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Show Changes of the Earth. How does ono generation of men succcod another? Tho fathers are not swept away In a btdy to make room for tho children, but ono by ono the old drop off and tho young come ,on, till a day is reached when nono of thoso remain that onco wero hore. How does somo form of human speech become extinct? About a hundred years ago an old lady nnmod Dolly Dontreath died In Cornwall. She could speak tho Cornish language; after hor death thoio was nobody that could. Thus quietly did tho living Cornish language become n dead language; nnd In a like unobtrusive manner have been wrought most of tho new becomings becom-ings which havo changed and are changing tho earth. Hurpor's, |