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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 569, 16 April 1868, Page 2

i An indiscreet man confided a secret to 1 another, and begged him not to repeat it. “ It’s all right,” was the reply, “ I‘will be as close as you were.” Parental Rkstonsuueitt.— The father moulds the head ; the mother the heart ; the father appeals to understanding; the mother to the affections ; the father prepares for time; the mother for eternity. Happy the children who heed the wise teachings of both. We read as follows in a recent issue of Hew York Times:—“Apropos of the recent meteoric showers and the explosions of steam boilers in every part of the country, Professor Loomis suggests a very uncomfortable theory in regard to the safety of the earth itself. Ho thinks it not impossible that sufficient steam might be generated in the burning centre of the world to blow the whole globe to meces. A volcanic eruption under the sea, or near it, like that of Yesuvious now in progresss, may at any moment convert the earth Into huge steam boiler, by letting the water iu upon the central fires, to he followed, for aaght we know, by an explosion that shall rend it apart, and send the fragments careering through space as small planets or meteors, each hearing off some distracted member or members of tb» tinman family, to make, perchance, new discoveries and new acquaintances in other parts of the planetry system now revolving, with us. So that the final catastrophe may after all, be only a boiler explosion on a magnificent scale of grandeur and destruction.”