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Now the golden mom aloft
Wmn her dcw-bcspang'e.1 wine,
With vermeil chrek and wisprroft,
She tni the tardy Spring :
Till April start and call around
The steeping fragrance from the ground,
And lightly o'er the living scene
Scatter hisfrehe'it. tendeiest green.
JVcw l orn dork in mtie dwee,
Fri-kinu. ply their fertile feet,
Forgetful of thrir wintry trance.
The liird hi presence greet ;
Hut chief the sky latV warbles high
Hi trembling thiil'inc cctacy ;
And, lessening from the dazzled right.
Melt into air and liquid light
YeMerdav the nllen veir
Saw the snowy whirlwind fly
Mute w.i the mn-ic of the air,
The hrrd itood drooping by !
Thrir rsp'urc now. thit wildly flow,
No yetrrdy or morrow know
' Pi mnn almr thnt joy descries
With fur ward and reverted eyes.
Smile on pit misfortunes brow
Siilt reflection hand can truce.
And o'rr the check of sorrow throw
A mcl mcholv gr.ee ;
While hope prolong our hnppirst hour,
Or drrpet shade thai dimly lower,
And blacken round our wr ary way,
liilili wi h a glemn ofdistint day.
Still where rov p'easnre lead,
Kre a kind'ed erirf pursue,
Beliin 1 ibr steps that mis- ry tread
Approarhine comfort view ;
The hues of hli-s more brightly glow
f Tha.ten'd hv a dder tint of woe :
And blended, form, with artful stiife,
The strength and harmony of life.
See the wretch that lone has tost
On the thorny bed of pin,
At Irnath repair his vigor lost
And breathe and walk acain.
The mcanei flowret ef the tale.
The simplest note that a v eil the cale,
The common sun, the air, the skies,
To him are opening Patadise.
A Villain Mitfl Ills Victim.
A correspondent of the Boston Bee gives the
following account of one of the inmates of the
Vermont Lunatic Ayliim, ntBrattleboro' :
Porn of wealthy parents, idolized in youth,
gratified in the indulgence ofher fondest hope,
and perfected in every accomplishment of the
day, she was tin pride of her f.unily anil the belle
of the social circle, whose destiny she con
trolled. One of ilmsc enthusiastic being's, who
ore never satisfied with divided affection, her
mind wassoexqui: itely strung thatthe least dis
cord afflicted it, and marred the music ol the
whi!e. Some three year since, she was in
troduced to a young naval officer, who soon
wooed and won her, but villein like, having
sported awhile with the choice flame which
nothing hut summer and suusliitio should glad
den, and after having hy sedulous attentions
appropriated tiie rare gem to himself, left ilex
posed to the rude blast of winter, until chilled
and crushed, it has fallen to the ground, scared
and blasted like the withered leaf of autumn.
The story of hi perfidy reached hei car, hut
woman-like, she would not credit aught agiinst
the idol of her heart, till her own eyes perused
in the papers of a neighboring city Ire marriage
to anoth-r. The news came like a thunderbolt
upon her, withering and destroying her. In
vain did her friends endeavor to cheer her de
sponding heart by travel and the kindest at
tention. Now a blighted and spirit-broken
thing, bhe no more bounded on the green like
the fawn, or carolled in the sunshine like the
lark winging it flight to heaven's gate ; a
fearful change had came over her, and reason
soon deserted its throne, leaving her a maniac.
She takes no interest in the movements of the
other patients, but sits apart, all the day, look
ing from a window, upon the boundless prospect
before her. Every attempt to direct her mind
lias been, ns yet, unsuccessful, and though
passionately fond of music in her moments of
reason, the least sound is now displeasing to
Iter, and she retires to her apartment, closing
the door after her, as if to seclude herself from
the society of others. What has the man to
answer for, who has thus destroyed a virgin
flower in the pride of iu bloom and beauty!
Evety Inch a Mas. Tlie Louisville Ken
tucktan has been furnished with the following
item by the gentleman who is taking the ccn
its of the city. lie came across a man w ho is
53 years old ; he has been married three times :
by his first wife he had eleven, by hit. second
wife ten, and twelve by his last wife, making
thirty-three children, and his wife now in a
most interesting stato. Twenty-three of his
children were boys, and ten girls; nineteen
boys and six girls are living. He married in
his eighteenth year, and remained in a state
of celibacy three years.
