... THE REIG?J OF HUMOUR po0KA Ntwithtiiding the: prsEc nature of~ thfe age| ~ry. ,we live in, there is an increasiiig tendency to treat rig. miatters lightly which were formerly dealt with with aar llpossible gravity. Wie see evidence of the fact de- every day in every phase of life. We see it peeping' IkY, frmbehind thie official gravity of Ministers of- mi- State, gilding the hereditary decorum ...

... SCOTCH THRIFT AND INGFNIITY. s niteresting illustration of Scot'ch thrift and in- ohie: kgenuity is at present being afforded by the iron- the - masters of Lanarkshire. In competition with their ordir brethren in England the northern makers of ir stair have always suffered from the inferior quality of the mtis e coal available for smelting purposes, the production have - per furnace, in the ...

... TEE WEATHER. airY LONDONS, Tuesday, 6 P I ,IAMThe wavether during to-day, though still dull ...

... IMETEREALPARjLIAMENT. j [FBiI3 Otr PABIAimENaRY COaRRSPONDxtNT.] .WESTM1sNSTER, Thursday night.:. Members of the House of Commonls mustered iF in grand force this evening for the debate on the F question of flogging raised by the Army Bill. The controversy having at length resolved itself c into a regular pitched battle between the Mini- sterial and Opposition benches, involved an issue more ...

... * SOMETSf~ ABOUT HAIK |False hair is not so much worn as it was years ago. tn We dlo 'not allude to those early ages when Martial ris, hlung'his apigrams literally at. the head of' the ladies- )00 for the wromen. of antiquity in. general, and of Rome in led. particjular; dressed their hair iii most extra'vagant ev. styles. it was their own hair, the poet tells us in plain his Latin, inasmuch ...

... TATHEi e 'LsoSn~y ;o * In the course of IcONI)Oay n Sgt ndthary, 6. - e¢. of this 3srigawell-formed depression camwe in flsr D- the westward, and crossing Ireland Very qnickly had Le reacbsed the neiglhbourhoodi of Holyhead by eight8a t id to-day. Thb barometer fell quickcly, the fall irjO~n ;t Wales exiceeding six-tenths of ant inch during tbe r io The wind freshened first from the southwlard ...

... TH~E ZUJLU WAR- I LORD CHELMSFORD AND SIR GAR NET WOLSELEY. THlE MILITAIRY SITUATION. [ DAILY NiEWS DESPATCH- 2 UProo CDAMPr, June 17. Yesterday afternoon there reached this force the tidings that Sir Garnet Wolseley comes to South Africa charged with the supreme command, both civil anld military, in Natal and the Transvaal, including the seat of wvar. To say that this newts gave universal ...

... IS SCOTLAND RADICAL ? i TI is a question that it might not have seemed worth our pains to answerbad it been suggested by a less influential exponent of public imet ,'opinioni than thie Quaterly Renew. But an t sion~ .article in the new nllmrber of that ~Serial has t . of -proes to hazar'an snswer to. ths assumption c auhi- Wiy is Scotland Radical ? and it would not . Lurnbecome S3cotchmen ...

... BA NFIF Crim InAlCS FOR; F£LOGGING.-In the Banif 3he at'y; rimnalCourt yesterday-before Sheriff Scott AIQt thle erieff-William Wood and Georg~e W-OOdi, ts 'o Dine boys residing in Portkulockie, wvere accused o aj ucht vn the 9th inst., mEsliciously brokcen five paneS ,e7 i glass, and, on the 10th inst., having brok~en at~ om destroyed 3 boat which wtas lying on the shore. thi', '.Portknockie. ...

... MIETEORxOLOGICAL REPORT FOR JUNE. 0r The meteorologica1 returns for eight of the principal not tows in Scotlandl, reduced and corrected as heretofore tano for instrumental errors only,.give for their mean posi- the pe tion, i.e., lat. 56-12 dew. N., long. 3 20 deg. W., and tl ts height 118 feet above sea-level, for the month of June, onll' 18S79 :-Mean barometric pressure, 29'694 inches: less ...

... iTHE EMPLOYMENT OF HALF-TIMERS|I XIN FACTORIES A^ND WO1tKSHOPS. T ahe followting memorandum as to thle employmenti and education of children in factories and 'workshops Ihas been issued by Her Mlajesty's Chief Inspector ofl s, Factories. The regulations therein set forth come into 2 D- peration on the 28th of Aulgust next:: e, A child is defined to be a child of the age of 10 yearsc and lander ...

... THIE CONDITION CF RUSSIA. ...