The last number of the Phonix, an "Athletic number,' is given up to the discussion, by various prominent Alumni, of the Athletic interests of the College. The advantage and necessity of physical culture in connection with mental training is strongly upheld by the several writers.

Sixty-eight letters have been received from France by students in the French department the present year. Thirtynine new correspondents have been requested of the French Society of International Correspondence, and thirty-nine previous correspondents are continued. Thus the new college year will begin in the Ninth month with at least seventy-eight correspondents in France. This International Correspondence has already added greatly to the interest and value of the -French department. '99.

EDUCATIONAL DISCUSSION.-This month's issue of the Atlantic Monthly contains two aggressive articles on educational topics. Prof. Hugo Munsterburg, of Harvard, writes the first, with the title, "Psychology and the Real Life.” He had a recent article in the same magazine arguing against the expectation that mental facts for educational uses may be had "by dabbling in psychology," and he now says that psychology is not the study of real life, and that it is not a substitute for the sciences that consider the inner life as a will system to be analyzed and explained,—but it is a supplement to them.

The other article is by Prof. Mark H. Liddell, who follows up a previous article with a further plea for the better teaching of English. He urges that all writing should be done in bold, straightforward English words, because "such a habit of direct expression would surely bring with it clear thinking."

CLOSING EXERCISES of MARTIN ACADEMY.-The closing exercises of Martin Academy, Kennett Square; Pa., will occur on the 24th and 27th of the present month.

The exercises on the 24th will be by the Middle Class, or Class of '99. They will consist of orations, essays, and recitations, and an address by Mary Mills, one of the teachers in the Academy. These will be regarded as the Class-day Exercises, and will be held at 2 p. m., in the meeting-house. The regular Commencement will occur on the 27th. The graduating class this year has three members, who will deliver each an oration, which will be followed by presentation of diplomas, and afterward an address to the class by Prof. John B. De Mott, of Bryn Mawr. These exercises will occur in the afternoon at 2, and in the meeting-house. The public, and especially those interested in education, are cordially invited.

LITERARY NOTES.

A HANDSOME volume has been made, with the title "Echoes of Scarborough," of several of the papers read at the Scarborough, England, "Summer School," last year. It is published by Headley Bros., 14 Bishopsgate Without, London, E. C., (price 2 shillings, 6 pence net), and may be ordered through Friends' Book Association, 15th and Race streets, Philadelphia.

The papers contained in the volume include “Teaching from the Old Testament," by William Littleboy ; "The Imparting of Religious Truth," by Joan M. Fry; "The Bible and the Young at Home," by Gulielma Crosfield ; "Inspiration," by Thomas Hodgkin, Anne W. Richardson, and William C. Braithwaite ; "The Inner Harmonies of Christ," by Henry Stanley Newman; "The Socratic and Christian Standpoints," by Anne W. Richardson; "The Bible at School," by Mary Anne Wallis; and the three lectures by John Stephenson Rowntree on The Place of the Society of Friends in the Religious Life of England." Of these last-named lectures we have heretofore spoken; they have much interest, and high historic value. The other

but are discussions of important and suggestive themes relating to the Friends' situation in our own day.

We cordially commend the book to the attention of readers and students among us. It is a valuable addition to our stock of recently issued Friends' books.

The first of a series of important educational articles on Manual Training, by Prof. C. Hanford Henderson, will appear in the next number of Appletons' Popular Science Monthly. The same issue will have the second and concluding paper, illustrated, by Prof. Angels Heilprin, on the Sahara Desert. Veracity is the title of a somewhat unusual essay by Prof. W. H. Hudson, of Leland Stanford University. He aims to show that the persons to whom we lie most often are ourselves, and that in matters of conscience it is an essential to truthfulness that we be ready to accept fact as fact, no matter how unpleasant it may seem to be.

COMMUNICATIONS.

A NOTE OF WARNING.

Editors FRIENDS' INTELLLGENCER : Now that the season is approaching when families are planning their summer outings, a warning should be given in regard to the danger arising from unhygienic surroundings of the places selected for temporary sojourn.

It is now agreed among physicians that typhoid fever and malaria are most frequently contracted from impurities in drinking water. In many dwellings and hotels located in the country and in small towns the water supply is not above suspicion, while the drainage and sanitary arrangements are abominable.

Usually people go into the country in summer to recuperate and grow strong, with the reasonable expectation that they will return full of vigor and ready for work. Too often, however, they return listless, depressed, and out of health, not unfrequently developing typhoid fever. The cause is usually either bad water or faulty drainage.

