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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1742, 3 August 1874, Page 2

.; A GrEOGEAi >Hici.L,, >PBAYEB.—Queer notions of a' prayer some people have. At a meeting in the northern part of Maine, the pastor remarked, that if any present had relatives 1 or friends in distant lands, prayer would be offered in, their behalf; Then up rose a simple-looking individual; and said.: "I would like you to pray for my brother. He went away two weeks ago, and I haven.t heard from him since. I don't know just where he is, but' you need't pray below Bangor;" , i

iOK thb; Bon.-4-A northern firm thus advertises in th» Telegraph:—"A practical manager wanted for a sugar refinery in Grreenq.ck... Will have a boiler" under him. Must be a man of education and experienced either in.sugar refining or chemical.manufacturing. Salary • £600 at first, &c." We really do not think the salary \a sufficient for a man who has sto pass through life sitting over a boiler in momentary expectation. of an explosion. Few people now ; -a-days care to have a statue; still fewer are . ambitious for a bust.. -'■■;. ' " " \ . ;

LITEBABY MeMBEBS OF THE New English Cabinet.—The new. Ministry contains a very fair representation pf literature in its "ranks. 1 It is all but: fifty yeai-aX!^) since the Premier published his first work, " Vivian Grey." # He has published 'ibbut a dozen novels since, be-; sides a Life of Lord George Bentinck, a Vindication of the English Constitution, and J£pic, Mr: Cross has written a worK on Tbe Practice of Quarter Sessions. Lord Derby, as Lord Rector of Glasgow University has delivered an address^which has been published. Lord Carnarvon is the author of a -work on "The Druses of Mount Lebanon," and of some historical and antiquarian lectures. Lord Salisbury's ar-. ticles in the Quarterly Review were famous, and equally trenchant were those which appeared in the brilliant but shortlived Beritley's Quarterly. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has written " Twenty V ears of, : Financial, Policy, 5' which has beenscanned a goodjdeal -during the last'few" djys by "thosa persons i^who are anxious to anticipate his first ) Like Sir Stafford Northcote^ Lord Malmesbury has also written one book, or rather edited it—viz., the, '" Diaries arid: of his( grandfather. Next to Mr Disraeli him-i self, Lord John Manners has written"* moat books. Five and thirty years ago,' being just of age, he published " Notes ;of an Irish Tour," and two years later; (1841) he issued "England's Trust, and; other .' poems," and in 1850, " English; Ballads." Since then, true to the Young England " fancies of his youth, he has published ;c A Plea for National Holidays," " A Cruise in Scotch -Wa!-"."?." and oiher works. His lordship ir :. L 'casing ard cle.gant writer.