E. A. WEBSTER. Editor and Proprietor. A Weekly Paper Devoted to Temperance, Literature and Politics. NUMBER 37. MONSOOR PACHA. UV OKOIIOK ll. IK)W"Kit. Mnnnvr J'aeha, il ii pleasant to inept H*rp. fn tho lipfirt of tlitB treacherous town Where faith ls a peril and courtship .1 cheat. Mon? false to Hu? touch Minn a rose overblown Willi a poul that is tru liRht, Now lot UP wa'ch while tho rose-tinted day Fadi-s from tho ilrsorl, aud pcaoe-bcarlng ni?ht Shakes ibo iirst nm on her brow In our eipht. Monsoor. my host ! Jo, I enter your tout, AB brother bi brother, hands elaapiUft? is lei! ; I sleep llfcn child lu a dream Heaven sent ; Por boto t not eaton tho i all and the bread ? And Monto,)) will ?neuer for mo Milli bia bead. Thc Fast "Winter. Increased Drain Unto In fCurorif nncl Amerlca--01il CniiBliiiiptlves Swept Off omi New imo? iUutl?:. Tim past winter has been a phenome nal one, and blieb a ono as the bett iu iorme.l meteorologisti do not expect to BOO agnin fer twenty year?'. Everywhere, from Shreveport, La., to Stockholm, in northern Europe, a sudden increase in the death rate marlin tho continuance, ?nd follows iu tho wake of tho v?iuter of 1874-5. Dr. Elisha Harri J, registrar of vital statis tics fer this city, in speaking of tho past winter, both in this and other cities from which he i eeeives weekly returns .of deaths, said : "The mortality has been fearful in every section on acconnt of the great changes from tho normal state of the weather. The only winter which at all compares with it is that of . .,.2935--ft-.-r-The past seasorT has "been es pecially heavy in deaths from pneumo nia and other pnlmonary disease?. The *.'. Wohinter has been \ory cold, and also saturated with moisture at all times. While the thermometer did not indicate any specially low temperature, the skin and mucous membranes of tho lungs, throat and other passages Buffered on nccouut of tho humidity of the, atmos phere. In onr own city the total per centage of deaths will be from 12 to 15 per cent, additional, and in the special classes of disases most fatal the ratio has been doublet. Fever cases have been very rare. Typhoid has been al most a matter of chance, lu diphtheria tho mortality has assumed thevirulence of an epidemic. Our reports from Ed inburgh, Glasgow, IiObdon, Liverpool, Dublin, Vieuna, and Hamburg, all show that this particular class of dis easo has beeu specially fatal there Paris bis been more fortunate owing to the admitable sanitary regulations in force there. The. greatest porcentago of fatal eases ontside of those of chil dren are of persons over sixty yeais of age and those who have been bard drinkets I do not mean drunkards alone, but those who have hee-.i in tho habit of taking strong liquors, and they are not poor people alone. In ihese persons the mucous membrane of tho throat is weakened and cannot resist tho double assault of a cold atmosph?re heavily laden with moisture. The ef fects of this winter have not stopped yet, by any meaus. I should estimato that about as many as have already nucen tubed will t)att> thoir death sick ness from collis contracted during tho recent cold spell. For the next fifteen years consumption will carry off persons whose ititiRs first showed I lie germs of tubercular deposits this past wintor. That is a serious side of thc question, and physicians arc caret"tilly considering now what should be done, and how to take precautions against these st quonees of tho cold. People who havo colds should get rid of thom as speedily as possib e, by breathing pure, dry air and getting their whole systom in sound health."-Ar. V. Wnrld. Thc greatest depth of the grand can yon of tho Yellowstone, is but 1,000 feet, lind tho averngo for miles along the deepest part is rot over GOO feet. Clear Creek canyon, in Colorado, which Grace Given word, Picard Taylor, aud othe.r traviler? have praised as rivaling the Yellowstone, is but liltlo over J,OOO feet at its highest point. Prof. Gaonot declares that there is nothing in Amer ica that eqnnlA the i ow wonders of the Grand and Gunnison. Tho white wallu, contrasting Ftronrdy with the others in the neighborhood, in many places cut and scarred into curious and fantastic shapos, spires, towers and minarets, standing out above, add to the shirt lin rr picturesqueness and awfnl grandeur of the scene. Here and there, along the lower hides of tho canyon, may bo traced strins of coloring. This is duo to the mino;linpr waters from severol springs that line the river banks, iron sprim. s producing the red colors, and sulphur springs tho yellow. The river bed is shallow, and tho wa ter clear.