Power Of Sunshine

-I rom an acorn weighing a few grama, a tree wül grow for 100 years or more, notonly throwing off many pounds of leaves every year, but itself weighing many tons. lf an orange twig is put nto a box of earth, and that earth is weighed when the twig becomes a tree, bearing lutious fruit, there will be very nearly the same amount of earth. From caref ul experimenta made by different soientitic men, it is an aseertained fact that a very large part of the growth of a treo is durived from the sun, from the air and from the water, and a very little from the earth; and notably all vegetation becomes sickly unless it is freuly exposed to sunshine. Wood and coal are but eondensed sunshine, which contains three Important elementa equally essen tial to both vegetation and animal lilú - magnesia, lime, and iron. It is tho iron in the blood which gives it i sparkling red color and strength. It is the lime in the bones which gives tham the duriability necessary to bodily vigor, while the magnesia is important to all the tissues. Thus it is that the more persons are out of cioors the more healthy and vigorous they are, aud the louger will they live. Every human being ought to have an hour or two of sunshine at noon in the winter, and in the early forenoon in the summer. When he returneu honie ïrom ms recent visit to this country the editor of The London Sportsman is said to have had this interview with some friends: "Did you tnake many speeches when you werein America?" tliey asked him. "Yes." was the reply "I was frcquently called on to respond." "And what