734 738 II. THE EFFECTS OF TOWN LIFE UPON THE HUMAN IV. THE STORY OF ZEBEHR PASHA AS TOLD BY HIM- .Contemporary Review...... 744 V. EUROPEAN POLITICS FROM AN EAST INDIAN STAND- MALLOCK...... VIII. HUMAN LIFE. By Prof. RICHARD A. PROCTOR. IX. PASCAL, THE SCEPTIC. By W. L. COURTNEY.. X. RELIC-KEEPING. XI. DRY BONES.. 756 761 Fortnightly Review.. 762 XII. IN PRAISE OF THE COUNTRY. By H. D. TRAILL... Contemporary Review...... 790 XIII. ALFRED, THE HERO KING. A HISTORICAL BAL Southern Silhouettes-A Short History of Philadelphia-Country Luck- XXII. FOREIGN LITERARY NOTES XXIII. MISCELLANY Physical Deterioration among the Lower Classes-The Effects of Heat and 858 860 PUBLISHER'S NOTE. This number of the ECLECTIC closes the forty-sixth volume of the new scries. According to the custom to which we have adhered for many years, we shall continue to send the ECLECTIC to all subscribers who do not notify us of their desire to have it discontinued. We shall be glad if our subscribers will renew their subscriptions promptly, that we may get our mail books in order. BINDING.-Green cloth covers for binding two volumes per year will be furnished at 50 cents each, or $1 per year, or sent by mail on receipt of price; and the numbers will be exchanged for bound volumes in library style, for $2.50 per year, or in green cloth for $1.50 per year. Mr. J. Wallace Ainger is our general Business Agent. CROSBY'S VITALIZED PHOSPHITES. Bismarck says, "It amplifies bodily and mental power to the present generation and proves the survival of the fittest to the next." Gladstone says, "It strengthens the nervous power. It is the only medical relief I have ever known for an overworked brain." Emily Faithfull says, "It makes life a pleasure, not a daily suffering, urge YOU to put it to the test." "Every one speaks well of Vitalized Phosphites."-CHRISTIAN AT WORK. FOR SALE BY DRUGGISTS, OR MAIL, $1. I really F. CROSBY CO., 56 W. 25th St., N. Y. 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WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM AROMATIC SCHNAPPS As a general beverage and necessary corrective of water rendered impure by vegetable decomposition or other causes, as Limestone, Sulphate of Copper, etc., the Aromatic Schnapps is superior to every other alcoholic preparation. A public trial of over thirty years' duration in every section of our country of UDOLPHO WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS, its unsolicited indorsement by the medical faculty, and a sale unequalled by any other alcoholic distillation, have secured for it the reputation or salubrity claimed for it. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND GROCERS. UDOLPHO WOLFE'S SON & CO., 9 Beaver Street, New York. XMAS GIFTS.X Stained Glass Fire-Screens, Apostles' Spoons, Carved Crucifixes, Stained Glass Panels, etc., etc. Send for Illustrated Catalogue, J:& R: LAMB, 59 Carmine Street, NEW YORK. FOLDING CHAIR CO., NEW HAVEN. OT $250 in Cash! 3 Worcester's Wire Holder grows in popularity-more having been sold in the past PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. NEWS FROM MR. STANLEY.-According to private advices received in Liverpool from Stanley Pool, and dated last month, it appears that Mr. H. M. Stanley has already penetrated the great African continent further than he has ever been before-or, indeed, further than any white man has ever reached. The previous dispatch had mentioned the spot up the Aruwimi River which the expedition had reached, and the present letter says that a further march of 150 miles up the river had been made. Mr. Stanley had sent back the little steamer Florida to Stanley Pool for more stores and more men. This would indicate that the explorer expected some opposition, though the despatch mentions that the natives in the districts traversed appeared to be very friendly. In order to be prepared against any surprise Mr. Stanley had pitched two intrenched camps at his new halting place, but the natives showed no disposition to molest him. On the contrary, they seemed to welcome the party into their country. The health of Mr. Stanley and the whole of the expedition was reported to be very good, and the men appeared to be in excellent spirits. It was believed that he would not make any more forward movement until the return of the Florida with the stores and men sent for. OPENING UP OF THE CELESTIAL EMPIRE.According to the Chinese Times the necessity for the opening up of the Celestial Empire to civilization grows apace, and can only be effectually carried out by the railroad projects now again under discussion. In some notes of travel in Lu and Tsi, the writer states that everywhere in Shantung the main roads are lined with sumptuous tablets, telling, as if in mockery, of the repair of the road by this or that official. In many cases the cost of the tablet absorbed the greater part of the expenditure. In the meantime the roads are in ruins, and impassable. The husbandman sows and reaps his grain, and if it be an average crop he has just enough to support his family and dependents till the next harIf it falls short he and they have to starve, or live on roots and weeds, for supplies of food he cannot obtain from elsewhere; if vest. it be abundant the surplus is rather an im pediment to him than otherwise. He has not the means of storing or preserving it, and the want of roads prevents him from sending it to those who need it. Absolutely he has no market for his surplus; for his immediate neighbors have, like himself, a superfluity, and the carriage to any district in need of it I would more than absorb the entire value of what he has to offer. A paternal Government besides forbids him to export it, so, as a matter of fact, the industrial check to overpopulation is removed, and his family and dependents increase till they eat up themselves the entire produce. Is it any wonder he grows listless and careless, and that each generation finds itself lower in the scale of humanity? CORKSCREWS.-There is scarcely any article of domestic use concerning which persons will not be surprised, when they are informed as to the extent of its use. The number of corkscrews is a point in case, the figures of which may appear decidedly antagonistic to the total abstinence cause. Thus one firm in Newark, U. S., made in one year 150,000,000 cork screws. Visitors at the American Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, in 1876, will remember with interest the curious automatic machine at work making corkscrews, which was fed from a coil of wire mounted upon a reel, and at the other end of the machine discharged a finished corkscrew in about thirty seconds. These corkscrews, however, are made in a great variety of forms on purpose to meet the different tastes and uses of various persons and nations; one of the most peculiar of them being the left-handed corkscrew, of which the first one was made for a lefthanded, bar-keeper; and they are kept now constantly in stock. Another firm in the same town makes 300,000 pocket corkscrews in a year, giving some indication of the number of philanthropists among our great Republican neighbors.-Engineering. GERMAN BICYCLES AND TRICYCLES.-The manufacture of bicycles and tricycles is the latest development of German competition |