"

The old oaken bucket," however attractive in poetry, is a disgusting thing to drink from, and the well in which it has hung rotting is often worse.

Inasmuch as the members of our families are very dear to us, it is strongly urged that especial care be taken that the sanitary arrangements of the place selected are perfect, and also that those who own places in the country do not offer poison to their guests in the drinking water.

Sanitation has been recently carefully and intelligently studied, and its rules, while simple, are imperative. The general principles to be borne in mind are that no effete or waste matter shall be allowed to accumulate in wells, pits, or cesspools, because there is danger of contaminating the water supply; but all such waste must be conveyed to a distance from the dwelling, and spread or allowed to flow over the surface of the ground, where rapid oxidation will occur according to the method of nature and without the least danger of injury to any individual. Baltimore.

O. EDWARD JANNEY, M. D.

A LETTER FROM FLORIDA. Editors FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER :

THE INTELLIGENCER has been a most welcome and helpful weekly visitor to us during our stay of nearly six months here. Isolated, as we have been from Friends and Friend's meetings, we have depended much on the INTELLIGENCER to furnish us not only with news, but food for thought, during our leisure and often silent moments, and we are thankful to have been so well supplied.

One does not fully appreciate his blessings and opportuníties, I fear, until they are denied or have passed, then it is that a quotation-even a few words of some good Friendcontains "volumes ''; and the true value of social mingling, or assembling for religious purposes or intellectual improvement, is realized. We have found many kind people, ever ready to help and comfort, sympathize and encourage, not only visitors but among themselves, wherever there seemed to be need.

The climate here is most delightful and invigorating in winter and spring; no very sudden changes in temperature, and nearly always clear and bright, the thermometer usually registering between 60° and 80° in day time, though sometimes cooler at night. We have seen the sun every day since we came, at least a part of the day, the rains coming in showers and at night; and while our friends at home waded through snow, or stayed indoors, on account of rain and cold, we have taken afternoon naps in the hammocks out-of-doors, walked, rode, sailed, fished, or strolled under a beautiful blue sky, and fanned by a warm but pleasant south-east wind laden with ozone from the ocean. The Indian River abounds in fish, oysters, and ducks which can be had for the getting, while game seems plentiful in the woods. Oranges, bananas, and pine-apples of the finest flavor are cultivated, and seem to grow in profusion, and vegetables too are successfully grown. Nature seems to have especially endowed this part of the country with blessings for man's comfort, and we have, during our stay here, tried to appreciate and enjoy them, but withal, there are still unexplainable longings which “thoughts of home appease," and in that direction we shall now turn our steps, hoping to have sufficiently regained health to enable us to withstand the sudden changes of climate, which seem native to our home locality.

ALFRED S. MCALISTER.

City Point, Florida, Fifth month 14.

FRIENDS' BOOK ASSOCIATION.

THE annual meeting of stockholders of Friends' Book Association (Philadelphia), was held on Second-day evening, Fifth month 9, 1898, when the present Board of Directors was reelected.

The annual report states that the business of the store at Fifteenth and Race streets has been conducted satisfactorily, so far as its general object is concerned, but a lessened demand for school supplies has made a considerable falling off in amount of sales, as compared with those of the previous year, and that the net profits have not quite covered the running expenses. The Association, however, is in good condition financially, and besides capital stock and guarantee fund has a balance of $1,737.67 to the credit of its Publication Fund.

The report refers to the increased interest in the affairs of the Society of Friends which is apparent, and states that there is opportunity for an enlargement of the work of the Book Association, in the accomplishment of which it is hoped the helping hand and willing service may be found as required.

The statement is also made that fifty shares of the stock of the Association have been donated to it by stockholders and representatives of deceased stockholders. Authority was given the Directors to make transfers of these shares, at their discretion, to members of the Society of Friends in such manner as may best promote the welfare of the Association. S. B. C.

BI-CENTENNIALS AT GWYNEDD.

A HISTORICAL meeting, to commemorate the bi-centenary of the settlement of the Township of Gwynedd, (Pennsylvania), is to be held at the Friends' meeting-house at Gwynedd, on the 31st of this month. The meeting is public. There will be two sessions, from 10 to 12, and 2 to 4. There will be addresses, historical papers, a poem, etc. The Friends of the preparative meeting offered the use of the house to their neighbors in the Township for the purpose, it being the most central and convenient place, and having, besides, a historic interest.

