Hebrew Blood.— The "New York Herald" notjs the amount of Hebrew blood there is in the great actors of his tory. There are the Rothchilds, who are so rich that Croesus of olden times seems to be on the edge of poverty in the com parison. Then we ' have Disraeli, the Premier of the haughtiest empire on the planet. Among scholars and geniuses we have Neamler, the historian of the church; Wehl, the first Arabic scholar of the times ; Spinoza, perhaps the greatest of modern philosophers, and Maimonidcs, a greater than Thomas Aquinas, and Ros sini anl Meyerbeer and Mendelssohn. Among singers are Pasta and Orisi, and among actresses Ristora and Bernhardt, all of whom had mare or less of Hebrew blood in their veins, Domestic Servants. — The following extrsci lrora a Home letter shows that the domestic servant difficulty i3 by no means confined to the colonies : — "In this country ' domestic service ' is becoming a vexed question ; the young ladies out of the slums and nlleys are now so well educated that they disdain service. ' Missus talks bad grammar, and does not know the longitude of St Petersburg ' was the reason one young person gave for leaving her plact. There were forty vacancies in the London Post Office the other day, and 98(5 applications for them. Probably more than half were only fit for housemaids." Balloon Trapeze Performer Killed. —A telegram fromCuantla, Mexico, says: — "" A great crowd assembled here yester day to see the balloon-ascension of Seno rita Catelina Georgia, a beautiful giii only seventeen years old. There was no car attached to the balloon, only the trapeze on which the girl performed. The balloon shot up amid the deafening cheers of the crowd. Catalina meanwhile was seen clinging to the trapeze and per forming daring feats of agility, When the balloon was three-quarters of a mi!e high it suddenly burst and the girl fell to the ground, crushed and mangled to death." • Riot in a Reformatory. — A serious disturbance took place on 17th January among the boys confined in the Duke street Reformatory Glasgow. 