Smith, William H

(father of the present Hon. W. F. Smith), the bookseller and librarian, was born In 1825. He became a member of his father's firm, and in 1868 entered Parliament as Conservative menfbor for Westminster, continuing to sit for Westminster till 1885, and then for the Strand. He was a member of the London School Board in 1870-74, was First Lord of the Admiralty in 1877-80, and Secretary of War in 1885; and, when Lord Randolph Church ill resigned, he became leader of the House of Commons, as First Lord of the Treasury. born in 1844, and educated at Aberdeen University, New College, Edinburgh, and the Universities of Bonn and Gottingen. In 1878 he became Profe or of Hebrew in the Free Church College, Aberdeen, but was removed in 1881 for his critical views on the Old Testament. He then helped to edit the “ Encyclopaedia Britannica,” and, when Profe or Baynes died, became editor-in-chief. He was a member of the Old Testament Revision Committee in 1879-80; in 1883, after travelling in Arabia, he became Profe or of Arabic at Cambridge, and in 1886 Librarian of that University. Fie wrote “The Old Testament in the Jewish Church,” "The Prophets of Israel and their Place in History to the close of the 8th century B.C.,” “Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia, etc. gate and west of Alders gate) where, till lately, the only market for live stock was held in that city. It was outside the old city walls, and was therefore the literature) was held there, and the cattle market dated from 1150; but now a fine meat and poultry market has been erected there. of one’s pipe is blue, because, coming direct from the red-hot tobacco, it is very highly oxydized but the smoke from one’s mouth is grey, because; it is highly watered and hydro carbonized. writer, was born in 1721, in Dumb art on shire, and he was educated at Glasgow University. In 1740 he became surgeon’s mate in one of the ships that formed the unfortunate expedition to Carthagena, under Admiral Vernon, in 1741. He gave an account of the affair in his “Compendium of Voyages and Travels.” He left the navy, stayed in Jamaica till 1746, and then, returning to London to hear of the Duke of Cumber land’s barbarities, he wrote the well known ode, “The Tears of Scotland,” and also “Advice: a Satire,” with a second part in 1747, entitled “ Reproof a Satire." In 1748 he published his “ Adventures: of Roderick Random," which brought him fame and fortune and, while he was in Paris in 1750, he wrote “ Adventures; of Peregrine Pickle, ’ followed by a new translation of “ Don Quixote ” in 1755. Soon afterwards he took the management of that Tory organ the “Critical Review.” In 1757 he produced “The Reprisal," a succe ful comedy, followed by his *' Flistory of England from Julius Caesar to the Treaty of Aix-laChapelle in 1748.” "While in prison for libel, he wrote his “Adventures of Sir Lance lot Greaves," and in 1761, 1762, and 1765 appeared his “Continuation of the History of England down to 1765." In 1766, after two years' residence abroad, he published his “Travels through France and Italy,” and in 1767 his “History and Adventures of an Atom." In 1770, while at Leghorn, he wrote “ Humphry Clinker," the best of a all his works. Though his writing was often coarse, it has influenced English fiction. fills the lungs and then forces the air violently through the nose, it is, ordinarily, a healthy action, throwing off automatically whatever irritates the delicate membrane of the nostrils, but if violent an application of warm milk and water, or a decoction of poppies, should be applied. The disagreeable complaint “hav-fever” shows itself in that way. The custom of ble ing people when they sneeze is an ancient and widely spread one. Germans say the word “ Gesundheit ** (health), and Italians “Fclicita** (happine ). m