and the remnants of an unfinished meal in a colored handkerchief under the other. As the plot of the play begins to thicken their appetites grow sharp, having not been sufficiently stuffed at noon. Then their greatest concern is how they may be satisfied with decency and decorum, that no curious neighbor may discover their treasure and long for a morsel. Thus restrained by the orderly management of their portable larder, it is impossible for them to have any regard to the business of the stage. But by that time the poet begins to unravel his design by an artful catastrophe, which strikes an attentive silence upon the sensible part of the audience. Their natural cloak-bags are filled for a journey; they stretch, and cry, Lord! when will these tiresome people have done? I wish we had a dance, and were a-bed."" It will thus be seen there were no "refreshment bars" in those days. Finally, the state of the stage, and the profaneness and indecency of the players, seemed at this time to be running riot, and challenged the interference of all proper persons. Vigorous efforts were made to restrain and chastise them in "A Refutation of the Apology for the Actors," published in the Camden Miscellany (1703). His mates are gone, and he A strange wayfarer coming to his side, And row him straightway to the further shore, And wait while he did there a space abide. That voice had note so clear of sweet command; Through pouring tide he pulls and drizzling haze, And sets his freight ashore on Thorney strand. The minster's outlined mass Rose dim from the morass, And heavenly odors fair Then all again is dark, And by the fisher's bark The unknown passenger returning stands. - O Saxon fisher! thou hast had with thee The fisher from the Lake of Galilee saith he, blessing him with outspread So hands; divine Efface the humbler graves of Sebert's line, And, as years sped, the minster-aisles Grew used to the approach of Glory's wings. Arts came, and arms, and law, And majesty, and sacred form and fear; Only that primal guest the fisher saw, Light, only light, was slow to re-appear. The Saviour's happy light, Wherewith at first was dight His boon of life and immortality, In desert ice of subtleties was spent Or drown'd in mists of childish wonderment, Fond fancies here, there false philosophy! And harsh the temper grew Of men whose minds were darken'd and astray, And scarce the boon of life could struggle through For lack of light which should the boon con Foreshown thee in thy consecration hour, And in thy courts his shining freight unroll'd: Bright wits, and instinct sure, And joy in light, and power to spread the joy. And on that countenance bright Warm in her breast, by day, He slumber'd, and ambrosia balm'd the child; But once, at midnight deep, His mother woke from sleep, And saw her babe amidst the fire, and scream'd. What can he better crave than then to die, Then raised her face, and glory round her And all the tedious tossing to and fro ? beam'd. The mourning stole no more Mantled her form, no more her head was bow'd; But raiment of celestial sheen she wore, "O ignorant race of man! Unto this pious household to repay — She spake, and from the portal pass'd away. The boy his nurse forgot, Long since, his name is heard on earth no nary service log another box which encloses his own electrical apparatus. Into this lastnamed box the mile spindle of the log is continued, and this is fitted with a cam wheel. The box is also divided into two parts by a vertical partition, through which passes a horizontal lever, or rod insulated from the body of the apparatus, and turning upon a fixed centre. As the cam wheel revolves in passing through the water, its projections press down the lever whereby the electrical current is completed, and the distance travelled is recorded by means of a battery on board the ship acting through the electric cable by which the log is towed. The index dial may be placed in the captain's cabin, on deck, or, indeed, in any part of the ship. In trials lately made near Portsmouth every quarter of a knot indicated by the dial was checked by actual measurement, and found to be absolutely correct. We understand that what may be termed the Kelway speed indicator is likely to be largely used in the British navy as well as the mercantile marine. Building and Engineering Times. MAN'S INTERFERENCE WITH NATURE. That we find it difficult to trace some of our common esculents and some also of our favorite flowers to the wildings out of which they originated is a fact that strikingly illustrates the fundamentals of this subject. What changes must have been wrought by centuries of cultivation, selection, and crossing that we should lose the links between the wild originals and the cultivated forms that are familiar to us! The point of importance is that we should recognize the beneficial results of the process these plants have gone through, and take assurance therefrom that our very existence as civilized beings depends on maintaining their productive status. If we can imagine all the work undone, and our sustenance to be made dependent on the spontaneous products of the earth, we must see mankind reduced to a condition of abject savagery, as in truth he may be seen even now in some parts of the world, crawling like a reptile, hiding in holes of the earth, and living precariously on food that would be loathsome and possibly injurious to a member of a civilized society. It may not occur to every one of our readers that nature, considered as apart from man, is always laboring to restore this state of savagery. There can scarcely be a doubt that any class of garden plants left wholly to THE DISADVANTAGES OF COD-LIVER OIL the care of nature would either pass out of FOR YOUNG CHILDREN. According to the existence altogether, or revert to its original Revue Médicale, the Council of Public Health wild form. We have italicized the words has recently submitted for the sanction of the "apart from man " because man is a part of Academy of Medicine of Paris a report on the nature, and it is as natural for man to improve disadvantages of cod-liver oil administered to the plants that he finds useful as it is for him infants and young children. The commission to prefer the food that gratifies his palate to on the hygiene of infancy has not yet reported that which perhaps is nauseous. And as it is its opinion on this subject; but the accusain man's nature to improve his own conditions brought against this medicine by the tions of life, and make every kind of material Council of Hygiene are worth notice. subservient to his plans of progress, he will be physicians are aware what disastrous influence likely to take care that the plants on which he is exercised on the health of young infants by relies for the subsistence of himself and the defective alimentation, and especially animal animals he has taken in hand with them for nourishment; fatty matters are as little suited systematic improvement, are not allowed to to the alimentation of the newly-born infants run back to their original unimproved condi- as albuminoids, excepting always casein, which tion. exists normally in milk, and is found to be per. fectly assimilable. In fact, in the first period of life, the juices necessary for emulsifying fatty matters are almost entirely wanting. The liver, in spite of its enormous development in this stage of existence, secretes only a small quantity of bile; and the researches of Langendorf and Zweifel have proved that, in young children, pancreatic juices possess an emulsive power which is almost nil, or, at least, very slightly marked. These physiological considerations sufficiently indicate that-far from being profitable to the infant-fatty matters, and especially cod-liver oil, can only injure its health, and gravely compromise the integrity of its digestive functions. Gardener's Magazine. AN ELECTRIC SHIP'S LOG.-Among the more recent applications of electricity to practical purposes is that of attaching an electrical apparatus to a ship's log, and making it register with extreme accuracy the speed at which the ship is moving through the water. This ingenious arrangement owes its existence to the inventive genius and skill of Mr. Kelway of Portsmouth. 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