... national holiday, j or the day the Bastille was taken, and the national holiday in the United States is, of i] course, Independence Day, July 4th. . Mohamm edans keep November loth,n Mohammed's birthday. Every country, of course, has its fete days v -often ...

... patriotic feeling C being intensified by the victories of the Spanish c war. The American Society held their annualC Independence Day banquet at the Hotel Cecil. The Queen has presented her autograph portrait framed in gold and surmounted with the Crown ...

... date whieb haad x been generally pointed to as the (InC oil which a N hostilities mig-ht be expected to break out. t Bnt Independence Day has come and gone, 6 and war is not yet. TLis happy fact is e partly dun to the self-restraint of the Greek I authorities ...

... Yps;ilanti in Meldavia and by Arch- a1 may bishop Germuanos at Patras. This is a (,reek n lpnational fete. s to - s ro- Independence Day was accordingly celebrated t' Lke throughout Grceec with great entiusiasm, but b b e apparently without any disorder ...

... AMERICA.-A ballon ascent which took place at Boston, on Monday in connection with the festivities on the occasion of Independence Day, had a fatal termination, two per- sons being killed outright, and a third seriously injured. The balloon, after aecending ...