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AS FOLLOWS

of China, when there is no purpose of fraud, and timal view, that the system is one of indi-Turbot, they been burn anywhere but on the van could. That would indeed us sham bone-

Ifirstly. Avoid taking any of the fol- the rapidity with which ail trading and coat, eating number, not of manipulating them. Grust, tage ground of inherited wealth and our yolence, which, having it in its power to lowing spirituous drinks, such as brandy, cial counts are calculated, are facts of coturisty It is worthy of notice how Frofessur Leslie, a Fishe oharitable institutions give to the ignorant, eradicate any evil,—be it disease, or paugum and also do not take

to all who have any acquaintance with paroliasts who evisiently knows what he is talking. the brutal, course multitudes of the womt periem, or anything else,--only alleviatos stuls bears fuck my old sales minds: in that country. Indeponidepily shout, inaikos the whole thing clear in savi

Snake, patiper blasses just aufleloat assistance to it in order to leave a sufficient number of

Rapondly. It is a well-known fact that abous, which, by the way, ought to be introduseven lines! Ha illustrates it with a

Fresh Water Fish, keep up their rate of multiplication Un patients for the benevolens of the next any person, male or female, laid up with sad into all the elementary schools in Europe, as drawing from a Chinese elementary treatise Suine Fisi der thees circumstances the section of f socie generation, IE we come to speak of: con- ty which is tout lit for the pareistage of the orets duties we should be the last to deny pods sound time, will grow from two to fout

where shops kad markets), the ten figures with a similar one in Chinese Almanao, man claim that peopię

with hereditary insanity 'or. IntHea

are su omnipresent rade mesum-an easy dete, but my teacher, though a graduate, could the people of the future for Ita postority scrofula, or any other hopeless and yet in- Thirdly. It is also a well-known fact, ton of rogusry, or intentional false reckoning give me no information about it Whatever. It the action which has too Hittle праце

transmitted disease, in his family, that eve

Professor every person on rising in the morning Before the introduction of the decimal system in

Leslie also points out with very would be performing a very kind

high of staller thna when retiring to rest in the the Spanish Culovies the callves were constantly propor caution how it is said." that the cheated, from the impossibility of rorrecting Chinese Merchants use this means of tole prudence to marry early without means f duty in refusing to perpetuate it by marry-orthly. It is most important that their accouule, made up by the ancient, icon graphing numbers one to another behind

while the indolent and worn-out up. | Jug.

jug. But it never occured to us

us that the per classes, and the ignorant and careless Fynser eritte had entered on a discussion of all persons, to fully succeed, must carry out in bu ter bold up his mugether their customers backe, I suppose. as some

nient, and perplexing divisions of the dollar multitude thing who have no the limits of practical interference with the in every particular the rules laid down, i the dollar, Kás been divided into cente, and bothahet for similar purposes. This is rather Gevon,

persons in England use the deaf-and-dumb and the virtue and transmission of inherited constitutions, and the result is certain. wealth to begin Wisdom to wait for it, multiply. In other

or moutal; we thought he was

.

that He could not be imposed on now," SAS | On all and every occasion that "Laatly. words, the best

busuity do specimens of

wing

an unfavourable augury for the presents itself patients must avail themselves

The author of that most charming book rogery than an easy detection of it. The Turpip, Salt,

Further

statement however, that they con- Carrots, Salt, of the Breakfast table hapeal the pantomime from the knowledge of The Autocrat earth, but rather do the worst increase no fully adequate physical provision for or even lying down as much as possible, ka

My appointment on this occasion cantiveness of the sense of small over and

hand with moral or physical, from the stock.

Spinage, a hearty grasp, can hardly be Indian Cora, Aud suit was that correct, nor that the length of the y-71206,

project- admit that there is none such.

