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Title: The Forfar Directory and Yearbook 1909
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Publisher: W. Shepherd, Castle St, Forfar
Contributing Library: Angus Council
Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland

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born, 1792. Th Gold alone makes not prosperity. ^ Alfred Tennyson born, lE Old St. Jamess Day. Grotto Day. S M Tu W Th F S S M Tu W Th F S s M Tu W Th F S_ S MTu 9ili Sunday after Trinity. Coronation of Edward VII., 1902. Over-haste makes certain waste.Half-Quarter Day.Grouse shooting begins.Jeremy Taylor died, 1667.15. Sir Walter Scott born, 1771. lOtli Sunday after Trinity Professor Bunsen died,Earthquake at Valparaiso Hot love is soon cold.Honore de Balzac died, 1850.Blackcock shooting begins.St. Francis de Sales born, 1567. lltli Sunday after Trinity. Lord Salisbury died, 1903. St. Bartholomews D. Massacre, 157: Michael Faraday died, 1867. The stillest humours are always the Rowland Hill died, 1879. iworst. Battle of Cressy, 1346. 12tli Sunday after Trinity. Impudence is not courage.John Bunyan died, 1688. z ^ D 0) mi/) h. III.7 477 46 7 447 427 417 397_J77 357 347 327 307 287 267 247 227 20 77 16 7 147 12 7_£P7 8 58 56 6 53 651 6 49 8th Month.) A ssertion is not proof. (3t Days.
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Photo : Pictorial Agency.ZT. ALBANS, WITH DISTANT VIEW OF ABBEY. A KAFFIR POSTMAN. It seems a far cry from the rural postman ofEngland with his cheery word for each indivi-dual on his round, to his black prototypestalking across the trackless veldt, the mailsstuck in the cleft of a stick or slung round hisback in a canvas bag. He can read not a wordof their contents, but he is as loyal to his trustas his white brother, and any thieving spiritwould have to tackle a particularly nastyknobkerry before he could interfere with theKaffir postboy. HUMAN FOOT-WARMER. It is interesting to learn that Julius Cassarfound our Celtic ancestors just suffocatingthemselves with smoke. Giraldus, the earlyWelsh historian, describes a family as sittinground their smoky central fire by day andlying round it by night. But they could have had little comfort fromit, for the same historian tells us that one oftheir princes eked out his fire with a humanfoot-warmer. This officers duty was to keephis masters fe

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