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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2093, 18 September 1875, Page 4

Cubious Solution of a Keligiotjs Difficulty. — A correspondent of the Continental Herald writes from Berne :— " Lachen is a large village of the Canton of Schwytz, which belonged to the Sonderbund. It, possesses several large manufactories, among the workmen of which since 1848 are numbered many Protestants. Lost in the middle of a Catholic population, they would have been deprived of all religous succor were it not that the bold cure of Lachen had undertaken to come to their aid. He acted like Pastor Thshud did formerly at Grlaris, but in an inverse sense—that is to say, that without ceasing to fulfil his duties as a Catholic cure, he took on himself to preach for the Protestants. Nay, more, he undertook to give religious instructions to the Protestants children according to the evangelical catechism. This has gone on for many years. Like priests, like people. The inhabitants of Lachen, instructed by the worthy cure, are wise and tolerant. The Protestant colony, having largely increased, is about to procure a special pastor, and as it is thinking of building itself a church, the commune has presented it with the ground besides a substantial subsidy in money. "Do you want to kill the child? " exclaimed a gentleman, as he saw a boy tip a baby out of its carriage on the walk. "No, not quite," replied the boy; " but, if I can get him to bawl, mother will take care oi him while I go and paddle in the ditchVith Johnny Bracer."

A Mtstbet Explained.—lt is statistically computed that-100,000,000 nuts of various kinds are annually eaten in America. Which fact the New Orleans '• Picayune "thinks may account for the prodigious number of colonels.