Scientific, &c 
GAME AND FISH 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
OUR TEMPLES OF SCIENCE. 
Writing to the Rural, E. E,, of Montezuma, N. 
Y., puts in a plea for the production and protection 
of game and fish, with reference both to sport and 
profit. Ho thinks farmers might derive healthful 
recreation from this source, if they would avail 
themselves of the means at hand for supplying 
game arid fish on their premises, though the win¬ 
ter.’, in this State, are rather too severe to permit 
i of any great development of the first mentioned. 
In England, to every farm of 500 acres there per¬ 
tains about 500 rabbits, 30 hare, go coveys of part¬ 
ridges averaging about 14 each, and 25 pheasants. 
The game laws of that country allow each farmer to 
shoot all he chooses ou his own farm and woods, 
but a roving sportsman is not allowed this shooting 
aud bagging impunity. 
The game laws of New York are ample, but the 
trouble is there is very little for them to protect, 
as farmers do not make the raising of game or fish 
part and parcel of their agricultural operations. 
Many farmers in England have a horse pond, and 
also one for fish. The former should be about five 
feet deep, and made readily accessible at each end. 
About one-fourth of an acre will make a veay good 
fish pond, with the water from twelve to twenty 
feet deep, according to the situation. In excavating 
TfE great business of a teacher is to apply his 
knoifalyt to the best of his ability for the good of 
the Voung. How sluill he do this in the shortcut jms- 
siblitime, aud in the most thorough manner, are the 
quodions that occupy his mind when he first begins 
a ajhool. 
Erst, the school-house should he made as attract¬ 
ive as possible without aud within. The idea many 
ha r e of the school-room is, that ’tis a noisy, dirty 
pllce, unfit for anybody to stay in but saucy chil¬ 
dren and unfortunate pedagogues who embrace 
tli: profession as a miserable shift to live. This is a 
low idea of the school-room, and should not be 
entertained. Ou the contrary the school - house 
should be a near and pleasant place. Here I would 
suggest to female teachers (as they have charge of 
our schools in summer) to lay out a small flower 
garden for the use of the girls. I do uot see why 
boys should monopolize the entire yard with their ) 
rude and hardy sports. I would consider a little 
time and money speut by the trustees to adorn and 
beautify a school-house yard as a good investment. 
A flower garden well eared for would be a good 
emblem of what the school should be within. What 
is a school but a cluster of little plants, buds aud 
blossoms of humanity, depending on the teacher’s 
care and attention to be trained up for usefulness 
and become well-springs of joy and pleasure forever? 
A school-house is a temple of science, a place where 
the great and good men of onr country began their 
journey towards the goals of honor and renown, 
I look upon the common schools as the People’s 
Colleges — institutions that do the greatest, good to 
the greatest number , and are the chief glory of our 
republican land. As we have now free schools 
" mi your cooks ami suite Deside you 
Aud your bri’k and cheerful pace? 
Ah. I know where you are going! 
Study hard as e'er you can, 
In the pleasant, happy school-room— 
You are going to be a man. 
Little boy, you're learning lessons 
That shall lit you up for life; 
You are girding on an armor 
That shall tit you up for strife. 
In the pleasant, cheerful school-room. 
You will learn your lessons well; 
And the worth of those good lessons 
Time and years alone will tell. 
A CHILD’S PRAYER. 
bwEETBit than the songs of thrushes. 
When the winds are low, 
Brighter than the spring-time blushes 
Reddened out of snow, 
Were the voice and cheek so fair, 
Of the little child at prayer. 
Like a white latnb of the meadow, 
Climbing through the light; 
Like a priestess in the shadow 
Of the temple bright, 
Seemed she, saying, " Holy One, 
Thine, and not my will be done.” 
OCR illustration pictures a scene In the. Green Isle. 
Many portions of Ireland abound in charming natu¬ 
ral beauties; and in the vicinity of the Lakes of 
Killarney. especially, (of which every son of Erin 
loves to sing,) the beautiful and picturesque in Na¬ 
ture are strewn in delightful profusion, and create 
lasting impressions on the mind of the beholder. 
their countrymen, on landing, might not be desti¬ 
tute of provisions till able to furnish themselves at 
the expense of the natives. The town attracted pub¬ 
lic notice, last year, from being the seat of the Feniau 
rising, and still has a detachment of British troops 
stationed in It. The headquarters are at. Killarney, 
distant thirty - eight miles from Cahirciveea, and 
a hostile landing. The mouth of the Larne was a l thirteen miles from Killorglin. 