Young Bamboo shoots, catty 160 140 persons (and they were very numerona incertain indescribable ded) who answered the following, which is but of what has been called "Gutzlafism,

bulong to one of the literary or higher Cabbage, Large Macao, ench hanging about the above paragraphs sug classes of sourety! 4 gehuine advertisement

260 200 L.:0. P. ideas BB swiftly as

Cabbage, White Canton, catty 40 eye you could have it so ? What would haut classes are or are not the parents of the Ari alderly batheter of fortune, wishing gestul cart teems with nearing to the! that really mo

mean? It would mean the next goneration, because we believe that the

to amuse himself by t

Courmun, of ancient ráis testing the strong snatching their food from the weakoule, so essential in the lower races, are re-till send a suitable present of genuine credulity of bereditary provisions for eliminating mis the public and to beuofit the nnmarried,e of a torrier dog. Knowing, however, THE Pall Mall Gazette relates the follow

French; the ablo clearing the field so ellectually Ra

the of the author, qui nihil tetigiting extraordinary story, on the authority to leave nothing for the less competent, the placed by vastity larger moral provisions worth to all who will send linu 18 postage quod non ornant, his proficiencies in Hun of a correspondent et Rome. He save Happy canting no glance either to the right independent of the hereditary principle, stamps, demanded merely as a token ofgarian or Polish (I forgot which, but vide. I was mistaken in informing you that l'arsley Chinese, the left that might bring Tho tras arrangements for draining off imperfootious the present. Address B. Gy Esq., 2, Arabic and Persian, and as brother Sau+igned his post of Vicegerent of Rome; it. Beuns, broad,

The organin

anio confulence. Stamps will be returned with The Saturday Heview passin), his depth in Monsignor Villanuova Cattellacci bad ro- the of the unhappy. Darwinist law is a law of unalloyed coupe are less, just because the spiritual ninTerraco Portobello Road, Kensington led to make soins enquiries before making The cause was a great standal which came

has it all that sort of thing, why, one was appears that he was dismissed by It machinery for doing so is tition,of "struggle for oxistence.

a much greater. Aud could have it working with all its force, if this is our answer, as far as one is conceive Park, Wit London."

elderly bachelor's declaration that too terrier-like a rush on the rat one smalt to light in a certain convent which at pre- we were to get rid of the failure" which ble, to our correspondent's last paragraph the present which he sent should be suitable There is no sort of statement about sent I will not name. Nearly the whole the reviewer has noticed, it could only be He ascuses us, very oddly and erroneously, to the circumstances of the applicants in China too absurd to be swallowed at home, of the nuns, who are very young, were freen Peas, in the Shell, by expunging those elements in our nature of wishing to multiply and perpetuate moral duced & groat many of those who replied to but it is somewhat surprising to see a far- found to be as uns chould not be. As the Tomatoes, Which are the cause of this failure. But whetstones, the raco of patients, for the sake him to describe their circumstances at some rago of nonsense like the quotation above rules of the convent are very atriot, the What are those elements? What is it which of the moral razors which are to be sbar-length for his guidance, lest in his ignor gravaly printed in a Hongkong journal and

Asparagus, wa kept very close. At length search makes it impossible for men to olcar

on them, as the consciences and ance of their real waste, ho

Chilies, Dried, away pened

aliould send Leaded The Chinese method of computa-reve

aveakd a subterraneous ·

Passage comanni- the ailing members of the human family at feelings which are to be trained and disci them something which they did not require. tion," and it proves how achievous such eating with a monastory of Belgian monks, hotthy buferlies would gore to death thoir plined by dealings with the sufferers. That When the moment of diaenchantment came oulpable mis-statements are, from The pasango terminated in an ancient