On the previous day, the 30th, members of the Foulke family, descended from Edward Foulke, who was one of the company who settled at Gwynedd in 1698, will have a Reunion. This is not a public gathering, the invitations for it having been personally sent. Any member of the family, (descended as stated), who has not received an invitation should at once communicate with Frank Foulke, Secretary, the Gladstone, IIth and Pine streets, Philadelphia.

BY WHAT I HAVE DONE.

I NEED not be missed if my life has been bearing
(As its summer and autumn moved silently on)
The bloom and the fruit, and the seed of its season;
I shall still be remembered by what I have done.

I need not be missed if another succeed me

To reap down those fields which in spring I have sown ; He who plowed and who sowed is not missed by the reaper, He is only remembered by what he has done.

Not myself, but the truth that in life I have spoken-
Not myself, but the seed that in life I have sown ;
Shall pass on to ages-all about me forgotten,
Save the truth I have spoken, the things I have done.
So let my living be, so be my dying;

So let my name lie, unblazoned, unknown;
Unpraised and unmissed, I shall still be remembered;
Yes-but remembered by what I have done.

-Horatio Bonar.

TO-DAY AND FOREVER.

BEFORE Niagara's eternal tide

I stood, and heard the solemn, thund'rous roar.
I watched the awful flood unceasing pour,
The mystic rainbow spanning high and wide,
In whose bright arch each starry drop descried
One instant flashed, then broke, its radiance o'er,
To mortal vision lost for evermore.
Epitome of human life and pride!

A bubble bursts! gone pageant, pomp, and palm !
So man, the unit, flashes, disappears;
But, choired by cosmic chant and prophet psalm,
Mankind, with all its doubts and hopes and fears,
In Immortality's majestic calm

Rolls grandly down the everlasting years.

-Anna H. Frost.

RED CROSS WORK IN CUBA.

From an article by Clara Barton, in North American Review. The work described war, of course, before the outbreak of the present war conditions.

BEFORE the end of the first week we had commenced sending to the country towns all the food that could be spared from Havana, and when the Vigilancia came in with fifty-two tons we felt that we might go ourselves and see how best to place it. Jaruco, only twenty miles to the east of us, had suffered greatly. No aid had reached it. Its one train a day necessitated a start from home at 4.30 in the morning, dark, damp, and chilly. A ferry and train brought us there at 9 o'clock. A royal welcome awaited us from all the dignitaries of the town. The Mayor, judge, doctor, and priest, who led the way to the church, followed by a crowd of people that filled its entire center, kneeling in prayer, with tears of gratitude to God that at length some one had remembered them, and as the word "America" in broken accents burst out in their sobbing prayers, we remembered the plentiful, peaceful American homes and happy hearts, and thanked God that we were of them. Alas! how poorly I took in the terrible danger threatening to engulf us in the direst of woes that could befall a peaceful, prosperous people.

From the church our way led to the hospitable but plain table of the Mayor, for breakfast with the leaders of the town, and with them to visit the village of reconcentrados that had built itself up in the midst | of them. A remarkable fact regarding Jaruco is that

more persons have actually died in that town during the three years of the war than comprised its own entire population when it began. The charities of the town people have been something enormous in proportion to their means, but they have given themselves unto poverty. They could not even keep up the furnishing of a hospital, although nearly every little palmetto hut had its suffering patients.

We asked to be shown what would be their hospital if it could be kept-a fairly good building capable of accommodating fifty to seventy, with only four patients, evidently left to die; but the conditions surrounding them forbade the entrance of cleanly persons. The stench as of something dead drove us back; but rallying, we decided to make battle, and called for volunteers. Arming them with weapons of shining Spanish gold and silver, we ordered them to enter the town for purchases, first, carts of water, for in its scarcity even that had to be bought in Jaruco; barrels of lime, brooms, whitewash brushes, disinfectants, and whatever else was needed; next, taking out into the air the four poor wretches, to commence on the building and grounds.

Here were twenty strong men, full of unwonted courage and aroused impulse, to wage a battle with filth and death.

At noon we left, for duties in another part of the city and to arrange for the sending of heavy supplies. At 5 o'clock the return messenger found a perfectly odorless building, clean, whitewashed from floor to ceiling, grounds policed and limed, and the four dying men reclining on cots in the sunshine in clean clothes, eating crackers and condensed milk.

