LOVE AND ITS HIDDEN HISTORY. all connected with it, directly or by the spinal marrow. These nerves, together with their branches and minute ramifications, exceed twenty-two millions in number, forming a “body guard” outnumbering by far the greatest army ever marshalled! The skin is composed of three layers, and varies from one-fourth to one-eighth of an inch in thickness. Its average area in an adult is estimated to be two thousand square inches. The atmospheric pressure being about fourteen pounds to the square inch, a person of medium size is subjected to a pressure of forty thousand pounds. Each square inch of skin contains four thousand seven hundred sweating tubes or perspiratory pores, each of which may be likened to a little drain tile one-fourth of an inch long, making an aggregate length of the entire surface of the body of three hundred and fifty-eight thousand feet, or a tile-ditch for draining the body almost seventy miles long. Man is made marvellously. Who is eager to investigate the curious, to witness the wonderful works of Omnipotent Wisdom, let him not wander the wide worlO round to seek them, but examine himself. Now, if this machine gets out of order, as it does unless love keeps it right, how is life to be other than a gloomy vale of bitterness and tears? Laughter is a good thing. days of man. the species. Can it? It has credit for adding length to the This credit is due. Laughter does a good thing for Men are better for it; ditto women. We don’t like a person who never laughs ; we do like one who does laugh. The chances are that the latter will be ten times as good as the former. The chap that don’t laugh how can you trust hftn? a saint, but he is a dark and suspicious one. He may be Besides, laughter is a tonic, and everybody needs something of this sort. Moral: cotton to laughers ; turn your back severely on those who never open their mouth, except to utter a melancholic moan, or drivel a tomb-like warning. Be sure and have the heart right. All else is sure to come rio-ht, including the head. There is never a weak head attached to a good and strong heart. The thing is impossible. As well ex pect a white face on a black body. Nature doesn’t make ’em that way. It is the central part. The main thing is the heart. correct, everything is correct. That Love does not change the matter. It is simply an exchange, one good thing for another of the same sort. People’s hearts are often perverted, shrivelled, cold, motion.-