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ROUND THE WHOLE WORLD WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. Minium" hsd its thousandth perform- ncoat the P*ris Opera Comique Iwo weeks go, and ihe occasion was oslsbialed by dinituog tho public free to all part* of the ..use. The composer, Ambroise Thotna*. who i* Si years old, was present. A French physician has devised a vibrat- Isl sad lew W.rH rfl t Inlereat < hr.alele.1 Krlrllt 'lerralldl "as" *a>lac r Beeeail wale. Nearly 1,000.000 people ti" !> > elh. Austrian law permi's U>ys and girls to marry at th* age of fourteen. Boiled aligstor flesh '.sates very much lfcs veal. It is much eaten iu India. Th* Aino of the Japanese islands tateo mustaches on their women'* upper lips. Paper itn/king* now manufactuied in l.eriiaoy are said to le a preventive o colds. The Englishman who detests a bicycli* bitterly refer* to him as a " oad on cas Ion." ' Mene/uela i* said to hsve .Vi authorize* national holiday* each year. Mexico ha IS and Kra/i !-"->. It is possible for any Chinaman, on th payment of a sufficiently large sum money to become a deity. From Ostrogosk, on the Volga, it i* re ported tha- the whole of that district i being ravaged by rats. Kudyard Kipling i* passing the few mouths he intend, to remsin in England a Tilbury in Wiltshire. Some, of the bricks found in Babylon indicate by the stamps upon iheir surface aa age of at least .">,<WO years. Duke Carl Theodore of Havana, who is a practicing physician, attended more than 5, WOO patients last year. A tomb*tone in one cf the fashionable cesBeteries of Belfast hear* only those four words : " Left till called for.'' ' There are now seventy-four survivors of the famous Balaclava charge, so far as the Briiish army authorities can traee. One of the large*: ho*pital* in the world is the Misericordia of Ulo Janeiro. It receives annually over thirteen thousand patients. The Austro Hungarian refuge* for thi aged and infirm support their inmates at an average expenditure of fifteen cent* a dy. Dil-ntient Po'ua, who have ha.i trouble with the authorities of the Cat'iclR church, talk of organizing a religious body of their own. In Koumima a duty of 'Joe. a bottle has to be paid on foreign wine. There is a tax on female servant", on door plates, and on doctors. A lieutenant in the reserve of the Italian army and a resident ot I. enoa was recent ly discharged on account of his socialist tendencies. .reat Britain BO' two of her possessions from pirates the Leeward islands in the West Indies, snd Sarawak, iu the northwest f Borneo. A Dutch paper publishes the following advertisement from a disconsolate wife : "Ado'nhua Beinrn to your Matilda. Ihe piano has been sold." Padrrewski ha* got along *o far w.tli hi* Polish opera that he hope* to have it pro- duced neit May at Buda-Pe*tli under the direction ol Mr. Nikisch. The most common offence in Jamaica is the use, of obaoene and offensive language. Over on* fourth of th* arrest* mad* last year were on this charge. In certain parts of Africa where a person is suspected of a crime a chicken is killed. If the Intestines are white, ihe pel BOD is innocenl ; if yellow, guilty. In the French Senate a motion to the fleet that the ion* of divorced women hould l-e free for military service wa* re- cently adapted by a vote of I III lo 1 14. A Herman officer ha* invent, d a motor in which a fine stream of coal dust is util- ised to drive a piston by explosion in the asms manner a* Ihe gas in ihe gas engine. A wheel it being built in London which i* much larger than the famous fern* whe*'. It will carry i.iMi people in .V) can. A big baloon will cr >wu the supporting towers. llrcece is threatened with a plague of locusts thi* year. S arm* of these insects ar* reporte-l by the local authorities to Have appeared in various districts of Butxrs. A (itrman scientist lias succeeded in pro- pagating *ponge* artificially. His first cost wss SBI, cost of maintenance almost noth- ing, and a crop of -t.UftO sponges a* a result, An Irish arts and craft* socn'.y has just bean formed in Dublin for the purpose of slimulating the industries of Ireland and attempting lo raise ihe craftsmen to a high- er artistic level. Th* Isrgest cave in Mexico, if not in the world, has l*rn found by a French engin- eer in the wild* of the north-west. In It he found a cemetery, proving that the cave b*d been Inhabited. M Dupuy, president of the French Chamber of Deputise, has just been elected honorary corporal ol the regiment of Sou- danese Shtrpshooters, one of the crack oorpeol France's Afn an army. For the feeding of London a little more than .T.M.oH:! tou* of meat, |ioiillry and general provisions were delivered last year from the public markets alone. 