A man cannot potsess anything that is bet
ter than a good woman, nor any thing that is
worse than a bad one.
From the llottan Traveller.
Cnrlotie Method ofPlantlns; Corn.
Mr. John W, Sweet, of Tyringham, Berk
rhire co, informs us thnt he plants hi corn, in
the following manner, and tins realized 110
bushels of shelled corn to the acre.
He spreads what manure he intends for the
field on the surface of the green sward J then
he ploughs the land into ridges about 3 feet
apart in the fall each ridge or row being made
of two back furrows turned upon a narrow strip
ofswnrd which is not disturbed. In the spring
he rolls and harrows these ridges, and on the
top of each ridge, 12 or H inches apart, he
plants his hills of corn, 3 or 4 kernels in the
hill, and cultivates it through the season with
the l.oe, cultivator and plough as much as he
efeems necessary. In this method, he remark
ed that ho was not troubled with weeds or
drought
In the Fall, as soon as his corn is ripe, he
gathers the cars, then pulls up the corn stalks
and lays them down lengthways between the
furrows, and then splits his ridges with the
plough and covers these stalks up complete
ly. Thus is made his ridges for his second crop
of com, to he planted the succeeding spring.
The 110 bushels was the second crop, planted
over the buried stalks. The above is sufficient
to give the reader an idea of this system. He
contends uflcr the first crop he wants no ma
nure for his corn, except the stalks applied as
we have described.
It is quite probable, the sods and manure lie
ing under the corn the first year, thot while
these are undergoing decomposition, being the
whole periixl of the growth of the corn, the
crop will suflcr less from drought than it would
were there no vegetable matter beneath it to
attract and detain moisture until this decompo
sition is completed.
As to the fact thct corn-stalks are tho best
manure for corn, the idea is strictly philosophi
cal, and is folly sustained by chemical analy
sis. The doctrine seems to be well settled,
thnt each crop requires its own peculiar food,
and unless the soil contains this, the crop will
not flourish. Hence the necessity of rotation
of crops or the well established fact with par
ticular men, that potatrcs will not thrive for
many years in succession on the same piece,
because the crop has almost exhausted the soil
of the peculiar fiaxl of the potntoc, while some
other crop, requiring a different kind of food
from what tho potatoe requires, will succeed
well on the same lond where the potatoe crop
hns f..iled thus as the ox and the sheep, when
put to the same stack of hay, the one will cat
w hat the other leaves : so it is with plants.
Now, if yon shoot a partridge, and cut open
his crop and find in ita corns and buds you at
once infer that acorns and buds are the natural
food of the bird. So when by chemical analy
sis you ascertain precisely whst kind of food
the corn crop requires. Now, as corn stalks
contain the very elements of the food required
by the corn crop, ond return to the soil, the
Mih.-tnnees of which they exhausted the soil,
the chemistry of agriculture teaches us that
corn stalks, while undergoing decomposition,
furnish the growing crop with those very gas
es required fur the elaboration of the solid stock
and cuts.
Hut this is not the only conclusion of sci
ence, hut a universal law of the vegetable
world, by which nn all wise and bountiful God
ha provided that each precise species of plants
shall he reproduced and perpetuated. Thus
the frc:-t land, fur centuries subject to a migh
ty growth, from year to year, not only increases
in fertility, and an annual top dressing, fitted to
the very purpose for which it is wanted, and
composed by the unerring hand of Deity, but
also, from year to year, has something to spare
for tho good of man and beast
Thus, in the vegetable as in the animal
world, there is a wie provision, that each
shall be sustained and reproduced; and as these
natural laws are more and more developed by
science, we may expect the purpose of Infinite
Wisdom, as to the vegetable world, will be
less and less frustrated by the hand of unskilful
culture.
Trees. It is a custom in Turkey, says Dr.
Walt.li, to plant a plat ur nut vr it n talis (button-wood-tree)
on the birth of a son ; and a cypress
on the deutli of one. Were this custom adop
ted in the United States, it wou'd give us, at
the end of forty years, about twenty millions of
trees more than we shall probably have ; a con
sideration of no mean importance to posterity.
And were the trees to be planted by tho road
side, most of our public highways would at the
end of that period, be converted ir.to delightful
avenues. Let it bo remembered that the road
from Strasburg to Munich, a distance of 250
miles, is already an avenue of fruit trees.
