14 NOVEMBER 1891, page 13

The Decay Of Laughter.

I T has been said of more than one great and sudden sorrow, that it has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and the expres- sion would argue a supposition that nations were as a......

Gambling In Lives.

I T is the fashion to say that the wage-earning classes of this country are unthrifty, that they seldom think either of laying by for a rainy day, or providing for the future of......