1 he Convo Free State is really a colony <.' Belgium, having a central government at Br lasels, by which the affair* of th* l-'re- Slati ar* administered. It* area is estimat- ed at 000.000 square mile*, its population i* ng helmet lor the cure of nervous head ache. It i* constructed of stripe of steel AGRICULTURAL Pastures for Sheep. The depression in the price of wool ha* been ami is now dmcouragingly low which is equally true of oilier line* of farm pro- duction and which may not have been wholly in vain if the inducement has been to lessen th* size of the flocks by the process of culling. That is by keeping only the ,..,.., _ __, . . best and by increasing their value by im- >ecome* il* Sullan by the action of France, | provemeliu xhere have been too mn) Spain and Kngland in MM^S^***" inferior .heep in thi. country and too little n I care bestowed on their management. A writer in the Practical Farmer says : The >ut m vibration by a 'small electric motor The sensation produces drowsiness, the tat lent fall* asleep under its influence md awskes free fiotn psin. Lide (iharnit for Iwenly years past th* Foreign Minister of Morocco; practically inere boy, and the work of rule will la th* vsteran Minister. Berlin claim* ihe record for quicknei* in turning oul the fire brigade. At a te*t the other day ihe^ompany tested was out, of quarters, fully squipped for the nre twen'.y-two second* afler the alarm was Urneiin. Amsterdam has hitherto claim- ed to hold the record on M second*. A rainmaker in Itdi* has an appaiatus consisting of a rocket capable of rising to the height of a mil*, containing s reservoir of et.ier, |in its descent it open* a para- chute, which causes it to come down slow- ly. Th* ether i* thrown out in fine *oray, and its alieorption of heat i* *a-d to lower the temperature about it sutli lently to condense the vapor and produce a limited shower. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. stir ateailal.l. li in- i...m a Fen er Ike i.rr.ii folk* at Use Werld. The i.iu-'i-n of England has a horror of Macock iealherx. Curiously enough a rret many well-known people share ibis dislike. To Queen Natalie of Servia belongs the distinction of owning the finest heaa of ia:r among the royalties of Europe. She usuailv wear* it hanging in two lung plaits ton common opinion in regard to sheep i* thai, they are mere scavenger* and lilted only to consume the weeds and other waste on the farm. Thi* i* a great mistake. Out of nothing one only gets nothing. If the owner of a flock tas no care of it and doe* not provide sutlicient shelter for it, all he can expect i* thai his sheep will pine away and periih. It i* thia wrong treatment to which i* due th* frequent disappointment of farmer* who procure a few *heep and then, expecting they will live on briar* and wed, neglect to feed them and *oon find them perish miserably. When *heep are kept with sufficient care no larm stock wil be more profitable. The wool will pay for good keeping snd the lambs will almost or re than doub'e the flock each mu/z'.e the horsei than hinder the free us* of their neck, by checking while at work. Checked hor* *w*at more and grow thin fa.ter than free horses. A team that i* yelled at and jerked will become so nervou* that they do not know what they *re*>x>ut, they grow thin with half the work of one that is used kindly and steadily. The man- ners of ihe team show the temper of the driver. If for any reason the horses have not shed their coats or sro unthrifty, give them a lillle il meal in their feed dally. Itegin with a table*poon and gradually in- orease until feeding a ;jint