GOING TO MAKE A MAN OF ME 
BY COUSIN POLLY PEPPER. 
In talking to a, bright little boy one day, 1 asked 
him this question:—“Charlie, what is your father 
going to make of you?” lie looked up in my face 
a moment and then replied, to ray astonishment, 
“ He la going to make a man of mo, sir.” 
There, boys, what do you think of that for a five- 
year-older? How many of you, do you think, would 
have given such a bright answer? if you bad been 
asked, some of you, the same, question, you would 
probably have said, why a carpenter, or a book- 
The following interesting account of the Mam¬ 
moth Trees of California was given by Bishop 
Kingsley, in a recent lecture. Having spent three 
days among them taking close observations and 
measurements, he says; 
“Of the mammoth trees —the Washingtonian 
Gigantic — there are six or eight groves. The grove 
in Calaveras county, 250 miles east of San Francisco, 
was the first discovered, and has been tin? most vis¬ 
ited by travelers. The Bishop spent three days 
communing with these monarehs of the forest, 
whose ages span multiplied centuries, and whose 
numbers arc counted by thousands, new groves 
being all the while discovered. Their color is a 
bright cinnamon. Some of the bark and wood were 
shown by the lecturer. Their circumferences vary 
from 60 to 125 feet at the ground, and their height 
300 to 450 feet. One cut of ordinary saw log length 
would, when split up—the wood splits easily—make 
over 40 cords of wood, or 80.000 shingles. The 
whole of such a tree would make 1,450 cords of four- 
feet wood. One such tree would be equal to 1,600 
trees, 2 feet at the base and 100 feet htgh. The 
largest of them has fallen, but only one has been 
felled by man. 
A House on a Stump .— It took five men twenty- 
two days to bore one of these big trees down. The 
top of the stump of this felled tree has been plained 
off smooth, and a round house erected thereon. 
Figuring as to the number of square feet on this 
stump we find them to be 707. Thte will give the 
family a 
Small parlor.12 by 16 ft.—192 ft. 
Dining-room.10 by 16 ft.-160 ft. 
Kitchen,.10 by 12 ft.—120 ft. 
Two bed-rooms.10 by 10 ft.—100 ft. 
Total....,.572 
This leaves 35 feet for a little 
Pantry.1 by 6 ft.-24 ft. 
Two clothes-presses.4 by l^ft.—10%ft. 
And we have 28 square Inches left! 
You ascend the butt end of’this log by a ladder of 
26 steps, which is like climbing to the top of an ordi¬ 
nary two or two and a half story house. 
Names of the Trees .— Many of the large trees 
have white marble slabs fitted to them, with the 
name of the tree cut, on the slab. Some of the 
names are, U. S. Grant, W. B. McPherson, Phil. 
Sheridan, George Washington, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 
Empire State, Old Dominion, Henry Clay, Andrew 
Johnson — “ this true, said the lecturer, “ leaning a 
little south”—Old Bachelor, dead at the top. The 
Old Maid, fallen and shattered, Gen. Scott, Poca¬ 
hontas, Abraham Lincoln, tall and glorious, H. W. 
Beecher, W. H. Seward, etc. 
Their Ages. — As to the ages of these trees the 
Bishop said: —“I obtained a piece of wood from 
the 'Mother of the Forest,’ and counted the concen¬ 
tric circles in an inch. They were 28. By the pro¬ 
cess of counting all the concentric circles of a tree, 
it was safe to conclude that some of these old settlers 
were 2.500 years old, which is 1,200 to 1,500 years 
older than the Christian dispensation, older also 
than the foundations of Rome or Athens, antedating 
by centuries the birth of Aristotle, Pythagoras, 
Plato or Homer. They were venerable trees in the 
times of Ezekiel, Daniel, Jeremiah and Isaiah; large 
enough for timber for the first temple erected to the 
God of heaven; older than the Psalms of David, or 
of any portion of the Bible, except the Pentateuch.” 
GOING INTO BUSINESS 
18o4 in the Rue Bergcrc, in order to deaden the 
noise of carriages in the immediate vicinity of the 
Conservatoire do Musique. It was uext found 
expedient to procure the same advantage to the 
Palais de Justice; the Boulevard and adjoining Qnai 
dc I’Horloge accordingly received the same coating. 
