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ARYAN ORIGINS,

andi onuse an inflow, accompanied, toy, by mendod Clements Tonio, I took'a large bottle torrential rainfalls along the length of and has much lesents to testifying to the good We had occasion not very long ago to refer to Max Maller'a medited statement at the country between Armonia and the it bas done me; the noises in my head aro - the last Congress of Orientaliste, with 786-months of the Euphratos, It seems diffused and I can rest at night row, and am fully pect to the original locality from which the cult to follow any ous into details such as convinced that Clemonts Tonis done all that is Argana came. Without pretending to assign this. His main further suggestion is that, claimed for it, and I recommsed it to cl I oaine as he had done at first, he contented him eit of Northern Siberia" and the probable se- Laboratories, 212 Beskel streek, Melbourne, any particular spot as the gradle of that rade, in the ascertained elavation of the land in contact with suffering is I have done with saying Somewhere in Asia, and so companimula of a change of climate, were and at Sydusy-

conditions, under which a great evapora more. This guarded statement, ser to have resised unexpected support from tion took place in the Eurasian Mediterra. another quarter. We refer to Mr F. 9. mean and an unparalleled downfall of the Staart-Glennie's redout article entitled watery rapeurs of that inland ear: The Aryan Origine, in the Chhtemporary R above would, he suggests, from upheaval vieso.

The artisle itself is an attempt to of the bed of the [Persian] Galf give rise, at once to a prodigious asa info and Bupport to theory of the origin of

not yet prevention of sea cutlow, causing su un Aryans, a theory which has perhaps natured into a hypothesis; but precedented deluge, destructive svou of a We find we have no which the writer thinks can be up. great civilisation.

the origin ported from differont and independent pace to go into the question

of the civilisation Sotion it to say that sources. These, however, are rather indi- oated than laid under contribution, Yet Mr Stuart-Glennis repudiatos the idea of the dinoussion involves several points of atriking interest, which we shall endeavour briefly to lay before our readers. The aim dfcheious barrant, for it professes to deal of the article is more ambitions than its Lot only with the origin of the Aryan races and the locality of that origin, but with the origin of civilisation itself. Our prosent concern, however, is with the two former, and only incidentally with the question of the earliest civilication.

Briefly, then, Mr Stuart-Gleanio's idea! is that the civilisation of the Aryans was not original but derivative: it was derived from that of Egypt and Chaldes, in which countries the ruling classes were a white rage, the progenitors in civilisation of the Ister Aryans. That ancient white race, the wriler proposes to call Arohatana, which is perhaps as suitable a name as any, for it gives ao information as to the people in question, beyond the fast of their being an ancient race. The proofs of this, he tolin us, may be found in ethnographical portraits, ethnographical traditione,' and ethnographical observations la tire pre.

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Never heard him complain of it, roptied rey fathe: Do you ever suffer from dyspepsin Toddlien?'

They called me Toddles, but it was not my real name)-

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The Publication always contains subjects of interest to sojourners in the For East and the present issue will hold favourable if not advantageon comparison, with preceding

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Sont Jay. The writer finds those portraits

The abure incident a well-known Englishman in wall frescoes, statuos, and statuettes, in tells shout limanlf. Whether he sainte found sculptures and intaglios of kings and out what drepepala is, he doesn't say. Likely priests of tho carlinet dynasties both of enough. His father's guest was will booked on Egypt and Obaldea. As regards Egypt, the sub ent. That we may guarantee. That's an almost uninterrupted wories of skalls how to gol the purple alin and the dull oyer. occasional And that's what made him fairly turni soar with sud mimics prosent, with exceptions, those high noses and fineeavy when lo saw the boy eating üke a hungry profiles, and that noble cerebral do-dog, and with as little fear of the consequences. velopment which, with long hair and Ah, dear, doar 1 if we elderly man and women beards, and

or less fair or conld cat now as we would when our clias came light coloured complexion, have been inst up to the top of the cable! But we can't, that's certain, hy not? Well, here's one good tho tho distinctive characteriation

woman tells why she couldn't, and she was so bisterio conquerors and civilisera of

unch in eamest in the tale that she went bei other races." The second proof, the Mayor of Leeds and had it put into a forat Traditions both in Chaldea and Egypt, which carries weight and conviction with it.TS PUBLISHED to suit the Departure azeh ExaLISH AND FRENCH MAIL point to Paradiso and Kinship, and Thus we bara it

