sequence when it is performed day by day. A pint of strong beer cannot be bought at a less cost than threepence. Threepence a day, at the end of a year, amounts to £4 11s. 3d. If it be only laid by and made no use of, at the end of sixty years, it amounts, under the same circumstances, to £273. If employed, instead of being laid by, it might be improved at the end of sixty years into a large fortune. Hundreds of men have made thousands of pounds with smaller means.

Money, of course, is of no great value in itself; it is only of value when applied to good service. But herein lies the gist of the matter. Money always can be made good use of. If a young man at the age of eighteen begin to lay by threepence every day, instead of buying a pint of beer with it, and continue to do the same thing for two years, he may purchase with the savings an allowance of £10 a year, to commence at the age of sixty-five years, and to be continued as long as he may thereafter happen to live. If he laid by threepence a day for five years he could purchase with his savings, at the end of that time, an allowance of ten shillings a week, to commence at the age of sixty-five years. If a young man at eighteen begin to lay by threepence a day and continue to do the same thing from year to year, he may at once purchase the certainty of being able to leave behind him a little fortune of £300 for his wife or children, or any other relatives who may be dear to and dependent upon him, whenever death puts an end to his earthly labours! Surely no rational and prudent

man would ever think even 22,000 pints of profitless beer an equivalent for such a result of his industrious labour. It is by no means too strong an expression to speak of the beer as profitless, for this reason. A gallon of strong beer contains a quarter of a pound of nourishment, bought at the cost of a couple of shillings. Two shillings would purchase more than three pounds of meat and bread! The direct moneyvalue of ardent spirits, swallowed every year by the inhabitants of the British Isles, exceeds NINETY MILLIONS OF POUNDS sterling.

It would be difficult to prove that in order to obtain the best and purest water to drink, or even to make water into good tea or coffee, anything like this expenditure would be required. Good, pure, wholesome water for drinking purposes ought, therefore, to be obtained by all who desire to keep their households in health and to avoid the consequences of illness and disease on themselves and their families.

THE POOR MAN'S FILTER. -(Dr. Lankester)-Take a largesized flower-pot, plug up the hole at the bottom very tightly with a piece of fine sponge, then put in powdered charcoal, one and a half inches deep; on that the same depth of silver sand; fill up within two inches of the top with fine pebbles. Place the flower-pot over a jug or a clean pail and pour the water in. It will take a little time to run through. Iron shavings are now said to be better in a filter than sponge, but this filter if kept very clean with the sponge often washed answers well: the danger is lest the sponge should decay.

Romans. The people who inhabited Rome, the capital of Italy, in ancient times are spoken of thus. They were governed by good and wise laws, on which are founded

many of our present laws of government.

British Isles. England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales are so called,

DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN has left it on record that when he worked as a journeyman printer in London he found abstinence from stimulating beverages most beneficial to him. He says:

"I now began to think of laying by some money. The printing-house of Watts, near Lincoln's-innfields, being a still more considerable one than that in which I worked, it was probable I might find it more advantageous to be employed there. I offered myself, and was accepted; and in this house I continued during the remainder of my stay in London.

66 On my entrance I worked at first as a pressman, conceiving that I had need of bodily exercise, to which I had been accustomed in * America, where the printers work alternately as compositors and at the press. I drank nothing but water. The other workmen, to the number of about fifty, were great drinkers of beer. I carried occasionally a large forme of letters in each hand, up and down stairs, while the rest employed both hands to carry one. They were surprised to see, by this and many other examples, that the *American Aquatic, as they used to call me, was stronger than those who drank porter.

The beer-boy had sufficient employment during the whole day in serving that house alone. My fellow pressman drank every day a pint of beer before breakfast, a pint with bread and cheese for breakfast, one between breakfast and dinner, one at dinner, one again about six o'clock in the afternoon, and another after he had finished his day's work. This custom appeared to me abominable; but he had need, he said, of all this beer, in order to acquire strength to work.

"I endeavoured to convince him that the bodily strength furnished by the beer, could only be in proportion to the solid part of the barley dissolved in the water of which the beer was composed; that there was a larger portion of flour in a penny loaf, and that consequently if he ate this loaf, and drank a pint of water with it, he would derive more strength from it than from a pint of beer. This reasoning, however, did not prevent him from drinking his accustomed quantity of beer, and paying every Saturday night a score of four or five shillings a week for the cursed beverage; an expense from which I was wholly exempt. Thus do these poor fellows continue all their lives in a state of voluntary wretchedness and poverty.

"At the end of a few weeks, Watts having occasion for me above stairs as a compositor, I quitted the press. The compositors demanded of me garnish money afresh. This I considered as an imposition, having already paid below. The master was of the same opinion, and desired me not to comply. I thus

remained two or three weeks out of the fraternity. I was consequently looked upon as excommunicated; and whenever I was absent, no little trick that malice could suggest was left unpractised upon me. I found my letters mixed, my pages transposed, my matter broken, etc., etc., all which was attributed to the spirit that haunted the * chapel, and tormented those that were not regularly admitted. I was at last obliged to submit to pay, notwithstanding the protection of the master; convinced of the folly of not keeping up a good understanding with those among whom we are destined to live.

"After this I lived in the utmost harmony with my fellow-labourers, and soon acquired considerable influence among them. I proposed some alteration in the laws of the chapel, which I carried without opposition. My example prevailed with several of them to renounce their abominable practice of bread and cheese with beer; and they procured, like me, from a neighbouring house, a good basin of warm gruel, in which was a small slice of butter, with toasted bread and nutmeg. This was a much better breakfast, which did not cost more than a pint of beer, namely, three halfpence, and at the same time preserved the head clearer. Those who continued to gorge themselves with beer, often lost their credit with the publican, from neglecting to pay their score. They had then recourse to me, to become security for them; their light, as they used to call it, being out. I attended at the pay-table every Saturday evening, to take up the little sum which I had made myself