23 AUGUST 1879, page 10

The Increasing Taste For Intellectual Straining.

W E hear a good deal of the joylessness of the present generation, and no doubt there is a greater unrest and a greater impatience amongst those who lead the forward move- ment......

How The Salmon Found His Way To Australia.

T HERE used to be " merchant-princes ;" there are still squatter-princes. Among the number, Sir Samuel Wilson, who went out when a boy from the County Down, in Ireland, anal......