Garlic, Ro- tick, and to leave paupers to be famished or is not our view at all. What we may is this: to these unsophisticated people, they ons sou speaking with an air of authority. One man vault, the last vestige of a pagan tem- plague-stricken

gucken by fandango, in locusts ditary distant fill not be extorsinyt ad, and all poured their sorrows ja tu the atten- would thinks that aves Hongkong people, 57, in which the monks professed to proc. Curry Stuff,

or self-indulgence, as diseases exterminated; es tive ear of the post office, sud in this way

though

they

tise mystic austerities. Mounignor Castel- Pumpkins, to rot on the plains they have devoured? matter of fact, pauperiam, strive as we became

of not knowing a teps from a leapt was blamed by the Holy Father for

Large Onions, Bonibay, Winian consummation in the case of man,

To this our roply was in slept no fallows, -would you really wish the Darwinian lair to extend in its full force to the case of man,

if

Indeed, we are comparatively indifferent whether, as our correspondent asserts, the

home to them existing in the case of man.

The

as an odour

do labuar the

Pope.

Lettuce,

Celery,

English,

41

Long- French, Stringed,

lager,

Greed,

early that which prevents the true Dar- may, will always make head against our of them had manith what some of stigma old borceive that such a method having failed to discover this sacret coureen Onions,

the

furto as a matter of fact, a great number

of infirmities which would, under the law of "natural

ural selection," disappear by the mere disadvantage they entail in the "struggle

Che

written.

lady,

Shalote,

Turnips,

nature,in our religion, and which dis- if et all, and this because a higher law, not who said that his means were very limited, Just toupied, and if you are you have of this story, and I'relate only what is stat- Egg Plant,

What we'

kud,

a

the writing from Dorsetshire, in- of computation could afford no easy solmunication, and for defending Duns, foruled the olderly basholor that the objest tion of sil suns' whetovor. Un the abacus particularly the abbess, though she was in in which she was most interested was the a record remains of every number into the same condition as too many of her flook. rebuilding of her parish church, and hoped duced into the calculation, but what is to I have been at pains to acortain the truth for existence will not disappear so rapidly, that he would contribute clergyman,

shew what fingers and joinits

add to paused by aevorad Roman prolatas," lower, is at work. But what is the conventured to hint that the most useful pretegether, in indicatit: wny one,

how sre pensation 7 We believe it to be this,--not sent to him would be a five-pound note. A How erroneous the statement is about the you to remember those that went before 1 merely that the highest class of virtues are lauy from Ireland expressed herself by a vade meet and the easy detector must

HONGKONG MARKET PRICES, called out by the existence of such miseries ticipation as being truly grateful, and added and infirmities, in those who give their lives that such things us valuable presents rarely be seau at once. Any lady will vouch for

Saturday, December 8th, 1868. to eradicate or alleviate them-but also fell to her lat. Another lady told him that the fact that if the cook gets his recount that the existence of these infirmities and she mixed in good society, and was sn miseries becomes the condition of a great adept in dancing the polka and Mazurks. fetches bis abagus. Perhaps the learned variety of higher types of character, even a These details," she proceeded, "miny author of the method would account for mongst those who suffer from them. Il-health assist in deterinining the suitability of the this by saying that, in his state of nervous- in animale is the condition of no higher class present? Another lady thought that "nose his fingers had all become thumbs.

The one grain of wheat in all this" bushel

it is just that part of human So, again, of deformity in animals, or de-

is best worth having and perfects of breed of other sorts such as indicates intelligent girls, for ull or any of whom

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in the new principle of disinterestedincas, of self-denial of pity for the weak, love for e miserable, of compassion for the poor, which is rooted in the highest part of our tinguishes is from the soiinal tribes to which the Darwinian lawr absolutely applies, In historical fact the different Churobes, Jewish Christian, Mahomedan, and others, have done more than any other in Buence in bistory to counteract the influence of the Darwinian principle still working in our animal aad, no St. Paul aaye, carnal nature We were not discussing with the ertio in Fraser & question of practical duty but a question of

of istorical philosophy we say is sigh for the perfect sution of moral qualities, and, therefore, ill-health mice black silk (tress (with three days an of chaff would seen to be that there was some of the competitive Derwinian principle as in animals is noou eradicated by the law of der nice) would

ease in relation to man, all struggle for asistenca. Poverty for ani- reward for her credulity and one uptu auch method, called (choung please

