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Will and Way. Where there is a will there is a way is true iu sense and practice. Though the way be rough and beset with many obstacles, yet they will all yield to a resolute and valorous man, and be but chad iu the wind. As Virgil says of his boats wan, men are able be- cause they thii-k they are able. A strong will is a marvel in accomplish ments. Quinton Matsys, the famous Dutch painter, in his youth despaired of ever being aide to paint, till his master told him that only by produ cing a picture of merit within six months could he have his daughter’s h ind ; and then be set to work and brought forth “The Misers,” a master piece of art, which connoisseurs have admired for ages. Napoleon regarded nothing as impossible to a mind in tent upon the object of its will. “Im possible,” said he, “is a word only to be found in the dictionaries cf fools.!’ When told that the Alps stood in the •way of his armies, “There shall be no Alps,” he replied, and he made the road across the Simplon. Have energy and a lore of excel lence directed in the right way with a steadfastness < f purpose, and you will reach the summit, while others are standing in the valley trembling with fear to attempt. Be as was said of Brougham, “that if he had begun life as a shoe black, he would never ’have been satisfied till he had become the best shoe black in England.” Be not satisfied until you go from the castle of Giant Despair to the Delecta ble Mountains. Tenacity of purpose and stubbornness of perseverance win the battles of life, whether fought in the field, in the mart, or forum. The world, ad Emerson says, is no longer clay, but rather iron In the hands of its workers; and men have got to ham aner out a place for themselves, by eteady and rugged blows. We grow strong with struggling for existence. “To know how to wait,” said De Mais- tre, “Is the great secret of success.” When a father was anxious that his son be admitted to the bar, he con sulted Mr. Chltty,who said, “Can your ■on eat sawdust without butter?” No man can end with being superior,who ^tfft»t.begln with being inferior. Self-reliance is a very important ele ment to stir rr^en onward to distinc tion. “Every person has two educa tions—one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself. Be not dis couraged and bullied into despair by failures In your undertakings, but make them incentives to new en deavors. # Pluck bright glory from the pale faced moon, Or dive Into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the * ground, And drag up drowned honor by the look*. • ; Practical talents are most useful to success. High intellectual culture is often at the 'expense of moral vigor. , ‘-‘Experience and observation, rough hew them l^v we will,will lead to for tune.” “At a gathering in Australia, four person met, three of whom were shepherds on a sheep farm; .one had taken .a degree at Oxford, another at Cambridge, the third at a German university. The fourth was their em- fftoyer, a equatter, rich in flocks and herds but scarcely able to read and writ®.” Reason's whole pleasure, all the Joys of sense Lie in three words—health, peace, and com petence. Health consists in the moderate aud roper use of our faculties, aud they tmonish us that when used luordi- ly, ot in violation of nature, sick- ess aud siiffeiiug will result. “ Wuat makes all physical or moral 111 ? There deviates nature aud here wanders will.” Peace gives us that tranquil, serene feeling which we enjoy in the per formance of good aud worthy deeds, It is “the soul’s calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy.” Competence is that quantity of meaus which provides for all our wants and necessities without the extravagance aud waste of super fluity, whloh produces luxury and all its enervating and degraded effects. Better bunt lu fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught; The wise lor eure on exercise depend, God never made his work for man to mend. Knowledge in a Nutshell. Facts and Information for Everybody. ^ What is a Oastroaoope t An instrument by which it is possi ble to illuminate the interior of the stomach, and see the condition of the lining membrane. It is au ingenious, delicate, and pro bably very costly instrument, and is more interesting as showing what can be done than what is likely to be done frequently. Who first used, the words: “Millions for defense, not a cent for ti ibute f ” Charles Cotes worth Pinckuey, El- bridge Gerry, and John Marshall had been appointed envoys to France by President John Adams, for the pur pose of making an amicable adjust ment of the difficulties with that country. This unfriendly feeling arose from “Jay’s Treaty,” ratified in 1795. The envoys were insultingly met by tiie French Directory, and finally in formed that nothing could be accom- plished until a present of money was made. It being intimated to the en voys by Talleyrand that the penalty of refusal would be a war. Pinckney replied : “ War be It, then ! Millions for de fense, sir, but not a cent for tri bute! ” What is electroplating t It is the process of depositing one metal on another by means of electri city. The metal is deposited most readily on German silver, brass, cop per, or nickel