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9. MRS. HARRIS AND MRS. FOX. Among the pioneers lately gone from our midst, we are sorry to chronicle the decease of Mrs. Margaret Harris, wife of Myndert Harris, Esq., who is now the only surviving pioneer of the first settlers of Port Hope. Deceased was a daughter of the late Mr. James Hawkins, of Montpelier, who settled here as early as 1801. She with her husband experienced the many hardships of a pioneer's life, and has left but few even of the second generation of her old contemporaries. Mrs. Harris was looked up to as a model, for her kindness, frugality and industry.

Yet another and the last of the early female settlers of the Township of Hope is Mrs Catharine Fox, relict of the late James Fox, Esq., who for many years officiated as Clerk of the Township. The deceased came here from New York in 1800, with her brother, the late James Sculthorpe, Esq. She also shared the hardships of pioneer life with industry and perseverance, and lived to see the dense forest develope its beauty and utility for the comforts of those she left behind. By her Christian and matronly manners she made for herself a host of friends, who deeply mourn her loss.Port Hope Times.

10. WM. BARKER, ESQ.,

years

Was born in Nottingham, England, in the year 1810, and was consequently in his sixty-third year. Mr. Barker came to London about the year 1838, with the Eighty-third Regiment, and during his stay here was associated with the commissariat and engineer departments. He saw service in the Rebellion, and was present at the battle of Point au Pelee, and participated also in other engagements throughout the West. He obtained his discharge a few afterwards, and engaged in hotel keeping in a house nearly opposite where the Crystal Palace now stands, and which was known, if memory serves, as the "Lord Nelson Inn." He acquired considerable means while in that business, and was looked upon as one of the most public-spirited and enterprising men in the town. He was elected a member of the Board of Police in 1847, and in the succeeding year was chosen by the ratepayers of St. George's Ward to represent them at the Council Board, the village having been in that year erected into a town. This position he held for a number of years, and when the town was created a city he was elected Alderman of No. 7 Ward. In the year following, 1856, he was elected Mayor of the city, and at the close of his term retired altogether from active municipal life. He was for many years agent for Col. Renwick, and transacted that gentleman's business with the attention and assiduity which characterized almost all his acts. Some time afterwards he accepted a situation in the Customs Department, the duties of which he fulfilled until death summoned him hence. Mr. Barker took a prominent part in the inauguration of the London and Port Stanley Railway, the Sewerage system, and civic affairs generally. He seemed to have but one object in view, and that, the advancement of the City of London. He was a man of more than ordinary intelligence, and commanded the respect of his fellow-citizens. He was much devoted to the study of astronomy, and by his continuous and carefully kept records was quite an authority on matters pertaining thereto. He was an ardent lover of floriculture and fruit, and devoted much time to the propagation of new varieties.-London Free Press.

11. MR. WILLIAM WALDEN.

Mr. Walden was born in 1809, in the town of Wells, England. He emigrated to Toronto, then "Little York," in 1832, and in the following year moved to the "Lower Block," Waterloo Township, where he resided about five years. He then removed to Bridgeport, where he carried on the business of a saddler and harness maker for some years. About the year 1845 he removed to Berlin, where he performed the duties of bailiff for several years. In the contest between the villages of Berlin and Galt for the honour of being the county town, Mr. Walden took a great deal of interest, and was among the foremost of those to whom the final victory of Berlin was due. On the completion of the municipal organization of the county, in 1852, he was appointed Governor of the Gaol, a position which he retained till the time of his death, on Thursday morning last. Both Grand Juries and Prison Inspectors found occasion to praise the good order, comfort, cleanliness and care with which the gaol was kept, and in all that time no prisoner ever succeeded in escaping. One or two managed to get outside the walls, but we believe no one finally got away. Personally, Mr. Walden was a straightforward, honest and manly citizen, kind-hearted and charitable, but firm when duty demanded it.- -Waterloo Chronicle.

