BY DAVID OYER. |r I tr f|so tf r v]. - ~ r ~fi ~ ' TIIE t.TREL or riTIEVf E. BY JOHN G. WHITTIKR. 1 o wear}' hearts, to mourning homes, <1 mi's meekest aii£;<-l gently rooms , No power has he to banish pain, tJr give ns hack our loss again ; Ami yet, in tendefest love, our dear And Heavenly Father send.; hiru hero. i here's quiet in that angel's glance, The rc'u rest in his still countenance ; 11.- mocks no griei with idle cheer, Nor wounds with word the mourner's (ear Hut ill and woes he may not cure, lie kindly trains us to endure. Angel of Patience : sent to clam Our fcYered brow with cooling balm To lay the storms of hope and lear, And reconcile life's smile and tear; And throbs of wounded jiride to still, And make us owu our Father's will' Oh thou, who mournest on thy way ' With longings for the close of day. He walks with thee, that angel kind, And gently whispers, "Be resigned 1 Bear up, hear on, the end shall tell, The dear Lord ordered all things well!" AGRICULTURAL.__ PRESERVING FLOWERS. Our fair readers, all of whom, we know, love fioweis—the season of which is now at hand —will be iutoiestod in the following manner of preserving them from wilting, whieh a cotcm porary assures us is highly successful. The plan is this: Procure a flat dish of porcelain, into which pour water: place upon it a vase of flowers, and all over the vase a bell glass with its rim in the water. The air that surrounds the flowers being confined beneath the bell glass is constantly moist with water, tli at rises into it in tho form of vapor. As fast as the water becomes condensed it runs down the side of the boll glass; so as to prevent it evaporating into the air of the sitting room, the atmosphere around the flowers is continually damp, The plan is designated the 'Hopean Apparatus.'— The experiment may be tried on a small scale by inveiiing a tumbler over a rose-bud in a sau cer of water. FKLTT TREES.— There U a practice among tho Swiss and Germans of boring into the ground among the ropts of fruit trees, (with an instrument tuadc for the pufpow,) and pour ing in liquid manure to force the Iron forward, and also enable it to resist the drought of dry weather. I have practiced this for four with some tine Seckel in dry land, with good success. Avoid this after September first, as it will iaduec a second growth late in tho fall, which will be quite irregular and very liable to be winter killed. The instrument 1 use is the common iron bar, which can be driv •u in among the roots without injury. Take lor a wasb, (as 1 boy no 'special' manures,) to three fourths of a bairel of water, four quarts of ashes, two quarts of lime, two shovelsful of otghi 301i —-stir up well, and pour into holes made as akyvV. what the tree requires. Soap suds are capital li?* this purpose. tFrom GoJey's W ' J" r Ju h I blackberries. —Preserve tho*"- fatrawber ucs or currants, cither liquid or jam.- v ''" J e ">- Blackberry jelly or jam is an excellent cine in summer complaints or dysentery ; to make it, crush a quirt of fully ripe blackber ries with a pound of the best loaf sugar, put it over a gentle fire aud cook it until thick, then put to it a gill of the best*fourth-pt'OOf urandy, stir it awhile over the fire, then put it m pots. Blackberry Syrup. —Make a simple syrup of •i pound of sugar to each pint of water, boil it until it is rich and thick, then add to it as many pints of the expressed juice of ripe blackber ries as there are pounds of sugar ; put half a nutmeg grated to each quart of the syruff ; let it boil fifteen or twenty minutes, then add to it half a gill of fourth-proof brandy for each quart of syrup; set it by to become cold, then bottle it for use. A tablespoonful for- a child or a wineglass for au adult is a dose. : . J' si'T - 1 -- ' - * - - ... 