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Show Woolner. the English sculptor, is to execute a bust of Dickens, and will have the advantage of a mask which was cast for the purpose. He has al ready produced excellent poi trait busts of Tennyson, Browning. Carlyle, Gladstone, John Henry Newman, and other eminent men. The effect of a well enforced vy-tern of vaccination in Scotland has b en to reduce the mortal ty from small-pox from 1S54, the average annunl mortality mortal-ity of the ten years 155 '64, to twenty five, the mortality of last year. In Ireland Ire-land the mortality had been broucht down so low as to lead to the belief that it was stamped out ; only three deaths were reported for the last quarter. quar-ter. An English bishop related the following fol-lowing experience of a brother clergyman clergy-man : He had a parishioner, an old woman, who seldom went to church. Observing Observ-ing her there one Good Friday, frequently fre-quently lilting up her eyes, opening her mouth, a-d wringing ber hands as he preached somewhat grap'oieally upon the intensity of our Savior s acony aud death, he fancied he bad made sou e impression u;.on the old woman's mind, and, h ping to improve im-prove it, he asked her, after the Service, Ser-vice, whit she thought of the sermon. "Sarmon. sir?" she replied. "How could you go fur to tell sich a story ? Thank the Lord, it was a long time ago, and don't consarn us; so we'll hope it ain't true!" |
