violet, greenish yellow; indigo, orange yel-with violet. Second Fuct. If there is presented low; orange yellow, indigo. to a buyer, one after another, fourteen pieces of Besides simultaneous contrast, the writer ex-red stuff, he will consider the last six or sevca plains what Brewster has observed the phe-less beautiful than those first seen, although the nomena of successive contrast-which he thus pieces be identically the same. explains:

What is the cause of this error of judgment? It is that the eyes having seen seven or eight red pieces in succession, are in the same condition as if they had regarded fixedly, during the same period of time, single piece of red stuff; they have then a tendency to see the complementary of Red, that is to fecble the brilliancy of the red of the picces seen say,Green. This tendency goes, of necessity, to enlater. In order that the merchant may not be the sufferer by this fatigue of the eyes of his customer, he must take care, after having shown the latter seven pieces of red, to present to him some pieces of green stuff, to restore the eyes to their normal state. If the sight of the green be sufficiently prolonged to exceed the normal state, the last seven red pieces will appear more beautiful eyes will acquire a tendency to see red; then the

than the others.

First Fact. When a purchaser has for a considerable time looked at a yellow, fabric, and he is then shown orange or scarlet stuffs, it is found that he takes them to be amaranth-red, or crimson; for there is a tendency in the retina, excited ⚫ These amusing facts show how injuriously by yellow, to acquire an aptitude to see violet, strongly and eccentrically colored picture at whence all the yellow of the scarlet or orange stuff an Exhibition may injure that of a paler aspidisappears, and the eye sees red, or a red tinged rant.

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An addition has been made to the occupations | Bourbon seed sown not quite three years ago; open to women which promises well. Female they have received no great attention, but are fingers are henceforth not to exhaust all their growing with remarkable vigor. This is the first nimbleness in music or in their customary domes- year of bearing, and yet so heavy has been the tic operations. The clectric telegraph solicits crop, that several of the branches were borne their assistance. In the transmission of the downwards with the weight. The coffee plant, Queen's Speech on the prorogation of Parlia-it is now placed beyond doubt, grows vigorously ment to the provinces and the continent, female and bears well in this district, and its rapidly inlabor was employed, and the whole was accom-creasing cultivation will, before long, tell on the plished with unusual celerity. The girls were market.-L'Urban Mercury. superintended by a matron telegrapher. Some of them, it is said, transmitted the speech at the rate of thirty-five words a minute. They sent EVIL OF RHAPSODICAL LANGUAGE.-Well has the whole to the Continent (via the Hague) in Miss Baillie said that such rhapsodies are twenty minutes. The Electric Telegraph Com- language of a natural delirium. proceeding from pany deserves commendation for setting this ex-a vain endeavor to protract, by forced excitement, ample. Why should not women be employed in the ecstasy of a few short moments, and to make other analogous cases:-for example, in letter that a continued state of the mind which was insorting? The persons who perform that duty at tended, by its beneficent Creator, only for its octhe Post Office seemed to have constituted a dif-casional and transient joy. Of this (she continues) ficulty in the way of the improvements contem- we may be well assured; for if otherwise indulg plated by the late Commissioners. Their Reported, it would have rendered men incapable of the does not contain any evidence that they consid-duties of social life; those duties which the blesered the possibility of employing women in that scd Founder of our religion did so constantly and capacity. Girls who could transmit thirty-five so earnestly inculcate. Preface to the Martyr. words a minute by electric telegraph would soon outstrip the lads whom we now employ in sorting letters. The sorting of sixty letters a minute is, we believe, the greatest feat of dexterity they can accomplish.-Athenæum.

NATAL COFFEE-A very beautiful sample of coffee, grown on the farm of W. Smerdon, Esq., near the Umblanga, was shown to us the other day. The berries are as large, clean, and full as any we have seen imported. The plants are from

LANGUAGES.-In the Bengalee language, an honorific pronoun is used in addressing superiors, and to inferiors they use a pronoun which indicates inferiority. The verbs also, in their terminations, receive signs of respect and inferiority. Signs of respect or of familiarity, in a language, cannot be improper; but signs which are invented on purpose to remind a person that he is an inferior being, are a blot upon every form of speech. -Ward, vol. i, p. 189.

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