MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 736, 26 May 1876, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

- 0— A vagabond, who passed a night in the Melbourne Lodging-house, in which there are 298 beds, writes—“ I may mention one curious fact which may bo of interest to the churches. 1 particularly watched at night to see if anyone knelt in prayer. Not a soul. In the morning only one boy knelt, ■and that after every-one else had left the mom. Poor lad; I hope he was not ashamed of his devotion.” He who neglects religion prepares for himself a bitter draught, and a meal of wormwood ; a niaht-cap of thorns, and a bed of briars 5 a life of vexation, and a death of sorrow. A well known bank president of Worcester remarked on hearing of the bank robbery at Northampton—“l’m sick of this rascally world. Don’t want to see or do business with anybody. Pd rather be an old farmer, living on a cross-road four miles from the sight of everybody, with a barrel of cider and two hogs, than to have anything to do with banks, money, or men.”—Toronto Globe. Cool.—He was travel-stained and weary, and his eyes had a far-off, wistful look, as though he knew that rest was not for him below, let his tired heart crave it never so much. And as he humbly asked the lady of the house for a morsel of food, his venerable appearance and evident want aroused all her womanly generosity, and she presently set the poor tramp down to the remains of the family dinner. “ Poor old man !” she murmured sympathetically, as she saw him lean back in his chair, leaving his food untouched on his plate, “ he is too weary to eat”—and she asked him if he felt ill. “ Not exactly, mum,” was the answer in an humble voice ; but mns’ people cooks their mast beef till it’s overdone, an’ overdone beef don’t agree with me. Y’ hav’nt got any Wooster sauce, have ye! I mos’ gen’rally use it when beef a’n’t cooked to suit me." A lady asked a pupil at a public school. ■“What was the sin of the Pharisees?” ■“ Eating camels, marm,” quickly replied the child. She had read that the Pharisees ■“ strained at gnats and swallowed camels.” The European Mail says;—lt will he interesting to Australians to hear that the Brotherly Love, the vessel on board of which the great navigator, Captain Cook, served his time as a ship’s apprentice and obtained his certificate ns mate, is now afloat and trading on the Tyne, having just left South Shields for the Baltic. When we •consider it was in the year 1748 that Cook learned bis first lessons of seamanship on board the Brotherly Love, and that the vessel is still sound in her timbers, it would be a gracious act on the part of the British nation to preserve this fine old craft asagrand memento of one of her early explorers. The Brotherly Love is the property of Mr James Young, of South Shields, a gentleman who, whether viewed as a magistrate or a shipowner, is universally respected by every member of the community where he resides. We should take a prudent care for the couture, but so as to enjoy the present. Remedy for Neuralgia.—A friend of ours who suffered severe pains from neuralgia, hearing of a noted physician in Germany who invariably cured the disease, crossed the ocean and visited Germany for treatment. He was permanently cured after a short sojourn, and the doctor freely gave him the simple remedy, which was nothing hut a poultice and tea made from our common field thistle. The leaves are macerated and used on the part affected as a poultice, while a small quantity of the leaves are boiled down to the proportion of a quart to a pint and a small wine glass of the decoction drank before each meal. Our friend says he has never known it to fail of relief while in almost every case it has effected a cure, The little Hartford girl who gave utterance to the following idea was puzzling her mind with a problem that has bothered the world for ages. She was reproved for some childish act, and seating herself on the floor at her mother’s feet reifleeted a long time ami then, looking up, said : ‘ Why is it that naughty things are so nice ?’ The English North Pole Expedition refused to take any women along. la that frozen country, you know, a human voice can be heard two miles, and it’s a mean trick not to let the women have a chance to see if they couldn’t be hca-d twice as far. Holloway’s Pills and Ointment.— Unfailing Restoratives.—When climate, age, or hardship has undermined the health, skin diseases are prone to arise and augment the existing weakness. Holloway’s mendicamonts daily prove most serviceable, even under the most untoward circumstances. His well-known and highly-esteemed Unguent possesses the finest balsamic virtues, which heal without inflaming or irritating the most tender skin. Holloway’s Ointment and Pills are infallablo for curing had legs, varicose veins, swelled ankles, and erysipelas. They have long been famed for their power of subduing glandular inflammations, local irritations, eczema, prickly heat, and that annoying ciuption which frequently springs from neglecting out-door exercise.