The Plural Voter.
"At the Wilmot-street Schools ... the credit of being first fell to a well-known resident—a stone-mason by craft.... There was no mistaking the colour of his political opinions. He voted for Major Sir Mathew Wilson."—Evening News.
"'I am going to be the first man in England who ever voted at 7 a.m.,' said an enthusiastic workman at the Wilmot-street Station as he fell in with the opening of the front door. He voted for Masterman."—Star.
A message recently sent to a New Zealand chemist:
"Please give the little girl a plaster for a man that a piece of wood blew off a shed and hit him in the rib."
"Bay Gelding, 5 years, 16 h.p., up to 13 stone; hunted up to date; good performer and temperate; quiet with road nuisances; 30 gs."
Thirty guineas for a 16 horse-power horse is absurd.