Miscellaneous.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1628, 9 December 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

Miscellaneous.

BILIrABP ON BOYS. ' ' There's more in the boy than there is in the college. In these days of cheap books any boy or girl can get an education if they want it, but my observation is, that not more than one in ten, want an unusual quantity. If the . family takes a good newspaper and has a Bible and a few books in the house, and the children do an honest day's work, they'll get along about as well as the college boys in the long ran, and, do as much good in the world. Congress has got more smart.men than anyplace, I reckon, but if I^vas hunting for honest mem I would cruise around outside a while before t went in, and if I was hunting for patriots, who thought it sweet to die for their country, I wouldn't go in at all. The best people I know of, and the most reliable in the time of trouble, are living an humble life, and making no noise in the world, and they are not surfeited with education either,— Atlanta Constitution. . , - *

MARJORIE. By Mary F. Tucker. Marjories story is nothing new, She loved unwisely, as women do, As women will — and called it fate, Poor heart ! so broken and desolate ! Over her head, with its crown of gold, Seas of sorrow have surged and rolled ; Grief, like a mantle, wraps her about ; Shadow within, and shadow without. Luckless the suitoiswho comes to woo, Never a word will she listen to ; Never a pulse of her heart will stir, Thero is only one in the world for her. Fair was the face, with smiles run o'er, It is to-day, and she smiles no more, (Nor breeze nor blast hath power to wake A ripple upon a frozen lake.) Alas, for the head with crowns of gold ! The tempter came, as ho came of old ; Alas, for the heart that was glad and light ! Alas, for the soul that was pure and white i Censure who may — condemn who must, It was perfect faith— it was utter trust ; That asked her promise, nor pledge, nor sign, He was hers — she was his, by law divine. He was lifted up— he was set apart, He filled her thought— he filled her heart ; She called him great— she helieved him true ; As women will — as women do. Oh to betray such a tender trust ! (God will repay, and he is just) Through wrong and ill she loves him still, As women do — as women will. Giving little, and taking much, Fickle and false — there are many such ; Selfish and cruel — you know the rest, He hroke the heaj't that loved hivi test.

ENGLISH BEMCS. A piece of the True Gross is one of the man] Catholic relics said to be .preserved ir England. This relic is in St. Mary's"Con vent, York, and is described, together wifcl others, in the current number of the Month It is in a silver cross, and was sealed up som< time between the" year 1257 and 1662. Th< relic is between 1J and 1| inches long, and it: history is traced back to the Ninth Century when it was the property of Arnulph, the Patriarch of Jerusalem. He obtained it from the pilgrims of the Holy Sepulchre, whe found it in Jerusalem. It is preserved in a pectoral cross, with twe cross bars or transoms, forming a patriarchal cross 5£ inches long, about J inch broad and thick, its transoms 1£ and 1J inches long respectively. The cross is formed of thin silver plate, gilt and chased with scroll work on the front and back. On the sides of the stem is an inscription in three lines of italic text. The relics which it contains, and whiob seem to fill it completely, are sealed with a seal which was employed by the Chapter oi St. Omers during the vacancy of the see fox five years after the death of Bishop Ohristophe de France, a.d. 1657 and 1662. This seal exhibits a shield of arms, three fir cones upon a crozier, with the whole surrounded by an inscription which determines pretty nearly the date when the first inscription (in italic text) was engraved on the sides of the pectoral cross. Probably at the same time certain repairs were made, for the lowest joint of the back is chased with scroll work very different from the rest, and certainly much later.

At a sale at Sotheby's the other day, a copy of the first Kilmarnock edition of Burns' poems, an octavo, sold for £67, while a copy of the Edinburgh edition of 1787 fetched £6. All this time, the only surviving member of the poet's family is passing his last years in Glasgow poor-house. —Truth.

It is said, that an Italian who began gathering old bottles in a bag, a few years ago, has recently paid nineteen thousand dollars, for a residence in this city. The Boston Advertiser recommends that this dew profession be borne in mind by the young men in our colleges, who are, in the language of their class-day orators, "standing on the threshold of active life." It is to be said in favour of this occupation, that a good many young men, on emerging from college, have a larger capital of empty bottles to begin with, than of information which would be of service to them in any profession or dignified calling. On<Je upon a time, while Field Marshal Murat Halstead was discussing the ethics of journalism with a few friends, he felt moved to remark :, " Well you may talk about the idiots you have known in the profession, but we have the blue-ribbon ass of the Ohio press up at Dayton." At that moment the door opened and a visitor entered. '• And, dear me! here he is," continued the imperturbable Field Marshal: " Gentlemen, this is W. D. Bickham, of the Dayton Journal, Bickham, we were just speaking of you."