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Southland Times, Volume VII, Issue 523, 20 July 1866, Page 3

WrrAT an Iro> t Bar Became — A ba of iron worth five dollars, worked into horse-shoes, is worth ten dollars and a half ; made into needles, it is worth 855 dollars ; made into penknife blades, it is worth 3285 dollars ; made into balancesprings of Avatches, it is worth 250,000 dollars. What a drilling the poor bar must undergo to reach all that ; but hammered and beaten and rolled and rubbed and polished, how was its value increased? at might well have quivered and comIlained under the hard knocks it got ; put were they not all necessary to draw out its fine qualities, aud fit it for higher oineL\s ? And so, all the drilling and and training to which you are subject, all the trials and hardships, thumps and pains which often seem so hard to you, serve to bring out your nobler aud finer qualities, and to fit you for the more responsible posts and greater usefulness in the world. Ixexiiaustable Ivory. — New Siberia and the Isle of Lackon are, for the most part, only an agglomeration of sand, ice, and elephants' teeth. At every tempest the sea casts ashore fresh heaps of mammoths' tusks, and the inhabitants are able to drive a profitable trade in the fossil ivory thrown up by the waves. During summer, many fishermen's barks direct their course to this islaud of bones ; and in winter, immense caravans take the same route, all the convoys drawn by do°"s, returning charged with the tusks of the mammoth, weighing each from a hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds. The fossil ivory thus obtained from the frozen north is imported into China and Europe, where it is employed for the same purpose as ordinary ivory — which is furnished, as we know, by the elephant and hippopo- i tamus of Africa and Asia. The isle of bones has served as a quarry of this valuable material for export to China for five hundred years ; and it has been exported to Europe for upwards of a hundred. But the supply from these strange mines remains undiminished. What a number of accumulated generations does not this profusion of bones and tusks imply. — All the Year Hound. Imprudent Parents. — A fine-looking man, of noble physique, and clad in overcoat, gloves, and stout boots, was walking out the other day with his little three-year old daughter — a palefaced child, with bare neck and arms, and slippers. A neighbor, meeting them, began to ask, with great apparent concern, after the father's health, adding — " But I am glad your little one does not inherit your feeble constitution." — " Eeeble constitution !" exclaimed the astonished parent ; " why, I was never sick a day in my life; while, as to my daughter, we fear she has her mother's consumptive tendencies." — " Indeed !" replied his friend' with a sly twinkle of the eye, " you take such extra care to protect yourself from the cold, while she goes bare-necked and in thin shoes, that I inferred it was you that inherited the mother's consumptive tendencies, and not s^e." G-overnor Storks and the Baptist Missionaries. — The other evening a meeting was held in the schoolroom of Heath-street Baptist Chapel, Hampstead : the Rev. W. Brock, jun., presiding, to hear addresses from Dr. Underbill and othors on the subject of missionary work among the heathen. In speaking of Jamaica, Dr. TJnderhill said that the Baptist Missionary Society had received a message, through a missionary, from Governor Storks, wishing them to establish a Mission at Morant Bay. Governor Storks promised to exert his personal efforts on their behalf, and, if they required it, he would endeavor to obtain pecuniary assistance for them from the. Treasury. But that, of course, the Baptists. could not, on principle, accept. He (Dr. Underhill) thought that after that, nothing more could be said against the conduct of the Baptist missionaries in Jamaica, but that it would be seen that they had acted with perfect integrity — Times. It is not an unusual thing to hear sentimental young ladies singing in the parlor. " Who Will j Care for Mother Now ?" while the old lady is j down in the kitchen polishing up the rusty old j stove, or splitting wood to cook breakfast. A Lawyek's Hobse.— A well-known lawyer had a horse that always stopped and refused ; o cross the mill-dam bridge leading out of the oily. JTo whipping, no urging, would carry him over j without stopping. So he advertised him, "To b<> \ sold, for no other reason than that the owner j wants, to get out of town."