Child-life In Calcutta

The nimunl nrerage doath-rate öf in1'ants in the city and vicinity of (nlcutta, iivliuling all classes of populsition, is very iiu.'irly 59 per cent. of tliosc uf oue year old and tmder. Of tlie nou-Asiatie oliildrou the average i. uth-rate is less tban 20 per oent., whjcla iucrenses tliat of tlie Hindoo and Mohaiiiinelan infants to a stnrtliug oxtent, and of tliisc classes tbe laüor sulVcr by fai the groatest mortality. Tlic vital statistics of Caloutta for 1875 show tlmt, oi' eyery liundi-cd Hiudoo chililron bom in that yeaj, aboiit sixty died, nnd, of every luindred of Mohammcdan childreu boni in the name yesii, scviüity-tluic died. The chanco oí lifti to childnu bom in ('alentta í is therctore ú'aríidly tiiuall. ïliey rniht :ik wel! onn thoir cyos in a ] J : i ■ ■ u i -stricken place. Pbksident and iis. Ilayes nttended the decaratiou ceremonies at Ai-liugton Ueiglit, uear Washington, and in person and with üowerB broubt, ly Miemselves stivwed the graves of the dead soldiei'8. Especially t-hey Ie1' atd with heir oTvn liundn the' "JMouumeut tO tLe Uukuown,"