INHABITANTS OF THE CLIFFS.
Innumerable gulls and murres breed on the steep cliffs, the latter
most abundant. They kept up a constant din of domestic notes. Some of
them are sitting on their eggs, others have young, and it seems
astonishing that either eggs or the young can find a resting place on
cliffs so severely precipitous. The nurseries formed a lively
picture--the parents coming and going with food or to seek it,
thousands in rows standing on narrow ledges like bottles on a grocer's
shelves, the feeding of the little ones, the multitude of wings, etc.
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M. Bouchut's experiments with pepsine for destroying worms in the
stomach and bowels have been continued with extremely promising
results. Even the tapeworm succumbs to the digestive action of pepsine
in large doses, while the more highly organized tissues of the stomach
are unaffected.
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FRANZ LISZT.
On the 22d day of October, 1811, Franz Liszt, the greatest pianist of
the last half century, was born at Raiding, in Hungary, and the entire
musical world was united in celebrating his seventieth birthday, which
took place this year.
What can be more appropriate than to take a look at the past and
recall some of the important events of Liszt's so very interesting
life? To recall his first appearance as a "wonder" child in his native
town, the blessing and kiss he received a few years later from the
immortal Beethoven, his great triumphs in the Paris salons and the
defeat of his rival Thalberg.
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