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SELECT POETRY.
FROM GOLD TO GRAY.
(iiiMen cm Is, profusely aheJ
O'er :h lutely, i-liikli'h head,
Siiiihiii, caufiht Irotn summer tkicn,
Surely heie eulanuletl lie,
Tussintr tu the light winds free,
Kiiiliuut cIiisIlts, w hat are ye ?
Tpe of Time ihnl ripple now
In bright wavelet o'er I lie brnw,
Of the hopes and leelinya bleat
Oaliciitix ill llie puileles lueunl,
lii'iitiliful in their tiniest :
Spaiklinir joya ami willinj fnith
lii-iuj; to Love's Hclilest breath ;
Ol the flit nt t, eeiiiiiii; fair.
Thai may darken with the hair.
What arc ye, dark waving bnnd,
That, beneath the maiden's hand,
Sweep around hei craceful head ?
Fold o'er fold of chanceful shade
Touch the eheek'a rnntnisted bloom
Willi llie poetry of gloom.
Oireriti". for a lover's eye ;
Kmblein'a nf Love's witchery,
IJiiniid her hearl Ihiil richly lies,
Mt.iduws, w hile it beautifies ;
Keepakes Love delights lo (jive,
Did each friend one tiess receive
Kveiy sliiiiinii Iress were lost,
For the maiden hath n host.
Ay ! but trouble, Rlories say,
Locks ns rich halh worn nwuy.
What nf this ! Hut frttmh trrcw spare
As the scant and lulling hair !
Wherefore send your pallid ray,
Slieakaof cold, untimely gray,
Through the lucks whose burnished line
Halh but seen of years a few 1
Autumn leaves on Summer trees
Were less sorruwlul than these.
Portions of life's travel-soil ;
FouipiiiiU left by (iicf and Toil ;
Relics, loo, of watchinys late,
When one curl was loo much weight
On Ihe hot bruwa-, bendiiif: o'er
Sumo ij rave book of ancienl lore.
'Tis llie inoruiiiu Naiure wears
Fur the hopes of yonniier years ;
A ml Ihe scon-hint; bieath of care
Thus can lade I lie biighlest hair.
Hail to thee, 1 1 1 oil glistening snow !
Full ol placid beauty, How
O'er Ihe liinowed blows that bear
Life's lima slory, written lair.
'Tis llui while loam, cast aside
Alier Tiuiu'a receding title.
Yea, anil pleasant types are ye
Of each moonlight memory ;
Shining Iroin his fai-oll piime
To Ihe old man's evening time.
More ye aie relied ions shed
From the heaven above hi. head ;
Pule, but still assuring ray,
Ol his nearly risen day,
Mortal ! may thy hoaiy hair
Fen such oluriiiiis meaning bear,
That its silver thread may be
ile.enueis of light to thee !
Natural tjiotovn.
From Uurper. Mutrtizine.
OSTRICHES How they are Hunted.
The lamily of birds, of which the ostrich
forms the leading type, is remarkable lor
the wide dispersion of its members; the
ostrich itself spreads over nearly the whole
of the burning deserts of Africa Ihe Casso
wary represents it amid the luxuriant vege
tation of the Indian Archipelago. The
JJinoriiis, chief of birds, formerly towered
among the ferns of New Zealand, where
the small Apteryx now holds its place;
and the huge Epyornis strode along the
forests of .Madagascar. The Einu is confin
ed to the great Australian continent, and
the Rhea to the southern extremity of the
western hemisphere ; while nearer home
we find the class represented by the Bus
tard, which, until wilhin a lew years, still
lingered upon the least frequented downs
and plains of England.
With the Arabs of the deserf, the chase
of the ostrich is the most attractive and ea
gerly sought ol the many aristocratic diver
sions in which tliey indulge. The first
point attended to, is a special preparation
ol their horses. Seven or eight days be
fore the intended hunt, they are entirely
deprived of straw and grass, and fed on bar
ley only. They are only allowed to drink
once a day, and that at .unset the time
when the waler begins to freshen: at that
time also they are washed. They take
long daily exercises, and are occasionally
galloped, at which time care is taken that
the harness is right, and suited to the chase
ol Ihe ostrich. "After seven or eight days,"
says the Arab, "the stomach of the horse
dii-appears, while the chest, the breast, and
the croup remain in flesh ; the animal is
then fit to endure fatigue." They call this
training ta'iata. The harness used for the
purpose in question is lighter than ordina
ry, especially the stirrups and saddle, and
the martingale is removed. The bridle,
too, undergoes many metamorphoses ; the
mountings and the ear-flaps are taken
away, as too hepvy. The bit is made of a
came! rope, without a throat band, and the
frontlet is also of cord, and the reins, though
strong, are very light. The period mo.l
favorable for ostrich-hunting is that of the
great heat ; the higher the temperature the
less is the ostiich able to defend himself.
