Year: 1877


How many engsgein business and drive it for.
ward year or two, and then abandon it tor
some other scheme, to be driven as fercely at
first, and to be given up as soon. No wonderso
few become independent A man must stick
to it for years before he will begin to realize
much. A mechanic who is now worth thirty
thousand dollars just remarked to US: ~ have
been on this spot more than 6ve-and.twenty
years, and never had q desire to change my
business" Stick to it was the secret of his
success for, to our knowledge, when be COM
menced business, he had to run in debt for the
tools be worked with. In the early part Of
bis life, at different times, he was associated
with partners who became uneasy and left
him. Not one of them added dollar to the
funds they accumulated in the business with
this gentleman. Their shiftless character
made them run from one thing to another,
and hence their bad success.


Werepeat-whatever your business or pro-
fession be, stick to it /; in season and out, amid
hard times and prosperous times, and if you
do not succeed there is no truth in US. We
do not say that a man may not. be, unfortu.
nate, after years of toll, for people often are;
but We do say men who stick closely to one
thing will succeed better and make more
money, in the long run, than those who are,
fckle.minded, and who are driven about by
every wind that blows We would rather
stand our chance at home with the steady and
industrious man, than with the stranger who


first commenced digging gold in California.


MOURNING CUSTOMS. ancients had
queer ideas about mourning for their dead.
The Egyptian women ran through the streets
crying, with their bosoms exposed and their
hair disordered The Lycians regarded mourn
ing as unmanly, and compelled men who went
into mourning to put on female garments. In
Greece, when a popular general died. the
whole army cut off their hair and the names
of their horses. Atthe present day, the Ara
bian women stain their hands and feet with
indigo, which they suffer to remain eight days.
They also carefully abstain from using milk
this tims on the ground that its white color
does mot accord with the gloom Of their minds.
In China, the mourning color is white.
Mourning for parent or husband is required
there by law, under penalty of sixty blows
and years banishment. When the Empe-
ror dies, all his subjects let their hair grow
for one hundred days. In the Feejee Islands,
on the tenth day of mourning, the women
scourge all the men except the highest chiefs.
Another fashionable custom there requires
the friends and relatives of the deceased to as.
semble on the fourth day after the funeral.
and picture to themselves the amount Of cor.
ruption the corpse has sustained by that time.
In the'Sandwich Islands persons desirous of
going into mourning paint the lower part of
their faces black, and knock out their front
teeth. No doubt this causes very sincere
kind of mourning for the time.


WHEN TO USE SPEcTAcLEs.-The simplest
rules for ascertaining the need of eyeglasses
are, firstly, to note if you are obliged to re-
move small print or small objects further
than usual from your eyes in order to see
them distinctly; secondly, if you find your.
self involuntarily moving nearer to the light
than was usual with you in order to read a
letter or book thirdly, if very small objects
appear to be confused after you have looked
at them for any length of time; fourthly, if
the eyes, after little close attention to any
thing, become so fatigued that you are oblig-
ed to turn aside to give them relaxation
and, lastly, if the sight, on first waking, is
very weak, and does not recover its custona-
ry degree of force until sometime after. AS
for the choice of Eyeglasses, here are few
general rules to begin with: "In the first place.,
good glasses ought never to magnify the OBJ
jects very much, but merely to show them to
us clear, simple and exactly such as they are.
Even in exceptional cases, where rather strong
magni6ers are needed, the proof when they
are too strong will be when you are obliged
to bring the object much closer to the eye
than sound sight requires,"- brief, "eve-
ry person ought, generally speaking, to be
able to read conveniently with his spectacles
at the same distance he was accustomed to
while his visual powers were perfect. Fire.
sers Magazine.


p9r The great Leech Farm of M. Laurens,
near Bordeaux, France, covers about 400
acres The marsh is divided into compart-
ments of five or six acres, each Of which Is
surrounded by two bitches with an interve-
ming bank. These compartments have some
10000 to 10000 leeches each. In the winter
the leeches remain under ground, but come
out early in the spring Horses are driven
into the water, about ten to the acre, on which
the "blood-suckers" gorge themselves for five
or six hours. The troops are then taken
away to be fed and recuperated for eight or
ten days, and other troops take their places,
80 that by June the leeches have been fed
nine or ten times. In June the leeches go
under ground again, the water is drawn off,.
and the herbage is allowed to grow. In July
and August they come out, and deposit their
eggs on the tufts of weeds and grass little
water is turned on to moisten the ground, and
the young soon hatch. By thelast of August
the grounds are inundated, and the fishing
begins; long lines of men in high boots pass
through the ponds, beating the water to rouse
the leeches, and putting the largest into bags
which they carry. Smaller ones are left for
stock for another year. Paris alone uses H.
100000 leeches year, and before the intro
duction of these leech farms 100000 an
nually we're imported into France.


AN IRRESISTIBLE APPEAL.-Some sheep,
belonging to farmer named Reed, having
been stolen in the neighborhood Of a colliery
village in Durham, England, while the thief
was still undiscovered, local preacher, hav-
ing collection to make, thought he would
turn the event to good account: ave have
a collection to make this morning, and for the
glory of God, whoever of you stole Mr.. Reeds
sheep don't put anything on the platel' Of
course everybody Joined in the collection.


The GREATEST NUMBER.-Said Lord John
Russell to Hume at social dinner, "What
do you consider the object of legislation |"
"The greatest good to the greatest number"
"What do you consider the greatest number"
continued his lordshin. "Nllmher one. nv