Although for the moment the general lection tends to make the question of what the British working-man shall eat subsidiary to the question whether he will soon have anything to eat at all (a problem that tariff reformers and 60- ta have already solved to their own satisfactions), the controversy round Chinese pig—rice-fed dainty or unmentionable scaveoger—eannot long remai in abeyance. It may, therefore, be usefal to quote the evidence of a correspondent, writing from the interior, who has experimented in rearing ® pig on rice and hss kept carefal account of the cost. "I purchased the animal as sucking-piz," he writes, "for $1.25 and for eleven months I fattened him on rice feed and household scraps. At the end of that time he was killed, ani weighed 130 catties. I kept a carefal check on the amount of rice given him [per diem, and this averaged three se, or $0.17 worth of rice each day. Taking the eleven months to equal 334 days at $0.17 daily, we arrive at a total som for the rice alone, of $56.78 as the cost of producing 130 catties of rice-fed pork, say $0.43} per catty. This, it to have "already acquired the literary mind. By now he is " hardened old man of letters." Whether it is, wit him, © question of poeta ft non naacitur," of the young man with the soalfal eye and is whichorer ay it be interpreted, that of only his father is glorious, bat that Mime, Rortand, his mother, has written touch well-known verse, ander the came of Rosemonde Gerard, A. smamtion has Ietely been scored by a toegazine, to which Mame. Roatand has bat yesterday (she writes) that I tol yvon the story of Beauty and the Beast, and now yon read Renan, you read Nietszche, and call Leibnitz childish, You read the elder and the yonoger Pliny, and know who the arpocratinos bs repressed that if that rash were accelerate ed by application of the paternal slipper, frequently repeated, it would la the long ran be mach for the young prodigy's soul's health. For those who have not bad his advantages we may say (on the authority of the ly Telegraph) that the (arpocratians were the followers of C: rates, who held should abandon ry lost with perfect ia-Apparently Maurice Ros-tand would apply this doctrine to the parsnit of literature. The fatare will judge him, no doubt, Bat for the moment it is a decided relict to younger brother who it
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