Portfolio.
VENETIAN SONNETS.
VENICE.
City of palaces, Venice, onoo enthroned Secure, a queen 'mid fence of flashing waters, Whom East and West with rival homage
-----, owned
tora,
and old,
TO RAISE FOULTRY. Seriously, from early youth I have taken an especial interest in the subject of poultry-raising, and this membership touches a ready sympathy in my breast. Even as a schoolboy, poultry-raising was a study with me, and I may say without egotism that as early as the age of seventeen I was acquainted with all the best and, A wealthy mother with fair trooping daughspeediest methods of raising chickens, from raising them off a roost by burning lucifer What art thou now? Thy walls are grey matches under their noses, down to lifting them a fence on a frosty ni bt by in In thy loue halls the spider weaves his woof, sinuating the end of a warm board under their Aleprous crust creeps o'er thy house of gold, heels. By the time I was twenty years old, And the cold rain drips through thy pictured really suppose had raised more poultry than any one individual in all the section The frequent ringing of thy churchly bells round about there. The very chickens came to know my talout by-and-by. The Proclaims a faith but halt-believed by fow; Thy palaces are trimmed into hotels, youth of both sexes ceased to paw the And travelling strangers, a vague wonder-earth for worms, and old roosters that came to crow, remained to pray," when I pas- ing crew, Noting thy stones, with guide-book in their red by."
I have had so much experience in the hund,
raising of foris that I cannot but think that a few hints from me might be useful to the Society. The two methods I have already tonobed upon are very simple, and are only used in the raising of the commonest class of fowls; one is for summer, the other for winter. In the one case you start out with a friend along about eleven o'clock on a summer's night (rot later, because in some
roof.
Leave half the wealth that lingers in the
land.
LOED BYKUN AND THE ARMENIAN CONVENT. And lived he here And could this sweet
green inte
Volcanio stuff to his hot heart afford,
That he might nurse his wrath, and vent
his bile
THE CHINA MAIL.
jutes of the grape, while palm wine or turi, from which our word toddy is said to bo derived, became the favorite liquor wherever the palm tree flourished. In countries too cold for vine culture, but where honey abounded, the latter seems to have been preferred to cereals for ferraenting potpora. Mead, the liquor thus produced, was the favorite drink of our Auglo-Saxon forafa there, and of the people of Northern Europe generally, and it is still much used in Russia.
oumies has long enjoyed the repata don of being a remedy for consumption, the tribes using it being, it is said, remarkably free from pulmonary diseases, aud, with a view to its application medicinally for this beverage has recently been started in Eng. land.-Edinburgh Scotsman.
LIARS.
On gods and men; this proud, mistempered States-espéerally in California aud Oregon purpose, the manufacture of the Scythian politic. Liars are noticeable if only because, A thousand instances rise in the memory to trees fell on hito," where the bank of the
"lord? Alas! poor lord, to this soft leafy nest, Where only pure and heavenly thoughts
should dwell,
He brought, and bora and cherished in his
breast;
:
A home-bred devil, and a native hell. Unhappy lord If this be genius, then Graut me, O God, a Muse with suber sweep That I may eat and drink with common man, Joy with their joys, and with their weeping
weep:
Better to chirp mild loves in lowly bower, Than soar through stormy skies with hatred
for my dower.
