... THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN LOCUST. Much interesting information is contained in the report just issued. of a Government Commis- sion appointed a short time ago to make inves- tigations with regard to the Rocky Mountain locust, an insect which has of late done an I almost incalculable amount of mischief. The re- port says:—The locust area is of immense ex- tent; it lies between the 94th and the 120th ...

... SOZODONT Vc\ i1 t the Teetw ^luanse, Beautify, and Preserve tifrice. Its use ;mmrt fPONT-The Peerless liquid Deu- tifies, cleanses m°st fragrant, breath, it beau- manner. It gives !f?-9eirr#eSii he* teeth ina surprising to the mouth, removing n i-y /sh taste ail(1 feeling Teeth, completely Tartar aud Scurf from the whitening such part3 thVro?re?3 of decaJ- and decay or neglect. ImPurp ...

... A Paris oasrespondentof the Daiitf that owiug to the small.aanount of suppofft which M. de Lessepå' project for the cutting of an-inter- oceanic cajoSl across the Isthmus of Panama dias met with, the issue ...

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... A novel institution in the shape of a brigade of lady dusters and charwomen for church duty, has been established at Aylesbury. Lieutenant Durnford, torpedo officer of the School of Torpedoes, at Portsmouth, has been directed by the Admiralty to carry out a plan he has suggested for the removal of the masts of the Vanguard by blowing them out of the ship. The operations are to be undertaken ...

... The statesman who can create a new Irish Univer- sity that will satisfy the Roman Catholic hierarchy without offending Protestants- English, Scotch, or Irish—need not despair of being able to square the circle. There is, there can be no doubt, a demand I for another University for the bishops and priests of the Romish community have been importunately de- manding it for years, during which ...

... The list of readers and speakers, as well as of sub- jects to be'discussed, at the coming Church Congress to be held at Swansea, under the presidency of the Bishop of St. David's, presents several remarkable features of interest, well worthy of notice. We miss, 10 the first instance, the names of several eminent Churchmen, who .have hitherto contributed no incon- siderable share of interest ...

... AFTEE-DIXNJJR SPEECHES.—The fashion of after. dinner speechifying is simply unendurable. It poisons every festal feeling in the minds of the unhappy vic- tims whose names are down for the toasts. The amount of suffering which this wretched English habit bag caused can never be known but no man who has been a guest at public dinners but is abl& to guess at its extent. Why should we go on ...

... By a fall of roof at the White Farm Colliery, Knutton, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, on Monday, a collier, named John Lawrence, was fearfully crushed, and died almost immediately. His fellow-workman was also seriously injured, and is now under treatment. The colliery has been free from accidents for some time. ...

... Surgeon Ambroso Hamilton Kelly, who went to Cabul as medical officer to the Embassy, was the well-known doctor of the Guides. He was appointed an assistant surgeon in the Bengal Medical Department in October, 1869, and had seen considerable service in India. He was with the 22nd Punjaub Native Infantry throughout the Looshai Expedition from November, 1871, to March, 1872, and was in medical ...

... The news from all the columns represents the Wnotm as to advance to avense the massacre. ano; tne xorwara movements win ao much to restore the health and spirits even of those who have been most weakened by illness. ...

... FORMATION OR-' A-SCHOOL S^ARD.-—The-parishioners of Machen in vestry assembled, have passed a resolu. tion affirming the desirableness of forming-a School Board. WORKMEN'S OUTINGS. — The men engaged at Machen Iron and Tin-plate Works and the employes in the locomotive and carriage- departments of-the Brecon and Mertbyr Railway Company's Maohen shops have had their annual outings. The former ...