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s.liull Ci) ue hae1, carh ti--ill
pure .iHectiai diall I"' knit utt'iin ;
A i.p lml o il ili.
Aim) miitcw dwell a pi itui.-t ill ' i.y r -i ill.
jVfitf .
l i.t (iiH-iiijf is tliine. t'niit r3clti-
l lie i.i ie t. ui.i Iimki II. i- wisen lii-an? if. sunn:
Ai .1 '! t'!i'',- oiif tt. Minn-re virtue in thy .-pi-iC'lH-I
'.it ...i. i t tl'i'iv iniet-'iy : thfv hii' sl.o't
( HN.NKl'III'l i "i l'.OMKN
t i y line their laml heoiius.i it is tl.i-ir own.
Ami -i "in l.'tui' tuijrlit ether reason win ;
Woti.'l -Imse Imiulh with a kniii ujiMu lii tlirone.
Ami think it Lii.ilr.ei- to lii- majesty:
-ful ! .nil iMCe, leurii: anil Hatttiinji none.
mh-'i - tln-y nurtured, mch they live uiul tit- .
All l.ut ii W.v,- .ostHtes, who are mcddliiij"
With mi't'eliauiliiJi", pound, xhillinu". i-ence mid red
dim;;. Hullrtl.
Hl.XKY (ill. KS ASD MAlKlAUfcT Ft.'L-
i :.n. She lilt dreamily ami quietly in a
corner, willi head half bent and drooping
eve. Wo took a chair near her. She
simply oriiiitted ii. We said a lew or
dinary words. Sin? quietly replied. Her
mood was eool ; her tones were low ; her
phrases were formal ; and, to .-ay the
least, her influence on us w;i- not ex
citing or encouraging. And yet it was,
in some tnieilainal)le way. attractive.
At that time we weic young and strange
in Modioli society, and knew nothing of
it - celebrities. We were, therefore,, n
iir ly ignorant ot Miss Fuller''- local and
literal v distinction. Uut we were not
l iti'r iizn rant that we were in the pre
i-nee of one "whose mind her kingdom
wa." I'rom wcrd to word -he grew
wanner and warmer, until her whole
.pint ,-remed to hum and to shine. Still
her manner was quiet, her voice -ubdiied.
She did not so much converse, as 'think
aloud." It was more monologue than.dia
lo'gwt fjr we were all Imt -iif.'iit.
Things old and new' were Wrought out
i M-ilv from a wonderfully rich trea.-tiry,
and th" old things and the new were made
. t.i i . ... i
witii a sutitile eiiciiitmment to lit eacn
other. The results of reading in all great
literatures and philosophies melted in,
natura'ly and unpedantically, with the
news uf the. day, or the suggestion of the
Moment. There was no loudness no
impetuosity, no obtrusive urgency, no ag
'rt ssivt; emphasis ; hut there was wlutt
deemed to ns almost a miracle of utter
ance in such u play of thought, fancy,
feeling, learning and imagination a we
had never heard before as we never
hope to hear again. Yet we had heard
line talkers. We had ourselves, in a
small way, obtained some credit for that
-ort of exorcise. Uut this was of such
.Hi-passing power, as not only to humble
our vanity, but to dispel the glory of our
memories. It was at iirst strange and
startling, but before it ended it was a tle
liirht as well as n marvel ; it was the most
complete union of surprise and pleasure
that our experience can recall. Jurju-r's
Jotitih.
Mrs. Hannah P. Cleveland, aged 104
years ami 10 months, died at Skaneate
les. New York, on the 1 1th ultimo. Mrs.
Cleveland's descendants have been 120,
of whom 88 are now living. She had a
sister who entered her hundredth year,
another her ninety-ninth year the ag
gregate age of the three sisters being
three hundred and one years and ten
months.
She retained, in a remarkable degree,
both her physical, as well as her mental
powers, and probably very few at the
present day pass one-fourth of a century
who experience so little physical suffering
a- she did in a life of more than one hun
dred years. With perhaps three or four
ingle exceptions, she has not had occa
sion to consult a physician for the lasf
sixty a ears. I 'ntil the last few months
hc w;is always busy, occupied either with
li r knittiii"; or a book.
A I'li.Mi i: hi Wmi:i:i:t Kri-vs.-Thoii,
!'!iihtv Author of peace, ami goodness.
I'M ! ive . OO
i ni'il j: ' ' , I in r. - i.i i
i: art tnat kimtlv ta-les ,, e-er mans
I ,
"iji ! Is it a draught of joy ': warm and
; n my heart to share it with cordial.
M. nvving rejoicing ! Is it the bitter po
s hi of sorrow ? melt my heart with sin
"lely sympathetic woe ! Above all, do
I'hou give me the manly mind that reso
lutely exemplifies in life and manners
those sentiments which I would be
thought to possess ! The friend of my
soul there may I never deviate from the
firmest fidelity and the most active kind
ness ! There may the mo-t sacred, invi
olate honor, tin: most faithlul. kindling
constancy, ever watch and animate my
every thought and imagination !
Tkutii in Lovi .-Burns was a sincere,
not an over ardent lover. Writing to
young lady whose hand he sought in
mi, lie laul a rule, wnicii is too often
oken in the professions of friendship
id affection : ' 1 here is one rule which I
tve hitherto practiced, and w hich I shall
niablv keep with you, and that is
.i .it i nil
nie-iiv to ten you me main trutn. J tiere
-'nit-thing so mean and unmanly in the
t- 'fdi-iniulalion and falsehood, that I
' riirpri-ed they can he acted by any
- : '. -., r-e-jero'.ss ;, passion, m-
- -
( OIJAL CAVK IX CALIFORNIA
This cave i- situated on the Whiskey
f ar road, five miles from Centreviile. in
Eldorado county, and a beauty of a cave
it i.-. The entrance is not tin: one first
discovered, but has been cut through the
soiid rock from anoth- r chamber to the
outer world Passing through this, the )
vi-ifor is ushered into an irregular apart
ment two hundred feet in length by per
haps seventy-tive'in width, ami of various ,
heights with numerous elevations, tie- :
pressioiis. recesses, galleries. r.c.. .Vc. A ;
scene of wonderful magnificence is before
him. Millions of jeweis appear to he'
glittering from the walls. Shining pen- '
danls. some large, some small, some short,
some very long, some reaching from the .
ceiling to the floor, some thick, some j
slender, some tapering, some uniform, j
some, tubular, some solid, some clear as ,
crystal, some of bluish tinge, hang thickly j
from the marble roof. Here a little wrinkly
stul) of a stalagamite pushes itself up from j
the floor, and there stands Lot's wife turn- j
t.'d into a pillar of marble, not of" salt j
and there again is Mount lilane, rising j
I from its .sn iwy folds several feet above ,
your head. Passing through this first j
chamber, and descending a little, you j
turn to the ltl i titrough a cross -eciiou j
I from which shooi several pas-age-, some :
j brightly lit and beautiful to behold, and j
i others, one at least, yet unexplored. :
i Turning ."till to the h-ft you enter the last ,
j chamber, lyiu exactly parallel to the one
j first entered, and nearly, though not quite ;
j so large, but ii' anything i.-osv beautiful. !
j and grand. This is called th" chapel, ;
j and has its bidt'rv ami puiplt as well. J
' The nulnit. especially, i- a thing tit' rare i
beauty, probablv built in the olden time, j
as it is rather too near tin: ceiling to be of
modern design. It has been formed ty
droppings lrom above catching on a pro- !
jeetion of rock, and then rising and j
spreading, and folding over with the most j
graceful draper 'in ieri.eath.
Words can give but a poor idea of this
splendid handiwork ot the Crcaior. For'
himself he math: it. Through all the long i
centuries, while shrouded in sepulchral
darkness, unseen by human eye, its splen- j
dor was not in vain, for Cod saw it and I
knew its beauty, to whom the night shi- j
neth as the day. llow many may be the j
palaces of splendor, full of the gorgeous'
displays of Hi power, which He hath
made deep in the earth, w here no light of j
the day ever will penetrate, and no earth
ly vision will ever come. The great Deity
himself may reign in the magnificence,
though ever so thick a covering of earth
veil it from the sky.
Coral Cave has been open to the pub-
lie but about three months, yet the writer j
found he was the two thousand one hun
dred and thirtieth visitor.
