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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 453, 16 December 1881, Page 7

Kentucky is to have a mushroom farm in its Mammoth Cave. It is said there is room enough to produce a million pounds of mushrooms daily. Abdul Hassan Bey, an Egyptian official who lately visited General Merrill, of Andover, N. H., has presented to his host a slight acknowledgment of his hospitality in the shape of the mummy of a Princess of the house of Rameses 11. A drunkard took his eleven-year-old boy with him on a spree, at Maquoketa, lowa, and gave him as much liquor as he drank himself. The boy died in the stupor of intoxication. Chicago and New Orleans are the only American cities that license gambling houses. St. Louis is about to follow their example. Pere Loyson occasionally becomes the butt of Parisian jokers. A few days since he encountered a general well known for his loyalty to the Church and the Sovereign Pontiff. To the great disgust of the brave soldier Loyson gave him the military salute. A Frenchman, however, is seldom at a loss for appropriate repartee. Turning round, therefore, with a benign paternal expression forced into his countenance, at the same time raising his right hand as if to bless — " My poor child," said he to the ex-monk, " if you play soldier I must play priest. Receive my benediction." The multiplication of religious sects in the West keeps pace with the progress of the age in other industries. One of the latest sects is called " The Dreamers." The persons who compose it consider dreams to be divine revelations, and therefore they shape their actions according to what they think they learn in the silent watches of the night. When they dream dreams which they cannot understand, they go for explanation to the " Chief Dreamer," who is the head of their sect, and who either explains them or pretends to do so. The influence he thus acquires over them is very great, as he becomes acquainted with their inmost personal and family secrets. Tbe sect is not as yet very extensive, but its members make up for the lack of its size and influence by intense ignorance and unquestionable stupidity. It has its headquarters in a small town in Minnesota, to which it will probably be confined,— New York Sum.