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Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 848, 15 April 1871, Page 2

A society of ladies has been formed in Lafayette (Indiana) the general objects of which are to free the members from the thraldom of fashion, and have more time for pure, healthy pleasure, intellectual improvements, and ennobling pursuits, such as every true woman's heart craves. In the Fortnightly Beview for this month Mr Fawcett has written an article headed "To what extent is England prosperous 1 " of which the following is an extract : — " The well-being of a country cannot be measured by its imports and exports ; the tiue test is to ascertain how many people are there in it who have made a proper provision for inevitable contingencies, and are in a position to discharge the responsibilities which they have assumed. It is idle to congratulate ourselves upon vast national wealth, when we know that as each winter recurs there are in the richest metropolis in the world 150,000 paupers," In education Mr Fawcett sees the only cure for the evils under which we at present labor. The Education Bill has done little more than commence an attack upon the difficulties in the way. Education must be compulsory. A correspondent of the Ne\o York Herald gives an account of the "dog trains" in general use from the Northern territories of the United States to the Arctic Sea. These are somewhat different from the Esquimeaux trains, tho dogs being harnessed in single file, while those of the latter are driven abreast. Four dogs constitute a good team. They are of no particular breed, all species of goodsized dogs being used. The dog-sledge consists of a thick plank, about lft wide and 10ft long, with the forward end turned up like a Bkate. A dressed skin, resembling parchment in appearance, is attached to this, very like a laced shoe, and the traveller, placing his robes inside, gets in, and is wrapped up as tightly and hi about the same manner as his foot would be in an English shoe. The baggage of the traveller is placed at his back, and the driver runs on snow-shoes behind. The freight sledges consist of only a plank, curved at the end, without any covering, / ;