Now our solemn chant we raise

Duly to the Savior’s praise;

Now with carol hymns we bless

Christ the Lord, our righteousness.

From the German.


General Neal Dow, the famous Prohibition leader, is now about seventy-eight years old, but he is so well preserved that he does not look to be more than sixty. He is of medium height, rather stout, and wears heavy side whiskers, which, like his hair, are silvered with age.


The London Echo, which has been a most active sympathizer with Arabi Pasha, suggests the following lines as applicable to him:

Rebel or Patriot? Well, heads or tails!