tvttmt. 
flU 
THE HERDSMAN’S SONG 
A Run Throubh Europe. By Ebastus C. Benedict. 
Third Edition. [ 12 mo.—pp. 552.] New York: A. S. 
Barnes & Co. 
“ o that mine enemy woald write a book!" might 
now almost as pithily be rendered "0 that mine enemy 
would go at)road!" The writing of the book would fol¬ 
low a a a very natural consequence, and thus the heart's 
prayer be fully answered. Indeed, the only snre way 
now to get your enemy, or any other unfortnnate indi¬ 
vidual, to become a maker of books, is to persuade him 
to travel. To see one’s ramblings and one’s self repro¬ 
duced between the staid looking covers of a twelve mo., 
we suspect must be pleasant. And it doesn't lessen the 
pleasure to know that you went away with no thought of 
this —came back with no thought of it—and only suc¬ 
cumbed to the desire of yonr very appreciative publisher 
and of the interested public; the latter most anxious to 
know, of course, whether your appetite was good during 
your absence, how many backsheesh you gave to the Arab 
gnides at the pyramids, and what your infallibly correct 
opinion was concerning that much disputed point, viz.— 
the hour the Pope dines. 
The title of the present volume suggests its character, 
It is a desultory account of hasty journeying, wherein 
much ground is gone over and much of interest seen. 
Its glimpses of noteworthy places are tolerably vivid, 
but for the most part they are only glimpses, and there¬ 
fore not calculated to greatly benefit those wno read 
travels because thoy themselves must stay at home. The 
book would be quite as entertaining to persons who have 
seen what it alludes to. as to the lesB fortunate reader, 
serving the former as a faint photograph of things once 
looked upon. A fault common to most sketches of travel 
is the prominence of the author’s self. Ego creeps too 
often into what Ego has seen. The fanlt is not as marked 
in this instance, but in a measure It exists. Less space 
devoted to telling just bow and why the writer did cer¬ 
tain things, and more devoted to graphic description, 
would add new interest to all snch volumes. Sold by 
Darrow. 
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The Natural Wealth of California. By Titus Fby 
Cronise. San Francisco: II. II. Bancroft & Co. 18(58. 
This is the general title of an imposing look) ng volnnie 
of nearly seven hundred pages, detailing the history and 
enumerating the resources of the Golden State. It is di¬ 
vided into thirteen sections, comprising the eatly history, 
geography, topography, scenery, climate, agricultural and 
commercial products, geology, zoology, botany, mineral¬ 
ogy, mines, mining processes, manufactures, steamship 
lines, railroads, commerce, Immigration, population, so¬ 
ciety, educational institutions and literature, together 
with a detailed description of each county, its cities, 
towns, agricultural advantages, mineral resources and 
varied productions. The work is the result of the com¬ 
bined labors of several gentlemen during many months, 
and is believed to be one of the most complete works of 
the kind ever issued from, the American press. The great 
extent of territory embraced in California, its varied pro¬ 
ductions and present and prospective greatness, commer¬ 
cially and otherwise, make it one of the most interesting 
States in the American Union, rendering the present vol¬ 
ume one of great value to the general public. It is print¬ 
ed on clear white paper, and in a style of typography 
rarely excelled. 
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The Servants of the Stomach. By Jean Mach, Au¬ 
thor of “The History of a Mouthful of Bread,” “ Home 
Fairy Talcs," etc., etc. Reprinted from the Loudon 
Tranrlation, Revised and Corrected. [12mo.—pp. 311.] 
New York: Harper & Brothers. 
Though complete in themselves, "The History of a 
Mouthful of Bread" and the present volume form part 
of a “ Scries of Letters to a Child on the Life of Man and 
Animals,” each of which in its turn embraces a higher 
and more extended range of natural history. The one 
first mentioned begins the series. The present continues 
it, and traces man’s exquisite structure by taking the 
stomach as the center of the vital system and carefully 
reviewing the greater number of its band of servants 
and learning the various duties assigned to each “The 
propor study of mankind is man,” and that study cannot 
be commenced too early These books of M. Mach ena¬ 
ble the youngest reader to take up the study nnderstand- 
ingly. Sold by Dewey. 