Since then, it lias come into frequent use, and is now 
being laid down in the Avenue Victoria and around 
the square of the Place du Chatelet, It wa, feared 
that the smoothness of this bitumen coating would 
cause horses to slip down more easily than on paved 
or metalled carriage roads; but it bus at length been 
proved by direct observation that accidents of the 
kind are not more frequent on the former than ou 
the latter. 
Bitumen was much in use for building .purposes 
among the Assyrians and Egyptians, as the ruins of 
Babylon and Memphis show; it. was not adopted by 
the Romans, and has only now returned into fashion 
after a lapse of live thousand years. The bitumen 
or asplmllum at present, in use for flagging and for 
Horace Greeley, in his “ Recollections,” pub¬ 
lished in th# New York Ledger, gives the following 
in reference to his early business experience, adding 
some wholesome advice to yonng men who have an 
itching “ to go into business 
“If it be suggested that my whole indebtedness 
was at no time more than from *5,000 to §7,000, i 
have only to say that uvea §1,000 of debt is ruin to 
him who keenly feels his obligation to fulfill every 
engagement, yet is utterly without the means of so 
doing, aud who finds himself drugged each week a 
little deeper into hopeless insolvency. To be hun¬ 
gry, ragged and peuniless, is not pleasant; but it 
is nothing to the horror of bankruptcy. All the 
wealth of the Rothschilds would he a poor recom¬ 
pense for five years' struggle with the consciousness 
that you had taken the ruouey or property of trust¬ 
ing friends, promising to return or pay for it when 
required, and had betrayed their confidence through 
insolvency. 
“I dwell upon this point, for I would deter oth¬ 
ers from entering that place of torments. Half the 
young men in the country, with many old enough 
to know better, would ‘go into business’—that is, 
into debt—to-morrow, if they could. Most poor 
men are so ignorant as to envy the merchant or the 
manufacturer, whose life is an incessant struggle 
with pecuniary difficulties ; who is driven to con¬ 
stant ‘ shinning,’ who, rrom month to month, 
barely evades insolvency, which sooner or later over¬ 
takes most men in business, so that it has been com¬ 
puted that but one in twenty of them achieve a 
pecuniary success. For my own part—and I speak 
from experience—I would rather be a convict in a 
State prison, a slave in a rice swamp, than to pass 
through life under the harrow of debt. Let no 
young man misjudge himself unfortunate or truly 
poor so long as he has the use of his limbs and fac¬ 
ulties, and is substantially free from debt. 
“ Hunger, cold, rags, bard work, contempt, sus¬ 
picion, unjust reproach, are disagreeable; but debt 
is infinitely worse than them all. And if it had 
pleased God to spare either or all of my sons, to be 
the support and solace of my declining years, the 
lesson which I should have most earnestly sought 
to impress upon them is this;—‘Never ran into 
debt! Avoid pecuniary obligation as you would 
pestilence or famine. If you have but fifty cents, 
and can get no more for a week, buy a peck of corn, 
parch it aud live on it, rather thau owe a man a dol¬ 
lar.’ Of course, I know that some men must do 
business that involves risks, and must often give 
notes and other obligations; bat I do not consider 
him really in debt who can lay his bauds directly on 
the means of paying, at some little sacrifice, all he 
owes; I speak of real debt—that which involves 
either risk or sacrifice on the one side, obligation or 
dependence on the other—and I say, from all such 
let every youth humbly pray God to preserve him 
evermore.” 
inuw you mignt each follow the trade or profes¬ 
sion that is most pleasing to you, and become a 
great workman, or a great scholar, or anything else 
great, and yet not be a gentleman in v the true sense 
of the word. There goes one who has a man’s 
form; wears a beard, and dresses in tine clothes. 
He has a trade or profession, perhaps, but in an evil 
hour he yielded to temptation, and now he not only 
drinks and swears, but gambles. 
Another gives way to his temper and evil passions, 
till the likeness of a man only remains. Thus we 
might go on to the end, but this will suffice. 
Honesty and kindness and love make the true 
man; and now, boys, whatever trade or profession 
you may choose, be determined about one thing, 
that you will be a man in the highest sense of the 
Word .—The Prospectus, 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker 
NOT LOST. 
That not a particle of matter is lost we all know. 
That God created not hing for waste is an established 
fact. The countless lives that exist on our planet 
die, but are they lost ? Nature lives and dies to us, 
and in the spring awakens to renewed life aud 
beauty. After this seeming death we witness the 
resurrection — is not all saved ? The heavens pre¬ 
sent their starry panorama night after night for our 
eves; and God’s own beautiful book is open for all 
to peruse,—the book of the soul’s elixir of life. 
