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UTOPIAN.--Neither noise, vibration, nor dust! That's what the BRAMWELLS,
the WATKINS, and the GALTONS claim for that partly-developed but
promising--much promising--invention of M. GIRARD'S, the _Chemin de Fer
Glissant_, or Sliding Railway. _What_ a happy ideal! By all means, "Let
it slide!"
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A CHANCE FOR A NEW MEMBER.--"Rookeries," said Mr. HENRY LAZARUS in his
evidence at Marylebone, "abound in St. Pancras, and it is a scandal to
civilisation that they should continue to exist." Now, Mr. BOLTON, M.P.,
can't you have your legal and parliamentary finger in this Rook pie?
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