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The reasoning power is the corner-stone of the intellectual building, giving grace and strength to the whole structure.

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Nothing so much vexes a surgeon as to be sent for in great haste, and to find after his arrival that nothing, or next to nothing, is the matter with his patient. We read of an " urgent case" of this kind recorded of an eminent surgeon. He had been sent for by a gentleman who had just received a slight wound, and gave his servant orders to go home with all haste imaginable, and fetch a certain plaster The patient, turning a little pale, said; "Heaven, sir, I hope there is no danger I" "Indeed there is," answered the surgeon; "for if the fellow doesn't run like a race-horse the wound will be healed before he can possibly get back!"

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Mr.- lives in - street. His wife, who is an economical body, had sent a silk gown to a French dyer. The dyer called to ask for some further instructions than those he had received, when, as it happened, he met the husband of the lady at the door. "Is madam within?" asked the Frenchman, with an emphatic gesticulation. "And suppose she is, what do you want with her?" "Oh! 1 am dying for her, sare!" What! you dying for my wife! get out of my house, you scoundrel!" He had just raised his foot to kick monsieur into the street, when the timely appearance of the lady led to the necessary explanation.

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Wink at small injuries rather than avenge them. If to destroy a single bee, you throw down the hive, instead of one enemy you make a thousand.

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An hour's industry will do more to beget cheerfulness, suppress evil humors, and retrieve your affairs, than a month's moaning.

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To attract customers, Fume has put up an Electric Clock in his shop, and is terribly annoyed by boys running in to inquire- the time of day. The other evening as we were buying a cigar, a little shaver came in with the usual "Please, sir, tell me what time it is." "Why, I told you the time not a minute ago," said the astonished tobacconist. "Yes, sir," replied the lad, "but this is for another woman."

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A clergyman, happening to get wet, was standing before the session-room fire to dry his clothes, and when his colleague came in, he asked him to preach for him as he was very wet. "No, sir, I thank you," was the prompt reply; "preach yourself - you will be dry enough in the pulpit."

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We know that men naturally shrink from the attempt to obtain companions who are their superiors; but they will find that really intelligent women, who possess the most desirable qualities, are uniformly modest, and hold their charms in humble estimation. Don't imagine that any disappointment in love which takes place before you are twenty-one years old will be of any material damage to you. The truth is, that before a man is twenty-five years old he does not himself know what he wants. The more of a man you become, and the more manliness you become capable of exhibiting in your association with women, the better wife you will be able to obtain; and one year's possession of the heart and hand of a really noble woman is worth nine hundred and ninety-nine years' possession of a sweet creature with two ideas in her head and nothing new to 6ay about either of them.

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Good and friendly conduct may meet with an unworthy, with an ungrateful return; but the absence of gratitude on the part of the receiver cannot destroy the self-approbation which recompenses the giver. And we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at so little expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the mind of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they sprang. Once blest are all the virtues always; twice blest sometimes.

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He that is angry without a cause, Must get pleased without amends.

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Men are frequently like tea; the real strength and goodness are not properly drawn out of them till they have been a short time in hot water.

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A gentleman whose house was under repair, went one day to see how the job was getting on, and observing a quantity of nails lying about, said to a carpenter, "Wiry don't you take care of these nails, they'll certainly be lost?" "No," replieo Master Chopstick, " you'll find them all in the bill."

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There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world, either to get a good name or to supply the want of it.

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees and deformeth the face of nature; or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities, so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him; danger and destruction wait on his hand.

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A chimney-sweeper's boy went into a baker's shop for a two penny loaf, and conceiving it to be diminutive in size, remarked to the baker that he did not believe it was weight. "Never mind that," said the man of dough, "you will have the less to carry." "True," replied the lad, and throwing two cents on the counter, left the shop. The baker called after him, saying that he had not left money enough. "Never mind that," said young Sooty, "you will have the less to count."

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The newspapers are full of advertisements of 'plain cooks. Pretty cooks have no occasion to advertise.

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Why is hot bread like a caterpillar? Because it is the grub that makes the butter fly?

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We never dreamed until lately that there was an aristocracy of appetites. We overheard in the market the following brief dialogue between an old lady and a little girl: "Mary," said the lady, " I should like to buy some of those cucumbers, if you will carry them home." "No, don't, granma!" "Why not?" "Because I should be ashamed to be seen carrying them home when everybody knows they're only a penny apiece."

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Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself, i. e., waste nothing.