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Western Star, Issue 1353, 11 May 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)

SCRAPS.

A friend to everybody is generally a friend to nobody One of the sweetest pleasures of a woman is to cause regret.

Inward purity is the richest fountain of peace and joy.—Disraeli. Slander, like mud, dries and falls off, but, like mud, it leaves an ugly stain. It is hard to personate and act a part long where truth is not at the bottom.

Avarice is the parent of evil deeds, but frugality is the sure guardian of our virtues.^ To prize everything according to its real use oug'it to be the aim of every reasonable being.—Oobden.

Let every man sweep the snow from his own door, and not trouble himself about the frost on his neighbour's tiles. , Quills, are said to have been first used for pens AD; 553, although some authorise* give the year 635 as the date of their introduction. There iB a gift that is almost a blow, and there is a. kind word that is munificence} bo much is there in the way we do things.— Pope.

They who will abandon a friend for one error know but little of the human character, and prove that their hearts are as cold as their judgments are weak. May, we prefer goodness to greatness; pureness to pride j worthiness to wealth ; the doing of one good thing to the hearing of many great ones.—George Dawson. When I play with a ohild, render it kind services, sensibly increase its pleasures, £ confer a present good, and Ido more—l help to form an affectionate spirit.—Dr Ohanning. Woman is a subject never mentioned in Morocco. It would be a terrible breach of etiquette to ask a man after his wife or wires.

A recent find in a broker's shop in Toronto turned out to be an old portrait of .Robert Jiurns, done in oil by Kaoburn, and bearing the date 1787.

The use of lacquer upon the hulls of vessels as a protection • against marine growths originates in Japan. A recent experiment was entirely successful. A refreshing and nourishing drink for an invalid.—Stir the yellow of an egg into a glass of lemonade. If this is too rich, use more lemonade, and drink part at a time. Of all the diversions of life there is none so proper to fill up its empty space as the reading qf useful and entertaining authors, and with that the conversation of a well-chosen friend. —Addison.

The French method of administering castor oil to children is to pour the oil into a pan over the fire, break an egg into it, and stir up j when it is done, flavour with a little salt or sugar or currant jelly. Tt is not the leaßb advantage of friendship ' that by communicating our thoughts to (another we render them distinct to ourselyjs, iand reduce the subjects of our sorrow and .anxiety to their just magnitude for our own (individual contemplation. A way to prepare soft coal so that there will be no accumulation of soot in the chimney, and that the undersides of the stove lids will be kept clean, is as follows:—For a ton •of coal buy a few pennyworth of salt, make a brioe of it, and pour oyer the coal.