It w&s not contained between stone slabs, but under a kind of stone vault; but there was no trace of mortar. CO-OPERATION IN ENGLAND. The Rochdale plan of co-operative stores, which divides the profits among the purchasers instead of shareholders, is successful in England. In the aggre gate these establishments divided last year nearly 10 per cent on the gross amount of their sales. This is equal to 60 per cent on the share capital—a much larger ratio than the private dealer realises, the greater profit aris ing from the fact that the co-operative stores are not required to go to any ex pense to gst or retain custom, and that ther: business is so regular that they need suffer very little from dead stock. In 1861 there were 150 English socie ties,. with 48,184 members, doing an annual trade amounting to about seven arid a half million dollais. In ten years the number of members and sales increased fivefold, and the capital was; nearly: doubled. In the ■ next decade the membership doubled, the capital in creased threefold, and the sales to more than half a million members amounted in 1880 to $100,000,000. These are the figuresf given in returns to the Government of actual business. Scot land has a large number of societies in proportion to its population, but they do not seem to flourish in Ireland. Indeed, it is only in certain parts of England that they reach their highest development in communities where the members are well known to each other. The Parliamentary , return shows that counties where co-operation prevails: have "the smallest percentage of pauperism. Experiments in the United States have-not met with much encouragment. except in Philadelphia. SOTOL. Sotol is a pure alcoholic drink, which is to the Mexican what whiskey is to a Scotchman or an Irishman. It is limpid and colorless, with a peculiar penetrating odor, and a taste which, though a little bitter, has been compared to the smoky flavor of Scotch whiskey. It would seem to have little deleter! jus effect on the human system. The plant which yields it is a lily, known as Dasylirion texamim. It is perennial in it* growth, having long green armed' leaves, with a stout flower stem some ten feet to twelve feet high, which is produced every three or four years. 