SCRAPS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1584, 8 April 1887, Page 3

SCRAPS.

The man who is good-natured ( all day does more for the raoe than he who wins a battle.

Whatever thou loves t, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value upon it.—Hfortial.

Human natureor hum an fraility cannot enb gist without some lawful recreation.— Cervantes. When we have one fact found us, we are very apt to suppiy ttie next of our own imagination. —0. W. Holmes. Never mind whether they are your own children, your step.children, or your children by adoption sae that they miud when they are spoken to.

To whiten the hands mix thoroughly eau de cologue, two ounces; lemon juice, two ounces; p iwdered brown Wiudsor soap, six ounces. tVhen hard it will be an excellent soap lor waliening the hands. Steel knives which are not in general use may be kept fr >in rusting if they are dipped in a strong solution of sjda, one part water to four of soda; then wipe dry, roll in flannel aud keep in a dry place.

How can a man know himself P Through contemplation never, but rather through action. Endeavour to do thy duty, and thoa wilt know thy capacity. But what is thy duty P The exigencies of the day.—Goethe. Length of li:e is to be estimated not by number of years so much as by good work done —not by endeavours solely to advance our own fortune and reputation or comfort, but by persevering efforts to promote the irelt'are of our feilo*-uiej.

Castors m tde of leather are a new inven* tion whioh will pro*e very useful. Heavy furniture wniou must be moved o f ten for sweeping sjon wears bad places on floors or carpets, ahd a solid sole leather castor must prove a blessing to housekeepers.

Aa order has baea issuei in Lower Austria forbidding inauufacturers and tradesmen to sell uiekel plated cooking Teasels. It is stated that vinegar and other acid sabslaucea dissolve nickel i and that this, in proportion of one-seventh of a grain, oauses vomiting, and is even more poisonous than copper. A tarn that •"'as no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others; for men's miuds will either feed upoa their own good, or upon others' evilj aud who wancetu the one will prey upon the other; aud whoso is out of hope to obtain another's virtue will seek to cone at even haud by depressing another's fortune —Bacon.

" What's the reason there are so many divorces no w-a-d »ys ?" asked Airs larger, who was reading tue moraiug newspaper. " I hive studied t:ie subject, tuo from every possible standout, and i. think I ca i point out the true cause, and as long as that cause lusrs there win be divorces," replied Colonel Yerger. " What is that cause?" " Matrimony."

Good natnre needs for its true balanoe a strong and firm sense of justice. If that be present and active, tnere is no danger of kind* lines* goiug to an ex retue. But, where it is absent or at least, imperfectly developed, the good-na'ured person may e»«uly lad into a habit of indiscriminate p*tieuoe and io>be*r* ance, of easy approval, au4 of oondjuing what is wrong, that is quite as self-indulgent u il il indulgent o pthort*