THE WISCONSIN FARMER.                                 
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  The tolu imparts to the water an agreeable slowly, Iyet grandly and mightily
it floated
aromatic odor. Ten cents worth of this, with southward on the bosom of the
great ocean-
a cake of fine soap freely used, will be1more
effectual in beautifying a young lady'0com- at first in the early morning
reflecting a soft
plexion than many costly and injurious os- and mellow light as of an ol..
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  The tolu may be kept in-a china cup, and
when used, the cup can be placed in the bowl
of water, thus avoiding the trouble of reme,-
ing the gum.-Jurn ale, in Prairie Farmer.



         YOUTH'S CORNER.

            Wonders of the Bea.
  All the children who read I" About Icebergs"
in the last number of the. FP-. hr        n



surrounding mist, and then, at the rising of
the sun, glittering and flashing like a moun-
tain of diamond.



  It was not a berg of the largest size, and yet
if it had stood upon dry land would not have
been less than a thousand feet high. In form
it was one of the finest ever seen on the ocean;
consisting of three distinct peaks, each round
and sarp. A. -ai befor- -t -A    A..+ __



              -       --           _   , ..--            A.si .._,u-, It
was aoout live
doubt, given them a prominent place among miles away, and it made the atmosphere
so cold
the wonders of the sea, and we have heard of that we were compelled to wrap
our coats and
a number of wide-awake little fellows who did blankets close about us to
keep from freezing.
wish they could just see one monstrous big ice- To have encountered the monster
by day or
mountain away olt linn - h_ AA,.             night. -      .,IA i.-. r- -



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  Well, the Editor wishes it too, and is ver
sorry that all the little boys and girls who be
long to the "Corner" family could not has
been with him in the ship "1 Niagara ' on th
21st of April last, away out on the wild Atlan
tic.



   I he uLh Rau been a cloudy and rather threat
 ening day, and at night we learned from thi
 First Officer that we were getting into the re-
 gion of icebergs-"grand old fellows, but ,
 little dangerous in a dark night !"
 We accordingly sat up as long as we could
 be comfortable on deck, bad at last retired to
 dream of shipwrecks and ruin. Providence
 dealt kindly with us, however, and the old Ni-
 agara bore us safely through all the perils of
 the night.  At daybreak we were on deck
 again, watching for ships and icy monsters of
 the polar zone, when suddenly, on the larboard
 side, (the left as you look towards the prow),
 we heard the cry, "An iceberg! an iceberg I "
 Quick were our feet in responding to the cry,
 and in a moment we, too, were leaning against
 the railing of the deck and wondering and ex-
 claiming with the rest.

 We shall never forget how we were impressed
 with the serene majesty and jewelled glory of
that first mountain of crystal as silently,



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--Do  _   ^    : -~t.urensuredestructionin  a
moment; but at our respectful distance we
could gaze and wonder in safety. Many of the
ships which go out on their voyages and nei-
ther ever return nor are heard of any more
are supposed to have run against these vast
masses of ice and to have gone down Pn the
deep cold sea.



  On our return, in the warm and sunny weath-
er of early autumn, we had a fine view of an-
other iceberg-his majesty having made his
way as far south as the 44th parallel, in spite
of the melting rays of the sun. This berg
was some six or seven hundred feet thick and
would probably have covered your father's
farm over, could it have been taken up and set
down upon it. Then there would have been a
chance to slide down hill in a hurry! But on-
ly think of the cold fingers and the danger
you would be in of having your heads smashed
into jelly at the first grand dash! Think, too,
)f the multitude of cold brooks that would
low from his base from summer to summer,
tntil he would be all changed to water and find
is way to the ocean again!
In the next numbsr we shall tell you some-
hing about a few of the animals that live in
he sea, especially about some  whales and
sharks we maw -an tried to cant-r



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