ANECDOTES AND SELECTIONS.

among a people not unduly given to that sort of thing. Several of these musical plates have come down to us. Most of them bear inscriptions and mottoes in Dutch, but very many-and the most objecttionable of them have verses in the French language, and were doubtless made for sale in that market. Certainly they are very much in the spirit of modern opera bouffe, and would not be in demand at English or American dinner tables, nor even in France in the family circle. Others of these musical plates, instead of giving the verses at length and a mere suggestion of the tune, present the whole score, and give but the name of the song. Some have the music, not of a song, but of a minuet or gavot. Still others not only give the dancing tunes, but show us pictures of the dancer.

ANECDOTE OF HAMILTON.-Mr. John C. Hamilton, a son of Alexander Hamilton, gives to a correspondent of the Philadelphia Times this pathetic incident of his father: "The day before the duel I was sitting in a room, when, at a slight noise, I turned around and saw my father in the doorway, standing silently there and looking at me with a most sweet and beautiful expression of countenance. It was full of tenderness, and without any of the business pre-occupation he sometimes had. 'John,' he said, when I had discovered him, 'won't you come and sleep with me to-night?' His voice was frank, as if he had been my brother instead of my father. That night I went to his bed, and in the morning very early he awakened me, and taking my hands in his palms, all four hands extended, he said, and told me to repeat, the Lord's Prayer. Seventy-five years have since passed over my head, and I have forgotten many things, but not that tender expression when he stood looking at me in the door, nor the prayer we made together the morning before the duel."

WHY HELP GOD.-God does not need our help. Why, then, does He ask for it? Why put us to the touble of working for Him, why put us to the strain of giving for Him, why put us to the long endurance of patiently planning and waiting that we may accomplish His design? Because thus He develops us. This is His spiritual university in the world. Thus he applies not tests merely, but incitement, stimulants, means of instruction to whatever is best in us. The man who has given himself to his country loves it better, the man who has fought for his friend honours him more, the man who has laboured for his community values more highly the interest he has sought to conserve. The man who has wrought and planned and endured for the accomplishment of God's plan in the world sees the greatness of it, the divinity and glory of it, and is himself more perfectly assimulated to it.Dr. Storrs.

BELIEVE AND BE SAVED.-God commands you to believe, and nothing can release you from the obligation to obey Him. Jesus is able and willing to save you, and will never be more able or more willing than He is now. "Now is the day of salvation." Think not that you must make your heart better, and feel more love to God, before you believe in Christ. These are the fruits and not the fore-runners of faith, and the tree must be planted before the fruit can be gathered.

THE FIRESIDE.

The Fireside.

The

WALKING AS EXERCISE. When | largest quantity of ozone are those of health can often be gained by simple cherry, laurel, clover, lavender, mint, activity it is strange that so many pre-juniper, lemon, fennel, and bergamot; fer a life of lassitude and sickness. those that give it in smaller quantity Exercise is the sworn foe of despon- are anise, thyme, and nutmeg. The dency and ennui. It is the best of flowers of the narcissus, hyacinth, cathartics, for it is a natural one, and mignonette, heliotrope, and lily of the half the diseases of the people origi- valley develop ozone in closed vessels. nating from derangements of the diges- Flowers destitute of perfume do not tive organs could be prevented by pro- develop it, and those which have but per exercise. It is, however, of less slight perfume develop it in small value when used spasmodically. Exer- quantities. Reasoning from these facts cise should not be used for a day or a the professor recommends the cultivamonth, but for life. It should be as tion of flowers in marshy districts, and continuous and regular as sleeping, all places infested with animal emanaand for that reason there should be tions, on account of the powerful chosen a system of activity that can oxydyzing influence of ozone. yield experiences and pleasures ever inhabitants of such regions should, he fresh and new. I know of no better says, surround their houses with beds exercise of this character than walk- of the most odorous flowers. ing. In this the whole world is a gymnasium open and free to all, and needing no especial apparatus for its enjoyment. A pair of easy, well-soled shoes, and dress allowing free play of the muscles, is the only costume needed by either sex. Every muscle is brought into action by the pedestrian, while the pure air in which he moves is poured into the system, giving to the blood a vitality healthy and vigorous. In walking we have also the combination of mental pleasure with physical exertion. In the world of nature around us things are never the same. All the various beauties that nature boasts add continuously to the pleasure of the pedestrian, elevating and purifying the mind, and giving strength and health to the body.