2ft: ' • _ .. ■ -V ■ lyP '* *: : ■£': •'* :V v- * -:v-V A Weekly Paper, DeviTted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &e., &c—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance. blackberry Wine —The following is said to be au excellent receipt for tho manufacture of su perior wine from blackberries Measure your berries and bruise them, to every gallon adding one quart of boiling water. Let the mixture stand twenty-four hours, stirring occasionally ; then strain off the liquor into a cask, to- every gallon adding two pounds of sugar, cork tight and let stand till following Octobor, and you ! will have wine ready for use. without any tur ! ther straining or boiling, that will make lips i smack as they never smacked, under similar in fluence, before. blur kit erry and 11 trie Cordial —Wo avail ourselves of tho kiutiaess of a friend to pub j jish tho following excellent receipt for making ' cordial. It, is recommeudcd as a delightful beverage, and an infallible specific for dianb-" or or ordinary of the bowels: To half a bushel of blackberries, Well mashed, add a quarter of a pound of allspice, two ounces of cinnamon, two ounces of clores: Pulverize well, mix, and boil slowly until properly done; then strain or ?queexo the juice through houies • pun or flannel, aud add to each pint of the ! juice one pound of loaf sugar. Boil again for ■ some time, take it off, and, while cooling, add half a gallon of best Cogniao braudy. Dose, | for au adult, half a gill to a gill; for a child, a , teaspoonful or more, according to age. Currants Preset vcd. —Take ripe currants; free from stems, weigh them, and take the same weight of sugar: put a teacup of sugar ilo each pouud of it; boil the syrup until it is hot and clear; then turn it over the- fruit -. let it remain one night: then set it over the fire and boil gently until they aro cooked and clear ! take them into the jars or pots wiih a skimmer; j boil the syrup until rich and thick, then pour it ; over the fruit. Currants may be preserved j with ten pounds of fruit to sevcu of sugar.— j Take the stems from seven pouuds of the cur rants, aud crush and press the juice from tho remaining three pounds; put them into tho hot syrup, and boil until thick aud rich, put it iu pots or -jars, and tbe Bext day secure as di rected. Red or White Currant Jam.- Let the fruit be very ripe; pick it clean from tbe stalks ; bruise it, and to every pound put three-quarters ot a pound of loaf sugar; stir it well and boil half an hour, then add the sugar ; boil aud skim. Green Currant Jam. —Weigh equal portions of unripe red currents and sugar: set the fruit over the fire, at some distance, with a small part of the sugar, breaking tbe fruit a littlo that tho juice may prevent it burning stir it continually and let it remain for a quarter of an hour, then add the rest of the sugar, and boil up for a quarter of au hour longer. A MULE BEWITCHED. The popular idea sceuis to be that the long eared trbe have been deprived of the power of speech since the days of Balaam, hut we had this morning ocular and auricular proof of the fallacy of this belief. As we wero coining down Bond street, we noticed a little this side of the Planters' Hotel a crowd collected around the wagon of a countryman, and stepped up to learn if possible tbe cause ot the excite ment. Tbe wagon was drawn by a couplo of mules, one if them a rather bad looking specimen, who seemed to hail from a tr-gion were corn and oats are raiities; tho other decidedly better looking, and giving onmistakeabie evidence of having been better fed. The wagon was load ed with the delightful esculcut—so popular in ♦he South—sweet potatoes. Prominent iu the crowd wc nolieod a little black-eyed, gray haired tua'h who was busily engaged, when wc come up, id negotiating a trade for one of the mules, aud strange to say, for the poorest look ing one. "Now, my lriend," said the little man, I want this uiulo—L have a first rate match for him, and waut to make out the pair. llow old is he?" "Five years old last spring," promptly re plied the countryman. "Golly, what a lie! cried tbe mule, pricking up his cars. Countryman started —tho crowd looked frightened, and one or two colored gentlemen incontinently fled, as if tbe devil were of the party "Who—who was that?" asked the dealer in jwtatoes at length, having somewhat recovered his voice and senses. "Why me ?" promptly responded rhe mule. "What are you lying about ?" You know you bad me fifteen years." "Voprc, my friend," said tbo littlo man, "your radio contradicts you—and be ought to know his own age-" "I'll be darned if I know what to make of you or the mule," exclaimed the conntiyman. "1 be is only