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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 20, 11 September 1885, Page 13

Kidney and urinary troubles are universal, and the only safe and sine cure is. American Hop Bitters — lely on it. Read. I here apam come 3 from the Highlands the cry of '• open and organihtd aquation" fur nfoim of the land laws. And this ia di-ti icts w l.» [•_; it was thought landlord influence would intimidate the crofters from speaking out ! The fact is, the land agitation in Scotl tnd has not yet really begun. — Nation. some months ago we had occasion to hay a word or two on the subject of Volapuk, the newly invented universal language, whose »xi->tenco is due to the ingenuity of a Swiss Catholic priest, the Hey. lierr Seleyer, of Li zelsienen. Since then the progress made by this latest Attempt '■ to come fOlf 01 tb from the second general curee wmch vva^ the c mfu-ion of tongues " has been so consideiable as to warrant our letuuuag to the subject once more. Volapuk, which word in the Volapuk tongue biguities Woi ld-Speech, has called into existence numerous Volapuk bocieties in various parts of the Continent of Europe ; there being no fewer than 20 of them in Holland alone. Nuwspapeis and reviews have been published in it, and there aro Volapuk grammars in more th.m 18 languages. In Paris a chair of Volapuk Las been p-aablisbed in the Kcole des Hautes Etudes (Jommerciales. It has numerous enthusiastic supporters, some of them being persons of distinction, who believe that Volapuk is ilestincd to become the common Language of humanity in thefutuie. la short, it is the most serious attemp hitherto made towards the establishment of a universal tongue, and it it does not succeed it may be c mfidently orudicted that no other will. To be sure, it has a nval, " Pasihngus, " ; but the admireis of Volapuk look with scorn up >n the later, >\hich tiny deem utterly incipabie of ever suppla iting the newly-born language of their choice. " Pasilingua" is nothing better man a juniole of a number of already existing Kurupuau languages, ani one would need to know at least five of them in order to understand it. — Bombay Catholic Examiner.