Readers And Writers

Readiug without purpoue ítí saunteriug, not exercito. Moro is got f n m one book od wbioh the thought settlts , for a definite end in ktiowledgfi, than frora libraries skimmcd over by a wanderiog eyo. A cottage ftöwer gives honey to the bec, a king' n nu to tbe butterfly. Youttas who are dustined for active oareer, or aiubitious of diütiriotiou in such forms of literature as rcquire freshness of iuveution or originality oi thougbt, shouldavoid thobubit of i acuse study lor mauy hcurs at a stretch. There ia a point in all tensión ot the iutellect beyond which elfort ia only waste of strength. Fresh ideas do not readily spring up within a we ry brain; und whatever exhausta the mind not only eufeeblea its power, but uarrows its ncope. We olten see men who have over-read themeelves ut college, entering upon life languidlv as if thoy vvere about to leavo it. ïhey have uot the vigor to cope witbtheir own geaeratica; for their own generutiou is j oung, and they bave wasted the nervous cnergy wbich supplies the sinews of war to youth, in its contest for famo or iortuue. Study with regularity, at settled houts. Those i n the ibienoon are the best, if they can be secured. The man who has acquired the habit of study, tkough for only one hour every day in thu year, and keeps to the one thing studied UU it is mastered, wilt be startkd to see .he way he has made at the end of a twehemonth. He is seldotu ovenvorked who can contrive to be in advanee of hH woik. If you have threo weeks before you to loarn somethiug wliiob a man of m-rage quijkuess could karn in a week, learn it the firnt week, and uot the third. Bu.-iness dispatched is business well done, dut business hurricd is ness ili dono. In learoir.g what utliers have thought, it is well to keep in praoticethü power tothhik fur oau's seli; whcn an author lins added to your knowledge, pauso aud ooiioider if you caD add nothing to bis Be not contented to have learned a probleni by heurt; try aud deduce from it a eorrollury üüt in the book. Spare no pains hi eolle.oting details beiore yon generalizo: bnt it is ouly wheu details are geucralized that a truth is grasped. The tendency fo genereuze is universal with all men who acbieve great tuecefs, whether n art, literatnre. or action. The habit of generalizins, though :it frst ganed witJs care and caiition, seeures, by practica, a comprehensiveness of judgemcut and a promptitude of docision, which seem to the erowd like intuitious of genius. And, indeed, nothing more disuiigui.-hes tho man of genius than tho iuciliiy of generalizing the vanou-s details, eaeh of which demauds the aptiiu.l-.: of a special talent; but all oí wliich can be only gathered into a wholo by tb gmsp of a inind which ruay have uu üpcoiul aptitude for auy. - Bulwer in Blackwood. t3F" It is a matter of somo interest to note the :ncrease of the ciai.ufeci:i'ö of salt ia the Saginaw Valley, outstrippin' all such enterprisüs that we havo uuy knowledge of. The ñret atterapts were made in 1860, when ouly 4,000 barrels were manufactured ; but í'rom that timo to this, the increase has been nipid, as will be seea by the followiug : 1861 125.C00 bbls. 1862 213X100 " 1863 440.000 " 1864 529,073 " There are novv in sucuoHsful operation, sixty-seveu companies, using an agrégate capital of 82,269,500, and employing 892 men. There are 118 blocks wkh an aggregate of 4,210 kettles. There are also 4,949 solar covers, and the to tal value of salt producod amouuted to $1,190,410. They oonsumed laet year $286.545 worth of wood, aud $248,074 worth of barrels, and to supply this vast amount of tiniber, it is necessary to olear about 3,000 acres of land anouaüy. The aggregate numbar of acres owned by the salt companies is 9,475.