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I • — —. » , Public And Political.
proposed Public Health is on ; The V . Political part of women Economy in . teaching In Section and II the . one advantage of the of questions
assigning * it to them , ; and in Section IV . What emp , loyments are suitable for women ? Papers should be in the hands of the { Secretary , _N " o . 46 , Hue
de la Xiigne , Brussels , on or before September 10 th . LITERATURE , SCIENCE AND ART .
International Exhibition . Visitors are pouring in from the country in great numbers , and it is expected that as the harvest approaches completion ,
the influx from the agricultural districts will be largely increased . It is understood that the Commissioners intend to close formally on the 18 th October . A Committee has been appointed by the Queen of Spain to
organize a Universal Exhibition at Madrid * Shakspere ' s birthday was this year celebrated with great eclat at Ballarat gold The digg Committee ings in Australia of the . Oregon Botanical Exhibition at Edinburgh , have
resolved to send Mr . Robert Brown to Vancouver ' s Island , and British Columbia on a voyage of scientific discovery . Mr . Brown will be instructed to countries _explore adjoining the _Plora the of Rock British Mountains Columbia with , "Vancouver a view to ' the s Island transmission , and the of
seeds of hardy trees and plants y , and the , seeds and roots of flowers , to members of the Oregon Association . Our French neihborswho do not seem inclined to rest upon their work
g , of " restoration , " have again taken _Notre Dame de Paris in hand , and commenced extensive labors there . —JLthencBum . The old Scottish humor comes out in these times with something of _itg
ancient form . Only the other day we were all horrified by an account of the has fall just of a very been tall erected house of in the Hig circumstance h Street arid ; loss and of with several , singular lives . character A memorial , this
comprises a sculptured head of a boy , with the words , " Heave awa' chaps , I ' m no' deid yet" inscribed about it ; the whole enclosed in foliage , and placed by way of keystone above the arch leading down to Paisley ' s Close .
we are not always so felicitous in getting characteristic humor as well as & memorial of fortitude , out of our troubles of this nature . Yet the old sculptors , as more than one of our towns and cities show , were not so oblivious .
The ancient towns of _ISTorth West Germany can produce not a few records of like nature . "We do not lack examples of " pluck , " goodness knows , —our respect firemen . and _Jtfot policemen many years have ago no a sailor few claims diedlike on our an Eng munici Hshnian pal gratitude of oldin in Ch that ina
because he would not kneel to some Mandarin , . This act was in , the bold , a sp sli irit ht of our carving race , on and some men were apt spot glad — to such acknowled exist in ge Portsmouth the fact ; still Ch not atha ev m en
Plymouth g , Southampton and elsewhere , , —has been placed to record the courage of the man . —Ibid , ¦¦¦¦¦
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 72, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/72/
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