Current Topics AT HOME AND ABROAD.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXII, Issue 21, 20 September 1895, Page 1

Current Topics AT HOME AND ABROAD.

ODDS AHD ENDS.

The discnsßion last week in committee on the liquor Bill bad some interesting points ; the adoption, for example, of a provision inflicting a penalty of £10 on any person obtaining liquor on Sunday nnder tbe false pretence that be iB a lodger or traveller. Does this, by the way, include the informer who, nnder each a pretence, might try to entrap the]unwary publican 1 Mr R. McKenzie's proposal, had it not been lost, might add to the interest of oar streets and highways. It was to the effect tbat a prohibited person should wear as a distinctive badge a red or blue ribbon. The opposition was strong against Mr Seddon's proposal that the poll should be taken on the same day as the general election. We do not know however, that Captain Russell's inference might not have another side. Under the circumstances, he said, the sale of grog would dominate the whole political situation. But general politics perhaps would temper or counteract in some degree the prohibitionist fury. Mr J. W. Kelly's motion that the polling day be tbe second Wednesday in April, was cairied on the voices. Most interesting of all, meantime, was Mr W. Hutchison's motion — that no liquor be sold to any woman. How, may we ask, docs this fit in with the equality of the sexes 1 Mr T. Mackenzie woald make an exception of the wife of a tourist or a traveller, to whom, while travelling, he would allow a glass of wine. On the whole it will be seen tbat as we have said tbe discussion was not without its points of interest. One of the examitation papers of a young girl in a city school contained the question : " Which zone produces the highest type of man ? " In unmistakable characters the answer read : " The Temperance zone." We had ourselves suggested that in dealing with Turkey relative to the condition of things in Armenia the British Government might find themselves in a position of some difficulty. A Muhommedan who writes in the Nineteenth Century bears us out. He describes the state of Mussulman feeling in India, concluding as follows :—: — '•If the British and the Irish people, either Conservative or Radical, calmly think over the gre^t responsibilities which they h ive as the ruler 9of the greatest Empire now existiog in ihe world, and if they clearly appreciate their du*y as the ru'.ers of the greatest Moslem community in the world, they will not be carried away by racial or ecclesiastical prejudices. They will calmly aid inpartially judge before they condemn or agitate against any Mos'em power or kingdom with which sixty millions of their fellow-subj j ets have strong sympathies. They will not readily take part io any outcry against Turkey or any Mupsulman State, simply because the latter is not a Christian or European State." M. anwhile ou'ra^es of the same atrocious kind c intinua to be reported from Armenia. Whatever, therefore.^may be th« claims on England of her Mussulman subjects, her obligations towards humani'y are still more urgent. A writer the Fortnightly for July s.iya that it i* " a fact not less remarkable than unexpected tbat ia our day there Bbould be an unmistakable renewal of streagth and vitality in the Papacy." "As with the French peasantry and middle classes," he concludes, "so the Italians of the corresponding class only assk to be left alone, and in their hearts curse their rulers, struggling for plunder in ths distant capital. So the Vatican looks on quietly until everything Italian has gine tj smish. When ttu army baa died for waat of provisions, when thi fljet has been seized by her creditors, when France garriBona Spezia, and a Busaian equidron is moorad ia the Biy of Naples. when the last hungry deputy has scraped the final soldo out of the Treasury-chest and has retired to make boots once more in bis village, when the carabiniere and the brigand, the financiere and the contralandista picnic amicably under the shade of the chestnut — hen the time will be at hand for the great Restitution, and once more the character of the Holy Father will unite with ithat of Sovereign Pontiff."

