Show THE PEEP no higher forms in their minds than those of wood or of stone or of serpents or of men But upon this fn ost subtle question — the cause of things — men are continually misunderstanding each other and wrongly expressing themselves God is a mystery the soul is a mystery the universe is a mystery and one man adds up the sum by a different method of calculation than another Not being unanimous in their verdict they quarrel and stigmatize each other as iufi dels and atheists! Tliev name things wrong lay false premisies originate unnatural systems and then beat into pieces the monsters of their own imagination — the creature of their own making But no man whose mind has been directed to the subject ever really doubted the existence of God They all feel his active presence They are only infidels to the interpretations of Him by those who do not look from their point of view — E W TullidgJ -- -- ! A Novelty— A bold and novel in of vessels of war has latelv been submitted to the Admiralty Jby Mr A M’Lainc a Its naval architect of Belfast scheme involving a revolution the construction main ‘feature is the abandonment of broadside guns and even of revolving turrets and the substitution of guns “ to fire of the on line keel” The the only advantage alleged to be gained by the adoption of this expedient is twofold In the first place a ship thus armed and parried into action would present to the enemy her breadth only instead of her length — that is a front of fifty feet Instead of some two hundred and fifty She would become as Mr contends “ five times M’Lainp more difficult to hit and where hit” (owing to the difference in the angle of impact) “perhaps five times more difficult of penetration” In the second place her aggressive power would be proportionably increased by the' enormous weight that might he given to guns mountfore-and-a- ft ' r ed on the new' principle The practical limit to the calibre of broadside batteries is the range of their “lateral training” but Mr M’Laine proposes that his guns should have no training at all in the ordinary sense They would be incapable of firing except in one direction and 'while the elevation of each would still be regulated by the captain of tlje guns it would be O’ DAY — A LITERARY MAGAZINE placed side by side upon the platof cast iron Upon the same platform will be twro air tanks or receivers into which will he condensed the air for blowBut one engine ing tlie trumpet will be made use of at a time the other being a reserve in case of ac cidcnt and either can be fired up in about half an hour The automatic arrangement by which tho trumpet is blown and operated can readily be changed from one enThe trumpet is gine to the other intended to revolve half way round and back in about a minute and blow its blasts as it moves around This apparatus is specially intended for Dungeness where Mr ll erected a smaller signal of this kind — iV Y Army and Navy Journal virtually pointed by the steersman Mr M’Laine advocates tlie universal employment of twin -- screws in ships of war wjiich would “enable them to he turned on their keels and kept in the strongest position for defence” Air M’Haine has designed a vessel of war on this speed of theory the estimated which is lo knots an hour form or Big Heads and Big- Hats — If the weight of a man’s brain is to - be taken as the test of liis genius then the late Lord Campbell would rank among the greatest of men He was undoubtedly a clever and successful lawyer but he owed his position more to perseverance than His brain to commanding ability was of considerable size and refifty-thre- e its ounces and Tasso A ND HIS pawn-broke- creep- shop rs would make a vejy pretty picture of the vain glories of this life and of the emptiness of ‘poetic glory The auction-roooften brings to light in an old letter or on the flyleaf of an aged hook shreds of the true story a lineament of the face withoui paint or a bit of the plate lacking its former showy gilt "VVhafc a little lesson does this scrap from Paris teach us : “ A curious autograph of Tas? so was sold which gives an insjght into the poet’s early Strug- ‘ gles : I the undersigned acknow ledge to have received from Abra ham Levy 25 livers for which sum I have pledged a sword of my fa- tlier’s six shirts and two silver spoons’ The document bears tho date of March 5 1570 at which time-honor- to-d- time Tasso was twenty-six- ” fctmv GEMS FROM THE BEST AUTHORS POWER OF A WQUQ wort Wand smiles succeed to tears — word and the tofn heart u Sealed Strange that such previous fyilm should fall From air drawn scujjds whispered from liumaq A A Ilcrmion lip- - rc poesy oft7ie HEART There’s poesy in every human heart ’Tis part and parcel of our very being We may not breath without it — may "not move— The veriest clown that whistles at the plough Intuitively feels its sovereign power And owns its bounties though his voice be mute DABOLL’S FOGJlQKXt— Mr tlie inventor of the foghorn lias received an order from 1) aboil signal (of tfie kind) than has ever It will consist of two been made inpl) calorL engines twentyd'our the Gkeai Poet Uncle— Tasso ing out of a dance with individuals residing in those localities than not only the other parts of Scotland but of any-wheLord Campbell else as vrell as Sir David "Wilkie and others of great mental capacity were natives of Fifeshirc the English government by tlie last steamer authorizing him to build and furnish the government with a larger and more powerful te Da-bo- weight being a quarter There are only two cases on record of brains being larger than that of the late High Chancellor of England : the first is that of Cuvier the great naturalist whose brain ounces four weighed fifty-nin- e drachms and thirty grains the next is that of Dupuytren the famous French surgeon hut in both these cases the brain matter was found in a state of disease The general weight of tlie brains of male adults in Europe varies from ounces4 and the forty to fifty-tw- o brains of females are usually four to eight punces less in weight than those of males and it is singular to observe that there is not one on record of a female brain weighing more than forty-eigh- t ounces In England the brains of the Southern population arc much smaller TT e learnthan those of the North ed a short time since that a very large hat manufacturer in London sends all his large hats to the North of England for sale Another peculiar circumstance regarding this cerebral development is that on of Scotland the brain the north-eas- t matter is in much greater abunmarkably healthy bed-pla- - Oh ! there are those that never jinglod rhyme Xor threw ideas into polished verse Have had their moments of poetic bliss And not a few possessed of scattered thought A richer mine than many a “ child of song” Siiakspeare— An English ac tor on visiting the Niagara Falls wrote home “ Oh what $ fall is here mv countrvmen !” |