Hill, wood, valley, murmuring stream, foaming 
waterfall.— all that is beautiful and sublime in those 
pages,—are certainly not lost upon us, 
All teachers know that not a word or action of 
theirs is lost upon the plastic clay of the pupils under 
their charge. Sometimes it seems as if a fearful re¬ 
sponsibility rested upon us; but when we think that 
the kind and hopeful words we utter help to guide 
and mold those little ones to higher and purer ideas 
of life,— then it becomes a holy, precious responsi¬ 
bility. And yet it is no romantic task—this teach!ng. 
Much has been written of it; it has been romanced 
over, anti the minds of those jlist, entering upon its 
duties an* filled with glowing imaginings of the 
love, trusting dependence and easy discipline of the 
children given to their care. One may dream and 
perhaps even read of mild, angel-like little ones,— 
and there arc a Jew in this practical world of ours; 
but they are not of the earth, or long for earthly 
scenes. We. find but few in ovlr common schools. 
The real teacher comes forth from all such imagiu- 
ings, and finds that there is work to be done — toil¬ 
some, drudging, downright hard work. 
We cannot remain in an easy, lazy posture, and 
stir up healthy mental activity in our pupils. We 
must work with our whole soul — our whole being 
and strength — if we would be thorough, true teach¬ 
ers. We are teaching the child tiie rudiments of 
Arithmetic, Astronomy, Philosophy, History, Ac. 
It te got natural for ns to suppose that the rudi¬ 
ments implanted here will be lost upon that child 
when done with earth. The minds of those gone from 
us on earth will go on to higher studies and loftier 
attainments — always progressing. Thomas Dick 
asks: — “Is it consistent with reason to admit that 
matter shall have a longer duration than mind?” 
Teaching is the one elevating recourse of many 
womtu. Let us put all our energies into the advanc¬ 
ing cause of education, remembering always that — 
“The deeds we do, the words we speak, 
Into still air they seem to fleet, 
We count them ever past 
But they shall last; 
In that sure judgment they and we shall meet.” 
Le Roy. N. Y r ., 1867. Sara J. C. 
impregnated with from seven to ten per cent, and even 
more of liquid bitumen. This rock is regularly 
quarried at Val de Travers, Neufchatel, at Seyssel in 
the Ain, and at various other places of the Jura re¬ 
gion. At a temperature of one huudred degrees 
Cent.gr. this rock has the property of crumbling to 
dust; aud if, in that state, it be spread, over a sur¬ 
face, and well rammed dowu on it, the particles, on 
cooling, will coalesce again, and return to the state 
in which they were in their native quarry. This 
method is found to be superior to the old one of 
flagging by spreading out the matter in a semi- 
liquid state. 
I WILL BEGIN NOW 
Emma was a sweet little girl six years old. One 
day she said to her mother; 
Mamma, I mean to begin at the new year to 
love Jesus.” 
" But, said her mother, “ how do you know you 
will live till the new year?” 
Emma sat some moments without speaking. At 
length she looked up, with tears in her eyes, and said: 
Perhaps I shall not; I will begin now; aud then, 
mamma, if God lets mo live, I shall be a Christian 
when the new year begins.” 
Little ones, did any of you resolve, as little 
Emma did, not to wait till the new year to give your 
heart to God, but to do it at once? I hope, if you 
did not, you will not wait any longer. Hasten 
to Jesus now. Tell him your sins. Tell him you 
want a new heart that will be good and love him. 
And he will hear you. He will give you what you 
ask, and help you to be good and do good. Then, 
with holy joy in your hearts, yon will find this the 
happiest year you have ever known .—Young Pilgrim. 
The sun is distant from the earth 92,000,000 of 
miles, its diameter is 850,000 miles, or more than 
one hundred times that of the earth. If placed 
where the earth is, its circumference would not only 
include the moon, which is 230,000 miles from the 
earth, but would reach out past it nearly as far again. 
A man standing on the sun would be crashed fiat by 
hfa owu weight if lie could stand the heat long 
enough. The heat of the suu’s surface is equal to 
that which would be produced by burning sLx tons 
of coal per hour on each square yard. It is very 
much greater than would be required to melt any 
metals known on earth. The most brilliant light 
that can be manufactured by chemists looks like a 
black spot if contrasted with the sun. 