The Arabs describe the precise lime as that,
w hen a man stands upright, his shadow
has the length only of the sole of his foot.
Each horseman is accompanied by a ser
vant called zanmal, mounted on a camel,
carrying four goat-skins filled with water,
barley for the horse, wheat-flour for the
rider, some dates, a kettle to cook the food,
and every thing which can possibly be re
quired for the repair of the harness. The
horseman conteuls himself with a linen
vest and trowsers, and covers his neck and
ears with a light material called havuli,
tied with a strip of camel's hide; his feet
are protected with sandals, and his legs
with light gaiters called frabag. He is
armed with neither gun nor pikto), hisonly
weapon being a wild olive or tamarind
stick, five or six feet long, with a heavy
knob at one end.
Before starling, the hunters ascertain
where a large number of ostriches are to
be found. These birds are generally met
with in places where there is much grass,
and where rain has recently fallen. The
Arabs say, that where the ostrich sees the
light shine, and barley getting ready,
wherever it may be, thither she runs, re
gardless of distance; and ten days' march
is nothing to her ; and it has passed into a
proverb in the desert, of a man skillful in
llie careol flocks, and in finding pasturage,
that he is like the ostrich, where he sees
the light there he comes.
The hunters slart in the morning. Af
ter one or two days' journey, when they
have arrived near the spot pointed out, and
they begin to perceive traces of their game,
they halt and camp. The next day, two
intelligent slaves, almost entirely stripped,
are sent to reconnoitre ; they each carry a
g.iat-.skin at their side, and a little bread ;
they walk until they meet with the os
triches, which are generally found in ele
vated places. As soon as the game is in
view, one lies down to watch, the other
returns to convey the information. The
ostriches are found in troops, comprising
sometimes as many as sixty; but at the
pairing lime I hey are more scattered, three
or four couple only remaining together.
The horsemen, guided by the scout, tra
vel gently toward the birds; the nearer
they approach the spot the greater is their
caution, and when Ihey reach the last
ridge which conceals them from the view
of their game, they dismount, and two
creep forward lo ascertain if they are still
there. Should such be the case, a moder
ate quantity of water is (men to the hor
ses, the baggage is left, and each man
mounts, carrying at his side a chebouta, or
goat-skin. The servants and camels follow
the track of the horsemen, carrying with
them only a little corn and water.
i he exact position of the ostriches be
ing known, the plans are arranged ; the
horsemen divide and form a circle round
the game at such a distance as not to be
seen. I he servants wait where the horse
men have separated, and as soon as they
see them at their posts, they walk right be
fore them ; the ostriches II v, but are met bv
the hunters, who do nothing at first but
drive them bnck into the circle ; thus their
strength is exhausted by being made to con
tinually run round in the ring. At the
first signs of fatigue in the birds, the horse
men dash in presently the flock separ
ates ; the exhausted birds are seen to open
their wings, which is a sign of great exhaus
tion; the horsemen, certain of their prey,
now repress their horses; each hunter se
lects his ostrich, runs it down, and finishes
it by a blow on the head with the stick
above mentioned. The moment the bird
falls the man jumps off his horse, and cuts
her throat, taking care to hold the neck at
such a distance from the body, ns not to
soil the plumage of the wings. The male
bird, while dying, utters loud moans, but
the female dies in silence.
When the ostrich is on the point of be
ing overtaken by the hunter, she is so fa
tigued, that if he does not wish to kill her,
she can easily be driven with the stick to
Ihe neighborhood of the camels. Immedi
ately alter the birds have been bled to
death, they are carefully skinned, so that
the feathers may not be injured, and the
skin is then stretched upon a tree, or on a
horse, and salt rubbed well into it. A fire
is lit, and the fat of the birds is boiled for a
long time in kettles ; when very liquid, it
is poured into a sort of bottle made of the
skin of the thigh and leg down to the foot,
strongly far-tened ut the bottom ; the fat of
one bird is usually sufficient to fill two of
these legs; it is said that in any other ves
sel the lat would spoil. When, however,
the bird is breeding, she is extremely lean,
and is then hunted only for the sake of her
feathers. Alter these arrangements are
completed, the flesh is eaten by the hun
ters, who season it well with pepper and
flour.