twice per day. Few feeds will glvs a horse so much strong' h and make him Took so well. Water is good for a horse's feet. If they get hard sosk them in warm water. Never oil or varni*h any part of a horse'* foot. Keep a foot hook handy and clean out the eet every .1 .y. It will prevent thru*b and other disease* of the foot. Hsve ihe col srs made thin at the top and full where the Iraft comes. _ BORN TO BAD LUCK. Man Wb* *ee*s > Have Bees) I ii.ler an I nlur!. -I..I. Thai some men *re born under an un- lucky star, I verily believe," *ay* a writer the Pitteburg Dispatch. " Fatality Henry Yato* Thomon, former owntr of the Pali Mall <;f.*tle, has offered to give fl'.Hl.lim to build a chapel, connected with Weolmmsler Abbey by a cloister from the posit'* corner, for monument* for great man snd women. Norway is t- adopt a uniform time for the whole of that country from Jan. I next. The mean lima will lie that at th meridian fifteen durst* east of llrsenwlch. At present neat ly every lo.-alily in Norway ha* It* own local time. The widow of Ernest Ksnan, who disd th* other day, was a Miss Cornell* Sohefhr, a niece of Ary SchelTer, the Dul.-h-r rtm.-b parnler, who eiluoaud her along with his daughter, and is laid to have predicted the Urns of Kenan. down her back. On* of the last act* of Lord Houghton previous to leaving Cre we Hall th* other jay wa* to write to the Caatleford local board offering to present six acres of land near the town for a public park. The o: er n gratefully accepted. There ha* just died near Ballymena, Ireland, David Yaslon. who, at the age of 5O, had attained the height of three feet. A widow and several children mourn In* deaih. He was wellknornas an evangelis- tic preacher, and carried on the grocery business. The late President Carnot of France, according to French papers, was never r>.pt ne.l. He belonged, it is said, to the Theophi!anlhrop:sts. founded by La Her- illiere-Lepanx. Among th> original mem ber* of the sect wa* Lixare Carnot, grand father of the 1'resident. Andrew Carnegie will return to Pitts burg in the fall lo arrange for the forma opening of ihe li nrary which he is to ^ive to hi* fellow-.-iiizene. From all account* the institution i romises to be worthy its great purpose and til to do it* donor honour. The building's capacity will be .'.'>,< 'Hi volume*. The death is announced of J. O'Neill Daunt, who was once very prominent in Irish controversies, but almost forgotten of late years. He waa a contemporary and loyl supporter of O'Conntll, of whom he published a hook of recollections. He wa* ao ardent pttriot, but had no sympathy with either .tynamite or ihe Land League. Queen Marguerite of Italy ha* been seized with the prevailing cycloma is, snd every day she spends a couple of hour* practising in the garden* of the Quuinal. All Home seems to have gone crazy on the subject, and not only society, bul also the diploma- tic oorps and tho two Houses of the nation- al Legislature have succumbed lo the temp- tation. Miss Sara Jeannette Duncan, the author of "A Social Departure," is the daughter of t'harles Duncan, of Brantford, Out. After teaching awhile she entered upon journal- istic work . and in her journey around the world was correspondent for several Eng- lish and Canadian p*prs. She is now the wife of Professor Kverard Cotes, who hoi. Is an important po.it nn in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Al rahvn Lincoln undoubtedly wa* the tilled President of the United States; he was six feet four inches in height. The shortest was probably Benjamin Harrison, although Van Buren ami John Adam* were very short men. Th* oldest President was William Henry Harrison, who was sixty eight year* and one month old when inau- gurated ; the youngesl was (Irani, who was not quite forty -seven years old. Th* Prince Archbishop of Austrian Poland, Cardinal Dunajswski, who has just died, eb joyed the unique distinction ol ha\ ing iu his youth, and prior to his taking holy orders, woin the garb of a convict. served a term of three years' imprisonment in the great Austrian penitentiary of Knei- tein, Mini of having on two occasions been condemned tod.ath, th* *enlnce in each case being commuted at the very lot mo- ment. Mr. (DscNtone anil Profsjs:r Biaakii ,yit the Westminster tia/.elte, are Loth going to Pitloohry thi* summer, and will probably spend >me time together. They art old in. -ids, but they don't agree on politic*) nor on I i reek, and it i. mil unlikely that they may tight some of their battle* o'er again. When Professor Blackie was addressing his Undents h* ued lomelimes to say, "lien tlem.m, Ihere were three great men born in Ivri l.