Year: 1875

There are in Boston twenty Meth.
odist Churches, twenty-six Unitarian.
twenty seven Baptist and twenty-nine
Congregational.


Jones and Brown were talking f
a young clergyman whose preaching
they had heard that day. "What do
you think of him ?" asked Brown.
81 think. said Jones, che did better
two years ago" why" said Brown,
she didn't preach then!' True"
said Jones, "that is what [ mean"


III we only look far enough off
tor the consequences of our actions,
we can always find some point in the
combination of results by which those
actions can be justified, by adopting
the point of view of Providence who
artanges results, or philosopher who
traces them, We shall find it possible to
obtain perfect complacency in choosing
to do what is most agreeable to us in
the present movement"


Prof. Taylor, Of the Agricultural
Bureau, advises the Western farmers
to get rid of the grasshoppers by eat
ing them They are largely consumed
in the East, and the Indians of our
plains find them excellent eating.
Gen. Sherman has tried them, and says
they are by no means to be despised.
There is a Scripture precedent for put
ting the pests to this use. John the
Baptist lived on them, with the ad-
dltion of little honey. This advice
however does not apply to potato bugs.


Does it spoil children to praise
them? Judicious praise is sunshine
to the child, and there is no child that
does not need it. 1t is the high re-
ward OF ones struggle TO do right.
Thos. Hughes says that you can never
get mans best out of him without
praise. You certainly can never get
child's besG out Of him without praise.
Many sensitive child dies Of hunger
for kind commentator. Many a
child starving for praise that parents
should give, runs off eagerly after the
designing fattery of others.


A writer Of the American Grocer
says that glycerine is not used in the
right way to keep the hands smooth.
She asserts that to preserve the
smoothness and softness of the hands,
keep small bottle of glycerine near
the place where you habitually wash
them, and when you have finished
washing and before you wipe them,
put one or two drops on the wet palm
and rub the hands as thoroughly with
it as if it were soap; then dry lightly
with towel Household work and
bad weather will not prevent your skin
from beng smooth and soft, if this
plan of using glycerine is followed.


There is not a joyful boy or 1nno-
cent girl buoyant with the fine pur-
poses of duty, in all the street full Of
eager and rosy faces, but a cynic can
chill and dishearten with single word.
Dependency comes readily enough to
the most sanguine people. The cynic
has only to follow the hint with his
bitter confirmation, and they 90 home
with heavier step and premature age.
They will themselves quickly enough
give the hint he wants to the cold
wretch. Which Of them has not fall
ed to please where they most wished to
please? or blundered where they
were most ambitious of success? or
found themselves awkward, or tedious,
Or incapable of study, thought, or
heroism, and only hoped by good sense
and fidelity to do what they could and
pass unblamed? And this wicked
makes their little hope less
with satire and sceptism and slackens
The springs of endeavor Yes, this is
EASY but to help the young soul. add
energy, inspire hopes and blow the
Goals into useful flame; to redeem
iefeat by new thought, by firm action.
hat is not easy. that is the work of
Evinc men.-P. TT. Emerspa.