every hour! and yet there are multitudes in both city and county who sleep with closed doors and windows, in rooms which do not contain a thousand cubic feet of space, and that thousand feet is to last all night, at least eight hours, except such scanty supplies as may be obtained of any fresh air that may insinuate itself through little crevices by door or window, not an eighth of an inch in thickness.

But when it is known that in many cases a man and wife and infant sleep habitually in thousandfeet rooms, it is no marvel that multitudes perish prematurely; no wonder that infant children wilt away like flowers without water, and that five thousand of them are to die in the city of New York alone during the hundred days which shall include the fifteenth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty! Another fact is suggestive, that among the fifty thousand persons who sleep nightly in the lodging-houses of London, expressly arranged on the improved principles of space and ventilation already referred to, it has been proved that not one single case of fever has been engendered in two years! Let every intelligent reader improve the teachings of this article without an hour's delay.— Hall's Journal of Health.

BIBLE ENIGMA.

FIND words beginning with the letter L that describe a Christian, give reference to the text from which the words are taken, and write one verse of poetry on each such descriptive word.

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THE BOOK OF BOOKS.

WHAT GREAT MEN HAVE SAID ABOUT IT. THE FIRST PRESIDENT ADAMS WROTE.-I have examined all, as well as my narrow sphere, my straitened means, and my busy life would allow me; and the result is, the Bible is the best book in the world. It contains more of my little philosophy than all the libraries I have seen; and such parts of it as I cannot reconcile to my little philosophy, I postpone for future investigation.

THE SECOND PRESIDENT ADAMS.-I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.

SIR MATTHEW HALE.-It is a book full of light and wisdom, and will make you wise to eternal life, and furnish you with directions and principles to guide and order your life safely and prudently. There is no book like the Bible for excellent learning, wisdom, and use.

GREGORY THE GREAT.-A stream where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb may wade. THOMAS CARLYLE.-A noble book! All men's book! It is our first, oldest statement of the neverending problem-man's destiny, and God's ways with him here on earth; and all in such free flowing outlines-grand in its sincerity, in its simplicity, in its epic melody, and repose of reconcile

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JOHN MILTON.-God has ordained His Gospel to be the revelation of His power and wisdom in

Christ Jesus. Let others, therefore, dread and shun the Scriptures in their darkness; I shall wish I may deserve to be recokened among those who admire and dwell upon them for their clearness. There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those that the Scriptures teach.

THE CHEVALIER BUNSEN.-The Bible is the only cement of nations, and the only cement that can bind religious hearts together.

DANIEL WEBSTER-I have read it through many times; I now make a practice of going through it once a year. It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought, and rule for conduct.

THOMAS JEFFERSON.-I have always said, and always will say, that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.

ISAAC NEWTON.-We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.

BISHOP JEWELL.-Cities fall, empires come to nothing, kingdoms fade away as smoke. Where is Numa, Minos, Lycurgus? Where are their books? and what has become of their laws? But that this book no tyrant should have been able to consume, no tradition to choke, no heretic maliciously to corrupt; that it should stand unto this day, amid the wreck of all that was human, without the alteration of one sentence so as to change the doctrine taught therein-surely there is a very singular providence, claiming our attention in a most remarkable manner.

A BOMB-PROOF TOWN.

I HAVE somewhere read of a regiment ordered to march into a small town and take it. I think it was in the Tyrol; but, wherever it was, it chanced that the place was settled by a colony who believed in the Gospel of Christ, and proved their faith by their works.

A courier from the neighbouring village informed them that the troops were advancing to take the town. They quietly answered, "If they will take an

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the town, they must." Soldiers soon came riding in with colours flying, and piping their shrill defiance. They looked about for the enemy, and saw the farmer at his plough, the blacksmith at his anvil, and the women at their churns and spinningwheels. Babies crowded to hear the music, and the boys ran out to see pretty trainers with feathers and bright buttons, "the harlequins of the sixteenth century." Of course, none of these were in a proper position to be shot at. "Where are your soldiers?" they asked. "We have none," was the brief reply. "But we have come to take the town." "Well, friends, it lies before you." But is there nobody to fight?" "No, we profess to be Christians." Here was an emergency altogether unprovided for a sort of resistance which no bullet could hit-a fortress perfectly bomb-proof. The commander was perplexed. "If there is nobody to fight with, of course we cannot fight," said he; "it is impossible to take such a town as this." So he ordered the horses' heads to be turned about, and they carried the human animals out of the town with no more blood on their heads than they had when they went in, and with very poor proof of the truth of the fighting adage, "If you wish for peace, prepare for war."-The Christian Penny Magazine.

ONLY A PIN.

ONLY two or three days ago, an overseer in a mill found a pin which cost the company about three hundred dollars.

"Was it stolen ?" asked Susie. "I suppose it must have been very handsome. Was it a diamond pin ?"

"Oh, no, my dear, not by any means. It was