Ir is said that Napoleon, during the eleven years of his reign, sacrificed 5,490,000 men to his ambition. Such is the cost of one military hero. THERE is iron enough in the blood of forty-two men to make a ploughshare weighing twenty-four pounds. WILD DUCKS are estimated to fly ninety miles an hour; swallows fly rather faster, and the swift flies above two hundred miles an hour. WHEN men and women have attained their complete developement they weigh almost exactly twenty times as much as at their birth, while the stature is about three and a quarter times greater, 66 "FORTUNE," it is said, "knocks once, at least, at every man's door" but an author describes the knock often as a runaway one." A GENTLEMAN is a human being combining a woman's tenderness with a man's courage. RELIGION is the best armour that a man can have; but it is the worst cloak. HOPE. THERE is a spell whose mystic power It can the heaviest clouds dispel. That charm is Hope's and her's the ray, W. H. M. THERE are three companions with whom a man should always keep on good terms, his wife, his stomach, and his conscience. ONE lapse from duty may counterbalance the merits of a thousand services; one moment of weakness may mar the beauty of a whole life of virtue; how important then is it for a man, under all circumstances to be true, not merely to others but to himself.-Family Library, 11, 113. THE untutored savage, in almost every part of the world, scorns to make a traffic of hospitality.-Family Library, 151. CHILDHOOD'S WOES. WHAT light and little things Are childhood's woes! they break no sleep To meet the morn with open breast, IF human kindness meets return, Oh! shall not warmer accents tell To him who died, our fear to quell, While yet his anguish'd soul survey'd Remember Thee! thy death thy shame, O! memory, leave no other name; But his recorded there! Noel. HUMILITY. HUMILITY! the sweetest, loveliest flower It is so frail, so delicate a thing, Tis gone if it but look upon itself; Caroline Fry. HOME. HOME! There's magic in that little word; CHARMS. CHARMS there may be, that waken admiration Too unobtrusive all at once to burst Barton. FRIENDSHIP is more firmly secured by lenity towards failings than by attachment to excellencies. The former is valued as a kindness which cannot be claimed, the latter is considered as the payment of a debt due to merit. EARLY DEATH. Ir matters little at what hour of the day The less of this cold world, the more of Heaven, The briefer life, the earlier immortality. Milman. Petition of the letter H. to the inhabitants of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and Shropshire. WHEREAS by you I have been driven, From House, from Home, from Hope, from Heaven, In Exile, Anguish and Anxiety, And charged, without one just pretence, I hereby ask full restitution, F THE MAGIC OF A NAME. BEATS there a heart which does not bound, Though years may have pass'd since we last have heard, Yet, pronounced by chance, it awakens the ear, That word is breathed in a softer tone, And the letters which speak that name to the eye, When we utter their name, the absent are near, Oh! a name beloved becomes a part ON BEING CALLED "A SAINT." A SAINT! oh! would that I could claim Would, though it were in scorn applied, In mockery to the King of Heaven. A Saint! and what imports the name, Is such the meaning of a name, From which a Christian shrinks with shame ? He owns his crown is all too bright. And ill might son of Adam dare, A Saint! oh! scorner give some sign, How shall the name of Saint be prized, That none but "Saints shall judge the world." THERE is a thought can lift the soul Above the narrow sphere that bounds it,— A star that sheds its mild control Brightest, when grief's dark cloud surrounds it; And pours a soft pervading ray, Life's ills can never chase away. |