Mr. Edison has recently established a central station in New York, from which he proposes to light the houses included in an area of a wide radius from the center. In part of this area the installation of the lamps and wires is now complete, and the light is giving every satisfaction, the cost being considerably below that of gas, which in the United States is very expensive. It must be remembered that electric lighting is comparatively a new science, and not yet fully understood. There is very little doubt that, by practice, it will before long approach more nearly to perfection, and sooner or later entirely supersede gas, the arc form of lamp being employed for the illumination of streets and large areas, while the incandescent pattern meets domestic requirements.—_Good Words._ AMONG THE MOUNTAINS. [A REMONSTRANCE.] By THE AUTHOR OF “JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.” Gray heavens, gray earth, gray sea, gray sky, Yet rifted with strange gleams of gold, Downward, all’s dark; but up on high Walk our white angels,—dear of old. Strong faith in God and trust in man, In patience we possess our souls; Eastward, grey ghosts may linger wan, But westward, back the shadow rolls. Life’s broken urns with moss are clad, And grass springs greenest over graves; The shipwrecked sailor reckons glad, Not what he lost, but what he saves. Our sun has set, but in his ray The hill-tops shine like saints new-born: His after-glow of night makes day, And when we wake it will be morn. NEW MEXICO. By REV. SHELDON JACKSON, D.D. New Mexico is Spain in the United States—a region where the Spanish language, customs, and habits prevail, where the debates of the legislature and the pleadings of the courts are in a foreign tongue; a territory where an American feels as one in a foreign country, and is a stranger in his own land. While the latest section to receive American civilization, it was the first to be occupied by Europeans. When our pilgrim fathers were shivering through their first New England winter, New Mexico had been settled half a century. When they were making “The sounding aisles of the dim woods ring To the anthem of the free,” the Spanish cavalier was chanting the “Te Deum” in churches even then beginning to be venerable with age. And there to-day are the descendants of those brave old Castilians whose prowess made illustrious the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella.