Professor Goldwin Smith, who fell on the ice in Toronto a few days ago, aud concerning whom tho King as an old friend made kind inquiries, is a native of Reading and in .his eighty-sixth year. At Oxford ho captured all the scholarships and prizes he tried for. From 1858 to. 1866 ho was Regius Professor of Modern History. In 1868 he migrated to tho other side of the Atlantic, spending three years in the United States, and then settling down in Toronto, where ho has ever since resided. There he has had a strenuous career as author-jour-nalist, and lecturer. Ho believes that Canada is "destined to merge her political lifo in that of the United States." But ho has not found many Canadians to agree .with him. There was a young man named J. Vanco, Who wanted to. go ■ to a dance, But a corn wouldn't lot him, With pain it besot him, Till PROGANDRA his ohancn did enhance. BARRACLOUGH'S PROGANDRA FOR CORNS, Is. General Booth started on his latest Continental tour recently in very high spirits. Although in his eighty-first year, with the sight of one eye completely gone and the other affected by cataract, he is still very anxious to be of service to his fellow-men. • /
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 780, 1 April 1910, Page 3
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209Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 780, 1 April 1910, Page 3
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