We find the following conundrum in an ex
change paper, it contains more truth than wit :
"Why ia a newspaper like, a tooth-brush t
D'ye give it up! Because every body should
have one of hie own, and not borrow his neighbors."
lis Rrsinni for Planting; an Orchard.
Orchard. We have recently met with the
following "Sis Reasons for Planting an Or
chard," which will apply, with some modifica
tion, to planting trees of all sorts ;
1st. Would you leave an inheritance to your
children ! plant an Orchard. No other in
vestment of money and labor will, in the long
run, pay so well.
2d. Would you make home pleasant the
nbodoof the social virtues 1 plant an Orchard.
Nothing better promotes among neighbors a
feeling of kindness and good will, than a treat
of good fVuit, often repeated.
Hd. Would you remove from your children
the strongest temptation to steal ! plant an
orchard. If children cannot obtain fruit at
home, they are apt lo steal it; and when they
have learned to steal fruit, they arc in a fair
way to learn to steal horses.
4th. Would you cultivate a constant feeling
of thankfulness towards the great Giverof all
good ! plant an orchard. By having constant
ly before you one of the greotest blessings gi
ven to man, you must be hardened indeed ifynu
are not influenced by a spirit of humility and
thankfulness.
5th. Would yon have your children love their
home respect their parents while living and
venerate their memory when dead in all their
wanderings look back upon the home of their
youth as a sacred spot an oasis in the great
wilderness of the world 1 then plant an or
chard. 6th. In short, if you wish to avail yourself of
the blessings of a bountiful Providence, which
arc within your reach, you must plant an or
chard. And when you do it see that you
plant good fruit. Don't plant crab apple trees,
nor wild plums, nor Indian peaches. The best
are the cheapest.
A new amp valuable Grass A gentleman
connected with the British expedition under
Capt Ross, to the southern polar sea, has pub
lished the description of a new grass found at
the Falkland Islam!, and callad Tussac grass,
which promises to become a most valuable ad
dition to the farmer's store of food for all sea
sons, especially in these northerly latitudes
and in the colder and moistcr lands.
It is very possible that this Tussac grasi may
be among the valuable things brought home by
our own exploring expedition in the same seas.
The splendid Tussac grass is the gold and
glory of these islatids It will, I Inpe, yet make
the fortune of Orkney and Irish landowners of
peat bogs. Every animal here feeds upon it
with avidity, and fattens in a short time. It
may be planted and cut down like the guinea
grass of the West Indies. The blades are a
bout six feet long, and from 200 to 300 shoots
spring from ono plant I have proved hy seve
ral experiments that one man can cut 100 bun
dles in a day, and that a horse will greedily de
vour five of these in the same time. Indeed
so fond of it are both horres and cows, that they
will eat the dry tussac k thach from the roofs of
the houses in preference to good grass. About
four inches of the root cats like the mountain
cabbage.
All the smaller Island here, though some of
them are as large as Guernsey, are covered with
tussack, w hich is nutritious all the year.
Wc cut the following item from undei the
head "Married," in tho Concord (N. II.)
Courier:
"In thi town, hj Deacon John B. Chandler
and Miss Maria French, Deacon John B. Chand
ler to Miss Maria French two non-resistants
married by themselves to themselves all on
the Sabbath day at the brcokfaist table, calling
upon God and tho family present to bear wit
ness to the act.
The lady who has in this case adopted the
creed of Fonny Wright afturding a most strik
ing illustration of the old maxim, that "ex
tremes meet" is a highly respectable young
lady, formerly a resident of this town, and a
member of the Rev. Mr. Campbell's church.
The IU'Nter and Monkey Sportsman. A
singular and diverting occurrence took place
near Taunton in Somersetshire. Some time
ago, a favorite old hunter, belonging to Joseph
Farsely, Esq. being locked in the stable, on
hearing the noise ofa French horn, and cry of
the hounds, began to bo very restive : the ost
ler going into the 6table, judged that the spirit
ed animal wanted some sport ; he instantly
saddled him, to which he affixed a large monkey
and turned him loose, who, following the
60und, joined the pack, and was one of tho first
in at tho death of poor reynard ; but tho a
mazement of tho sporting gentlemen was great
ly heightened, by observing the monkey holding
tho reins with all tho dexterity ofa true tporl
man.
"Girls ! remember that the man who bows,
smiles, and cays soft things to you, hue no gen
uine love; while he who loves most sincere
ly, struggles to hide the weakness of his heart
and frequently appears decidedly awkward."