-imyson, i.ladstoue, and John Stuart Blackie." Th Sultan of Turkey 1* the moit extrav- agant housekeeper in the world. Accord- ing lo a recent eat in. ate hisdomestic lu.ilg.it run* thin : Kepa'rs, new furniture, mats, beds, etc., M.OOO.IKIO ; toilet requisites, in f. inting rouge and enamel for the ladles of the harem, and jewellery, extra extravagancies, 112,000,000 : clothes and furniture for the Sultan personally $'2,- ooo.iKNi; dmi.mir* and wage*. $I.(III,IMNI; gold and silver plate, $_',, VMl.tNNl ; mainten- ance) of carriage* and horses, J.MI i.O.IO ; a toUl sometimes in- year. Th:* ought lo aatwfy any reasonable person an I Ihe pleasure of success will be an equal gratification to thai s-f the money profit, as he views his thrifty flock quietly, contentedly reposing in a green pasture and the lambs skipping aboul tbeir dams. A flock of sheep should be provided with a good pasture. A farmer who cannot or will not make this provision must not keep sheep ; indeed, he will not, for the Hock will soon leave him. The pasture must lie- dry and rolling. It may be stony and rough and is all the better for it, for the iweetest and tendere*t gf (? rot around Jocks and (tens*. The grao should be of a kind that is t.oi coarse, rough and siemmy, but is soil and tender. A clover pasture kept for the purpose and not mown is ex- cellent. A blue or June grass field is equally good : red top, meadow fescue and o'. her common grams are aiso excellent for pasture, but timothy, unless pastured closely, is too coarse for the purpose. Sheep should never be postured on gram or hay- stubble* because of ihe *tiff stubble which wounds the mu/yle and cheek* and some- time* injure* the eye* so badly a* to cause blindness. An aftermath of clover may be use.) but it is not a desirable pasture. The best is one prepared and sown for the pur- pose wilh such grasses and other plants as ar- best tUted : These grasses are red top, bluo grass, yellow oat grass, crested dog'* tail, animal spear grass, mesdow fescue, meadow foxtail and timothy : and with these should be mixed a few pounds per acre of red clover, while clover, rib grass or narrow leaved plamtain, parsley, and a lilllo yarrow, if il can be procured. About five pounds of each of '.hese grasses should he sown, per sere, so as to make a dense sod. Several of the e varieties have run. ning roou, and in two year* will have bound the soil firmly togelher. The past lire should not be fed oft un Th. ll it has Iliadi a good growth and become lirnily rooted. when the treading ol Hie snueu will be of grnat assistance in making H firmer ant more compact. The pasture thould never be permi'ted lo go lo seed. If it cannot be eaten down closely, sso as to prevent he growing of the flower stalk', it should be mowed at once and the grass raked oil for hay : th* n*w growth will then be npid, and there will be no hnrd stubhle> in thewayof the sheep feeding. <i'BM n alway* *horl-lived when it i |wnmti<-, i.> seed, but close pas'.uri'.g tend* to make iho growth permanent. Tuis is the secret of the thick, dense soft turf of an old sheep surely follows some men, and try as they will ihey cannot avoid it. It was *o iu the cie of my brother ; misfortune followec him from the nrsdle to his grave. He seem ed never to be able to escape it. Wherever h* would go it followed him like a *hadow I remember how, when a boy, silling in a high chair, he fell from his *eil into a tub of scalding water, scsldicg hi* te*t*o severe- ly thai it waa month* before he had fuily recovered. All during hi* childhood and boyhood be had a greater number of acci- d cuts than usually befallreckle-* youngster*. When he grew up the first serious accident which belel him ws* one