_A Sensible Answer._--A story is told about Wendell Phillips--a story that must have made even the serious-minded Abolitionist laugh heartily: He was in a hotel in Charleston, had breakfast in his room, and was served by a slave. Mr. Phillips spoke to him as an Abolitionist, but the waiter seemed to be more concerned about the breakfast than about himself. Finally Mr. Phillips told him to go away, saying that he could not bear to be waited upon by a slave. The other remonstrated: "Scuse me, massa, but I's obliged to stay yere, 'cause I's 'sponsible fo' de silverware." 1510 MY FIRST PATIENT. A lady sent for me in haste to come and see, What her condition for a cure might be. Dear me! a patient--what a happy tone, To have a patient, and one all my own-- To have a patient and myself be feed, Raised expectations very high indeed-- I saw a practice growing from the seed. --_Wm. Tod Helmuth._ 1511 Fretting is the doctor's best friend all over the whole world. 1512 Temperance and toil are the two real physicians of mankind. 1513 The purse of the patient frequently, alas! protracts his cure. --_Zimmerman._ 1514 Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance. --_Addison._ 1515 To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. 1516 The thirsty earth soaks up the rain And drinks and gaps for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. --_A. Cowley._ 1517 THE BREVITY OF PLEASURES. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever. --_Burns: Tam O'Shanter._ 1518 There is a certain dignity to be kept up in pleasures as well as in business. 1519 The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. --_Charles Lamb._ 1520 To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them. --_Buxton._ 1521 Pleasures make folks acquainted with each other, but it takes trials and griefs to make them know each other. 1522 Our sweetest pleasures--oft Are in our memories. 1523 A man would have but little pleasure if he did not sometimes flatter himself. 1524 The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consist in promoting the pleasures of others. --_La Bruyere._ 1525 ONE WAY OF AVOIDING PNEUMONIA.