SILVIO PELLICO AND THE PIOMBI,
O God! how oft from those hot lends arose The dolorous ory, "How long, O Lord, how
long
Shall patient right endure triumphant wrong, And jealous bars in pestilent coop inclose Earth'e elect sons, who would not queach
the light Of Thy law in their soul, and warmly Each kindliest human love, and sooner Than strangle Truth to serve usurping
Might p
cherished
ARCHIBALD FORBES,
"Atlas" in the World writes as fol- lows:-
Liars, so far as can be discovered, always formed an important portion of the body though representing one buge class, they possess in themselves and among themselves extreme diversity. It would be difficult to imagine any other representative corpora tion in which contrasts are so numerous at the time that every individual member is playing the one old game. That it is an old game will hardly be denied. All liars are not of a harmful description. Quite other wise, and happily so, as without some phases of the practice the world would have been far sadder and unwiser than it is at
a
There was a narrow space clear of wood,
[No 5056 SEPTEMBER 20, 1879,
A little brook slipped away without dis has considerable power in itself, though all wild Zoological attitudes, and even push are subordinate to the Ameer. The tribes (they dars not scratch) each other to be sound post the tall green rushes and the are subdivided into clans, which elect their first in the neighbourhood of the thick tea water plantains and the grey chequered own chiefe out of the oldest families; and and tarte. How unspiritual these pretty grass that lifts its spear-like points in moiet amongst these bodies & strong feeling of creatures look! The old carnal appetites places; a swift shallow streamlet winding republican independence seems to prevail. have returned, adian to art. By an effort through the meadow, its olear, surface Cartain it is that Asistic despotism is far of languishing will power, and in pursuance almost flush with the sward. Now running less apparent in Afghanistan than in most of earlier intentions, the picture galleries water draws a dreamer; so he followed it other countries of the East. This freedom are visited just at a time when the ineffable across the mead, past the footpath and the from personal rule, the Afghans are willing sensations of digestion present themselves. stepping stone that had sunk into the to purchase at the expense of contious} | Intellectual enjoyment is almost a thing stream: past the dark-green bunches of the It is possibly owing to the abundance of turbulence and frequent loodshed. Elph-impossible after a full meal. Art hat no marah marigolds, whose broad golden patala honey in South Africa that the drink re-instone, the traveller, after representing to glamour, colours no witohory, philosophy open under the harsh winds of early spring, appears among the Hottentots, the Caffs, them the many advantages which would no enchantment, and poetry no original and not far from the poowit's nest for abo and the natives of Madagascar. Honey is attend the establishment of a more sottled and dreamy spall after a liberal ncquaintance rose and flew round him, calling platatively, rot, however, the only animal substanco government, received for answer the empha with hot liquids and reeking chops. This her pure white breast almost within reach. from which a fermented beverage is ob ain. tio declaration, "We are content with dia- may he regretted: it cannot be avoided. till finding that her treasure was unheeded, ed. Among the purely pastoral races, whose gold, we are content with alarms, we are We must all eat--to live. But doubtless she slowly dropped behind; past the dog- wealth consists wholly of their flicks and content with blood; bat we will never be all refined minde, in all ages, have at times violete, blue but not sweet, that looked up herds, milk has been turned to account for tent with a master." Those who speak felt disgusted with tho unavoidable mental more boldly than their fore-runners, whose this purpose. The Mongols and Tartays us, however, are the ruling military class: ennui which follows the common-place but modest heads had scarce appeared above the have from time immemorial prepared an al- the tillers of the soil, belonging to another needful babit of eating. The rapt visione dead leaves on the bank. Yonder the roan coholic drink koown sa koumiss from mare's race, are mere serfs, compelled to acknow of Swedenborg, the spiritual ecstasies of cattle were feeding; and in the midat stood milk. This is placed in bottle-necked vessels ledze the mastery of their foudal lords, Wesley, ethereal introspections of Koats an ancient, gnarled, and many-twisted haw- and though industrious, intelligent, and and Shelley, the sacramental sweetness of thorn, whose bark had become as iron under made of akins, and sour milk of the cow is added as a 'ferment. As fermentation sets honest, systematically oppressed by men Keble's muse, and the classic reveries of the fierce heats and fiercer storms of years; in the contents of the skin are violently who will brank no oppression of them- Mrs Browning among the kaleidoscoped yet its branches were green, and growned stirred, and in a few days the liquor is ready. selves.Bistory of the Russo-Turkish War cathedral windows of Italy, were not in with the may-white virgin may-bloom spired by the greasy smell of chop-houses, scoating the air-and under its shadow a or the valgar fumes of hot grog. The young heifer meditated. Past hollow wil- oldan monks became canonised saints in lows, till presently the turf beneath grow proportion as they crucified the flesh" soft and yielding as velvet, bis foot sinking by determined abstemiousness of living. into the pile of the mass, and the shade of cickeno always rouse up just at midnight