day when he wa grinding a chisel The tool slipped, hi hand got caught in the machinery it waa* steam grindstone and the bactof hi* hand and half hi* thumb werecriric*d. >hortly after this he wa* working at a machine in a manufactory when he had two finger* taken otf. In adjusting a mowing machine *nme time after thi* me bl.td* took otf another finger. Not only in accident* wi* he uu- ;Virtunate, I ut he seemed to be marked for all sort* of mistakes and blunders in which he wss always the sufferer. One evening h* took a walk down Liberty street, and was standing looking nt a building, when Ihree tough looking men began to eye him: then ho heard one sy : * Yes, tfcat'* .-ur rpan ; go for him.' He told me he did not know what made him do it, bul as soon as the fel'ow said this he was seized with impulse to run, and he followed it. He wa* an athletic man, and soou got the lead of the three fellow* who followed him, but not until he reached Soho did hesuccee.l iu eluding their. There he hid ma sawmill. He had not the lead idea for what the men were chasirg him, bul knew instinctively tiial il waa dangerous to fall into their hamls. When he had hidden there for a long time became out only to lie chased sgsin ; but h* reached borne "in safety. While working in a mill shortly afler this *ome white hoi molten metal (plashed upon the palm of liis hand and burnt it* way through. \\ lull- working in the same place a fellow work- man dropped a heavy bar upon his hea.l, taking away part of hi* calp. Thinking thai luck wa* again*', him in Pitttbiirg. he went to Cleveland to find work. While walking along ihe street there one day a man whom he had never teen before, with A GREAT HISTORIAN'S PROPHECY. __ _ _ L.rs) ~i*acaBis>"s !" ' e I ollr.l M..le.. ID a letter written to Henry 8. Randall, of New York, in 1X37. Lord Macaulay made a prophecy which, judging from recent *v*Dl* in the United State*, appear* to be n proceM of fulfilment. Be laid : Your fat* I believe to be certain, though t it deferred l>y * physical cause. A* long ,s you have a boundlets extent of fertile and unoccupied land, your laboring population will be far more at eae than the laboring population of the old world ; and, while hat i* the case the Jeffersoman policy may continue to ensi without cauiing any fatal calamity. Hut the time will come when New England will be a* thickly peopled a* Old England. Wage* will be a* low, and will fluctuate a* much with you a* with us. You will have your Manchester* and Birmingham* ; ind, in thoae Manchester* ami Birmingham*, hundred* of thousand* of arliians will assuredly be aometime* out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the tut. Diitrr** everywhere make* the laborer MfTINOi - AND DI*'-ONTEXTtD, and incline* him to linen with eagerne** to agitator* who tell him that it n a monitrous iui.|Uity that one man mould have a million while another caunot get a full meal. In bad year* there it plenty of grumbling here, and lometime* a little rioting; but it matter* little, not the ruler*. No Fear of Microbes. Mother Did I hi ar you kls* young Dr Phlynn at the door t Daughter Yes, mamma; bui Charity applied an antiseptic mime liately. for here the sulk-rer* are The supreme power I* iu pasture in England, as mucii oi tlie lire of the climate, and the value of old paiture* is proverbial. It is oisu. those better that a paduro ihould be overstocked than to be not slocked enough lo keep it fed down ; because it i* eaoer lo grow a green fodder crop, *uch a* mustard or rape, which will b ready tor feeding in *ix week* after sowing, than to get rid of the surplus growth unleas it is fed otf by horses. Cows do not lik* to follow iheep, nor sheep car* to run in pastures which have IK-MI soiled by cow*. The pasture will be e*len closer and kept in better condition if it is grazed in alter- nate position*. It may lie divided int.. halves by a lemporsry cros* and one-half pastured otf first, and when this is closely eaten the tence is opened and the sheep en- closed on the other half. Ten acre* thin divided and used alternately will luppori one-fifth more sheep than if It is all trodden d,. n at once. The feriili/.ing nf a