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Linda Tresskl, A Tale. By the Author of “ Nina Bul- 
atka, the Story of a Maiden of Prague.” First issued 
in America in Littell’e Living Age. Boston: Littell 
& Gay. 
All for GrEed. A Novel. By the Baroness Bi.aze db 
Bury. First issued in America in Littcll’s Living Age. 
Boston: Littell & Gay, 
Here are two of the “Tales of the Living Age," re¬ 
produced iu pamphlets of 80 and 93 pages, respectively. 
“Linda Tressel" Is an interesting though almost pain¬ 
ful little story, the scene of which is In the quaint old 
city of Nuremburg. The heroine would not wed as a 
vigorous minded aunt desired, and therefore suffered 
persecution until nature gave way under it. " All for 
Greed" is a hit of French narrative, pleasantly told. 
The Corner Houses; Or, Kindness Wins. And Other 
Tales. [10mo.—pp. 308.] Boston: Henry Hoyt. 
Three stories for children make up this showy volume, 
—“ The Corner Houses“ Humphrey Pace and his wife 
Hannah;” and “’Mancipation Book." The first. Is Ger¬ 
man in its location and character, the town where the 
comer houses were beiug on the bank of the Rhine; the 
second is English; and the third tells of life npon one of 
the West Indian islauds. Ail are interestingly narrated. 
Mr. Hoyt deserves commendation for his efforts to gratify 
the young readers. 
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The Prodioal Son. By the Rev. W. Morley Phnshon, 
M. A. With a Preface to the American Edition, by Rev. 
Gilbert Haven, Editor of Zion’s Herald. Boston : 
Roberts Brothers. 
Four Bermons on one of our Saviour’s most suggestive- 
parables comprise this well printed pamphlet of 90 pages. 
They appeal earnestly to the consciousness of men, their 
language being direct, simple, searching. Their story is 
the old, old story of the sinner’s return, but brought out 
with a new fervor, and its lessons enforced with a vehe¬ 
mence that should compel the attention of all hearts. 
J.= 20 
2. The tinkling bell gives muBic too, yo ho1 
As up the mountain side we go, 
Yo ho, yo ho, yo ho t 
And singing, shouting, free from all care, 
Wo revel in the morning’s cool air; 
The echoing woods repeat the sounds, 
From hill to hill the echo bounds, 
Yo ho, yo ho, yo ho! 
iltc Im’do. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
MONTREAL, AND ENVIRONS.—No. 3. 
3. With joy the silken-eoated cows, yo ho! 
The leaflets crop from wayside boughs, 
rrrs rrrj 
. My dog before us runs in glee, yo ho ! 
The leaflets crop from wayside bemghs, And joins the general jubilee, 
Yo no, yo ho, yo ho! Vo ho, vo ho, yo ho . 
And up and onward then as we go, And while he wanders far and then near, 
In cheerful tones they merrily low ; His merry bark rings loudly and elm 
The echoing woods repeat the sounds. The echoing woods repeat the sound 
From hill to hill the echo bounds. From hill to hill the echo bounds, 
Yo ho, yo ho, yo ho ! Yo ho, yo ho, 3 
[From the Song Garden. Second Book, published by Mason Brothers. 
And while lie wanders far and then near, 
His merry bark rings loudly and clear; 
The echoing woods repeat the sounds, 
From hill to hill the echo bounds, 
Yo ho, yo ho, yo ho J 
THE ANGEL’S GIFT. 
Out amoug the sunny meadows 
With the sunshine in her hair, 
Binding into sheaves the shadows 
That arc falling here and there— 
Singing through the dusky valleys, 
Chasing echoes up and down, 
Goes the little maiden Lucy, 
With her locks of shadowy brown. 