" Tbe Church," tbis writer had before said, " believes that all the poorer and most of the middle and respectable classes sigh for tbg good old days— all save tbe political adventurer and the money • lender." "And." he adds in a note," it mast be admitted by any one knowing Italy, past and present, that theyjcarta'nly were far more contented in those days." The discovery of argon has lei already to that, in onr atmosphere, of another gas called helium, which in 1868 Mr Norman Lockyer bad observed in tbe chromosphere of the sun, At one time we had heard the common house-fly accused as the cause why the sandy-blight — an especially painful disorder of the eye —was a yearly recurring epidemic in a certain Anstralian township. When the flies were numerous people said it invariably renewed its annual appearance and became worse. Scientific experiment seems now to confirm tbia view. The experiments in question were recently tried by Mr W. T. Burgess. He, we are told, put flies in momentary contact with certain microbes prepared for the purpose — harmless microber,*lest, bis conclusions proving true, mischief might result. Then he let the flie3 fly about for several houra in a large room. When caught again they were made to walk over slices of sterile potatoes After being incubated for some days tbe potatoes were covered with growths of the organism wherever the flies had walked. The conclusion necessarily is that the destruction of house-flies, as a dangerous source of infection, is to be zealously undertikm and thoroughly cirried out. The offioe of the Church (writes Professor 8t George Mivart) is not to teach science, whether physical or historical. The Popa speaks, not as a critic but as b ruler, whosj duty is to watch over the welfare, not of science, but of souls. Hai the office of the Church been to teach Bcieace she would have failed indeed. But as long as we hold there is a moral ruler above up, and that our deliberate actions in this initial sphere of our existence have everlasting consequences, the Church's action ia abundantly justified. All the errors of science, physical or hi&t jncal, do not weigh in tbe balance, even infinitesimally, compared with the everlastiog deßtiny of one human soul, Mary (writes the Rev J. D, Rreen, O.8.B.) is to be held personally responsible for the burning of heretics, o 'ly in the same sense in wnich Qieen Victoria is to be held responsible for the massacre of Sepoys during the Indian mutiny. Lady Cook is aho, as we might suppose, an advocate for "rational dress reform." She publishes an article on dress, from tbe time it consisted in a smearing of the body wi h unguents down to the present day. One p.int, however, she misses — " Josephus,,' she tells us, " says that the Jewish ladies powdered their hair with gold dust. African princes do the same." How then had it escaped her Ladyship's researches that, among the follies of the Third Empire, was the same piactice. The Empress Eug6nie got the credit of introducing it— and, possibly with more truth than that with which in ottur inatances she was accredited with initiating folly. The splendours of the Imperial court needed to be renewed or sustained. One exravaganca brings on another. Probably this burnishing of the hair with goli led to th 3 faabionjof dyeing it red — in vogue at the same lime, or a little after. The red, however, was not the carroty hue that, for tbe most part, people do not admire. It was a deeper colour, somewhat more ruddy than old gold, and to some faces it was not unbecoming. Lady Cook, tbeD. happens on a good deal, real or imiginary, but, in sweeping together her details, acme pointß escape hei. " Inquirer must re*lly fid dress his future questions to ' Notes and Queries.' We do Lot believe a child's knickera were first worn in Nicaragua." His Worship the Mayor of Dunedin last week, on behalf of the Governor, presented certificates and medals of tha Royal Humane Society ot Australasia to certain gentlemen, who had deserved them as follows : — Mr Welby Earl Fisher, of 8t Clair, who bad rescued