-Dr. Hayden. -Tho average masculine stomach 'in this country craves liquor, and society must bo revolutionized before a betttr ?t?te of things can exist,-^Kc*^ Finid. Thc Japanese. The subjoined translation from an editorial in a leading Japanese journal is full of practical good sense, worthy of a nation of much higher civiliza tion. The growing commerce between Japan and our Pacific states and thus with tho Union, causes an increasing interest in the progress of that peculiar people. "We quote : Many among us are desirous that our civilization should tako equal rank with that of Europe and America. But, as our country is poor and tho people are ignorant, wo must first promote agri culture, so that tho lund should yield naore abundantly. We should promote commerce Wo should promote tho ed ucation of our children and compel the indolent to bo industrious ; and when all this has boen done it will be tiu-e to talk about rivalry with foreign countries. Bat our scholars who desiro all these changes immediately aro like those who wonld set a ohild to hard la bor, or who imagine that the poor should abound iu luxury like tho rioh. We do not mean to say that wo are in the same condition that we were several years ago. Bat, as we have Baid before, t ho first and most important thing to be done to build schools, and to se curt? tho diffusion of useful knowledge among the people ; then to make au ad vance in commerco and agriculture, so us not to bc decorating the outside only and doiutf so much expenaivo work in vain. Our scholars of Etiropoan sci ence ought to be assisting both tho government and the people. This is tho manner in which they will best show their patriotism. And wo entreat them, too, to have a little patience, and to cool their nmbition that all these changes should occur at once. Let them prepare tho way for them, so that when they como wo may be ready for them and they may bo really to our profit. The Etiquette of Court Presentation. Tho Court Journal gives the follow ing in a review of the etiquette of the court of St. Jame's drawing-rooms : "Tho lady wishing to be presented must first find a lady williug to present her, and al?o to attend the drawing room at which she wishes to bo pre sented ; for, although it ia by no means neoessury that tho two ladies should paBB at the same time, or even that they shpn,ljd_nieety i ty g abflolnr^ly-dc riffueur\ ni?t a lady who presents another should attend the drawing-room. This pre liminary beicg arranged, the presenter gives her friend a note addressed to the Lord Chamberlain, btating her inten tion of attending a certain drawing room and of presenting Mrs. Jones. This note Mrs. JoneB leaves at the Lord Chamberlain's ofBce, at least two clear days before tho drawing-room, accom panied by a large card, on which is legibly written : 'Mrs. Jones, presented by Lady Brown ; ' or, 1 Mrs. Jones, presented on her marriage by Lady Brown.' From tho Lord Cuamberlain'a office abo recaivea on application two pink presentation cards, on which 'Pres entation' is printed in large let ters. These she takes to the palace with her, giving one to tho page in-waiting at the corridor at the top of . the grand staircase, and reserving the other to be given up at the door of the presence chamber, whero it is han led from ono official to another till it roadies the Lord Chamberlain, who announces the name to the queen. Care should bo taken by the lady to writo her own name and also that of the lady presenting her very legibly, so that there may be no danger of mistakes. In the caso of the preaentatiou of a bride, it ia usual for her to bo present ed by lier husband's mother, sister, or some other member of his family, if possible and convenient ; but this is a matter of taste, not of necessity." Circumstances Make Women. Tho queen, speaking of unappreci ated women. Bays the woman who might have been " a Joan of Aro or a Maid of Saragossa, in favorablo eircums?anees, hemmed in by the narrow chances of a ?mal? locality is only a rather masculine person, who has, probably, independent notions on the subject of ttres^, and whoso boots would not bear the impres sive of Bond Street. The nnnttaohod sister of mercy is a fussy, kind-hearted person, who has tho most extraordinary pleasure in nursing sick folkB, and who, as often aa not, gets no thanks for her pains. Tho possible Hypatia or Olym pia of a village town is simply a 'very odd young woman, who has the strangest notions and