Four sweet Summer-times have risen 
From the green lap of the Spring, 
And the beauty of their garments 
Has been over everything; 
Four times have the Autumn meadows 
Been with gold«n fruitage rife, 
Since the angels left her lying 
'Neath the pearly gate of life. 
Down and down the sunny future 
Lies the way that she must tread, 
Very fair It is and pleasant, 
With the sunshine over head; 
May the white hands of the angels 
Guide her gently where the light 
Reaches to the far-off glory 
That Is never dim with night! 
511 
I: 
ONLY ONE STITCH AT 
TIME. 
AROUND THE MOUNTAIN. 
Montreal is not only indebted to the acclivity 
rising like a beautiful back-ground behind it, for its 
name, but also for one of the finest drives in the 
world. A carriage road splendidly macadamized 
runs around the base of Mount Royal, aflording a 
drive of nine miles, and Opens up to view as lovely 
landscape scenery as the sun ever shines upon. 
Going around the Mountain to the northward of it, 
the fertile valley of the Ottawa reaches aw 3 y on your 
right, a picture of pastoral beauty which cannot fail 
to charm the eye of the most indifferent beholder. 
Far as you can see it stretches away, miles in width, 
with the river marking its center like a silver thread, 
does not the center of each span sink at once, as any 
other we are accustomed to would, thus seemingly 
unsupported? The philosophy is simple. These 
iron cross pieces to which the side plates are bolted, 
and which in turn are bolted to those of the top, act 
as braces, and the plates servo to brace one another. 
The side plates are half an inch thick at the ends of 
each span, and lessen to a quarter at the center; 
while the top, or roof plates, are thinnest at the 
ends, and increase in thickness as they approach the 
center. The roof is not arched, and the tube is 
therefore nearly square. Its strength consists In 
the firmness of jointing and bolting the different 
pieces of iron, and in the exact parallel relations of 
the sides. Whenever the sides become so strained 
that they are not perfectly parallel, the immenBe 
mass will be unsafe, and unless speedily remedied 
must soon go down. 
If yon are a privileged visitor you can ascend to 
the roof, and from that airy platform obtain a view 
surpassingly beautiful. Nearly ninety feet beneath 
Yo ho, yo ho, yo ho 5 “ Qg dear, t shall never get thi 6 ruffle done," said 
Second Book, published by Mason Brothers. Martha to her mother, as she sat by her side doing 
- - 1 her “ stint,” as it was called. The child kept leav- 
LEARN A TRADE. ing off her work to look out of the window down 
_ into the orchard, where she wished to be at play. 
Tub value of learning a trade becomes more and Thus she used up her time, and then fretted because 
more certain every day. Scarcely a week passes but she waB so long at her work, and said it would never 
some young man is asking us to point out a field of be done. 
labor for him. With good attainments, perhaps, or 
an insatiable desire to be at work at something 
whereby an honest penny may be turned, he finds 
himself landed as it were at the first ebb of the tide. 
The slightest recession of the waters deposits him on 
the shore among the weeds of idleness, and unwhole¬ 
some vapors becloud his mind. There is scarcely a 
mau in business but has an experience like ours; his 
young friends continually envying him the privilege 
of working iu a well-defined field, and wishing that 
like him they had something to strike at. 
These young men are generally afflicted with the dis¬ 
ease of ambition. They want to be something more 
than common, and mistaking often their desires for 
the ability to satisfy them, they flatter themselves 
that they are fit for something better than the com- 
“ Only one stitch at a time, Martha," said her 
mother; “ one stitch at a time, without leaving off, 
and your stint will be done, for it is not a long one. 
Remember, i" was by one step at a time that you 
learned to walk; by one letter at a time that you 
learned to read; by one stroke at a time that you 
learned to write." 
