_Epsom Salts_ and _Seidlitz Powders_ and _Alum_ which is very useful as a gargle for sore throats. The gargle may be made of the strength of two in a hundred. We have described our medicine chest for emergencies. No one can say that it is elaborate or costly. Yet we know you are disappointed with it. You wanted something more pretentious. But if you follow our instructions and use the various items as we have directed, you will soon find that you have got all that is absolutely necessary for the treatment of emergencies—that is, as far as you yourself can treat them in the absence of a doctor. Before we leave you we wish to make one request. That is: If you follow our advice and fit up your box as we have directed, you will add nothing else thereto. No, nothing whatever—not even to fill up an awkward corner. VARIETIES. ALL WILL COME RIGHT. Things can never go badly wrong If the heart be true and the love be strong, For the mist, if it comes, and the weeping rain Will be changed by the love into sunshine again.—_George MacDonald._ IN PRAISE OF WORK.—Work drives away depression, whets the appetite for food, invites sleep, promotes digestion, strengthens the muscles and sinews, gives free circulation to the blood, stimulates the intellectual faculties, provides the comforts of life, develops all the powers which it brings into exercise, transforms stupid ignorance into brilliant genius, fills the world with works of art and literature, and develops the resources of nature. Nothing can stand before work. WELL NAMED. _Bainbridge_: “I know why they are called fugitive poems.” _Goldsborough_: “Why?” _Bainbridge_: “Because the author had to run for his life.” BE WISE TO-DAY.—“Dear young friends,” says a popular preacher of the present day, “begin right. You will never find it so easy to make any decisive step as just now. You will get less and less flexible as you grow older. You will get set in your ways. Habits will twine their tendrils round you and hinder your free movement. The truths of the Gospel will become commonplace by familiarity. Associations and companions will get more and more powerful, and you will stiffen as a tree trunk becomes stiffened with the growth of years. Be wise to-day.” PRINTERS’ ERRORS. In the early half of the present century it was announced in a London newspaper that “Sir Robert Peel, with a party of _fiends_, was shooting peasants in Ireland,” whereas the Minister and his friends were only indulging in the comparatively harmless amusement of pheasant-shooting. Shortly after the battle of Inkerman one of the morning papers informed its readers that “after a desperate struggle the enemy was repulsed with great _laughter_.” The omission of a single letter has rarely perhaps played more havoc with a subject which was certainly no laughing matter. NO MORE FAULT-FINDING.—The business of fault-finding would soon come to an end if every fault-finder could be only introduced to herself.