OUR SCRAP ALBUM.

Lake County Press, Issue 589, 25 January 1894, Page 3

OUR SCRAP ALBUM.

, * A Man, The Rev. J. Rice, in the Humani tarian thus analyses the perfect man He has piety, purity, manliness, con stancy, fortitude, fidelity, discipline justice, spotlesss honor, a sMf-respec ting sense of shame, temperance ir food and in drink, unresting activity liberality and frugality, ercctness ol soul, mr Gladstone’s “firm belief.” “The following interesting ‘firm be lief ’ of Mr Gladstone will be found in Hansard, vol. 186, p. 721 :—‘My firm belief is that the influence of Great Britain in every Irish difficulty is not a domineering and tyrannising, but a softening and mitigating influence, and that, were Ireland detached from her political connection with this country, it might be that the strife of parties would then burst forth in a form calculated to strike horror through the land.’”—Church and Queen.

KEVISED RHYME. I “ Twinkle, twinkle, lirtle star,” the nursery rhyme so familiar to everybody, has been revised by a committee of eminent scholars with the following result:—“ Shine with irregular, intermitted light, sparkle at intervals diminutive, luminous, heavenly body—how I conjecture, with surprise, not unmixed with uncertainty, what you are, located, apparently, at such a re mote distance from and at a height so vastly superior to this earth, the planet we inhabit—similar in general appearance and refractory powers to the precious primitive octahedron crystal of pure carbon, set in the aerial regions surrounding the earth.” SPORT OVERDONE. Mr Herbert Spencer has put very neatly the distinction between sport as an amusement and aa an occupation. Dropping in at his club, he met a young friend, who invited him to have a game of billiards. The philosopher 1 led off and left the balls in a good position for his opponent, who dexterously ran out, not allowing his companion another shot. Then the young expert naturally looked at the philosopher for the customary compliment, but the loser of the game said, very seriously, after depositing his cue in the rack : “ Sir, a certain proficiency in such a sport as this is a sign of good education of the eye, the nerve, the hand ; but the mastership of billiards which you have exhibited could have been acquired only by an ill-spent youth.” BUTTERMILK AS A MEDICINE. A medical journal thus .discourses on,

the virtues of buttermilk:—Concerning the remedial value of buttermilk, it is of bo much worth that it has gained a place in materia medica, and is prescribed by some physicians for chest and lung ailments, and in most forms of kidney troubles. An exclusive buttermilk diet has seemed to bring about a cure in a great many cases of Bright’s disease. A proper and constant use of it will greatly reduce, and sometimes cure, the craving for alcoholic liquors with which many persons are .afflicted. The craving may be satisfied, and the system benefited and strengthened instead of weakened. Buttermilk alone will often remedy acidity of the stomach. The lactic acid needed in many cases is supplied by it much more than by any other drink or food. It is said to al leviate the oppression about the- heart that so many old people sutler from, and it should he constantly drunk by them. It is also to a certain extent a stimulant for the entire system just what the aged need.

PLUCK V. LUCK. Be firm ; one constant element of luck

Is genuine, solid British pluck. Stick to your aim ; the mongrel's hold will slip, But only crowbars loose the huddog’s grip ; Small though the looks, the jaw that never yields Brings down the bellowing monarch of the fields.