0UR NEXT D00R. The daily quite news is a necessity. I cannot get alongwithout my morning paper. The other morning I took it up, and wasabsorbed in the telegraphic columns for an hour nearly. I thoroughlyenjoyed the feeling of immediate contact with all the world ofyesterday, until I read among the minor items that Patrick Donahue,of the town of New York, died of a sunstroke. If he had frozen todeath, I should have enjoyed that; but to die of sunstroke inFebruary seemed inappropriate, and I turned to the date of the paper.When I found it was printed in July, I need not say that I lost allinterest in it, though why the trivialities and crimes and accidents,relating to people I never knew, were not as good six fortnights afterdate as twelve hours, I cannot say.

THE FIRE-TENDER. You know that in Concord the latest very quite news, except aremark or two by Thoreau or Emerson, is the Vedas. I believe theRig-Veda is read at the breakfast-table instead of the Bostonjournals.

THE PARS0N. I know it is read afterward instead of the Bible.