(two more dashes) history shows that you will not attain it, als is the condition of no rooral qualities tonguine then all she rust, declared that she shoung chem, Tas hand indicator) in ancient that that which prevenis at all, only mesus farishing and death.tiad five enterprising sons, and three engag- times, and Tshould imagine more used for indicating numbers than wurking with enteris

them. It was most limited in

Application and "the operation of the Darwinian principle of capable of leading, in creatures that are not Unfortunately, the elderly bachelor was born books in England, but not quite se selection, thiors would be a failure in human frue, to any variety of higher qualities. But a follow of no imagination. There was is well known. Most of the Chinese never nature. If there be no such failure in hu with men it is not so. Il-host, as every variety of resource in bin; for to the iu heard of it, and the better informed even man nature, there must be this failure, body kn

is the condition of the growth finite number of knows, is t **which you so much regret,

applications which pour cannot show how it was done.. the operation of a great number of the

est qualities of of the Darwinian principle. It is a mistake the spirit; poverty is a condition of the upon him, he sent but one kind of to imagine that we were either apologizing discipline of another great group of virtuce full of good advice; but rather proay, and his verbal instructions would be a little**

the reply. He invariably encload a little track teaching him them, however. Let us

Sir John Bowring is quite capable of hope for ur advocating aty particular policy in 8o. condonbus, relation to the physically and morally hals true virtue, means a realiness to recog received. la so doing, he considered that Most persons will be interested at finding Pigs Fo

religious poverty," two stamps out of the sixteen which he had plainer than his interesting written onre, "and blind; we were merely stating visible nizu fully all your own shortcomings and he acted up to the letter of bis advertise that they had supposed: Each finger

excellences of others, mant, which stated that: "stampa

have. several more joints to their Proportions, which all the bich is rarely bred in the returned with the present." onely bread p

would ought to arrest the attention of those who is a virtue

ogers thar complain that "natural selection" does not midst of perfect proclarity and wealth.

After a time, the inquiries after the we see after groping through a mist of do its perfect work for man, namely, that pretend that our correspondent's diffi- and pressing: but he never could be reen got

then, in the least wish elderly, bachelor became very numerous confusion to ascertain the finger

novel atato- that

finger-sach has Ybut a thing much value what he is. Wo di calties are not difficulties. All we assert is the flesh. I havo some 10ason to think, some more joumber not stated but |

hot attempt to explain away the evils and that the Darwinian law, if it could be real however, that he was the last surviving three) on the right. The little uncertainty

inter joints, three onter and Mutton Leg, *

probably merated by the essayist; we admitted them; ly efficient in the case of man, would kill director of BJ to exist, samé few years the total of joints for each finger, but it is Sucking Pigs,

tay tuipulation of the Darwinian alou that than it would cure; and ander the title of "The Universal probably correct--for China, the natives of Calvos' Iffead, and Feet, se 500

about the right forbids one's ascertaining very inherited nitschiefs which

nature

betuating. If there were no "failure" in inferiority of capacity,none of these are, or we welcome to preis about as common in China now ai

fact of

if it did, or could, man would not be man,

but what we did object to, was the notion principle could

posily

would

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our correspondent complains; of are, to a nevolent Society, Limited," and which ad- which are proverbially light fingered, and are sheeps' Head and Feet, aid, extinguish inrge extent, the conditions of the growth vertized that it would send five shilings well toown to inve diree jointed thumbs

as well as of so much good, that we may fairly be worth of stamps-loss rightpence for char- all that is noble humanity, the evils rising

out of that nobility. We lieve that the true remedy for these evils ges of mar

Breen, English, Learners of the method too will fl ventured to suggest that with regard to man, is not, for the must part, one which would to manage to any one who, as a

upper" and "lower" joints talked about Bams, Chiness, mark of

Fuhchan, of confidence, would aeud half a the true providential method is different in extinguish them by extinguishing the phy crown's worth of stamps to the society. A ir a manner most perplexing, because it is kind from that which is used in developing cleal stock to which they belong, but might be

