A Portuguese boy in a school at Ma lacca, was told to write all he knew about the English. This is what he wrote :—" English is very proud and very white. They are mostly govern ors, schoolmasters, policemen, magis trates, and few are lawyers, doctors, and banks, and many other things. They never work. They wear hats and boots, and ride in docuts (dpg^ carts). Some English go to church,, but only once. They are clever: at' tennis and ball games, and eats much beef and other things. Some are married. English is very fierce. If anybody does something they swear:" —Bombay Catholic Examiner.
There is a pretty tale told of a de partment of the new Band Rifle?. A squad was taken to try their skill at the targets. At 500 yards nobody hit the target; at 400 yards the ac curacy of aim was equally unremark able 5 at 200 yards no one even got a magpie. This was too much for the non-com., and he gave the order "Fix bayonets, and let's hit the thing somehow." ■■"'•• It needs Lord Byron's brilliant pen, His clever, brainy head, To tell how ar.d why and when

Some people are not dead. But since he's gone we'll tell the way,

How good health to assure, And colds and hacking coughs allay, Take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.
