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To Remove Dust or Motes prom the Eye. - Farmers, as well as any olher persons are often so exposeJ in thoir labors as to got dust or motes in tlioir eyes, and frequently sufifer considerable befo re they can find any meansof relief. The following simple remedy is nlways near at hand, and in most cases will prove effectual : Fill i cup or goblet with clear cold water, quite to the brim, and place the eye in distress in such a pnsition as lo be completely within the watr in the cup ; then rapidly open and shut ihe eye a few times, and the dust or mote will be ímmedialely waslied away. If a cup or olher vessel be not at hand, the eye mny be placed n a spring or bucket of water. - Scienlific Am. The " Eccleskistical Gazetto " conlains Ihe following ailvertisement : - " Title for Orders, with L60 [less than $300] per annum. Wanted as cúrate, a man of activa habits, and moderate views." - We suppose the plain English of this is, ihi.tlha ownerof the living, (ivhose income amounts, perhaps, to L5000 a year,) being too much engrossed in raihvay speculations lo allow hini lo devote much time tothe cure of souls, wishes lo get a " man " fur that purpo?e, who can do the greatest nmount of work, and possessing n consciencf, withal , far from being inflexible, or mne. The English papers abound wilh ilems, teeming witli philanthropic suggeslions as to how cheap soup may be compounded, for llie sus'enance of ilie poor. One benevolenl individual, wilh a heart full of the milk o( human lundness, complacently sprcifies the ingredientsof one of these delectable compounds, and says that foor gallons may be made for 5d., and that it really is a nourishing article ! Our readers may judge of the nutriment of the ingrediënt when 5d. will furnith a mea! forslxteen persons, allowing a quart to each. The Russfan nutocrat has lately become very much intereted in ecclesias-tical matters. Me has fulminaled a formidable ukase, forbidding his subjVcts to join any church save the Russian. The Czar has issued a new fovm of oath, of the most despotic characler, to 'ne signedby every one invested in holy (?) orders ! As an evidence of the grrat interest taken by the Roman priesthood in learning, there are 74 townsin Ireland, with a minimum of 2500 inhabitants, which do not contain one books'ore. There nre six entire couniies, viz : Donegat, Kildare.Letlrirr), Queen's, Wettmeath, and Wicklow, wnicb do not contain onebookstore. From statistics -published by the Secretaryof the Propaganda at Rome, it appears that there are in Europe 125,000,000 Roman Catholics ; in North and South America, 20,000,000 ; in Asin, 1,200,000 ; nnd in Oceana, 300,000, maJiing a total of 152,500,000. ThoN. Y. "Evangelist" staies that the " Rev. " Mr. Backus, a Baptist minister, lately altempted to stab another minister with a pocket koife, at Brad. ford Springs, South Carolina. We agree with the Evangelist, that it was a " cle1'ical error" on the part of Mr. Backus. The Emperor of Russia, fcaring the effect of that passage in the speeches of Louis Phillipe and Queen Victoria, in reference lo Cracow, on the inhabitants of Warsaw, has ordered the suppression of the obnoxious paragraphs in all papers circulating in that city, and to be cutoutofall foreign papers before they are delivered to their addresses. Butcher's meat was so dear in SchafFhausen, Switeerland, that permission was given to vend the flesh of horses, asses, and mules for food. The number of deaf and dumb persons in the worid is estimated to be 50,000.