illustrate how moral goodness and the book became steep, and low down in its bod intenser forms of a comely spirituality it rushed into the wood. and crow from ton to thirty minutes, ao
were developed by the assertion of a sharply- cording to the eano or difficulty they ex
After awhile oak and elm gave place to perience in rotting the public wake up)
defined individual disciplina in the matter black and gloomy firs that hung over and of daily diet. But temperaments and darkened the water. Large flecks of gray and your friend carries with him a sack. arrived at the hen-roost (your neighbour's
organisms differ; and constitutional relichen olung to them, and from above a red quirements must, in most cases, decide the squirrel peered down Here the thick not your own), you light a match and hold
question of food, its nature, and agreeable branches forced his steps asido from the it under first one and then another pullet's nose until they are willing to go into that I bave read, with great surprise and re-
time of consumption. It is not a question stream, and cut among the ash-poles where bag without making any trouble about it
gret, in an English journal which has been
on which to dogmatise, or lay down hard the wood-pigeons built their nests, and în bo, then cetare bome, either taking the forwarded to me in my Swise holiday
and fast rules for observance. This article the strength of their love looked down upon bag with you or leaving it behind, according retreat, & sneering and ungenerous attack
only views the question from a spirituelle him fearlessly from their feeble platforms of N.B. on Mr Arc ibald Forbes. The paragraph the present moment. If lying, as lying, is standpoint. Doctors differ as to the chatwigs. Under an ash-atelé he saw a rare as circumstances shall dictate, haps seus the ume who it was eligible and is a blundering and a stupid one, but it is in itself harmful, all poets, novelists, and racter and physiological effects of diet. plant growing, and stooped and went on his appropriate to leave the sack behind and nevertheless one which every English jour-fictionists, from Homer to the newest aur Casual writers, propound diametrically op. knees to reach it, and so pushed aside the wils of with considerable vel city, without nalist, with a love of his oraft, should be respondent at the seat of war, have sinned posed theories, and the public stands thick boughs, and, as it were, looked through
quick to reprehend. Mr Forbes's journal grievously, and must be condemned by the bewildered. The Fall Mall Gazette recently sereen, and his heart gave a great bound. ever leaving any word where to send it.
In the case of the other method mentioned istic career throughout has been a credit to very work which has hitherto given them told us that modern dinners kill scores of for ra sing poultry, your friend takes along him and to his profession, and its crowning face and (sometimes) fortune. Turning people before the appointed time of death, where a green footpath little used went by, covered rerasl with & charcoal fire in it, point has been his fifteen hours' ride with from fictionists pure and simple to Hars of through ilie immense programme of vary and a large, gnarled, crooked-grown ash- and you carry a long slender plank. This the Ulundi despatches. The writer-who everyday life, we may note that some of ing dishes, which "society" calls upon stole opposite, forming a natural armchair, Rapier, but for whom these when partaking of the romantic char people to attack, and habitually master, well lined with soft dry moss, and cacopied is a frosty night, understand. Arrived at eigna himself the tree, or frate, or other hen-roust (your "Stiletto would be a better designation, as acter are innocent and harmless enough, daily. The Globe learns from Vienna that overhead with leafy branches, drooping or if you are au idiot), you warm the end he thus stabs in the back one who cannot Some people cauzot, except under figrant high Austrian medical authority denounces woodhine and olimbing brier, wh of your plank in your riend's fre-vessel, defend himself at the moment-insinuates provocation, even bring themselves to speak the regular eating of meat, not only for its would soon bloom. The brake form, young and then raise it sleft and ease it up gently that Mr Forbes is in the habit of arrogating the truth. The truth seems as it were to
yet and tender, rose up and gave itself for aquinat a slumbering chicken's foot. If the to himself the praise due to others. It is choke them with its strangeness, and the
her footstool-for Margaret sat there, lean- subject of our attentions is a true bird, he not possible to use words strong enough in ease with which they refresh themselves
ing back luxuriously in her woodland throne. will unfallibly return thanks with a sleepy the denial of this shameful charge. A close after so arduous an effort with a gooi xound
He thought she must have heard the rastling cluck or two, and step out and take up intimacy of years enables me to state that relishing lle, would be remarkable were it
of the boughs he had paited, and still kept as an Indian hunter, holding his breath for quarters on the plank, thus becoming so there is no man who makes so light of bis not so common and everyday an occurrence, conspicuously accessory before the fact to exploits as the chief war correspondent of Least harmful of liars is perhaps the white
