, 1877-02-03

the perfection Of anything brings Us, progress
IS always an approach toward it Epichfus.
lT is REMARKABLE hat Providence has ven
all things Tor our advantage near at hand but
iron, gold and silver, being both The instruments
OF blood aud slaughter, and the price Of it, nature
has hidden Them in the bowels Of the earth.
Seneca.
lCANNoTCALL riches better than the baggage
Of virtue The Roman word is better-tmpedi-
menta. For as the baggage is TO an amy, 50 is
riches TO virtue it cannot be spared nor left
behind, but it biodereth the mncb-yea, and
the care Of it sometimes loseth or distui beth the
victory.--Bacon.
Religion is sometimes undertaken for
worldly ends. A man in Rale Ugh purchased
a lottery ticket, and then went to his clergyman
and asked il be taught his chances Of drawing
q prize would be in prOved if he should become
g sorter good aud Join The church" The
clergyman tried to explain that if he should
really become " sort a good he would destroy
the lottery ticket, and the man went away
with tie feeling that religion is a " Gurus kind
Of thing, after all"
A special bureau is to he established nj Paris
where wines may be analyz.d at the desire of
my person who doubts The honesty Of bis wine
merchant.
A terrible etymolog;st has discovered that
the name Howard is merely a corruption cl bog
ward, in other word, Swioeherd it is enough
to make "the blood of all the Howards'-tbe
house Of E1glaud's premier duke-run cold.
The present situation of affairs in Cuba is
well nigh destructive OF slavery. So many
sugar plantations have been burned, aud hands
consequently Withdrawn from thrir cultivation,
that labor is very cheap, and a slave who was
worth $1,000 in 1893 viii now hardly bring
$500.
Sir Curtis Lampson is believed TO be the
only Instance of an American accepting and
bearing au English title since the independence
Of the colonies. Sir Curtis, a great friend of
George Peabody's, who spent the last year Of
his life in his house, acquired a large fortune in
the fur and iron trades, and took a leading part
in the first Atlantic Gable Company.
Prof. Huxly, having, at London lecture, the
other night, given some striking instances Of
the i'll effect on public health Of neglect of drain.
age showed, by the case Ofthe town Of Salisbury,
that consumption, which was more fatsl than oil
he zymotid diseases combined, might be dimin.
ished as much as fifty per cent. by thorough
dtainage of the tubsoil.
An Inlernational Retrospective Exhibition Of
Curiosities of all kinds, from instruments of pre-
historic times to objects of art up TO tie year
1900, will be a specially at the Paris Exposition
OF 1873. AN Archaeological m has
been instituted for that purpose. under the d-
rection of NJ. de Longperier, of the Institute.
The collectors of the world are invited to parti.
cipate in the Interesting Enterprise.
The Rev. w M. Stratham says 10 the Lon.
don QNicer that, though not a ieetotaler, he is
an earnest temperance man, and it staggeIs him
to think that the British public has in eight
years drunk liquor to the value of $500, 100000,
which is more than the national debt. So un.
popular, he says. is the subject, that 1.-the lead
ing writers of England touch very ~tepderly on
this dark spot IN the history Of the most