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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 99, 19 January 1918, Page 7

The general ascription of slowness of understanding to the Germans may be accounted for by the fact that there seems to be two classes of Germans— the slow-going, stolid, uneducated type, stubborn but obedient to their superiors and the quick-witted, alert, educated class, who constitute the thinkers" tho leaders, the officers ard generals. The combination makes for military effectiveness—a caste who wive orders autocratically, and a caste who obey slavishly. But this is mediaevalism, and that is doomed to destruction in the "process of tho suns."

Tlio jaunting car of Ireland has not yet been superseded by the all-conquer-ing automobile, and consequently tho "jarvio" and his horse are still to the foro in transportation and in anecdote. Here is a specimen of the latter: —A tourist said to one of these drivers 0110 day, "Paddy, that's the worst-looking horse I ever saw. Why don't you fatten him up?" "Fatton him up, is it?" was the ready answer. "Faix, tho poor basto can hardly carry tho little mate that's on him now!"

People usually live longer in islands and small peninsulas than on continents. Barbados, Greece, Madeira, and the Shotlands aro all favourable to long life.