other cosmetics in the world. Some rules for this exercise are useful. Prefer the morning-let it be habitual-begin moderately, and lengthen the distance gradually; use a quick pace, considerable action, and keep the body erect.

Walking and Riding.

First. In walking :-Always keep to the wall when it is on your right hand, and not otherwise; your left hand should be next the left hand of the person you meet.

Second. When overtaking, or wishing to pass any one, go out of the line, and pass with your right hand next the person's left hand.

Third. When the footway is too narrow for two people, that person must keep on it whose right hand is next the wall.

Fourth. If there is abundance of room, the only rule is discretion, and people pass each other as they most conveniently can.

A genuine Londoner is known by the indifference with which he treats a tread on the heel if he transgresses the rule in walking: a provincialist waxes wroth, and stops for a parley, which the cockney adroitly avoids.

In walking-under ordinary circumstances, and from time immemorial, a lady always takes a gentleman's left (or shield) arm, leaving him his right (or sword) arm to defend her, as well as for courtesies usually observed on meeting friends or acquaintance.

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RULE OF THE ROAD.

The rule of the road is a paradox quite;

In riding or driving along,

If you keep to the left, you are sure to go right,
If you keep to the right, you are wrong.

RULE OF THE FOOTPATH.

The rule of the footpath is clear as the light,
And none can its reason withstand:

Each side of the way you must keep to the right,
And give those you meet the left hand.

RULE OF THE RAIL.

The rule of the rail is-soon come or soon go,

Admitting of little delay;

If you go, get in quick-you're left if you're slow;
Get out-and get out of the way.

War.

It was said by an illustrious commander, that, next to a defeat, the most terrible misfortune that could occur was a victory. And so every man would say who rides over a field of battle a few hours after the action, and observes the ground covered with dead and wounded. Meantime, the fortunate, the untouched, have passed on; the defeated retire or flee; the conqueror pursues the vanquished as he best may, advancing over the dead and dying of the enemy, abandoning his own. To say that those who still remain unscathed, flushed with victory, or disheartened by defeat, care for those left on the field, were an idle tale, a mere piece of hypocrisy, calculated to deceive and mislead. To imagine that the surgeons, staff and regimental, are equal to the terrible labours which follow a sanguinary action, or that they could be so multiplied as to render them equal to the surgical conflict, were a still more mischievous delusion. The medical staff of an army has, under no circumstances, been found equal to contend with the terrible results of an action.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight,
The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade,
And, to those royal murderers, whose mean thrones
Are bought by crimes of treachery and gore,
The bread they eat, the staff on which they lean.
Shelley.

Give me the money that has been paid in war, and I will purchase every foot of land upon the globe. I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire that kings and queens would be proud of. I will build a school-house upon every hill side and in every valley over the whole

habitable earth. I will build an academy in every town, and endow it; a college in every State, and fill it with able professors. I will crown every hill with a church consecrated to the promulgation of the Gospel of Peace. I will support in the pulpit an able teacher of righteousness, so that on every Sabbath morning the chime on one hill should answer to the chime on another round the earth's broad circumference, and the voice of prayer and the song of praise should ascend like a universal holocaust to heaven.-Stebbing.

Warlike Clergymen.

Ill fits it bishops, ministers of peace,
Whose see is by a civil peace maintain'd;

Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath toucht;
Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutor❜d;
Whose white investments figure innocence,

The dove and very blessed spirit of

peace :
Ill fits it such that they translate theirselves
Out of the speech of peace, that bears such grace,
Into the harsh and boisterous tongue of war;
Turning their books to glaives, their ink to blood,
Their pens to lances, and their tongue divine
To a loud trumpet and a point of war.-Shakespere.

Way-marks of Life.

The following rules, from the papers of Dr. West, were, according to his memorandum, thrown together as general way-marks in the journey of life :

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Never to ridicule sacred things, or what others may esteem such, however absurd they may appear to be.

Never to show levity when the people are professedly engaged in worship.

Never to resent a supposed injury till I know the views and motives of the author of it. Nor on any occasion to retaliate.

Never to judge a person's character by external appear

ance.

Always to take the part of an absent person who is censured in company, as far as truth and propriety will allow. To aim at cheerfulness without levity.

Never to think the worse of another on account of his differing from me in political or religious opinions.

Never to dispute, if I can fairly avoid it.

Never to dispute with a man more than seventy years of age, nor with a woman, nor an enthusiast.

Not to affect to be witty, or to jest, so as to wound the feelings of another.

To say as little as possible of myself, and those who are

near to me.

Not to obtrude my advice unasked.

Never to court the favour of the rich by flattering either their vanity or their vices.

To respect virtue, though clothed in rags.

To speak with calmness and deliberation on all occasions ; especially in circumstances which tend to irritate.

Frequently to view my conduct, and note my failings.

On all occasions to have in prospect the end of life and a future state.

Not to flatter myself that I can act up to these rules, however honestly I may aim at it.

Wealth.

The sudden acquisition of wealth too frequently steels the heart against all appeals to charity.-J. Hill.

- The most respectable quality of man.

Weather.

In England, if two are conversing together,

The subject begins with the state of the weather; And ever the same, both with young and with old, 'Tis either too hot, or either too cold—

'Tis either too wet, or either too dry

The glass is too low, or else 'tis too high;

But if all had their wishes thus jumbled together,

'Twould be seen that no person could live in such weather.

Wedding Ring (The).

A ring, since the days of the patriarchs, has been used as the symbol or token of marriage; but the act passed in 1837, which instituted marriage to be a civil contract, does not recognize the ring as an essential part of the ceremony, though it does not forbid its use. Still, habit claims it to be a part even of the civil ceremony, and the ring holds its accustomed place to distinguish the maiden from the wife. It is the right of a woman, hallowed too long by custom and an obvious utility, to be allowed to fall into disuse through the silence of an act of parliament.

Wedding-Ring (Worn).

Your wedding-ring wears thin, dear wife; ah, summers not a few,

Since I put it on your finger first, have passed o'er me and you; And, love, what changes we have seen-what cares and pleasures too

Since you became my own dear wife, when this old ring

was new.

O blessings on that happy day, the happiest of my life, When, thanks to God, your low sweet "Yes" made you my loving wife;

Your heart will say the same, I know; that day's as dear

to you,

That day that made me yours, dear wife, when this old ring

was new.

How well do I remember now, your young sweet face that day: How fair you weree-how dear you were-my tongue could

hardly say;

Nor how I doated on you; ah, how proud I was of you!
But did I love you more than now, when this old ring was new?
No-no; no fairer were you then than at this hour to me,
And dear as life to me this day, how could you dearer be?
As sweet your face might be that day as now it is, 'tis true,
But did I know your heart as well when this old ring was new?