Steamer, for Europe, It contains special distinguish the white race in question

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The Overland China Mail, by the con sepulture. The third head, of Obsorva- declare as follows tions in our own day, ombracos the fact Up to November, 1885, I was always strong variance of its form and the accuracy and

wall dend bearly. At this time i fell into a low, weak that, all over Northern Africa, up to the extreme Eastern provinces of stato. I was tired, tangail, and low-spirited. ABIR, are found white tribes whose features I had a bad taste in the month and expectorated resemble thoss of Europeaца Professor

sora deal of phlegm. My appetite was poor, and after eating I land grant pain at the chest and Bayce found, in the Dark Continent, recen

between the shoulders, and as bad was this that reproducing in a most remarkable manner

I was afraid to eat. I got no eleop at night, the fair-baired and blas uyed peasan and for works wall ho swake most of the night try of the West of Ireland, sud the and was verso tired in the morning than when lain Mr Baber discovered in South. Western I want to bnd. I was quite work out, and get China od Thibet white tribes whose so weak that I could career get about the appearance forced him to exclaim, Surely base. As it was, I had to consisully to do is these are Earepoate, On the gronuda on the caneh. Having a large family took thus roughly indicated Mr Stuart Glenais after, I was compelled to be up and doing, other- thinks that the problems of Semitic and iso I stand bara heen in bed. I had afton Aryan Origins must be treated as entirely lord people speak of Indigestion and Dyspepsia, anbaldiary to the problems of Eygptian bal did not think it was so had at I found its and Obaldean Origins, and must start In this autourable condition I ontinued week from the solution of the primary Archaian after week, only to find myself getting weaker Brd weaker. I saw a doctor in York Roud, who problema,

gave me medicine, but I got no better. Gotting Framsing, then, that the traditione as losions, I went to a clever, experienced doctor, Aryan origin point to the North, the aes but after being under his treatment some time I tion arises whether the region of which we are op taking his medicine, for I got worse are in quest lay in Europe, as supposed by instead of better. Both doctors said I was suffer Huxley, or in Asia, as alleged by Maxing from indigestion, but they were unable to do Mullai. What appears to be the writer's anything for me. I now lost all faith in physio and booked on my case as incurable. when one great argument for assigning to the Aryane day a book was left at the house telling of n an Asiatic origin is the existence, in past medicinu cailed Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, ages, of a vast inland sun which aparated sul I rend of several cases resembling totun Europa fram Asia, in the same matiner as kaving been encod by it. I seut to Mr Cole, the Mediterraauno divides Europe from chemist, in Murah Lake, and got a bottle. Africs. The vast tea in question, to dis-taking the Syrup three days I felt reliek, my tinguish it from the Eur-african Mediterra.opposite eiurned and my food digestod, and neun of our day, he calls the Ew-asian belove I had taken one large battle I was nured, Mediterranean. "It has orewhile brou called and have since kept it good health. After my the Russo-German Sea, and iu a sketch vary one of my daughters was taken had given in the Con- cheumatism, so I gave her youn Seigel's map of Europe which ié temporary, it is shown as having existed on Syrup and who coon got well. If any of say the most of the Uralian mountains and the family ail anything a dose or two of the Syrop soon sets them right, and for the past four or river Volgs, and to hare extended from the five years we have needed no doctor owing to present Black Sea to the northera boundary taking the medicine. I consider tlms Beigel's of femany. While that sea existed and Syrop kos saved my life, and I have recom its existance at a comparatively recont monded it to ranny, aud if publishing this state- most others may dorso to a benefited, I give period is said to be strongly supported by the best geological opinion-it would prova permission to the proprietors to use it as they an obstacle to any ancient tribes migrating think proger. across it towards pegions whence they could descend upon the lands watered by the Euphrates and the Nilo. If Chaldes and Egypt, as civilised cuntries, existed before the drying up of the Eurasian Mediterranean, they must have been civilized races descending from Le North of Asis; in other words, the white zace frum which the governing classJIA of those countries were derived were the Archaian ras inbabiting the centre and north of Asia. From this race the Smitisi and Aryan races are supposed to have sprung: the former before the Lur-asto Mediterranean ceased to oxist; the latter when that inland ses had been dried up. What was once its bod, became subsequent ly, by a great upheaval, the oradle-tand of Argan race, who, originating from the Archaian white stock, passed over to Europe from Asia.