sheep psslure is not to lie neglected. If the sheep are supplied with some bran or corn or both, during part of the year, especially when the ewes are breeding and when they are nursing lambs, tho manure will help the grsas considerably and but little fertilizing will be needed. Does Horse Raising Pay ? The prices of horse* are very low at the pretenl time, yet when we consider the prio of other farm product* horse* are compara tiv*ly profitable. Iu fact good horse* tmd a market at fair prices. It i* only th* com mon horse that I* a drug on the market. (I. ..id horse* are finding an outlet tn foreign countries and to encourage the exportation, ihe farmer* ibould itrive to breed up to higher standard* of merit*. The !arg* ci ties also want ihe best and ihe demand i* on ihe increase as price* recede. Th* care hone* ha* much to do with development o! th* )>e*t class which i* most easy lo find a market. Feeding for muscular development and vig"r rather than for fat i* esse.uial. A writer of experience says alwut hones. P.ni't be afraid to buy a horse beosuss he I i Inn. In olher words look oul when l.iiv ui_ a fat on*. Fl**h hi Us blemishes. Keller out the least provoculion, slipped in front of him and gave him a blow which broke his 110*0. Not being able to find work, he shipped on Ijtke E.-ie. and on his fiut irip was wrecked nearly losing hi* life. Thai settled shipping for him and he went to IK< l.ilmir. In ir..iiig about he was constantly beiig mistaken foraomebodyel*. (hie woman claimed he was ber sou, and, strangely, too, his n ime was the same as her son's. So much Irou'n.e did this cause him 'hat he gave up peddling and game hack to Pitts at a. Ha bad scarcely been in '.he city a day when a man came up in him, while he was staiu"ti. - on Diamond "reel, and with- ml cause deliberately struck him wiili a "illy on the nose, breaking that organ. Well, his luck never seemed to change. Ho continued having one misfortune after another piled upon htm, until one day ho went out hunting snd t'n-n he losl his life. A friend made a shot which by mistake struck my brother in the side, and he died f the wound. Surely fatality followed lim. " LABOR MEN WILL ENLIST i. .1 I in.. niiiil ! rr 1.1 Tbrlr The report i* current, and itastithenti.-ity is vouched for by an official attached to one of tliu IIHWI influential labor orfH^aMsslBBl in X'-w York oily, that organized lalmr thrnugliout the United S a-*s it to unite in an cllort for the conversion of the mi'.itia to !)>< r interests. Tina i* to be acconi- plished I y th enlistment of labor men in the National tJuard iu the several lUte*. The movement was inaugurated in the wet more than s year ago, and labor leaders in thia city who favor the olieme point tn the recent conduct of the National ti'intd n: California, who refused to <lu d:r> i|iirlling the railroad riot>, as nn evidence of what the plan may accomplish. It has been stated that a* a remit of a conference following thr recent outbreak in Cl-i.-ago an order WM promulgated through ml the labor crganualions in the east directing the men in enlist in tin- militia. Thi* n denied by the Ubor leader*, but the fact remain* that the application* for ad- IIIMSI.III o the regiments of the National (iuard in New York Hate have reoeuily been mure numerous than ever, ami among the applicant* are many member* of labor or- ganizations. Some i-f the applicant* are member* of the Knight* <.f Labor, and thi* i* regarded a* significant, because of the fact that after the railroad riot* in Buffalo in I SIM) the district aMmblie* of that order reused revolution! requesting their member* to refrain from enlisting in the National (luard, and of those already enlisted it was tske I that they should retire st the evpira- 1 1. .11 nf their term* of enlistment or earlier i possible. the hands of a class, numerous indeed, but select, of an educated class, of a class which is, and know* itself to be, deeply nterested in the security of property and ilm maintenance of order. Accordingly the malcontent* are firmly yet gently re- atran.ed. '1 he bad lime la got over with- out robbiuif me wealthy to relieve the indigent. The springs ot" national prosper- ty soon begin to How again : work is plen- tiful, wages rise, and all I* tracijuility and cheerfulness. 