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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 45, 2 March 1888, Page 29

King Humbert of Italy, one day, in speaking of the best form of monarchy, said : " Gentlemen, the best of all monarchies is the ono where the king is felt everywhere without being observed." •' And the best form of a Republic ?" asked a certain ambassador. "It is that one," was the reply " where, as in America, the genius of the people has so deeply penetrated every fibre of the social fabric, that no place remains for a king." One of the chief difficulties experienced by missionaries among the Indians is the want of books. Father Lacombe, 0.M.1., turned his talents to the supplying of this want, and after 25 years' labour, with no materials but the sounds of the words as he had heard them spoken, he composed the first dictionary and grammar of the Cree language. The same zealous missionary is now at Manitoba, preparing a dictionary of the Blackfoot dialect. —Aye Maria. The other day five leading Indians of the Coeur d'Alena tribe left Spokane for their reservation with the latest improved threshing machine and a handsome buggy. Bach has seventy acreß of grain which by this time is harvested, and they were well dressed, and drove well-fed ponies. It is said that most of the tribe are thue prosperous,