The Slaver oftlie Ile of Pine.
Tho following taken from the New York
Commercial Advertiser. The eharacterof the
vessel chased hy the Boxer, is still a mystery,
and whether she is what she has been represen
ted to be, or whether she is indeed the missing
Texian vessel, tho companion of the would be
pirates of the Somers, theSnn Antonio, her cap
ture alonccan determine. That vessel has ne
ver been heard of ; she has been reported s
lost, but no evidence of her loss has yet been
seen.
Extract fioma letter received from an officer
of the United Slates brig Boxer, Lieut. Com
manding Oscar Bui I us.
The detailed account of our chase of tho pi
rate off the Isle of Pines was furnished you in
my last. In a New York paper I observe that
our report of the clmracter of the craft in ques
tion (based upon occutar demonstration, viz :
her build, armament, crew, her evident attempt
to overhaul us and then bearing away when our
disguise was delected,) is objected to, on tho
ground that a slaver had arrived in Cuba repor
ting they had been chased by a United States
Our belief as lo the character of 'The Chase'
linsj been strengthened from various sources,
and recently confirmed by the relation of a de
serter from her, with whom I conversed, ns al
so by the captain ofa vessel who spoke her in a
heavy gale of wind, and such a sea as rendered
it dangerous to float a boat. Their description
corresponded in every particular with our ob-
servptions of her. The former stated that when
he shipped he w as led to believe he was enter
ing on board a Texan man of war that she is
armed with a long 32 pounder amidships on a
pivot, six carrnnades, ond a crew of 80 men
appendages unusual for a slaver.
A gentleman who comes passenger in the
Adelaide informs us that a vessel arrived from
the Canaries a day or two before she sailed, with
73 passengers. She reports when off the Ba-
Itama Banks, nhe was chased a whole day by a
piratical looking schooner, manned hy blacks,
and nearly overhauled, when at last the Captain
of the Spanish vessel mustered all his passen
gcrsas well as the crew upon deck, armed as
thoroughly as possible, and prepared for a con
flict, when the suspicious stranger, seeing her
decks crowded with armed men, hauled off hois
ting llaytien colors. The Spanish Captain has
no doubt that she w as a pirate. If so, we shall
doubtless hear from her. A'. 1'. Tribune.
The Pirate oir Ct da. The follow ing ex
tract from a letter dated at Mansanilla, April
6th, gives another story of tho pirate or pirates
lui king at the south of Cuba :
"A Fisherman from the Twelve league
Keys, (the first to the westward of Cape Cruz.)
come here last evening to inform the Cjptain
of the port, that about tho 1 1th of March, a pi
rate brought a vessel (hermaphrodite brig)
close into the Keys, and in the course of the
night burnt her. What became of the men he
knows not Saw her burning in the night, and
nothing in sight next rnorninj."'
Cannibalism. Captain Sir Edward Belch
er, in his book just published on voyages round
the world, says of Ihe Feejee Islands :
"Cannibalism toa frightful degree still pre
vails amongst this people, and, as it would
seem, almost as one of their highest enjoy
mento. The victims of this lerociotis slaugh
ter w ere regularly prepared, being baked, pick
ed and distributed in portions to the various
towns which furnished warriors, according to
their exploits ; and they were feasted on w ith
a degree of savoge barbarity nearly iner'.ilible !
They imagine that they increase in bravery,
hy eating their valorous enemy. Garingaria
is a noted cannibal, and it is asserted thit he
killed one of his wives and atelier. Thishe
denied, and accounted for her death (which took
place violently by his order) on other grounds.
He did not attempt a denial of his acts at Ban
ra nor did Phillip-. -Theso occurrences are of
late date. I am told they threw one or more
of the heads (which they dv not eat) into the
missionary's compound. The population of
the Feejees are very tall, far above the height
of any oilier natitin I have seen. Of five men
assembled in my tent, none were under six
feet two inches. It was rutber an awkward
subject to lax Garingaria with in his own house
and solely attended by bis own dependent, our
interpreter ; but ho took it very quietly, and
observed that he cared not for human flesh, un
lets it was that of his enemy, and taken in
battle. When he used this expression, I could
not help thinking his lips were sympathetica'ly
in motion, and that 1 had better not make my
self loo hostile. I therefore bid him good even
ing. AnsKNCK op mind. The last "modern in
stance" ia that ofa Vermont wagoner going to
mnrkf t, who lifted his horse into tho wagon,
and tackled himself up in the traces. an. I he did
not discover his error until he endeavored to
neigh.