fear lest she should see him thes spying. A minute passed, and there was no motion; his own murdor na to make it a grave the Daily News, as there is no one more liar or rattie, whose chief aim is to amuse, question in our minds, se it once was in the ready to testify, in the heart at and most and who considers that to lie about some
Many thoughtful persons have noticed then he saw that her right arm hung down generous manner, to the deads of others, body or something is the easiest means to the the vulgarising tendency of hot mid-day listlessly that the head leaned a little to mind of Blackstone, whether lie is not really and deliberately committing suicide Before penning this venomous screed the end he has in view. This one never minds meals among the labouring classes. By one side, the fase rather away from him→→ some subtle and as yet unexplained law of that her hat had evidently dropped from in the second degree. [ sut you enter into writer should have tarned to a file of the acrificing himself, and is rarely inclined to
contemplation of these legal refinements Daily News and read Forbes's chivalrous make anyone suffer for his weaknes. Not human physiology, the minds of men are
her hand, and an open book had fallen of tribute to the achievements of the late Mr so with the next specimen, whose intention least aspiring, olear, energetic, and spiritu her feet. She was slumbering, subsequently-not then.]
is to be agreeable also, but who thinks that elle after an ordinary dinner. The grandest MacGahan. It is easy work to pen, at a
an amusing and agreeable lie never forms of imaginative genius have yielded to pot-house club, the laudation of an actor
meone corrupt instincts. Greedal religion is no whoretarua suppers for raise, or to write complete unless at the expense o up' to sporting cuts. That may not be the who is sent. Then comes the list who safeguard against individual grossness of highest style of literary art, but even that is simply malicious, whose sole desire is to character. How noble was Shelley-a❘ the ivied tree. effort to blacken the fame of a fellow-crafts- friend's character, and failing to discover Christian! The post was sweetly disposi-by in the hawthorn-the nightingale that man of whom all England is proud, and it in ordinary course has no scruple intioned, through constant vegetarian diet. by night is sad, but whose heart is fall of **finding it out" by means of the inventive The clever old beef-eating Churchman had, joy in the morning. The goldfinches swept whose only crime in the jaundiced view of
faculty. This creature is a pest no treat
to say the least, a carnal imagination, and a by overhead with a gleam of dolour from his censor is that he has succeeded.
ment is too hard for or epithet too vilo While I am on this subject, let me say that from what I have beard said at tables She-almost invariably it is a woman-ftly. Prepulsive to all ladies of refinement. their wings, coqueting on their way to the
The writer of this fragmentary plea for apple-trees. d'hote and in the fumoirs of continental brings us to the last on our list: the bar spirituality in matters of diet and dining is wh would tell any lie to escape detection by no means a vegetarian. The agreement is the usual figure, and fifty a not neem hotels, where the traveling English con- mon price for a specimen. Even its egga gregate, I am certain that Lord Beaconsfield or subsequent punishment, and who does is, that modern cating should be more not scruple to tell lie upon lie for the pur- moderate, and subordinated by the discipline are worth from a dollar to a dollar aud a would do a most popular thing in recom-
pose of fixing his or her own primary guilt of etiquette to man's intellectual and half a-pice, and yet are so uwholesome wending Mr Forbes for some distino fon,
spiritual inclinations. that the city physician seldom or never such as a civil Commandership of te Bath, upon innocent shoulders.-Referee. ordors them for the work-house. Still 1 Twice has this hardy and undaunted cam- have once or twice procured as high as a paigner brought despatches for the Govern dogon at a time for nothing, in the dark of ment at the risk of his life, arriving long the moon. The best way to raise the Black before the official curiora, after an exploit Spanish fowl is to go late in the evening the more bedily fatiguo of which would be and raine coop and all. The reason I re- far too much for most men to unde go. It commend this method is, that the birds is no secret that when be was last in Eng. being so valuable, the owners do not permitand Mr Forbes was invited by some of our them to roost around promiscuously, but highest dignitaries of State to give his nt them in a coop as strong as a fi e-proof opinion on the probable issue of events iu te, and keep it in the kitchen at night, the Russo-Turkish war, which he had just The method I speak of is not always a quitted; and that that opinion had some before his final exportation to the Spielberg bright and satisfyi g success and yet there weight in infuencing the action taken by in Moravia, The account of his sufferings are so many little articles of vertu about a this country. in that sweltering den during the summer kitchen, that if you fail on the coop you can
A friend of mine wired the following to montha is the most pathetic thing that I
ICapetown, in time to be forwarded to me know in human story. Nowhere else was generally bring away something else.
brought away a nice steel trap one night, by the Aubian, which arrived in Plymouth Christian faith more severely tried or more
worth ninety coats.
Sonad on Friday morning¦--- signally triumphant.-J. S. Blackie, in Macmillan's Magazine.
But what is the use in my pouring out
'Fiet-rmaritzburg, Tuesday, July 8. my whole intellect on this subject? I have shown the Western New York Poultry gaunt, grizzly, in absolute tatters from Old Forbes galloped in here last evening, INFINITE toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist, but by ascending a little Society that they have taken to their bosom riding through thorns, and plastered with you may look over it altogether. So it is party who is not a spring chicken by any and from head to foot. From morning with our moral improvement. We wrestle mans, but a man who knows all about 4th till last night had but three hours' sleep. nerozly with a vicious habit which would you try, and is just as high up in the most Repeated old Bulgarian tactics, and was have no bold upen u if we ascaded inter elicient methods of raising it as the Pra: first by twelve hours to acquaint Wolseley, sident of the institution bimself, I thank Frere, and whole South Africa with newn higher moral atmosphere.
DE DARWIN was of opiu.on that if a deaf these gentlemen for the honorary member of fight, victory, and burning Ulandi. person dreamed of hearings the internal ship they have conferred upon me, and Tough old beggaz; rode about three hund- parts essential to the function were anim-testify my good feeling and my official zeal alone through enemy's country, mostly shall stand at all times ready and willing to red miles in fifty hours: first hundred paired. The same remark, says Dr. Smith, by deeds as well as by this hastily ponned during night. Comic thing he had for is applicable to the blind; I have invariably advice and information. Whenever they gotton his revolver, and was absolutely bal inclinations, and the sleek students who young. Earth was never younger than she held him there that also impelled him to found that the incurably blind never dream
ure ready to go to raising poultry, lot them armed. Has gone off to Wolseley, ex- call for me any evening after eleven o'clock,
to overtake him to morsOW. His thigh swelled from contusion-spent bullet"
perished
Thy ways, O Lord; are dark, but not to me Hopeless for this, or bound with dark de-
spair;
All hangs together, and cach part must bear The burden with the bounts sent from Thee, As faithful Pellico through that steaming
det
Bebeld Thy face, and preached Thy grace to
men.
gall up.
a
physiological disadvantages, but because animal food gives in animal grossness to persons who consume it, and induces a red roughness of texture in the face, and upon the entire outer skin. Small wonder the Viennese ladies fall back opon catmeal, homo-onde brown bread, and the wide range of interesting vegetable foods.
When you wish to raise a no, large, donkey voiced Shanghai rooster, you do it The Casa d'Oro, a well-known palace ou with a lasar, just as you would a bull. It the right side of the Grand Canal, as you in because he must be choked, and choked effectually, too. It is the only good, certain Among the scores of little green islands wey, for whomever he mentions a matter is better than an attempt to shine by an "find out" something detrimental to a sceptic!- how repulsive was Dean Swift-a
which he is cordially interested in, the charic-s are ninety-nine in a hundred that he secures somebody else's immediate at tention to it too, whether it be day or
that dot the Venetian lagoons one stands prominent before the views of the atranger who has free prospect from any of the hotels that line the long range of the Riva degli Schiavoni. On this a pious Armenian, some time in the last century, founded a mon- astry and educational college for natives of his own country who might either be re- sident in Venice for purposes of trade, or might look to this central spot as a house of refuge for learning and piety amid the turmoil of the great world. Feets require solitude: and Lord Byron's domicile here, when composing Childe Harold, has made it a familiar gondola trip for all English strangers in the sea-built city. His Lord- ship's portrait and that of Napoleon 111. look down from the walls, most incongrusus patron-saints of so peaceful à retreat.
