The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-08-14
Savings of Celebrities

Dean Stanley says: "Our leisure hours
are among those that have the most
Importance in molding our characters.
Our working hours are very important,
but our leisure hours are those that form
our.t tastes and our habits"
Lieutenant Colonel knollys says
THAT the ranks of the British army are
now filled with immature boys is :, fact
| obvious to any one who will use his
eyes. Officers deporc it, the press calls
attention to it and the authorities do not
attempt to deny it,"
Sir Henry Thompson, the English
surgeon, says: Persons who drink
water when dining probably enjoy food
more than those who drink wine. They
have generally better appetite and diges-
tion, and they certainly preserve IN ap-
prcciative palate longer than the vine
drinkcr"
Mr. Thomas hughes says: "Thc ideal
| American, as he has been painted for us
of late, is man who has shaken off the
woke of definite crccds, while retaining
! their moral essence, and finds the highest
sanctions needed for the conduct of hu-
man life in experience tempered with
common sense"
The Earl of Dunravcn says: "Whcther
in connection with this country (Grcat
Brittany or as independent, or us Joined
to the United States, or any portion ot
them, that vast region which is now
called British North America will as
Suredly some day support the strongest,
most powerful and most mastertul pop
ulation on the continent of America"
Mr.. w. z. Forster, M. p, says: In
dealing with the education of girls in
the training colleges it has been found
that they require little driving to work
compared with boys, and that they are
more susceptible to influences of amhi-
ton and desire to succeed. The danger
in the training colleges for elementary
schools is from overwork. There Is NO
fear that young women will not avail!
themselves of the opportunities offered. j
Mr. Card, the English agriculturiSt
SAYS: eve are threatened with good
things from America in a profusion be-,
yond past experience. The cost OF
transport from the rich corn lands OF
the interior has been vastly diminished
and Liverpool is thus being brought rs
near the center of production us New
York was twenty years ago. L believe
there is q serious competition awaiting
us from this cause, to which it would be
folly to close our eyes"
DR.. B. w. Richardson, the English
chemist who first made known to the
world certain facts concerning chloral,
says that there are now chloraldrinkcrs
Just rs there are dram-drinkers and
opium eaters; that the disease which he
calls chloralism has become rather
widespread among merchants, lawyers,
doctors, artists, literary men, clergymen,
and that if chlorai cannot..b kept for
use within its legitimate sphere rs q
medicine, it would be better for man.
kind not to have it Mt all.
Professor St. George Mivart says: II
is now known that variety of animals
hahitually reproduce their kind, as
plants so largely do, by n process of ex'
ternal budding. This happens, for ex,
ample, with the hydra and animals like
it. Animals may even be propagatcd BY
cuttings. Thus, If a-lydra or the com
mon sea-anemone (eothea) be bisected,
each half soon grows into the perfect
form once more, and many worms (sucll
as scyllis or catenuia), and many ami
malcules, called infusoria, habitually
multiply by self-made sections-that is,
by spontaneous division or fission."