Year: 1874

; Undue speculation leads often to
} peculation.


Truth sometimes tastes like medicine
but that is an evidence that we are i'll.
, The tears of our misery often prevent
] our eyes from seeing tine mercy close at
: hand,


Repentance, without amendment, is
like continually pumping without mend


ing the leak.


Respect to age, and kindness to chill


dren, are among the tests of an aniable


disposition.


Who prolongs his work to as great q


length as possible, and still completes


it in time? The ropemaker.
Be anxious to search out the narrow


est path to Heaven, rather than to seek


how far you may go without condemna-
ton.


Waynesborough, Pa, boasts of a


haunted distillery which is Just the
place where one would naturally look


for spirits.


/ One who wishes the world to know
what he knows about farming, says that
the best way to raise strawberries is
with spoon.


Somebody got a breakfast on the
Bowery for five cents and thought it
cheap. But you can get a roll on the
grass in the park for nothing.


Whiskey can be obtained at an Edin-
burgh temperance hotel by asking for
seidlitz powder. 1t is astonishing how
the systems of the guests need clearing
out.


A matron objects to the present system
of sleeping cars on the ground that it
forces young ladies to become familiar
with that unattractive object, sleepy
and unwashed man."


/ All our sufferings are ordered by a
Father 'tis the portion our Father
gives us to drink and whatever bitter
ingredient there is in it, still it is of a
Fathers procuring. and why suspect it
to be poison, and be afraid of it


Louisiana paper reioices that its
judges will be kept at home and the
members of the Legislature will not be
absent from their post hereafter, in
consequence of the railroads determin-
ing to charge full fare for each traveller
The Boston Transcript said recently:
"When the late n. z. Willis wrote
his fine hymn for the dedication of Rev.
DR.. Beecher's church, in Hanover
street, in 1926, who thought il would
be sung at the dedication of a new
church for the Brattle stret society in
1873, upon a spot then half mile ont
in the water from the eastern shore of
the Back Bay ?"


A writer in the Atlantic Monthly
says: "One is panied to find that the
most exclusive folks have frequently
passed their early manhood in selling
tape or West India goods In homea-
pathic quantities. This is not an i'm
moral thing in itself, but it is certainly
illogical in these people to be so intol-
Grant of those less fortunate people
who have not yet disposed of their
stock"


The experiment of tea growing in
California is said to promise success.
The climate of large part of the tea
district of China finds a parallel in that
of the central Southern States, and
there seems to be no reason why Hyson
and Bohea should not come from cotton
and old rice fields. The necessity for
ocean transportation would be done
away with. and the native fragrance of
the leaf would thus be preserved.


The pianoforte Tor ratherharpsichord)
on which Rouget de PIsle's "Marseil-
laise" was first heard, as also Chenier's
''Chant du Depart, and other patriotic
songs, has been placed in the library of
the Paris Conservatoire. During the
German war the Prussians broke open
the instrument under the impression
that it concealed treasure, but the in
juries have been repaired and the heir
of Chenier has made it a present to the
nation.


The English woman, according to
Kate Field, sis rarely bien mise, for
the reason she neglects details. She
will put on a good gown and then spoil
it by hideous bonnet, or her gloves
will be the wrong color Her boots are
often frightful and her walk ungainly.
In England always ask yourself what is
appropriate, and then put on the re-
verse. This is a rule with few eycep-
tions. English women always wear long
skirts, because their feet are ugly. III
American women had as much percep-
tion and sense as they have beauty, they
would wear their walking skirts much
shorter than French mOdistes dictate"


Bayard Taylor says, in an obituary
notice of Johann Friedrich Strauss
with all his destructive tendencies in
the sphere of dogmatism and history, it
must be acknowledged that he clung to
the ideal elements in human nature,
and yearned for something more posi-
tive and substantial than the sugges-
tions of denial, and doubt, the mono
tonous echoes of the Everlasting No.
In his political relations he was emf
nently conservative he had no sympa-
thy with the blind radicalism of many
European reformers and, if he reposed
a deeper trust in science than in theol-
ogy, it was because he found in it a
more sovereign remedy for human
woes"


Late news from India shows that in
averting the famine in Bengal the
British Government has acted with
consummate wisdom. The direct dis
tribution of aims has been avoided, and
except in extraordinary cases the usual
channels of trade have been used for
the distribution of food. The result
attained has been the warding off of
famine and the general supplying of the
people with employment, and conse-
quently with food. In a few instances
wandering fakirs and mendicants may
starve, owing to the fact that their
nomadic habits keep them out of the
range of Government supervision but
there is no doubt that the timely aid of
the English authorities has saved at
least million of people from absolute
starvation.


The local scenery which surrounded
the childhood and influenced the early
culture of poets is always a matter of
interest. writer in Macmiilan's