five years old for I raised him myse.'f'" "There, you lie again," said the mule. "Take that," ejfolaitned tho now infuriated j owner, forgetting bis fear for a moment, and striking the animal over the mouth. "Don't do that again," cried tho inule, "I'll j kick you! The countryman's eyes almost popped out of his head, and there is no telling what would have been tho result, had not some one arrived, who recognized the little man as Signer lJli'z, the well-known Magician and Ventriloquist, which explained tbe mystery and relieved the countryman, —.fucrusta Dispatch BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1858. AX ARH4HSAS WLDDIIV6. I Arkansas ! the State of all the Southern confederacy worst ridden by demagogues and politicians. Ilich in her soil and mineral wealth, aud poorest iu everything like internal improvements aud commercial facilities of all kinds. Her public road- are pigniires, and by rivers innocent of any improvement save thooe afforded by nature. Jogging along over qjje of these self-same roads, I broke iny bugijy trying to drive round a suspicious spot where some philanthropist had erected a hickory sap ling, bearing the oinnious words: "NO BOTTOM HERE." Delayed and benighted, lat last reached"'® log house, whose blazing fire-light *hro' tin? open door promised comfort, and if 1 guessi i aright, some half-dozen horses hitched at the gate indicated that something was going on.-?- I hailed: 'Haloo, who lives hcrq?' 'Me, Bob Woods. What do you want?' 'Supper and lodging, if you can accommo date mc.' This brought Bob Woods to the gale, wheFfe he proceeded to inform me that his darter Me liudy was about getting married, but he'd as lief make a dollar as not, ef I'd feed iny herre myself and sleep on a corn-busk sbakc-dowß j afore the fixe.. I jumped at the offer, and out j of my buggy fed 'Lightning,' washed my hands j aud went in to sec the fun. I was uiado at i home in a moment. The idea of an 'Orcfea feller' currying and feeding his own horse, was i something entirely new, and I was a favorite ; msfnnter, guaranteed by a prominent invitation jto 'liquor.' The- parson imbibed, drew an eti- I oriuous red bandana across bis lips, and an : uouueed that 'he was ready to talk when the i rest was.' This brought forth tbo happy coa ! pie. Tho groom was a lanky specimen in homespun, and led his bride by the baud. Sh was a bouuemg, rosy-ebceked damsel, following a step or two behind, feeling evideutly in a novel position. 'You Melindy, take your fin ger qfi? °f your mouth.' Melindy cast a defi- at her maternal relative, withdrew the offending member, wiped it on her apron, and" quickened, her pace. The young parson, after some little trouble, arranged them to his satis faction, aud proceeded: 'John fcbribner, do you take Melindy Woods, in the presence of these witnesses, to be yous. lawful wedded wife?' 'That's wot I'm here for,'ausweiel Mr. Stribncr, cramming his hands into his breeches pockets. 0 'Yon will please answer yes or no.' 'Yes or DO-,' promptly returned the gentle i man. 'No, no! say yes.' 'Y-a-a-s, tbcu" casting a sheepish look ! around him. * 'Melindy Woods/ ' '\ r -a-a-s!' a moment, please. Melindy Woods, j do you take John Siribncr, in the presence of ; these witnesses, to be your lawful wended hus band?' 'I rcckin.' 'Then in the presence of the witnesses spo ken of, I do declare you tuan an' wife, 'cordin the laws of Arkansaw ail' tho Gospill; an' wot's thus jinod let no man put in suuder.' The parson turned away, flushed and exei- I ted, but was recalled by a query from Mr. Stribncr. 'Must } kiss her now, George?' 'As you John; she's yours now.' •Hold mouf, Melindy/ Shan't do it! llight here afore folks.' John did not argue tho point, but sidled tip to the grinning group where 1 was standing, and proposed that us boys should take some 'bust-head,' (whiskey,) Meanwhile I heard Melindy'a triumphant voice among some of her companions. 'Kiss! humph! Jawu'9 turned fool, 1 b'lievc.' I slept on the com-husk shake-down afore the fire soundly that night, being separated from the bridal apartment by a curtain extempo rized! for the occasion. From behind its folds I heard 'JawnV remonstrating voice, followed by a host of loving apologies from Melindy for the refused kiss I'll take my 'affydavy' that he received that one a hundred fold, with in terest. —_ ! PARSON BROWN LOW (W) HOOPlNG.