Salt for tiii; Throat. In these
days when diseases of the throat are so
universally prevalent, and so many cases
fatal, we feci it our duty to say a word in
behalf of a simple, and what has been
with us, a most effectual preventive, if
not a positivo cure of sore throat. For
many years past, indeed, we may say du
ring the whole of a life of more than forty
years, we have been subject to sore
throat, and more particularly to a dry
hacking cough, which was not only dis
tressing to ourselves, but to our Iriends
and those with whom we were brought in
to business contact.
Last fall we were induced to try what
virtue there was in common salt. We
commenced by using it three times a day,
morning, noon and night. We dissolved
a large table-spoonful of pure table salt in
about half a small tumbler full of cold
water. With this we gargled the throat
most thoroughly just before meal time.
The result has been that during the entire
winter, we were not only free from the
usual coughs and colds to which, as far as
our memory extend-, we have always
been subject, hut the dry, hacking cough
has entirely disappeared. We attribute
these satisfactory results solely to the Use
of the salt gargle, and do most cordially
recommend a trial of it to our readers who
are subject to diseases of the throat.
Many persons, who have never tried
the salt gargle; have the impression that
it is unpleasant. Such is not the case.
To the contrary, it is pleasant, and after
a lew day's use, no person who loves a
nice, clean mouth, and a first rate sharpen
er of the app.-tite, will abandon it. Jr
vier and O'ardentr.
AnsENCC ok Mini. Talking of ab
sence of mind, (said the Rev. Sidney
Smith.) the oddest instance happened to
me once in forgetting my own name. 1
knocked at a door in London and asked if
Mrs. U. was at home. 'Yes sir ; pray
what name shall I say V I looked in the
man's lace astonished what name ?
Aye, that is the question what is my
name I believe the man thought me
mad, but it is literally ti ns, thai lor a
space of two or three minutes I had no
more idea of who 1 wns than if I had
never existed. I did not know whether I
was a Dissenter or a layman ; I felt dull
as Su nthold or Hopkins. Al last, to my
great relief, it ii ashed acr. me that 1 !
was Slum-Smith.
I : , ri..r ,vm-i -.!)., " ot
RUTLAND. YT., THURSDAY MORNING, JULY
loiruuiLr aloncr the road until lie came to a
turnpike. What is to pay ' "Pay, sir !
for what '.' asked the turnpike man
'Wiy, for my horse, to be sine.' -Your
horse, sir ' what horse ."' Here i -horse,
sir.' 'Xn horse ! bless me !'
he, suddenly looking down between
legs 'I thought I was on horseback.'
no
aid
Am'.' Im)! k ok a Scottish Pastoh.
"Uncle Ebeiiezer, with all his mildness
and complaisance was, like most of the
Urowns tt-uit.r propositi . tirrn to obstina
cv. lie had established a week-day ser
vice at the North Ferry, about two miles
from his own town. Inverkeithing. It
was. I think, on .tin- Tuesdays. It was
winter, and a wild, drifting and danger
otis dav : his daughters his wife was
dead besought him not to go; he smiled !
vaguely, but continued g. tiing into his!
coat. Nothing would stay him, and i
away he and the pony .stumbled through I
the dumb and blinding .-now. ' j
He was half way on his journey, and I
had got out tip- sermon he was going to
preach, and was
outward storm :
utterly insensible to the
his poov getting his feet
balled, staggered about, and at las? upset
his master and himself into the ditch at
the road side'. The feh!e. ie ediess, rapt
old man might h ive peri-hed Uiere, had
not some carters, bringing whiskey cask
from tin- ferry, -ecu the caM-tiophe and
ru-hed up. Kni-ing him and iii f,iiin him
with m:iei commiseration. and blunt
speech : 'Puir :;!ilii man. w hat broeht ye
here in sic a day :' There tie-v were, a
rough crew, surrounding the -ninth man.
some , utting on his hat, sorting ami
e leer'lor lno. -in. .. L-1 . . ... L- ; i . . t t i
ot'iei's knocKing tie
balls off the pMMV
feet ami -iiitViiig them
with grease.
lie was most polite and grateful : and
one of these cordial rufiians h ;ving pierc
ed a cask, brought him a horn of whiskey
and said. -Tak that, it'll hearten ye." H,
took the horn. and. bowing to them, -aid.
