TALKERS are no good doers.—Shakespeare. DO THE duty which lies nearest to thee.-Goethe. IN life, as in chess, forethought wins.--Charles Buxton. NEVER contract a friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.-Confucius. HABITS are soon assumed; but, when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.Cowper. HUSBAND, are you shaving?" Face lathered; scarcely able to speak: "No; I am blacking my boots!" AN old Spanish saying full of sense and of general application: Grandfather, farmer; father, trader; son, gentleman; grandson, beggar. A REALLY great man is known by three signs: Generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, and moderation in success.-Bismarck. A NEW YORK engraver recently made this mistake: "Mr. and Mrs. respectfully request your presents at the marriage of their daughter." 999 "LET us play we are married,” said Edith, “and I will bring my dolly and say: 'See baby, papa.' "Yes," replied Johnny, "and I will say: 'Don't bother me now; I want to look through the paper.' A YOUNG man having asked a girl if he might go home with her from singing class and been refused, said: "You're as full of airs as a musical box." "Perhaps so," she retorted; "but, if I am, I don't go with a crank." "YES," said Mrs, Brownsmith, "I want a good girl, and possibly you might do; but have you had any experience?" "Ixparience, is it?" Faith, and haven't Oi been in no less than twinty families during the last month?" "MR. WHITE," said a lawyer to a witness in the box, papers were executed you were speculating, were you not?" "at the time these "Yes, sir." "You 'Bankruptcy," was "PLEASE, mum," called the chambermaid from the head of the stairs, "there's a man up here." "Who is it?" "A porch-climber.' "What does he want?" "He's after your diamonds and jewelry." "Oh, is that all? Come down and let him alone; my husband is perfectly able to buy 'em back, and it will make an attractive item in the newspapers." 4 Moderato. 1. Ye sons of Freedom 'wake to glory, Hark,hark, what myriads bid you 2. Now,now the dang'rous storm is roll-ing, Which treach'rous Kings confederate 3. O LIB ER-TY! can man re sign thee? Once having felt thy generous rise, Your children,wives and grandsires hoary; Be-hold their tears and hear their raise, The dogs of war, let loose, are howling, And lo! our walls and cit ies flame,Can dungeons,bolts and bars confine thee! Or whips thy no-ble spir - it 1 cries, Be-hold their tears and hear their cries; Shall hateful ty -rants mis-chief blaze, And lo! our wall and cit-ies blaze, And shall we base - ly view the tame, Or whips thy no - ble spir-it tame? Too long the world has wept be breeding With hireling hosts,a ruf-fian band, Af-fright and des- o - late the ru in; While lawless force with guilty stride, Spread des-o - la - tion far and wailing, That falsehood's dagger tyrants yield; But freedom is our Sword and March on! March on All hearts re-solved on Victory or death. ஊர் 1. 2. 4 f (DIE WACHT AM RHEIN,) There comes a call like thunder's peal, The break-ers roar, the clank of steel; The By hundred thousands forth they stream,Their eyes like flashing light'ning gleam, The To heav'n they raised their gleaming eyes. The heroes saw them from their skies, And 4. Loud rings the oath, the wa-ters flow, In the free breeze the banners blow; The 3. 9 line? Rhine! the Rhine! the glorious Rhine! Who will protect the river's CHORUS. A A A Dear Fatherland, be comfort thine, Dear Fatherland, thou need'st not pine; Firm standsthy shield,the guard, the guard on the Rhine,Firm stands thy shield,the guard, the guard on the Rhine "Die Wacht am Rhein." Wilhelm wrote the music. In 1870 all Germany sang it. Bands played it, as the victorious armies entered Paris, beneath the Arc de Triomph, and as they returned to Berlin, with Emperor William, through the Brandenburg Gate. Again it was ung by Emperor and people when the statue of Germania was unveiled on Niederwald on Rhein. WONDERS OF GEOLOGY. BY PROF. G. FREDERICK WRIGHT. I. INTRODUCTORY-GEOLOGICAL ACTION OF WATER. THE HE earth is chiefly interesting as the abode of man, and in its adaptation to his varied physical and intellectual wants. That nature had kept a diary, and that an autobiography of the earth was preserved in the rocks, was not suspected by the ancient world. It has been one of the greatest achievements of modern times to collect and interpret the scattered fragments of this longneglected volume. The solid portions of the world preserve abundant marks of the processes by which they took shape. The agencies at work to produce present changes afford the means of interpreting those marks. Four agencies are prominent in rearranging the material of which the earth is formed, and in changing its external appearance, namely: water, wind, heat, and life. It needs no argument to prove that the external framework of the globe is composed of rock. Ordinarily, the loose soil upon the surface is but a few feet deep; in extreme cases the under-lying rock is reached only at a depth of a few hundred feet. The soil itself is nothing else than disintegrated rock, resulting from processes we see going on everywhere. Along the banks of mountain streams and the shores of lakes, and bays and oceans, and at the mouth of every river, we may see in progress the steps preliminary to the formation of pudding-stone, sandstone, and slate rocks. Fragments of the cliffs, broken off by the ceaseless action of the waves and weather, are strown in the bed of the mountain brook, or along the shore of every large body of The water itself does not wear the fragments to any great extent; but it moves the stones against each other, and so their corners are rubbed off, and pebbles and sand are produced. These are sorted by the action of the waves and currents, the finest material being carried farthest from shore into deeper and stiller water, or being deposited by the overflow of the stream upon the intervales. At the mouth of all rivers there is also a constant accumulation of sand and gravel. Every large river has its delta, and every small one its sand bar. water. |