The words had power over the child’s mind, and 
the lesson which she learned that day by her moth¬ 
er's side she never forgot. The words still have 
weight with her, although very many years have 
passed 6 ince then. 
“ One stitch at a time, one step at a time, one 
letter at a time, one stroke at a time! 0 , mother, 
how funny!" said Martha. “ And it is by one stone 
at a time that man builds the wall, and by one weed 
and its highly cultivated farms making a very gar- y0 u roll the swift waters of the St. Lawrence, glid- 
den of it all, ing down to kiss the tempting banks of the lovely 
The return portion of the drive is even more Helens, a mile below; a few miles above foam 
beautiful; because the scenery Is more diversified, the well remembered rapid's of Lachine, with the 
Then off at your right the broad 8 t. Lawrence flows village bearing the same muBical appellation sleep- 
majestically along, save where, only a few miles - m g a t their foot; and stretching away on the left- 
above, you see it dashing madly over the rocks past hand shore is the great city, its many glistening 
mon run of humanity. Their great fault Is in try- at a time the boy weeds the garden." And the little 
The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns- 
with Explanatory anil Glossarial Notes, and A Life or 
the Author. By James Currie, M. D, [12mo.—pp. 
612.] New York: D. Appleton & (Jo. 
Number three of the Popular Editiou of the Standard 
Poets is here given, In illuminated paper cover, from 
which quite a fair portrait of Burns looks out. The 
foot-notes, explanatory of Scottish diulect and allusions 
are a valuable feature ; and the Poet’s life, though some¬ 
what abridged from Dr. Currie, is complete and full of 
interest. For sale by Scrantom & Wetmore. 
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The Black. Dwarf and A Legend of Montrose. By 
Sir Walter Scott, Bart, [pirno.— pp. 151.] New York: 
D. Appleton & Co. 
The Bride of Lammeumoor. A Romance. BySirWAL 
ter Scott, Bart. [12mo,—pp. 131.] New York : D. Ap¬ 
pleton & Co. 
Numbers eight aud uiue of the Waverley Novels in the 
beet cheap edition ever published in this country are here 
given. Sold by Scrantom & Wetmore. 
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The Farmer He Must Feed Them All. Written by 
C. G. C, eland. Composed by Bernard Covert, Au¬ 
thor of " The Sword of Bunker Hill,” etc. Marshall, 
Mich.: J. S. White & Co. 
Tins ballad is a tit one for farmers’ daughters to sing. 
Though not as good as some other of Mr. Covert’s com¬ 
positions, it is quite pleasing. 
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The Heart of Mid-Lothian. A Romance, By Sir 
Walter Scott, Bart. [12mo.—pp. 231.] New York: 
U . Appleton <& Co. 
One of Scott’s best known romances this is, produced 
■ in the very excellent cheap edition of the Appletons, It 
is well printed, on good paper. Sold by Scrantom «fc 
. Wethouk. 
the Indian village of Lachine; and the distance g 
between you aud the river Is dotted with tasty resi- t 
deuces, suburban out-growths, and now and then , 
the pretentious structure of some Catholic school. 
Looking from this point like a dark, narrow path¬ 
way, the celebrated Victoria Bridge is seen span¬ 
ning the waters scarcely quieted after their fearful . 
plunges at Lachine, and claiming your attention oe 
the next, and perhaps the greatest, place of interest 
to be visited. 
I do not know that Montreal hackmen are more 
given to extortion than those of other cities,—but 
they have an ingenious way of swindling the inex¬ 
perienced visitor on this drive. The city regula- . 
tiona explicitly state what they shall receive for ! 
going around the Mountain, the 6 nm varying ac- 1 
cording to the kind of conveyance you have. 1 
“ Around the Mountain ” means the entire nine , 
miles’ drive. Now the Mountain is in a manner 
divided in two parts, with a road between, and of 
this circumstance your Jehu makes good use. Ar¬ 
rived where the w short cut” branches off, which is 
just a trifle over half way around, he turns his 
horses’ heads that way; but gravely informs you 
that the finest views are to be obtained by goiug 
around the other mountain , and he will take you 
thither for so much extra. If you are not posted, 
you submit to the exaction. If you are, you firmly 
declare that when you engaged him to take you 
“ around the Mountain" you meant the entire 
thing, and he knew it, and unless he fills the con¬ 
tract you will not pay him a shilling. When he 
finds you read up In hack restrictions he will sub¬ 
side, with a bad grace, all the while protesting that 
yon are too bad to make him suffer for your misun¬ 
derstanding ! 
