THE TIGEE-BEETLE. 



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which is, that his is the only species in which the individual 

 is his own enemy. Man deprives himself of sleep, feeds him- 

 self with aliments that abridge life. Women lace themselves 

 so tightly in theit corsets as to embarrass the play of the 

 organs, and even displace their ribs. Men, not content with 

 two or three real wants which nature has imposed upon them, 

 create for themselves fresh ones every day, and exhaust all 

 their genius in inventing new means of rendering themselves 

 poor and miserable. 



TIOEB BEETLE. 