VII. Miscellaneous.

1. YOUNG CANADA IN DENMARK. titled: The Knave's Cross of Freilev." We give below some verses by the Hon. W. Macdougall, enthe gentleman in question was visiting one of the farmer-princes in It appears that while Denmark, he had the opportunity of pressing the advantages of Canada upon the attention of a select audience. As but little is known of Canada there or in any of the Scandinavian countries, some surprise was expressed at what he was able to state, and especially with regard to the condition of education. One of the party present, the daughter of a Bishop, was anxious to know if Canadians could write poetry in English; and when Mr. Macdougall assured her that that was no unusual circumstance, and that versification was even taught at Common Schools in the country, she was still more surprised, and hoped that she might be gratified by seeing a specimen. Thereupon Mr. Macdougall, so the story runs, composed impromptu the verses referred to, and having them printed on the following morning presented each of those who were present with a copy, at which they were much delighted. The story of the "Knave's Cross" he had received from a friend, as he drove past the spot on which it stands, the day before, and we think that those who read the verses will agree that he turned the legend to very good account in support of education in the English language in Canada. :-THE KNAVE'S CROSS OF FREILEV. (Freilev-Skalkekors.)

A wooden cross stands by the way,
In Laaland's pleasant Isle,

It asks you not to stop and pray;

Nor marks the grave of martyred dead;
Nor where some patriot hero bled;
But tells a tale of guile.

Two centuries and more* ago,
The graven members say,-
Here fell, beneath the vengeful blow,
In secret dealt, by peasant hands,
The cruel keeper of these lands,
In some concerted way.

The Count of Aalholm then was wroth,
And swore that he would slay
The people all, both great and small,
Unless they caught, and to him brought,
Without a day's delay,

The man that slew his henchman true,
In that concerted way.

The frightened peasants now foresaw
A cruel fate in store,

For then, the great man's word was law,—
Yet none would play the traitor's part,
And tell who threw the fatal dart,

Nor even mark his door.

The Count, relenting, then decreed

A strange and hard decree;

He said: "I swear your lives to spare,

And from this crime will free

The people all, both great and small,

If you shall bring to me

Seven heifers, white, in one fortnight;

But all their ears must be,

From tip to head of crimson red,

And this is my decree."

The peasants then, both boys and men,
All o'er the country fled,

In haste to find 'mong cattle-kind,
Seven heifers, white, in any plight,

If but their ears were red.

When all had come to Freilev home,
On the appointed day,

Then cries and tears foretold their fears,
For only six had they!

A seventh was there, but blank despair
Fell on that guilty pack,

As Aalholm's eye must soon descry
That both its ears were black!

Red paint was brought, and, quick as thought, The black was turned to red;

And then, with many a smirk and smile,

1653.

The artful peasants hid their guile,
As to the Count they sped.

The Heifers, seven, were boldly driven
Unto the Palace door;

And all the people danced with glee,
When told the ransom made them free,
If they would kill no more.

With drink and song, all that day long
They quite forgot their crime;

Nor ever thought the trick they'd wrought
Must be revealed in time.

Next day their joy was turned to grief,
And consternation spread
O'er all the country-side to hear,
That in the night a rain, severe,
Had washed the paint from every ear!
And now no trick could bring relief;
For lo! that morn their wary Chief
Had early walked upon the plain-
Had seen the Heifers washed with rain;
And one with ears-not red!

Back to his Palace straight he came,
For he was sorely wroth;

He summoned all, both great and small,
And now he swore, an oath once more,
And this was then his oath :-

"For this base cheat, you shall not eat
Of fish, nor flesh, nor corn,

Until you build, o'er him you killed,
A Cross of Guilt and Scorn:

That all who live in Laaland's Isle

May hate your sin, and shun your guile."

The Cross was raised; the Count was praised;
They thought his oath was good;
The legend's trace would not disgrace,
If rightly understood.

And this is what the peasants said;
And this is how that Cross was read :-
"Let cruel Keepers all beware
How they oppress the peasants here;
For we are cunning; we are bold;
So testifies the Cross of old."

