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shall those obey it to whom the daily bread comes only with the daily 



toil, and how many of these there are among it the rich, idle world 



never dreams ! 



"... The fear that kills ; 



And hope that is unwilling to be fed; 



Cold, pain, and labor, and all fleshly ills 



And mighty poets in their misery dead." 



That is the life's experience of many and many a man who bears 

 a cheerful front enough to his fellows. While he has health and 

 strength, while the sun is still in the heavens, he can bear the bur- 

 den, uncomplaining if unresting. But as the day wears on, and the 

 shadows grow, the question of the future grows with them, What 

 shall be his fate when hand and brain can work no more ? Happy 

 as he may be in his work now, contented, prosperous, never can he 

 wholly put by the thought, 



" But there may come another day to me 

 Solitude, pain of heart, distress, and poverty." 



Such a one can put off that hour by no holiday pastimes which to 

 the idle man of pleasure are a mere weariness of the flesh. But he 

 can, so far as human will avails, put it off by hoarding his strength 

 and health ; and this he will most surely do by the observance of one 

 simple rule, framed for man's conduct thousands of years before our 

 wisdom discovered that the pancreatic juice converts starch into sugar, 

 and that levulose is isomeric with glucose the simple rule of modera- 

 tion. Macmillarts Magazine. 



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GEKMAN PALEONTOLOGICAL MUSEUMS. 



By ALBERT GAUDEY. 



THE Germans have many excellent paleontological museums, in 

 which the fossil records of the ancient history of their country are 

 preserved and arranged in regular and proper order. Each of these 

 museums, besides its general character, is distinguished by special feat- 

 ures illustrating the more salient peculiarities of the local geology. 



Besides its general museum, in which are collected the products of 

 different countries, Stuttgart possesses a geological and paleontologi- 

 cal hall devoted especially to the fossils of Wurtemberg. This local 

 collection, under the direction of Professor Oscar Fraas, is justly held 

 in high repute, because in it can be followed from age to age the pa- 

 leontological history of one of those countries in Europe which have 

 been best studied. Here are especially to be seen those wonderful 

 reptiles that lived on the continents during the Triassic epoch : the 

 tosaurus, the zeuglodon, the mastodonsaurus and the metopias, permit 



