4 SEPTEMBER 1886, page 11

The Optimism Of Old Age.

M CHEVREIIL, the French centenarian chemist who • reached the close of his century of life on Tuesday last, is reported to have expressed on Monday the opinion that "everything......

The Ripon Millenary.

O NE of the most characteristic differences between man and the inferior animals—a difference which seems to lie athwart the Darwinian doctrine of evolution—is man's insatiable......