A WORLD OF PEACE.-There is a world where no storms intrude-a haven of safety against the tempests of life-a little world of joy and love, of innocence and tranquillity. Suspicions are not there, nor jealousies, nor falsehood with her double tongue, nor the venom of slander. Peace embraceth it with outspread wings. Plenty broodeth there. When a man entereth it, he forgets his sorrows, cares, and disappointments; he openeth his heart to confidence, and to pleasure not mingled with remorse. This world is the home of a virtuous and amiable woman. FROM the latest returns it appears that the kingdom of Poland contains 5,850,000 inhabitants. Of that number, 600,000 are Jews, of whom 511,000 live in towns, and 89,000 in the country districts. Warsaw has 165,000 inhabitants, 45,000 of whom are Jews. At the census of 1846, Poland contained only 213,000 Jews, of whom 144,000 were in large towns and 69,000 in villages. THE "Ministerial crisis" is said to be over for the present, and the ministers exhibit, as they should always do, the gratifying spectacle of fraternal harmony. It is doubted whether this fraternal harmony will last long. The difficulties in the path of M. Fould were considerable, and there is reason to believe that they are not yet quite removed. His return to office was not viewed with a favorable eye by those who still command influence in the serene regions where vulgar prejudice or opinion hardly reaches. His memorandum, dated as far back as September, must have been previously studied by the Emperor; and this absolute ruler of 40,000,000 of subjects was frank enough and bold enough to confess that the Minister from whom he had parted but a year before had proved to his satisfaction that the public fortune had been sadly mismanaged, that he was sorry for it, and that he had resolved to do better in future. And, as a proof of the sincerity of his professions, he at once called back the dismissed Minister to his councils, with the applause of the tax-paying public. A NEW TOOTH POWDER.-Roasted rye is recom POPPING THE QUESTION.-A young lawyer who had long paid his addresses to a lady without much advancing his suit, accused her one day of being "in-mended as a tooth-powder, from the fact that, in all sensible to the power of love." "It does not follow," she archly replied, "that I am so because I am not to be won by the power of attorney." "Forgive me," replied the suitor, "but you should remember that all the votaries of Cupid are solicitors." ELLINORE. I SHALL see thee no more, my beautiful one! But thy fond loving face shall no more beam on mine; The leaves shall be stirred by the soft twilight air, Ever cherished apart, at fancy's fond will- Oh! if joys were so rife as in memory seen, -WESTBY GIBSON. GREATNESS lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it only serves to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. NEW DEFINITION OF ICE.-A native of Africa who had visited England a few years ago, when asked what ice was, said: "Him be water fast asleep." those countries where bread made of rye is the food of the generality of the inhabitants, the latter are remarkable for the whiteness, strength, and durability of their teeth. Savoy and the Landes are instances of this truth. Schrader has found 500 grammes of ashes of rye to contain 7 grammes of carbonate of lime, 9-8 ditto of carbonate of magnesia, 7.2 of oxides of iron and manganese, and 1.9 of silica, all which substances have a favorable effect on the teeth. Rye finely pulverized and used daily as a tooth-powder is said to stop caries, and promptly cure the small abscesses which are often formed on the gums. COST OF THE FRENCH OCCUPATION OF ROMEThe Constitutionnel gives the cost of the French army of occupation at Rome, from 1849 to 1861, as 128,225,000 fr. The statement is much commented upon, not that the figures are new, but from the fact of a government journal parading them before the public at a moment when the nation's budget is under revision by M. Fould. The Minister of Finance would doubtless like to economize in future the 9,480,000 fr. which the condition of Italy demanded for the French forces in 1861. Politically the oc cupation is a scandal to the French nation, and a continued source of humiliation. The people who have paid their millions to maintain, with bayonets, a corrupt and corrupting government, get from the Church nothing but insult, and ingratitude from the crew of Cardinals. A MAN's house should be on the hill-top of cheerfulness and serenity, so high that no shadows rest upon it, and where the morning comes so early, and the evening tarries so late, that the day has twice as many hours as those of other men. A CELEBRATED physician said to Lord Eldon's brother, Lord Stowel, rather more flippantly than became the gravity of his profession: "You know, after forty, a man is always either a fool or a physician." His lordship archly replied, in an insinuating voice: "Perhaps he may be both." MISS JIBBS says she wonders if any body ever picked up a tear that was dropped. |