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The Cliangfes that tliis wonderful 

 planet of ours daily undergoes are very 

 interesting to contemplate. A corres- 

 pondent describes some of them in the 

 following vei'y interesting manner : 



During the approach and continuance of 

 winter the earth throws off by radiation 

 each night more heat than it absorbs in the 

 daytime. While this goes on the tempera- 

 ture of the surface of the earth must con- 

 tinue to fall, and the cold of the atmosphere 

 must penetrate deeper and deeper daily 

 Into the ground. As spring approaches 

 the condition changes, and each nighji less 

 heat is radiated than is absorbed during 

 the day. The average temperature of the 

 earth is therefore steadily rising instead of 

 falling, and opportunity is given to the 

 latent heat of the earth to manifest its in- 

 fluence; for, next to the primal source of 

 heat — the sun — a very important source is 

 found in the heat of the globe itself. While 

 the surface is still frozen, therefore, and 

 has not yet absorbed a sufficient surplus of 

 heat to overcome the effect of the nightly 

 loss by radiation, the ground may yet be 

 thawing rapidly and perceptibly from be- 

 low through the influence of the earth's 

 latent heat. 



Punctuality in doing anything 

 required to be done is the most desirable 

 thing in the world. Think of what a 

 calamity it would be if the sun should 

 make its appearance an hour or two, or 

 even a minute or so late some day. 

 Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth 

 doing well and on time. 



To apiarists this is a lesson of vital 

 importance. The delay in not having 

 all surplus receptacles on hand when 

 wanted often costs a crop of honey. 

 Very appropriate is the following from 

 one of our subscribers in Iowa, who 

 writes the following very amusing item : 



An acquaintance once said : "Mrs. A. 

 would be quite a nice neighbor if it were 

 not for that third hand." I stared in 

 wonder." " Don't you know," queried 

 Mrs. A., that " little behind-hand of hers 

 keeps her forever in a stew?" 



Knowing Mrs. A., I saw the applica- 

 tion, and then I began to wonder if some 

 of the rest of us were afflicted with the 

 superfluous hand, ,as well as Mrs. A. 



Have we all got our Summer under- 

 clothing all made before the time for 

 house-cleaning comes ? Did we plant 



our slow-growing seeds in season ? Did 

 we replenish our table linen and bedding 

 during the Winter months '? If not, let 

 us look out, or somebody will be laugh- 

 ing at our third hand. We won't laugh, 

 however; as the saying goes, "the laugh 

 will be on the other side of the face." 

 Kit Clover. 



"We are Often Pained when 

 seeing the oft-repeated cruelty and in- 

 humanity which daily come to light in 

 this world, and then we are led to fancy 

 that a cruel and heartless humanity has 

 complete control of all mundane affairs, 

 but it is evidently a mistake to come to 

 such a hasty conclusion. We must, to 

 be fair, look on the other side, and then 

 we may change our pessimistic for opti- 

 mistic views. 



It is a good world this, after all. If 

 it were not, then little Marie Petersen, a 

 blue eyed child of five years, could never 

 have crossed the Atlantic ocean and 

 come from Sweden in charge of no one 

 but herself to join her father in Phila- 

 delphia. Her mother died when she 

 was a babe, and her father came to 

 America to make his fortune. As soon 

 as he got a little money he sent for the 

 child, and the brave creature did not 

 liesitate to start alone. It was the confi- 

 dence of childhood and innocence, and 

 to the credit of mankind it is not al- 

 ways betrayed. Marie spoke not a word 

 of English either, and the only informa- 

 tion the immigration officers at New 

 York could get about her was con- 

 tained in an envelope which she carried 

 sealed in her pocket. This envelope 

 held also a little money to be used in 

 case of need, and thus the child had 

 crossed the great sea under the guidance 

 of the good spirits that reside in human 

 breasts. 



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