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Southland Times, Issue 1665, 19 November 1872, Page 3

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good. As the snowdrop coraes amid snow and sleet, appearing as the herald of tho-rose and the harbinger of summer, so religion comes amid the blight of affliction to remind us of a perpetual summer wheu the sun never retires behind a wintry cloud. The desire of knowledge, like tbe thirst of riches, increase ever with the acquisition of it. ; There is nothing more allied to the ' barbarous and aavag character than sullenuess, concealment and reserve. Why is a pretty, weil-made, fashionable i girl like a thrifty housekeeper ? Because she makes a great bustle about a small waist. Why are ladies 9 dresses about the waist like a parochial meeting ? Because ther e is a gathering there, and always more bustle than neeessary. Why is a young lady's bustle like an historical tale ? Because it's a fiction founded on fact. Rich a.nd Comfokt_lble. — One of the most wealthy farmers ou the Connecticut tells tbe following story : — " When I first came to settle, about forty years ago, I told my wife I meant to be rich— all she wanted was enough to make her ' comfortable.' I went to work and cleared my land. I've worked hard ever since, and have got rich, as rich as I want to be. Most of my children have settled about me, and they bave all good farina. But my wife isn't ' comfortable' yet.