While these proceedings are in progress,
the horses are carefully tended, watered,
and fed with corn, and the party remain
quiet during forty-eight hours, to give their
animals rest ; after that they either return
to their encampment, or embark in new
enterpiises.
To the Arab the chase of the ostrich has
a double attraction pleasure and profit;
the price obtained for the skins well com.
pensates for the expenses. Not only do
the rich enjoy the pursuit, but the poor,
who know how to set about it, are permit
ted to participate in it also. The usual
plan is lor a poor Arab to arrange with one
who is opulent for the loan ol his came!,
horse, harness, and two-thirds of all the
necessary provisions. The borrower fur
nishes himself the remaining third, and the
produce of the chase is divided in the same
proportions.
The ostrich, like many other of the fea
thered tribe, has a great deal of self-con
ceit. Un hne sunny days a tame bird may
be seen strutling backward and forward
with great majesty, fanning itself with its
quivering, expanded wings, and at every
turn seeming to admire its grace, and the
elegance of its shadow. Dr. Shaw says
that, though these birds appear tame and
tractable to persons well-known to them,
they are often very fierce and violent to
ward strangers, whom they would not only
endeavor to push down by running furious
ly against them, but Ihey would peck at
them with beaks, and strike with their feet ;
and so violent is the blow that can ba giv
en, that Ihe doctor saw a person whose ab
domen had been ripped completely open
by a stroke from the claw of an ostrich.
To have the stomach of an ostrich has
become proverbial, and with good reason ;
for (his bird stands enviably forward in re
spect to its wonderful powers of digestion,
which are scarcely interior to its voracity
lis natural food consists entirely of vegeta
ble substances, especially grain ; and the
ostrich is a most destructive enemy to the
crops of the African farmers. But its sense
of taste is so obtuse, that scraps of leather,
old nails, bits of tin, buttons, keys, coins,
and pebbles, are devoured vith equal rel
ish ; in fact, nothing comes amiss. But in
this it doubtless follows an instinct; for
these hard bodies assist, like the gravel in
the crops of our domestic poultry, in grind
ing down nnd preparing for digestion its
ordinary food.
There was found by Cuvier in Ihe stom
ach of an ostrich that died in Paris, nearly
a pound weight of stones, bits of iron and
topper, and pieces ol money worn down
by constant attrition against each other, as
well as by the action of Ihe stomach itself.
In the stomach of one nf these birds which
belonged to the menagerie of George the
Fourth, there were contained some pieces
of wood of considerable size, several large
nails, and a hen's egg entire and uninjured
perhaps taken as a delicacy from its appe
tite becoming capricious. In the stomach
of another, beside several large cabhage
stalks, there were masses of bricks of the
size of a man's fist. Sparman relates that
he saw ostriches at the Cape so tame that
Ihey. went loose to and from the farm, but
they were so voracious as to swallow
chickens whole, and trample hens lo death
that they might tear them in pieces af
terward and devour them ; and one great
barrel of a bird was obliged lo be killed on
account of an awkward habit he had ac
quired of trampling sheep to death. But
perhaps the most striking proof of the
prowess of an ostrich in the eating way, is
that afforded by Dr. Shaw, who saw one
swallow bullet after bullet as fast as they
were pitched, scorching hot, from the
mould.
ROTHSCHILD AM) JEIU'SALEM
A correspondent of the National Era re
lates the following anecdote. It takes the
romance out of a recent slory :
'-The rumor is that Ihe Sultan has ceiled
Syria lo M. Rothschild, for 500,000,000 francs,
say, one hundred millions of dollais,and that
this prince of millionaires proposes lo invite
the Jews to return to the land of their fa
thers, rebuild the temple, &c, I do not be
lieve it. About fifteen or twenty years ago,
an estimable clergyman in Ohio, who bad,
after a long study and meditation, persuaded
himself that the description of Ihe latter day
glory by the prophet F..ekiel was to be lit
erally fullillml by the Jews in Syria, went to
Loudon wild a view lo persuade) Rothschild
to purchase that country, which, ho had
been informed, could, in ihe slate of the Sul
tan's exchequer at Ihut time, be done nt less
than ten millions of dollars. It was several
days after his arrival before lie obtained an
interview with him. Ami when, itfler so
much pains-laking, ha at length sluod face to
face with the rich Jew, and announced his
errand, the baron said to him, "Damn Jeiu
salem !" The poor man, grieved anil shock
ed, quitted London, returned lo his native
laud, pinod away and died. 1 received from
his own hps an account of the interview."
