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. Thought. the only excellence that he can boast. MAN is evidently made for thinking: this is To think aright is the sum of human duty; and the true art of thinking is to begin with ourselves, our Author, and our end.-Pascal. Conversation. ONE of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid; nor can there well be anything more contrary to the ends for which people meet together than to part dissatisfied with each other or themselves.Swift. "Он, many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant ; 6 37 the late Prince Consort, and 7 F 8 S by patent this day, 1351, upon Henry, R. 6 34 7 29 The immediate when it expired the fee-simple was purchased from the trustees of the Earl of Fife. 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 mentions a wooded hill in the the scenery about Balmoral, where there is a cairn, and neighbourhood, 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, towards Ballaker, to the glen (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." GARDENING FOR THE MONTH. 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. Finish 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. 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. In 3rd Month.] "He that would thrive must rise by five; He that has thriven may lie till seven."-Proverb. BALMORAL CASTLE. E 31 Days! racter. Who writes an illegible hand is commonly rapid, often impetuous in his judgments.— Lavater. Ir is in the relaxation of security, it is in the expansion of prosperity, it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening in festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned. If there is any good in them, it appears then or never. Even wolves and tigers, when gorged with their prey, are safe and gentle. It is at such times that noble minds give all the reins to their good nature. They indulge their genius, even to intemperance, in kindness to the afflicted, in generosity to the conquered; forbearing insults, forgiving injuries, over-paying benefits. Full of dignity themselves, they respect dignity in all, but they feel it sacred to the unhappy. But it is then, and basking in the sunshine of unmerited fortune, that low, sordid, ungenerous, and reptile souls swell with their hoarded poisons; it is then that they display their odious splendour and shine out in the full lustre of their native villainy and baseness.-Burke. nap. The Advantages of Early EARLY rising is equally important to the health of the system as early rest. On no account should any one permit himself again to slumber after the moment of his first awaking in the morning, whether this happen at the early dawn or before the sun has risen, even though from accident or unavoidable causes he may not have enjoyed his six or eight hours of repose. It is much better to make up the deficiency, if necessary, at some other time, than to attempt taking another Whoever shall accustom himself thus to rise, will enjoy more undisturbed sleep during the night, and awake far more refreshed, than those who indolently slumber all the morning. Even this second nap is, however, by no means so injurious to health as the practice of continuing in bed of a morning, long after waking; nothing tends, especially in children and young persons generally, more effectually to unbrace the solids, exhaust the spirits, and then to undermine the vigour, activity, and health of the system.-Journal of Health. THE difference between rising every morning at six and at eight, in the course of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same time he otherwise would, amounts to 29,000 hours, or 3.years 121 days and 16 hours, which will afford it is the same as if ten years of life were addedeight hours a day for exactly ten years; so that a weighty consideration-in which we could command eight hours every day for the cultivation of our minds or the dispatch of business. FEW ever lived to a great age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising. The Queen's Visit to THE Queen, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, went in state, on Tuesday, the 27th of February, 1872, to St. 6 14 to God for the Prince's rePaul's, to give public thanks 2875covery from his dangerous ill Easter Sunday. The precise R. 5 11 time for keeping Easter has been a 5 09 cause of contention between Eastern S. 6 530 53 ness of the close of the preced- lined the streets on that day, I 39 demonstration is enough for a lifetime. 4 F of Edward the Black Prince, by R.5 38 s. 6 33 R. 5 33 3 34 4 28 5 21 S. 6 36 S upon the Castilian Throne, 1367. R.5 7 54 W at the close of September. 9 12 S Bishop Bossuet died, 17044 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-in Chief, 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 Prince and Princess of Wales, with their eldest child, Prince Albert Victor of Wales, and Princess Beatrice. The time selected by our artist is when 0 28 her Majesty was passing up the nave of St. Paul's to the I 20 royal pew. The serious illness 2 14 from the close of Nov. to the of the Prince of Wales dates 39 middle of Dec., 1871. 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 month. 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. all THE sleeping fox catches no poultry. SLOTM makes all things difficult, but industry 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. INDUSTRY pays debts, while despair increases them. INDUSTRY is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry; then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. NEVER leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. I NEVER saw an oft-removed tree, That throve so well as those that settled be. children. WHO dainties love shall beggars prove. Prudent Advice. ALL to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors, and attain the salutary arts of contracting expenses, for without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor.-Johnson. LET men say what they will; according to the women the economical virtue above all virtues,experience I have learned, I require in married Fuller. thrift the fuel of magnificence. -Sir Philip PROVISION is the foundation of hospitality, and Sidney. A WISE man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.-Swift. Ir money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that it may be said to possess him.-Charron. 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, "Now 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 Imakes 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. |