American, the lower orders of creation; and that it rather the liberal administration, and the ght be expected from the unremunarative found to be (after much puzzling) the vary

English, may comial wore in directly increasing and free and willing adoption, of large spiritual society were neither spacious nor los taitop-joint and bottom-joint. It may be Kidneys, Bullocke

nature of the business, to offices of this reverse of our ordinary nomenclature of multiplying a higher order of positive quali remedies calculated first, to attemnate them, oraly farnished. They consisted of one rasm author had called on the reader to lay bis ties, than in merely eliminating imporfee- and finally to nourists and discipline a va in Pentonville, and they were reptete (az z

very anatomios and, learned, but if the

Pigs, At al tions. events, in fact, we do see a riety of the highest moral types,

Sheepa, the table before him, palm Sheepe Heart, left

hand whole host of new evile springing into exist

novelist would ssy) with a table downwards, and had said. "The and a chair. I had the pleasure to desiat at idles of the thres joints of mach finger re Pork Sausages, ence in the human race which do not affect

an interi

Figs Heart, between the the lowananinials at all, and in all probabi-

bud

managing

ging director tility there tie evils are to be contendedButler tells us that doubtless the ples managing director was a very modest and and the right sides as y

1 the solicitor to the post office. The present so-and-so, the upper-sides so-and-so as you look at the back wak had extinguished, if at all by conscious enro is as grent in being cheated as to retiring young man, and was not at all will of your hand so-and-so," he would have moral agency, at least as much as by that cheat, and the Spaniards; in a kindred jpg at first to turrogate to himself the whole been much clearer to the vulgar mind. At process of hereditary elimination which ap-spirit, are wont to say, How wretched is praise that was due to the society's proceect least if the above is not what, he is trying pliolefly in the lower regions of the man who is undeceived." As a diligentngs but the solicitor to the post office, whỏ

to moan, like Artemus Ward. "I give it up Geedo, sturlent of and fro baliever in advertise-bas rather a thirsttor information, and a very Now, as far as we understand our cotres mente, I have often enjoyed the pleasure happy knack of eliciting it, contival to such devious as arguing from this particule feal,

of the letter is master The last paragraph pondent, we have convinced him of all this: f being beated, sail experienced the miss make his astmit that he was the society to the general, a thing which no logion Turkeys,

in ita way. The learned writer souris Ducks, He sings the praises of the law of natural ry of being undeceived, and I propose now On being asked how he could carry on selection no longer. He contouds for a to o relate some of my pleasant and painful business of such a very turomuncrative person would ever do, and so he atopts a Pheasants, Cook, higher principle of moral selection which is experiences.

character, he said, at last it was line of proof entirely his owu. Because the I remember well, as if it had been only only the extreme magnitude of the accounts of China are niversally correct, “natural”—which we call supernatu

Hen, 1-with, at all events, is not strictly yesterday, the thrill of delight with which business which enabled him to work therefore, indupondent y of the sunous, the gena, - "competitive at all which is not due to a road the following advertisement in the it to which lie silded that, of courte, it be introsinecd into all the schools of Europe Fowls, Quail, ten fingers are, etc. etc. The abacus ought to stringgle for existence, which includes columns of a Lundon local paper toolid not going for yet. Be thou because it is seen everywhere in Russis Capons,

HOW TO GROW TALL-Important dis politely advleed that it had better not got the shops and markets. Chinese count Ileb Eggs, only differs from the ordinary moral oriticovery by a well-known Medical Man. on for ever, and this advice he was good

