the oi polloi, as the boats shoot ahead. 
And oh! the cheering that they get in the 
region of the “ Plough !” There is a curve 
there, coining toward which brave Trinity 
One, by the smartness of the little coxswain 
in specs, gains several feet. He knows it, 
but is too earnest to hear the applause that 
deafens the very air, — “ Good for your glass 
eyes 1” “ You shall eat gold chops for that 
to-night! ’’ But he hears them not, those 
excited babblers, so many of whom had 
“ gold and chops ” depending upon the 
Trinity One. 
But now it is all clear pulling to the bridge. 
Jehu! what a sight it is! Away! away 1 
boat after boat! the“ Pigs” first—but Trinity 
hard on their track—and Trinity Three row- 
arms thereon emblazoned, from the fore of 
the Johnians, and up goes the Golden Lion 
with his three crowns on a dark blue field, 
the flag of Trinity, and the coxswain smiles 
in his glasses, and the “ delicate babies ” 
spring ashore, victors 1 
are probably the cheapest to be found in 
the world, fifty packets, containing 3,500 
matches, selling for thirty-five kreutzers, 
being at about the rate of two hundred and 
fitly for one of our cents. 
The ordinary sulphur match was first 
made, and its ignition was secured by fric¬ 
tion with tiie cork of a bottle containing 
phosphorus, after rubbing it against the 
sides thereof. But the use of this fire-bottle, 
as it was termed, was dangerous, and phos¬ 
phorus was abandoned as a means of pro¬ 
curing a light. Chemists then devoted their 
attention to the preparation of matches 
l ipped with various mixtures, of which chlo¬ 
rate of potassa formed the chief constituent; 
the best of these were known as Eupyrion. 
quired by Government amount to the pretty S 
sum of $1,440 per day. Verily, match rnak- J 
ing is an extensive business, and matches ,6 
are good! > 5 ] 
UNIVERSITY BOAT RACES IN 
ENGLAND. 
VARIETY AND BEAUTY OF LIFE 
In an article in Household Words there 
are, the following very true remarks upon the 
variety and beauty of life: 
Life lias for an observer such a quick suc¬ 
cession of amusing adventures, that - it is 
almost inconceivable that he should ever 
feel (lull or weary of it, No one day resem¬ 
bles another. Every hour, every minute 
opens new stores to our experience,and new 
excitements to our curiosity. We are always 
on the eve and morrow of some surprising 
event. Like the moth, we are forever 
flying towards the star—hut with this 
difference, that we attain it; and if 
sometimes we find the. halo we fancied 
a glory is but some deceivmg mist, at 
least we have learned a lesson. 
If we look upon life merely as hum¬ 
ble students, we shall not feel any 
great bitterness at such disappoint¬ 
ments. it is only when WO hug mu' 
ignorance to our hearts, when we are 
and deserve to be miserable — when 
we embrace the cloud, that we lose flic 
goodness. But if we open the eyes of 
the mind, and determine to be neither 
k wantonly stupid nor inattentive, an 
enchanted world begins to rise from 
jpi chaos. The aspect of the room in 
jEjj which wo sit grows lively with a tliou- 
fH sand unsuspected curiosities. We see 
HI that the most ordinary personis invest- 
||! ed with some noticeable characteristic. 
HH If we deign to look out for five, pleasant 
III minutes at any common-place thing, 
P| we become aware of its peculiar bnm- 
B ty; and there is not a bird that wings 
through the air, nor a flower that hlos- 
Spv x , soms in flic garden, nor an insect that 
crawls in the depth of the earth, nor 
( V'vN * 1 
xC; a fish that swims in the water, but lias 
I its own singular and delightful story. 
HOW MATCHES ARE MADE, 
BY JANUARY SEARLE 
There is not in all England a more ex¬ 
citing sport than ft good boat race on the 
Cam. The University boat races come off 
in the month of May, beginning at seven 
o’clock in the evening; and May is a month 
worth knowing in that climate. She is the 
queen of the twelve sisters,— if some of them 
are not brothers, by the way,— and her reign 
is marked by genial skies, and a sunny, 
green earth, starred all over, like an¬ 
other firmament, with flowers. The 
evenings are soft and balmy, aud there 
is always a long twilight, suggesting a 
dim, religious avenue, shadowy and 
monastic, and leading the weary days¬ 
man to the great inn of the night, and 
the strange country of the stars. Any 
way, the boatsmen and the Cambridge 
people love it, and lose not a bit of it. 