James Peter Simon from drowning on January 25, 1894 ; Mr Andrew Baiaell, of Dnnedin, who had rescued a little girl named Annie Hodge from drowning on December 15, 1894; Mr John Fraeer, North-East Valley, who bad endeavoured to save life in the wreck of the 8.8. Wairarapa ; and Constable Broberg, who h.d m ked his life in rescuing a man from drowning at the Queen's wh<rf, Wellington, last December. The Fair Bent Bill, which is expected presently to give Pailiament some busy weeks, oontaim a provision for the division of the colony into distric 8, each to be managed by a board c nsisting cf three members appointed by the Governor-in-Coutcil. The board, in cases in which there is a dispute between landlord acd tenant, will receive applications from either party, and fix a fair rent. Fair rent in country districts is, in tffec*, to be understood as a rent made out of land over and above the coat of cultivation and production, the interest on capital expended, and the reasonable maintenance of the tenant and his family. Fair rent in townships in based on the letting value and business advantages of the property. Various other considerations are also included, such, for example, as access to markets and the state of trade. The drought in the Australian colonies continues to irjflict great and increasing hardships upon the people. The bush fires alone are a source of widespread devastation. Prophets of evil are, meantime, to the fore, who predict a continuance of the scourge still for gome years as following in a regular couree of nature. M. Alphonee Daudet denies that he fpeke as reported of Englishwomen 1 Allbeßftid,he asserts, was that be preferred the way in which French women dressed themselves. That, however, was tantamount to saying nothing at all, the point being one on which an international and world wide agreement has prevailed from time immemorial, " She : ' I think there is considerable room for improvement in ladies' dresses nowadays.' He: 'Well, in the sleeves especially, 1 1 •hould say there was room for almost anything.' " ' "Cardinal Vanghan contends that the kernel of the reunion of the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches is the admission of Papal infallibility." This sounds Bomewhat like a truifm. Nrceesarily the Church enteric g into communion with Rome mußt accept the dogma of Papal infallibity. Necessarily, also, the individual or Church accepting that dogma must accept the whole body of Catholic doctrine. Cardinal Vaughan, nevertheless, may have found it desirable to explain an evident truth. "Atticus " in the Melbourne Ltadcr has been discussing the of idiscusßed, and, perhaps, haidly definable, point, " What is a lady !'• "A Sydney monthly publication recently offered a prize for the best Original definition of the word ' lady.' It went to one who suggested that ' She who is not ashamed to be called a woman may safely be Called a lady.'" Does this imply that the young lady who is not ashamed to be called a girl, also deserves the more high-soundin^ title 1 11 Tomkine : ' Who was that lady I saw you with at tl c ball last night?" Jones: 'Lady? H°, ha, ha ? That's a good joke. I must tell her. That was no lady ; it was my wife.' " Mr F. A. O'Keefe, who withdrew, in favour of D^ly, bis candidature for Limerick, has now bean returned for the seat by a majority of 807 over an cppoßing Parnellite. Mr R. Webb has been replaced for West Waterford by Mr Sbee, also a supporter of Mr Justin M'Oarthyj The Anglican Bishop of Exeter has issued a pastoral calling on his people to eing " Te Deorn " for the defeat nf (he party which threatened the Established Church. Considering the prominent part taken in that defeat by the liquor interests of the country we may point once more to the time-honoured connection that subsists between " Beer and the Bible." Who, by the way, was the Anglican divine who declared, to Cardinal Manning indignation, that he would rather see England drunken than ens'aved ? The Bishop of Exeter improves upon this ecclf siasUc's motto, and calls upon his people to give (hanks for the continuation of he double privilege. "An extra s xp?nce on beer was the punishment of Lord Barton's charging tides. H .rccurt wiebid to make it bitter for Bass." An aristocratic couple are coming to Australia to hide their blushes. The Californian Presß. it seems, has been too gopsipping for Lord Sholto Douglap, who rtctntly married an actress in San Francis, and Li* bride, The Marquis of Queentberry. therefore. father of th; bridegroom, advides that a refuge sbould be sought In

Australia. Are our reporters, then, lees enterpria ng oi more considerate ? " The Groom (at the first stopping place) : < It's no use, Clara ; we can't hde it from people that we are bride and groom. 1 lh« Bride : • What makes you think 8", George, dear 1 ' The Groom (<lej»c'edly) : ' Why, here the waiter has brought us lice pudding.' " Acording to the MiDes Statement, the prospects of mining in tbe Colony are brighter than they had been for some time past. The demand for miniDg proper ies by English capitalists is hailed as a healthy sign. Further facililiep, however, are needed for the encouragement of foreign investors. The total value of all minerals produced la&t y<ar in the Colony was £1,697,242, as against £1,822,674 for the previous year. The total value of all minerals of all kinds produced to the end of 1894 in the colony was £62,769,652. Sir Robert Stout is still death on the cadats. He cited the other day tn awful case, in which one had been, appointed while two others were left out in the cold In vain was it explained that the lad chosen had had special qualifications. Sir Robert reserved all his forces for another charge. A boy who had visited the office of a certain irascible merchant a good many times as a messenger, and had beard how the old man talked to offendiog clerks, lost his place and nt once applied to him for a position (says the Detroit Free Press). " I've got nothing for you to do," was the ill-natured response to tbe boy's request, but it never phased him. •• I don't want notbin' to do," he replied prcmptly. " What are you coming to me for, then? " "Oh, I jest want a place to set round in yer office, bo's you can enssme whenever you get mad an' there Bint nobody else handy. I'm kinder used to that sort of thing ; my pa ain't no Sunday school scholar himself." The superintendent of village settlements recommends the adoption of more vigorous measures. He recommends the acquisition of lands near large centres for the settlement of artisans and others employed in towns. Men used to country work he would place in the country districts only. He also recommends grants ol monetary assistance for the erection of houses and for clearing, burning, and grassing ; such advances to be repaid, after the first four years, by instalments. The establishment of labour colonies in the country districts is recommended to counteract tho attraction to the principal towns exercised by the funds raised there for the unemployed. Lady Cook, by the way, to whom we have alluded, enjoyed the privilege of coming into the world ready christened — " nic Tennessee C. Claflin." It must be admitted, too, that her Ladyship's pre-natal godfathers and god-mothers had bestowed on her an appropriate naming. No norn deplume could better suit her style of writing. Excessive smartness, of a Yvikee stamp, is her Ladyship's forte. 1(1 So you are a rapid stenographer?' 'Yes, sir.' 'I should tbiuk it would be very difficult to take down everything a speaker says.' ' It's not so hard when you understand it. I was reporting a spefch the other day, and I thought I would try and see how fast I coald report, and will you believe it, none of the speakers could follow me.' " Talking of the Southern State, meantime, we perceive that an outbreak of vaudoo among the negroes of a certain district is reported. The superstition is said to be of African origin and to have riteß of horrible enormity. l\ieie embrac» human sacrifices particularly thosj of infants, who are stolen for the purpose. The kidnapper, nude and well greased so as to escape capture, creeps into a house in the dark and carries off the doomed child. It must however, be remembered that charges of an addiction to vaudoo have not uncommonly bpen brought against negro populations who were guiltless. Any rep>rt<>f the kind alludei to needs confirmation. Ths American imigination has often beeo. accountable for m ire than this. "At a npgro w,>d ling, whei thn clergymen read the words 'love, honour, and obey,' the bridegroom interrupted him and said, 'Re d that again, sah ; read it once mo,' so's de lady kin ketch de full so'emnity of de meaning. I's been married befo.' '" Here is another illustration of what is possibly the true inwardness of our cc^onial democracy. The London correspondent of the Otago Daily Times informs us tbat the Hon R. Oliver, M.L.C., having just fulfilled in Cornwall a brilliant course of canvassing for the Tories, has settled down for a ye»r or so in a maueion at the Wist End. Those among us, neverthtdess, who are actually engaged with po s and pace, are no doubt nil for the people. How it may be with them when the ironware turns into gold is suggested by the example we have quo'ed.