The outer surface of the suu is composed of scales 
about the shape of a willow leaf, and perhaps 1,000 
miles long. It Is these that give out the light ami 
heat. A great distance below this outer coat there 
is a layer of dark clouds, probably metallic. Again 
there is a great space, and then another layer of still 
darker elouds, likely of the same material; another 
great interval, and then the solid surface of the sun. 
The sun travels about a million of miles a day, and 
yet in the last two thousaud years it has not traveled 
one-sixtieth part of the distance to the nearest star. 
In fact, there is hardly any perceptible change in its 
position among the stars, one of which —Sirius — is 
large enough to make two or three hundred like it.— 
Condensed from HerscheV s Lecture. 
O. mother, only see! What a monstrous hole! 
Will you please to mend it? I could not luflp it. It 
was only a little torn place last night, and I shouldn’t 
have thought it could grow so much bigger by now. 
Only look! What shall I do ? ” 
Julia’s mother looked up, not a little amused at 
her doleful tone. 
U by, my child, you should have given it to me 
last night, when the hole was little. Then it would 
have been easy to mend, but now I am afraid it is too 
much turn to mend. Now learn from this, ‘a stitch 
in time saves nine.’ ” 
“ But how could I know that it would grow so big? ” 
*' H y 011 knew it was there,” replied her mother, 
“you know It. should be mended at once. Never 
forget that the best time to mend rents in our 
clothes, or faults in our temper and conduct, is 
when they are first discovered. Delay only makes 
the matter worse,” 
The manufacture of alcoholic drinks, under its 
various designations, has been reduced to a com¬ 
plete science, and the expert manufacturer, with 
whisky as a baste, is now able to produce the most 
astonishing results. Even the staple itself is no¬ 
thing but a poisonous and villaiuoua compound. 
Strychnine, red pepper, aud sulphuric acid are the 
most common Ingredients in what is generally sold 
as whisky. New York manufacturers by skillful 
manipulation, turn out annually 800,000 more baskets 
of champagne than are produced in all the cham¬ 
pagne districts of Europe! By passing the oil of 
whisky through carbon, a Madeira is made at a 
profit of 500 per cent, which few can tell from the 
genuine, and with good reason. With neutral 
spirits, or even with whisky, vinegar, sulphuric acid, 
beet root, and copperas, which is to produce the 
proper astringoney, Port wine can be made of 
equally deceptive quality, and so on with all other 
descriptions of wine. It has been stated that New 
York city annually manufactures of these delectable 
stimulants to the value of §8,000,000. 
COMMON FOLLIES 
Try to do the Best.—T wo small cousins were 
on their way to school. It was a sharp morning, 
and the snow was crisp under their feet. Do you 
want to know what they said? 
"lam going to try and do my best to day and all 
the days,” said one little cousin. “ I too, answered 
:he other, “ for God wants us to, doesn’t he ? ” 
“ We are Satan’s children If we are cross,” said 
one “ We are God’s children if we are humble aud 
love good,” said the other. 
What a lovely temper to begin the day with, 
Many foolish things are done every day by per¬ 
sons who think themselves wise. Perhaps no follies 
are more common than these:—To think that the 
more a man eats the fatter and stronger he will be¬ 
come. To believe that the more hours children 
study the faster they learn. To conclude that if 
exercise is good the more violent it is the more good 
is done. To imagine that every hour taken from 
sleep Is an hour gained. To act on the presumption 
that the smallest room in the house is large enough 
to sleep in. To argue that whatever remedy causes 
one to feel immediately better is good for the sys¬ 
tem, without regard to more ulterior effects. To 
eat without an appetite, or to continue to eat after 
it has been satisfied, merely to gratify the taste. To 
eat a hearty supper for the pleasure experienced 
during the brief time it is passing down the throat, 
at the expense of a whole night of disturbed sleep 
and a weary waking in the morning. 
An ErrImi Corrected.—T he Springfield (Mass.) 
