SCRAPS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 1994, 7 September 1888, Page 6

SCRAPS.

♦ People who never disappoirt your expectali on8 — people on whon you rest as on a rock that shall never be moved — people who never give way to small tempers or little meannesses, who are under command of their reason and governed by their conscience — people who love others more than they love thempelves — how should we not love them for ever if we love them once ? It would be impossible with love once established. In answer to tl'e question why the duration of life should be 100 years in man, and something else in other animals, i law has been enunciated by BufEon, Fleurens, and others, that "the duration of life is five times the duration of growth." Thus in man growth is complete about 20, in the horse at five, in tho ox at four, in the dog at two. This gives for the duration of life in man 100 years, in the horpe 25, the ox 20, the dog 10. Snails never drink, but imbibe moisture during rain, and exude it afterwards. They are setdom seen abroad except before rain, when they commence climbing trees and getting upon tho leaves. The tree-snail is bo sensitive to weather that it will commence to climb two days before the rain comes. If the downpour is to be prolonged, the snail seeks the under part of a leaf; but, if a shot or light rain is coming, it stays on the outside. Jriendßhip, what is it? Do smiles, woids of cheer, and kind actions constitute it ? Are those who never upbraid, but meet all our deeds with words of praise, .who flatter us on every possible occasion, to be considered true friends ? Their attentions may be pleasant to our vanity and conceit, and keep us in the best of humour with ourselves, and we may think thoir company very desirable, yet they will not do to put faith in, for their amiable behaviour is often the cloak of self-interest. Ruskin maintains that human efforts fail not so often from want of power to do as from want of due care to see precisely what is to b a done. This is, I think, especially true of education. We don't know exactly what we are aiming at, and so we muddle on from hand to mouth unable to decide whether we are successful or not, or measuring our success by the number of our pupils who taVe honours in the jniddle-cless examinations or at the Universi'i'es. Thus instead of being educators, we po on contentedly as mere instructors. — Quick. The fruit of the nutmeg in appearance rrsemb'es a pear, and when ripe opens and displays the nut covpred with a bo-mtiful red coating of mace. The nuts are then picked from the <ree, put into baskets, a-d taken to the houses, where they are husked and placed on shelves. They are then partially roasted over a slow fire until all the moisture is exfme 1 cd. After this they aro cooled and carried down to the village in nets r^ady to be barored to the Burgis, Arabs, and other traders who frpquent the Gulf in their small prows or juntos at the proper season. Martin Luther sail — "E-rlh has nothing more tender than a woman's h?art when it s the abode of pity." Micbelet said—" Woman, is the Sunday of man ; not his repose only but his joy— the salt of his life." John Adams B(i i(i — " All that I am my mother made me." Lord Lanedowne said—" If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother into the other, the world would .kick the beano." The Ar»bs s»y— " One might get a hundred wives, but he can never get but one mother ; therefore a mother is equal to a hundred wives." But Leopard Schefer has it better yet when he says — " But one thing on earth is better than a wife ; that ia the mother,"