One problem for this biographer is that the dramatic climax of his life, which throws a romantic light even on what was tedious and nerveracked in his past, may make him seem too remarkable: unique as no man is, instead of unique as all men are.

All depends upon circumstances—anger as much as any thing else. Interest is your only true cosmetic for smoothing the brow.

There is to all diseases a period of incubation; distinct and definite in the exanthematae, less so, but still well marked, in fevers and other diseases. This period of incubation sufficiently defines the period of the development of disease in emigrant vessels. I have been led into these remarks by the fact that, when the cholera manifested its existence on board the San Francisco, that vessel had been about seven days out of port, between five and six of them subsequent to the wreck. Thus, the incubation period corresponds almost exactly with that of the emigrant ships.

Another reason for augmenting Tahanun on Mondays and Thursdays is that in ancient Israel the Bet Din (court sessions) were held on those days that were days of judgment on high.