SCRAPS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1582, 25 March 1887, Page 4

SCRAPS.

It is the characteristic of little and frivolous minds to be wholly occupied with the Tulgar objects of life.—Blair. Any one may do a casaul act of good good nature, but a continuation of them shows it is a part of the temperament—Sterne. Thoughtlessness is never an eicuse for wrongdoing. Our hasty actions disclose, as nothing else does, our habitual feelings. It is said that the very centre of the earth is the only spot where oue can be merry all the time, and the reason is that, as science tells us, everything there loses its gravity. To produce a good gloss on linen, pour a pint of baling water upon two ounces of gum arabic { cover it, aud let it stand over night. A teaspoonful of this is added to the starch. Russia has no less than 25,0000,000 head o* horned cattle, 45,000,003 head of sheep 10,000,000 swine, and 17,000,000 horsessheep having increased 20 per cent in 20 years, and horned cattle and iwine 4 per

cent* Once loosen the latch-strings of honour, the door to crime, and folly swings easily. Nothing will make us so charitable and tender of the faults of others as by thoroughly knDwing our own. No flower that I hare ever seen, either in shifting light and shade, or in the pearly morning, may vie with a fair young woman's face when tender thought and emotion vary, encirole, and beautify it.—R. D. Blackmore. It is st; t i J that solid ice" t*s inches thick will bear men on foot; four inches thick, men on horseback; six inches thick, cattle and teams with light loads; eight inches thick, teams with heavy leads; ten inches thick, a pressure of one thousand | ounds to the square foot. To clean Oriental and other brass orna-

ments, take a lemon without the peel, cut it in two, and take out the pips j well rub the articles to be oleaned with the pieces of lemon, then wash them in plain warm water; dry with a soft cloth and polish with a leather, and the brass will look new again. The American term, " caucus" is defined as a meeting of partisans, Congressional or otherwise, to decide upon the action to be taken by the party. The word is siid to have been used as early as 1721 (Gordon's " History of the American Revolution"), and Dr Trumbell, of Hartford, U.S., derives it from the Indian, cau-cauas-ic — one who advises. KIND WOBDS. My heart! they loose my heart those gentle words; Its darkness passes, which nought else could touch ,- Like some dark snake, that force may not expel. Which glideth out to music sweet and low. —R. Browning.