silver. The last is a mix ture of copper, zinc, and nickel, and is used for the best plated ware. A vessel is gold-lined by filling it with a solution of g> id, suspending in it a slip of gold from the positive pole of the battery, and then attaching the negative pole to the vessel; while the current passing through the liquid causes it to bubble like soda water, and in a few moments deposits a thin film of gold over the entire surface. Whut was the Ear of Dionysius f The name of a cave near Syracuse, Sicily. A whisper at the further end of the cavern is easily heard by a per son at the entrance, though the dis tance is 200 feet. Traditiou says that the Try ant of Syracuse used this as a dungeon, and was thus enabled to list en to the conversation of his unfortu nate prisoners. What salaries do our foreign ministers receivet Ministers Plenipotentiary to Franoe, Great Britain, Russia, and the Ger man Empire, $17,500 ; Brazil, China, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and Austria, $12,000; while those to Chili and Peril receive $10,000. What is the origin and meaning of the common expression “ O. AT.?” The slang expression O. K. is fre quently attributed to Andrew Jack son, but it was Seba Smith who, in his ‘ Letters of Major Jack Downing,” said frequently that President Jackson used to indorse certain papers O. K., meaning “Oil Korrect.” No such ex pression can be found in any message. Jackson was not an illiterate as he has been sometimes represen ted,though he used to write Gibraltar with and an e in It.. What is the Microphone f A variety of telephone. In (his in strument the sound wives are made to vary the electrical resistance of a circuit, and thereby produce varia tions in the quantity of electricity which flows through the circuit. These Variations, by means of a telephone, are made to reproduce the sound-* causing them. The microphone is placed near the place where the sounds are originated and connected by means of a conducting wire with a battery and a telephone. Whatever sounds are made near the microphone, such as talking or even breathing, can be heard by any one listening at the telephone, even though it be a hun dred miles distant. What was the* Vocal Memnon ? The Greeks called a statue of Amen- ophis at Thebes the Statue of Mem non. It stands on the banks of the Nile, is 47 leet high, and extends 7 feet below the ground. Ancient writ ers tell us that about sunrise each morning there issued from this gigan tic monolith a musical sound resem bllng the breaking of a harp-string. It is now believed that this was pro duct d by strong currents of air (due to th - ohauge of temperature in the early morning) passing through crevices in the stone. Digital Forfeits. The Maylays have at all times been addicted to gambling. In those days, in Ceylon, they would “play away the «nds of their fingers” over the draught-board. They would sit down with a fire burning, whereon was set a pot of walnut or sesame oil, while beside it lay a small hatchet with an exceedingly sharp edge. The loser placed his hand upon a stone, and the wiuner chopped off a joint, when the mutilated finger was plunged into the boiling oil aud thereby cauterized. Borne men, fond of the game, but uu- skilifal or unlucky, had every finger I shorn of its tip. Rich Men’s Sons in Colleges. Wellington college was started upon a wofoldidea. It was to he 'i great edacatioual institution, worthy ot the great name given to it, and it was to be^it the same time a place at which the sons and orphans of officers might he fitted for their future career In life, “whatever that career might be,” at a oost far below what would be incurred at any other place where like advan tages could be obtained. The mixture of classes at Welling ton college has not f* vored those economical habits which would have been in strict agreement with the original design of the place. The sons of rich parents have imported into the college their own standard of expense,, Their less well-to-do school fellows have been tempted to vie with them, or have been placed at a disadvantage by comparison with them. The com missioners appointed to in quire in the pratical working of the institution think that a strict simplicity of living should be the invariable rule at Wel lington college, for the boys and for the masters, too. To inculcate inex pensive habits and steady self control is ss important, the commissioners say, as to teach classes and mathemat ics. We are not sure that they do not somewhat over-estimate the extent to which expensive habits have been en couraged or suffered at Wellington college. The further question whether the expenses of all the boys should be more nearly the same, is a much larger one and more open to con troversy. A public school, it may fairly urged, is a little world in which the great outside world should be shown in miniature. The French “lycees,” with their strict control of expenses of every kind, down even to dress, are perfect models of whnt the commis sioners propose for Wellington col lege. Penmanship. Few great men pay munh attention to their penmanship. They seem to consider it something too trivial for their notice, forgetting that whatever is worth doing is worth doing well. Oberlin, the famous