A Scientific Fact

roborated Eiy scientiffic! ínrestígauotwi, that a bn-ick building, unpainted, absorba h lurgo quantily of water, and in coarBo of time the wiJls boeorne damp, and, us i neci-ssary eonsequenoe, the rooms unheaHhy. It stands to raasoD, from the poras nature of the brick.that euüh a rosult sliou'd follow. ÍJvery brick building shmild have a thick coat of paint and varnirtli, which wili act as a prutecticn iguinut inoistnre, thus pre Berving the strength and durabihty of the widls, ag woil as the hoalth of the iamaten, 1 A nagro mi uemg ux.anined, was askod ifhis inastur was a christian. No uir, be is a raombür oí oongrésal' was the reply fc# A provincial' cotemporary says thero aro hundreds of peoplu who be oome religious wheu dauger is no ar; and adils: " we know of a man who feil' (rom a bridge across a certain rivar and just as he found he must go, and no help for it, he bawled out at the top of his voiee, " Lord have mercy on me and, be quiek, too !" 1 It is aserte(i that one of tbo editors of the N. Y. Post is makíng fifty thoiisand dollars per annurn as Bavy agent, ïïis " loyalty" is profituble.