I.ocast Year.''
The Hartford Cotirant contains the following
communication in relation to IicusU :
Wc frequently sec it announced in the news
papers, that this year ns Arm "Locust Year,"
followed by the story of their returning only
once in seventeen years ; and as these an
nunciations appear in dilTerent parts of the
country oftencr than once in seventeen years,
it has been stated that there are dificrent tribes
of Iicuslp, and that although the appearance of
Ioctists in different places, may be oftencr, yet
each trilie appears but once in seventeen years.
What people in general think of these stories I
do not know ; but I should think they would
le read with doubt and indifference, at least
I well remember three "locust years," in the
ycnrH 1702, l.SW, and 120, and my father told
me that he remembered one in the year 1753,
another in 1775. There being seventeen years
between each of these dates, is strong evidence
that they return once in seventeen years, and
accordingly the present year 1?43, may be ex
pected to be a hKVKt yt nr. I wish you to pub
lish this at this time, that the etymologists may
have an opportunity to make observations, and
if it should be a locust year, publish the result
of their observations. "If a prophet prophesy,
ond that which he prophesieth cometh to pass,
then fIibII ye know that he is a true prophet.
The Richmond Whig has an article on this
subject, a portion of which we subjoin :
The Skvestefn yeah Lch.tsts! This is
the year and this the month, for the sppearance
of the 17 year Icust. In a few days the woods
will be thronged, and he who hears their accu
mulated hum for the first time, will be aston
ished. Unless prepared for it, he will not know
how to account for it Formerly, they appear
ed in such countless multitudes as to fatten the
swine of the country, to whom they are as a
chosen food, as they are also to foxes, raccoons,
squirrels, cows, Rnd every forest bird. At their
two last appearances, in 1926, and 1809, their
numbers had much diminished, compared with
former periods, owing doubtless to the clearing
up and cultivation of the face of the country.
This remarkable insect is fully described by
naturalists. It closely resembles our autumnal
fly of the same name. Its wings have the ap
pearance ofa W, and hence appearing in the
midst of the Revolution, the superstitious inter
preted those venous resemblances of a W to im
ply "War and Want." The gentleman's Ma
gazine for 1761, contains an exact cut of the in
sect, and an accurate description of its habits.
It bores through the earth in the chrysalis state,
and, climbing the next tree or fence, there de
posits its shell and takes wing.
The singular part of its history, is its appear
ance only once in 17 years no fact is better
established than this. Why it should be so
whether the eggs require that period of incuba
tion, or whatever tho cause, tho fact is certain.
The writer of this remembers them in 1S20,
and in 109 His father and grandfather re
membercd them in 1792 and in 1775 Hii
grandfather in 1753 They appeared at no other
time in the intervals of these periods, except a
few stragglers in the succeeding year, left by
chance or injury.
This theory has been doubted. This year
will test its truth, and as assuredly verify it.
as that the sun will set to night
A Stbanoe Mfetino. A letter from Alex
andria says : A curious meeting took place last
month in tho desert between Suez and Cairo.
A Mr, Fawcett who arrived hero bytheOri
eutal, on his way to India, when at Cario, heard
that his brother was expected by that month'
steamer from Bombay. The two brothers had
never seen each other, the ono being born in
England whilst the elder brother was in India,
where he had lived thirty-two years. As the
younger Mr. Fawcett was proceeding arm
the desert on his donkey, he called out to the
groupa of travellers he met coniinj? frotn Suez,
whether M.ijnr Fawcett was aiuo'i them, and
towards midnight a voice answeid to Mr. Fuw-
cett's call, and the two brothers shook hands in
the dark ; they both expressed a wish to see
each other's face ; hut no light was to ho had,
and the two parties they belonged to bavin?
pone on, they were obliged to part again, not
having been together more than three or four
minutes.
ihi.oox. i ne ttsnn lever is raging in
almost every part of the Union. Companies
are forming in the Fast, and in several part
of Ohio, which, added to those of Illinois, Iowa
and Missouri will, make a pretty formidable
army; tho larger portion of thes will proba
bly join the companies at Fort Independence,
Missouri, and proceed together acrct the
mountains. It would bo reasonable to suppose
that there will be at leist five thousand Ameri
cans went of the Rocky Mountains by next au
tumn. '
A philosopher asserts that the reason why la
dies' teeth decay sooner than gentlemen's is be
cause of the friction of the tongue and the sweet
dcsb of the Hps.
