Show POOR children CHILDREN CHILDr 0 LN OF LONDON the streets of london are full of poor and ragged and untaught git jit child children ren whose parents themselves poor and ragged and as I 1 indisposed disposed ti aa as they amm arc unable to provide for their children send them out to pilfer and to gather what they can from the wretched gleanings odthe of the streets of the city you see them every where like certain classes of birds that follow tho the plow for the worms that are ara turned up in the new now made furrow farrow or that wander over the fields in search of insects so these crea tares live on the crumbs of the street they are ignorant they are depraved they are chiev bethere Bh sh there is nothing too filthy or wicked for them they abound more especially in certain districts of the metropolis where the poor are congregated gre gated they are a class of human beings as low and as bad as can be and for foy chichas chas yet there is no redemption their misery in the great mass Is is un approach approached id and untouched by the schemes of benevolence nothing can exceed their degradation there ma may y be other conditions of heathenism in pagan lands as low because like exposures bring human nature to the same hame place but nothing can be lower the poor and depraved of a great city tre ire are lre the basest of human kind A vie view W of them as they are would doubtless be as frightful as it would be disgusting to think that our property our comforts and our lives are aro placed in the midst of such a mass of wickedness which nothing can restrain but physical force or the fear of it might well disturb our tranquility for a moment us to ask Is there no help no remedy for such a state of things Js 9 not sot the community responsible 4 artificial AID FOB FOR EYES editors hawk eye iu in your notes llnore and gleanings I 1 find a most moat valuable suggestion about using spectacles or artificial aids for the eyesight too soon allow me to give you my own experience on this subject I 1 am nifty fifty nive five years old and have never yet used glasses I 1 begin to hope now BOW that I 1 can go through life without them my eyes frequently fail me and bhea hen they do I 1 in increase creaso crease the convexity db the t tho pupil V 1 and adjust the focus as you suggest I 1 by y gently pressing with the fingen finger and thumb from the outer and inner corners of the eye to the center centar chis I 1 have done for more than eight years I 1 find that the eye has irregular paroxysms of loss of convexity without auy any apparent cause reading or writ jiggy bg night becomes becomes difficult I 1 cu t in fact b ibl ibi A few gentie gentle antle pressures make a all right per perhaps a s for a month benthe beetho hen ben eri 1 the tho s same 0 inconvenience is felt again the relief tellof of course is instantaneous ous ons I 1 a am m not positive now but that the us use of f glasses for a person naturally jut hesed s 44 with good eyesight is altogether andr nearly y everybody commences bences to td us use them too soon and when ake brice brica begin that is the last of their eyes no greater inconvenience tome to me ssan euti eatz be imaz imag imagined ined than to carry my eyes in tin my piny pockets and ana be bp compelled to 5 fk fakla fakie them out when whenn wanted bep B F P lm ULI v ralto TA FACTS A leg legal al stone is 14 pounds in england and 16 pounds ras SaS Holland A fathom six feet is derived from the height of ofa in full grown man A hand in horse measure ris ils is four inches an idah ldah mile is 2240 2210 yards a 1 rit pit mile mlle AS sl S a german 1308 a Ut kish an wit ataro is 1810 square saris 4 jl 1 l noot foot fo pt quat guat s cr inches each euch way is 1760 yards ds ach 4 W ajay Y P anaw 6 glo olo 40 haigs nores acres the fiuman an abdy an ox id 0 bones bongs la nine wa kleda df OO muscles or tends ten fen donsi ard loo I 1 b besides blood h arteries feterl ila I 1 nuis al v alit arit 0 d lav orid orld font tb 6 feet they are aro jae 1 aw W lihs lihi I 1 here gna ora 0 akstin th 1 deverg evera frosts the surface joll bilidt roa soa estimated at 00 lieen ileen taking the whole wh v ole oie surface atho trobe grobe square miles its I 1 ta I 1 greatest I 1 Is firs supposed tippo to be anal nat nal to the tho height of the highest moun 1 I 1 ebl ibm 1 tr ji 0 o i 1 mairim h however I 1 una 11 peb pea i ad vantage from and ang nohe e av that hat the imprudent prejudice pj noh woh rich uch men rien J orton disregard the gr great j interest of the c because absorbed at looking at the exorbitant al int interest grest irest of their uncommon wealth |