Year: 1876

CoRNwALLIs, Nova Scotia, has a lady
teacher who kisses the first boy who gets
to school in the morning, and the small
BOYS are crowded out OF school by chill
dren of larger growth, who roost on the
fences all night so as to be up early.


BETWEEN THE LIGHTS.


A little pause in life, while daylight fingers


Between the sunset and the pale moonrise,
When daily labor slips from weary fingers,


And soft gray shadows veil the aching eyes.
Old perfumes wander back from fields Of clover


Seen in the light OF suns that long have set;
Beloved Ones whose earthly toll Is over,


Draw near, rs If they lived among us yet.


PHYSICAL courage which despises all
danger will make a man brave in one
way and moral courage which despises
all opinion will make man brave in
another. The former would seem most
necessary for the camp, the latter the
council; but to constitute great man,
both are necessary.-CoHon.


LEIGHTON says: 1t is an argument of
candid, ingenious mind to delight in
the good name and commentator of
Others; to pass by their defects and take
notice of their virtues; and to speak or
hear willingly of the latter for in this
indeed you may be less guilty than the
evil speaker, in taking pleasure in evil,
though you speak it not.


The editor of an exchange has dis
covered that if every one of the S,O0O,O0O
families in the American Union would
only skim the soap grease of their dish
water and invest its proceeds in a sinking
fund at four per cent. compound interest,
the proceeds in 169 years, 2 months and
IL days would pay off the national debt.


IT is not enough for a reader to be un-
prejudiced. He should remember that
book is to be studied, as picture is to
be hung. Not only must bad light be
avoided, but good one obtained. This,
taste supplies. 1t puts history, tale
or poem in just point of view, and
there examines the execution Ipitna0H.


THIS paragraph is too sweet for any
thing: If men are the salt of the earth,
women are the sugar. Salt is neces-
sity; sugar luxury. Vicious men are
the saltpetre; hard, stern men the rock
salt; nice, family men the table-salt.
Old maids are the brown sugar; good
natured matrons the loafsugar; pretty
girls the fine, pulverized white sugar.
Pass the sugar, please.


NORWICH Bulletin: A gentleman up
town invited friend, the other, evening,
to 90 into the nursery and hear the chill
dren say their prayers. They stopped
moment on the stairs, however, and
when they reached the room the prattlers
had Just sung their evening hymn, and
were trying to drown the kitten in the
washbowl. The visitor appeared deeply
moved.


SOME men make a womanish COM
plaint that it is great misfortune to die
before our time. / would ask what
time? Is it that of nature? But she,
indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum
of money, only no certain day is fixed
for payment. What reason, then, to
complain if she demands it at pleasure,
since it was on this condition you re-
ceived it?-Cicero.


IT is in the minute circumstances of a
mans conduct that we are to inquire for
his real character. In these he is under
the influence of his natural disposition,
and acts from himself; while in his more
important actions he may be drawn by
public opinion, and many other external
motives, from that bias which his dispo-
sition would have taken.


A LovEsIcK student went out few
nights since to serenade his charming
Araminta. The evening was balmy and
pleasant, and so spring-like that, very
naturally, the young mans mind turned
to thoughts of love. He found the house,
planted himself under her window,
touched his light guitar, and poured
forth his soul in song. A light suddenly
appears, and his heart is filled with JOY.
The window is raised, and a fair form is
indistinctly seen. Oh, what bliss! A
voice, unmistakably that of the big
brother comes down like a falling star:
"Move on, young mani We don't want
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