Long years had passed, the Cross at last
A broken ruin fell;

The Count who then ruled o'er these men,
No longer cared to tell

Of hasty vows, or tricks, or crimes,
That all occurred in ancient times.
But this the peasants said :-
"Another Cross shall mark this place;
The first was meant for our disgrace;
No legend on this one we'll trace-
A date will do instead :

Harsh keepers still may cause us grief;
The year will point to our relief."
A wooden Cross now safely stands
Where it was raised by willing hands :
And Keepers-so the peasants say-
Do not much care to pass that way!

Fuglsang, 1873.

W. M'D.

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Country, which treated you so despotically a hundred years ago, has
treated Canada as the better part of herself during the last thirty
years. A century since a tariff was imposed upon you, and the
proceeds of it disposed of without your consent. But the Procla-
mation of your President, issued the 1st of this month, exhibits
the Legislature of Canada as on an equal footing with the Legislature
of Great Britain and the Congress of the United States, in ratifying
a treaty of commerce and amity with a foreign power-a position
not occupied by the Legislature of any of your States.
Had you
been allowed a hundred years ago to levy a foreign tariff, even upon
the imported manufactures of the mother country, and deal with
foreign powers at your pleasure, as do the Canadians-to dispose
yourselves of the revenues arising from your foreign tariff, with
your executive officers accountable to your own House of Repre-
sentatives, and holding office not a day longer than they possessed
the confidence and support of such House of Representatives, as is
the case in the Provinces of Canada-there would have been no
Declaration of Independence of 1782, and no seven years' bloody
war following it; but you would have grown up as are the Cana-
dians, to independence without disruption, and taken your place
among the nations without any sense of parental wrong, and with
the truest respect, gratitude and affection for the fatherland, and a
heartfelt alliance with it.

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In Upper Canada, for example, my own native country, we have a Governor, not indeed elected as one of your State Governors, but appointed by the Dominion Government at Ottawa ; and our Governor, thus appointed, was born and brought up a citizen in the State of New York; for there is no caste of nation any more than of colour in Canada; and energetic Americans make capital Canadians, as industrious and honest Canadians make good Americans; but our Governor is not an independent power in our State, as in one of your States, but performs his every act under the advice of an Executive Council composed of the Heads of Public Departments, and these members of Executive Council and Heads of Departments are accountable to our House of Representatives for every act of the Governor as well as for their own departmental acts, and can be dismissed any day by a majority vote of the House of Representatives; for we have not even a Senate in Upper Canada, so that the supreme legislative and administrative power is in our House of Representatives, which, whether "for better or for worse, is a considerable advance on any one of your States in the theory and practice of popular government. It is true we have not universal suffrage, though we could have it to-morrow if we were pleased to enact it, for we have the power to do so; but we have what we think far better-we have household suffrage; and we have an administration of justice below mediocrity in expense to suitors, and a Judiciary above suspicion, from the County Judge up to the Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal. We have a foreign tariff about one-third of yours, imposed by ourselves, and the proceeds of it for ourselves; we have public taxes about one-fifth of yours, a surplus revenue of three millions, a state of unprecedented prosperity in our educational, manufacturing, commercial, and agricultural interests, and that prosperity greater than ever before since your abrogation of the Treaty of Reciprocity with Canada. We have a Governor General appointed by the Queen, and the only transatlantic appointment in the whole Dominion of Canada; but though he reigns in the name of the Queen and as her representative, he no more rules Canada than the Queen rules England; he brings to Canada the experience of the highest English statesmanship, and the refinement of the best European society, and exercises a genial and wide-spread hospitality, not only in the capital, but in other cities of the Dominion, and at a cost to himself beyond his salary, large as that is, being twice that of your President in past years, and the same as that of your President at the present time, and voted by Canada itself. A Royal despatch of three lines telling Canada to select its own Governor-General, will give to Canada the name, as it now has the substance of Independence; and should that be done at a future day-and it will be done any day that Canada desires it—we have no apprehension of invasion from your greater country than we have from one county against another county in our own country. Nay, I firmly believe that, should any marauding war party against Canada rise up among you, your own glorious Methodist Episcopal Church would put forth its moral power a second time in the cause of national honour and order, an impregnable wall of defence against any public aggressions upon the rights, and institutions, and independence of your peaceful, hard-working, and resolute Canadian neighbours.

