MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS

Southland Times, Issue 983, 10 July 1868, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS

Caution. — " My toy," said a distinguished merchant to his son, who was meditating matrimony, "be sure in making your selection, to get hold of a piece of goods that will wash." j Thttndee Made Visible. — DrTopler focalizes a ray of light on the object glass of a telescope, which is connected with a screen in auch a way that any disturbance of the air becomes visible ; for instance, the intense sonorous vibrations of the atmosphere produced by electric explosions show themselves in the telescope as visible rings or circles of light. The Boabd of Health. — An old lady from the country slept one night lately in the hou-e of a friend in town. Her bed happened to be a plain hard mattress, so much recommended a& more healthy to lie upon , than a bed of down. Next morning the old lady was asked how she slept overnight. " Mot very well," was the reply, " for my auld banes are sair wi' that hard bed o' yours," " Oh, but, Janet, do you not know that all the great physicians say that it is more healthy to sleep on beds as hard as a board ?" replied the host. " Ou, ay," said Janet, " an' I suppose thaf s what you toon bodies ca' a Soard o' Health." A Rote tob Taxkebs. — No one who wishes tbat conversation should be pleasant to his neighbours as well as himself should speak more than two or three sentences at once. However much he may have to say, it will be all the more agreeably said for. giving others the opportunity of asserting, illustrating, qualifying, or even contradicting. The ball needs to be returned by the opposite player to make a lively game. Being Kind. — Hew desirable is the presence of one who has ever hanging on his lips, ready for utterance, a word of love ! His entrance into any place is like a bright glowing sunbeam, warming ai.d reviving the hearts of all. Eyes sparkle with joy when he approaches, and shadows flee away* "When death snatches one from our household, and when we gaze upon the rigid features of our departed dear one, then we will never regret the gentle words spoken, and the Mud acts done, but we will regret every unkind sentence that has ever issued from our lips. Wet Days. — I think it must be Leigh Hunt that, in one of his letters, Bpeaks of a day that would make no one.but an umbrella-maker happy. During a series of such days, I ventured to congratulate my umbrella-maier. " Yes, that's all very well sir," he replied j but then there's nothing whatever doing in parasols." Why does " necessity know no law ?" Because the necessitous have no money to pay for it. To marriageable bachelors — "Beware of the paint."