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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 22, 27 February 1891, Page 11

Myers and Co., Dentists, Octagon, corner of George street. The guarantee highest class work at moderate fees. Their artificial teeth gives general satisfaction, and the fact of them supplying a tern porary denture while the gums are healing does away with the inconvenience of being months without teeth. They manufacture a single artificial tooth fcr Ten Shillings, and sets equally moderate. The administration of nitrous oxide gas is also a great boon to those needing the extraction of a tooth. Read. — [advt " Lady Monckton is the latest member of the aristocracy to go into business. She baa started a furniture shop in Fultura. The lady, who was a success as an actress in " The Red Lamp," surely does not leave the profession and take to shopkeeping for want ot engagements. Ihe new legislation on the property of Religious Orders in France is likely to lead to one important result. In future (the Pans correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says) the trustees of the properties ot tha Marists, Lazarists, Christian Brothers. Sisters ot (Jhaiity, Sisters of Nazareth, Carthusians, and other corporations will reside in England. All available property will be tramferred to English banks, and letters of administration or probate will be Uken out in London. A Roman Prelate now in Paris tells me that nearly all the funds of Roman Catholic Christendom are invested in Englmh securities or houße property, including the reserve of the Papacy itself. Monsignor Zalewski, who has been cent as delegate to India by the Vatican, has been requested to draw up a repoit on Indian securities. It is certainly worthy of note to rind the material bone and sinew of Catholicism finding its way to English hands, and London becoming its financial headquarters. At the recent Manhattan A. C. dinner Mr. Chauncoy M. Depew thus spoke of athletics : "lam not an athlete. 1 could not play any of the games for which athletic clubs are organised, and don't understand the rules which they play. That is iho reason why T havp been elected an honorary member of'the Manhattan A. C. Athletics never were known prior to the civil war, because we were a nat.onof agricultural people, and the succefsful men of our villages and cines have all come from the farms. Tbey had there laid up a fortune of muscle, brawn, and gcod habits, which made them successful in thi?ir busint t s <md professions. The city develops the dudo, and the dude needs athletics to keep him fn m perishing. 1 his "team and electuo age has multiplied forces of production so phenomtnal that the population has gathered in crowded centres, where all the laws of naiure are violated. Nature does not require athletics. The youth who are all day in crowded stores or counting-houses, and all the evening in equally crowded boarding-houses, preserve health and manhood by enthusiasm in athletic pursuits."