The racing boats take their station 
at the further end of the ground, and 
pull towards Cambridge, ending at the 
Bridge. The stupid river winds and 
turns and twists in many parts along 
the racing ground, and then comes the 
trial of skill with the steersmen. There 
is an inn called “ The Plough” in the ' ||p 
middle of the course, and here the foot- ® 
passengers, or those who have driven ip 
to the spot, usually rendezvous, as it fil 
commands a fine view. All are eager ||| 
to catch the first boat, after the gun ||| 
booms, which means “off." Hereaway j ||| 
at last come the " pigs” as the coarse j 1|| 
gownsmen call them—the conquerors ||| 
of Trinity — the proud St. John’s men 11| 
Who invented matches — of the lucifer 
kind—we have not been able to learn. But 
whatever his name or nativity, he was a 
genuine philanthropist, and deserves fame 
and fortune. We say deserves, not deserved, 
because he must he living yet,, as his inven¬ 
tion dates back only a few years, compara¬ 
tively. Although to-day there is probably 
THE BANDS OF ORION, 
fHE MANTJFACTUJR,fC OB 1 JMATCHES 
heaven. But no other domestic article in such universal The most i 
as the crowd use as the match, people of middle age can making are r< 
’rinity. How well remember when it was very little known tion. Machii 
they all catch indeed; and really excellent matches have course differ 
, feather of a been manufactured only within the last score manufactory 
Look out you of years. for the ingei: 
\ ,m n: H| de, The lucifer match is the offspring of phos- pleteness of i 
Go it, I rin- phorus, — that most singular substance ever chines in us< 
win! ’iou 11 known to chemists. Phosphorus was dis- delivering of 
fom the shore covered somewhere about the year 1009, by pine plank is 
is to the goal! one Brandt, a bankrupt merchant of Ham- of two and c 
esh on fi re by burg, who turned alchemist in hope of re- go into the 
is to put the trieving his fortunes. In searching for the every stroke c 
oar, and alto- philosopher's stone, or fool’s stone, as the them into slai 
3 sticks bend, ideal something has been not inaptly styled, two hundred 
>f light along he blundered on phosphorus, which was for ries them to 
is alive. No a long time considered as of great value, and which they a 
the crowd is thought to possess wonderful properties. It front of the c 
, strong pulls, was called the “ son of Satan,” and out of taken up by a 
a length of the this cognomen, we suppose, grew the dcsig- packing room 
the universal nation “ lucifer,” as applied to matches. At this fai 
'all, Trinity! When the more practical system of prepar- matches arc i. 
and ere the ing phosphorus was discovered, it was much 000 feet, of the 
leers’ mouths, reduced in price, and from being regarded with 400,000 
fide beams of as merely a curiosity, was applied to useful hundred barn 
who bad so purposes. of phoephoru 
own, and the About ilic year 1835 the present lucifer day, and threi 
match appeared. It is tipped with phosplio- The. little pap 
nd long, and rus, made into a paste with glue, and colored establishment 
l tremendous, with red lead or some other substance. Its contrived, wh 
of “ Oh, well manufacture is really one of the great indus- wide us the hi 
1 Hurrah for tries of our time, employing over half a mil- passes out pi 
” God bless lion of workmen. It is estimated that in covers by a s 
liese acclaims Europe alone 2,000,000,000 of matches arc pounds of the 
le, down goes used daily. The best, European made matches and four tons 
red flag and arc produce ’ in Germany. At Vienna they larger boxes, 
SANDWICHES, 
Our births and our deaths are but changes 
in the great life we are living—the life of 
immortality. 
“ 1 have very little respect for the ties of 
this world,” as the chap said when the rope 
was put around his neck. 
The minister who divides his discourses 
into too many heads will find it difficult to 
procure attentive ears for all of them. 
“ Pa” said a little friend of ours, “ what’s 
the use of giving our little pigs so much milk ? 
They make hogs of themselves.” Pa walked 
away. 
A retired schoolmaster excuses his 
passion for angling by saying that from con¬ 
stant habit, he never feels quite himself unless 
he is handling the rod. 
The question why printers do not succeed 
as well as brewers js thus answered:—Be¬ 
cause printers work for the head, and brewers 
for the stomach—and where twenty men 
have stomachs, but one lias brains. 
