It has been computed that the death-rate of the globe is 68 per minute, 97,790 per day, or 55,717,790 per year. The birth-rate is 70 per minute, 100,800 per day, or 36,817,200. per year— reckoning the year to 365$ days in

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BUSHRANGING TIMES.
An Interesting Story.
SUPPLEMENT TO THE TOAPEKA TIMES.
NARRATIVES OF THE BUSHRANGING TIMES IN VAN DIEMAN'S LAND.
By CAPTAIN LACIE.
PERIOD-1848. >_— < [COPYBIGHT.] . >■ -4. BRADY'S LOOK-OUT. >- — « (XV SIX PARTS.)

BY WAY OF CONTRAST.
| He opened the bundle, scarcely tinder standing what it meant. There lay a dozen glossy new shirts marked with his name, the work for all these past weeks of his wife's untiring fingers. How she had dbne it she alone knew, she and kind Mrs. Denton, who had insisted on lending her sewing machine to the laboz of love. There was a little gurgle of laughter behind him ; be turned to clasp Edith, half laughing, half crying, iv his arms.
"Well, did 'the club' decide the mo. mentous question as to whether marriage was or was not a failure!" asked Tom a little while later. He could joke about it now. as one will examine the claws of a dead tiger.