—Fore most amoDg olergymcn who are not content with preaching the Gospel, but fain meddle with other matters, is Parson Brown low, of j Knoxville, Toon. Wbilo recently attending tho Methodist Annual Convention at Nashville, he thus comments on hoops: "All I regret is that skirtdom is expanding, atlri ,'LIP ia2!d°£is iu vogue arc still increasing the distancd Dolmen Sl-iQ woman. At one moment I" feel like PXciuiuong, 'Dh, that 1 wero a boy again!' Tho next niomOU? indignant at the hoops, and feel willing to join o regiment of men in a vigorous assault upon the rattan, whalebone, cords, brass and steel, i that have put asunder what God has said ought to be joined together. Only think of tho dis- j play on our streets, and in the parlor, of the j grand and graceful skirts, loomiug up around ; one, fascinating, charming and swinging to and ! fro, like so many things of life ! Talk about | the grandeur of a first.class steamer, or of a i train of cars propelled by steam ! Give me a train of hooped skirts, under the folds of which are so many human locomotives, stand- ! ing five teet ten inches in slippers, fired up by : the blood of warm hearts, and puffiug and | blowing with love, kind words and winning smiles, aud I would show you a sight that would run a young man crazy, raise a dead j bachelor to life, and make an old widower; commit suicide. "I cannot trust myself on this > s " flona theme; I must desist or go urav ' One of the*toast- at . B recent celebra tion was," ' s re Tnrcs no eulogy shrrp,-' f^hersdf. EPITIPHS. ibe graveyard ought to be a place where none but sober and devout sentiments should find expression. The connecting link, as it were, with the world ol spirits, human caprice should be put aside, the purer and better part of human nature allowed to dictate, and eve rything be done "decently and & order." Yet how often the veiy reverse is the case. There is hardly a graveyard iu tho world, probably, that does not contain some whimsical epitaph or memorial ot the dc-ad, which shows the wri ter cared more for making a pun, recording a sarcastic distitch, or perpetrating a rhyme, than for expressing a sentiment appropriate to the place and tho occasion. Some people must give ut'erauce to a laughable arid iucongruous thought, eveu at the grave, while othci'.s make lltenisei ves ridiculous by attempting a literary task beyond their powers. We find iu House hold Words a curious collection of specimens of this sort of churchyard literature, picked up in various English cemeteries. This list is quite aptly commenced with the following cyn ical inscription written over a gentleman's grave in the churchyard of Bedington : "Yoeras and epitaphs arc but stuff. Hero ties Robert Barras, and that's enough." j The annexed is not only flippant but ludic rous : I "Here lies the body of Deborah Dent, She kicked up her heels and away she wents." The antbor of the following displays inge nuity in securing a rhyme for his memorial : "Here lies two brothers by misfortune sur ro used, One died of his wounds, and tbo other was drowned." •St. Albain's furnishes an original and striking idea in the way of mortuary literature, e q.. '■Sacred to the memory of MissM irlha C'royn, She was so very pure wi thin, She burst the outward shell of sin. And hatched h rself a cherukjin." A victim of misplaced confidence, leaves this warning in Ohdrenham C'eiuetry: "Here lies I and my throe daughters, it .. Killed by a drinking of Cheltenham waters, * it we lad stack to Kpsom sait3, * Wo'd not been lying in these here vaults." Here is one- of the pathetic stamp, culled in W hi tali Ire. "Beneath this stone his own dear child, Whose gone from we For fever more unto erternity; Where do hope that we shall go to he. But he can never more come back to we." Pasquin might have wiitten the following, catved in tho toiubstouc of one Strange, a law yer; '•Here lies an honest lawyer, And that is strange." i What could be more expressive than this? ! "lie did not do much harm, nor yet much good, j Ami might have been much better if lie woufcl." | If brevity is wit, the next must