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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8935, 18 November 1890, Page 2

The secret of Africa's isolation from the benefits and blessings of civilization and light that has fallen on the rest of the world is to be found, says Mr Thomas Stevens in Scribner, in the cataracts of her big rivers, and in a lesser degree to the inhospitableness of the climate. The cataracts of the Congo, the Niger, and the Z.imbesi, and the cataracts and hudd of the Nile, have been and are the real obstructions. Were the Congo as navigable as the Mississippi, and the Nile as freo from obstructions to vessels as the Danube or the Ys'ng-tsc Kiang, Uganda would now be sending us silkstuffs and calico insteail of ivory, and globe-trotters would be picuicing and wintering on the islands o£ the Victoria Nyanzit. I have before pointed out in a shot that our Irish friends are uot tho only people guilty of making bull-'. Though Irishmen get all the credit, or blame, ot such performances, I hardly think it was a son of the " distressful country " who was responsible for the following advertisement in an up country jourual :—": — " We, the undersigned storekeepers, manufacturers, etc., of." , agree to close our respective places of business every: Tuesday at 12 o' clock noon, commencing on the first Wednesday in November." Most of the names appended to this notice are English and Scotch. If an Irishman was the leading spirit, at any rate he had plenty of accomplices in his crime. Another slip of a similar kind was made by the secretary of one o Oiir Debating Societies not long since. This young man is a colon al of English parentage ; but that did not prevent him from nailing " a special meeting of the Society for 1 p.m. on Monday morning." Be on the watch lest you come to an untimely end, inflammation of tlie lungs, boweln, liver or kidneys is often fatal, Kenshaw's Monarch of Pain is the most powerful romedy.— Adyt, Cvcsgon,t Brand Baking Powder iv pure,