MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 416, 8 April 1870, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Dr. Arnold once lost all pationoe with a dull scholar, when the pupil looked up in his face and said, “ Why do you speak so angrily, sir? Indeed, lam doing the best loan.” Years after, the Doctor used to tell the story to his children, and say “I never felt so ashamed in my life. That look and that speech I have never forgotten.” Though sometimes small evils, like invisible insects, indict pains, and a single hair may stop a vast machine, yet the chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex one, and in prudently cultivating an undergrowth of small pleasures, since a very few gfc'at ones, alas, are let on long leases. VA gentleman reproached his son for carrying a gold watch in a very careless ami exposed manner; hut the young gentleman persisted in the practice, iu spite of parental admonition. In a crowd at the theatre, one evening, the old gentleman asked his ton to toll him what o’clock it was ; and the young man was distressed to find his watch had been stolen. “Never mind,” said his father, smiling ; “ I took it myself, to show' you how easily you could be robbed—here it is!” He pat his hand in his fob to restore it; but 10, and behold, it was gone Some thief, more adroit than himself, had appropriated the property. Chilblains.—The following recipe, wdrioh wo think is a good one, is given by the “ Medical Press :—“ Aconitelinarnent, two drachms ; carbolic acid, four drops, collodium floxilo, four drops. Mix these ingredients, twd apply them with a camel hair pencil about once every three days. “ Chillicothe Row ” is a now American dish, whereof the ingredients are one prairie chicken boiled on toast, two dozen fried oysters, seventeen gizards, and as many livers stewed with b rnatocs, two pounds of beef steak, and a quart of coffee, stirred up and moistened with a hot apple toddy. No wonder our cousins have such a ‘ prononce ’ yellow colour. At a late meeting of the Presbytery, Brother W said that, early in his ministry, he and another brother were conducting a meeting in which there was much religious interest. An old man gave expression to his joy by shouting, and continued it until it began to ’liternipt the service. Brother ll said, “Go and stop that old man’s noise.” He went to him and spoke a few words, when the shouting man at once became quiet. Brother H—asked, “ What did you say to the old man that quieted him so promptly?” 1 replied, “ I asked him for a guinea for foreign missions. 11 The “Printers’ Register” informs us that there are now ninety-seven newspapers issued daily in Great Britain and Ire'aiid, namely In London, eleven morning and seven evening in the provinces, fifty-two; in Scotland, ten; in Ireland, fourteen; in Wales, two ; and in the Channel Islands, one. A physician once refused to take a fee for attending a friend during a dangerous illness. Upon his recovery, however, the patient presented the agreeable amount in a purse, saying, “ fir, in this purse I have put every day’s fee ) nor must your good- | ness get the better of my gratitude.” The i Doctor eyed the purse, counted the num- | her of days, to a minute, and, holding out | his hand, replied, “Well, 1 can hold out j no longer. Singly, 1 could Lave refused I them for a twelvemonth, but altogether they are irresistible.”

The Re v. H. Beecher, in a sermon preached at Boston, United States, on the 19th ot December last, said“ Men got the notion that they had committed the sin against the Holy Ghost very often as the result of bodily weakness operating upon the mind. It assumed then the form of a religious melancholy Or insanity ; but, when men had any anxiety about it at all, it showed that there was a conscience left, and they Were not reprobates. Good Christian men sometimes got that notion. One of the predecessors of hIS father’s Chiltch—Dr Champin, of Litchfield, Connecticut—hal this conviction, and he never showed himself so much a Christianas whenhe thought that God was about to send him to hell, lot, if it was His will, he said he would go willingly. Well, he was very miserable about it, until the thought struck him that, when ho got to hell, he would open a prayer meeting there.”