French pastor of the Alps, put the matter in its true light when he made it a ppint of Christian duty to write in a clear, round hand, because, as he said, bad writing was displeasing to God. Charles James Fox, when made under-secretary in one ot the English departments, took great pains with his hand-writing, that he might excel his predeolbsors. He said to a friend, “It is a duty to do everything at one's beat, even in little things.” Mr. Webster once sent a sharp re proof to Mr. Choate, who was noted for the most illegible hand. He had received a letter from Mr. Choate, giving his advice on an important matter in a great crisis. He opened it eagerly and ran his eye down the pages. He could make out scarcely a werd. He sent a, message by a mutual friend— “Tell Mr. Choate to write better. His hand-writing is barbarous. I could not read a single word. There is the letter. Just look at it. Tell Mr. Choate to go to a writing-school, and take a quarter’s lessons.” No better i d vice could have been given. What is written Is intended to be read, and tbe letter and writing are both failures, if the words cannot be deciphered. Bayard Taylor, whose “copy” was the delight of compositors, made it a rule always to write each letter per fectly legible, and the result was a manusoi ipt that could be read as eas ily as print. The Steer and the Railway Train, A Wyoming man saw a Texas steer standing on the railroad track, and knowing that the express train was due tried to induce the beast to move. Several pieces of board thrown at the ferocious monster failed to move it, until at last, as the train rushed down the track t£ lightning speed, he seised the steer by the tail aud twisted it like a wet towe). At thiB momeut the train struck them both and the result was stupendous. The steer was found two days afterward browsing peace fully in a ooru-field, with two driving wheels hung ou his horng. No trace of either the mau or engine has been heard of sinoe. Itinerant Musicians. Eaglish journals are discussing the rights of street musicians and the wrongs aud woes of householders invalids especially, who grow weary of incessant griuding organs, peri patetic bands, and strolling singers. It seems that there is an old-fashioned act of Parliament evoked in response to satires « f the famous John Leech in Punch,but it gives no authority to sup press the more modern devices for making artistic noises. Victims have tried prosecutions under the law of nuisarce, ’but a street performance may be very annoying and exasperat- ing to a person of tven moderate musical culture yet not actually in jurious to the health and happiness ot the neighborhood in that extreme sense which would constitute it a public nuisance. One gentleman who lived n»xt door to a ladies’seminary declared to a poliee magistrate that he did not object to piano music in moderation, but that the noise of three or four piano-fortes in the girls’ school, thrummed from dawn till midniglt, was slowly doing his aged mother to death. The magistrate thought then was no lellef unless by an injunction from Chancery. Now, this is in Eng land a fearfully expensive remedy. A street band was stopped in its per formance by a local coustable, but the musicians appealed to a magistrate, who said they had a right to play, there was no law against it. Borne new law to restrict performances in London is earnestly demanded. When it has been framed there will be many who will wish to see it re-enacted here. Social Ways in India. The etiquette of calls in India is, that they should be paid by the last comer between the hours of 12 and 2, and anyone Is at liberty to call on all the people who have arrived at a sta tion before him. Everybody in soci ety, on going to the chief town of a province, leaves a card at Government House, and receives an invitation to a dinner or ball with “R. 8. V. P. to Bo-and-so” in the corner. These mys- teious letters have been known to cause some difficulty to India-born officials of the “uncovenanted” class, who by obtaining the wished-for dis tinction of a gazetted appointment, find themselves admited to a society above the level of their earlier days. There is a story, said to be wholly true; of a worthy couple who were anxious, before going to a new station, to part from their old neighbors wiih every graceful and appropriate form of farewell; and long and sadly they pondered over the cards they were to leave. “I know the ladies do write something in the corners of their cards when they are going away,” said the wife, “but I don’t like to ask anybody what it is, because that would show we did not know ourselves.” She had better have asked, poor’lady, or else put nothing at all, for her bus- band, who was familiar with no com bination of letters without words save £. s. d. and T. O., suggested she should look through all the cards she had received. She did so; there was none with P. P. C., but there was a card of invitation to an entertainment at Government House ; that must be right surely—the mysterious intitials good enough for high officials must be good enough for her, and so the sta tion was convulsed with laughter when In every house appeared a fare well card from, “Mr. and Mrs. da Costa. “R. 8. V. P.” It is rather amusing