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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2080, 5 January 1870, Page 2

Good Nature. —Be good-natured if you can, for there is no attraction so, great, no charm so admirable. A face'that is full of the expression of amiab lity is always beautiful. It needs no paint and no powder. Cosmetics arc superfluous for it. Rouge cannot improve its cheeks, nor lily white mend its complexion. Its loveliness lies beyond all this. It is not the beauty that is but skin deep. For when you gaze into the face of a noble-hearted man or woman, it is not the shape of the features yon really see, nor yet the tint of the cheek, the hue of the lip, or the brilliance of the eye: You sec the nameless something which animates all these, and leaves for your instinct a sense of grateful fascination. ' A farmer in a remote district of the Yorkshire wolds met a country rector who had been two years absent on travel. “Mr 1 Rector,” said the farmer, ‘‘you’ve been to the Holy Laud, I hear.” —“I have, John, and got safe back, you see.” —“ Well,” said John, “loften thou’t I’d like to hear about that spot. It’s a fine country, I lay,”— “ Well,” said the rector, “ I saw Lebanon, anfl Jerusalem, and the Twelve Palm- Trees, and the wells of water in the Great .Desert 5 and we went across the Jordan, and went up Mount .”—“Excuse me interruptin’ you, Mr Rector, noo,” said the farmer, “but if it be a fair question, hoo was, turmet (turnips) looking but yauder ?’■’ “The Panama and Now Zealand Royal Mail Co.’s steamer Mataura has been purchased by the Turkish Government, and rechristened the Babel. Her, old commander. Captain JJird, retains charge of her.