The following is an incident connected with this work in the country: "At an open spot just outside the village a barber was shaving a peasant's head, and, as usual, a group were assembled near him chatting and smoking.

Mix half a teaspoonful of hydro-oxalic acid with twelve teaspoonfuls of water,apply to the itching parts with an old shaving-brush.

Then he started to work with the scissors, cutting and shaving here and there.

Quong carried in a couple of pails full of boiling water; we laid out shaving tackle, an old suit of grey flannel, a pair of brown shoes, and the necessary under-linen.

The choral system now followed at St. James's was inaugurated in 1865, Originally, the choir consisted of 12 boys and 10 men, but, if anything, parties who are under the painful necessity of shaving now preponderate.

He is good-looking, but not eloquent; precise in his shaving, but short of fire and originality; smart in features, but bad in his reading; has a very neat moustache, but a rather mediocre mental grasp; wears neat neck-ties and very clean shirts, but often fills you with the east wind when preaching.

But he was up again at six, called for Mrs. Morrish to heat his shaving water, and had a cup of coffee in his room.

He had finished clowning in the kit I offered him, and had got back into his Arab things while I was shaving off the black whiskers with which Nature adorns my face whenever I neglect the razor for a few days, when an auto came tooting and roaring down the narrow street, and a moment later three staff officers took the stairs at a run.

AN ORDINARY FENCER Is a fellow that, beside shaving of cudgels, hath a good insight into the world, for he hath long been beaten to it.

Use a badger's-hair shaving brush, and have the lather like whipped cream, with no free water along with it.

[Footnote *: If not stocked by the local grocer, samples of toilet, shaving, and tooth soap can be had from the Makers, M'Clinton's, Donaghmore, Tyrone, Ireland, on receipt of 3d.

" "Butthe towel?" "He may have cut himself, shaving.

He is shaving.

N.B.Many thanks are due to the author, Mr. A. Barber, for the use of his works entitled "Half-Hours with Crowned Heads" and "Thoughts on Shaving Dead People on Whom One Has Never Called," cloth, gilt top.

I remember well the day that John seemed almost convalescent, relished his breakfast, wanted to talk a while, and before we left him, had us bring him a basin of warm water and his beflowered carpet bag, from which he took a change of clothing and his shaving outfit.

"She sent her a ball of shaving-paper," Mrs. Carraway said.

But your Cuban letters, like fairy money, soon turn to withered leaves in your possession, and, having delivered two or three of them, you employ the others more advantageously, as shaving-paper, or for the lighting of cigars, or any other useful purpose.

The noblest undertakings were mixed with the most farcical amusements; the most laudable institutions, for the benefit and improvement of his subjects, were followed by shaving their beards and docking their skirts;kind-hearted, benevolent, and humane, he set no value on human life.

Into the ditch tumbled the regiment, and lay panting, coughing, kicking out the embers, and hugging the ground closely, because now the storm that had swept the tree tops was shaving the weeds and grass around them; and the drone of bullets streaming over the ditch rose to a loud, fierce whine.

He kicks over a petrol-tin full of water, smashes my shaving mirror, and sits on my feet while picking up the bits.

Lord Almeric stuttered in amazement, again falling lamentably from the standard of address which he had conned while his man was shaving him.

STEWED CORN PULP.Take six ears of green corn or enough to make a pint of raw pulp; with a sharp knife cut a thin shaving from each row of kernels or score each kernel, and with the back of the knife scrape out the pulp, taking care to leave the hulls on the cob.

Wrinkles of stagnation had began to creep into forehead and cheekswrinkles that no amount of gymnasium, of club life, of careful shaving, of strict hygiene could banish.

I had never forgotten my father showing me, one day when he was shaving, three photographs from pictures.

Nice is broiled salmon, whitebait's also nice With bread and butter served, no shaving thinner.