bo called | facetious: "Here lies John Shore, I say no more; He was alive Iu 4-3." In Grantham churchyard one inscription states ' something more thau is quite necessary: "John Palfteyman, who is hurried hero , Was aged lour-and-twenty year. And near this place his mother lies; Likewise his father When he dies." The next is decidedly of a humorous cast: "Here lies I. There's arvond to my woes, And my spirit at length af aise s- f With the tip of mv nose, Turned up to loots ot the daises." A Mrs. h?lwven,a cook was honored with two starwas, or, as she might have called them her self, a couple of courses: "Underneath this crut Lies the mouldering dust Of Eleanor Batchelor Shoveu, Wefl-vorsed in the aits 01 pies, custards, and tarts. And the lucrative trade of the oven. When she'it lived long enough, She made her last pull", A puff by her husband much praised; And now she doth lie And make a dirt pie, In hopes that her crust may be raised." A reward was once offered for the best epi taph upon a celebrated provost of Dundee.— The town council wero unable to decide be tween the relative merits of tho two which fol low, and both wero therefore placed on tho monument: '•Here lies John, i'rovost of Dundee, Here lies Him, here lies He-" due second ran even still more remarkably: "Here lies John, Provost of Dundee. Hallelujah, Hallehijee." A LETTER FOR DENNIS. —'Ilillo, Misther Postmaster, and is there ivcr a letter hero for Donnis O'Flaherty?' '1 believe there is,' said the postmaster, slep- j ping back and producing the letter. ♦And will you be so kind as to rade it to me, : seein' I had tbo misfortune to be eddicatcd to j rade nivcr a bit?' 4 'To be sure,* said the i lie then opened and rosuU**' "P'Sfle, which was from tbe -old^^ concerning his re lations there, ' ' )en 1,0 fibbed, Den nis observed . what would you bo axiu for the post- Age on that letter?' 'Fifty cents.* 'Aud it's chape enough, ycr honor, but as 1 j niver think of axiu ye to trust, jiat l.ape the j letter for pay, and say, Misther, if I'd call in, j oao of these days, would ye write au answer j to it?' - ' J A BACHELOR'S WOES. —What a pitiful j thing an old bachelor is, wiih his cheerless house, and his rueful phiz, on a bitter cold night, when the. fierce winds blow, and tbe eat t!i is covered with a foot of snow. When his fire is out, ami in shivering dread, ho slips 'neath the sheets of his lonely bed. How he draws up his toes, still encased in yarn hose, and he buries his nose, 'neath the chilly bed clothes, that his nose and his toes, still encased in yarn hose, may not be froze. Then be puff's and he blows, and swears that he knows, no mortal on earth ever suffered such woes, and with ah's.' aud with oh'a! and with liuibs near ly froze, to hij slumber in silence the bachelor goes. In the morn when the cock crows, and the sun has just rose, from beneath the bed clothes pops the bachelor's nose, and as you may suppose, when ho hears the wind blow, and sees the windows all froze, why back 'neath the clothes, pops the poor fellow's nose, for if from that bod he rose, to put on his clothes, he'd surely be froze, A SHARP SAILOR. —A few days ago a sail or at a railroad tsation, waiting for the Dext train, inquired of a bystander where he could get some liquor. A place near by was pointed out to him, and lie inquired if it was good.— Tho answer was that it was sfich poisonous stuff that it would probably kill. A few minutes afterwards tbe sailor called to a negro who was sawing wood near by, and took ban into the shop which had been pointed out, where he treated, him to a drink. The bartender asked the aajaflor if ba was not also going to. drink, but received a negative answer, and both the visitors left. Very soon the sailor again made his appearance,.called for liquor, and was ask ed why ho did not drink when he was in bo fore. Ho replied that ho had been watching tbe nigger—that it was just seventeen min utes since be drank, and, as the liquor had not killed him in that time, he believed be could stand it, aud would run tbe risk.