HARD THINGS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 820, 11 April 1868, Page 4

HARD THINGS.

Alpha. —Leader.

'Some things we duo we canna help, And some we could we dinna; But do your best —you'll sometimes win, An, if you don't, you winna. It's hard to speak the truth when lies Alight win your power and place; When Providence gives scant enough, It's hard " to say the grace." It's hard to live a saint,on whey. When sinners sup the cream, . It's hard to be a middlin' man, When a great man you might seem. It's hard to speak the lassie fair That's been to you a flirt; To greet the man who plucked the flower, And left you in the dirt. It's hard to see mere money bags Tak' precedence o' brains, To find broadcloth may win a place That broad sense never gains. It's hard to hear lang winded folks Hold forth your own conviction, Until at last, in sheer disgust, You give it contradiction. It's hard to hear some preachers barm 'Gainst worldliness and wine, When on the sly, you brawly's ken, They're o'anithor mm.' But why its hard, I canna say, This world's all adjusted; The shough that Adam gae the earth All order fairly bursted. It's hard to be a man at a', And wanr to be a woman : But things at warst aye tak a turn; So deiter days are comin*.

Heat. — Knowing, as wo do, the weight of the earth, and the velocity with which it moves throngh space, a simple calculation enables ns to state the exact amount of heat which would be developed, supposing the earth to be stopped in her orbit. We could tell, for example, the number of degrees which this amount of heat would impart to a globe of water equal to the earth in ■ire. Mayer and Helmholtz have made this calculation,'and found that that the quautity of heat which would bo generated by this colossal shock would be quite sufficient, not only to fuse the entiro earth, but to reduce it, in great part, to vapour. Thus, by the simple stoppage of the earth in it orbit, " the elements" might be caused "to melt with ierveut heat." The amount of heat thus developed would be eqnal to that derived from tho combustion of fourteen globes of coal, each equal to the earth in magnitude. And if, after the stoppage of its motion, the earth should fhli into tho bud, aa it assuredly would, the amount of heat generated by the blow would be equal to that developed by the combustion of five thousand six hundred worlds of solid carbon. Lose, Skibts. — This is Punch's ln*t hit at the 1 long skirts : — Lady : " Oh, how tiresome ! somebody must be on my dress. Would you juafc run dotvu stairs and see who it is, Mr Brown?"