2nd Month.] The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet. [28 Days. THE first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. No man is the wiser for his learning: it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a man. -Selden. THE learned man is only useful to the learned; the wise man is equally useful to the wise and the simple. The merely learned man has not elevated his mind above that of others; his judgments are not more penetrating, his remarks not more delicate, nor his actions more beautiful than those of others; he merely uses other instruments than his own; his hands are employed in business of which the head sometimes takes little note. It is wholly different with the wise man: he moves far above the common level-he observes everything from a different point of view; in his employment there is always an aim, in his views always freedom, and all with him is above the common level.-Richter. THE KEY TO KNOWLEDGE :Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others; Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart. Schiller. THE highest and most profitable reading is the true knowledge and consideration of ourselves. WHAT is it you love in him you love? What is it you hate in him you hate? Answer this closely to yourself, pronounce it loudly, and you will know yourself and him. Ask not only, Am I hated? but, of whom ?Am I loved? but, why? As the good love thee, the bad will hate thee. WHO knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends; he, and he alone, is wise. Reading. WERE I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things may go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse collection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history-with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him.-Sir John Herschel. the late Prince Consort, and 7 F S by patent this day, 1351, upon Henry, when it expired the fee-simple was purchased from the trustees of the Earl of Fife. The castle is a castellated, palatial mansion, in the Scottish style, with a tall and picturesque tower, flanked by bartizan turrets. The whole is of white granite, and was designed and planned by Prince Albert. The arrangement of the interior is said to be simple in the extreme, but in perfectly good taste, and well suited to a Highland residence. The Queen's rooms look towards the west. Her Majesty, recording in her "Journal," in 1848, her first impressions of the scenery about Balmoral, mentions a wooded hill in the immediate neighbourhood, where there is a cairn, and up which there is a pretty from here," her Majesty rewinding path. "The view marks, "looking down upon the house, is charming. To the left you look towards the beautiful hills surrounding Loch-na-Gar, and to the right, (or valley) along which the Dee winds, with beautiful wooded hills, which reminded us very much of the Thiringerwald. It was so calm and so solitary, it did one good as one gazed around; and the pure mountain air was most refreshing. All seemed to breathe freedom and peace, and to make one forget the world and its sad turmoils." towards Ballaker, to the glen GARDENING FOR THE MONTH. Finish Sow main crops of peas, beans, cabbages, onions, fortnight. Jerusalem artichokes, sea-kale, asleeks, carrots, parsnips, Brussels sprouts, bore- paragus, and peas, raised in frames, may now be coles, lettuces, and spinach. In the beginning planted. Propagate by slips the various potand the end of the month sow turnips and savoys. herbs, as mint, sage, savory, tansy, &c. In the last fortnight sow asparagus, cauliflower, the pruning of fruit trees before the middle of the sea-kale, celery, &c. Small salads should be month. Begin grafting in the third week. In sown every ten days. Plant early potatoes in the last week sow hardy annuals in the borders, the first week and a main crop during the last with biennials that flower the first season. APRIL,] Every man doth his own business best THE MOON'S CHANGES. First Quar., 4th, 636 ev. | Last Quar.,20th, 5 47 m. ITu All Fools' day. April showers Make May flowers.-Proverb. SUN AND SETS. 3 Th The battle of Navarette, and victory R. 5 33 4 F of Edward the Black Prince, by which Peter the Cruel was replaced S. 6 36 13 Easter Sunday. The precise R. 5 11 time for keeping Easter has been a [1873. The Queen's Visit to 3 34 by the Prince of Wales, HE Queen, accompanied 4 28 went in state, on Tuesday, the lined the streets on that day, and filled every window on the route from Buckingham Palace to St. Paul's, the temdecorations, the flags and porary galleries, the floral shields and countless pennons, and the gorgeous illuminations which enlivened the night, cannot here be described. Suffice it to say, that there has never been in modern times 09 such another grand outburst of unanimous popular enthu53 siasm. To have seen one such I 39 demonstration is enough for a lifetime. R. 5 38 s. 6 33 5 21 6 14 S upon the Castilian Throne, 1367. 14 M S. 6 53 15 Tu and Western Christians. Easter Term begins. R. 5 6 16 W The equestrian statue of Charles II. Is S. 6 56 set up in the Parliament Close, at 17 Th Edinburgh, at a cost of more than R. 5 18 F one thousand pounds, 1685. S. 7 O 23 24 in Greece, 1824 2 30 The procession started from Buckingham Palace at five minutes past twelve o'clock. It was led by the carriages of then Speaker, the Lord-Chancellor, and the Commander-inChief, and was composed of drawn by four; and the ninth nine royal carriages, the eighth by six horses. The various occupied the last two, her members of the royal family Majesty the Queen being in their Royal Highnesses, the the ninth, accompanied by with their eldest child, Prince Prince and Princess of Wales, Albert Victor of Wales, and Princess Beatrice. The time selected by our artist is when o 28 her Majesty was passing up the nave of St. Paul's to the I 20 royal pew. The serious illness 14om the close of Nov. to the of the Prince of Wales dates 39 middle of Dec., 1871. aft. GARDENING FOR THE MONTH. ~ Sow asparagus, sea-kale, beet, carrots, and air, by covering with straw or leaves. Sow main onions on heavy soils; also peas, beans, turnips, or succession crops of annuals of all sorts; halfspinach, celery, cabbages, savoys, and German hardy annuals in warm borders, or on slight hotgreens for succession. Sow broccoli and kidney- beds. Biennials and perennials should be sown beans both in the second and in the last week. before the middle of the month. Plant Tigridia Plant cauliflower, cabbages, sea-kale, lettuce, and pavonia, and fine stocks. Finish the transplanting finish the planting of the main crops of potatoes. of herbaceous plants by the end of the first week, Attend to the hoeing and thinning of spinach, Plant out tender deciduous trees and shrubs onions, turnips, &c. Earth up cabbages, cauli-raised in pots. Remove part of the coverings of flowers, peas, beans, and early potatoes. Stake all tender shrubs and plants in the first week; and peas; blanch sea-kale and rhubarb in the open the remainder at the end of the mouth. The Way to Wealth. FRANKLIN'S two simple rules for making money plentiful in every man's pocket : 1. Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions. 2. Spend a penny less than thy clear gains. SLOTH, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears: the used key is always bright. DOST thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. THE sleeping fox catches no poultry. SLOTH makes all things difficult, but industry all easy. LAZINESS travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. DRIVE thy business; let not that drive thee. AT the working man's house, hunger looks in, but dares not enter. WHO dainties love shall beggars prove. Ar a great pennyworth pause awhile. "Now HERE is the test, with every man, of whether money is the principal object with him or not. If in mid-life he could pause and say, have I enough to live upon; I'll live upon it, and and go out of the world poor as I came into it". having well earned it, I will also well spend it, then money is not principal with him. But if, having enough to live upon in the manner befitting his character and rank, he still wants to make more, and to die rich, then money is the principal object with him, and it becomes a curse to himself, and generally to those who spend it after him. For you know it must be spent some day; the only question is whether the man who makes it shall spend it, or some one else. And 'Tis a foolish thing to lay out money in a pur- generally it is better for the maker to spend it, chase of repentance. for he will know best its value and use.-Ruskin. |