the seven deride and spurn
A Roman work so unromantic:
'Was this the ancient Roman Way.

With tickets taken, fares to pay,
Stockers and Engineers, perhaps--
Nothing more likely--English chaps
Brawling away, 'Go on!' for Ito,
And 'Cut along!' instead of Cito;
The engine letting off its steam,
With puff and whistle, snort and scream;
A smell meanwhile, like burning clothes,
Flouting the angry Roman nose?
Is it not Conscript Fathers shocking?
Does it not seem your mem'ry mocking?
The Roman and the Railway station--
What an incongruous combination!
How odd, with no one to adore him,
Terminus--and in the Forum!'--[Punch.

=Good Advice.=

Somebody lays down the following rules to young men in business. They
will apply equally well to young and old. 'Let the business of every
one alone, and attend to your own.--Don't buy what you don't want. Use
every hour to advantage, and study even to make leisure hours useful.
Think twice before you spend a shilling; remember you have another to
make for it. Find recreation in looking after your business, and so
your business will not be neglected in looking after recreation.--Buy
fair, sell fair, take care of the profits; look over the books
regularly, and if you find an error, trace it out. Should a stroke of
misfortune come upon you in trade, retrench--work harder, but never
fly the track; confront difficulties with unflinching perseverance,
and they will disappear at last, and you will be honored; but shrink
from the task, and you will be despised.'

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In Russia, coffins are generally brown, but children have pink, grown
up unmarried girls sky blue, while other females are indulged with a
violet color.

[Illustration: Barnum's Safety Apparatus]

INTRODUCTION.--Much has been said of late in and about New York on the
subject of the adoption by steamboat proprietors of some apparatus
that will in some measure secure the passengers against such
casualties as have occurred on board the Excelsior and several other
boats. There have been a great variety of inventions introduced for
the purpose of preventing explosions; but from the best information we
can obtain on the subject, we are of the opinion that Mr. Barnum's
apparatus takes a general preference over all others. It consists of
an arrangement of machinery, partly within the boiler, and which is
constructed on such a self-