Not long ago the inhabitants of the town of Salti, in the island of Sardinia, petitioned the Italian Government for separate municipal existence, it being a part of Budduso, which is forty miles away. A commission was sent to make inquiries, and this remarkable report was made:— "Salti has no town council, no police, no clergymen, no physician. It possesses no post office, no church or chapel, no school, no registrar's office. On the maps of the kingdom, although it contains 1,200 inhabitants, it is not marked, yet the State receives taxes from the people, but sends no tax collector to receive them. The taxpayers journey sixty kilometers every eight weeks to pay taxes. "Once a year, in May, all the children born during the year are taken to Budduso and there baptized. The dead are buried in the most primitive manner and without any trace of religious rites. Marriages are conducted on the same system, without any formality or ceremony, and are declared later on to the registrar or parish priest, sometimes long after they have been blessed with issue. Vaccination and medicine are only known from hearsay. "Children grow up without schooling or instruction of any kind."—Selected.