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when he found it

on would look
' in your youth

CONDITION SO low but may have hopes

but may have fears,

E quietness of heart is got by resisting our pas-
not by obeying them.

MOULD be sorry to cast any disagreeable refl
ie looking-glass said to the old lady.

N's nature runs either to herbs or weeds
ably water the one, and destroy the other,

let him

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s northerly winds, which
and cold in winter.

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al in summe

E MIND is weak when it has once given way ; it is
lefore a principle restored can become as firm as one
as never been moved.

CONSCIOUSNESS that we have by our own mis-
ct brought our sorrows upon ourselves is an im-
se aggravation of our misery.

" WHAT IS THE FEMININE OF HERO?" asked a pala-
gue of a young hopeful. " Shero ."' was the prompt
sorer, which took the dominie all aback.
Tnt knowledge of what is and of what ought to.be are

the two opposed wings upon which the poetic mind rises,
and the breadth of pinion at each must be equal if the
flight is to be sustained.

THE NOTE-BOOK OF A REPORTER gives the following
lon, on the authority of an Irish cook :—" A raal
gintleman is a man who never earned a ha'porth for him-
self or any body belonging to him."

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ERIC USEFUL COMMITTEE.—It is proposed in a
on paper that every man should constitute himself a
examining committea to inquire into his own conduct.
believed the business each committee would have to
;act would keep it constantly and usefully employed.

WHEN THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON took office, he
wanted the aid of his veteran friend, then Sir Henry Har-
dinge, and, sending for him, he expressed his wishes on
the subject. " But," interposed the practical soldier,
" I shall never be fit for official work in the House of
'ommons." " Pooh, pooh," was the Duke's reply, " you
'I manage the parliamentary work very well. The only
you must follow is this :—Never speak about any-
-

g you do not understand, and never -quote Latin

A MODEL HUSBAND.—Here is the picture of one that
would satisfy the stoutest advocate of " Woman's Rights"
at the late Massachusetts Convention :—" He never takes
the newspaper before Mrs. Smith has had a chance to run
over the advertisements, deaths and marriages, &c. He
always gets into bed first on cold nights to take off the
chill for his wife. If the children in the next room scream
in the night, he don't expect his wife to take an air-bath
to find out what is the matter. He has been known to
wear Mrs. Smith's night-cap, while in bed, to make the
baby think he was its mother."

HOW TO GET RID OF BLACK BEETLES.—At the last
meeting of the Entomological Society, the President (J.
0. Westwood, Esq.), referring to what transpired at the
previous meeting of the society relative to the ridding of
houses of the common black-beetle (blatta Orientelis),
read a letter he had received from a gentleman detailing
the particulars of a plan he had found highly effective.
It consists merely in having a round hole cut in the kit-
chen hearth-stone, large enough to admit of a basin being
inserted so that its rim is on a level with the stone : the
basin is then baited at night with bread-crumbs, beer, &c. ;
the insects fall in and cannot effect their escape, and are
easily destroyed in the morning with boiling water, if re-
quired. During the day this simple contrivance may be
covered over with an iron plata similar to a coal-plate.
CURIOSITIES OF GREAT MEN.—Bossuet composed his
;rand sermons on his knees ; Bulwer wrote his first no-
els in full dress, scented ; Bacon knelt down before
imposing his great work, and prayed for light from
eaven. Pope never could compose well without first
claiming for some time at the top of his voice, and thus
.sing his nervous system to its fullest activity. Ben-
= composed after playing a prelude on the organ.
usseau wrote his works early in the morning ; Le Sage,
rid-day • Byron, at midnight. La Fontaine wrote
fables chiefly under the shade of a tree, and sometimes
the side of Racine and Boileau. Pascal wrote most of
s Thoughts on little scraps of paper in bis by-moments.
enelon wrote his Telemachus in the Palace of Versailles,
the Court of the Grand Monarque, when dischar-*
e duties of tutor to the Dauphin. Luther work,.
desk for days together without going out; but when
igued. he would fiddle or take his guitar with him into
porch, and there execute some musical fantasy, when
ideas would flow upon him again as fresh as flowers
r summer's rain. Next to music, if not before it,
-r loved children and flowers. That great, gnarled
d a heart as tender as a woman's. Calvin studied
' Every morning, at five or six o'clock, he bad
s, manuscripts, and papers carried to him there, and
)rked on for hours together. Richelieu amused him-
ri the intervals of his labour, with a squadron of cats,
im he was very fond.

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