Republican thus disposes of a popular error;—“If 
it requires 57 minutes for a telegram starting from 
London to make the circuit of the world and return 
to that point, then it will reach London exactly 57 
minutes after It. started, and on the same day. The 
idea of its beating time by 24 hours is absurd. It 
gains upon time in the first half of the circuit of 
the earth, by just as much as it moves more rapidly 
than the earth on its axis in the opposite direction, 
and it loses in just the same proportion in the last 
half of the circuit. If it starts iu the other direction 
and moves with the earth, the process will be re¬ 
versed; it will first lose time, and then gain the 
same amount, minus the actual time made in com¬ 
pleting the entire circuit. Job was uot great on 
called benzine, which they use so freely tor removing 
grease aud stains from clothing, is a very dangerous 
article. It is one of the substances distilled from 
petroleum, and is highly volatile, inflammable, and, 
when the vapor is mixed with air, explosive. We 
have frequently been much alarmed* upon visiting 
neighbors and friends in the eveniug, to observe a 
phial of this fluid standing in close proximity with a 
lamp, or gas flame, and the odor pervading the room. 
A very small quantity is capable of doing irreparable 
mischief. The contents of a four-ounce phial, if over¬ 
turned aud vaporized, would render the air of a 
moderate-sized room explosive; or, if ignited, a 
whole family might bo seriously burned, or lose their 
lives from it. It should never be used in the vicinity 
of flame; and it is important to remember, that 
through the medium of the escaping vapor, when 
tiie phial is uncorked, flame will leap to it through a 
space of several feet. Benzine is often sold under 
various fanciful names; and therefore any article 
procured from druggists for removing olL or grease 
front fabrics, should be handled with the utmost 
care. — iV. Y. Observer. 
How to Make Mother Happy.—“ Why, mother, 
how bright and cheerful you look to night! what 
has happened?” “I feel very happy, my dear, be¬ 
cause my little boy has really tried to be good all 
day. Once when his sister Katie teased him, and he 
spoke quick aud cross to her, he immediately turned 
round of his own accord, and told her he was wrong, 
and asked her to forgive him. I believe I should 
grow young, and never look tired or unhappy any¬ 
more, if every day my little boy and girl were as 
thoughtful and unselfish and loving as they have 
been ty>day.” 
To Stop the Flow op Blood.— The following 
mode of stopping the flow of blood should be re¬ 
membered by every oue ; Housekeepers, mechanics, 
aud others handling knives, tools and other small 
instruments, frequently receive severe cuts from 
which blood flows profusely, and often endangers 
life itself. Blood may be made to cease to flow as 
follows:—Take the fine dust of tea, at all times ac¬ 
cessible and easy to be obtained, and bind It close to 
the wound. After the blood has ceased to flow laud¬ 
anum may be advantageously applied to the wound. 
Due regard to these instructions would save agita¬ 
tion of mind, aud running for a surgeon who proba¬ 
bly would make no better prescription if he were 
present. 
When Education Be<.ins. —Education begins with 
life. Before we are aware the foundations of the 
character are laid, and no subsequent instructions 
can remove or alter them. Linuaus was the son of 
a poor Swedish clergyman. His father had a little 
flower garden, in which he cultivated all the flowers 
which his means or his taste could select. Into this 
flower garden he introduced his little son from in¬ 
fancy, gud this little garden undoubtedly created 
the taste in this child which afterwards made him 
ttu first botanist unu naturalist of his age, if not of 
his race. And many other men who have become 
emiuent in different branches of science laid the 
Set a pitcher of water In a room, and in a few 
hours it will have absorbed nearly all the respired 
and perapired gases in the room, the air of which will 
have become purer, but the water utterly filthy. The. 
colder the water is, the greater the capacity to con¬ 
tain these gases. At ordinary temperatures a pail of 
water will contain a pint of carbonic acid gas, and 
several pints of ammonia. The capacity is nearly 
double by reducing the water to the temperature of 
ice. Hence, water kept in the room awhile, is always 
unfit for use. For the same reason the water from a 
pump should always be pumped out in the morning 
before any of it is used. Impure water is more in¬ 
jurious than impure air. 
If the spring puts forth no blossoms, in summer 
there will be no beauty, and in autumn no fruit. 
So, if youth be trifled away without improve¬ 
ment, ripe years will be contemptible, and old age 
miserable. 
Skaters are, by a recent Yankee invention, to be 
made comfortable. A “warm skate” has been in 
vented. In a slot in the skate-stock is inserted a 
square bit of soapstone, made red-hot in the fire. 
It retains warmth for some hours, and keeps the 
skater’s foot in a comfortable condition—a sort of 
portable stove, which is handy and effective. 
Who is wise? He that is teachable. Who is 
mighty ? He that conquers himself. Who is rich ? 
He that is contented. Who is honored ? He that 
honoreth others. 