tho most eccen tric ways of expressing herself;' who has, moreover, tho character of reading undesirable books, and whoso words and ways form part of the staple local posnip, not loaing in transmission. Yet, tho power is the Ramo in tho coun try girl who is half despised and half feared, ns that which once founded a school, and lins been celebrated by historians and biographers, centuries after. One of tho unsolved mysteries of things as they aro, is tho waste of lifo aud energy that goes on in tho physical world ; and tho world of mind follows that; of matter. There ia a per petual f-mothoring of potential queen boos into ordinary workors, useful, but not prob fio ; industrious, but not mag nificent ; and possibly, excellence is be iog forever pressed into grooves where only the tamest and most coinmonplaot! powers cnn exist. Wo plant too manj of our oaka in iron-bound flower-pots, mid never givo them tho chanoo even ol fracturing tho mold. We put a sernb bing-brush into tho hands of our Cor inness, and set Sapphos to tio down the jams, and see that tho bonne linen il neatly mended. All sorta of lovehj faculties whieb would have made tuet moro glorious and lifo moro full of pleasure, bad they been given their fully free ontlot, aro hemmed in to fulfill mean uses ; or are atrophied altogether, starved out of existence for want of nourishment. It seems to point to tho need of some more por feet organization of sooiety than any we have attained ; but perhaps this, too, is among the many Utopian dreams with which wo bewail the present, and imagine a bet ter futuro, when power shall have its work, faculty its objeot, and merit its place and reward." What Children do for us We hear a great, deal about what pa rents do for their children, ami the duty and obedience which they owe them in consequence, but it is useful to us at times to look at the other side of tho question and seo what children do for their parents, and not for their parents alone bnt for tho world nt large. Take the cases of unmarried men and women, or of marr ind men and women who havo no cbildron, and wo shall see what an utterly joyless world this is to them-how destitute of all the saving in fluences which follow in thc train of a new-born child. It is true thnt they do not always koow it ; true that they sometimes con gratulate themselves upon the freedom which the absence of responsibility gives them. But what docs this free dom do for them? If they do not uso it in caring for those who have nono to c&re for them it simply in?lodea them in a wall of selfishness. It. allows them t^ indulge their own whims and faociea to their own destruction, ami deprive them at the last of all the consolations which spring from participation in fam ily lifo and a oonsoiousneses ot duty well performed. Children aro really all there is in lifo worth living for. There aro many other things whioh are pleasent in it, there aro many things which givo zest to it, there are many things which seem necessary as a relief from the absorbing care which the rearing of a family of children brings, but none proseut sufficient mo tive for continued offort or sacrifice; and if it were not for children, therefore, much of our stimulus to exertion would bo taken away and tho most imperativo work of the world remain unperformed. Because the father supplies tin food, because the mother prepares it in a man ner, sui table? Jor thQ growth of thr-ir Jodies' we consider all tho obligation is on one side. Bnt to how many hungry hearts has the love of a little child been., nourishment and consolation and sup-" port? How many would have fallen by indifference or through temptation if the necessities of a little child hod not with held them. People who avoid children for tho sake of getting rid of responsibility find iu time that they have missed the pleas ures only, not thc cares, ond but a few of th? pams. Association with our fel lows entails certain burdens and obli gations upon all of us, and if we have not voluntarily assumed any of our own we shall find them thrust upon us and be obliged to carry the weight without the happiness of a strong incentivo in the nearest and dearest of earthly ties. Childless men and women uery often console themselves with the reflection that children are as likely to turn out ill as well ; that time and strength and rooney aro frequently wasted upon them, and, therefore, might as well be saved or put to other use. But physi cal science is beginning to show us that cause and effect act as directly in the production