THE WORLD'S FOOD SUPPLIES. London Correspondence, New York Tribune, 7th inst. THE power of the United States over the food supplies of the world has been demonstrated already, even if the war has lasted only a fortnight and a decisive naval engagement in the West Indies still hangs fire. The fruits are the bread riots in Italy, the compulsory reduction of wheat duties in France, the rise of provisions in Germany, and the advance of the price of English wheat to fifty shillings a quarter. Europe has been subjected at once to the pressure of high prices for food, and has been warned that its privations will increase with the duration of the war. single grain ship has been captured on the Atlantic, and neutral commerce is safe, yet the loaf is already dear in England and on the Continent. Even a fort night of indecisive campaigning serves to prove that Europe, owing to her increased dependence upon imported food supplies, is ill prepared to face the risks of starvation from prolonged warfare and grain speculation on a large scale, especially when the world's wheat crop last year was insufficient for current requirements in the absence of any large reserve stocks, as to-day's Statist clearly points out.

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This subject is attracting much attention in England, owing to the timely publication of the report of the Yerburgh Committee on National Wheat Stores. The theme is not a new one; experts have discussed it in the magazines for many years without having

had a fair hearing. Market quotations and bakers' prices now emphasize the committee's declaration that after a harvest home the supply of wheat only lasts fourteen weeks, and that after the 1st of March there is never more than six weeks' store of food on hand. Bounties for farmers and subsidies for millers are rejected as impracticable. The committee considers national wheat granaries as indispensable to the defence of the United Kingdom in time of war, and recommends the purchase of 8,000,000 quarters of wheat, with the renewal of a third of the stock every year. Objections point out that even this reserve stock of food would serve for only fourteen weeks' supply. The press discussion of the whole subject leads up to the general conclusion that a royal commission must be appointed to conduct an exhaustive inquiry into the national food supply in time of war, and that England must have a navy able to beat all creation. These seem like counsels of despair.

THE use of salt as a condiment is so general and so universally believed in as necessary, says the Journal of Hygiene, that we rarely hear a word against its excessive use, but there are a multitude of persons who eat far too much salt-eat it on everything, on meat, fish, potatoes, melons, in butter, on tomatoes, turnips, and squash, in bread, and on a host of foods too numerous to mention. foods too numerous to mention. To so great an extent is it used that no food is relished which has not a salty taste, and this hides more or less the real taste, which is often very delicate. Now, the amount of salt required in the system is comparatively small, and if the diet has been rightly compounded very little is necessary. Some go so far as to discard its use altogether, but whether this is wise or not we will not here consider. What are some of the evils of the excessive use of salt? They are to paralyze the nerves of taste, or to pervert them so they cannot enjoy anything which has not a salty flavor, and in addition there is a direct tax on both the skin and the kidneys in removing it from the blood. Whether the skin is harmed by this tax we do not know. Possibly it is not greatly injured, yet we know that few people possess a healthy skin; but it is now pretty well settled that an excessive use of salt does overtax the kidneys in its removal, and that the great number of cases of derangement It takes only and disease of these organs is due to this use.

a little time to learn to enjoy many kinds of food without salt, and we advise our readers and others to look into this matter and to try and diminish the use of this condiment as far as possible. We believe they will be better for it.

The Frigate Bird.

New York Herald.

THE frigate bird is endowed with magnificent powers of flight. His wings stretch to an expanse of about ten or twelve feet ; his body is about three feet in length; his bill is very powerful, and his feet are webbed, but very small; but for these he has but little use, as his home is in the air, hundreds of leagues away from the land.

He is seen soaring high above the ocean; but on its bosom he never rests. When he seeks repose he finds it aloft. His foot rarely touches land, except at the time for pairing, making nests and rearing young.

The expanse of his wing is so great and his body is so light that he can soar with little or no exertion. Still it is difficult to see how this would enable him actually to sleep on the wing, as it is believed he does.

A closer examination shows, however, that his bones are hollow, and that there is a large pouch communicating with his lungs and with the cavities in the bones. This pouch he can inflate with air, and thus render himself buoyant; the sustaining power thus acquired, added to that of the wings, is sufficient to keep him up.

If his home be in the air, if he neither dives into the sea for fish, nor searches on the land for other food, whence does he derive his sustenance? Impelled by hunger, he descends from the lofty regions where it is his delight to dwell. Whether the sea be rough or calm, he glides along over the water, and any unwary fish approaching the surface is pounced upon instantly and swallowed.

