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It seemed to Henry and me to be anything but a secret, but if the others had that notion of it, far be it from us to blab! An ambulance driver came lazying around the corner and began to start his car. "Any one hurt, Singer?" asked a handsome youth named Hughes, of the Corps. "Man hit by the first shell up here by the railroad. I'm going after him." "Hurt badly?" asked another boy.

John Hughes, the son of a citizen of London, was born at Marlborough, educated at the private school of a Dissenting minister, where he had Isaac Watts for schoolfellow, delicate of health, zealous for poetry and music, and provided for by having obtained, early in life, a situation in the Ordnance Office.

But the articulation, though distinct, was feeble, and it remained for Edison, by inventing the carbon transmitter, and Hughes, by discovering the microphone, to render the telephone the useful and widespread apparatus which we see it now. Bell patented his speaking telephone in the United States at the beginning of 1876, and by a strange coincidence, Mr.

They ran forward with smiling faces, and seemed very glad to see us. I thought they were old acquaintances of Hughes, and Hughes thought they were old acquaintances of mine.

"You win the hat," he said, "but you must go to Homburg for it. I will gladly pay all expenses." "Thank you," answered Hughes. "I hope to visit your country before long; but I shall not be occupied with hats. Again I congratulate you. You were a bit careless, but your position justified that.

We shall not again dilate on faults to which we have already adverted, but merely advise Mr. Hughes, when next he sits down to record his rambles, to eschew flimsy and unpalatable gossip, and, bearing in mind Lord Bacon's admonition to travellers, to be "rather advised in his discourse than forward to tell stories." February, 1847.

He preferred the old hypothesis that the dedication was addressed to a young actor named Mr. William Hughes, a supposition which is supported by a well-known sonnet.

What could she do to pay tribute to their courage? Hughes was their national leader and spokesman; so the Political Powers That Be said: "Let us invite the Premier to sit in the councils of the empire and advise us about our future trade policy." Already Hughes had declared trade war on Germany in Australia.

The next morning an officer came aboard from the staff, and we learned for the first time that General Alderson had been appointed to command the Canadian Expeditionary Force. We could see an officer on shore with a staff cap, who looked very much like General Hughes, but it turned out to be Colonel Davidson of Toronto.

My dear, that did not succeed with the ugly duckling, even in early life." "Not after it had been among the swans? You vain Clara!" "I only lay claim to having seen the swans- not to having brought many specimens down here." "Such as that Nita, or Mr. Hughes?" "More like the other bird, certainly," said Clara, smiling; "but Mary, if you had but seen what that house was.