Su
let us give thanks :'
am
1 then; by
the road-side, in the drift and storm, with
these wild fellow-s. he asked a blessing on
it, and for his kind deliverers, ami took a
tasting of the horn. The men cried like
children. They lifted him on his pony,
one going with him ; and when the rest
arrived at Inverkeithing they repeated
the story to everybody, and broke down
in tears, whenever they came to the bles
sing. 'And to think o' akin' a blissin' on
a tass o' whiskey '.'
The next presbytery day after the or
dinary business was over, he rose up he
seldom spoke and said, 'Moderator, I
have something personal to myself to-day.
I have often s;yd that real kindness be
longs only to true christians, but' and
then he told the story of these men 'but
more true kindness I never experienced
than from these lads. They may have
had the grace of God, I don't know but
I never mean again to be so positive in
speaking of this matter.'
INDIA COTTON.
Mr. E. A. Newton, of Pimfield, Mass .
who resided many years in India, has
some very interesting statements in the
Pittstield Eagle, on the supply of cotton
from the East. He quotes the following
extract from a letter written by Mr. W.
i Stearns, son of President Stearns of
Amherst College, who is a merchant in
Bombay, India, dated the 12th of April,
1861 :
-I went into the interior a few days
since, as far as Sholapore. and found that
the natives throughout the country had
heard of the troubles in America, and
that the amount of land which had been
laid out and planted by them, with cot
ton, was somewhat astounding. My word
for it, founded on personal observation, if
the secession movement continues, in five
years India will export 1,000.000 bales.
The quality is constantly improving, and
the means of transportation are becoming
so easy, that the South will not be able
to command the monopoly of thx staple
out of the Union."
Mr. Newton .ays there are three qual
ities of cotton produced in India, the best
of which is grown in the province of Mad
ras. The plant is indigenous, and the
extent to which it may be cultivated is un
limited, and the cheapness with which
this may be done would seem almost in
credible to persons not familiar with the
country and its inhabitants. Uut hither
to the method of cultivation has been care
less and irregular. lie does not confirm
the oft repeated statement that the want
of proper iacilities of transportation pre
bents an insurmountable obstacle to an
enhanced supply, tor he sayss large rivers
abound in all the cottou-growing region,
furnishing cheap water carriage to the
seaboard. He thinks the quality is sus
ceptible of great improvement. Mr. New-
.tou says in conclusion:
"That the extensive cultivation of this
important commodity should now be en
couraged in all parts of the world for the
'material advantage of mankind must be
universally admitted ; and taken in con
nection with its rocial and moral results,
especially with reference to ourowncoun-
. i... ., I ,.. ) . ..feej hy 'he con
templatiou of their magnitude. Ue they
more or less, however, of this, 1 ran per
fei thj stre founded on knowledge and ex
perience, that before the expiration of an
other decade of years, the world will be
tlDlel with cotton from India.
VIUGJNIA.
As lrom the crave w here lleto v eleepi-.
From Vernon's weeping willow,
And from th (.'fassy pall that hide
The saj;e t ' Monticello,
So, lrom the leal-Htrenri burial trfone
ot IiaiuloIpli K louly dwrllinffT
Virginia! o'er thy la nd nt'Hlare
A warning voice in t-velii:;g.
i nd lintk ! from thy dp.-' rfcl lie
Are i-adder ttruint' s-p'ikttt.
From ijii nctied hearthr. here thy exiled sonn
Their hoittehold i:o.l- htoe broken.
Tim ciire ia on thee, wolves tor men
And briars lor coin oiieaves Kiviuj;'
Oh. more than all thy dea.; reuown.
Were uow one hero I viiiir! Wkntirr
Thk Dl'Kk's IkixiiKK. Some recent
occurrence over the water reminds the
New York Evening Post of the following:
"Mrs. J. C. Loudon, widow of the cel-
ebrated landscape gardener, took a great
i delight in protracting the favorite studies
of her husband s hie.
wishing to make some
On one occasion,
researches in the
1 department of arboriculture, she wrote to
' the duke of Wellington lor permission to
see his Waterloo beeches, (the celebrated
avenue planted on hLs estate to commem
orate hi- greatest victory.) Mrs. Lou
don's chiiograghy via none of the most
legible mo that when the Duke read her
letter le' mistook oeechrs fur breeches, and
supposed the epistle a request lor the in
spection of that indi-pen-abie garment
worn by 'him on the held of Waterloo.
