Smatterings

Learu everything you can. It will come in play. Don't be frightened away "rom any pursuit becauseyou only have i little time to devote to it. If you can't lave anything more, a srnattering ia ininitely better than nothing. Even a slight knowledge of the arts and sciences, opens up a whole world of thoughts bo;ore us. We appreciate a fino painting netter, beoause we have taken a few strokes of the penoil and know some of ,he difficulties of the task. Ignorance is restricted to a very few pleasures ; it is only intelligence which delights in all hings. A limited knowledge of the natural sciinces will give one a lifelong souroe of ïappiness. We may stand at the portal of these pure joya, afraid to enter as we ook at the long, long vistas beyond ; but ,he moment we have orossed the thresh old, we begin to experience a pleasure. We have not to wait until we have reached the end ; there is a compensation giv.; en us at once for every effort we put rorth. A little systematic endeavor - one ïour, or even a half an hour a day - and a man may be considerod learned before ie diea. Learn thoroughly what you learn, be it ver so little, and you may speak of it with contidence. A few clearly defined deas are a whole library of uncertain cnowledge. As we chango about among a continually shifting people, we are raquently placed in positions where we may learn with scarcely an effort on our art, and yot we hang back, because it akes so long to acquire a mastery of anyhing. Let the end alone ! Begin tomorrow ; and though, after all, it proves )ut a mere smattering, you have gathered ome intelligence on one point more than rou had before, and you have found hap)ineLS in seeking it. A Nebraska man and his wife simultaneously eloped from each other a few nights ago, which was the first time they had ever been kuown to entertain the ame opinión. " Mothor bring my little kitten," is the atest " popula bailad." The mew-sick ia 'air, so f ur as we are able to judge, but the vords seem to have been scratched off ather hurriedly, and strung out to such a length that thero is a feeling of relief when the singer comes to a paws. - .V. ]". World.