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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 277, 26 June 1874, Page 3

An Indian paper states that " Black - boy"-—a steeplechase horse who has carried everything before him—is about to be shipped to England to try his fortune against the cracks of the old country. It is currently stated in the Clubs that a marriage is not unlikely to be arranged between the Princess -Beatrice and the Marquis of Stafford, M.P. for Sutherlandshire, and heir of the Duke of Sutherland. — c Dundee Advertiser.'

The word "stationery," theidefmition of which has puzzled Legislatures and other public bodies for so many years, is now decided by the Senate of the United States to include in its meaning only ink, pens, paper, envelopes, pencils, and mucilagj. It does not appear to be generally known that Sir Garnet Wolseley has but one eye, having lost the other when a lieutenant in the Crimea, while leading a forlorn hope against Sevastopol. Both he and Sir Archibald Alison, the chief of his staff, were not only in the very hardest of the work in the Russian campaign, but both were severely wounded;— Sir Archibald losing his arm in one of the frays.

Sie Walter Scott at Sheffield. —When Scott was last in Sheffield, he bought a knife, and he wrote down the words which he wished to have engraved on the handle, " Walter Scott, Abbotsford." The vendor ordered his man to do the work. " When my man," he said afterwards, " saw the name, he almost went out of his senses, and offered me a week's work if I would only let him keep the autograph, and I took Saunders at his word."—' Athenaeum.'