150 SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATIONS [Horn 



brain and warm heart could not possibly exist. Their nourish- 

 ment can only be derived where purity and light abound. 



PH. 

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Hissing 1 . 



As a fact, hissing is the only sound in Nature which makes 

 no echo. If criticism, at the meeting or at the desk, be naught 

 but hissing, and can do naught but hiss, it is altogether a poor 

 affair, and will awaken no echo of sympathy. Therefore an 

 earnest man may ignore it when it assails him in his endeavours 

 to do good. He should go on his course remembering the 

 ancient words of Sana! : " What matters it whether the words 

 thou utterest for religion are Hebrew or Syrian, or whether the 

 place in which thou seekest for truth is Jabalka or Ja"balsa." 



G. s. 



Power of Early Home Associations. 



Early home associations have a far more potent influence 

 than is generally supposed. Some natures, of course, are more 

 susceptible to them than are others, but over many men they 

 have a sovereign power. Nor is their influence confined to "the 

 human family. The affection of birds is frequently extended 

 to their own haunts, and they cling with constancy to the place 

 where they were born. Nightingales, swallows, and many 

 others find their way back to the spot where their early days 

 were spent, and often to the very nest-homes with which their 

 joys were associated. Everybody knows with what fidelity 

 rooks stick to their native trees, and how doggedly they resist 

 every effort to dislodge them. Though all the trees of the 

 country are open to their choice, rooks sometimes prefer a nest 

 in a solitary tree in some great city, because it is the home where 

 they were born. For eight months of the year not a bird, 

 perhaps, is to be seen there ; but with commencing spring the 

 constant rooks, winging their way over streets and houses, once 

 more appear and set about patching up the old nest. BE. 



Home-Leaving 1 . 



When the adult termites of Southern America leave their 

 homes they fly off in large clouds, but as soon as they touch 



