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QUATRAINS. 
1870, are the Swedes and the British Amer- 
icans, — if, indeed, by that time, we have not 
gratified our national passion by annexing 
the New Dominion, making thus the Cana- 
dians not foreigners, but natives. Speaking 
broadly, the Swedes are all found west of 
Lake Michigan, in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, 
and Minnesota. The systematic efforts 
made to induce immigration from Sweden 
are not unlikely to yield considerable results 
in the immediate future. All the social and 
industrial conditions of the North-west are 
natural to this people, except only as being 
more favorable than their own at home. 
The British Americans, on the other hand, 
are substantially all east of Lake Michigan. 
They have overspread, more or less densely, 
the New England States, have colored 
deeply the northern borders of New York, 
and form an important element in the pop- 
ulation of the peninsula of Michigan. In 
the latter State and in Maine the men of 
this nationality are lumbermen and rafts- 
men ; in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, 
they are cotton spinners and shoemakers, 
forming, indeed, the bone and sinew of the 
redoubtable order of the Knights of St. 
Crispin. And, if ever our cooks get on a 
strike and go a parading the streets with 
bands and banners, breathing defiance to 
domestic tyranny, be sure it will be because 
the French Canadian women among them 
have formed the order of Ste. Coquula. 
Of the natives of the Celestial Empire who 
cook and wash for our people, very few have 
yet ventured across the Rocky Mountains. 
Here and there at the East, an almond-eyed 
angel “ stands and waits” in the house of a 
master who is considerably more than half 
afraid of him, with his cat-like step, his dia- 
bolical observances, his inscrutable coun- 
tenance, and his well-known toxological 
accomplishments ; but thus far, at least, 
the great domestic revolution which was 
heralded in the newspapers and magazines 
with so much noise five years ago, as about 
to follow the advent of the Children of the 
Sun, has, like many another announced 
revolution, failed to come off. Of the total 
number of 5,420 Chinese servants in the 
United States, 4,343 are yet to be found in 
California, 503 in Nevada, and 268 in 
Oregon. 
Is the Chinaman to be the domestic ser- 
vant of the future? Will another census 
show him stealthily supplanting the Euro- 
pean in our households, and setting up his 
gods on the kitchen mantels of this Chris- 
tian land? I stoutly believe not. The 
Chinese, whether miners or menials, are 
hardly more numerous in the United States 
than they were five years ago. ‘‘ Forty 
centuries” have been too much for Mr. 
Koopmanschoop and his emigrant runners. 
Even when the Chinaman comes to the 
States, he leaves his wife and children be- 
hind him ; he comes here with no thought 
of resting until he can rest at home; his 
supreme wish is ever to return to his native 
land, and if he be so unhappy as to die in 
exile, his bones at least must be borne back 
to sacred soil. Surely, a great element 
among us is not to be built up by immigra- 
tion of this kind. Masses of foreign popu- 
lation thus unnaturally introduced into the 
body politic, must sooner or later disappear 
like the icebergs that drift upon the currents 
of our temperate seas, chilling the waters 
all around them, yet themselves slowly 
wasting away under the influence of sun 
and wind, having in themselves no source 
of supply, no spring of energy, no power 
of self-protection ; helpless and inert amid 
hostile and active forces; their only part, 
endurance; their only possible end, ex- 
tinction. 
feAlNS. ■ ' ' ' 
I. WISDOM. 
“Wisdom,” quoth the sage, 
“Cometh only with age.” 
“Fool!” quacked a goose, 
“Then ’tis no use!” 
II. HOMEOPATHY. 
“ If like cures like,” quoth Bibulus athirst, 
“ Each second glass must surely cure the first.” 
Alas ! he missed his count, and, sad to see. 
The drinks came out uneven — so did he ! 
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