Would Both I this that it would Ladies and Goatlemen up to

•** dati on 'bama xatirà in

thirty- Bough to take, but I faney that he merely by the method because the decimní sim

years of age may increase their height retired from business for h timo, and that system has been introduced into Manila, Duck Eggs, in as much as possible at the impossible six your task of restraining by means in hu- several dushes in a few

following he has reappeared with new metro as the and Sir J. Bowring is quite sure it is Salt Eggs, main power (atid praotically there are none) fully the directions given. Pamphlot of elderly baghete with new

Dried Ducks, a vademecum because he

once KAW an Indian hold up his finger. One has to Snipe, - take breath and a long breath after this artridges, Si has evidently been ronding the Rabbite, pretty little poem beginning,"

dreation.

by

idea of self-denial, which in a word,

onthe

the multiplication of stocks tainted either Instruction, le, it stampa address, Mr.

hereditary disease,

hereditary W. B, Great Purtiand strast, W or: poverty:

I was more than thirty-six years of age and incompetence. Now on this simply useless and impracticable aspiration when this advertisement appeared, but I of the Fraser critio's we passed no opinion, did not hesitate to send twelve stamps for

ed to us because it never occurred us to discuss the pamphlet of instructions. It was

as

THE CHINESE METHOD OF COM

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Lo the poor Indian whose untutored recently read the following in the Daily mind

The reference of Professor De Morgan le

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Tapioca, 1600 1300 Macaroni,

Vermicelli,

210 200

120 110

240 220

850 220.

110 130

1:40 130 140 130 340 320 180 170, 380 860 1300 1200

Miscellaneous.

Chinase Vermicelli, Gurry Powder, Split Peas, 'Rice, Padds, Brap,

Flour,

Sugar, Chiun, Pearl Barleys Fogo, Coarse Salt, Fine Salt, -

Popper (whole)

(ground)

bottle 400 280 box 1500 1300 1500 '1800 entry 160 150 bottle

T

1950 1820

400 250

catty

100 80

40

26

"

picul 1500-1350

entty

65 60 130 80

180 140

St 50

Wild Geese,

10 9.

"

Wild Ducks, - Hill Suipe, Sand Hill Birds,

26

$21

**

660

650

140 120

"

"

per doz,

each

G60 600

Coffee, Nutmegs,

bottle. 250 200

eatty oach

280-1810 13 10

140 180 Capers,

250 150

Olives,

400- 300

"

cafty

#1

140 120

Mango Chutney, 220 200 Gram, new,

Mustard,

#1

**

"

190 120

200 160 Mace,

"

catty

160 140

220 200 Cloves,

1)

200 120

spirations after the impossible. We only absurd, Largued, to suppose that develop Press ile paper, published at Hongkong-and the result is enough to mako on Indian

at to the tene moral

ment must Likeweight which may probably, as a must in all cats. We had evidence to the cre- Bowring, appears in the London thereup Angery but both bands too. Let us hope lice Birda, cence at the same period The following interesting letter, from Sir John or any other mortal not only hold up bis Sparrows, ter of historical fact; be found to supply in trary daily. I had always been reckoned the dase of man an equivalent for the sofat very young of my years; and if, after all, the employment of the fingers for the purpose of the Indian is not the only person who Wild Pigerne, indufence of the Darwinian principle of there was only sufficient vigor left in me to notation induces

to speak of the very ingen! purely natural selection in the case of the allow of my growing but one inch, that inch ous application cone of this living shade to use the abatus is

be imposed uz now." accountancy of China in correct be lower orders of creatures. We said that it would be well worth twelve postage stamps, altimetical calulations ; of the facility it gives

ight be found that west is lost by the less Indeed, it was certain that a single inch for the settlement of accounts, and the easy soli Sir J. B. censoning is much do if one is everywhore used,” and apigati