A new Ins: a in Agkicvutre. The
steward on hoard a United Slate steamer in
the Gulf, it is slated, has produced several
potatoes, by rilling a crockery crate with al
ternate layers of straw and the eyes wf Ihe
potato, commencing at Ihe bottom with a
layer of about six inches in depth of straw,
and then a layer of the eyes the eyes be
ing placed about ttvo inches apart, over Ihe
surface of the atraw then another lawer of
straw on the top. He kepi ihe straw always
moist, and in about two months had about
SI4 worth of sound, good potatoes of Ihe
"first waler."
Iron Papk.r. At the Prussian Industrial
Exhibition, Count Renard, a large proprietor
of ironworks, exhibited sheet iron of such a
degree of tenuity, that the leaves can be used
for paper One of the finest sort the machin
ery rolls is 7040 square of feet, of what may
be called leaf-iron, from a cwt. of metal. A
bookbinder of Hreslan has made an album of
nothing else, Ihe page, of which turn as flex
ibly us the finest fabiic of linen rags. As
yet no extensive application for this form of
the metal ha. been found, but the manager
says the material must precede the use for
it.
PutNTict's Last. Our friend of Ihe
Journal is a hard one lo head. A young
lady sent him a complimentary piece of
poetry the oilier day, calling him her spirit's
father, and threatening to kiss his brow, and
the like. Henry, ol" the Democrat, poor fel
low, felt jealous and showed it. Prentice
extinguishes him as follows :
"Our neighbor of Ihe Democrat thinks
lhal the piece of poetry we published the
other day from a young lady turned our
head. We understand that our neighbor
soma lime ago undertook to turn a lady's
head with a piece of his poetry, but merely
turned ber stomach."
Pommapf. dc Skvillk This is a simple
but efficacious preparation, much in request
among Spanish ladies, for removing from ihe
face the effects of the sun. The following is
the recipe : Take equal part, of lemon juice
aud while of eggs. Beat the whole together
in a varnished earthen pipkin, and set on a
slow fire. Stir the fluid with a wooden spoon
till it ha. acquired the consistence of soft po
malum. Perfume it with sweet essence, and
before you apply it, carefully wash the face
with i ice-water.
Wb worship God best, and most accepta
bly, when we resemble him mo.t in eur
iniud, lives and action,.
A DEAD SHOT.
Kit Carson tells a first rate thing about a
set-to he hail with a Crow Indian lhal will
bear repeating. Caison had been out to
wards Santa Ke, as n enide, &e., to a party
of volunteers, and being well paid for his
services, he laid in with another of Ihe wild
to return home in good trim, and plenty of
whiskey. Carson and his fellow voyager
soon quarrelled, parted, and each continued
his way alone. Carson had a good horse
and a first class pack mule. The night fol
lowing the depatlure of his late friend, Car
son found himself a little suspicious of In
dians ; a storm came up, he lost his way,
and mule also ; but having a large canteen
of baltlfacn brandy, the liauly fellow took a
hearty swig and went on his way. Present
ly he hears dubious noises in the foresl, and
not long after his keen eye delects In
dians !
"Oh," says Ihe hunter, "there you are,
are ye 1" and he puis his hand on the trig
ger of his trusly rifle.
Another crack of the branches, twigs nnd
leaves, in the distance, and the full form of
a Crow Indian appearing to the intrepid
Kit, he jumps behind a tree and looks
sharp !
"Only one, eh V says Kit, soMo rore,
"well old fellow, if you'll come to the
dead open and shut game, you'll find me
thar."
"Thar," was the partially intelligible re
sponse. "V'es, lhar you cussed skunk."
"Skunk."
"Skunk, yes skunk, if you don't like it,"
was the hunter's strong defiance, "then
lump it, come out and stand fair, and I'll
light you !"
"I ll light you !"
"Will you 1 Then show yourself !"
"Show yoursrlf !"