— Louisville Journal. We have often thought it ouc of the saddest things in tho world, that the author of the sweetest of ballads, "Home, Sweet Home," should have uo home of his own But as they used to faucy ihat birds sang all the more sweetly the songs of their uative Heavca by putting out their eyes, so it of ten is that we love those ttifbgs "most, and praise those best of which we know and enjoy the least. Au Englishman, emerging from the fog, tells an Italian what a beautiful IJeavcn he has al j ways lived under, without knowing it, and Sea- I ecu wrote eloquently cf poverty, sitting at a table inlaid with gold. in Africa, near the ruins of Berthage, where the north wind blows softly from tlie sea, and far from the pilgrim planted land, John How aid Payne found his abiding borne on an April day. Wbile they were siugrag his song in half tho happy homes of the wide world, ho was laid in ! a stranger's grave. The government of the ' United Stales ha* caused a monument to bo iu- ; scribed aud erected to bis memory. TUB WAY IT IS DONE —ID the year 1772, a man iu Eugland astonished the natives, by haviug a loaded cannon fired at biui a distance of, ten yards only, and catching the ball—a j nine pouuder—in his baud. Ou the payment of a considerable sum, ho divulged his secret, which was this: When the prepcr charge of powder was rea dy, a little of it was put iu tho cannon, then the ball run in, and the rest tho powder put in after it. The wadding was then rammed tightly in. When fired, tho report was as loud as usual, bat ewrng to thc-re being a small quantity f powder hebind the ball, it would only carry about twenty yards. Cannon load ed iu this way, and fired against thin piue boards, at a distauce of.twelve or fifteen- yards, makes no'impression. A worthy divine, one of tbo preachers in at tendance upon the General Oonfereuco of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, from the State of Arkansas, stopped at the St. Cioud.— Upon retiring for the night, ho told the ser vant who conducted him to his room, that he wautod his boots blacked. The servant told him to ret them outside the door, and the boot b'ack would attend to them, lie did so, and iu the morning tho boots cauio up missing.— Instead of yetting the boots out in the hall, he had placed theui outside tho front door. That pieacher has not a very elevated opinion of the morality of the people of Nashville. lie wears a pair of new boots. A COSTLY BIBLE. —Thoro is still in exis tence a copy of tbo Bible, printed on vellum, which has beon sold as high as $2,500. It is one of the few remaining copies of tbe first printed edition of the Bible. It may not be generally known that the Bible was tbo first, book printed after tbo discovery of tbe art ot' printing. It was a book of about one thousand three hundred pages, and of two largo folio volumes. A °f tiuio aud labor was print it ; aud the fact that it was -it written with a pen, as other coppics had been, was for a long time conceal ed. This work was done about the year 1115 —more than 400 years ago. A LAUGH. —How much of character lies iu a laugh! It is iu fact the cypher key often times, wherewith we decipher a man. As a late writer observes 'You know no man until you have heard him laugh.' There are oc casions—there are humors—when a man with whom you have long Loea familiar, will quite startle us by breaking out into a laugh, which oomcs manifestly right from the heart, and yet which we never heard before. And in many a heart a sweet angel slumbers unseen, until some happy moment aw-'- VOL.- 31. NO. 27. A couple of idle fellows strolled into a color ed chnrch at Hartford, i. few evenings since to injoy the fun , but when the colored minister rose to preach, heforc announcing the text, he leaned foreward on the pulpit, ana looked slow ly around on the congregation. 'Brethren/ says he at length, 'may de Lor'"bare mt-ycy on all do scoffers/ (Long pause.) 'May da Lor' have mcrey on all de laughers.' "(Solemn 1 pause.) 'May do Lor* have mercy on do two pea-nut eaters down by de door.' The twe young wen did not wait for the benediction. The largest bullock ever raised in America if not in the world, was the ox known as "George Washington," whose stuffed skin may be seen in life-like proportions in the rooms of the Butchers' Hide and Fat Association iu N/ York. His live weight was 3201 pounds.