Ix view of the correspondence on smoking in theatres it is interesting, to note that at Home, though the G. W. R. has arranged to label a quarter of its carriages "No Smoking," and to enforce the rule strict-Jay, the non-smoker will still be far enjoying the measure of protection that was once his. The companies forbade smoking absolutely for the first twenty years of their existence, and in 1846 a Scottish company was sued ty a passenger who said that fon the journey from Edinburgh to Glangort somebody, was, smoking the next compartment (not - hi own), and that the guard professed not to be able to locate the offender. The outraged non-smoker was) awarded £8 6s, 8d. In that same your the first smoking carriage made its appearance on a Great Eastern train much favoured by Cambridge undergraduates, who} had systematically defied the ban, but it was not till 1868 that smoking} carriages were provided on every} train, And that was not because] the companies wishei provide them, but because a statute obliged them to do so.
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excavations recently carried out in Blossouv's Inn Yard, that even bor fore the sack of the city Boudiesa, there was an extremely, popular deiingrendeavous neat the present site of the. Guildhall Mundreds of Roman vessel of red wave have been unearthed, and, Ising above them, in amazing pod salify, were tankards made. of arly Enulish pottery, German bear mugs, Venetian wine' glasses, Enge ish closees of Charles lice period, and earthenware juga," Perhaps the: Fill of some. eavthvound Honan Cantarlon, whose only slae: in eile tras drinking to excess, continued attract to his grave the discarded ing vencele of all the taverns in the nelghboushood.
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