OUR SCRAP ALBUM.

Lake County Press, Issue 498, 21 April 1892, Page 2

OUR SCRAP ALBUM.

I PLEASE DON’T. There arc folks cn in the world, my cle r, Who csnxul-c and criticise and sneer. It tak«s ao talent to fret and jeer ; And any person with fair success Can add to another’s wretchedness. It is easy enough to cause distress. To loose a scandal thoy cannot bind, I In the work of another fault to find, j To sp il the peace of a neighbor's mind—j There are people enough the wide world ! through. It is so easy a thing to do, ; Don’t swell the number, 1 beg of you ! —B. M. Lewis, in Hou-mkeoper’a Weekly. CRAMPED POSITION INJURIOUS. In Austria ifc has been found that the slanting of letters in writing causes curvotive of the spine, due to the position maintained at the table- or desk ; and a supreme council have recommended that upright letters be cultivated in schooling, printer’s ink. The “typical newspaper man” of today is a young man. lie is college bred, he comes from a good family, and is a gentleman by birth and breeding. He is brighter, quicker, has broader knowledge of men and affairs, and ho makes and spends more money than; his brother who goes into “ busincs".” He is well dressed, well housed, and well fed. He has learned that Bnhomianisra does not pay, and he has left that sort of Boheraianism to chronic bummers and greenhorns. The tone, the morale, of th<- profession have changed within the last twenty years, and the public is only just beginning to find ifc out. Educated people who keep their eyes open realise that their notions of the “ typical newspaper man” are sadly out of joint, and they are revising their types. The profession is slowly moving towards its rightful place in public estimation, and the time is not very far off when it will stand not at par with, hut ahead of the law, the pulpit, medicine, and other liberal professions.—Printer’s Ink. ANCIENT RELICS. The Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the British Museum has lately acquired a curiousrelic of Roman civic life, says the Athenasum, this being a circus placard found at Porto Portosse (Lanuvium). It is a thin oblong slab of stone about 3ft long, the upper corners of which are pierced with holes for cords to pass through, so that it might he. bung outside the theatre and warn tlioso who came late that there was no room for them within the building. This appears by the inscription- in Latin, “ Circus full ! Immense applause ! Doors shut! ” Erom the same city the Department has obtained two acceptable life-size marble busts, the one being a portrait bust of Titus, interesting because of its intense character and veri-similitude and the comparative rareness of such busts of the Emperor ; the other is the likeness of a Roman gentleman, as yet, though full of expression, unidentified. These works are the gifts of Lord Saville, and were discovered during his excavations at Porto Portese.