ATHENÆUM FOR NASEBY.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 110, 14 April 1871, Page 3

ATHENÆUM FOR NASEBY.

Much has been said of tlie great number of public houses in this place, and many remarks as to the absence of all rational amusement. It is truewe have a temperance hall where innocent recreation in the shape of books, chess, and draughts can be enjoyed every evening. It does not, however, follow that because a man may dislike being seen, and being night after night in the bar, bar-parlor, or billiard-room of a public-house, he thinks it right to deny himself those creature comforts —the abuse and not the use of which constitutes the sin and disgrace—and to join a temperance society whose rules enjoin upon it members a strict compliance with total abstinence. We are of opinion that a public library or athenseum would be of the greatest possible advantage to the residents of this place, and would go far to prevent them falling into extremes which are, to say the least of them, at all times objectionable. 4 We should very much like to see some action taken in this direction before the long dark and cold nights of winter are fully upon us. Almost every town in the has the advantage of an athenaeum, and why should not Naseby ? The population is sufficiently large— the people, if called upon, would be willing to subscribe—a Government subsidy would without difficulty bo obtained. Why then do we pause to establish that which cannot fail to be an advantage to all. We trust this . matter will be taken up by some persons having the true interests of all classes of the community at heart. If entered upon in a fair and liberal spirit we feel sure that nothing could prevent success.

The most appropriate title for Mr. Gladstone on his attaining the peerage —Lord Sel-kirk. _ Schenectady, New York, has a Justice of the Peace who decides that a " verbal contract i& not good without a stamp,"