The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-26
NEW SERIES-NO. 379.

mode in Paris for trimming. Lama shawls
are worn at morning calls, visits to the the
tire and evening toilets.
A new edition of Shakespeare, ,expurgated
for family use, is publishing by Robert
Chambers. 1t cannot be denied that there
is difficulty in the way Of placing this
great dramatist's works in the hands of
young people, and it is not usual to do so
in families careful in training up their young
folk.
Mr.. Golden has been amusing himself by
visiting Algeria and witnessing boar hunt.
Foreigners are now permitted to hold
real estate in Russia.
The mean temperature of New foundland
for the year is 43sdegrees.
The salmon fisheries of Scotland are
falling off in production ard annual value.
A French traveller, Laurent, has been
writing book on The English, London
and England" in which he makes the broad
est charges against the former of general
drunkenness. He says it is the glory of the
host to make his guest tipsy. The English
women drink COgnac to excess they are
the accomplices of drunkenness, and be re.
peats the assertion of Pillet that every En-
glishwoman of forty years, if she is
CONNIE ii faut," gets "blue every night
before she goes to bed.
An American telegrapher by the name of
Hugs (quere Hughes |? has been exhibiting
telegraphic printing machine at Lyons, by
which he communicated a copy of his
despatch to Paris, at the same time dupli-
eating it at Lyons. He proposes to double
the despatch of operations and lessen the
price OF communicating.
Very disorderly scenes have recently oc,
Cured in several Catholic churches in
Florence, such as the Dome, Carmine and
st. FeIicite. Vespers were interrupted by
shouts of A" No Pope" Live the Protest
ants" These were answered by those of an
opposite character, and the tumult was such
that the churches were cleared and the
doors closed.
Count Cavour, in a recent speech, said
that Rome must be the capital of Italy, and
that Turin would yield it precedence.
The late Commander at Gaeta, prisoner
on parole at Naples, has been assassinated.
The malefactors in the Papal States,
whose sentences we're not for more than
eight years Imprisonment, are to be re-
leased by the Pope, to the great horror of
the people.
1t is very evident that a most fraternal
feeling towards this country exists among
all classes of English people, and that they
are greatly distressed at the possibility of
civil war.
The Royal National Life Boat Institu-
tiOn is one of the most practically humane
in Great Britain. 3,697 lives were saved
by its lfe-boats in the year 1860, in which
year there were 1879 shipwrecks on the
coasts. 1t has saved altogether since its
origin, IL 1856 persons, and it has expended
in the service nearly $25O,0O0. A noble
institution
The tomb and prison OF the Earl of Both
we'll, husband of Queen Mary, have recently
been visited and described by the Rev. Mr..
Ellis, while on visit to Zealand. There
were found the pillow, the shroud, and the
light hair mixed with grey still on the skull;
the whole recognizable, though they had
lain there evers since 1878. Horace Marryat,
in his last travels to Jutland and the Danish
isles, describes similar visit, and adds
that be cut off lock of BOthwells hair as
a souvenir.
The Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon recently abused
the Saturday ReuaeV in sermon at Aber-
deen, in which be said the ReUieW was equiv.
alent to having the love of God. The
ReviesU replies that it is ga comfortable
doctrine for fools and knaves; that they are
the friends of God because all the world is
their enemy"
In Jutland, where one person dies of STAR
walton, ninety nine die of over eating.
A friend of the parrot tribe says that to
keep Polly or Coco in good health, she or
he must be fed on bread soaked in water
ooly, hemp seed, hard biscuit, baked crust,
dates, nuts, orange, lemon and apple pips,
with an occasional boiled potatoe.