I pause (as before)....
[Author. We can start all over again now if you like. Editor. I don't like.]
Evoe.
"HOPS.
Canterbury, Saturday.—Trade was quiet, with prices steady, as follows:—Kent mixed fleeces, 36d; lambs' wool, 22d to 24d; downs, 41d to 42d; and half-bred fleeces, 38d to 39d per lb."—Financial Paper.
This may help to explain the taste of "Government ale."
"By systematic and scientific training is it possible to produce that perfect type of manhood gifted with the best powers of what we are wont to call the 'lower orders of creation'—keen sighted and swift of motion as a bird, sharp-scented as a greyhound, faithful and acute as a dog, and full of sentient wisdom as an elephant."—Daily Paper.
We are doubtful about the rest, but the greyhound part should be quite easy.