VARIETIES.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 17, 6 January 1863, Page 3

VARIETIES.

lIAPpr\ES3. — The foundation of domestic happinoss is faith in the virtue of Woman ; the foundation of political happiness is confidence in the integrity of man ; the foundation of all happiness, temporal and eternal; is reliance on the goodness of God. How to.ciet at it. — ~No one knows what he is capable of doing, until necessity has pinched him into active exertion. The best tea in the world must be put iuto hot water before you can develop its real qualities. The best coffee you can got must be '• done brown " before you can begin to ascertain what it is good for. And precisely so is it with human beings. In ordinary life they may bo dull, insipid, common-place, and apparently without a particle of individuality, iiut get them into '' hot water." Let fortune turn tail on them, find "do them up very brown " indeed. Let the world roast them well, and then you'll ascertain their exact flavour. If they have anything in them whatever, it will come out at such a time. If made of common slu.T, such a trio! will only render them more insipid than ever. If mare of raw material, the exigency will bring "Hit in bold relief their latent excellences, and tney will charm us with a freshness and vigor they never exhibited before, because inexorable circumstances never demanded it. Love. — The question is sometimes suggested, who loves the deepest, man or woman? It is difficult to say ; a rule either way would be marked \>y so many exceptions. But there is no doubt that love is the great leading activity of a won.an's life. Man has other tilings which divide his attention — the cares and anxieties of the world— the struggle for fame, or wealth, or power — press more closely upon him ; hut love is to woman the grand reality — she lives in an atmosphere of love. You may purchase any stamp at the stamp oifiee, except the stamp of a gentleman. What tribe of ludians could obtain a loan with the most ease P — Pawu-ees. " I haven't another word to say sir — never dispute with fools '." — '■' No," was the reply, "you are very sure to agree with them ."' Sometimes it 12133' not be unpleasant to have a jealous wife ; she is always talking of what pleases her hushnnd. " I wish you would not give me such short weight for my money," said a customer to a grocer, who had an outstanding bill against him. — "And I wish you wouldn't give me such lowj tea it for mine," replied the grocer. Such is the Boeiablencss of music, it conforms itself to all companies, both in mirth and mourning; complying to improve that passion with which it finds the auditors most aifeeted. THE PISHWIPE'S ADVICE TO ITEB BAIEN. Ken the kintra, Kirsty, ken it wide an' weel, Ere ye cry a codlin', ere ye back a c.eel. -Mini be wi' the leddies — wordsareeasyspnir'd — Selling flukes an.' baddies, bargain wi 1 the laird. Cosh bo wi' your kimmcrs, whether auld or young ; But wi' fly ting liinmors mind your mithers tongue. Let the auld and needy ken you hae a creel ; Hut thegrippin' greedy, pit to them weel. Freely birl your bodie, when the wark gaes weel ; J3ut ne'er lade yoor noddle till ye've toomed your creel. Learn to blaw an' blether haith wi' lad an' lass — Gie your tongue nae tether, laug's it brings the brass. Sac, ken the kiutra, En-sty, ken it wide an' weel, Ere ye cry a codlin', ere ye back a creel. — Scotsman. Who, at every promise, intends to perform more than his promise and can depend on the sincerity of his will, is more prudent than just. Benefit your friends, that they may love you still more dearly ; benefit your enemies that they may become your friends. There is a good reason why a little man should never marry a bouncing widow. lie might bo called the " widow's mite." The largest room in the -world — The " room for improvement." liead not the writings of an egotist, if you would not come under the influence of the evil I. What word is that in the Eugiiah language of which the two first letters signify a man, the three first a woman, the four first a great man. and the whole v great woman ? — Heroine.

The literni'y gardener, if unable to purchase garden implements, wo \\d do well to walk about his grounds with one of Sir Walter Scott's novels under his arm.. If asked what he has got there, he may reply, "Tve-an-htic." It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and a very arduous task to astonish them ; but essentially to benefit and to improve them, is a work fraught with difficulty, and teenring with danger. A wooden-legged amateur happened to be with a Virginian skirmishing party lately, when a shell burst near him, smashing his artificial limb to bits, and sending a piece of iron through the calf of a soldier near him . The soldier "grinned and bore it " like a man, while the amateur was loud and emphatic in his lamentation. Being rebuked by the wounded soldier, he replied, "Oh, yes ; it's all well enough for you to bear it. Your leg didn't cost you anything, and will heal up ; but I paid 200 dollars, for mine." Be Open. — Fear not to have every action of your life open to the inspection of mankind. Remember that a nicer causist than man sees into your least actions. Answer to him, and fear no man. A Good Man.— The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth, where the deity sits enthroned with unrivalled influence, every subjugated passions, " like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word." "Mothee." — Mother! O, word of undying beauty; thine echoes sound along the walls of time till they crumble at the breath of the Eternul. In all the world their is not a habitable spot where the music of that holiest word has not sounded. By the golden flow of the river, by the crystal margin of the brook, under the leafy shade of the forest tree, in the hut built of the bamboo cane, in mud-thathced cottage, by the grand peaks of mountain, the wide spread valley, on the blue ocean, in the changeless desert where the angel came down to give the parched lips the sweet waters of the wilderness, wherever the pulses of a human heart beat quick and warm, or float feebly along the current of failing life, there is that sweet word spoken, like a universal prayer — " Mother." Whenever you see a man spending his time in lounging about, talking politics, you need not expect that he has any money to lend.