At tin- signature he was again deceived.
I he i' in Mr-. Loudon's name he took for
an (. and accordingly read the whole sig
nature:.). C. London,' which was none
other th in that of the bishop of London
hiin-eh. Accordingly, though much as
tonished at such a desire on the part of
a grave ecclesiastical dignitaiv. he wrote
mm in anwer a note, which we may
agiue created enual a-tonishment in
im
t Ir-
recipient :
My lord : My valei tells me that the
bn eches I wore at the battle of Waterloo
were long ago given away to Master
Uenjamia Robert Hayden, tor the pur
poses of his historical painting. Regret
ting deeply that I have not the breeches
U Uiniur lur-islu'j, i remain
Your Lordship's verv humble servant,
WELLINGTON."
An Oi.i Cxii RCH. An army letter
from Falls Church, Va., gives the lollow-
ing account of an old church there :
"The only building of mark in the lit
tle village of Falls Church, (though the
country tor miles around bears the name,
alter the old Virginia fashion,) is the brick
church, built in colonial times, and asso
ciated with the days when Fairfax was
the home of Washington. It is a square
building of simole architecture, with
small windows, high backed seats, and
no gallery. The old churches at Pohick
and Alexandria, where Washington wor
shipped, are of the same model. The ta
blets are lettered in antique style, and a
slab near the altar has the following in
scription :
Henry Fairfax, an accomplished gen
tleman, an upright magistrate, a sincere
christian, died in command of the Fairfax
Volunteers, at Saltillo, Mexico, on the
14th day of August, 147. Uut for his
munificence this church might still have
been a ruin.'
The church was for long years suppor
ted by the Fairfax family, whose high
rank among the F. F. V. is a matter of
State history.
The present rector, Rev. Mr. ILtrold,
has been in warm sympathy with the se
cessionists, and u.tercd the most treason
able sentiments from the pulpit. He did
not preach yesterday, but the guard sta
tioned over his house informed me that he
avowed hearty Union sentiments. In the
presence of the loyal Connecticut boys he
may well do so. When I entered the
church a half a dozen soldiers were read
ing the books of the Sabbath School li
brary, and one was writing at the chancel
table. There was no disposition to muti
late the building or furniture."
.MARRIAGE IN LAPLAND.
It is death in Lapland to marry a man
without the consent of her parents and
friends. When a young man has formed
an attachment for a female, it is the fash
ion for her friends to meet to behold
the young parties run a race togeth
er. The maid is allowed, in starting, the
advantage of one-third of the distance so
that it is impossible, except willing her
self, that she should be overtaken. If the
maid outrun the suitor, the matter is end
ed ; he must never have her, it being
criminal for the young man to regard the
notion ot marriage. Uut if the virgin
have an affection for him, though at first
she run quite fast to try his love, she will,
without Atlanta's golden balls to retard
her ppeed, pretend casualty and a volun
tary halt before she comes to the mark at
the end of the race. Thus none are to
marry against ttieir will ; and that is the
le-isou that in this poor country the mar
ried people are richer in their content
ment, than in other lands where so many
f;M'"i loV" V ! ' t '.:( t"'!:!JllM!t?-s-.
1, 18G1.
A GOOD OLD ANECDOTE
one uay wnen Jumont,
the Rue St. Denis, was !
a tradesman of
walking in the
I Joule vard St. Antoina with a friend, he
offered to lay a wager with the latter that
if he were to hide a six livre piece in the
dust, his dog would discover and bring it
to him. The wager was accepted, the
piece of money secreted, after being care
fully marked. When the two proceeded
some distance from the spot, M. Dumogt
called to his dog that he had lost some
thing, and ordered him to seek it. Can
iche immediately turned back, and his
master and his companion pursued their
walk to the Rue St. Denis. Meanwhile a
traveler, who happened to be just then
returning in a small chaise from Vincen
nes perceived the piece of money, which
his horse had kicked from its hiding place;
lie alighted, took it up, and drove to his
inn, in the linn Pont aux Bhoux. Can
iche had just reached the spot in search
of the lost piece, when the stranger picked
it up. lie followed the chaise, went into
the inn, and stuck close to the traveler.