THE VICTOBLA BRIDGE. 
To reach it you drive down alongside the docks, 
past much of the shipping lying thereat, to Point 
St. Charles. This is the northern terminus of the 
Bridge, and near here are located the very extensive 
workshops of the Grand Trunk Railway. From the 
Point a broad aud substantial embankment makes 
out into the river to the distance of several hundred 
feet, faced with copings of stone, and terminating 
In a massive abutment of great length, which sup¬ 
ports two arches composed of enormous blocks of 
cut limestone. Here commences the Bridge proper 
—an iron tube that is the engineering wonder of 
the age. 
The tube is 6,644 feet in length, and Is supported 
by 24 piers of heaviest masonry, its central spun 
is 352 feet long, the others but 258 feet; while the 
former is 38 and the end spans 19 feet in height. 
The width is 16 feet; the central span 02 feet above 
low water mark. Robert Stephenson's genius 
planned the work, and as one of the buildiug engi¬ 
neers he supervised its construction for the con¬ 
tractors, Messrs. Peto, Brasbey & Betts. 
Being furnished with the necessary permit from 
Mr. Brtdqbs, the obliging Managing Director of 
the G, T, Railway, you may walk half way through 
the wonderful tube, to the breathing place midway 
between the two central piers. In such a measure¬ 
ment by one’s limbs the length of the structure will 
be duly appreciated. A Bingle railway track runs 
through, which is supplied with a third rail in order 
to accommodate both the broad and narrow guage 
ears which traverse it; and a plank walk is laid 
alongside, with plenty of leeway in case a train be 
met. The Bridge Keeper will accompany you, and 
will give many interesting data relative to construc¬ 
tion, principles thereof, <fcc. lie will show yoa the 
identical rivet which was driven home by the Prince 
of Wales, and called the finishing stroke of the 
whole fabric, but, will add that nearly ten thousand 
bolts have been driven since, Should you wish to 
know just the number required to fasten together 
the ponderous uia 6 s of iron plates which make np 
the tube, you have only to multiply 78,000 by 34, 
aud add 100 , 000 , the number in the central span. 
There you have it 
i From a merely outsory glance at the construction 
; of the Bridge, you wonder how the long spans sus- 
; tain their own weight. There is an utter lack of all 
the manifold contrivances for braciog; why, then, 
ing to achieve manhood without serving an appren¬ 
ticeship to it, and they find themselves, when they 
should be prepared for their firework, wondering 
what it will be, and fretting because it doesn’t de¬ 
clare itself, and nine cases out of ten waiting in 
vain for such a call, go Into politics, agencies, itc. 
The great remedy for all this is a trade thoroughly _____ 0 ,-- „ 
spires and line-lookmg bu mgs presenting a “ ag ‘ i eftrQe d. The time between school and twenty-one The other kept on picking, and before her siBtor’a 
nifleent panorama. A. dr t. mhnnW hp STl(int at the car oenter’s bench, in a ma- basket was half full, hers was full of the ripe, red 
——-—- chine shop or at an anvil, ao that when the young berries. 