EFFECTS OF PERFUME ON HEALTH. -An Italian professor has made some very agreeable medicinal researches, resulting in the discovery that vegetable perfumes exercise a positively healthful influence on the atmosphere, converting its oxygen into ozone, and thus increasing its oxydyzing influence. The essences found to develop the

CHARCOAL FOR FOWLS.-There is one thing which nature does not supply and which civilization renders quite necessary to fowls. It is charcoal. Charcoal made from wood does not food, is not attractive to the fowl, and answer the purpose. It has no taste of is seldom eaten. But if any one will put an ear of ripe corn into the fire until the grains are well charred, and then shell off the corn and throw it to the flock, he will see an eagerness developed and a healthy constitution brought about which will make a decided improvement. All pale combs will become a bright red, that busy song which precedes laying will be heard, and the average yield of eggs will be greatly increased.

ENEMIES OF THE POTATO BEETLE.The following are the names of the enemies of the Colorado potato-beetle :

Crows, quail, rose-breasted grosbeaks, ducks, chickens, guinea-fowl, skunks, toads, black snakes, granddaddy long-legs, yellow mites, ladybird, rust-red social wasps, tigerbeetles, ground beetles, soldier-beetles, tachina flies, asilus flies.

NOTES AND QUERIES-FACTS, HINTS, GEMS, AND POETRY.

Notes and Queries.

Facts, Hints, Gems, and Poetry.

Bread was first made of yeast by the English about 1650. The latest students of diphtheria re-more than 220,000 acres of land each, gard it as a remote modification of the plague. It was known in Egypt more than 2000 years ago.

FACTS, HINTS, GEMS, AND POETRY.

JIM CROW AND PEPPER, THE AUSTRALIAN BLACKS.

THERE was a little black child found wandering about in the streets of Melbourne. There he was seen by Rev. S. L. Chase, who pitied him, and talked kindly to him. The boy said, "My country is the Wimmera; my master is a Mr. Ellerman; my mother was shot by a white man, after which I became very ill, and the blacks carried me about. When I was better I went with a wool-dray to Melbourne, where I was lost among the people."

Mr. Chase called him Willy Wimmera, and took him to England to have him educated. There he became a Christian, and was regarded as the first-fruits of Christ from the blacks of Australia. He died at Reading, and was buried in the churchyard there. But what was the sequel of this touching story?

A few years passed away, and Mr. Hagenauer, of the Moravian Mission, was in Australia, at work among the Aborigines. He says:"A few months after the first awakening among the blacks I was sitting with a number of black men in our humble hut at the Mission station, reading with them the word of God, and explaining to them the same in the most simple manner. They were all very attentive, especially Pepper, who was under instruction preparatory to baptism. In the evening I proposed to read to them the story of a little black boy who had been lost in the streets of Melbourne. All seemed much pleased. They listened with great attention, and, as I went on, I noticed by the expression of their countenances that there must be something unusually striking for them in the words they heard. They seemed quite electrified when I read the words, My country is the Wimmera, my master is Mr. Ellerman, and my mother was shot by a white man!'

'Weeping, they sprang from their seats, and one of them said, 'That was JIM CROW; I was with him when his mother fell dead to the ground, after the ball had entered her heart. That,' pointing to one of the youths, is his little brother, and outside, in the camp, is his old father, Dowler; and all of us are his cousins. Close to where this hut stands, under the shade of the pine trees, we children were sitting with our mother, when the white man's ball killed Jim's mother, and down near the corner of the garden is the place where she was buried.'

"In the silence of midnight we went to the pine-grove near the house, where, through the deed of a professed Christian, the poor woman's blood was shed. That was a mysterious beginning of a