A Very Aged Indian

-Pope Pius IX. has latoly reeeived íroiu Santa Uruz, (Jal., through Cardinal Franchi, prefect of the propaganda, the photograph of an Indian still living, who has reached the age of Vl'2 years. Beneath the picture are these worda, written in Spanish by the oíd man himself : " I, Justiniano Boxas, 122 years oíd, wish the most Holy Pope long years of Ufo." The Paris register of Santa Cruz shows that Boxas was baptized March 4, 1792, bemg at that time about forty years of age. He has always led an examplary Ufe, still walks to mass on Sundays with no help but that of his utaff, and asks the blessing of the Pope, whom he calis the " Capitán de los padres." To keep cabbage through the winter, pack in saw-dust in the barn and allow the whole to freeze, the saw-dust beinjf such a non-conductor of heat that once it becomes frozen through it will not thaw out until well into April, and the cabÍbage will come al most as nice as when put in.