^ g* i <• 1 1 man commences Mb battle with life in any vocation One berry at a time, without leaving off, and she 
^ $ A X 0 V llV V $ * he can, if worsted at his first attempt, turn to his was ready to carry her well-filled basket into the 
_trade with confidence that his skilled labor will at house, receive her mother’s smile, and join the other 
~ least procure him a living, aud perhaps a compe- children at their play; while her sister not only lost 
RAILROAD PROFITS. tence. Time frittered away iu trying to discover half her playtime, but madq herself unhappy by her 
- desirable roads to success, foots np a considerable idleness and discontent. 
In the June number of Hours at Home some total on the loss side of the balance sheet. It is by carrying one straw at a time that the bird 
valuable faets and figures in regard to railroads -^ ■« ♦ «♦ - builds her nest, by one tiny drop of honey at a time 
were stated. In them it Is clearly shown that NECESSARY SLEEP. the bee fills her hive, by one grain at a time the ants 
whatever in special cases may have been the loss - build their houses, and as the wise man says, Prov. 
arising to individuals from railroads, their aggre- Thebe is no fact more clearly established in the m ., 25, “prepare their meat," or food, “in the 
gate value to the whole country immensely ex- physiology thau this, that the brain expands its en- summer." 
coeds their cost. ergies and Itself during the hours of wakefulness, Wifi yon be less wise, my young friends, and neg- 
In 1829 but three miles of railway existed in the and that these are recuperated during sleep; if the lect to lay up in childhood, one at a time, gems of 
United States. To-day there are 38,500 miles, which, recuperation does not equal the expenditure, the knowledge and truth to brighten your riper days?— 
with their equipment and rolling stock, have ab- brain withers — this is insanity. Thus it is, that in Child’s Paper. 
Borbed, in cost, $1,700,000,000. These roads, which, early English history, persons who were condemned -- 
if extended in a straight fine, would go round the to death by being prevented from sleeping always GOOD POR ONE POUND. 
globe more than one and a half times, employ 8,000 died raving maniacs; thus it is, also, that those who _ 
engines, 135,000 ears — enough if placed in a row to are starved to death become insane; the brain la not j T - g gai( j a dockyard of England a ship of 
reach from New York to Chicago; carry anunally nourished, and they cannot sleep. The practical many thousand tons was once built, and a large 
about 145 , 000,000 passengers, or more than four inferences are these: multitude had assembled to witness the launching, 
times the entire population of the country, men, 1. Those who dojnoBt brain work, those who think The wedges were knocked away but the immense 
women and children; move yearly over 54,000,000 most, require most sleep. mass remained motionless. Before a feeling of 
tons freight, and give subsistence to a number of 3. That time saved from necessary sleep is infalli- disappointment began to manifest itself a little boy 
people greater than the aggregate of all the soldiers bly destructive to mind, body and estate. ran ( 0rwar d and commenced pushing against the side 
in the Confederate service during the great insur- 3* Give yourself, your cMldren, your servants 0 f the vessel. His efforts excited the ridiculeof the 
rectlon. % gl ve a11 that are under you, the fullest amount of & p ectators . buthe turned indignantly to wards them, 
On a common road, wheat would consume its own sleep they will take, compelling them to retire at ^ uj can p U8 b a pound," and continued his 
value if carried three hundred and fifty miles. In some regular hour, and to rise the moment they exertic | n6i They were all that was needed to over- 
other words, it would be worthless at that distance wake; and within a fortnight, nature, with almost come ^e friction ; and soon the huge ship yielded 
from market, while by rail it can be carried three the regularity of the sun, will unloose the bands of the p re8Sure , gracefully gliding into the waves. 
fingers now passed nimbly over the rutile she was 
hemming, and before she was aware, the work was 
done. 
I once saw two little girls sent into the garden by 
their mother to pick strawberries. The one kept 
fretting and leaving off to look into the field where 
the children were playing, whom she wished to join. 
The other kept on picking, and before her siBter’s 
basket was half full, hers was full of the ripe, red 
berries. 
One berry at a time, without leaving off, and she 
was ready to carry her well-filled basket into the 
house, receive her mother’s smile, and join the other 
children at their play; while her sister not only lost 
half her playtime, but madq herself unhappy by her 
idleness and discontent. 