of tho human species as in any other phenomena of naturo and that caro and cultivation bestowed upon naturally good qualities produce os line results among men aud women ns upon a fruit farm. Tf this were not tho case, however, i f the result? weredependent npon chance, men and women ought still to accept the duty of roaring children for their own sakes. Tho woman knows nothing of the possibilities of her womanhood, the man of his manhood, until they aro dis covered in the strength of the love, the ertbrts the sacrifices (not felt, as such) which are exorcised and made for liKlo children. Is there any pride equal t.i that whioh tho father feels in tho growing daugh ter ? Is there any lovo equal to that which the mother knows when little hands clasp her and a soft oheek lays its velvet against her own ? FiieudB may grow cold, ambition may ba disappointed, slanderous longues moy poison yonr good name, and though all oro felt moro or less, yet homo and the lovo and confidence of children are a sure and certain refuge, a harbor from the storm, inexpressibly comforting and consoling to tho weary and abused mon,and heortsoro ond neg louted woman. Bnt it is not tex their simple faith and trust nlom '..bat we should video children. They deserve cultivation ; they abundantly requiro caro and kind ness, attention and the forbearance which it is necessary toward their im maturity and want of judgment. Our leisure, at least moro of it, should bo given to them. We should take pains to find out what they think that, wo mny guido them aright and tench thom to avoid the shoals and quicksands upon whioh wo perhaps have been st randed. -Hearth and Home. -A large, heavy-set man who reoided near Indianapolis died recently from a disorder whioh no Indian doctor eonld moke ont. At the time of his death ho was little moro than a skeleton, his flesh having wasted away. A post mor tem examination showell that his liver was full of absceases, so that his food had not been properly absorbed, and that h? had actually starved to death. The Khedive s Half-way Munificence. Tim Fitch-Sherman diamonds still remafii under lock and key in tho vaults of tho; Now York custom-house. It may ?jeem a little odd, but it in neverthe less true that tho necklace has never beed.appraiscd by the officials. Nor do tho owners evince any great curiosity to nsertain its real value. This is per haps attributable to discretion, says the World, and calls to mind the famous Portuguese rough diamond exhibited in the palace at Lisbon. This diamond, though it is ns large as a hen's egg and weighs over eight hundred carats, has nev?r beon subjected to the tests ot* cutting niul polishing, simply becauso there is doubt, about it. For there are experts in the trade who pronounce it to bo merely a very fine piece of chrys olite. Half the charm of the Khe dive's present would vanish if this cel ebrated necklace were tested by the appraiser's art. Tho Jewelers' Circu lar for "March Rives nu excellent draw ing of the necklace, anil says of it : " The estimates of the value of these jewels hare boen exaggerations beyond all precedent, aud $10,000 really repre sents tho most liberal valuation thal cnn be put upon them, the number and size of tho diamonds aro so counter balanced by their oft-color. " Tho Khe dive has probably never seen th? neck lace ; and he would hardly be pleaded to leura that those who were intrusted with the order in Paris had nu eye to quantity rather than to quality in mak ing the purchase. This omat.euf con tains, it is said, about seven hundred and seventy brilliants of all r-izes, from a sevon or eight oarnt stone to Borne as small HS one-twefth of a oarat. Tho aggregate weight of the diamonds is at least 5100 carats; but the quality is what is known as Capo Bywater-a quality of diamonds technically described as being of "off-color," ana they are well paid for,at 8100 per carat, cost of set ting and all included. Tho duty at 25 per conk, on tho jewels would at the utmost only be $10,000. The Dress-Patiern Trade. The Vow York correspondent of tho Boston Journal writes : " A great busi ness liga grown up apparently out of nothing The business i;-t tho making of dresurbatlorns out of a flimsy sort of paper A?ade for that purpose The aaiour?-ot business done is simply mar velony.