Nothing is easier than fault-finding. No talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character is required to set up in the grumbling business. But those who are moved by a genuine desire to do good and benefit their fellows have little time for murmuring or complaint.
Interesting Items.
The length of the Thames from source to mouth is 220 miles.
The greatest height yet reached in a balloon is seven miles and a quarter.
In 1707 it took two days and a half to get to Oxford, a distance of fifty-five miles.
The number of Bibles sold by the British Bible Society up to 1881 was 100,035,933.
Two millions and a half is the number of persons who are said to be slaves to Sabbath toil in America, and they generally receive no more than six days' wages for seven days' work.
Anna Swan, the Nova Scotia giantess, who, with her husband, Captain Bates, the Kentucky giant, was an earnest member of the Baptist Church, is dead. She was seven feet nine inches in height.