Having scented out the coin, w hich he had
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o .,u o o.uig o. me pocKet
of thelattor, he leaped up incessantly at
and about time The traveler supposing
him to be some dog that had been left be
hind by his master regarded hi- different
movements as marks of fondness; and a
the animal was handsome he determined
to keep him
He gave him a good sup-
per, and on retiring took him to hi-cham
ber. No sooner had he pulled off his
breeches th n ihev were -ei.ed by the
(,og: the owner com-civing t
iat he wanted
to play with them, took the n away agan.
I he animal began to barH at the door.
which tne traveler opened unuer me idea
that the dog wanted to go oiut. Caniche
snatched up the bree -hes
md awav he
tlew. The traveler jto.-ted after him. will
his night-cap on, literally suns culottes.
anxiety for the fate of a purl
.-e full of good
Na'ioleons, of forty francs
ach. w hich
was in on of the pockets, gave redoubled
velocity to his tteps. Caniiche ran full
peed to in? masters nousy. where the
ihI to Ins master s
traveler arrived a momei t afterwards,
hie Uhles- and enraged. II : accu-ed the
dog of robbing him. "Si ," said the
master. 'fur dorr ;r, verv fait'ldtd creature-
and if he has run away with ;
- - j - o j - - :
your breech-
e, it ntti!e vou have m
lh-ln liionev
vou " The
which does not belong to
traveler became still more exasperated.'
"Compose yourself sir
rejoined the
other smiling, "without dou
t there i-
your pur-e a six livre piect-.
with such
and such marks, which you
the Uoulevard St. Antoine.
threw down there with the fi
picked up on
tnd which I
m conviction
that my dog would bring it flack again.
xhi- is the cause of the robbery w hich he
has committed ujonyou." The stranger's
rage now yielded to astonish
ment;
de-
livered the six livre piece to the owner,
and could not help caressing the dog that
had given him such an uneasiness, and
such an unpleasent chase. 'Anecdotes of
Dogs, by Edward Jesse
Thk Uright Sipk. Look on the
bright side it is the rightl side. The
tunes may go hard, but it win make
them no easier by wearing a gloomy
countenance. It is the sunshine and not
the cloud that makes the flower. There
is always that before or around us which
should cheer and fill the heart with
warmth. The sky is blue ten times where
it is black once. You have troubles, it
may be. So have others, none are free
from them. Perhaps it is well that none
should be. They give sinew and tone to
life fortitude and courage toman. That
would be a dull sea, and the sailor would
never get skill, where there was nothing
to disturb the surface of the ocean. It is
the duty of every one to extract all the
happiness and enjoyment he can without
and within him, and above all he should
look on the bright side of things. What
though things do look a little dark ?
The lane will turn, and the night will end
in broad day.
WASHINGTON SIXTY YEARS
t AGO.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Commercial Advertiser indul
ges in the following reminiscences of the
Federal city :
Sixty years ago on the 17th of No
vember Congress met here for the first
time, occupying the wings of the Capitol,
which were but partially completed. The
metropolis was staked off, but there were
but few buildings, and those were at 'mag
nificent distances' from each other.
Pennsylvania Avenue led through a
swamj) which overflowed in the winter ;
there was no industry, society, or busi
ness ; and Oliver Wolcott wrote : "The
t.eonle are poor, and as far as I can
judge, they live like fishes, by eating each
other.
There was but one hotel in A ashing
ton. and the greater portion of the mem--
bers boarded, or kept house in the old
settled borough of Georgetown. Craw
ford's hotel was for many years the head-
mi triers of the Federalists, and the Host
had a large six-horse stage, in
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which lit
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brought them back, which was called the
Royal George.
Rufus King, when a Senator in Con
gress, boarded in Crawford's, and kept
his own carriage, drawn by four black
horses, the coachman wearing livery.