to watch the arrival on horseback of a visitor who wisely wears an ugly and unbecoming solar tope* (oork helmet) to shield his head from the fierce sunshine, while a sals runs® behind carrying the tall glossy hat which his master brings into your drawing-room and strokes daring his visit. It is always hope lees to give one’s name to a native servant, its mangled remains would be long past recognition by the time they reached his mistress; so the proper thing to do after ascertaining that a lady is at home, is to send in your oard, or “ticket,” aud wait until the servaut returns to give you her “salaam.” Ladies get vory much per plexed sometimes as to the personal identity of their visitors. Thus, when a pair of friends go round together to make calls ^uring their holidays in the Hills, how is a hostess, who never saw either of them before, to discover from their occasionally rather bashful conversation, which gentleman is Mi. Joues aud which is Mr. Biulth? If she asks them to dluuer afterwards for different evenings she is sure to find the mau she took for Smith re sponds to Jones’s invitation, and vice versa. In the wholesale system of calling pursued in the Hills it often happens that you have to entertain at dinner guests whose persona) appearance is entirely unknown to you. These la dies, whose husbands are unable to get leave from work in the Plains have called upon your wife without seeing her, and she has returned the visit with the same result; so you are both dependent on the quickness of your own faculties to discover from preliminary talk which is the most important lady whom you must take in to dinner; you know her name, of course, and probably all about her; but you have no idea which of your guests she is. As the first visitor is seen approaching, a servant enters and announces. “A lady comes.” So you go out and receive on your thresh old an utter stranger, to whom you offer arm to the drawing-room, and make yourself as charming as circum stances permit, until the announce ment of another lady, whom you must receive in the same manner, and so on until all the party is assembled. Delicacies ot the cuisine. Pineapple Jam.—Peel, grate, and weigh the apple ; put pound for pound of pineapple and sugar; boil it in A preserving kettle thirty or forty min utes. Quince Jam.—Peel the quinces and grate them on a coarse grater ; and to one pint of quince add three-fourths of a pound of sugar; boil it half an hour ; putin small jars aud cover as other preserves. Mince Makmalade.—Take the quinces that you have boiled for jelly and mash them with a spoon ; to a pound of quinces take a pound of sugar ; boil them together until they are well softened ; then strain through a coarse sieve, and put up in small jars. Tomato Jam.—Peel ripe tomatoes, taking out all seeds; put in preserving kettle with one-half pound of sugar to each pound of prepared tomato; boil two lemons soft, and pound them fine; take out the pips and add to the tomato; boil slowly, mashing to a smooth mass; when smooth and thick put in jars and tumblers. Rhubarb Marmalade.—Peel fine oranges, removing the rinds, white and pips; put' the pulp into a stew- pan, with the peel out very small; add five pounds of rhubarb, cut small, aud four pounds of loaf sugar; boil the whole two hours, and the fruit half an hoar, before adding the sugar. Three lemons may be substituted for the oranges. Apple Maricaladb.—Take any kind of sour apples, pare and core them ; cut them in small pieces, and to every pound of apples put three- quarters of a pound of sugar; put them in a preserving pan and boil them over a slow fire until they are reduced to a fine pulp; then put in jelly jars and keep in a cool place. French Marmalade.—Take the entire rind of twelve oranges or lem ons; put it into plenty of fresh water and boil until quite tender; then throw it into a pan of cold water; let it remain from eilght to ten hours; drain it, mash it smoothly, pass through a sieve, weigh it, and to each pound of pulp add one pound of white BUgar; put it into a preserving pan, and stir it well over a moderate fire until it is a rather thick paste; put in small pots for use; the juice and pulp are not used. Preserved Oranges—Take any number of oranges, with rather more than their weight in sugar ; slightly grate the oranges, aud out them rouud and round with a knife, but not very deep; put them in cold water Tor three days; changing the water two or three times a day ; tie them up iu a cloth, and boll until soft enough for the head of a pin to penetrate the skin ; while they are boiling place the sugar on the fire with iather more than a halt-pint of water to each pound; let it boil a minute or two, then strain through muslin; cook the oranges in the syrup till it jellies and is of a yellow oolor; try the syrup by putting some to cool; it must not be too stiff; the syrup need not cover the oranges, hut they must be turned so that eaeh part gets thoroughly done, \ In the single State of New York there are 127 savings banks, and on the 1st of July they had in their keep ing nearly $400,000,000. Twenty-five of these banks are iu the City of New York, ana held $219,000,000 of the above arnouut, an inorease for them, during six months of more than $8,000,0(1).