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THE first copy of the Coronado Evening Mercury is to be sold at auction at a concinial gathering to be held in the Pavilion.

A BOSTON paper printed its welcome to Queen Kapiolani in the Kanaka language, Pretty hard Kanaka, too, probably.

OUR good friend and hearty coadjutor. the Express, thinks that the prospecrive raid of Government officials on smugglers at San Diego and along the Mexican border, announced in yesterday morning's TIMES, is a "fool canard." Wait and see.

WE sincerely hope that San Francisco will not become infected from the two cases of small pox imported there by the steamer Gaelic, Los Angeles has no desire to retaliate in kind by quarantining the Golden Gate city, albeit she was a little brusque with us in time past.

"KANSAS CITY is still working desperately to keep up with Los Angeles in the real-estate boom," says the San Francisco Post. "A clergyman informs a St. Louis Globe-Democrat reporter that a Kansas City preacher recently gave out his text from 'block 4, lot 5, of Matthew's addition to the New Testament."

ATTENTION is called to the fact that , for more that twenty years, the sunrise and senset guns at all military posts of this country have been fired with Confederate powder, captured at the end of the war. The powder is all gone now, and most of the people of the United States are glad it has ended in smoke.

THE gravediggers of the Holy Cross Cemetery, New York city, are out on a strike. The gravamen of thier grievances is, "The foremen are blasphemous, there is a great difference between the graves of the rich and those of the poor, the drinking water is not wholesome, the gadener ha amonopoly of the flower business, and the graves are not deep enough." Whether they have yet boycotted any dead bodies is not reported.

THE TOLEDO Commercial thinks that if the Prince of Wales can only persuade Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show to permain permanently abreod, and give the American boy a chance to escape the influences of that youth demoralizing exhibition, he will have the thanks of American mothers. In a certain sense, the Commercial is right. But again, Buffalo Bill enjoys the advantage of the long haul. He is now more talked about in the United States than ever before. It is talk that reaches the American boy, more that personal exmple, in this case.