The Piombi are chambers covered with lend, in the topmost tier of the plate prison behind the Ducal Palace in Venive, where Silvio Pellico was confined for some time
of hearing and seeing..
u
night.
The Black Spanish is an exceedingly fine Tirty-five dollars bird and a cretly our.
A SPIRITUELLE VIEW OF DIET. (Psychological Review.)
"THE SWEET NEW GRASS WITH FLOWERS."
His chest pressed on the green fern, blus- bells hung over his feet.
"Coo-000-00!" the dove with burnished; neck called gently to her mate, sitting on
"Jug-jug-jug |” sang the nightingale hard
The sun looked on the world with glorious
eye.""
A ray, warm, but yet not forcely so, fell aslant between the leaves of the great oak-boughs above, and lit up one de- licate ear-small, white, with pink within, as in the shell the cameo-cutter graves with his tool; or rather, pink like the apple- bloom, that loveliest of flowers--for as a Is there not a moral and an aesthetic side
Bas-baal A long-drawn pettish bleating blossom it peeped forth beneath her brown to the common-place question of man's that sounded absurdly like the "Ma-ma” wavy hair. Her lips were slightly parted daily food? Surely this subject of diet has of a spoiled child. The lambs gambolled in "Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that its Shelleyesque as well as its utilitarian the genial sunshine over the daisies; the are even shorn, which came up from the bearings. We need not all be anti-meat ewes, arrived at the age of common sense, washing. For their backs are level and opinioniste, and live, move, and have our fed steadily on the young sweet grass and white, and glisten with the water. The highly-arched eyebrows did not meet above being upon Egyption lentils and haricot did not notice the flowers.
Geoffrey Newton looked at them from the the straight nose, but left a space there. beans. But midway between Vegetarianism and rank, undevout flesh-eating, there is another side of the hedge, where indeed he In some old magie book he had read that attractive pathway in matters of food, as had no business to be. He had carelessly this space was the peculiar precinct of the idealistic as it is profoundly reasonable. wandered in a day-dream from the footpath, Queen of Love. A brier had jealously What is more conclusive, as an argument and was now in the midst of mowing grass, snatched at the losse sleeve of the right arm, in favour of its adoption, is ita safety, from to walk in which is against the unwritten which hung down, baring the wrist a physiological point of view. We need laws of country life, because when trampled round, soft, white arm, veined with blue, an not here touch the medical side of the down it is difficult to mow. Yet there is a exquisite polish on the skin. The fingers question, or reproduce weighty testimony great pleasure in pushing throught it, tall were long and slightly rosy. From them a effects upon the human system of various ing to the knee-the very dogs delight in it, the book. from eminent doctors as to the comparative grasses and bonnets and sorrel stems reach- few flowers had dropped on the open page of kinds of food. The great diet controversy Bee a spaniel just let loose; how he circles Bo still was be that a weasel came along in the Times will be remembered; and pre round, plunging over it visible as he the green path, his week erest like a snake judices consolidated, shaken, er removed bounds up, lost to sight next moment in the in the grass, stopped, looked him straight in by recent physiological arguments, may be matted masa; the higher it is the more he the eyes, and went by without fear. He loft unnoticed by this short article, intended likes it,
gazed, rapt in the devotion of the artist, to be more suggestive than explanatory, Baa-maa!
till a sense came over him like that feeling Our Vegetarian brethren seem eccentric For how many thousand years have the which the Greeks embodied in the punish- to those of us who still hanker after freab lambs been happy in the spring-tide pment that fell on those who looked unhidden Yorkshire hame," derived from the tough the world is growing old. Natura is always and the perfect purity of the passion that and highly seasoned "eat sausages" and thought Geoffrey. And yet it is said that upon the Immortals. It was the strength
withdraw. Slowly he worked his way back- wards noiselessly, till, suficiently far away, he rose to his feet, and hesitated.
IN contention be always passive, never and I shall be on hand promptly.-Mark pooting, by some mysterious oross-riding, primitive and pastoral in their dietary
active on the defensive, not the assaulting party and then also give a gentle answer, receiving the furies and indiscretions of the
Twain.
