... GEMS OF THOUGHT. The worst education wvich teaches self-denisl is better than the best which teachea everything else, and not that. Virtuo like the loadetone can only communicate its propertiee to susceptible natures. The felicity of the body consists in health, and that of the mind in knowledge. The object of life is to improve life: if we do but our duty to ourselves we shall soon learn to ...

... ?? I GEMTS OF THOUG HT. principles, lim troops of the line, are undisturbed and stand fsst.-Ric1*ftr. Anxiety disfigures the face of prospority and renders it like a crystal glass blown up by impure breatb.-W. Be'cker. Too many, through ivant of prudence, are golden ap. preuticeR. silvor jounrfeymean, and copper masters.- FUNzrUALITY.-I Owe everything in the world to being alwuys a quarter of ...

... 1 PRuEClEPT AIN D EXAMPLE. AIR- John A nderson, ny Jo. Iet precept and example Aye hand in hand be seen, For gude advicois plenty, And unco easy gi OnU And bairnies iu tho uptak' Ye ken are seldom slow, So *aye, whato'er advice ye gi'o, A gude example show. They'roJglsg at imitation, AB ilka ane may ken: The lassies a' vould women be- The laddies would be mell So lead thems kindly by the ...

... VARIETIES. GEMS OF THOUGHT. Quick believiers need broad shoulders. if the brain gows riot corn, it plants thistles. None is a foolI alwaysl; every one is sometimes. Nobility, like greet rivere, has often an obscure origin. Neither pratise nor dispraise thyself:. thy ?? serve the turn. A man may be great by chance, but never wise nor good without taking paine for it. 'Tie worse to be au ill ...

... ?? t THE REVENGE OF A LIFE: A , OAMBRO.BRITANNIC STORY. lit rg BY A Pru1Ss4h. re. be CHAPTER JXXXII. hie EDWARSD X&051NL&Y 5rTHS Scas essncN-nO-.LJW. oe While thq agreeable compact I have described as having in taken place between Mr. Overton and his son, in the offdee cv- of the bank, was ina progress, another scene, of a very g, different nature, was occurring at the house in Bedford- in- ...

... VARIETIEs. - - - - - - - - - - - - ?? GEam OF TROUGHT. Peruect love is ideal ?? I. Knowledge is the excellency of man whereby he is uually differetced from a brnte.-Swinnock. Labour is the tabled magician's wand,the philosopher's stone, and the cap of Fortunatas-J. Johnson. An intelligent look in men is what regularity of features is in women: it is the kind of beauty to which the most Vain ...

... | TEIICE IS A SUN-LT? HILL FOR ALL. God meets us In the ways of life, And gives Us say in what shall be- Of rest or toil, of peace or strife,- Of aluence or poverty: The present Ruawars to the past,- Its joy and sorrow, loss and Fain, Were seeds upon the waters' cast, By baud or tongue or heart or brain. We stand upon life's sr n-lit hill- Far'spreading lands invite our feetI We shall not ...

... __ a ANONG THE LOOMS. We are weaving, weaving, weaving, While the muninmcr hours pass by. The sunlibht flashes through cottago doors, And warp and wvoof o0 tho cottage floors Are interlaced by a viowless lonm of golden gloam and shadowy gloom. While to and. fro Thle children go Through the village street, with a laugh or sigh; We are weaving, Nveavilig, as ilays go by. We are weaving, weaving, ...

... I I In the Probate and Divorce Division, oi Wednesday, ihet o before Sir J. Hannen, pesident, the, case of Robinson hre a v. Robinson (the Queen's Proctor showing cause) was rs ?? was originally a petition by the wile for a unan divorce, on the ground of the desertion and adultery of 15020 her husband. The ease wasl tried on the 30th April, 1880, best when a decree nisi was pronounced on the ...

... I With the approach of Christmas come plessant Rl anticipations of enjoyment. At this season old and young Ti seem to lay aside the sterner tone of every day life ii take be part in the festivities provided for them. Among the I'l numerous entertainments, musical and otherwise that are tb organised for the occasion, perhaps, none are looked for. to ward to with greater interest than the ...

... GEMS OF THOUGHT. TRUTH and love are two of the rmost powerfnl things in the 'world ; and when they both go together they cannot easl y lie withstood. -Cu~dieorths. NwvRca neglect to make a child happy ; it is not always possible, by wlhatever you (lo, to make a loan orea woman happy, hot to a child ?? 05n always give happiness never forget it.-Af. D. Hill. To live one day wvith tho happiness, ...

... i CURIOUS. A curious old planet is ours, without doubt, It was euriously made, and is curious througbout; It abounds in quaint things that are curious to viewv, And some curious people inhabit it, too. There are curious nations, with curious ways, And curious lauguages-curious displa's % of curious wardrobos. 'Mong high or mong low, You'll find something curious wherever you go. In society, ...