The Survival of the Flittest.

Is it not amazing, when we recollect how our own mothers of yesteryear warned us against venturing too near the rear bumpers of the horse on the cab stand, that we have managed to reach our years of whiskers and wisdom in the piece? That we are here to-day is further confirmation of the truth of those old lines: “He who hops out of the way will live to hop another day.” The term, “The quick and the dead” bears greater significance to-day than heretofore, for those who are not quick on the uptake, quickly become but a memory. Is it surprising that modern man is more alert at both ends than his ancestry, and that “The survival of the flittest” applies to-day with greater emphasis on the “flit” than it did before the world took to bounding on ball-bearings?