FATHERS AND BRETHREN,—I have spoken to you of our Church in Canada, its difficulties and successes, its relations and ever unchanging affection to you, as our Parent Church. Allow me, in conclusion, to say some words as to the relations of our two countries. While we, as Canadian Methodists, venerate your spiritual Offspring of the same parent; dwellers on the same continent; fathers as our spiritual fathers, and love you as our brethren; so as engaged in the same pursuits; students of the same arts, sciences Canadian citizens we cordially embrace you as American citizens, and literature; possessors of institutions equally free; believers in we honour your institutions, and admire and rejoice in your pro- the same Bible; living, moving and having our being in the same gress; but we do not seek annexation to you as a church or a coun- great truths of religion,-I think I can hear, in the long-distant try, any more than you desire annexation to us. The Mother future, the United States and Canada mutually saying to each other,

"Peace be within thy borders, and prosperity throughout thy territories."

I have only to add, the lesser Canada of former times has become, not by conquest, but by energy, the greater Canada of the present times and my last words to you shall be the first words of a report of the present survey of a proposed Pacific Railroad :"Travel a thousand miles up a great river; more than another thousand miles along great lakes and a succession of small lakes; a thousand miles more across rolling prairies; and another thousand miles through woods and over three great ranges of mountains, and you have travelled from ocean to ocean through Canada. All this country is a single Colony of the British Empire, and this Colony is dreaming magnificent dreams of the future, when it shall be the 'Greater Britain,' and the highway by which the fabrics and products of Asia shall be carried to the Eastern as well as to the Western sides of the Atlantic."

Be careful of your companions. If you want to succeed, the theatre, the saloon, the gambling hall, are not the places for you. He would not be a prudent merchant who would open accounts with young men knowing them to be frequenters of such places. Don't seek companions who can only corrupt, while you can find so many who can profit.

Be careful of your character. "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches."- Prov. xxii. 1. Character, like a shadow, accompanies all men, and, whether good or bad, it cannot be shaken off. A father who leaves to his son a good name, and that only, leaves him a priceless inheritance; one which will never fail him, if fully appreciated and properly improved.