1 have seen England pas* .hree or four times through sucn critical seasons as 1 have described. Through iuch seasons the L'nued States will have to pass in the course of the next century, if not of thi*. How will you pass through the.n ! I heartily wish you a good deliverance. But my reason ami my wishes are at war ; and I can no i help foreboding the worst. It i* quite plain mat your government will NXMH nf AHU T.I RK-TKAIN a distressed and discontented majority. For with yon the majority is the govern- ment, and has the rich, who are always a minority, absolutely at its mercy. The day will come when, in the State of New Yoik, a multitude ot people, none <.f whom ha* had more than half a breakfast, or ex- pect* to have more than half a dinner, will choos* a legislature. I* it pouible to doubt what sort oi legislature will be. chosen? On one mile la a s talesman preaching patience, reaped for veiled rights, strict obaervanof. of public fait n. dn the other fidr is a demagogue ranting about the tyranny of capitalist* and userert, and asking why anybody should bt permitted to drink hamuagne and rid* in a carriage, while thousands of honed folks are in want of necessaries. Wnicli of the two can-r.dk.ies is likely to bo preferred by a workingtiian who hears his cluldien >.Y rUR MOKK RKKil". I wnou-.lv apprehend that you will, in some such >.-a..n of adversity as 1 have de- scribed, do things which prevent prosperity from returning , that you will act like peo- ple who should, in a year of sv.tr.-iiy, dovour II tiie ierd corn, and thus make the next year a year not of scarcity, but of absolute famine. 1'lu-re wil be, 1 fear, spoliation. The spoliation will increase the distress. The distress will produce fresh spoliation. There is nothing to stop you. \ our consti- tution i* all sail and no anchor. As I said before, when society has entered on this downward progress either civilization or liberty must p-rish. Hither some C.i'sar or Napoleon will s*i/e the reins of govern- ment with a strong baud ; or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth cen- tury as the Koman empire was in the tiflh. with this difference, that the Huns and Van.lals who ra-agod the Koman empire came from without, while your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own inslilu- lions." The Price of Gas in Engrland. In a pamphlet recently published in Eiig- Uiul some interesting statistic* are given regarding the cost of manufacturing gas at both governmental and private plants. The figures are iutsed upon the official reports from municipal plants and board of trade statistics gathered from private manufactu- en relating to the business of thnyear I >>vi. Municipal or public gas work*, of which ihere were 17.'* in England during the year !->, supplied gas to all applicants at an average rate of 8'J cents per 1,000 feet. The average profit at this figure was phenomena no less than '.-' J cents on ea.-h I .mi,) oubic (et. The actual cost of manufacture <>l gas iu England, then, taking the average receipts and profits of the IT.'I mumc.|l gas workk for Ivxi, n a fraction over .V. oeuts per 1,000. Th* figures of ihe private nianuiacturcra, lepn-n.-iiiiiig V :. plants. show that it ousts them ,'i,'t\ per cent, more to manufacture gas ihan it does the tniini- . ipaliurs which own llisir own works. The profit* of iho privale plains are mucli less too than those of the public our., i..r, according to the figure* (given in on the OIK- *!>< ot course by interested parties), the public- ga* works have au average o( .i'ii. customer* each, while those owned by individuals or private corporations have on an average only .',:;. TheM figure* will apply in all cities not too far remove. I from hilumiQou* coal fields without change, lor, while th price ol labor is greater here. most Amiriuan c l is so much richer in gas than that found in England that the saving of material more than compensates for the extra expenditure for wages. The statistics how most conclusively ihe advantages oi municipal r state ownership of lighting plant* m Kng'aud.