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Evening Star, Issue 14413, 8 July 1910, Page 4

The annual summary of the' marriages,, births, and deaths in England and Wales shows that tho marriages during 1909 were 260.239, corresponding to a rate of 14.6 persons marrhd per 1,000 of the population at all ages, this rate being .3 per 1,000 be-* low that of the previous year, and LI below tho average rate for the ten preceding years. The births numbered 914,621, or 25.6 ptr 1,000 of the population at all ages, this rate being .9 below that of the previous year, and 2.2 per 1,000 below the average fur the previous ten yearn Mick O’MulJigan (in hospital operating room, just recovering from effects of chloroform); “Och, bo the powers, where am U' Where is it I am, at all, at all!” burgeon Jawbones (with a wink to his assistant): “In Heaven.” _ O’Mulligan, (looking around): Thin I’d like to know phwat the pair of yes is doin’ here?” Artist; '•Are there any pretty scenes about here, my good man?” Native: “Ay, there were ;ome~ but a photographer came and took 'em.”