Personal Appearance.
This is one of the things ot accident, resting
with nature. No man or woman can form their
own persons, and none should be praised or bla
med on this head. The disposition for looking
well, is ruining half the young people in tho
world causing them to study their glasses, and
paint or patch, instead of pursuing, that which
is last ing and solid the cultivation of the mind.
It ii always a mark of a weak mind, if not a
bad heart, to hear a person praise or blame a
nolhcr on the ground alone, that they are haml-
somo or homely. Actions should be the tost
and a liberal source of conduct pursued to all.
It matters little whether a man is tall or short-
whether the blood stains tho cheek or runs in
another channel. Fashion makes the difference
as to the beauty. The lily is as sweet, if not
so gay, as the rose, and it bears no thorns about
it. As to appearance, fashion should not bear
upon that w hich cannot be changed, except by
deception, and what indeed, in reality, is not
worth the trouble of being so, even if it could.
The sight ofa white man in Africa, is much
more homely than that of an African here : and
in Scotland at one time, according to Walter
Scott, tho fashion to judge of a handsome man,
was in a broad face and red nose.
Tacr FusiAtc Nobility. The woman, poor
and ill clad as she may be, who balances her
income and expenditure who toils and sweats
in nnrepining mood among her well trained
children, and presents them, morning and eve
ning, ns offerings of love to her husband, in
rosy health and cheeiful cleanliness, is the
most exalted ofher sex. Before her shall tho
proudest dame bow her jewelled heart, and the
bliss of a happy heart dwell with her forever.
If there is one prospect dearer than another to
the soul of man if there is one act more like
ly to bend the proud, and inspire the broken
hearted it is for a smiling wife to meet her
husband at the door, with his host of happy
children. How it stirs up the tired blood of
an exhausted man, when he hears a rush of
many feet upon tho staircase when the crosv
and carol of their young voices mix in glad
confusion and the smallest mounts or sinks
into his arms amidst a mirthful shout It was
a hallo from every countenance that beamed a
round tho group ! There was joy and a bless
ing there. London Journal.
Management. You will always observe
one thing among interior women. They will
make more noise in endeavoring to keep their
children quiet than tho children themselves,
and yet the little ones will be forever iu an up
roar ; while a woman of intelligence not only
keeps her family quiet, but herself aleo.
If you meet a man who is your debtor, don't
abuse him but take him kindly by the hand,
evince an interest for him, part with him good
humored. If he is not a scoundrel, ho will re
solve to pay you the earliest possible moment
When shall we all learn that kindness ever ac
compliehcs more than anger !
As sore throats are somewhat prevalent at
present, we give tho following remedy which
wc find in an cistern paper. If a gentleman
be affected, "let him take the sleeve of a young
lady's dress, and pass it gently round his neck."
To give greater efficacy to the remedy, there
must be a soft, white arm in the sleeve.
As a looking-glass is true, and faithfully re
presents the face of him that looks in it, so a
wife ought to fashion herself to the affections of
a husband, not to be cheerful when he is sad,
nor end when he is cheerful.
An editor of one of our city popcrs w as re
cently in the midst of a crowd, gazing at somo
passing pageant, when the juvenile namettake of
the father of evil, (i.e. Printer' Devil,) belong
ing to the office, found him, after edging hia
way tor vn time through the crowd, and de
manded "roy." "Ah," said the editor, "how
did yon know me among so many people V
"Oh! yer honor," said a little Patlander stand
ing by, "sure the divil always knows hia own."
New IU:arsY "Ah, John," said the minis
ter, "what is the matter with you thatyou'vo
been so remiss in attending the kirk of late; is
it atheism, or deism, or that sad rowdyism that's
the cause!" "Faith.no sir," said John, "ita
something a thousand limes worse than a' that !'
"Save us," exclaimed the minister, "what can
it be 1" "Ah ! sir," replied John, in a spasm of
agony, "it is n rheumatism I
Stay Laws. "What do they mean by tlia
'Stay Law,' the papers are talking about so
much!" said a young married lady to her bet
ter half the other evening.
"It is a law against wearing corsets my
dear."
"Well, they may pass it and re-pu&s it as
much as they please, but I'll never give up
mine. V hat business has legislators to med
dle with such affairs,! should like to know ?-r-
Uuyune. '..