* Being a letter written to a Poultry Society other like a stone into a bed of moss and that had conferred a complimentary membership aoit compliance; and you shall find it sit
upon the author.. down quietly; whereas anger and violence make the contention loud and long, and in- jurious to both parties.
WHERE old King Duncan, wandering about the grounds of Macbeth's Castle, and delighted with the fresh morning sir, has his attention called to the swallows that are
|
is to-day. Goethe was right there.
Thy works sublime are now as bright. As on creation's day they roas!"
How
If we could only somehow translate that eternal youth into our own lives if The dew still lingers here in the shade. slumberous it is even in the morning! Unseen lotos-flowers bloom in the spring, and the odour makes us drowsy,"
"If she be dead, then take my horse,
My saddle and bridle also ;7: For I will auto some for country,
Where no man shall me know t
old sows of Ireland. But the men of her
`exist on cauliflowers, are, to say the least,
selections. There is something truly artistic
Then he made a detour and stepped into and imaginative in all kinds of garden pro
the green footpath thirty or forty yards duce. But the smell of the butcher's
distant from her throne, and hegan to make THE AFGHANS,
slaughter-house, and the premature de-
a noise as he approached her. He rustled the struction of calves, seem to savour of mere
fern with his foot; he seized a branch and Being a race of warriore, accustomed to animal selfishness on the part of those to
forcibly snapped it, causing a sharp crack. a mountain life, and to vigorous exercises
whom flesh-eating in a daily necessity. The
A woodpecker, startled, flew off with a His eyelids fell as he walked on, and his discordant "Yuske" the dove ceased to ORIENTAL BEVERAGES. in the open air, the Afghans are alert majority of mankind merely live to cat. The Chinese bave made beer from a and hardy, and their personal appearance They never count the moral and intellectual slow steps led him whether they would. eoo; the brown nightingale was silent, and peculiar kind of rice for over 4,000 years. is striking. Though for the most part disadvantages of rabid over-feeding. Hence When a thoughtful men feele an over-sought a distant hazel-thicket. He lifted its inventor is said to have brought some swarthy and black-bearded, they are not the injury to health and to the refined powering love a great passion rising within his voice and sang--he hail a naturally flas of the new beverage to the Emperor, who, unfrequently as fair as Europeans. This spiritual faculties of the soul, by reckless, hi-his ideal often becomes a kind of voice-a verse of the dear old ballad, his clustering under the eaves and building on tasting it, remarked: "This liquor will would soom to indicato diversity of origin, ill-timed, and iaartistic meals. We may judge. All the creed of life that has grown favourite their nests in the buttresses of the old castle, cause great trouble in the Empire." To and indeed the Afghans of the Cabul except the case of well bred and educated up in the mind is passed in review. Will Banque observes to him he has himself no- prevent, if possible, the fulfillment of his valley-the original home of the race, from families, to whom eating is less a vulgar the half-formed scepticism, the firm dogma, ticed that where these birda build the air is own prophecy, be banished the inventor which saccessive conquests have spread the passion than an open question whether eat the theory, stand before the new light always delicate and pure. Here the little and forbade the manufacture, but this early Pushto dominion over other parts-looking has not, upon the whole, a vulgarising thrown upon them by the love that is in bit of personal gossip, the attempt in an un-attempt to nip the liquor traffic in the bud upon their distant countrymen with some
effect upon society in general,
itself a faith? designed way to give individual character to failed; the secret of the manufacture was degree of contempt, as coming of mixed
So he dreamed of Margaret, and saw and Off came his hat she had risen and faced Let ns not vulgarise the mental faculties Banque, is of quite inconceivable value in preserved, and the Chinese are still in blood. The houses of the rich are sately by inartistic feeding. Herein lies the did not see the beauty around him. His him, blushing faintly. Her deep gray eyen a play, as making you believe that the poet enjoyment of their venerable rice bear. The after the Eastern fashion, with court-yards, secret of imaginative ancomfortableness. feet, sinking into the soft green carpet, were looked down, and the long eyelashes drooped himself was under illusion.-Globe,
rulers of the Celestial Empire would seem gardens, and fountains, and are not want. Let us think more about Rnakin and the dusted over with the yellow pellen of the over them, as she held out her hand.
