Year: 1871

over beach and scar, and finally gathered
in the boat for a short sail upon a sea that
scarcely rippled. II WIS the last that was
heard Of them. Whether upset by q aud.
den squall, OF borne out TO mid ocean by
counter gales is unknown. No one Is left
to tell the story Of the death, and through
the lonely easements of the mansion, eyes
that are dry and fearless look down over
the waste of waters, searching for a sail
that does not come.


Do the doctors know that half the wives
in the world die of negative kindnessY
He never spoke an unkind word to his
WIFE," Yes, but did he remember,
now and then, to speak q kind oneP
Did he have any sympathy for her
bodily or mental ails Or was he
blind and deaf TO both, treating them with
that cutting indifference which in time
chills the most loving heart and silences
its throbs foreverp Men are very guilty
in this regard. They take a young girl
from loving, cheerful homes and, after
few brief weeks of devotion, leave her
to battle, single handed, with new cares
and new duties and to bear sickness with
what courage she may and go their ways
into the tangled paths of life without
thought of the responsibilities they are
shirking, or the solemn VOWS they have
really broken.-BrchaRge.


LICENSING DRUaeIsTs' CLERKs--A re-
cent law, relative to the sale of drugs in
New York City, is as follows: The Mayor
is directed TO appoint, before the 1st of
June, board, consisting of one skilled
pharmaceutist, one practical druggist, and
two regular physicians, to hold office
during the pleasure of the Mayor. These
shall choose practical druggist as secre-
tary. The board shall examine and license
all druggists and clerks now employed, or
hereafter TO be employed, as clerks in drug
stores. AT the expiration of six months
from the organization of the above board,
any unlicensed person who shall make up
a physicians prescription shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be liza
BILE to fine of not more than $500, or i'm
prisonment not more than six months, or
both. The salary of the members of the
board shall be fixed by the Board of Su-
pervisors, but shall not exceed $4,000 per
annum.


AN exchange says: 1.-THE worst joke
that was ever perpetrated on scientific
men took place recently at Louisiana, Mo.
A man was sick with rheumatism, or
something, and a fellow went around to
the doctors and professors and things and
told them that it was the queerest case on
record. He said the man had no feeling.
You could stick pins in his body all over,
and he paid no attention to them at all.
He was perfectly numb. So the doctors
got together and called on the sick man to
experiment. All arrived with pins and
needles and bodkins The man was asleep
and they got around him, and each one
stuck his pin in the patient. The sick
man rolled over and looked at the crowd,
and thought they had come to dissect him,
so he took chair in one hand and a bed
post in the other, and drove the crowd
thence They are around with their heads
tied up, looking for the man who said that
sick man had no feeling"


IF sheet of paper on which key has
been laid be exposed for some minutes in
the sunshine, and then instantaneously
viewed in the dark, the key removed, a
faded specter of the key will be visible.
Let this paper be laid aside for many
months, where nothing can disturb it, and
then in darkness be laid on plate of hot
metal and the specter of the key will ap
pear This is equally true of our minds.
Every man we meet, every book we read,
every picture of landscape we see, every
word or tone we hear, leaves its image on
our brain. These traces, which, under Or
dinary circumstances, are invisible, never
fade, but, in the intense light of cerebral
excitement, start into prominence just as
the spectral image of the key started into
sight on the application of heat. 1t is
thus with all the influence to which we
are subjected.