The Kaiser putting Guards recruits through their facings will strike most people ns just a trifle theatrical, since it would hardly be possible for him to make this close inspection anything but an occasional perfunctory performance, notwithstanding that It may—we say advisedly may—not have been known in advance which companies of this parti cular regiment were to be inspected by him. At the same time it must bo ad mitted that these little touches go a long way towards making the subjects believe that the Emperor does really take an individual interest in his kinder, and thus general enthusiasm is engen dered. The story of Napoleon coming across ?> sleeping sentry on outpost duty, picking up his fire-lock, and doing sen try-go while the weary culprit, who was liable to be shot, calmly slept, is a not very dissimilar performance; but one can hardly conceive it of, for instance. H.R.11. the late Commander-in-Chief. The sleeper would probably have been somewhat abruptly aroused from his slumbers in time to hear, at all events, the concluding sentences of the General 9 forcible observations.—“ Broad Arrow.”

The Falls of Niagara arc to be light off by acetylene lamps and reflectovs.Trials have been fairly successful, though the light is not so brilliant as the electric are. It is proposed to illuminate them on summer uights for the enjoyment of visitors.
OLD HOWDY.