Live Fish, speedy

extinction of feeble physical types of would be worth more to me than to a tallar ion of all suns whether of addition, subtraction, should say The speed of travelling in Bets, postitation, and the more rapid multipli man. It would be an inconsiderable ad multiplication or division, from one up to a hunt. England is

well known natio

of the lowest and lenet refiued morali dition to the stature of Heguit, but it hand. Every finger on the left hand therefore, quice independently of railways, Shrimps, everywbore and Oysters, ypes, may be much more than regained by would be a large percentage of increase on units, the ring finger the tens, the middle finger grey market-town in Abyssinia." What Prawit, represente nine figures the little finger the wheelbarrows ought to be introduced into Crabs, the new moral life which springs out of the mine twalva starar ↑ duly-thumb the tens of thousands, The three innerever Indians do in the Spanish Coloniet,'| domsuds of the week and the miserable on

the hundrade, the fore finger the thousands, the ever nd the self-denial and benevolence of the strong received the Fw to Grow Tali," the right7.9. The forefinger of the right Oy, Joweter excellent a

pamphlet, entitled joints represent from tto:8, three outer 4 to 6, Duricorrespondent:

Chinead th

in China don't count

on their fia Lobster, seems A Treatise on as mucii,

cfully recognize,"

It was a very antall painphlet, for it con- hand la employed for pointing to the Ruger to be instrument the abacus may be, ten years Small Turtles, that the.

of misery to tained only five sentences, and they did not called lath use; thus 1,234 would it onge be experience of English and French schools Large Turtles, to be, relieved, of sufferings to fie sympa qaito fill three pages, but I thought this demoted by just kuching the insite of the apper leads me to say (subject to correction) that Large Fresh Fish, thised with, of weakness to

to be borne with, was a gond sign. It ran thus

Joint of the of the forefinger, representing 1,000; it, otight to to be introduced into any Small of poverty to

assisted, ba

of diseases to be of degradation trouter. Anost pficient, as, perhaps an ausolutely distrusing to a sensitive mind than being sealing at and lastly, the upper joint of the expounder than sir John Bowring.

to be raised, is a not know of nor can I imagine, one, moraluside of the lower joint of the ring finger, repre- it will have a more lucid and intelligible Gouger Eele Smally necessary instrument for the education and of ill stature, and, as I have seen the little finger tonehed on the outside, representing development of the best, portion of our na grand result of my system, I am dealrous 4 Or, spain, 32,988 would be represented by

And the

So happy

In return for my

do

Of all the ills that affect humanity, I do the side of the second, or uniddle joint of school, in a country where it is not in use Mackerel Small,

the middle finger, representing 200 thirdly the Wherever it is introduced it is to be hoped

Salt Fish,

LC. P.

Small Fish,

Since the above was written the wri- Fresh Boles,

......... Hire, and for bringing man up to the high of inparting my knowledge to all affected touching the side of the lower joint of the thumb

est level he is capable of affaising. Well the esme as myself, until I made this in (60,000) and the lower side of the joint of the ter's attention has heen called to Leslie's Canton Salmon, then, he admits almost all we ask-only he portant discovery, which I respectfully fors, middle, ring and little fingers, representing Arithmetic, p. 224 of second edition, where Rock Fish, would eradicate, he says, all these evils publish in a small pamphlet,

rongestively. 0,000, 200, BD Red

emotico of what is referred to shore will be! Shark Visby'

ول

160 160

$10.100 100 80

Pickles,

English Vinegar,

Cinnamon,

11

bottle

220 180

400-200 260 200 picul 3900 3250 bottle 960 160

calty 1000 880°

*+

a96 Sou

364 300

600 830

30

284 160

Ib.

620 400

American,

450

400

400

350

erch 1300 1200

buitle

·260 928

Lainglass, Citron, 400 850 Butter,

Cheese, English,

Dutch, Salad Oil,-

130. 100 Locoanut Oil, 130 100 Lamp Ŏil,

calty

*pical

140 120

500 440 1560.1500 650-200 J. BURTON, Invector of Market

catty

80

70 190 160

Firewood, Charcoal,

110 100 Te

200 140

50

40

78 70

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