But the bird has other resources; though he cannot dive into the sea to catch fish, he avails himself of the labors of birds that can. He watches one of them; sees it come out of the water and fly off with its prey. At once the frigate bird is down upon him with a swoop of terrific velocity. The frightened diver drops his fish in mid-air; the frigate bird poises himself again, darts down with another swoop, and seizes the fish ere it reaches the water.

I don't mean all the plate belonging to her Majesty, for that is valued at £1,750,000 (about $8,750,000), and it would require several such vans to carry it. Why, there is one dinner set alone, of pure gold, which dines 130 guests, and in another set there are 400 silver plates. Then there is a wonderfully chased silver wine cooler, big enough to seat two persons quite comfortably, besides a lot of golden trophies and huge pieces for the sideboard-some captured from the Spanish Armada; a score or more of gold shields, mounted on scarlet, which are displayed on the walls of St. George's Banqueting Hall on state occasions; a peacock of precious stones, valued at £20,000; a tiger's head from India, with a solid gold tongue and diamonds for teeth, and I know not what besides.

Which, if any, of these treasures of the goldsmith's art that ugly-looking van in the procession contained I do not pretend to know. But I guess that it could not have been only the spoons and forks that her Majesty and her Court had been using at Buckingham Palace during their two or three days' stay in London; for, of course, she might easily have taken these to the station with her in a traveling bag.

CURRENT EVENTS.

NotwithstanDING the positive character of the reports that the Spanish fleet had returned from the Cape Verde Islands to Cadiz, these proved false, and the fleet was heard from last week, at the French island of Martinique, in the West Indies. From there it moved westward, and was next heard of on the 15th, at Curacoa, an island of the Dutch, in the Carribbean Sea, near the north coast of Venezuela. It was said that coal ships, which had come from Spain in advance, heavily loaded, would meet the fleet near Curacoa, and provide it with a fresh supply of coal.

ADMIRAL SAMPSON, with his fleet of American ships; on the 12th inst., bombarded the fortifications of San Juan de Porto Rico, the chief city and port of the Spanish island of Porto Rico, east of Cuba. It was said that the forts were much damaged; this was denied by Spanish reports. The loss of life on the American side was small, but that on shore was not ascertained. This attack on the place, it is represented, was to prevent its fortifications being useful for the protection of the Spanish fleet. On the 11th inst., small vessels of the United States blockading fleet entered the harbor of Cardeņas, Cuba, and one of them, the Winslow, was badly damaged by the fire from the Spanish batteries, and had five men killed, and several wounded.

HEAVY rains fell in California on the 14th and 15th inst., and it is said that they were in time to materially increase the amount of wheat which may be harvested. A San Francisco dispatch says: Many fields of wheat were saved from total destruction. The barley crop will in many sections be a fair one. Before the rain the wheat crop of California was placed at 250,000 tons, and the barley crop at 100,000 tons. Wellinformed grain dealers estimate the late precipitation will add 100,000 tons of wheat and 150,000 tons of barley to the crops.

No further reports have come from Spain of riotous outbreaks. The news dispatches, however, are under close censorship. The members of the Cabinet presented their resignation to the Queen Regent, on the 16th inst., and she requested Senor Sagasta to remain and form a new Cabinet, which he undertook to do. Senor Moret, Minister for the Colonies, in the last Cabinet, asserts that any changes made will be in the direction of a more vigorous war policy. "Recent events," he said, he said, "have greatly increased the war spirit of the nation."

THE United States Senate, last week, passed with only three negative votes, the bill concerning carriers engaged in interstate commerce and their employees," popularly known as the Railway Arbitration bill. The most important amendment provides that courts shall issue no injunction against railway employees which shall compel them to give their personal service to a company against their will. On the 16th inst., the Senate began the consideration of the War Revenue bill. The opening statement for the Committee on Finance was made by Senator Allison. It was estimated that the bill, as it came from the House of Representatives, would raise about $100,000,000 a year. As reported from the. Senate committee, Senator Allison estimated that it will raise $151,497,066.

THERE continues to be much discussion of the feeling of European nations over the present war. In England, Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary, made a speech at Birmingham on the evening of the 13th inst., which it is intimated represented the views of Lord Salisbury, who did not care to make it himself. One paragraph was as follows: “The time has arrived when Great Britain may be confronted by a combination of Powers, and our first duty, therefore, is to draw all parts of the empire into close unity, and our next to maintain the bonds of permanent unity with our kinsmen across the Atlantic.' It is alleged that English statesmen are striving to establish not only an alliance with the United States, but an "understanding" to include these and Germany, the three great Teutonic nations. In France, it

begins to be apprehended that too much hostility to this country has been shown, and the Paris Journal des Debats, in a long article on the 16th, insists that while France, at the outset of the war thought the United States in the wrong, its “national sympathies are friendly to us.

