The Falls of Niagara 
This great cataract which has for some 
time been regarded as the eighth wonder 
of the world is annuallv visited bv thous- 
ands of people, and yet there are other 
thousands who know nothing of it except 
by name. This immense waterfall is on 
the Niagara river, which flows from Lake 
Erie to Lake Ontario, and which is only 
thirty-six miles in length and has a de¬ 
scent of 334 feet from the level of one lake 
to that of the other. The Falls are about 
*22 miles from Lake Erie, and the river at 
this point is very deep, as it has rapidly 
narrowed for the last two miles from two 
and a half miles to about 2500 feet, or 
rather less than half a mile, in width. It is 
here divided by an island of some twenty 
acres in extent, called Goat Island, and a 
bend in the river tends to cause most of the 
water to flow to the Canadian side, form¬ 
ing the famous Horseshoe Fall . which is 
yards in width and about 154 feet iu 
height. The American Fall is 1*53 feet in 
height but only 220 yards wide. The wa¬ 
ter rushes over with such force that it 
is thrown fifty feet or more from the base 
of the cliff. One mile and a half below the 
Falls is cue celebrated Suspension Bridge 
of the Great Western Railway, having a 
Toad way beneath for wagons and foot 
passengers. This bridge is bOO feet long. 
40 feet wide and 2X» feet from the surface 
of the water, and from it one can get a 
very fine view of the Falls. 
We have procured, at considerable ex¬ 
pense. a cut giving a bird's-eye view of the 
various points of interest, but no engraving 
can do justice to this wonder of nature, 
and we desire all our readers who can 
afford it. to join some of the many ex¬ 
cursions and view this mighty monument 
of the Creator's power. 
Silent Men. 
Washington never made a speech. Iu 
the zenith of his fame he once attempted it. 
failed, and gave it up confused and abashed. 
In framing the Constitution of the United 
-States, the labor was almost wholly per¬ 
formed in a Committee of the Whole, of 
which George Washington was the chair¬ 
man, out he made only two speeches dur¬ 
ing the convention, which were of a very 
few words each. 1'he convention how¬ 
ever. acknowledged the master spirit, and 
historians affirm that had it not been for 
his personal popularity, and the thirty 
words of his first speech, pronouncing it 
the best that could be united upon, the 
Constitution would have been rejected by 
the people. Thomas Jefferson never made 
a speech. He couldn't do it. Napoleon, 
whose executive ability is almost without 
parallel, said his greatest trouble was in 
finding men of deeds rather than of words. 
ADVICE TO BOYS. 
BY W. B DERRICK. 
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Aud you'll grow wise as you grow old ; 
But be it fairly uudei stood 
That you must dig. if you'd get gold. 
Take off your gloves, roll up your sleeves. 
And wiggle waggle with the gang: 
Pitch in and work, for work achieves. 
Tumble, get up. and don’t use slang! 
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