Selected Miscellany

Dcath - wingling ot'cternity with time. Ilowever tilinga may seeni, do evil thing succeeds, and no good thing is a failurc. - Samuel Longfellow. Here ia a good quehtion for a man to ask himself as ue reviews his past life: "Have I written in the snow? " Poverty often deprivesa man of all spirit and vit t tic. It ia hard for au uinpty bag to stand upright. - Franklin. You may shirk froin the far-reaching solitudes of your heart, hut no other foot than yours cantread tliitii. Trust a man to be good and true, and even if he is not, your trust will tend to raake him such." - Max Muller. Nature makes us poor when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluitie.x. It is with youth as with plants ; from the first fruii.s they bear, we learn what may be expected in the future. - Demophilus. By a com penating process of nature men are rendered per.etrating in propmtion to the efforts madu to deceive them. - C. F. Adams. There ia nothing kteps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooncr than a reat one. Poverty treads upon the heels of great and unexpected riches. - Bruyere. Words of praisc, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a ehild intoagenial life, as acts of kindncss and affection. Judicious praise is to childrcn what the sun is to flowers. - Bovee. The fairet flowör in the garden of creation is a young uiind, offering and unfolding to the influence of divine wisdom, as the heliotropc lurns its sweet blossotns to the sun. - Sir J. E. Smith. A swiiniuer boownw Btrong to stem the tide only by frequent ly breasting the big waves. lf you practice always in sliallow water, your heari will assuredl; lk.il in the hour of high flood. - J. 8tuart Ulackie. The secret of uselulness of life consists in not haggling for ideal conditiqns, but in making the most of actual conditions. No real man or real church ever exista on having a good chance, not yct a fair chance, but only a chance.