" Agitator : « Are yon a human being ? • Sandwich Man : ' What ? ' Agitator : ' I cay are you a human being ot are yon a chattel—a thing— a soulless creature of flesh and blood, made in the likeness of man, but without any of the attributes of manhood? Do you know the human raci exis's? You Ulk, you can stand upright, you wear clothes, yoa have hands, feet, head, body, and powers of locomotion, yet you voluntarily surrender yourself to wage slavery ? At the bidding of some representative of organised greed you place that badge cf servitude upon yourself, and without a blush of shame march forth ioto the light of day to advertise your infamy 1 Have you sjld your birthright for a dog collar f Where is the manlinesp, the independence, tbe liberty that was born in you? Where in the spirit that shoald nerve you to throw of! the galling yoke 1 ' Sandwich Man : ' Say, you cork up that mouth of y< urs and get out of my way 1 I'm something of a walking delegate myself.' " An ex-Jetective named M'Cansland, a non-Catbolic, writing recently in a local paper gives his opinion as follows of the public tchools of Chicago:— "l have a Eon thirty years old whom lam proud of, and he was never in the public schools of Chicago sixty days. I have three boys; but if I had five hundred, not one of them would I educate in the Chicago public schools. I would not send my boy to the city schools, because I fear that he might go from there to the penitentia-y. Two-thirJs of the inmates of the Cook County gaol come from the public schools. I know hundreds ot cases of boys — and girls too— who have become absolutely demoralised by associations." My dear Father Hyacinth (wrote Cardinal Newman in 1870 to the unfortunate ecclesiastic named) :— I am always pleased to hear from you and of you. It grieved me bitterly that you should have separated yourself from tbe one truefoli of Christ, and it grieves me still more to find from your letter that yon are still in a position of isolation. I know how generous your motives are, and how much provocation you as well as others have received in the ecclesiastical

