ionably dressed Jewess in the course of conversation was asked, "But your people still look for a return to the Holy City, do they not?"

She replied, "Perhaps so. Yes. The old people believe it: but this country is good enough for me."

"This country is good enough for me!" Good enough, when the city of which "glorious things are spoken" might possibly one day meet your view! Ah! the gay young Jewess only used the language which many a professed Christian acts fully out. He shows, in many ways, that this country is "good enough" for him, when he might be stretching onward to a city shining with the glory of God.

CHAPTER VI.

AN AQUARIUM.

And turns from the bright pomp

To watch the nimble fry, that glancing oft,
Beneath the clear pane shoot.-BOWLES.

This great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great.-Psalm civ, 25.

I am not interested by any feature of Luther's private character so much as by his affectionate and thoughtful contemplation of nature. A bough loaded with cherries, a rose, a few little fishes from a pond in his garden, awoke in his breast feelings of gratefulness and piety toward God.-WILLMOTT.

ONE day Linda and Carrie were curiously examining a star-fish which Edward had brought them. An elderly gentleman, with whom they had become acquainted, was pacing up and down the piazza where they were sitting. He had been a traveler, was something of a naturalist,

and was always ready to impart information to the young. As he stopped to look at the star-fish, and admire its rainbow tints, the gentleman remarked, "I understand that the little people of the sea are becoming favorite pets, and that seamosses are quite superseding roses and camelias in our parlors."

The girls asked his meaning; and he told them of the Marine Aquarium of the Zoological Gardens in London, and of the miniature aquariums to which it has given rise. The girls asked with great interest about their construction. The gentleman told them that almost any glass vessel would answer for an aquarium, and that it may be made oblong or round, large or small. But the orthodox aquarium must be made with a slate bottom, and one

or two slate sides. The remaining sides are of glass, and the corners are tightly cemented to prevent its leaking. Artificial rock-work must be provided for a hiding-place for the little inhabitants of the aquarium.

"How is that made?" asked Carrie.

"It must be placed upon a layer of cement, which the water will harden perfectly," said the gentleman. "The rock-work must always be below the surface. After it is prepared, the case must be soaked in fresh water for at least a month, as the smallest chemical infusion will destroy the animals. It is pretty to have the tank fitted in a windowseat. Thus light is afforded, which you know is the great vivifying principle."

"I should think there would be

danger of the waters becoming too much heated by the sun in such a situation," said Carrie.

"That must be guarded against by means of a thick curtain, which can be raised or let down at any time. The water must be kept of an equal temperature. When it is thus duly prepared, and the bottom covered with sand, the plants and animals may be introduced with safety."

"The plants afford the fishes food, I suppose?" said Linda.

Yes; but there is still another reason why both plants and fishes should be placed in an aquarium. Can either of you young ladies inform me what it is?"

Linda was studying Parker's Philosophy. She was glad that it enabled her to answer the gentleman's question. She told him that the