In the course of a kindly and apprecia~ tice (writes a correspondent), which has recently been published concerning the many good qualities possessed by a prominent official, it was remarked that " the sick folk will gratefully remember the bot ties of milk carried by his own hand." Excellent philanthropy! When his other efforts on behalf of the community are forgotten, buried in the oblivion of an unremembered past, the record of his kindly journeys through the streets of the city, doubly armed with the silent but eloquent tokens of his genial disposition, will still he read by posterity, and serve to keep his memory green in the ages yet. to come Tt was further related that our friend "was not wont to blow his own trumpet." Here cteristic example of tne of temperament. which is fluid. true lovers of the lacteal OF cours we are aware that thing can be easier than to indulge in habit al fault-finding concerning the of milk supplied; and a lady of one instance was lately the recipient of 4 just rebuke in this connection, conveyed in the words, "Madam, to the pure all things are pure!
But if the question should be asked, can you suggest a remedy for the evil of the times, the social and political unrest. We ald reply, let the rising generation in be brought under the benign and 1g influences of the lacteal fluid! Let Prince Ching be restricted to a milk diet And if, in the course of his daily passage to the TeungliYamén, he should open to encounter a fair damsel of Peking, bearing her pails to the western hills, he will no doubt command his chair-hearers to give pause, whilst the following Jogue, in the mast correct mandarin,"
Iv be expected to ensue "Where are you going to, my pretty maid Tm going a-milking, Sir, she said!?
His Excellency will doubtless signify his Princely commendation by adding 4UKF-A last word. We have written of the vantage to be derived from milk in the Celestial" Empire, as China, notwithstanding all the trouble, continues to be known. "And to those of our readers whose truest ideals are not entirely circumseribed by the boundaries of this present evil world. we would venture to commend the hint so aptly given by our choir, a few unclays ago, when they sang with much sweetness and expression "Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blest."
Verbum Sap.!
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