Vivisection

The advocates of viYisectíoü smiled well pleased over a paragraph whick has lattly bett going therounds of the English pjesi. Miss Francés Power Cobbe ia not only one of the most ardent, buc also one of the most distinguished opponents of the practice, and naturally has at times gone to extremes m her denunciation. The paragraph in question announced that she had been "iabored with" by a scientiüc man, whom she had visite! to urge her plea agaiust vivisection, and who is. evidently nearly akin to Mr. Barlow.. having stated his case with the calm priggishness which is the chief characteristic of that friend of our youth.. "Madam," answered the gentleman,, "charity begins at home; when yoa have given up wearing osirich feathers, which areplucked from the living bird, causing the moit exquisite pain, and birds of paradise, which, in order to enhance their beauty nd lustre, are skinned aliye; when you haveabjured the use of ivory, because you know that the tusks are cut out oí the dying elephant s jaw- then, and theu only, come and upbraid me with the cruelty of my opemtians. The diflerence between us is, madam, that I infiict pain in the pursuit of knowledge and for the ultímate benefit of my fellow-creatures; you cause cruelty to be inflieted merely for your personal adornment."Naturally Miss Cobbe's case was con-aidered settleJ; hut that lady was: equal to the occasion, and responded! as follows : "The little anecdate," sb says, "is a delightf ui sample of the f reO play of t-he 'scientifio . around the subject of vivisectioi t never paid the visit describecl to a .g. tinguished man o,f scienop, nxid ' j_ 1)ever receiyed the 'repïoof,' ïiuba'jy for tll0 sufflcient rea.3on tfeat my o' jjbrclla has not an iyory handle;th t hilve never used a bud of paradis ür any üther btrd for my 'persea adornment 'and, flna.ly, beoause I 'iiever possessed a muff in av" whol üfp." I Sir George tJ. Nares, in a lecture delivered at íassau, Jíew Providenee, says that -'„he Bahamas are fast wearing out aJong the whole 200 miles of the western edge. In the decay the coral sand is swept by the mighty ocean river (the Gulf Stream) to the northward, and then thrown up by the1 sea on the eastern coast of North1 America. The ruins of the Bahamas are to be found as far north as New' York.