ow goes it with you?" That's German.

"How do you fare?" That's Dutch.

"How can you?" That's Swedish.

"How do you perspire?" That's the Egyptian version.

"How is your stomach? Have you eaten your rice?" That's the rather medical
way in which the Chinese people express their morning salutation.

"How do you have yourself?" That's Polish.

"How do you live on?" That's Russian.

"May thy shadow never be less." That's Persian.

And all mean much the same thing--the natural expression of sympathy and
friendly curiosity when one human being meets another.

Little Glimpses of the 19th Century.

The Great Events in the History of the Last One Hundred Years, Assembled
so as to Present a Nutshell Record.

[_Continued from page 340._]

FIFTH DECADE.

1841

William Henry Harrison died April 4, one month after his inauguration as
President of the United States, and John Tyler, the Vice-President,
succeeded him. Harrison's Cabinet, excepting Daniel Webster, resigned soon
after Tyler assumed office, owing to his veto of measures by which the
Whigs tried to revive the National Bank. Seminole War, the most protracted
and costly of all Indian wars, ended after an expenditure of ten million
dollars. University of Michigan founded. Brook Farm communistic experiment
begun.

The "opium war" between Great Britain and China continued during intervals
separated by periods of negotiation. The British took Hong-Kong, silenced
the Bogue forts, destroyed a Chinese flotilla at Canton, took that city,
exacted six million dollars' indemnity from local authorities, and forced
the reopening of trade there. British fleet, convoying troops and moving
northward, captured successively Amoy, Chusan, Chinhai, and Wingpo. In
Afghanistan (November 2), British residents and followers at Kabul were
massacred, and British troops outside the city were driven off and forced
to retreat toward Jelalabad.

Richard Cobden came into prominence in the British Parliament as a free
trader, and the struggle over the Corn Laws began. Lord Melbourne's
ministry resigned after an unsuccessful appeal to the country, and Sir
Robert Peel formed a new cabinet. _Punch_, the humorous weekly, founded.
Sir David Wilkie, English artist; Sir Astley Cooper, English surgeon; and
Theodore Hook, English humorist, died.

=POPULATION--Washington, D.C., 23,364; New York (including boroughs now
forming Greater New York), 391,114; New York (Manhattan), 312,710