Luck.
Itis the shallow who believes
in luck : who say of a successful,
man, “he was always lucky,
an unsuccessful one, “Poor fel
low, just his luck.” A man s
luck is generally the measure 01
his capacity and persevernee, cause
produces clients the world over.
Water does not run up the lull
nor do we gather even in these
odys of progress, grapes of thorns,
aHigs of thistles. If we would
gather golden grain, we must
first sow the seed. It we would
be wise, we must work for .wis
dom. Riches, goodness, fame,
love—each has its price, ami can
be purchased for no less. Life is
a perpetual auction, where ml
prizes are knocked down to the
highest bidder. Ino woild s
great men have toiled eariy and
Tate. Even genius can find no
royal road to its goal. v^oetlie,
and Milton, and Newton, labored
as the easy-going, fine gentleman
of literature cannot conceive. -
If they were great, they achieved
greatness—it was nothrust on
them. Luck is ever waiting for
something to turn up. Labor
with keen eyes and strong will,
. will turn up something. Luck
lies in bed, and wishes the post-
man would bring him the news
of a new legacy ; labor turns out
at six o’clock, and with a busy
pen or ringing hammer lays the
foundation of a competency. —
Luck whines; labor whistles.
Luck relies on chance, labor on
character. Luck slips down' to
indigence; labor strikes upward
to independence.
How They Pull Teeth in Japan.
Those wonderful islands in the
North Pacific that makes up the
empire of Japan arc full of . in
terest to Americans. They form,
a rich and beautiful country of
hill and valley and vegetation;
and among the people there are
plenty of bright eyes ami ready
wits and nimble fingers. But the
Japanese are wdiatwe can “a great
way behind the age.” They have
been slow to learn new inventions
because they thought themselves
wiser than the rest of the world,
and have kept the arts of the
world shut out of their empire.
These singular people, who
carve and design so cleverly, are
very ignorant of medicine and
surgery. Like other people, they
have many aches and pains, and,
as every body knows, one ot the
most torturing pains Is an aching
' tooth. These poor creatures in
Japan, like all the world beside,
now and then want a tooth pulled;
and their only contrivances for
tills are a wooden mallet and a
stick. The professor of dentistry,
instead of sitting in his 'office with
a stock of mysterious and fright
ful instruments, goes travelling
over the country, carrying a Lox
covered with brass ornaments^ If he dreams ofbeing aceosted
and containing some little mallets by a stange man who .insists on
he meets i taking him with him, it is a sign
that he had better know r all the
When
and wedges.
with a person who wishes to part (
company with an aching tooth, •
the wedges are pressed in between
the tooth and the gum, and are
then forced down with the mallet,
until by hammering and prying,
the tooth is made so Io; se that it
can be pulled out with the fingers.
The poor patient suffers very
much. Sometimes pieces of the
jaw are broken away with the
teeth, and it is said the patient
dies from the wound.
And yet these singular people,
so intelligent in some things, so
stupid in others, make very beau
tiful artificial teeth, even com
plete sets, curved from marine
ivory, and mounted on hard
gourdsh’dl. They are made to
fit the mouth very perfectly, and
are kept in place by atmospheric
pressure, very much as with us.
The invention, however, is their
own, and has been one of their
arts for many generations. These
teeth are not what we would call
expensive, a complete upper set
costing only about one dollar and
a half.
Johnny’s Confrssiqn.—At night
Johnny climbed up to his mother's
lap, and laying his head on her
shoulder, said in a low, sorry
tone: “I took that glass marble,
mamma.”
“Took it from whom?” asked
his mother.
“I took it from the ground,”
said Johnny.
“Did it belong to the ground ?”
asked his mother. “Did the
ground go to the shop and buy ?”
Johnny tried to laugh at such
a sunny thought, but he could
not.
“I saw it on the ground.”
“What little boy had it before ?”
VAsa Myy’s it is, I guess,”
whispered Johnny.
“When you put out your hand
to take it, did you forget, “Thou
God seest me!” asked his moth
er. “Did you not hear a voice
.saving
don’t Johnny, don’t John-
I didn’t hear it,
said the little
boy, sobbing; “I grabbed quick!”
Breams.—Jf a man dreams the
devil is after him, it is a sign
that lie had better pay his sub
scription bill.
If he dreams of an eathquake,
and a turmoil generally, it is a
sign that he is going to be mar
ried.
If he (being a married man)
dreams of some fearful mysterious
danger, it is a sign that his
mother-in-law is coming to spend
a few days with her darling
daughter.
If he dreams that his head is in
danger, and that his Fair falls out,
. , arranged as. described. In this
it is a sigil inat no .will, have la i ns tanee the premises were effec-
quarrel with his wife. tually cleared of the vermin.
policemen.
If he dreams of speaking famil
iarly to a ghost with horns ano
tail, itis a sign that he had bet
ter reduce his-liquor bill.
If lie dreams of making a fool
of himself, it is a true sign it is
so.
Grand Distribution
How to Fool Rats.
Let us take the case of a house
badly infested "ith rats, says the
Rural New Worker. How shall
we get rid of them? Of course,
if they come from some public
sower or other colony, the supply
is probably unlimited, and the
first thing must be to cut off the
access of all outsiders. But if
we are troubled by none but na
tives, it will not require much
skill to capture every one ot them
—old, cunning fellows and all.
lit the first place, then, we must
resolve to take time to it and cap
ture the whole lot, and to this
end no attempt must be made to
capture single animals, since this
will tend to make them suspicions
and will put the old ones on their
guard Then provide a large box
or barrel; place in it a quantity
of old carpet, brush, &c., and also
some food, such as meal, cheese,
herring, &c. Bore a two-inch
hole in the side of the box, and
leave it for some days. The rats
will soon find it out and frequent
it. First a young one will go in
and have a good feed and come
out ail right; the old ones, seeing
that he is not hurt, they, too,
will go in, and in a short time
every rat about the premises will
frequent it. When this occurs,
see that it is well supplied with
food and arrange' over the hole
a block having a corresponding
aperture cut in it but having also
a series of wires stuck around
the hole and pointing inwards,
just as they are arranged in the
common wire traps. Every rat
will go in as before and not one
can get out. Various methods
can be adopted for killing them.
If you are a sportsman, you can
I let them out one at a time and
I shoot them or kill them terriers.
; .A few slips of sulphured paper
: thrust through the hole and
burned, is, however, a very sim
ple plan and will give a most ef
fectual quietus. Ave have known
ia case in which sixty-seven rats
were caught at one time in a box
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