"I couldn't slant! such a banter as that,"
said Carson ; "so I cocks my old ritle, and
steps square out, determined lo shoot quick
when my copper friend gave me a sight, but
as I left my tree, I sees the Indian level on
me with his gun, without leaving his con
cealment ; 1 fiied wrong ! and clips Ihe
dead limb of a shrub oak, which stuck out
as much like the gun, head and arm of an
Indian, as you might expect to see ! The
old tree stood near the mouth of a deep
cave, and instead of the old skunk of a
Crow answeriiiL', it was only the echo of my
own voice .' I yelled then, a few, and the
sound of my voice scared up my pack mule,
which rauie trotting up to me anil the
juke lasted me until I reached St. Louis."
What is a Fop ? A Mr. Slark, in a lec
before ihe Voting Men's Association of Troy
N. V., thus defines a fop.
"The fop is a complete specimen of an
outside philosopher. He is one third collar,
one sixth patent leather, one fourth walking
.tick, nnd the rest gloves and hair. As to
his remote ancestry there is some doubt, but
it is now pretly well settled that he is the
von of a tailor's goose. He becomes ecstatic
at the smell of new cloth. He is somewhat
nervous, and to dream of a tailor's bill gives
him tbe night-mare. By his air one would
judge he had been dipped like Achilles , but
it is evident the goddess held him by the
head instead of the heel. Nevertheless,
such men are useful. If theie weie no tad
poles there would be no frogs. There are
not so entirely to blame for being devoted to
externals. Paste diamonds must have a
splendid setting to make them sell. Only it
doe. seem a waste of materials, lo put five
dollars worth of beaver on five cents worth
of biains."
Dr. Yoi'no's Happt Impromptu Perhaps
the happiest and most elegant impromptu
ever uttered was Ihe following, by Dr. Young,
author of the Night Thoughts:
Dr. Young, while yet youns, ami pei!iap
poor, was walking in a garden (not his own)
with two ludies, when he was sent fur by a
wealthy and influential patron who require. I
his services as a physbian. He, much pre
ferine the present company and occupation,
refused lo go. The ladies knowing that such
a refusal would be very deterimental to his
interests, endeavored to persuade him lo go.
and failing in this ejected him from the gar
den "ritt armn."
The gate closed on him; he turned and thus
addressed his fair rompellers:
'Thus Adam looked, when from llie Garden driven,
And thita Hifputrd orders sent fnnn Heaven.
Like hire I so like him to go am loth
l.ilte him I go, fis: aiurela drove ua both.
Hard was hi. tale ; but mixb still more unkind
lit. Kve went with him ; mat remaina behind
How is it with You. At a prayer meet
ing in Ihe church of the village of Spunk
town, in Ihe Slate of Maine, a country lad
was noticed by one of Ihe elder deacon, to
hold hi. head and wriggle in hi. seal,
while the tears seemed lo start eveja mo
ment. A clear case of repentance, thought Ihe
old deacon, as he quietly" stepped lo Ihe side
of Ihe latl, and in a whisper affectionately
inquired :
"How is it with you my son t"
The boy looked up, and supposing him to
be Ihe sexton, answered ;
Oh ! very bad, and I want lo go out my
innards is kiokin' up a revolution and the
fourth of July ! and if ever I eat a green
current pie again, my name aint Jeems
Billins !"
A perion one sent note to a waggish
friend, for the loan of his noose ppr, and
received in return bis friend's mania; certificate.
THE REVOLUTIONARY LOVERS.
A young girl of sixteen, of sterling beau
ty, had fought with her brother and her be
trothed in llie ranks of the Lyonnaise can
nonier in the French Revolution.
The whole town admired her intrepidity.
Officers cited her as an example for their
soldiers. Her modesty equalled her courage
She found her heroism in battle. She was
then a virgin. Her name was Marie Ad
rian, i
'What is your name ?' inquired her judge,
struck with her youth, and dazzled by her
charms.
'Mario,' replied the young accused ; the
name of the mother of God, for whom I am
about to die.'
'What is your age V
'Seventeen, the age of Charlotte Corday."
'How at your age, have you been able tu
fire a cannon against your country V
'It was lo defentl il.'
'Citizen,' said one of the judges, 'we ad
mire your coiirnse. What would you do if
we grant you life V
'I would poinard vou as the executioners
of my country ;' she replied raising her
head.
She mounted in silence, her eyes cast
down, Ihe steps of the scaffold, more in
timidated at the looks of the crowd, than
death.