6. FARMERS' HOMES.

It is often the practice of farmers to think too much of the farm and too little of the farm house; to spend too much time and labour on the general farm and on the barn, and too little on 3. HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS. the garden and home mansion; to give too much attention to the At the pic-nic of the Canadian Association not long since, it was hogs, cattle and horses, and too little to the wife and children. assumed that there was no historical associations connected with There is a feeling of dissatisfaction too generally noticeable with this section of country. Yet Burlington Heights were in large life on the farm, not only among the sons and daughters, but the measure the base of operations for the Niagara frontier during the wives of farmers. It is too often the case that while the farmer war of 1812-14. Running across our cemetery may now be seen himself and his wife are struggling from year to year to make money the breastworks that were thrown up for defence. These extend and improve the farm, their sons and daughters are constantly from the marsh (then known as Coutt's Paradise) to the bay, but learning to dislike and absolutely hate the occupation and all the on the east side of York Street they have been levelled. Several surroundings of their parents. They are constantly painting to hundred yards in front of the breastworks stood an old block house, themselves the less laborious and more profitable occupations, and part of the foundation timbers of which could be seen within the the more cheerful and happy homes of their comrades and acquaintlast twenty years. It was surrounded by a deep ditch which came ances in the neighbouring towns and cities, and longing for the day to an acute angle in front and rear. The cemetery fence cuts the to come when they can throw off a life of drudging and unsatisfysite of this block house through the middle. Outside of the fence ing servitude, and go to the store or counting house, the factory, or the operations of the gardener have obliterated all trace of it, but to some of the overcrowded professions, where they can enjoy more inside, the ditch may still be seen, though nearly filled up. It was leisure and more privileges than they know how to find on the here the British force was encamped on the 5th of June, 1813, when farm. Now, the only way to remedy this state of things, this great a courier brought intelligence to General Vincent, who was in com- evil of rural life, is to make home on the farm more attractive and mand, that the Americans had reached Stony Creek. And it was enjoyable. from here that that little force started, at ten o'clock that night, The door yard; the flower and vegetable garden; the house, both on the noiseless march which resulted in the battle of Stony outside and in, should be rendered objects of interest and affection Creek, the most daring exploit of the war. We need not repeat the to the children from the very moment they are old enough to feel that story of that memorable little transaction, since the best account of interest and exercise affection. In the house let them have their playit that has ever been in print appeared in the columns of the Spec- rooms, their toys and pictures, their sewing and patchwork, their tator about two months ago from the pen of Mr. E. B. Bigger. slates and pencils, their saws and hammers Let them be taught Within a few minutes' drive of the pic-nic ground-in the grounds that these things are all their own; that they are articles of real of Dundurn-are the graves of some thirty British officers (we give value, to be handled and used with care, and for a valuable purthe number from memory), who fell in battle or yielded to disease pose; always being careful to explain, in an interesting manner, in these troublous times. It was within these grounds, too, we their uses and their objects. In the garden and around the house think, that General Brant was compelled to slay his son to save his let each child, as soon as he or she is old enough, help in planting own life. These are a few of the historical associations of Hamil- a fruit-bearing tree, or a vine as well as a tree, or a vine for ornaton, and it will be seen that they are memorable.-Hamilton Spec-ment. Let these also be their own in name and in fact. Teach them how to cultivate and prune them, and the reason of each particular operation.

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Begin when the children are small to treat them as reasonable beings, and as soon as they can read and understand, furnish them with books that explain in a simple and interesting manner the very things it will be of the most value for them, as sons and daughters of a farmer, to know when they are larger. Make the

boy a man and the girl a woman, and let them feel that they are

responsible for their acts as such, as soon as practicable. Let them
feel that, while they are working for your good, it is not for yours
alone, but for their own as well. Do not compel, but induce them
to work. Have always in the house a family room. Make it at-
quent, meetings of the whole family in this room, and at each of
tractive to each and all the family. Have stated, or at least fre-
such meetings be sure to be provided with something of interest
to communicate-some practical lesson of the farm or garden or
kitchen, or of the virtues, to attract the attention, brighten the
intellect or temper, and direct the affections. Study, above all
things, to remember for yourself that the farmer's life is only a
monotonous life of drudgery to him that makes it so; that it is for
that
your interest, as well as your duty, that your mind,
your social
and moral faculties, and those of your children, should be culti-
vated as well as your farm. Think more; work less hours,
but to greater advantage. Cultivate kindly feelings toward your
neighbours; meet often with them in the old-fashioned neighbour-
hood visiting circle. Give others the benefit of your knowledge,
and in return learn something from your fellow-members.
short, break up the erroneous idea that you have imbibed in some
improper manner, and which, by your own acts, you have been
teaching your children, that the farmer's life is the life of a drudge,
a hermit, and determine that you will make your home attractive
and happy, and go about it and make your determination a reality.
-London Herald.

In

7. IS IT WORTH WHILE ?

[Joaquin Miller has written a new book of poems, in which may be found many rare gems strewn among the sand. Here is one from among his "Fallen Leaves," which is so full of earnest feeling, and teaches so much a needed lesson, that it seems worthy of presentation to our readers.]

Is it worth while that we jostle a brother

Bearing his load on the rough road of life?
Is it worth while that we jeer at each other

In blackness of heart?-that we war to the knife?
God pity us all in our pitiful strife.

