SCRAPS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1579, 4 March 1887, Page 4

SCRAPS.

A hot, strong lemonade, taken at bed timet will break up a bad cold.

Kefleotion is the sua that expands the little seeds of miglity thoughts. When all birds else do of their music fail,

Money s the still sweet-anging nigtitingale. —Herrick. We have no time to sport away the hours j All must be earnest in a world like ours. —Bonar. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that aooompaniei what is natural.—Locke.

A curious kind of leather is fish leather, which is used in Berlin for shoe straps, purses, &c. It is of clear, goodooloar, supple, and tough enough to be useful.

A rich soil and genial atmosphere promote an early and abundant harvest; a happy home aud Christian sunshine aid the growth of virtue and true piety in the soul. " Sound sleep" is usually considered a healtny state of repose; but it is an observa* tion of Dr Wilson Philip that " no sleep is healthy but that from whioh we are easily roused." Eloquence is a gift of the mind, which makes us mister of the heart and spirit of others, whioh enables us to ii spire them with, or persuade them to whatever we please.—• Bruyers. To mix sulphur for making joints under engine beds, melt tlfe sulphur in an iron ladle in tne same manner as with lead—only, cover the ladle, while melting, with a pieoe of iron to prevent fire. The distinctive flavour of honey is alto* gether regulatedbbathey a the flora of the bees' feeding-ground; and so muoh so that what is a delicacy in Soatland cannot be eaten in some other countries without great danger. An Englishman staying at a hotel in Normandy lost his purse, and complained to the landlord. The maitra was sure that all his pejple wore paragons of honesty, bnt there were two ottier Englishmen staying at the hotel—probably they were no better than they should be. Monsieur had better enquire about them. Monsieur did so, and founi that one was the Bishop of London and the other Baron Tennyson. Kecently a new York gentleman refused his consent to the marriage of his daughter to a man who used the word 11 ain't." His wife, who took up the cudgel for the unhappy pair, said to her husband:— '* Why are you so touohy about a little harm ess bit o slang P" " Why I" roared the irate husband; "do you ask wAy I will not have a son-in-law who cannot speak the English language in its purity ? It's 'cause I ain't built mat way I"

several years ago ia a well-known vholeiale house in New York, an old baouelor book* keeper, who had been years with the firm, suddenly announced that he waa to be married. The partners gave him a week » holiday, and his fellow clerks raised a little parse and presented it to pay the expenses of the wedding trip. A ojuple of days after the wedJing one of the members of the firm went down to Newport, and there lounging about the Ocean douse, and apparently enjjyiog himself imtneusely, ha *a« bis recently married old bojitkeeper, Hut alone " Where's your wile ? " " she's at ho<ne> "But I th-ught you had money given jou for a wedding tnpP" "do I had, bob I didn't understand that it waa intended ft include he?,"