26 NOVEMBER 1887, page 11

Worlds And Meteorites.

I T was a very old question, "Which came first, the egg or the hen P" and not a question which has as yet been answered. And, whatever astronomers and masters of spectre-......

The New English Softness.

" W E shall win," said a clever Parnellite, " for the English have gone soft;" and though he may prove mis- taken, he had hit, with the Irish instinct for a weakness, upon a......