THE situation at the Philippine Islands remains without change. Admiral Dewey reported on the 13th inst., that he was maintaining a strict blockade of Manila. Provisions were scarce in the city, and as it was beset by the rebels it was probable the Spanish would be obliged to surrender. He could, he reported, "take Manila at any moment." Troops Troops and supplies are to be sent to him from San Francisco, immediately. The number of the former appears uncertain ; one report says that 12,000 men will be sent, and that rations for a six months' stay will be now provided.

MUCH greater strictness has been established as to giving out information of military and naval movements. The Government has made strict rules on the subject, and the reports in the daily newspapers have for some days contained little of definite importance. It is generally considered that the Spanish have been much better informed of the American movements than has been the reverse of the case. One newspaper in New York is said to have published a map showing the exact location of all the mines, torpedoes, etc., placed to defend the harbor of that city against the entrance of hostile ships.

The volunteer forces called out by the President are being assembled in camps, at Washington, Chickamauga, and Tampa. It is not known whether a movement of invasion of Cuba will be soon made, but it seems unlikely, as it is now the rainy and unhealthy season in Cuba. About two-thirds of the one hundred thousand called for had been "mustered in," on the 17th. It is reported that a call for more will soon be made.

REPORTS from Cuba say the " reconcentrados '' at Havana are nearly all dead, or have been expelled from the city to die in the outskirts.' This, it is added in the dispatches, "agrees with other reports from Havana and Matanzas to the effect that the Spanish authorities, on the departure of the American Consul, seized all the relief supplies and applied them to the uses of the army. The Spaniards then drove the reconcentrados into the desolated sections of the country, between the coast towns and the insurgent lines.” Food in Havana and other cities has risen to famine prices for many articles, (meat, flour, etc.), but fruits and vegetables are more plenty. General Blanco is said to be making energetic efforts for the defence of the city.

THE prices for wheat are considerably lower than a week ago. At Chicago, 17th, May delivery closed at about $1.49, July at $1.08, and September, 90 cents. In New York, the corresponding sales were at $1.57%, $1.161⁄2, and 95 cents. The deliveries at Chicago have been large. Rains "in the Northwest," it is said, it is said, "have been where most needed." The prospect for wheat in Russia is said to be good. France also reports good crop prospects.

NEWS AND OTHER GLEANINGS. THE secretary of the National Armenian Relief Committee, George P. Knapp, Barre, Mass., thus advises the INTELLIGENCER: "The Ladies' Society in Dublin, Ireland, have practically undertaken the full care of the orphanage at Aintab, Turkey, and are sending a lady to take the position as matron. They will thus have charge of some 300 Armenian orphans, and very much lighten the work of the American missionaries. The Swiss are supporting 230 orphans in Sivas for a term of five years, and have sent two excellent ladies to look after their welfare and instruction. In twenty centres the American missionaries are still caring for more than 2,000 orphans, supported by funds sent through the National Armenian Relief Commitiee, Brown Bros. & Co., 59 Wall street, New York, Treasurer."

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-The Vienna correspondent of the London Telegraph, describing the riots at Milan, Italy, says: One thousand persons were arrested, 600 killed, and 2,000 wounded. one instance 20 students were killed at the main station of the Vicina railway line. Three hundred rioters set fire to all the railway carriages; and the military, hurrying up, unfortunately fired on the firemen who were trying to disperse the rioters with a hose. Many of the firemen were killed. As all the printing houses in Milan refused to print the manifesto, the military government was proclaimed by drums and the roar of cannon.'

-The condition of W. E. Gladstone, as reported from day to day, grows slowly worse, and though he may linger for weeks, his death may occur at any time. The bulletin by his physicians on the evening of the 14th, said he was a trifle stronger. The weather was pleasant, and a window in his bed-room was opened. He lies for hours with his eyes closed and seldom speaks. He recognizes visitors by their voices, and holds out his hand to them.

-The London Methodist Times says: Nothing in the County Council election of last Thursday was more gratifying to honest and virtuous citizens than the fact that the advocates of Social Purity—we might, indeed, say, of honest decency— were in all instances returned by increased and immense majorities. Once more the representatives of intemperance, vice, and gambling have received a sound thrashing in London."

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