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' Appetite, Bays Horace Smith, Ms a reliah bestowed upon the poorer classes, that they may like what they eat ; while lt is seldom enjoyed by the rloh, because they may eat what they like. 1 Activity, like zeal, Is only valuable as it is applied ; but most people bestow tbeir praise on the quality, and give littlo heed to the purposes to which it la directed. Upon hia bearing a celebrated performer go through a hard composition, and hearing it remarked that it waa very difficult Dr Johnson Bald : — ' I would it had been impossible .' Audacity.— To revenge reasonable lnoredulity by refusing evidenoe ia a degree of Insolence with which the world Is not yet acquainted ; and stubborn audacity is tbe last refuge of guilt. — Johnnon. Silver waa first coined by Phiban, King of Argoa, about 860 b.o , the epoch of the building of Carthage, and 140 years after tbe building of Solomon's Temple. A Creole is a person born m South America or the Indies and descended from European ancestors. The Creoles, of New Orleans are of pure Europoan extraction. Their language is a corruption of French Portuguese and Spanish. So long aa yon can contribute to the pleasure, bapplneae, or comfort of any human being yon are of Importance m tho world — and no longer. The Turks believe amber to be an infallible guard agalna. the injurious effects of nicotine ; hence its extensive use for the mouth-pieces of pipes. Cathay was the old name given to Ohlna by the Venetian traveller, Marco Polo, who, In the employ of the Khan of Tartary. visited It m the early part of the thirteenth century. A lie should be trampled on and extln - gulabed whenever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I auspeot that falsehood like peatilenoe, breathes •round me. — Carlyle. Coral has the hardness and brilliancy of agate ; it polishes like gema and eh locs like garnet, with the tint of the ruby. In Russia, Northern Afr.ci, and India, coral la much ln demand. He tbat follows ihe advice of reason has a mind that Ib elevated abovo the reach cf injury ; tbat Bits above the clonds m a calm and quiet ether, and with a brave Indlffarenoy hears tho rolling thunder grumble and burst under hia feet. —Sir W, Scott. It has been mathematically proved that the dynamic powder cf a pound of good ■team coal Ib equivalent to the work of one man for a day, that three tons will represent his labor for twenty years, and tbat one square mile of a four-foot seam will effect aa much as one million men oan do m twenty years. Desire, when directed into pure and good channels, is the pledge and assurance of a purdtand a good character. To cultivate a dealre m the mind of a child it like protecting and cherishing the root of a plant ; for as the root Is the source of the foliage and tbe flower, bj the desires are the chief aouree of the conduct of life.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1830, 2 May 1888, Page 3
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507SCRAPS Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1830, 2 May 1888, Page 3
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