God pity us all as we jostle each other;

God pardon us all for the triumphs we feel

When a fellow goes down 'neath his load on the heather,
Pierced to the heart: words are keener than steel,
And mightier far for woe or for weal.

Were it not well, in this brief little journey
On over the isthmus, down into the tide,

We give him a fish instead of a serpent,
Ere folding the hands to be and abide
For ever and aye in dust at his side?

Look at the roses saluting each other;

Look at the herds all at peace on the plainMan, and man only, makes war on his brother, And laughs in his heart at his peril and pain; Shamed by the beasts that go down on the plain.

Is it worth while that we battle to humble

Some poor fellow-soldier down into the dust?
God pity us all! Time oft soon will tumble
All of us together, like leaves in a gust,
Humbled indeed down into the dust.

lose their appetite by too little exercise, too little sleep and too much study. This course, if long continued, will induce indigestion. The nervous system being exhausted through the brain work, has not power to carry on the bodily functions, and the victim wonders that she should have any stomach trouble when she had eaten so very sparingly. The truth is, limited nutrition has induced indigestion.

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The morbid appetite of school girls, for which they are so often blamed or ridiculed, is a nervous disease brought on by impaired nutrition. There is a lack, a longing, a sense of goneness," which craves but lacks relish for healthful food. Men suffering from this, take to beer and alcoholic drinks; women more often to tea and coffee in excess, and school girls to chalk, slate-pencils, cakes, candies, etc. A busy brain, as well as an active body, requires beef, bread, oysters, eggs, vegetables and fruit, all well cooked, and plainly prepared. Physiologists are making investigations as to what food is suited to supply brain and nerve power, and physicians are talking of the remedies best able to restore it when lost, and perhaps in years to come we may have a bill of fare exact and definite for those who wish to work with the head, and another for those having hand labour. But certain it is that those of intense mental activity ought not to be helped on, and hurried on by stimulants, or they will die before their time. Stimulants may be useful for emergencies, for sickness, or for advancing years; but young life, with its enthusiasm, does not need the aid of tea, coffee or alcohol, unless impaired by sickness or overwork. These will help one through a hard lesson, or a night's gaiety, but if it be persisted in, it is at the expense of strength for the years that follow. Tea makes our girls over-excitable, wakeful, nervous. Coffee induces constipation, yellow skin and mental depression. Washerwomen take their strong tea and "wash it off," work it off through the muscular system, and are ready to sleep. Our sensitive girls take it and are bright for study for social life, but are wakeful after, and they come to live on tea and coffee, and care less and less for plain nourishing food. There are few chronic individuals so hard to cure as those who have long studied with too little food and too little sleep. If girls must study too hard, if women must work when they are not able, or if they must be social and gay when

Truth like a diamond will shine in the dark, notwithstanding the they do not feel so, then tea is the best aid, the stimulus safest

efforts of those who seek to cover it.

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and best, and very efficient if not relied upon constantly. If need-
ed, it is best in the morning. At night it makes one wakeful, and
hence should not be used, save when we must sit up, and then it is
as good as the Irishman's whiskey, which was "victuals and drink
and lodgings." But if used two or three times a day, then some-
thing stronger is wanted for extra occasions, for emergencies.
but imperfectly nourished. The brain work brings a determination
School girls remain fresh and plump sometimes when they are