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And I make this soleaza declaration conscion- tonely believing the same to be tyne. By virtue of tho provisions of the Statutors Declandion Act, 1888 (Will IV., 6. 62).

(Signed) CARDIESE Nixon.

Declared before me at Leeds in the County of York by the

Haid Caroline Nixon, this ta

day of October, 1821.

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·Mayor of Leeds!)

Mre Nizon suya: I have often heard people speak of indigestion and dyspepsis, but did not think i was so bad as I found it. There's jest where the trouble is. Healthy folks simply can't imagine what a concentrated horger, what a death-to-life, this disease is. If they would they wouhil tako every proantion against it. Eve Toddles would have eater fawer taria, puddings, and cales. For indigestion and dyspepsia, lightly as we speak of it in our ignorance, no- tasty destroys were butonu Voing than war, pustilunce, and famine combined, and the only trustworthy remedy, so far as we yet know, is he connecta with a Mesopotamian deluge dhe one mentioned and used by Mre Nixon.

A might be expected, Mr Stuart-Glennie endeavours to explain how auch a vast be dried up. This inland sen came to

spoken of in the great Chaldean Epic'

of which sundry traditions (variants'}

arist in different lands, one of which

the Biblical deluge

is

Thie

A SUBIKUT FOR THOUGHT,

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a bod speculation, and the writer himself provine what forces are directly connected with admits its revolutionary character.

The the production of hals and happy old age. Moro

more theory of the bed of what was once certainly is involved in the process than mare sos, becoming eventually dry land by great strength of constitution. Healthy surroundinge, convultions of nature, is not altogether contentment and active, temperate and regular either novel or original. It was the wall-habita are most valuable aids. Hard work, Bo known theory of Grenville Sharp in regard long at least as it is not carried beyond the limit to the Noachian deluge, which he repre- accessary to permit of the timely repair of work seated as having produced such a sub- tics, io not only harmless bat a conducive eidence of the antedinvian world and sach sirensance. It is in fact by living as far as an upheaval of the bottom of the ocean, that possible a life in accordance with wateral law ibat we may expect to reap the appropriato re-

dry land and grean bede exchanged places, sul fugite prologation. Great care should he and the old world thus actually perished, talous protect the system against the changes giving plecs to a new ourth. It does seem

which tease makes Geremy coming misery

to stand to reason that any great convul- casta ile shadows before it and intimates its sion of nature which would produce so approat by various signs, as a feeling of general stupendous a change sa the uphosral of the rockners, moutulgio pami, nervous headaches. bed of a vast sen, taust to attended with and rising of sour wind from the stomach, back- conresponding depression of large tracts of acho and lambago, failure of vocilty and gradual fand and far-reaching effects. Is this view dimination of ente! power and similar symp- Granville Sharp's theory would be more tous, al tend to show that general debility is consistent with itself than any supposition increasing in the patient's system. Such par B018 Bhould take notice of the experience of Mis which treated an upheaval of a sea-bottom by itself, and apart from answering con- Whittington, 11 Coventry Place, South Mel- yuliors all round, both in adjoining and me, who for 20 years was filicted with EXCLUSIV NORVOas prcstration, and who writes:

in far distant countries. Mr Stuart-Glen-I have beea sufering over four years with nie points to the volcanic nature of the soil noises in toy head, caused by a fright a few days around Mesopotamia and the frequent after condiment. During the whole of this earthquakes to which it is subject. His time the fast excitement would make me very first suggestion is that the Mesopotamian | nervous, and it was with great diftally that I deluge was caused by carthquakes in the could do my household work, and have early North bursting as under this prosent Straits over had a proper night's rest, being continually of Dardanelles and Kosphorus, accompanied disturbed with terrible dreams. I tried many by cotanic disturbance in the region of the remedies and was also under medical treatment, Paina Gulf, such as would uplift its bed but nothing did any good until a friend rout

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sarily be of great importance in the eyon of all missionaries. Mr EH, Parker's "Short Journeys is Szochuen ara continued, and a goodly instalment of these travels in the interior of China is given. Mr F. H Balfour contributes a paper of some longth entitled "The Em peror Cheng, founder of the Chinese pire," which will be read with genuine interest by students of Chinese history. Parcel Post to the United Kingdom A few short notices of New Books and a Parcels not exoceding 11 in weight RK. & Kow, Wasd & Godown Co. 20,004

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