... trenches, and the wvomen were either down colony or in the women's laager. For the first few months of the siege the rate of infant mortality and deaths among aged people were terribly high. It was a case of the survival ofthe fittest. Several thousand falsehoods ...

... by the spear trap and the practice of amphibious habits; but the race was poor in physique, neg. lectiul and remorseless of infant female life. Each tribe wvas In perpetual war with the next, between whom a river or a mountain was the only line of deniarcation ...

... Austria's contribution is of special interest at the present moment. It consists of the cradle offered by the city of Paris to the infant Kimig of Rome, I'Aiglon, vhom Sarah Bernllardt is imper- sonating with such immense success. The cradle, which is of most ...

... most un-Christmas like; the Registrar-General reports enthusiastically upon the decreased mortality in thirty-three great towns. Curiously enough, it is infants who seem to suffer most from mild, sloppy weather at Christmas. They need to be braced up ...

... This includes all our casualties, as well as cases of disease. An examination of the statistics of native sickness and mortality shows a total scarcely above the normal figure. LIEUTENANT MILLIGAN WOWNDED AND A PRISONER. The correspondent of the Times ...