events which have boen passing an und ua. But nothing which has taken place justifies oar separali in from the one Chuich. There is a fable in one of our English poets, of which the moral is given thus : ' Beware of dangerous stops ; the darkest day , Live till to-morrow, will have pissed away. Let us be patient. The turn of things may not take place in our time; but there will be surely, sooner or later, an energetic and a b crn Nemesis for imperious acts, such as now afllict us. Thf, Church is the mother of high and low, of the rulers as well as of the rule' Securus judicat orhis terrarum. If she declares by her various voices thttt the Pope is infallible in certain matters, in trio c matters infallible he is. What bishops and people say all over tbe earth, that is the truth, whatever complaint we may have agamsi certain ecclesiastical proceedings. Let us not oppose ourselves to the universal voice. God bless you and keep you 1 Ireland (says the London Times') stan is out in striking contrast to the result of the contests in the other pirts of the United Kingdom. The Unionists have mide notable gains in Scotlaud and still more, proportionally, in Wales. la England tbe opinion of the predominant party has been pronounced more decisively than at any time in our recent history. But cue Irish constituencies remain by a great, and, indeed, slightly increased, majority Sep.ratis f . The Kerry Weekly Reporter, in anaonncing trut Sir Thomas Bsmonde would come forward agaia for West Kerry, speaks in a highly appreciative manner of the candidate. " All shades of politics," Bivß our contemporary, " have been p'eased with the businesslike tactics of the Baronet during the last three years." Considering, moreover, the depths of some at least of the shades involved this Is no light saying. Never, in fact, was any one, under greater difficulties, all things to all men. Sir Thorn is Esmoado deserves ntarty congratulations. It is not, meantime, only in the political arena tha' Sir Thomas Ksmonde has been gaining distinction. In the world of sport also,

he has come bravely t3 the front. Io the report given by a recent number of the Cork Examiner, of a IS c at Killarney, for example, we find tbe following :— ' A cipital exhioitioo of horse jumping took place. The entries were num-roue, but the unpropitious weather of the past fow days doubtless prev.ntcd rxuny from competing. Not. withstanding, the competition wa9 very keen, and the jumping firstclass. The winner turned up ia a beautifal little marp, Scotia, owned by Mr St John Djnovan, and cleverly ridden by Sir Thomas Bsmonde, M.P." Writing on my information of Sunlay last (August 4) (gaya the Freeman's London correspondent) with respect to the Government policy for Ireland, Sir J. Wemyss fieid says in the Speaker, " I see that the Freeman's Journal (-peaks of the Endowment of a Boman Catholic University as bemg one of the schemes contemplated by Ministers. My private information leads me to believe that this statement is well founded. Of course these are early days in which to be discussing the future proposals of Ministers with regard to Ireland ; but from all I learn the policy to be adopted will be ona of liberal bribery in the first instance, and if that should not suffice of stilt more liberal concession. The complete failure of the Balfournian system of coercion is recognised by everybody, and it was never more true than it is to-day that the old ' game cf law and order' is up bo far as Ireland is concerned. Tha works of Mr Gladstone and the Gladstone Parliament manifestly live after them." The following is a telegram under date Woodford, Co Qalway, Friday, August 9 : To-day a murderous assault was committed on a Clanricarde tenant under the following circumstances : Tha agent, Mr Tener, his police escort, a body of emergencymen, and some police from Bossmore Station went on the lands of Bossmore and atempted to fence off a portion of land belonging to a tenant named Con Tully. The Tullys resisted, and youag Con, a strapping son of the tenant, pu«h 'd his way through the agent's party, and seizing a stake which they had just planted struggled to pull it op again. He wag immediately set upon by armed ruffians, and although old

Tully appealed to the police to interfere his son was struck down before his eyes, having received first a blow ou the back from a heavy mallet, and then one on the bead from an iron bar, which inflicted a fearful wound, tearing half the scalp and crushing tbe skull. The young man was carried insensible into his home near by, and at tbe moment of wiring little hope is entertained of his reco-' very. Two emergencyman named Nesbitt and Macaulay were arrested. Among the on Aits of the period is odo to the eff ;ct that the late Czir ) as also his father, was a heavy drinker. It is added that the Czir now rcigDicg is sober but soft- beaded. A German newspaper recently offered a priz3 for the best epiaph of Prince Bismarck. The following was adjudged the winner :— " He made Germany great enough to be his burial place." Tne bride recently wedded by the Duke of Argyle, it appears, did not come to his Grace empty-handed. She had been bequeathed a large fortune by a lover who died on the day fixed for their weddin?. Tnis too, seems at variance with the extreme youth assigned by some reports to the lady. " ' When I marry I want a wife who is easily pleased,' observed Evergreen ' Tnat'a the kind you'll get,' replied the rest of the crowd, in chorus." The btlief was current in the clubs last week (gays T&oAern Society of August 10) that the visit of tbe Duke of York to the Premier meant something— something for the Duke himself. Tho plan, it appears, is to abolish the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland altogether and to establish a Royal residence in phci of the present Vice-regal Palace ; so, naturally, the Duke of York, who one day will be King of England, is designated as the first occupant of the new Eoyal residtnce in Ireland.

