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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 [LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.] 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. ...—_ 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. 149