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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3614, 27 July 1880, Page 2

The Scottish language it no.port * dialect of the English than the English it ;a dialect of the Scottish; bat they are; .both dialects of the same ancestral tongue.. Dorio Greek was not a dialeoft of lonic, bat both were dialects, of the old Greek language, each hating well-marked peca* liaatjes of its own, although these peculiarities .were not so great as to render them mutually unintelligible, and thus to constitute them distinct languages. The same may be said, and with equal truth, of the Scottish and English dialeots. As languages they are identical, bat as dia». , lects they are distinct and independent of ' each other. . . . r„, At the South London Palace (Music : . Hall) a sensation is famished by a per- ■ former, who appeared about three years ago in Australia, balling himself Ling Look. He rubs his arms with hot but > of iron, and uses his teeth for the shaping or breaking of the glowing metal; he cau drink boiling oil, and can show that he enjoys it; he can 7 swallow eggs, and, after smoking a cigarette/, can reprodaeethem from his intern*! regions; he!ean s thrust swords down his throat, and by no means objeots to have a gun fired while the bayonet to which it is attached is « embedded in his breast