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warning voice

of a desolating opidemic',

when we know in our

security what it cand the helpless and despairing,

only teach us in the helpless

times

of our peril ?

The suined of chemistry, has

the beautiful.

revealed to us

and dependent

link that unites the animal and - - regetable kingdoms. Obedioner to the reciprocating lasss of animal ano-vegetable life involves no abstruse submission

chemical sciences; it is

exercis

effected

to

iw

the

14 of our refinements bring who

plants and

nurtures his

and nurtures

a

own existence ;-

unconsciously acting

Braz

tree or shrub

he is

obedience to the

sanatory laws of mature ; ; - he is, in the of a simple and refined pleasers,

exercida

creating a safe vent for of his

residue

Source

his own

the noxious

respiration,

and

the

It is much

of a life-invigorating gas.

etted that the Government,

to be regretted

in

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apportioning the building sites in Victoria, did not encourage and enforces the formation I gardens, there ar and corners lying contiguous

many

waste slopes

lying contigumes to buildings

which have been

expensive

in their

construction, that it would be well to

ent and adorn, rather than to sell

plant

theme for purposes whick

may

render the

neighbouring houses uninhabitable.

When

atr

epidemic occurs, wod

source of it

στο

are too apt to look for the source the spot where the disease has reigned, and

our remedies. We overlook

them to apply the fact that it fromd general

may

has originated

and distant causes. It may

the

be asserted as an axion that the habits and houses of the poor are generally

malaria. If this be true of any

Lourers

community, it is so

of the humbler and

native community of Honghong. In the quarters of their abodes, the houses and

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