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"PARIS, SATURDAY.
The Conference will be held in the imposing Salle de la Grande
Horloge. The 'hall of the great clock' is about 30in. long by
15in. wide."--_Liverpool Echo_.
"Imposing," indeed.
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"Manchester's L6,000,000 scheme for obtaining water supplies
from Haweswater was approved last night at a meeting of
ratepayers in the Town Hall. The annual increased consumption
of water had been a little over a million gallons per head per
day."--_Daily Dispatch_.
The new slogan of the temperance enthusiasts--What Manchester drinks
to-day England will drink to-morrow.
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[Illustration: _Visitor_. "BUT THOSE ATTACKS OF MALARIA DON'T LAST
LONG, DO THEY?"
_Tommy_. "MINE ISN'T ORDINARY MALARIA. THE DOCTOR CALLS IT
'MALINGERING MALARIA.'"]
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OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.
(_BY MR. PUNCH'S STAFF OF LEARNED CLERKS._)
I own that to find the publishers, those sometimes too generous
critics, writing upon the wrapper of _An English Family_ (HUTCHINSON)
an appreciation that bracketed it with _The Newcomes_, did little to
predispose me in its favour.
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