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"The Blessington Papers are included with all their atmosphere
of distinguished High Bohemia. Among them are some interesting
Disraeli letters--he was ever her staunch friend from the early
'thirties to the late 'forties, when his son had risen and
her's--how brilliant!--had set."--_Saturday Review_.

And up to the present we had been under the impression that both these
distinguished persons were childless.

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HINT FOR HORTICULTURISTS.

"Mr. ----, undertaker, of Temuka, improved his plant by the
purchase of a new hearse."--_Timaru Herald (New Zealand)_.

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"Mr. ---- hopes shortly to be seen again in revue in the Wet
End."--_Pall Mall Gazette_.

Or, as the CENSOR would put it, "somewhere in England."

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_Daily Mail_ (Ordinary Edition), 3 September, 1917: "Lord
Halsbury is 92 to-day."