22 JANUARY 1881, page 9
The Pope's Position.
'T HERE is something pathetic in the present position of the Pope. Like Pius IX., he has fallen on evil days, but unlike Pius IX,, he has had no compensating consolations......
An Apology For The Snow.
T HE Snow, so long as it lasts, is certainly a mild kind of plague,—not nearly so bad as the locusts, not so bad, probably, as the dust-storms of the East, not to be compared......