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Dunstan Times, Issue 415, 1 April 1870, Page 3

The most royal production inthe world in the way of travelling carriage is the Imperial train of France. It is a veritable train First, after the engine and tender, comes a luggage carriage—not an uninhabitable van but a structure which, besides ordinary luggage, contains pantry arrangements for refreshments, and accomodation for some of the company's ami imperial servants. Next is a carriage adapted as adining rooiu or at least as a refreshment room, with a centre table, arm chairs, and hinged seats, and when at night, the seats are drawn away from the avail, they fall hack so as. to form bedsteads for the attendants. Third in the list stands an open or platform carriage, which may be opened or closed at the sides at pleasure, and used either as an openair look out or as a refreshment .oom. Then comes the grand carriage, the imperial saloon, with a retiring room attached, and doors at the sides and ends. All that luxury can do is here done in the provision of couches, arm chairs, folding-chairs, ta. hies, and stands, curtains, wire gauze blinds to exclude dust when the windows are open, a timepiece, pendant lamps, and Inirfors. The fifth is a sleeping carriage, divided off into seven distinct compartments ; these comprise a sleeping chamber or bedroom, two dressing rooms, two rooms for the Empress's ladies, one for the Em* peror’s valet, and a retiring room. The sleeping ohambor contains two beds, on opposite sides of a compartment nine feet wide. Next to the sanctum of the imperial papa and mamma is a carriage for the Prince Imperial, with numerous snuggeries for sleeping, dressing and attendants. Lastly, there is a luggage carriage, the counterpart of the one at the head of the train. All the carriages have doors at tho ends, and platforms which make a convenient gangway from carriage to carriage, and there are electric hells from the impe* rial saloon to all the other carriages, and to the engine driver and guards.—"Chambers Journal.”

Steady eating is luore dangerous! than steady drinking. A person may live longer under the indulgence, but he livea more miserably. Ho does not have the wild pleasures and excitements of the debauch on liquor. He does not wear himself out so rapidly, but he does so ,infinitely more wretchedly. Our physicians are tor ever preaching diet ; one sect of Galena founds its entire system upon"this principle. Too much whisky may be bad, but they recognise too much pudding as infinitely more dangerous. Eating is more insidious than drinking. It a man falls from grace, and becomes inebriate, he knows it, his friends know it, but he may go on for years stuffing himself till his liver swells like that of a Staaburgh goose, and neither he nor his most intimate associates ever appreciate the fact. Public opinion condemns drinking, while it looks complacently on the infinitely more loathsome vice of eatinu. Some years ago Barnum made an attempt to lay violent bonds upon one of the most interesting Byron which yet remain within' the classic products of Newstead. The withered tree, on whose trunk Byron, on''thef occasion of his last visit, cut his own name and that of his sister Augusta, is still' preserved in the principal avenue. Mrs. Hawthorne relates that Barnum, with an effrontery which he certainly neverlsurpassed, requested Colonel WUnman, the then proprietor of Newstead, to sell the tree to him for £SOO. The Colonel’s reply was, that he would not take £5,000 for it, and the showman, for making such a proposition, deserved to be horsewhipped. There is one occupation which there should be no question about woman’s fitness to engage in—that of teacher. Her sympathies are with childhood, and sho understands the wants'and .capabilities of children far bettor than men do. It seems to us one of the plainest laws of Nature, that woman, who ushers the child into the world, and rcares: for its first’wants, should follow it through the nursery and school room till she bids"good bye at the threshliold„of man-hood or ,woman-hood.