Lord Salisbury is a warm advocate of this Bcheme, and speaks enthusiastically about it to his friends. He argues that the Boyal Prince, being above and beyond party, woold be the living symbol of union, and that as his office would be social, instead of political, his reception-rooms would be the common meeting ground for Irishmen of all political complexions and creeds. How far this last is from being the case in Dublin Castle under the Vice-regal system all Irishmen, and many English visitors to Ireland, know, A year or two ago the disclosures of Dr Bataille concerning tre Lnciferians were denounced as extravagant beyond all imagination. When we, for example, quoted a portrait of the devil given by the Doc'or we were told that it was not a bit like him. We, not being ourselves a'quain'ed by sight with the original, hid, of course, no reply to make to such competent authorities. But now the matter has come within the sphere even of fashionable journalism. Thus a corre>pondent of Modern Society, d vropros of the conversion of Miss Diana Vaughan giveß a Bummary of the doctrine of the sect that might be taken from Dr Bataille's pages. Magna est veritas et prcevalebit. Luciferians believe that the Supreme Being is constituted by two Gods— a good and a bad. The wicked god is Adonai, the god of superstition, the one in whom Christians believe. The other is he whom Christians call the Devil or Satan, but whom they believe to be the true God, and whom they worship. His name, Lucifer means light; that is to Bay, beauty, truth, goodness— Lucifer As long as time has been these two gods have been waging war against one another, since long before the creat on of the material world. Lucifer they believe to be the principal of knowledge, good, light, and life, and therefore equal to Adonai, who is the principal of material darkness, evil, and death. "You mentioned a fortnight ago thu Miss Diana Vaughan will be received into the Catholic Ohurch at an early date. Sac has lately made some very interesting revelations respaoting the worship of Lucifer from which Bhe is 'verting. The object of Luciferianism is to make everyone worship the Davil. The headquarters of this sect is in Oharlestown, America ; an executive committee is stationed in Borne, and the administration is in Bjrlia. They have two 'temples' in Paris, one in. the Rue Boctncnouart, quite close to the Church of the B.ci6-C«jr ; the other is on the left baok of tha river, not fir from the Hjtel des lavaliies. "Diana Vaughan had a quarrel with Asm deuo, one of the 'angels' (would not 'demons' be more appropriate?) of Lucifer wbo appeared to her in a rojm. The tub] ct cf the q i rrel was Joan of Arc, whom Diana said she loved. Asmodeus got into a terrible rage, and said that be would not allow her to love aoyone except himself. Hence this split. When stu was t*en'y fi ie years of age she Wis officially presented to Lucifer biane'f. Oa each of the two days preceding this evant she had but one m a.~t .is at night, and composed of milky herbs, black bread, and fried blooi, highly spicid She was only allowed three hours' Bleep oa each of these days. "At seven o'clock on the ntarht of the third nay two members of the Masonic Veteran Association c inducted her to the Sanctum Begnum, where they left her alone. Several peals of thunder then announced the arrival of the gentleman who has been described a* not being co black as he is painted. Diana Bays that tnr p n cannot write words to express his beauty and imposing splendour. From head to foot he was dressed in golden mail, leaving the hands an i feet uncovered." " Michael Davitt has cibled another £1000 to Mr Jmtin M'Cartby, princpilly the result of the Queensland tour and subscriptions.'" But this isjall the more reason why Mr Davitt, during the remainder of his tour, should lecture in his owa interests solely. He has certainly done far more than his fair part in the National interests. His friends should now exert themselves to make the lectures still to be delivered by him even, if possible, a greater success from a pecuniary point of view than those that have preceded them. A new departure in the election-riot line appears to have b,>en made at Limerick. Tne fighting, it would seem has set in since the return of the Member. A fi 3 'ht for purj fun, hovever, loses half" its vice. Indomitable valour too must ever be recognised as a virtue. " London, September 13.— Fierce election riots are tasing place at Limerick. Forty-six men were treated in the hospital, and many of them, after getting their wounds dressed, rushed out to rej <in the fray." Ministerial Tourist (solemnly) : " My friend, have you, in your sin'ul and ungodly life, ever enjoyed unalloyed happiness 7 Alkali Ike : " Looky yere, stranger I Do you reckon I've lived in

Oklahoma all these years and neror participated io ft lynohin'-bee ? " — Life,