She refused Ihe hand which the execu
tioner offered her to guide her steps, ami
ciied oul twice, 'Vire le rot.'
On stripping her after death, the execu
tioner found in her bosom a note written
with blood ; it was a farewell f.om her be
trolhed, shot a few days previous at ihe
Hreltaux.
'To morrow at this hour, I shall be no
more, he said to his aflianced. I will not
die without telling yon once mote, I love
Ihee. Were my life offered me to say the
contrary I would refuse it. 1 have opened
a vein lo write to you with my blood. I
would mingle it with yours for eternity.
Adieu, my dear Marie. Weep not, that the
angels may think you handsome as I do in
Heaven. 1 go to await you. Be not long.'
The two lovets were only separated
twenty-four hours in death. The people
could admire, they knew not how lo par
don. CORRl'FTION IS ARISTOCRATIC t:l RILES.
Under this head, respectable German pa
pers contain ocscure allusions to a cigantic
criminal tiial, lately concluded at Berlin in
the greatest secresy, but which draws some
what on the reader's faith in maivellous
stories :
"Tho nature of the crime seems to be
such as forbid precise details, but it appears
that a large number of persons, of high
birth and station, in civil and military life,
were organized in a soit of fraternity, with
signs and pass-words. They4J3?iad long
been aware of the existence of this organi
zation, but had refrained from acting, on ac
count of the protection or participation of an
aged man in tho most eminent official posi
tion. His death and the accidental discov
ery of Ihe diary of another member, ren
dered it impossible longer lo permit the so
ciety to exist, aud all Ihe members were ar
rested and tried. The person whose diary
had been found, expressed ihe greatest sur
prise that the law shuuld interfere with men
of such rank, but this was by no means the
general opinion in those circles, Ihe more
intelligent portion of the arislocracy admit
ted that vice m'iSt be treated with impartial
severity, wha.ever the position of the guilty
parties. How many poisons have suffered
the sentence of the Comt is not known, but
it is understood that many highly distin
guished men -are condemned lo rigorous im
prisonment for from one to ten years. All
military ofliceis implicated have also had
their names striken Irom the rolls of the
army, by the express order of Ihe King "
BuoK-Pi'BLisiiiNG in F.Nf.i.AND.--The large
book-sellers ami publisheis havo been enjoy
ing a position of stagnant ease, based on the
principle of large profit, and small returns,
when the real interests of literature and the
public at large depend upon the absolute
reversal of that principle, At present five
hundred copies is a large sale of a book in
cultivated and wealthy England, and the
price is so kept up, in order that these five
hundred copies may satisfactorily reimburse
the publishers, that a tolerably good modern
library is as much out nf the reach of scores
of thousands of person, as a .culpluie galle
ry would be. The new older of things, in.
ducing small profits and large returns, will
in a great degree remedy this evil, be more
remunerative to the publishers, ami mosi
materially advance Ihe interest. f authors
and of literature geneially.
Alanthus Thck. A correspondent of
Ihe New York Evening Post stales, that Ihe
odour of this tree is poisonou. to .uch a de
gree a. lo affect Ihe health, and in tome ca
1t ptoduce death. A whole family ill Brook
lyn wa. pro.lrated from a condition of good
health to .ick beds by it. poisonous breath,
when the season arrived for leaving their
windows open. They did not know what
was the cause of their decline, until one of
their number bad become a victim to its
dangerous .hade.
Fousth or Jolt Sxntimint "Canada
Tbe beautiful Vitgio of the North, longing to
fall into the aims of 'Jonathan-' May ibe
greenhorn overcome his bashfulneu and lak
her to hi. bo.om a. a gallant youth 'had
aurhter.' "
A tiEER TEE-TO-TALLER.
To be shure 1 am no advocate for drink
ing unless when a man is dry ; but the
case is altered when man has a const it u
lional toothach, hereditary by Ihe mother'
side in the family, which is my unfortunate
case. If you had the hearl of a gun-Hint,
you would pity me ; lo see a fellow-creature)
wilh an old stocking wrapped aronnd hit
chops, and a short pipe stuck in his jaw,
nnd a bottle of whiskey, logeiher with a
can of beer, upon the table. Surely never
was a poor rascal so completely predislina
led lo insobriety. The toothache makes me)
smoke, ihe smoke makes me swill at the)
beer, and as the beer never agreed with
me, I am forced, in spile of Faiher Mallhevr
to qualify the stout with the stiff, in short,
to mix a tumbler. As I was always of an
active disposition, and can't bear lo be idle,
I keep smooking while 1 mix the materials.
