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Kind Words. ffipE should be very ungrateful if we did 1 not acknowledge our obligations to / many kind friends throughout the South, for the interest they have CyUy taken in the success of our little Week dy" 3 ly. We have received assurances of appreciation and sympathy from every Southern State, and our subscription list is rapid ly swelling up into the thousands. Nothing else could possibly afford us so much gratification as to know that our efforts to please the little folks of the South —to supply them with a pure and healthy literature, free from sectarianism and po litics —are successful; and we promise that these efforts shall be unceasing, as long as the good Lord gives us the ability to cater to their intellect ual wants. A kind lady, who has taken great interest in our paper, sends us an order for the Weekly , to be sent to some little folks in Maryland, and re quests us to print the following letter. We do so with great pleasure : Wacahoota, Fla., Aug. 10, 1867. To the Children of Col. E. J. P. , Milestone , St. Mary’s Cos., Maryland. My Dear Little Cousins : I have never had the pleasure of seeing you, and yet I love you very dearly, and wish to con tribute in some way to your happiness, and I do not know of a better way to do this than to send you our Southern “ Weekly for Boys and Girls,” of which we are justly so proud, and which has already, during its short life, become a universal favorite with the young people. I know you will be pleased with it, and perhaps you may occa sionally interchange thoughts through its pages with your little friends at the South; and may, perhaps, send to the kind Editor —who is trying so hard, and succeeding so well in his efforts to afford pleasure to the dear young folks of our op pressed and afflicted country —quite a list of sub scribers. With many wishes for your happiness, accept, dear young friends, this token of affectionate re gard from You Know Who. A Curious Calculation. LOCUST can be heard at the distance (upl/ of one-sixteenth of a mile, while its weight wVA,is only about one-eighth of an ounce. It is not unfair to presume that an or dinary-sized man would outweigh sixteen tfl thousand of them. Now, says an ex- change, supposing that a common man weighs as much as sixteen thousand of our lo custs, and that the note of a locust can be heard one-sixteenth of a mile, a man of common dimen sions, pretty sound in wind and limb, ought to be able to make himself heard at the distance of one thousand six hundred miles ; and when he sneez ed “his house ought to tail about his ears! Supposing a flea to weigh one grain, which is more than its actual weight, and to jump one and a half yards, a common-sized man, of one hun dred and fifty pounds, with jumping powers in proportion, could jump twelve thousand eight hundred miles, or about the distance from New York to Cochin, China. •— A Sunday school teacher, deploring the lack of attendants upon his ministrations, appeal ed to the few present: “What can I do,’ said he, “to get the boys and girls here?” “I know, ’ said one of the urchins. “ What is it?” “ Give ’em all five cents a piece.” BURKE’S WEEKLY. Written for Burke’s Weekly. RABBITS AND HARES. is a picture of a group of rabbits. If you will look at them closely you will see that ' they are very different from what we, in this country Ct&stj call rab bits. In deed, our rabbit is what in Eng;- land is called a hare, but it is almost universal ly known by the former name all over the United States. There is avast difference be- tween rabbits and hares, not only in their appearance, but in their habits. The hare is a solitary animal, rarely seen with its mate, while rabbits are gregarious and live in pairs. Rabbits burrow in the ground, in nests lined with dried grass and down from their own bodies, while the hare lives on the surface of the earth, in nests constructed without care, and destitute of any sort of lining. The young of the hare, at birth, have their eyes and ears perfect, their legs in a condition for running, and their bodies covered with fur ; while young rabbits, at birth, have their eyes and ears closed, are unable to walk, and have no fur upon their bodies. Rabbits are frequently tamed, and a species known as the white rabbit is quite common in this country. The hare is seldom ever tamed. The poet, Cowper, however, succeeded in taming three, two of which lived to the age of nine or ten years. The European hare is about twice the size of the American hare, and for that reason they are commonly and errone ously called rabbits. There are several varieties of hares in the United States, and as the fur of all of them differs much % in summer from its appearance in winter, the exact number of species is not yet ascertained. The one common with us is known as the American Hare. It is found along the Atlantic slope from Maine to Florida. The Northern Hare is found in other portions of the Northern States, in Canada, and as far north as the Hud son’s Bay territory. What is a Library ? While recently engaged in arranginga large library, a friend came in to lighten our labors by pleasant conversation. “What is the most common idea of a library?” said he. “A workshop, perhaps, in which are all manner of tools.” “ What is your idea ?” “ A dictionary, in which we can turn to any given subject, and find the infor mation we desire.” arrange his valuable library. “ ‘Hamilton,’ said he, ‘you bear a great name, a very great name ; but it is still more honorable to bear the name of Christ. Hamilton, do you know what a library is ?” ‘“No, sir.’ “ ‘Well, sir, it is an army. Ho you see those books? They jpe my soldiers. I am the centurion. I call them down, and make them fight for me, my boy. Now you know what a library is, which is more than most folks do. Don’t you forget it.” A Cheerful View of Things. “ How dismal you look !” said a bucket to his companion, as they were going to the well. “Ah!” replied the other, “I was re flecting on the uselessness of our being filled; for let us go away ever so full, we always come back empty.” “Dear me! how strange to look at it in that way !” said the bucket. “ Now I enjoy the thought, that however empty we come, we always go away full. Only look at it in that light, and you’ll be as cheerful as I am.” —.— here, Charlie,” said a sister, “ supposing you had twenty suga* plums, and you wanted to divide them in four parts. You give five to baby and five to Carrie; now what would you do with the other ten ? “ Suck ’em.” said Charlie. “Johnny,” said a little three year old sister to an elder brother of six— “ Johnny, why can’t we see the sun go back where it rises?” “Why, sis, you little goosey, because it would be ashamed to be seen going down east.” 69 “ V ery fair, both these defi nitions ; but I think I know of one much better. When about six teen years of age, living as* a neigh bor of Dr. Mason, and also a mem ber of his congre gation, I was en gaged in helping him to move and