00 was paid for the use of the windows of one
house to see the Jubilee.

ELECTRICITY seems destined to be the motor power for street cars. In
Montgomery, Alabama, the mule has already been superseded, and there
are fifteen miles of street railways operated by the electric motor.
Some satisfactory experiments have been made on the Cambridge Street
railway. Edison's latest discoveries in the conversion of heat into
electricity are expected to produce important results, dispensing with
the intermediate use of steam, and ultimately getting the power from
the sun's rays.

PROGRESS OF THE TELEGRAPH.--The _London Times_ thus summarizes some of
the statements made by Mr. Raikes, the postmaster-general, in his
speech delivered at the telegraph jubilee the other day:

At first a machine required five wires before it could dispatch
a message. Now on one single wire seven or eight messages can be
sent simultaneously. At first the rate of sending did not amount
to more than four or five words a minute. Now on the latest
machine no less than 462 words a minute can be dispatched. The
number of messages has increased by steady steps, until now,
under the new tariff and with the facilities that have been so
widely extended since the telegraphs came into the hands of the
government, the number is truly portentous. Those sent during
the past year amounted to close upon a million a week--fifty-one
and one-half millions in all. Letters have grown from 80,000,000
in the year of the Queen's accession to more than 1,400,000,000.
According to Mr. Pender, there are some 115,000 miles of cables
lying at the bottom of the sea. The progress in this department
has been constant. The latest scheme, as the new colonial
blue-books show, is for laying a cable under the Pacific Ocean,
from Vancouver to New Zealand. Surely there is no task from
which modern science will recoil.

THE MYSTERY OF THE AGES.--A work recently published at London by the
Countess of Caithness is a work of ability and learning, devoted
especially to a philosophy which is thus defined:

"Theosophy is the essence of all doctrines, the inner truth of
all religions.... God is Spirit, and Spirit is One, Infinite,
and Eternal, whether it speak through the life of Buddha or
Jesus, Zoroaster or Mahommed.... The ideal of the Theosophist is
the at one-ment of his own spirit with that of t