By this light ! the more I drink the drier 1
am ; and Ihe drier I am, the more I drink.
And do you know, such a scurvy world we
live in, for imputing bad mutinies where
there is no occasion, that I hear reports are
abroad that 1 am a sail drunken fellow, as if
any man can help constitutional toothache,
hereditary by Ihe mother's side !
Imi-rovkmrnt in Riri.Es. The SpringfieldJ
Post describe, a new improvement of ihe ri
fle, recently made by Mr. Ebenezer K el log,
of that city, as follows :--Oue of its most
striking features is, il is loaded wilh o patch
ed ball, the same as an ordinary rifle, there,
by obviating the evil of loading the barrel, aa
is the case wilb other repealing rifles. It
can be discharged a hundred times in rapid
succession, without the least danger of heat
ing the barrel, so ns lo cause a premature
discharge of the rifle. The under part of the
stock is attached to the barrel by a hinge,
ami by disengaging a catch at the top of the
stock, the bull falls down, and a steel cham
ber (with a number of which Ihe gun is sup
plied) is slipped into the bull of the barrel,
which is countetboTed to receive it. The
barrel contains but one charge at a time, so
the danger of a connecting pin is done away
with. The construction of the lock is sim
ple, consequently durable and concealed ill
the stock, it is proof against dampness."
Sad End op a Romance A correspon
dent of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, writing
from Sault St. Marie, gives a narrative of an
ill assorted marriage, with its melancholy
termination. Some fifteen years ago. Cat
lin, the painter, exhibited a number of In
dians in London, among whom was Cadotte,
an interpreter. Sarah Haynes, then a beau
liful English girl of sixteen, became enamor
ed of Cadoite, and they were married. Oi
reaching America, the romance of love wa
over ; for two or three years Ihey resided en
the bank of the river St Clair, on the little
property the bride was possessed of ; anil
since that at the Sault, where she taught
Frenah and music, to the time of her de
cease. She retained her beauty to the last,
although exposed to many hardships by liv
ing in a birch bark lodge wilh an Indian
husjand. She died in her 30th year, fortu
nately leaving no children to mourn the)
sad effects of an infatuated matrimonial
match.
Vsry Like White Folxs. An Indian
chief once went to the office of the American
Commissioner, at Chicago, to whom he intro
duced himself as a very gi Indian, a good
friend to the Americans, and concluded by
asking tor a glass of whiskey. The Commie
siouer gravely told him that they never gave
whiskey lo good Indians, who never wished
for any such things, that it wa. only used by
bad Indians. "Then," replied the Indian,
"me one d d rascal!"
Sckne in a Railway Station. Railway
Official. You'd better not smoke, sir.
Traveller. That's what my friends say.
Official But you muan't smoke, sir.
Traveller.--So my doctor tells me.
Official (indignantly) But you sAWf
smoke, sir.
Traveller. Ah! just what my wife says.
Tvmh.. .
Shoes Warranted. A young apprentice
to the shoe making business, lately asked
his master what answer he should make lo
Ihe oft-iepealed question : "does you mas
ter wariant his shoes 1" Answer. ''Tom !"
says the master,, "lell thorn I warrant them
lo prove good, and if ihey don't, that I will
make I hem good for nothing !"
The same old Drunk. In a lown in
Connecticut a loafer was brought before a
justice for being drunk in ihe sireet-lhe fine
being one dollai for each offence). The fiae
he paid, and was arraigned Ihe next day.
' No you don't," said he, "I know Ihe law
ouo dollar for each offence, and this is the
same old drunk."
An Aoctioneer Exclaimed "Why, real
ly, ludies and gentlemen, 1 am giving these
tbuigsaway !" "Are you'" said an old lady,
present, "well, I'll thank you for that silver
pitcher you have in your hand."
'Ma, what's that V said a little urchin.
'Shilling, my sou.' Won't you believe
your faiher V
'Yeth'm, but I thought he was lyieg.
A man bos sled that he once had a brother
who wa a rtWuiionOry hero. Il cams out
that the person spoken of was long on th
traavi mill.
' It all the world were blind, what a met- -ancholy
sight il would be," Mid aa lrisa-man.