The difficulty is that fresh foods perish due to the multiplication in them of harmful bacteria.

In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance.

Here the proprietor has had the good sense of holding on to the good old fashion of giving his customers their moneyworth of good wines and liquors.

Foreign Missions.—Pursuing the Fulton pledge system of two-cents-a-week-for-Missions, our young people have contributed to the support of their representative in China, Rev. T. J. Preston. He has recently gone to our station at Chang-teh, in the Hunan Province, China.