Notes On Literature, Science And Art.

alike , black and greasy . It had tinged the hill in a straight line , from the pit to the bottom of the hill . " The New York Mercury , of June 9 th , g ives the following account of the removal of a man's tongue by a surgical operation : " E . B . Whittelsey , an agent 50 years of

, age , living at 57 , Jay Street , Albany , was recently subjected to a surgical operation of the most difficult nature . It consisted of the removal of the entire tongue by means of the galvano cautery , and necessitated the tying of the lingual arteries on

both sides , and the laying open of the lower jaw in the medium line . This was done to enable an operation to be performed , upon an eliphelial cancer on the tongue , which prevented the patient from talking aud eating anything but liquid food . The

patient was first put under the influence of ether , and then both sides of the neck were cut through to the bone , and the submental and coronary arteries tied . The lower jaw was divided , and a protractor

being put in , the sides were forced apart , and the tongue taken off with a wire , which had been heated by . a galvanic battery and applied to the roots . The next thing to do was to bring together the sundered chin , which was accomplished

by drilling holes on each side of the chin and wiring it together , all of which was successfully performed , the whole operation being accomplished in two hours . " Mr . R . T . Gaskin has produced an excellent songentitled " God bless our

, Friends at Sea , " which has been admirably set to music by Bro . William Stonehouse , a worth y P . M . of the old Lion Lodge at Whitby . The price of song and music is onl y threepence , and the entire profits are to be devoted to the Orphan Home of the

Port of Hull Society . The music must be heard to be appreciated ; but I give the words by Mr . Gaskin , in the hopes that many a Mason will not only buy the song and music , but also have them sung and played at his own fireside , as I have the happiness of having them done ac mine ;—

'' The storm but slept—again it Wakes And smites the yielding trees , While swiftly fly the fleecy flakes Before the rushing breeze . Hark to its anguish'd , Wild refrain , And melancholy wail , As though sad spirits fled their pain , And rode upon the gaie .

My fire I stir , and rouse the flame , To comfort you and me , And softly breathe the well-lovod name Of friends upon the sea . " God bless them all , both far and near , Where ' er they meet the gale ; And whether 'neath the northern star

Or southern cross they sail , While they old England ' s red flag float , The banner of the free , Still may their gallant barks be taut , The breakers far a-lee ; And while the driving tempest raves My latest prayer shall be : 0 , Thou who rul ' st both wind and waves Guard all our friends at sea .

Then when the wrathful gale is o ' er , And hush'd the thund'ring main , Our friends shall find the welcome shore And grasp our hands again ; They'll tell how in the stormy night , Drench'd by the flying foam , Nor cheer'd by kindly star or light , They thought of us at home . Ah ! then no more of winds afraid— Our pleasant task shall be , To say how iu the storm we pray'd , ' God bless our friends at sea . '"

The music of Bro . Stonehouse is , as I said before , admirable , and the only word in Mr . Gaskin ' s sweet song which I seem to boggle at , is that of red as applied to the banner of England . Campbell , in his noble naval ode , "Ye Mariners of England , "

states that our " flag has braved a thousand years the battle and the breeze , " but this is far from being historically correct . The poem was first printed in 1802 , having been written at Hamburg with a war with Denmark looming in view . Looking back

a thousand years from then will bring to view the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy , when one thinks more of the three saxes , or crooked swords , of Essex , the bear of Northumberland , and the red dragon of Wessex , than of any union-jack or national

standard , both as yet long undreamt of . Then the bird of Odin , the jet-black raven of the Danes , flutters for a while before the mind ' s eye , to give way to the Norwegian golden lion rampant of Canute , and the white falcon of the later

Anglo-Saxon kings . William the Conqueror brought his two leopards ( not lions ) from Normandy ; and his grandson , Stephen , brought the sagittary from his father ' s capital of Blois . Henry the Second added the golden lion of Bordeaux , the capital of his wife ' s duchy of Guyenne , to the two Norman leopards . Richard the First