... the district, giving the total of 359 and a death- aud 15°44 in 1906. rate of 17°68, as compared with 18°36 in 1907, Infant Mortality—25 children under one of age died durin the year, giving an infantile (a eaths under one mortslity figure 1000 births) ...

... which was doing its bist to attract our attention, it tusued out to be an Arab dhow, having on board siz or more balf-oaked mortale in the sorrowful plight of being without bread or water, It was a sight long to be remembered, when our majectic steamer pulled ...

... missed after all. special feature of the evening was the piano and violin selections by Morrison, teacher, and bis almost infant daughter. MrMorrison has long bean known as musical genius, and it would appear that bis daughter inherited this. The audience ...

... CONGREGATION. NNUAL SOCIAL MEETING THE annual social meeting, held under the auspices of the O.S. congregation, was kept in the Infant School on Thursday evening. The Rev. E. David- son, pastor of the congregation, occupied the chair. The meeting was opened ...

... Here is another instance of the inventive capacity of a budding brain. A lady teacher in the West of Scotland was giving an infant class reading. The names of King Edward and the Dake of Connaught were meationed. She asked them if they knew what relation ...

... the last union took place, 8», aco-niing to-bis- reasoning, the U.P. Church was wisor than the men of Now, as an ordinary mortal, I should have thi correspondent would have rejoiced now that the United Free Church has that io all matters of import- ance ...

... founded upon the seas and established upon the floods oould be proof that the earth is not sphere teems hard for ordinary mortals to understand, lie opinion so generally and 10 confidently maintained by that the distance between the eat th and the sun ...

... all their nights in varied lust, Raise up an heir, then turn to dust ? Is there no rent in life's dark sky Through which we mortals poor can pry And learn the wisdom that can see Justice and right in ? did we mark a gentle strain Float lisping ownwards to ...

... tribulation I cannot but assure him of my heartiest What son of Adam could not have com- passion on an old grey-haired of mortality with few hairs on bis head, and what is worse, a of eonse in his himself to so eonsonant which all for of one poor to be ...

... of relieving th e congestion of the tt} the Scottish Society foi * r t e Prevention of speaking, not an old e put In In the infant department repetition of Pesala immediate revenue—while aj Cruelty to Animals, wit! h having worked’ a e age of sixty-six ...

... ruffs, it appears to have been from and Howell says that the Spanish word for a fathingale, literally translated, is cover-infant. It was ¢ forerunner of the ticoat, which was firet mentioned ia 1598, irteen years after this it had become fashionable, ...

... Truly the glory of war is bought at a great price ” In the bloody battle cf Steenkirk, 3rd August, 1692, General M'Kay fell mortally wounded and on that fateful day three thousand of his vallant men fell, covered with glory, though not crowned with victory ...