^/^feongbd&la?l?? m-*ho back woods^', in tho country, and in the re motcattaud sparsest districts can at the cost of, a dime or so secure tho latest fashi?n? for themselves and children. Ono o?r these establishments sued a house it? New York on a note given for goods delivered. The defense set up was that thero was no considera1 ion. A qunatitV of goods were brought into court arid their flimsy textures exhibited to the inspection of the intelligent jury. The jury gave a verdict for tue defend ant 00 tho ground that there was no property in such material. Yet the dealings in this frail fabric are hardly equaled by any other branch of trade. One house does ?100,000 worth of trade a year. The paper is manufactured expressly for the work, and is sent into tho city tons at a time. A single order exhausts 5,000 reams. This house has 1,000 agencies. They oro in every part of the United Statos, in Cunada, oud ucross tho spas. Ord? ra toi patterns com? in from ?25 to ?1,000. The largest establishments in New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and Chicago buy ?500 worth nt a time. One hundred and fifty hands are kept constantly at work to meet the orders. And yet a New Jersey jury affirms that thero is.no mar ket value in this business." The Great Work. A ' telegram from Nevada says the Sutro tunnel, which has reached a length of 9,000 feot, has approached within ouo hundred feet of shaft No. 2, which is filled with water to a depth of eight hundred and seventy-five feet. From this point a diamond drill has been started, successfully tapping this great column of water, which it was feared might drown overy man in the tunnel beforo it could have been possi ble to escape. The workmen cnn now approach within twenty five feet of the column, when a great number of holes will bo bored to lot the water off alto gether. As an additional means of safety, a bulkhead, suggested by an officer of tho United States engineer I corps, is constructed, with a tunnel of sufficient strength to withstand a press ure of 2,000 tons, with a self-shutting gate only sufficiently large to allow ears to pass, which gate* tho approach ing rush of water closes, giving tho workmen time to escape in tho event of a midden flood. The amount of water flowing from the tunnel will ho in crease i to about ono hundred miner's inches. The connection with shaft No. 2 will insure good ventilation. Tho tunnel a* thia pomt entere the mineral bell in whfch Ibu Comstock lode is situated. -Ttni great Bessemer steamship, which wis to abolish the horrors of the Elicited C?.atnie), has been tried and in only a partiel succors, The ship steamed from Hull to Gravesend in a gale of wind and proved an excellent P>. a boat aud fast. lier two faults appear to be an excess of draught and tho unstead iness of bor movable saloon. Tho form er is partly accounted for by an oxtra supply of coal, and may bo got rid of in one way or another-munt bo got rid pf before sho can enter Calais on an ordinary tide. AH to the saloon it ap ponrs that the mochinory intended to control it, and to neutralize, so far as ? it iscoucornodjthe movemont of tho ship, in in some way defeotivo. The saloon can bo handled with ease, but cannot be kept still ; in other words, shares I tho motion of tho ship. Theso facta aro gathered form a letter written to the London TimeH by Lord Henry Len nox, who came in tho Bhip, and who ex plaids that the present trouble arises partly from some wrong arrangement of the lavers and partly from the inex perience of the man who works them. Tho Golden Rule of Agriculture. riants live a double life. They have a two fold nutrition-mineral and or ganic. Their mineral food is derived from the RO*1 and tho organio from tho air. While the organio constituents of plants are generally uniform, by a strict analysis of their ashes it is discovered that tho different olassefl are marked by the prevalence of certain mineral ele ments. Some abound in potash, others in lime, some in phosphates and others in silica. Different parts of the Bame plant have also their preponderating elements. Thus it appears that the reason why nil crops aro not. suited to tho samo soil is a variation of the min eral elements. All crops ore not suited to tho same soil, and mainly because it is deficient in certain mineral elements, or they exist in too large quantities. The fertilization of soils is the ad dition to the soil of suitable pabulum for tho growth and development of plnnts. If allowed sufficient time, plantR can extract, organio materials from tho surrounding atmosphere to attain a vigorous growth; yet if we ap ply to their roots manures yielding am monia, carbonic aoid, nitrogen, etc., we ?mpplement the atmospheric supply and hasten their development. Liquid ma nures are, thereforo, of