It is by carrying one straw at a time that the bird 
builds her nest, by one tiny drop of honey at a time 
the bee fills her hive, by one grain at a time the ants 
build their houses, and as the wise man says, Prov. 
xxx., 25, “prepare their meat," or food, “in the 
summer." 
Will you be less wise, my young friends, and neg¬ 
lect lo lay up in childhood, one at a time, gems of 
knowledge and truth to brighten your riper days ?— 
Childs Paper. 
GOOD FOR ONE POUND. 
It is said that ia a dockyard of England a ship of 
many thousand tons was once built, and a large 
multitude had assembled to witness the launching. 
The wedges were knocked away but the immense 
mass remained motionless. Before a feeling of 
disappointment began to manifest itself a little boy 
ran forward and commenced pushing against the side 
of the vessel. His efforts excited the ridicule of the 
give all that are under you, the fullest amount of gpectatore . but he turned indignantly towards them, 
sleep they wifi take, compelling them to retire at ^ „ Ican pueh a potm d," and continued his 
some regular hour, and to rise the moment they exertiong They were aU that was needed to over¬ 
wake; and within a fortnight, nature, with almost c0ffie friction . ftad 800n the huge ship yielded 
thousand miles at a profit. To state the matter dif¬ 
ferently, railroads multiply by ten the distance from 
any grain market at which its wheat may be raised. 
The same remarks apply with evident variations to 
other productions. 
In this state the original builders of the railroads 
seem on the whole to have made little by them. 
The returns of railways in the State of New York 
for the years 1864, 1865 and 1806, are instructive 
in this as well as in other respects. In 1864 the 
gross receipts were $39,597,520, from which $5,443,- 
384 were paid to the stockholders in dividends, being 
about three and a half per cent, on $154,500,000, the 
amount of capital invested. In 1865, while the 
gross receipts increased to $46,568,411, nearly seven 
millions, the dividends paid, decreased to $4,534,786 
— about $800,000, or nearly 15 per cent, on the pre¬ 
ceding year, yielding to the stockholders only about 
three per cent, on the capital stock. 
In 1866, the gross receipts went up to $49,229,228, 
and the dividends paid sank to $4,093,618. 
A very remarkable change In the profits of Eng¬ 
lish railroads is sketched as follows: 
Before the consolidations the English roads di¬ 
vided from eight to twelve per cent. — some even 
more — upon their capital stock. Last year the nine 
colossal companies which have parcelled out all 
England among themselves, * * * having an 
aggregate length of railway line of 7,456 miles — 
enough to traverse the whole length of the little 
island eighteen times—with a capital reaching the 
enormous sum of $1,158,000,000, out of their largely 
increased gross receipts only distributed to their 
victimized stockholders au average of one and a 
quarter per cent. 
.. . .. 
Science in War.—S cience is constantly bringing 
new powers to aid the work of slaughter. General 
Napier had iu Abyssinia an apparatus for employing 
the magnesium fight on a grand scale. If the Abys- 
sinians had made a night attack on the British, as 
it is stated King Theodore advised his captains to 
do, a bewildering blaze of fight would have been 
thrown into their eyes at the distance of six hundred 
yardB, and the British, being In sInflow, would have 
shot down their enemies as easily as a hunter shoots 
the deer whose eyes are made lustrous by the flam¬ 
ing torch. “It is,” says the Spectator, “hardly 
war, such a contest; but it is bettor that, civilization 
should be armed than that barbarism should be.” 
Bleep the moment enough repose has been secured 
tor the wants of the system. This is the only safe 
and sufficient rule; and as to the question how 
much sleep any one requires, each must he a rule to 
himself. Nature will never fail to write it out to 
the observer under the regulations just given. 
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A USEFUL TREE. 
