Yesterday afternoon Dr. A. P. Peabody read a very interesting paper on "Boston Mobs before the Revolution," before the Bostonian Society in the Council Chamber of the Old Boston State House.

At the annual meeting of the New England Lacrosse Association on Monday evening, Harvard, Waltham, Cambridge and Boston were represented. Griffing, '89, was elected one of the vice-presidents.

Base-ball seems to have taken a fresh start in the Maine colleges. Last year only two colleges, Bowdoin and Colby, contested for the pennant, but this spring the Maine State College and probably Bates will join the league.

A brother of the famous Wendell baker, of Harvard, is at present studying for Yale in a prominent school in New York. He has already done some very fair work at sprinting and bids fair to become as good a short distance runner as his brother.- Yale News.

It is now said that the new Gilbert and Sullivan opera will be produced in June next. The real cause of the delay has been the very serious illness of Sir Arthur Sullivan. Mr. Gilbert has finished the libretto. The composer has taken it with him to the south of France, and has already done the finale to the first act. The scene of the new opera will be laid in the Tower of London, and the period will be the time of Henry VIII.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, assisted by a chorus of 300, will give a concert this afternoon in Music Hall in aid of the Vienna Monument Fund. Mme. Lilli Kalisch-Lehmann, Miss Louise Meisslinger, Mr. Paul Kalisch and Mr. Emil Fischer will be the soloists. The programme: -Overture (Magic Flute); Tamino's Aria (Magic Flute); Letter Duet (Marriage of Figaro); Sarastio's Aria (In these Sacred Halls); and the Mozart Requiem for chorus, orchestra and soloists.