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NOMicAL. - -l líese are tlie words 1 once heard a w ornan use to a ricli relative of her liusband, vtho had followed up liia refusal of assistance by aü'ision to raany littlo shortcomings which he had noted iu the doniestic details (if the family - Tlie phrase seems to iuvolve a contradiction ; but a little consideraron will show even the most superficial thiuker that it expresfes a truth. Great is the power of ready money. Ileady money cun save by wholesale purehases Keady money eau save by cboice of placo of purchase. Ileady money can fave by discount obtained by thrcat of discontinuance of trade- a tlireat futile in the mouths of the poor. Ready money cao savs ia fiirnilure and woaripg apparel, by beingable to proviiie the best in fflbriq and coci-truction, and tlurcfoie the most laating. But it is needless to exlend the catalogue of ready money's powers. - I 'ii ■ Id1 Wbat sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human sou!, the philosopher, the saint, and the hero; the wise, the ?ood, or the great man, very often lie hid and concenled in a plubeiao, whioh a proper eduoation miglit have dïs interred acd bro'jght to ügbt.