In China there grows a tree known as the grease 
tree. It is said that large forests of this vegetable 
lubricant are to be found there, and they form the 
source of a considerable local traffic. This tree not 
very long ago was imported into India, and it is said 
that the experiment of cultivating it there has prov¬ 
ed quite successful. In the Punjaub and north¬ 
western provinces generally it grows as rapidly and 
a 6 vigorously as in its native soil, aud there are 
already thousands of trees on the government 
plantations, yielding tons of seed, admirably adapted 
to a variety of commercial purposes. 
Dr. Jameson, a chemist in the Punjaub, has 
prepared hundred weights of grease from this 
particular tree, and has forwarded on trial a portion 
of it to the Punjaub railway, to have its qualities 
tested in a practical manner, as lubricating material 
for those parts of the machinery constantly exposed 
to friction. The grease thus obtained forms au 
excellent tallow, burning with a clear, brilliant, and, 
what is intinitely more to the purpose, a white light, 
and at the same time emitting not a trace of any 
unpleasant odor, or of the ordinary disagreeable 
accompaniments of combustion—smoke. 
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Antidote for Strychnia. —An interesting scien¬ 
tific discovery is mentioned in one of the Paris jour¬ 
nals. The Calabar bean is found to be an antidote 
to strychnia. The Hitter destroys by spasmodic con¬ 
traction. The first taken alone paralyzes, aud thus 
directly neutralizes the action of strychnia, if given 
after that poison. The bean has been found useful 
in cases of lockjaw. 
-- 
Hkkr Bauer, a German engineer, has invented a 
new machine for submarine locomotion. The Ad¬ 
miralty of the Bund has appointed a committee for 
exarning and reporting on its merits, it has long 
been a favorite idea with the Germans that they 
would one day be able to compensate for their 
weakness on the surface of the water by the aid of 
a fleet that is to not exactly sail but steam below it. 
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So many a great and noble cause standB motionless, 
when perhaps the effort* of a child would have over¬ 
come the obstacles that hinder it* progress. A 
single grain will turn a nicely balanced scale. A 
single word or action, or glance of the eye, may be 
fraught with inestimable consequences. We cannot 
be the judges of the amount of onr influence. We 
know not how much it accomplishes. We cannot 
be aware through what a wide circle It may spread. 
-- 
the little drawer. 
“Where did you get your orderly habits?” I 
asked of a lady who never had to waste a moment in 
hunting for things out of their place. 
“When I was four years old,” she answered, 
“ mother gave me a little drawer to put my clothes 
in. ‘ Make it your business, my dear eMld,’ said she, 
«t,o keep that drawer neat and tidy. Let me never 
find it in disorder.’" 
“ Once she sent, for me to come home from a party 
of little girls, in order to put away a pair of stockings 
carelessly left on the floor; and I used sometimes to 
think mother was hard on me; but now I see I owe 
my good habits to the care 1 was made to take of 
that little drawer when I was four years old.” 
Yon see how early habits are formed. It is never 
too soon to begin a good one.— Child's Paper. 
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“ Playing Like a Christian.”— I heard of two 
little children, a boy aud a girl, who used to play a 
great deal together. They both became converted. 
One day the boy came to his mother, and said, 
“ Mother, I know that Emma is a Christian." 
“ What makes you think so, my child ?” 
“ Because, mother, she plays like a Christian.” 
“Plays like a Christian?" said the mother; the 
expression sounded a little odd. 
“ Yes,” replied the child, “ if yon take everything 
she’s got, she don’t get angry. Before, Bhe was sel¬ 
fish ; and if she didn’t have everything her own way, 
she would say, 1 1 won’t play with you; you are an 
ugly little boy.’” , 
Children should strive more earnestly to cnlti- | 
vate thoughtfulness. “ I didn’t think,” Is the ex- <4j 
ense we often hear for wrong doing. It is never a P 
very good excuse. You cau avoid many careless 
actions by a little thought. Do nothing without jL 
the mental question, “Is this right?" Jr* 
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