The of the bram- "I was coming to Greene-Ferne," said A FOETICAL writer has said that some men to have had more success in the suppression ing in the adornments of rich state, car delights of symbolic nature than the greasy ble projecting from the bush saugh at his he, "arid lost my way in the cops From move through life as a band of music moves of wine drinking, several Emperors having ings, paintings, and mirrors but the poor sway of the family butcher. Tennyson, down the street, flinging out pleasure ongoneto to root of the matter by ordering have little to mitigate their lot, and pas with his une fancies, or Turner, with his sleeve; but the weak tender prickles, not Greene Ferne Farm,” in Time. every side through the air to every one, far the extirpation of the vines. The strong their days in squalid misery. The Afghans outlines of the vast passions of the ever, yet hardened into thorns, gave way, and did and near, that can listen. Some men fill drink of the Japanese, known as sacks, is are Mohammedans of the Suomite com- preaching and ever consoling ses, gives, in dot hold. Slender oval leaves on a drooping the air with their strength and sweetness, also prepared from rice, and so is the brom munion, and therefore regard the Turkish the end, more emphatic comfort than the willow bough lightly brushed without awak-
ALL descriptions of insecta can be got rid as the orchards in October days fill the air of the Javanese, which is not considered Sultan, as the head of their faith. They hardened poultryman, or the carnal vendoring him. The thrush on her most aut still, of by simply using hot aluan water it will with the ripe fruit, Some women ing to rips until it has been buried in an earthen are remarkably tolerant, however, admitting of pale calves tongues! There is some- seeing with the intuition of wild ercatura destroy red and blank sati, cockroache their own houses like the honeysuckle over vessel for several months in the ground, on terms of equality into their country, not thing to admire in the great holiday crowds that no harm threatened her. Finches sang spiders, chinch-bags, and all the creeping the door; yet, like it, fill all the region with The numerous tribes of Central Afrios only Hindoca and Christians, but even lounging along the semi musical nave and on the toughs above, and scarcely moved as things which infeat our houses. Take tro
pounds of slum and dissolve it in the subtle fragrance of their goodness. How prepare malt liquors from maize and millet, members of the Shiite branch of the Mos dreamy terraces of Sydenham Palace. The he passed under. W great a bounty and blessing is it to hold the while the Kamchatkans have succeeded in letas, whom the Sunnites generally detest scene is a sommet, in the full play of its Crake-crake from the thickest of quarts of boiling water. Apply it wi royal gifts of the soul that they shall be extracting a spirit from one of their grasses, more than the outer infidels. Many Per- chaste dramatis personce; and what a the grass where the bird kept concealed, brush, while nearly boiling hot, to ever music to some, fragrance to others, and life Among the agricultural races, cereals were sisus, who belong to the Shiite body are delight it is to watch such poetry, living Butterflies fluttered from flower to flower in joint and crevics in your clones, marc
not the only materials from which alcoholic employed in high official stations, and it is and breathing! Everybody looks refined, their curious sidelong way. Every branch shelves, bedsteads, and the like. Brush liquors were prepared; the fruits of various only required that they shall batain from and their very laughter rings clear with and bush and blade of grass the air above the crevices in the Boar, 1 trees were pressed into the servies. Thus, uttering the ones on their upponents religious tones inspired by cheery art. Pass where the swallow floated, the furrow in the washing ceiling, plenty of alume 21- in vine-groing countries, du 1 draughts which are often considered by them a part out into the noisy feeding rooms. What a earth where the mise ran-all inclinet with to the lime, it will keep instal of Sarley wine" gave place, at least among of religious duty. The whole Afghan change at once both of manners and conate life; the glamour of the sunshine filling the anos. Wash your paintwork with cool Klnias the well-to-do classes, to the more generous nation is divided into tribes, sech of which nance Hare even esthetic ladles Basum field with a magic spell.
to all
A DAUGHTER is almost always right when abe endeavours to imitate her mother; but
the mother is seldom equally right when, at
a certain age, she tries to imitate hor daugh-
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