... ?? C0onic Papers and other sources.1 Howv to get a roaring trade --Buy n menligerie. WIhy is lirtllaion like plate-powder ?-Because it brightens up s8,Lwls. Wlhat two colours are undiscernible '-Invisible gree n anid blind- iana's buff. i ctor, how can I expand my chest?- By con- stantly varrying a large heart in it. 'Why arc free sittings in church very immnoral?- I'ecause yvu are by them ...

... Baron. Offenberg, the new Russian Minister at Washington, left St. Petersburg on Tuesday. The miners' strike at St. Just, Cornwall, is spread- ing. It is said that Mr Montagu Williams, of the Oxford Circuit, will offer himself as a candidate for the' borough of Wallningford; * In the coh uittee on primary, isttactioe at Ver-' sailles, on Wedii'esday,;thd hahdopof ,Orleans spoke ragainst ...

... ?? ASFPIRA&TOi.-The conception of a higher life tban the present life-& supernatural life in which 11 the lements of good that we know here shall be ,reacted, mavd all the elements of evil expelled- ,nils the essential foul dation of all religious aspira- t on, ;f all lifting of the soul towards the Divine. Apart nm such a conlception, prayer seems a mockery, wor- dti, a delusion. Verily we ...

... | SEECT READINGS. r g F.MAGR EDUCATIOe.-BUt the true reton er , inefficiencY of woman's work is very t j hilid in ole wvord may be summed up as want . 11!,lg,. It begin4 in school ife, where teachers lot been trained send out incompetent 1 j, goes (in into horne life, showing itself in a jirmtl of disconitort ; and it appears nn- . in w,,rk and in business, stamping there Ef 3,liless aud ...

... I In selecting the Spirit of the Press, we are guided solely bya wish to place before our readers the opinions of all parties, without any regard to the f relation such opinions may sustain to this journal, f -THE EMPIRE IS PEACE. c [From the Times.l f Prince Bismark has added his official assur- r ance to those which havo already been given 1,by august and other personages in Europe, ...

... PI RESS ASSOCIAT1ION I TEL 0RAMS. THlE IMPERIAT, O'iCRE>CE BEInLIN, Trulnry.-Tire meeting f the Emperors W'l not be connected w ithl lily political act. t PESrisl Thursday. TAhe speech from the Throne has boell fivourably cr itiised. FRANCE. VEiRSAILLES, ?? tranrluillity pre- vails everyAwlhere. No barr quots or other demonstra- i tions of any kind are reported ;IEBELLION IS THI' CAPE DIAl\OND ...

... THE QUEEN'S STAOHOUNIDS.-Goodall, the hunts- man of Mir Tailby's country, has received the appoiat- ment of huntsman to the Qaeen's Staghounds. A NOTrINGGAM BUTOHER ROBBED OF 3m.-At the Nottingham Borough Police Court on Friday, Mary Cross, a prostitute, was charged with stealing the sum of 388 froo, the person or George Hull, a butcher of that town. The magistrates remanded ncr. ?? EXPECTED ...

... It is said that the'cattle plague has broken out in the neighbourhood of Mons. The estate of Lord Northbrook, near Winchester, has been severely visited by pleuro-pneumonia, and forty head of fine cattle are already affected. I Large tracts of land along the river courses in Aber- deenshire were under watef on Friday, especially on Donside, and the ungathered crops are almost irre- trievably ...

... So far as the present week has gone the weather.Las been very ohangeable. We have had two or three fine, surshiny days, and alsc a few 'weet ones. A few weeks of bright weather would much forward harvest opera- tions, which are still backward. Bishop Ellicott, who lately distinguished himself cc much by his suggestion about throw- ing unionists into the horsepond, is now showing himself in, a ...

... The chief portion of the Looshai expedition has rs- I turned home. | The Tout-xnal de Bruzlles, a Ministerial organ, states that the French Government has denounced the treaty of commerce with Belgium. !The -Ceylon Government talks of proposing the disbandment of the Ueylon Rifle 1tegiment. The saving to the islabd would be 50,000 per annum. | he great Jappnese mission which is to visit the ...

... SE ILECT READINGS. tcOGNTIoN ts HEAVEN. --It has been some- pi very hyperbolical language, that .t - 1 eof years will elapse in Hea- hfrrr ,, ,saints will have time or desire , .gil- ?? other, they will all be so en- i dll azig upon Christ. It does not I; 1c;t :iktly that Chr iist will thank Iris ser- ri ti a Ii - lorniag. There, as here, He will ; tb' iO f i: tl- love Himu, arid will give his ...

... THE Twies CASE-AIR OHAFERfs AGAIN.- We Observer) are informed that Mr Chb:ffers has inati- tuted an action for libel against Ur Benson, the magistrate of the Southwark Police Court. for the sxpressions employed by him in Iis comments on the termination of the Twiss cuse. Tue PNEIw FISH ToP.PgDo.-The course of ex- periments with the new fish torpedo will be extended over two months. It is ...