SCRAPS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1583, 1 April 1887, Page 4

SCRAPS.

Sare your cold tea; it is excellent for cleaning grained wood. Honest men love women j those who d«g ce | r e them pretend to adore them.—Beau marchais.

What a miserable world I—trouble if we love, and trouble ifwe do not lore.—Count de Maistre.

Flowers.—lt is estimated that about 100,* 000 species of flowering plants are now known to botanists.

Drain pipes and all places that are sour or impure may be cleansed by lime water or carbolic acid. A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones. Let no man trust the first false step Of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice Whose deep descent in lost perdition ends. —Young. According to a report of the Church Tern* perance Society, there are in New York, the metropolis of the New World, 10,197 liquor saloons, 417 churches, and 121 public schools. There is a sweet pleasure in contemplation; and when a man hath run through a set of vanities in the declension of age, he knows what to do with himself if he cannot think.— Blount. Encouragement possesses a marvellous vein of re-creating power ; wisely administered, it counteracts the disheartening influence whioh a sense of baffled plans and repeated failures tend to induce; by aid of the cheery, kindly word one is enabled to pull oneself up again, and to go on with renewed efforts. There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and scie ice in it. If we pass "no day without a line"—visit no place without the company of a book—we 11.av with ease fi 1 our libraries, or empty them of their contents. The more wa do, the more we can do; the m >ra bu«y we are, the more leisure we have —H.izlitt. If trouble com s, be cool, and treat it peace* fully. If joy comes, receive it peacetully, without excitement. If you must flee from evil, do it calmly, without agitation, or you may stumble and fall in your haste. Do good deliberately, or your hurry will lead you into endless faults- Even repentance is work thai should be carried on coolly and quietly.