high value, as their action is immediate and powerful. But if this policy is long continued it will exhaust the poluble mineral ele ments in tho soil and render it com paratively worthless. Hence, in all permanent systems of agriculture, min eral f(utilizers can no more be dispensed with than organic. Long-continued oropping removes; from the soil all tho available minerul constituents of plaut food, unless we restore to the soil in the shape of ma nures exactly what is lost in tho crop. Thip, then, is the golden rule of agri culture. By failing to heed this im p?t taut principle millions of aores of the choicest land have become worth h ss, and millions more nre now under going the same ruinous process. Wo should economizo overy source of^ fertilil y. Manure heaps should, all ?be sprinkled with some absorbent, such as gypsum or diluted s lphurio aoid, to prevent tho escape of ammonia, liquid excretions preserved in tanks that none of it nany be wasted, ashes saved and spread on tho fields. Compost heaps should.be formed where all refuse-ani-. mal or vegetable-may bo utilized ; and while the accumulation of filth and noisome odors is prevented, the soil is enriched and farming wade remunera tive. With fertilizers tho careful farmer jun accomplish much ; without them he mn accomplish nothing,-Cor. Ameri can Farm Journal. Boys and Farming. Farmers' sons upon arriving at a cer ain age often beoomo diBsatin?ed with ihoir vocation. In New England the majority of the boys leave the farm at tho age of eighteen or twenty. Why is. this ? Porhaps the most potent reason is aversion to hard work or a mistaken idea of ita ignominy. One reason why boys leave the farm in tho west lies in the fact that so many farms are so iso lated that neighbors are few and far between. The boy who toils day after ilay in the field mingles very little in society. He longs for associ?tes and neighborly influences. Many farmers are so absorbed in work and profit as to caro very little for outward appearances. I will illustrate a case : It was a riokety-looking place; the buildings had been long out of re pair. The barn and ita accompani ments were close by the house. A big hay stack occupied a prominent posi tion, with which the winds aud unruly members of the barn-yard hud raised sad havoc. Near by was the hog-pen, whose aroma was anything but pleasant to the sense. The intorvoning ground was soattered profusely with old logs, cartB and wagons. What wonder I'B it that the boy gets tired of such slovenly farming as that, and thnt tho familiar scenes of homo are not attractive? AB he grows up into manhood he re solves to get into some genteel business. " Farming will do very well for the old folks ; but I've had enough of it ; I'll go to tho city and seok my fortune." He sees tho well-drepsed clerk afc the counter. Visions of wealth fill his mind as he views the Btately columns that industry has founded. " I'll be a merchant !" he says to himself. A situ ation is secured with a salary of two or throe hundred dollars a jear ; he may in time be promotor! ; but bis chances t?f suco PS are small. Where one mer chant succeeds, thirty becomo bank rupts. Boys, koep out of the city ; it is over crowded already. Seek employment t>lsowhoro. Farmers, beautify your homes ; Btrive to make them so attract ive that your boys will bo reluctant to leave. Provide a library for your fam ily, and teach tho boys to farm by the ory aa woll as by practice. Don't com plain of hard times and tho uncertainty of oropB, but tell them of the nobility of ngricnlture as a life-calling, itfl inde pendence over all other employments, and without which no branoh of indus try could flourish. Ilise up, then, ye sturdy sonB of the soil. " Buckle on thine armor," and oanBo tho barren waste to glow with fruitfulness.-" Un ale Ned " in Western Rural. -A Scotch maiden, upon her lover remarking, "1 think I'll marry thee. Jane," replied . "I would be muokle obleeged to ye if ye would." FACTS AND FANCIES. BAITS* : They called him tiddy ickle- Bing, And soothing syrups they did Diing To atom tho rising squall. In vain they sought for soorot pin, And gavo him peppermint and gin Yet loader did lie bawl. Beneath bia petticoats hie foot, Like- littlo mice who pussy meet, Did twist and twirl about ; And, oh ! he roared in such a way- * No costard Belier blithe and gay Gives half BO loud a shout. Ria toara an instant coaso to flow Anon ho wildly squeals, aa thongb Some iloa had bit him badly. Poor pa, bo riaoa up in ire, Strong argument doea him inspire , Thinge ond for baby sadly. -Fun -Go and buy a cow right away. A WieoonHin cow came homo the other night with a bag of gold on her horn. -Ohio has a new religious seat called the EtornaliBts, and they are eternally fighting to see who shall load thom. -A fashionable Paris dress-maker announces that "ladies' ehrondB are now oat d?collette." . --A postal oard picked up on the street at Norwich, Gonn., the other day, bore this solemn appeal: "Deer mary for luv of God send me a paro of pants.' 