. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. ^1> that a man can discover his real disposition. A hast3' temper only supposes itself properly alive; an iudoleiit iudulger imagines he is as active as any one; but by close and severe examination each may discover something nearer the truth. Thinking is, indeed, the very germ of self- cultivationâthe source from which all vital intfuence springs. Thinking will do much for an active mind, even in the absence o
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. ^1> that a man can discover his real disposition. A hast3' temper only supposes itself properly alive; an iudoleiit iudulger imagines he is as active as any one; but by close and severe examination each may discover something nearer the truth. Thinking is, indeed, the very germ of self- cultivationâthe source from which all vital intfuence springs. Thinking will do much for an active mind, even in the absence of books, or living instructors. The reasoning faculty grows firm, expands, discerns its own power, acts with increasing facility, precision and extent, under all its privations. Where there is no privation, but every help from former thinkers, how much may we not ex- pect from it! Thus great characters rise. While he who thinks little, though much he Bees, can hardly call anything he has his own. He trades with borrowed cajiital, and is on the high road to literary, or rather to mental, bankruptcy. How to Eat an Orange. A correspondent of the Jlume Journal writes: Always on a Southern gentleman's table the dessert of oranges is furnished with small silver fruit-knives and spoons. The orange is held in a najikinâjust as you hold an egg âand with the slender point of the knife a circular incision is carefully made made in the stem end of the orange, and the stem core is nicely cut out, leaving an orifice large enough for an egg-spoon. The orange is held and eaten then, just as gourmands eat an egg, in its own shell; and the skill and grace with which this is doneâthat is, without soiling the lingers or na]jkinâare, as in the same process with the egg, a test of good breeding. I have known the most inexpert person to master the few difficulties in the way after two or three efforts; and their satisfaction was an infinitely pleasant sight. To the hostess who likes to have the
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