try the experiment for yourselves.—Mattie A. Baker, Youth's Companion.
(2492)
See Resuscitation.
PRESERVATION, A PROCESS OF
It is not hard to believe that the passage through death will be the occasion for a new blossoming of the flowers of character, after the analogy of the frozen flowers about which this account from Harper's Weekly is given:
The latest and most approved method of
preserving flowers during transportation is
that of freezing them. When this process
is employed the flowers are picked while in
the bud and will keep perfectly for several
weeks in refrigerator boxes. No deterioration
in their beauty results from this treatment,
and after they have been unpacked
and placed in water they slowly revive and
the blossoms develop fully. During the period
of refrigeration all growth is suspended, and
so slowly do the flowers return to their
natural state that such blossoms will last
much longer in a room than would be the
case had they been brought directly from
the greenhouse or the garden.
The facility with which horticultural specimens have been transported by this new method has led to experiments in South Africa, with a view to determining whether many of their wonderful flowers may not be safely exported in bulk to supply the trade in Europe and America.
(2493)
Preservatives—See Evil, Protection from.
PRESS, OMNISCIENCE OF THE
I have been somewhat of a reader of the
newspapers for forty years; I could read
very well when I was eight years of age. It
has given me forty years of observation of
the press; and there is one peculiarity that
I have observed from reading it, and that is,
in all of the walks of life outside of the
press, people have entirely mistaken their
profession, their occupation. I never knew
the mayor of a city, or even a councilman in
any city, any public officer, any government
official—I never knew a member of Congress,
a Senator or a President of the United
States, who could not be enlightened in his
duties by the youngest member of the profession.
I never knew a general of the
army to command a brigade, a division, a
corps of the army, who could begin to do
it as well as men far away in their sanctums.—U.
S. Grant.
(2494)
PRESS, PROSTITUTION OF THE
The Salt Lake Herald abstracts from "The
Press of the World" some of the "rules of
conduct" which Benjamin Franklin followed
in his first journalistic venture. "They are
so perfectly applicable to present-day newspapers,"
it says, "that they are worth preserving
and emphasizing." He had just begun
the publication of his Pennsylvania Gazette when an article was submitted to
him that did not meet his views of propriety.
With his customary deliberation he did not
at once reject it, but told the writer he would
sleep over it and give his decision the next
day. This is how he applied his rules to the
subject:
"I have perused your piece," he wrote, "and find it to be scurrilous and defamatory. To determine whether I should publish it or not, I went home in the evening, purchased a two-penny loaf at the baker's, and, with water from the pump, made my supper; I then wrapt myself up in my great coat, and laid down on the floor and slept till morning, when, on another loaf and a mug of water, I made my breakfast. From this regimen I feel no inconvenience whatever. Finding I can live in this manner, I have formed the determination never to prostitute my press to corruption and abuse of this kind for the sake of gaining a more comfortable subsistence."
(2495)
Press, Using the—See Newspapers and Missionary Intelligence.
PRETENSE
About the time when it was fashionable in
France to cut off men's heads, as we lop
away superfluous sprouts from our apple-trees,
the public attention was excited by a
certain monkey that had been taught to act
the part of a patriot to great perfection. If
you pointed at him, says the historian, and
called him an aristocrat or a monarchist, he
would fly at you with great rage and violence;
but, if you would do him the justice
to call him a good patriot, he manifested
every mark and joy of satisfaction. But,
tho the whole French nation gazed at this
animal as a miracle, he was, after all, no
very strange sight. There are, in all countries,
a great many monkeys who wish to be
thought patriots, and a great many others
