Dr Talmage says there are 400,000 opium-eating women in the United States. A " Dickens fancy dress ball" was lately held at the Freemasons' Tavern, London, the guests being got up to represent various characters in the great writer's novels. The young generation of the colonists —the moneyed kind—are described by Mr Froude as " vain, ignorant, underbred, without dignity, without courtesy, and with a conceit which is unbounded," Missionaries find that savages who live mainly on a vegetal h or fish diet are the most quickwitted, while those who live principally on a meat diet are capable of doing more work and enduring more fatigue.
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Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 270, 24 April 1886, Page 4
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104Untitled Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 270, 24 April 1886, Page 4
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