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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12756, 31 March 1910, Page 4

, Four of the crew of the Emilio Sregfried, a French four-masted vessel, which has just arrived in Dublin from North America, were swept overboard on January 20th. - In illustrating the possibilities of a three-phase electric current Mr. William DuddeJl .performed some evperiments at the Royal Institution, which caused his juvenile audience great delight. Upon a plate resting on an electrical machine ho placed a copper egg ana switched on the current. Without; any suggestion of hu'mau agency the egg began to spin.. roujnd. —slowly at first and then faster and faster. Suddenly; humming like a top the egg reaped itself upon its pointed end and moved to and fro-across the plate, making little circles in the quaintest manner possible. A pepper bos .and a coin performed, ttio same : evolutions. • . .-...'■■■■■.

The mansion of a Portuguese noblenuiii, near Lisbon was entirely destroyed during a ball. Eleven persons were injured. There is a struggle for existence for all plants and animals. None can be merely onlookers. . Each individual has to hold his own against disease, heat, cold, and enemies. There is also a struggle between group and group. Associations of individuals

I exist for mutual defence. But each uidivVuuil must bo vigorous, and, acI cortiiim to the standard of the species, ' a It- u and intelligent. The incapables are not rid of by natural selection, or, more strictly speaking, by the environment, quite as effectively as if no association existed. There is no room for the- inefficient, since combination protects only the strong and capable. — '•Darwinism and Modern Socialism," by F. "W. Headly.