Many other members kept up fine estab
lishments, or saddle horses, especially
those who came from section., of the
country between which and the Capital
there were no public conveyances. Hen
ry Clay used often to come on horseback
across the mountains lrom Kentucky ;
and when John C. Calhoun wa. Secreta
ry of War, he came from South Carolina
in his own carriage.
Don't Kill the Uiuis. Their son"
and their beautiful plumage- all delight us.
They do us more good by "keeping hisects
in bounds, than injury in any and all their
ways. The division of labor between
vaeh father bird and mother, as saith
Cowper, in rearing and instructing their
young, is a lesson which all may study.
If any one is making war iiton'the insect
devouring l.InL i,.,l. . l.. i i i-
. ' e iuuui ii-.-i-.-ti v, ueilV-
, er u ivom insect voracit Uj ,
I domestic and moral le ,..l. ,.,:,., i.A
better employed.
Nati hi: a n i i Am. Upon examining
the edge of a very keen razor with a mi-
-'--eope. it w ill appear like the back of
a uin-h. Knue. rougn. uneven, full ot notch
es and furrow-. An exceedingly -mall
needle resembk-- a rough iron bar. Uut
the -ting of a bee seen through the -rune
in-trument. exhibits everywhere a pollish
mo-t amazingly beautiful without the
lea-t flaw, blemish or inequality, and it
ends wiih a jiint too fine to be discerned.
A small piece ef exceedingly fine lawn
appears through the microscope like a
hurdle of lattice, and th" thread appears
! c'oar"' ' tniUI .val" with which rope-
: arv "a-'' u"' anchor?. Uut a -ilkv. orm ?
wel appear- perfectly smooth and -hilling,
and vtry where equal. The -mal-lest
dot that can be made w ith a pen,
when viewed with the microscope, ap
pears irregular, rough, jagged, aud un
even. Uut the little specks on the w in"?
or oOiies OI insects are tound to he most
I awrately circular. So great i- the eon-
I tm't oetwceii Loi and man.
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i A rough individual, who-e knowledge of
: classical language w as not quite complete.
in i had been sick, and on recovering was told
bv his doctor that he might take a little
! animal food. 'No sir,' said he, T took
! your gruel easy enough, but hang me it I
can go our hav and oat-.
A coojK-r finding considerable difficulty
in keeping one of the heads of a cask he
was finishing in its place, put hi- little son
inside to hold the head up. When it was
finished, he was surprised to find hi? boy
inside the ca.-k. without any jo ible
egress, except through the bung-hole.
Two men were discussing, the other
day, the habits of a third person, w hom
we shall designate as Demijohn. One
said that he had known Demijohn well,
and that he had never seen him drunk.
I have," said the other, "seen him so
drunk that he undertook to remove the
jierspiration from his bloated litce with
the shadow of a swing-sign."
AN ECCENTRIC WILL.
The following will, as an exhibition of
strange eccentricity, is not inappropriate to
our pages. Mr. Tuke, of Wath. near
Rotherdam, who died in 1810. bequeathed
one penny to every child that attended
his funeral (there came from f00 to 70ii:)
Is to every jioor woman in Wath: 10? "d
to the ringers to ring one peal or grand
bob-, which was to strike off while they
were putting him into the grave. To
seven of the oldest navigators, one guinea
for puddling him up in his grave. To hi
natural daughter, X'4 Is per annum. To
his old and faithful .-enant. Joseph Pitt,
21 per annum. To an old woman who
; adjtor eleven years tucked him up in
hed, IT Is only. Forty dozen penny
loaves to be thrown from the church leads
at 12 o'clock'ou Christmas day forever.
Two handsome brass candlesticks for the
church, and 20 for a set of new chimes
So plentiful was the supply of salmon
in the olden times, that the indentures of
English apprentices contained a provision
that the young craftsmen should not be
doomed to dine on salmon oftener than
twice a week.
Not all Dead Yet. Jeff. Davis has had
the credit of being rather smart, but he is
evidently unable to comprehend the great
strength of the Federal Government, or
he would know enough to Come In when
It Reigns !
The Voice of the South. 'What is the
tenor of the news from the South f asked
a Wall street millionaire cfa jtopulur mu
sician, a few days ago.
'They have no Tenor among them,' re
plied the P. M., "they are singing P.se
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