1 -A Vermont lady fainted away at a party, anti, when a young man cried out for some one to saw her corset strings in two, she arose, drew a pair of r-hearB, and said she'd like to see 'om saw^ -A wonderful exhibition has been opened at Brussels. It is a colleotion of about 100 landscapes of great merit, painted by a boy named Fritz Ker nhove, of Bruges, who died an idiot at eleven years of age. -Hats are flaring, with broad brims turned up, or turned down, or raised, so BB to display branches of trimming under the brim on one side. They are picturesque and pretty, and are vastly becoming to young faceB. -From a young lady in town to her friend in the country : " I'm sitting on the latest spring style, Mary," And, jadging by the number of monstrous buttons one sees in the fashion-plateB, a very uncomfortable seat it must be. Too b?d a^oul ilriia}r]ftotareh I a Sho wanted to sit ont Jury ; _Rut the. roan who .b???:80t on.\-.-. - Didn't W?BB to be Botot^-Z^r* I'm sorry for slater Knturoh -Great preparations are- afloat air Trieste for the unveilinpr the-statue erected to the memory of Maximilian. Invitations have been sent to all the companies who served under the em peror in Mexico. -Cardinal Manning, in accordance with a usual custom, will take his title from Borne church in Rome, and has selected the church of St. Gregory, after whom he will be called. If by any possibility ho should be elevated to the papacy, he would therefore become Popo Gregory XVII. -A gigantic swimming bath, com posed of iron and roofed in with plate glass, haB been moored in the Thames at London. Tho water that is admitted to it flows through a thick bod of ohar ooal, nnd is so effectually filtered that it sparkles and glistens as if it were drawn from an artesian well. -Johnny saved himself troublo bnt lost marks in his definition exercise the other day. He got bravely through "presbyter," which he found, by look ing it out, to bo one who had had the layinc-on of hands by tho presbytery. The next word was "dissenter," and in an evil moment Johnny, without turn ing a leaf in his dictionary, wrote, "ono who has had tho dysentery." -The following harmless (if hard) hit we find in one of our English exchanges. The"dootur" referred to, it will be perceived, is a reverend doctor : "I cannot praise tho doctor's oyeB, I novor saw his glance divine"; He always shuts them when he prays, And when he preaches ho ehuta mine." -The present programme of the Brit ish nrctio expedition proposes that the two veanels shall leave Portsmouth about the latter end of May, and taking the usual route to Baffiu's Bay, en deavor to pass np Smith's Sonnd. In 81 deg! ces or 82 degrees north latitude they will probably separate, and while ono will exploro tho northern coast of Greonland, tho other will push still further northward. AK IONOM?NIOUS CONCLUSION.-Mary Ripley, of Columbus, is sixteen years of age, and feeling that the', time had como when she Bhonld commence her work in behalf of humanity, she hired a hall and invited the publie to come and hear her leoturo on " Social Topics." Mary began as follows: "Ladies and gen tlemen : If there were no men in the world there would bo fewer poor, mis erable girls wandering-" Mary pro ceeded no f nrther in her diaoonrfle, be cause at that point her father walked upon the platform and led her ont of the house by the ear. THE CUBAN INDIANA.-Tho good na tured aborigines, who, aooordiog lo accounts, must bnvo numbered aa high as two or three millions in the island of Cuba, a writer says, hRve been near ly extirpated. Thousands perished from overworking for invaders, who treated them as slaveB ; thousands were shot and lacerated by dogs ?s if they were game ; and thousands were killed by foolish and bloody Spaniards, who had made a vow to slangbter every morning thirteen heathens in honor of the Savior and the twelve apostles. It is, therefore, not to be wondered at that . the Antillenos knowingly committed tho Buiuido of their entire race by solemnly pledging their women not to bear children.