Beside this,

of blood to the head, which gives a flushed face. those of studious habits are likely to suffer from torpidity of the 8. ABOLISHING CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN SCHOOLS. excretory organs; hence the system is plump from being loaded At the beginning of the school year that has just closed, the with effete material which should have been thrown off by way of Superintendent of the Chicago schools went before the Chicago the skin and bowels. Thus what seems to be strength is merely Teachers' Institute, comprising more than 600 teachers, and told weight, weariness-an excess of adipose, with a poverty of muscular them he wished them to see what could be done during the tissue. In such cases there is a craving for something to eat, but a year without corporal punishment. The teachers anxiously inquired lack of appetite for regular rations. The whole system is surchargwhat they should do with lazy and disobedient pupils. The Super-ed with impurities which should have been thrown off; and this intendent replied by simply telling them what they must do. They depresses the appetite and disturbs digestion. must not keep pupils after school hours; they must not deprive Half the complaints of school girls about food are the result of lack them of their recess; must not make them the subjects of ridicule of relish. Then they feel half famished, and nibble cakes, crackers and before their mates; must not use any means that will tend to irri- candies between meals, or have a box of "goodies" from home, and tate or annoy the children. The teachers went to work upon the these will certainly destroy all desire for bread and meat. Of course new platform with 30,000 children on their hands, and with nothing in supplying a table for large numbers there must be a lack of deferin shape of a weapon of defence except the simple power of writing ence to individual tastes, which can only receive attention in the a suspension and sending an ungovernable child to the Superin-home circle. But the need of change in occupation, quite as much tendent. The result has been that the number of suspensions in- as in food, causes nine-tenths of the trouble about fare. Over-study, creased during the year from 200 to 600. Many were received back over-anxiety, too little sleep, too little exercise, too much sugar on promise of reform. It is proposed to establish a central un- take away the appetite, and those who cannot eat should not study, graded school, which shall be in the nature of a reform school, to for nerve power is thereby permanently impaired.-Mrs. Gleason, which all the hard cases shall be sent.-New York Observer. in Herald of Health.

9. DIET OF SCHOOL GIRLS.

10. ENGLAND'S EXPORT BOOK TRADE. Students who apply themselves closely, need to be well nourish- The English Custom House returns for 1872 show that the exed. It requires good food and a great amount of it to make the port of printed books in that year reached 81,422 cwt., of the debrain work well, and not impair the body. Sedentary habits of-clared value of £883,914, an increase of no less than 19,212 cwt., in ten induce indigestion; therefore, many have supposed the less quantity, and £164,872 in value over the preceding year. On the they ate the more they could study. About twenty-five years other hand, the import of books was only 14, 172 cwt., of the value ago earnest persons with limited means worked and studied very of £149,189. England thus sent out six times as much as she rehard, and ate and slept very little. Many a good constitution was ceived. The export of books to the United States in 1872 was to thus ruined. Nervous dyspepsia was often induced by overwork the value of £307,684, a very large amount considering the large and lack of suitable nutrition. The more abstemious they were as number of English reprints which are got out by our neighbours on to food, the less able they became to dispose of what was taken. the other side. Without these, to what a large extent might not Many of our ladies not pinched by poverty or pressed by hard work, the export have been increased.

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CORNWALL. Wind storm, 21st. Fog, 9th. Snow, 28th, 29th. Rain, 3rd-7th, 12th, 17th, 19th-21st, 24th, 26th, 28th, 29th.

BARRIE.-A few flakes of snow fell on 6th. The first snow fall of
more than half an inch occurred on 20th. Wind storm, 21st, 30th.
Snow, 6th, 20th, 28th. 31st. Rain, 3rd-5th, 11th-13th, 16th, 18th,
20th--23rd, 26th-28th, 31st.

PETERBOROUGH.-Hail, 21st. Halo round moon on 4th, 9 p.m. Wind

storms, 20th, 21st, 30th. Fog, 9th. Snow, 20th, 31st. Rain, 4th, 5th, 11th, 13th, 17th-21st, 23rd, 27th, 28th.

BELLEVILLE.-Wind storms, 20th, 21st, 31st. Snow, 28th (few flakes), 29th (13 inches). Rain, 4th-6th-11th-13th, 18th-20th, 23rd, 26th, 27th, 28th.

GODERICH.-Hail, 19th, 20th. Lightning, with thunder and rain, 11th. Wind storms, 11th, 17th, 20th, 24th, 28th, 31st. Snow, 6th,

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