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 112 RECIPES.

THE GATHERER.

“A snapper up of unconsidered trifles. "

SHAKSPEARE.

The avenues to learning of all kinds were planned and opened by Lord Bacon. The nature and most intimate recesses of the human mind were explained and unfolded by Locke-and the frame and constitution of the universe by Sir Isaac Newton, in a more perfect manner than ever was done or attempted by human skill, since the foundation of the world.

The senior Peerage on record in the three kingdoms is a Scotch one. The Earldom of Sutherland, now enjoyed by the Marchioness of Stafford, was given by Malcolm II. in 1007.

We do indeed cleave the vast heaven of Truth with a weak and crippled wing : and often we are appalled in our way by a dread sense of the immensity around us, and of the inadequacy of our own strength.

In spite of all the sophistry that has been expended in defence of close-fistedness, says a periodical, the common feeling is correct-that a miser is both a rogue and a fool.

Dentatus fought 120 battles, was 30 times victorious in single combat, and received forty-five wounds in front.

There is this of good in real evils, they deliver us while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.

“Oh! say not I have broken the faith, the faith I vowed to thee,

Change was made for all on earth, was it not made for me? I vowed a vow of faith to thee, by the red rose of June, I vowed it by the rainbow, and by the silver moon; The red rose has departed, fresh ones are springing there, The rainbow's hue has left no trace upon the azure air, The crescent moon has swollen into a golden round, The marks of chance and change on each and all are found.Then say not I have broke the faith, the faith I vowed to thee,

Change was made for all on earth, was it not made for me? "

A man of sensibility is always either in the attic of ecstacies, or the cellar of sorrow; either jumping with joy, or groaning with grief. But pleasure and pain are like a cucumber-the extremes are good for nothing, I once heard a late minister compared to the same vegetable, “For, “said the punster, “his ends are bad. "

A witness was called upon to testify concerning the reputation of another witness for veracity. Why, “said he, “I hardly know what to tell you. Mr. sometimes jests and jokes, and then I don't believe him; but when he undertakes to tell any thing for a fact, I believe him about as much as I do the rest of my neighbours. "

It is very remarkable that the New Zealanders attribute the creation of man to their three principal deities acting together; thus exhibiting in their barbarous theology, something like a shadow of the Christian Trinity. What is still more extraordinary is, their tradition respecting the formation of the first woman who, they say, was made of one of the man's ribs; and their general term for bone is hevee, or, as Professor Lee gives it, iwi-a sound bearing a singular resemblance to the Hebrew name of our first mother.

Nobody ventures upon the high sea of public life without becoming sea sick sooner or later.

I do believe

That at our feet the tide of time flows on In strong and rapid course; nor is one current Or rippling eddy liker to the rest, Than is one age unto its predecessor : Men still are men, the stream is still a stream, Through every change of changeful tide and time; And ' tis, I fear, only our partial eye

That lends a brighter sunbeam to the wave

On which we launched our own adventurous bark, Sleep, like an avaricious publican, forces us to spend with him one half of our lives.

RECIPES.

TO DRY-CLEAN CLOTHES OF ANY COLOUR. First, examining where the spots of grease are, dip your brush in warm gall, and strike over the greasy places, when the grease will immediately disappear; rinse it off in cold water; dry by the fire, then take sand, such as is bought at the oil shops, and laying your coat flat on a table, strew this sand over it, and knocking your brush on it, beat the sand into the cloth : the sand should be a little damp; then brush it out with a hard brush, and it will bring out all the filth with it. This does also for coach linings and gentlemen's clothes, & c. In the summer time, when the dust gets into clothes, & c. after they have been well shaken and brushed again, pour a drop or two of the oil of olives into the palm of your hand, rub this over your soft brush, strike your coat over with it, and this will brighten the colour if either blue, black, or green.

FOR SULPHURING WOOL, SILKS, STRAW BONNETS, & c.

Put into a chaffing dish some lighted charcoal; put this chaffing dish into a small close room, without a chimney, or into a closet or large box; then pound an ounce or two of brimstone, and strew it on the hot coals. Hang up the articles you would have bleached, make your door fast, and let them hang three hours, or all night, if you have time. This is what is called dry bleaching woollens; all fine coloured woollens should be sulphured in this way previously to their being dyed. Straw bonnets are likewise bleached in the same manner,