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Bloomsbury is one of the most charac- teristic of American cities. Other travel- !lers have written and raved of such towns as Oskaloosa, Iown, of Oshkosh, Wis, one writer I know vouches for it that there is no town so typically transatlantic as Pottstown, Pa., where on the Fourth of July the natives, have been known to eat corncob and chew gum at the same time. but, giving these places their due. I affirm that the wor to the heart of Amerien ja up Southampton-row and the first tur

There are mouch g to the 1:ft. Americans there to support a first-class hochell team.

In my forthcoming book, "An English. man in Bloomsbury." I have presumed to give some advice to other nỀ mu countrymen who may be fired with the same wild desire to memokrate to the image of these strange and alien plante, hak ik. may he well to antie rate the bank's puhlication by setting out a few min. ciples for the guidance of the would-be explorer,

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The bank also contains soma valuable Advice as to how to eat corncob without wetting the ears.

THE COLUMBUS OF AMERICA.

I was fortunate enough to be conducted round the city by the oldest inhabitant. Mr. Josal P. Sloggins, and I shall never forget the impressive moment when he took me to s corner of Montagro-street and bared his head with grave dignity. "You are now standing on the very shret H be mid solemnly. “where the Founder of Ploomsbure, the late Jug Fayard, of Denver. direnvered that he nauld get good board and lodging for ten dollars war. Further down the stearte you will chore the post office from which he bled the historic massame:

Como over here')' to all his relatives.

The chief industries of Bloomsbury ra sight-seeing and borrowing each others) copies of the New York nopers and the exones male cummer moraing whan nautica leave every boarding-house ausintly attired in their battle-porad shoes and nog-tonnag troneers in delightfully characteristic of life in Bloomsbury.

is self-contained. The Community Nearly every chemist's shop has its roda fountain, and in Southampton-row there is a fruiterer who sells menebs. Ther are tailors within the bounds who kn the set of making jackets so that the shoulders jut out in an American accent, And there are white-conted magiciene ir the Bloomsbury hotel who can mix every cocktail from the "Angels' Anthem" to the "Zulu's Curse)"

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TYLISH BATHING DRESSES and the mortgage on the ancestral shirt-wasting the n of the disease among rats died.

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contact with their excrete, vet vithat infected the rats, and the rat-fleas con- contracting the disense, provided ar-s are veyed the diprase to man. absent.. The bubonic tune of nl-que, therefore, is net directly infectieuz to either man or animals, but communiankle by Acas, perhaps, only; in other words, the Chinese Commi-ian had made it clear that rat infection n'ayed nɔ pari. Amonest the delegates at the seven. Th- dirense was engerd from man to man Profesor C. I. Martin and Mr. A. tenth International Congress of Medi cine were Dr. Wu Lien-ten, representing Pacot of the Trister Institute of Provas China, and Dr. Takamina, representing tive Medicine, gure series of laten Japan On th ult. Lieut.-Colore Sir sides trotine the margame of the Dev'd. Pence, C.P.. F.R.8., the resident. bleed they the mouth, pull and of the Section of Tropical Medicine, in stomach of fens intreted by sucking & his opening address drew attention to the plane-stricken animal fact that when the International Congress of Medicine met in London in 1881 there Was no such section as that of tropical SEEDS.mer cine, and little was known of the subiect. A discussion then took place on plague.

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