gray blur after a fire; once at Tacoma, in the days when the steam-tram ran off the rails twice a week; and once at Spokane Falls.

It is possible; but it is also possible after three days in a new town to set the full half of a truck-load of archbishops fighting for corner lots as they never fought for mitre or crozier.

Suburban villas more or less adorn the flats, from which the liveliest fancy (and fancy was free in the early days) hung back.

Three days later, the hill-sides as far as the eye could range were afire, and the roads paved, with crimson and gold.

We had Time dealt out to usmere, clear, fresh Timegrace-days to enjoy.

A few days later I was shown a wire stating that a community of DoukhoborsRussians againhad, not for the first time, undressed themselves, and were fleeing up the track to meet the Messiah before the snow fell.

In those days men proved that Wheat would not grow north of some fool's line, or other, or, if it did, that no one would grow it.

I whispered to a man that I was a little tired of a three days' tyranny of Wheat, besides being shocked at farmers who used clean bright straw for fuel, and made bonfires of their chaff-hills.

These mountains are only ten days from London, and people more and more use them for pleasure-grounds.

It's open for two half-hours a day week-days and one on Sundays.

Their jesters are known to have surpassed in refinement the jesters of Damascus, as did their twelve police captains the hardiest and most corrupt of Bagdad in the tolerant days of Harun-al-Raschid; while their old women, not to mention their young wives, could deceive the Father of Lies himself.

He has been trained to look after himself since the days of Rameses.

That morning the concierge had toiled for us among steamer-sailings to see if we could save three days.

But they may skip a well or so, and do several days' march in one.

I went for a purposeless walk from one end of the place to the other, and found a crowd of native boys playing football on what might have been a parade-ground of old days.

The men who remember the old days of the Reconstructionwhich deserves an epic of its ownsay that there was nothing left to build on, not even wreckage.

MOON, the satellite of the earth, from which it is distant 238,800 m., and which revolves round it in 27-1/3 days, taking the same time to rotate on its own axis, so that it presents always the same side to us; is a dark body, and shines by reflection of the sun's light, its diameter 2165 m.; it has a rugged surface of mountains and valleys without verdure; has no water, no atmosphere, and consequently no life.

MYCENÆ, capital of Agamemnon's kingdom, in the NE. of the Peloponnesus, was in very ancient days a great city, but never recovered the invasion of the people of Argos in 468 B.C.; excavations point to its civilisation being more akin to Phoenician than Greek.

WOFFINGTON, PEG, actress, born in Dublin, where she made her first appearance in 1737, and in London at Covent Garden in 1740, in a style which carried all hearts by storm; she was equally charming in certain male characters as in female; her character was not without reproach, but she had not a little of that charity which covereth a multitude of sins, in the practice of which, after her retirement in 1757, she ended her days (1720-1768).

WULSTAN, ST., Saxon bishop of Worcester in the days of Edward the Confessor; being falsely accused by his adversaries, after the king's death, he was required to resign, but refused, and laying his crozier on the Confessor's shrine called upon him to decide who should wear it; none of his accusers could lift it, only himself, to his exculpation from their accusations.

It is not easy to imagine in these feverish days of travel what that journey must have meant to a young Irish lad brought up in a small town lad to whom even London probably seemed very far away.

Then, to make matters worse, provisions gave out, and the ship's company was reduced for twelve days to an unsavoury diet of water-buffalo and peanutsall they could get from a nearby island.

The old hunter stood, staring thoughtfully at the path before his feet, rubbing his jaw with long, supple fingers, the daze of his recent experience yet upon him.

The Indians, understanding that the first daze of terror had passed away, leaving their intended victims in condition to do considerable execution, fell back a short distance to where they could find shelter, and thus, thanks to General Herkimer, it was no longer a massacre, but a battle.

Daze it, what's a cup of mead more or less?

Gratton, like a man in a daze, hesitated.

Lanyard mastered a sense of daze that he saw reflected in the opening eyes of the woman as she slipped from his arms.

He found it difficult to recover from the daze of the moment when he first realized his situation.

She sat in a daze of happiness, her mind hardly operative, her look moving from one to another.

She dashed the hill-sides with her red and yellow, and then she held her veil of mist for the sun's rays to shine through, lest the gorgeous coloring should daze the eyes of men.

] Thenceforth all worlds desire will in thee dye, And all earthes glorie, on which men do gaze, 275 Seeme durt and drosse in thy pure-sighted eye, Compar'd to that celestiall beauties blaze, Whose glorious beames all fleshly sense doth daze With admiration of their passing light, Blinding the eyes, and lumining the spright.

But, indeed, the Humpt Men had no heed of her; but did make alway to come at me; and surely, in that moment, one of the Humpt Men reached me, and smote me so shrewd that sure he nigh crackt his monstrous hand upon mine armour, and did drive me backward upon the rock, and to make me bleed afresh, so that I was all in a daze and near swooned away.

Up the stairs to Number Five she was "eased"there is no other word to express the processand down again she was eased to supper, where in a daze of fatigue she ate with surprising relish tough fried meat and large wet potatoes, a bowl of raw canned tomatoes and a huge piece of heavy-crusted preserved-peach pie.

" Bob Hardy made his way out of the office almost in a daze.

She had been stumbling in a daze towards the door.

What do you say to this?" Lloyd listened in a daze.

Understand?" The simple-minded sacristan was in a daze with all this mystery, but he repeated the words resignedly: "I'm to stand at the church door and fan myself with my hat.

BARBARA [in a daze] I must follow him.

The old man fumbled the note in a daze, but what chiefly interested me was the amazed look on the faces of the little crowd.

The battle has been won!" Willet's heavy but friendly hand fell upon his shoulder, and Robert came out of his daze.

It seemed to daze her for a moment.

" "It is like the start of the substituted letter, and the other is like the missing note," gasped Leland in a daze.

Yes, it all seemed too good and fair to be true, and I lived in a daze.

I went through the rest of the evening in a daze of annoyance and regret from which I did not fully emerge until we were all at the dinner table, with Dicky officiating at the chafing dish.

Alford sat in a daze, with a smile which he was aware of, fixed and stiff as if in plaster, on his face, and with his gaze bent on this or that eidolon, and then on all of them together.

Wanhope went out with Minver, and then, after a moment's daze, Rulledge exclaimed: "Jove!

His brain was in a daze, and he wondered if he had been stricken by some strange madnessif this all was but some passing phantasm that would soon leave him again to his misery and his despair.