... than the figures for 1906. A regrettable feature the high rate of infantile mortality, for of the 208 deaths 30 were those of infants one year and under. Here is the mortality as disease : —Zymotic diseases 8. septic diseases 2. phthisis 19. other tubercular ...

... considerable number of deaths from exposure have occurred, and, along with drowning accidents in the Caledonian Canal, the mortality amounts to fifteen. ENGLAND. Fire in Berwick.—Early on Saturday morning fire was discovered in tbe premises of Mr Robert ...

... aggravated his wound; a violent fever ensued, and for many weeks the gay and gallant young officer was as dependent as an infant on the tender vigilance of feminine care. The two sisters, as I have heurd, were alike in nothing but their devoted affection ...

... published, and challenged the latter to a duel. Swords were the weapons chosen, and almost at the outset the lieutenant fell mortally wounded. To write the history of golf as it should be done, says Mr Andrew Lang, demands a thorough study of all Scottish ...

... her remarked that it had gained much of its silver since she had last entered that door. In her arms the matron bore a rosy infant, robed in a long white frock and an embroidered cap. A faint colour broke into her sallow cheek, for though she did not look ...

... baby,six months oid, in her arms. The woman had been shot five times, but the infant was unharmed, A little farther in the adjoining room the neighbour found M. laquy in mortal agouvy, he having received » ball iu tbe abdomen, The murderer was arrested ...

... 000,000 worth of manufactured ootton. In a fire in ft Chicago tenement on Bunday aeven persons perished, and three reoeived mortal injuries. Green peas oontain 22 per oent. of nourishing food, potatoes 1 per oent. less, and cucumbers only 4 per cent. F ...

... And as the lady clapped her hands impatiently, Zeet.a r. with the silent docility her clas*, and, only waiting r ...

... seven months its existence. The lesson was that infants should not get starchy solid foods during these months. If they took human milk, they found that there was no starch in it. A great deal of the mortality among children under one year age was caused ...

... intervals with a rapidity utterly fatal to the evenness and regu- larity of the thread; and but for the lacid countenance of her infant son, half-slumbering in a cot hard by, and the sedative influence on her- self of the snatches of old songs with which she ...

... pinned her against the brickwork of the window. The infant was dashed with great force against the wall. Mother and child were taken to the hospital, but the woman was found to be dead, and the infant died within an hour. Suicide of a Scotch Commercial ...

... bat, Mowbray, cruel Mowbray, the stings of falsehood are sharper still. Lord Mowbray bowed his face upon the bosom of his infant, and wept audibly. The tenderhearted Sarah and her daughter sobbed aloud in very pity of the sufferings of Ellen and their ...