— He was 0 feet i inches long, and some 5 feet 9 inches high. Charles Sumner, Senator of Massachusetts, sailed for Europe in the steamship "Vandef bilt" which left New York on Saturday, lie publishes a valedictory letter to his const itu eots. A 1* RIGHTFUL CAUTlON. —Rremice, otthc Louisville Journal, says "A lady correspondent, who professes to ho terrified at the iudelicacy of cur paper, thieat ens for the future to set her foot on every copy she sees. She had Letter he caiefnl. Out paper has eyes (i't). in it." An Irishman, lately scut to the 7 . ise o' correction in South Boston for a year, was set to work i ft a blacksmiths shop. Finding the labor very hard, Re asked ('apt. Bobbins lo" changc his employment. 'Faith/captain,' said he, 'if 1 have to work this way feu a year j shall die in less than is fortnight.* • -— ; i —A- • 'Sambo, you Hack tief, Sambo, why do ym betray dat secret I told you de oder day ?' 'i betray de secret ? 1 scorn de 'putalieu- I found i couldn't keep uiu, so I told uin t.,- somebody dat could.' FT I J V i rentice cf the Louisville Journal, 'objects ' to the five miDUte rule in the New York pray,a • meetings. He says, 'imagine for instance, old Bennett, of the Herald confessing his /ns'ie the ridiculous space of five minutes !' An. irishman, on being tuid to grease the carriage, returned in absct an hour afterwards and sa:d 'i'vo greaeed every part of the car ; nage but them sticks wbsro L fe wheels ihur | on,' The editor of au exciiange says he never flaw but cne ghost, and that was tbo ghost >f a sinner who died without paying for his piper , Twos horrible to look upon. -SAVED CT IIER HOOPS.— Take courage, la dies—hoops are of some good, after all. The Lewistown Democrat says —"On Friday las", as Miss Alda Smith, daughter of R Jj. .Smith, was looking at a Canal boat in motion, she be came dizzy aud fell into the water, jbsr hocps, however, buoyed her up, and she floated down the 'raging canal' about forty yards, when she v;as rescued. " ' * . LONGEVITY OR A CANARY BIRD-.— A cor icspondent of tbo New York Commercial Ad vertiser, states that a Canary bird died at Brooklyu, a few days ago, which had been iu the possession of the owner for 2G years. It bad been bald for many years, and blind for the last twelve months. A Virginia- paper records the toarrago of Miss Jane Lemon to Mr. Ebenezer Sweet, whereupon an oxebange moralizes as fellows "How happy the extremes do meet In J.ane and Elretiezer ; She's no longer sour but Suet!, Aud he's a Lemon squeezer!" An eccentric person, the Marquis Malaizi, of Florence, just doccasod, has ordered by his will, a portion ot his fortune to bo invested and the interest to bo paid to tbo "most hump back ed man" in Tuscany. The recipient cf the in come is to be chosen by twelvo other Lump backed men, each of whom for his trouble is to be rewarded with a gold medal bearing the effigy of iEsop. FINALE OF A HONEYMOON.— A woman, in Lancaster, Pa., receutly got a Germuiv ;n*c Lochlin, to marry ber by giving hi:u s7f>. Ever since the marriage the affectionate couple k£rc been on a drunken spree, which resulted, on Thursday night, in the husband throwing his wife out of a window. She is very badly hurt. She ought to be ashamed.—ln a recent, de scription of a new counterfeit, au exchange paper says that, on "the right eud is a female with a rake." We don't dispute the tact, hut really consider the fewAe lost to shame, to apt near in public with such a disreputable char agior.- A WORD WITH A BEQOER ON HORSEBACK. —When a man gets to the top of the hill hou estly, he deserves to be taken by the nook aui hurled down again, if he's ashamed to turn about and look at the lowly raod along which he ouca travelled. NAPOLEON'S I>EATU CHAMBER. — The Ucv licury \\ ood, a chaplain in the U. S. Navy, writiug from St. Helena, says that iu the room where Napoleon died, there is now a threshing machine in operation, and stalls for the Lorsee that move it, iu his bed ohamber STARTLING. — A huge black bear, driven I ! fro in the swamps by high water, preftinb.iL <eo the streets of Yazoo, Miss., on Monday Uttfbr week, to the consternation of every body. The aggregate wealth of toe united States imounts to $12,000,0011.000; or S7OO to e '
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