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LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.
OUISYILLE, tlie chief
city in Kentucky, has a
population of over 125,000.
It is situated at the Falls
rpR of the Ohio, where Grass Creek
Kb en ters La Belle Riviere, as the Ohio
#1 was called by the French. The
f ' topography is most agreeable, af
fording tine views from the terrace ele\ a
tion of more than seventy feet.
The falls, which are quite picturesque
in appearance, maybe seen from the
city. In high stages of the water
they almost entirely disappear, and
steamboats pass over them; but
when the river is low, the whole
width of the river, which is scarcely
less than a mile, has the appearance
of a great many broken rivers of
foam, making their way over the
falls. The river is divided by a fine
island, which adds to the beauty of
the scene. To obviate the obstruc
tion to the navigation caused by the
falls, a canal two and a half miles in
length has been cut round them, to
a place called Shippingsport. It was
a work of immense labor, being, for the
greater part of its course, cut through
the solid rock. The extent of the city
towards the river, is over two miles.
The course of the leading streets is in
this direction. They are, for the most
part, wide, well paved, and delightfully
shaded with noble trees.
The chief points of architectural dis
play are in the edifices of the City Ilall,
the Court House, the Univeisity of Louis
ville, the Medical Institute, the Blind
Asylum, the Mercantile Library and the
Historical Association, and St. Paul’s,
(Episcopal) and the First Presbyterian
churches.
Silver Creek, four miles below the city,
on the Indiana side, is a beautiful rocky
stream, and a favorite fishing and pic
nic place of the Louisvile ruralizers. An
other pleasant excursion is to the mouth
of Harrod’s Creek, eight miles up the
Ohio. There are, too, famous drives on
the Lexington and Bardstown turnpikes,
through a beautiful and richly cultivated
country. The road along the borders of
Sear Grass Creek, towards Lexington, is
ver y agreeable. The fine forest vegeta
t’on, the charming parklike groves, the
nenip fields and the blue grass pastures,
a d help to make the Louisville suburban
ndes and rambles delightful.
What color is next to an invisible
green ? Blindman’s buff.
BURKE’S WEEKLY.
The Little Hero.
LITTLE BOY, only four
T ears old, was once pun
-10(I by his nurse for
® some mischief he had
J|QW done. lie was shut up
m a store-room, and left there till
long after dinner hour. He became
vv very hungry, but no one came to
\i open the door or call him to his
dinner.
But in the store-room there were some
very tempting things left that the nurse
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did not know T of or had forgotten. There
were dishes of oranges, apples and cakes,
and all within the little boy’s reach.
Could he keep his hands from them ? He
had been taught not to take anything
that was not given him, and that it was
wrong to do it. Might not the little four
years old bov be excused if he did help
himself? He could not help thinking
how hungry he was, and how good the
cakes and oranges would taste.
After he had been there a good while,
the nurse passed by the window without
his seeing her. She stopped and looked,
and she saw the hungry little fellow look
ing; from one dish to another, but with
his hands clasped firmly behind him,
while he said to himself- —his name was
William —“ Billy must touch them ; Billy
must not touch them; they are not
Billy’s own !”
There was a little hero. He was afraid
to do wrong, but he was strong to resist
a wicked thought. That wicked thought
would have made a great many others
wicked. It would have been too strong
for them ; but it could not harm the little
boy. The brave fellow could not take
what did not belong to him, although he
was so hungry.
Was he not as brave as George Wash
ington, who, when he was two years
older, said, “I cannot tell a lie!” Well,
he became like Washington, a good if not
a great man. Many long years after that
just his look was enough to quell a whole
mob of excited and angry people. They
knew him, and knew that he would do
right, and though he was too sick to
make a speech to them, they grew quiet
under his look. That little boy became
a minister of Christ, and his name was
Rev. Dr. William Marsh, of England.—
JS r . Y. Evangelist.
Jesus never yet put out a dim can
dle that was lighted at the Sun of right
ousness.
I-low to Put Away our Faults.
OT long since I was
watching a great
agJMyjf Newfoundland dog.
He had been told
by his young master to
fetch him a basket of tools
v 4jL that the gardener had left in
the shed. The great dog
y went to obey his young
master. He took hold of the basket
in his mouth, but he could not lift it.
What did he do—give it up ? No,
never! One by one he took the
things out of the basket, and carried
them to his master.
One by one! that is what we must try
to do with all our faults. Try and get
rid of them one by one. Jesus knows
how hard it is for you to do this, and so
he has given you a word that will help
you to do it, and that word is “ To-day.”
I will show you. Take one fault —we
will call it “bad temper” —and in the
morning, when you get out of bed, ask
God, for Christ’s sake, to help you “to
day” to overcome that bad temper. Per
haps by and by something will begin to
make you feel angry; then remember
your prayer, and try and drive away the
angry feeling, and say, “ Hot, to-day, not
to-day; I will not be angry to day.”
If you have learned any bad, wicked
words, like the poor children in the street,
who don’t know any better, then ask God,
for Christ’s sake, to help you to-day not
to say any wicked words; and then when
you are tempted to do so, remember, “ Not
to-day, not to-day; I will not say a
wicked word to-day.”
And so the same with all your faults.
Take them one by one, and try for one
whole day, not to give way to them. It
will come so much easier.
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The covetous man reverses the
principle upon which iEsop chose his bur
den. and oppresses himself with a heavier
load of provisions the nearer he gets to
the end of his journey.
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