Alexandria Gazette

EDITORIAL NOTES.

Ten ex-Governors of Maine are still living. They don't stay in office long enough.

The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions was announced as having a deficit of $195,000 on the 1st of October.

Lord Houghton is going to write a book about America. Wonder if it will be like Dickens' notes.

The N. Y. Herald says the late Wm. B. Astor left an estate valued at nearly $200,000,000! Just think of that.

A candidate for a Canadian office, whose election was urged because he was "the ally of God," has just been disqualified because of corrupt practices.

Prince Edward Island oysters are sent to England packed in oatmeal, and by the time they reach London they are plump and wholesome, commanding about sixty cents a dozen.

Alexander H. Stephens is said to be in too feeble health to go to Washington this winter, but we should not be surprised to see him there. He has wonderful vitality.

There is to be a convention of "broom-corn growers" in New York next month. Couldn't we have a convention of "broom-sedgers" down this way.

Nightmare, says an exchange, is caused by remaining so long in one position that the blood ceases to circulate. Eating a heavy supper is a better cause.

The Appletons will shortly issue the life of Stonewall Jackson, by John Esten Cooke, with an appendix containing an account of the unveiling of Jackson's statue, by Rev. J. Wm. Jones.

King Kalakaua is in trouble. Three lepers have escaped from the island of Molokai, and, as they approach the capital, they meet with nobody anxious to obstruct them. They are determined to have a personal interview with the King—which is pleasant.

Proctor's lectures on astronomy are revolutionizing the regulations of many a Boston household. Parents, in their ardor for science, no longer expect the lights to be out and everybody abed by ten o'clock. A young man can call and explain the planetary system to a young lady now if it takes him till one o'clock in the morning to do it.

Gilmore's Garden, New York city, formerly Barnum's Hippodrome, has been leased to William E. Dodge, jr., D. Willis James, John C. Havemeyer and Morris K. Jesup, on behalf of the Young Men's Christian Association, for the purpose of holding the revival services of Moody and Sankey during their labors in that city. The rent per week is $1,300, payable monthly.