_To the Editor of "The Chimes."_
SIR,--I was 165 last birthday. I was in the merchant marine for upwards
of eighty years, and then became a Swedenborgian, but never had occasion
to consult an oculist. I was born in the reign of George II., or was it
Queen Anne?--I really forget which. My wife is 163, and we walk out,
when weather permits, and seldom omit church on Sundays. We both still
read your "Births, Deaths, and Marriages," and consider that they are
the best.
Yours venerably, W. A. G.
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Another Suffragette Outrage.
"Among the elementary and fundamental rights and duties are (_sic_)
the security of the person. But it is violated as much by he
(_sic_) or she (_sic_) who challenges assault as by he (_sic_) or
she (_sic_) who assaults."
The five "_sics_" are ours. The rest belongs to the leader-writer of
_The Morning Post_, on whom militancy seems to have had a painful
effect.
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"A Central News telegram from Montreal states that Miss Edith
Shaughnessy, daughter of Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, was married at St.
James's Roman Catholic Cathedral yesterday to Mr. W. H."--_Morning
Post._
From the wedding presents, which were both numerous and costly: "Mr. W.
Shakespeare to Bridegroom--Sonnets."
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