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SWISS HOME SICKNESS. ~
“ Hers mein Here, varum so Iraurig „’ <fe.
Wherefore so sad and faint my heart?
The stranger's land is fair,
Yi t weary, weary still thou art—
What fiud’st thuu wanting there?
What wanting?—all, oh! all I love!
Am I nut lonely here ?
Through a fair land in sooth 1 rove,
Vet what like home is dear ?
My hornet oh! thither world X fly,
Where the free air is sweet,
i My father’s voice, my mother’s eye,
My owi wild hills to greet
■ My bills with ail their soaring steeps,
With ail their graders bright
Where in his Joy the chamois leaps,
Mocking the hunter’s might.
Oh! hut to hear the herd-bell sound,
When shepherds lead tho way
bp the high Alps, and children bound
And not a lamb will stay!
Oli! but to climb the uplands free,
And, where the pure streams foam
By the blue shining lake, to see
Once more my hamlet-home.
Here no familiar look X trace;
I touch no friendly hand;
No ehild laughs kindly in my face—
As in my own bright land!
Sfticd Ipkdlaug.
THE METEOR AND ITS ORIGIN,
The most distinguished stranger that has visi
ted this part of the world for manylyears, not
excepting the Japanese princes or thejGreat Eas
tern, was the meteor seen travelling across our
firmament on Friday evening,' July 20th. It was
seen by thousands of people, and ovhr a range
of the earth’s'surface of at least one thousand
miles in length by five hundred in breadth ; how
much farther remains yet to be ascertained. We
Bhsll have to await the arrival of vessels fiom
sea before knowing how far east it was visible.
As to its height, all sorts of wild statements are
put forth, one authority stating that it was two
hundred feet high, another thirty or forty mUfes,
Mother several thousand miles. When thtfex
heme points at which it was observed are known
its height and size can be computed. The ex
«t height of the meteor may not, at first thought
item important, yet in reality it involves the
»hole theory as to the nature of these phenom
ena. The commonly received scientific opinion
“ that they are solid bodies moving in space,
jihich take fire' on coming in contact with the
Wfth s atmosphere, and are either consumed or
tlse extinguished by passing out of it But this
‘beery requires that all meteors shall be within
miles of the earth, since the atmosphere
“tends no higher. Of meteors are proved to be
more than fifty miles high, some other theory
amt be devised to. account for themJ The pre
'“t case,, therefore, affords an excellent oppor
t#nity to. test this question. Scientific then will
fo well to make the best of this meteor, as one
inch magnitude, and affording such facilities'
“Investigation, hardly occurs twice in a life-
The meteor was seen, under very favor
‘blc «r<?ttmstaaces, from the Catskill Mountain
house, plateau. It seemed tp those all that point
’“ibin a few feet pf them, and appeared,
strike in the valley. Thope who saw it in the
Poughkeepsie, on the river,
*® edit so near Mx&ithey feared strike
tf hoktpipet f>/ the tteamtu. Wherever seen
ibT** e^eved be but a very short distance
the earth, and every one supposed it struck
®ewhere in them immediate
eeeor Bartlett, of the Military Academy at
of*!! the Appearance
«e meteor at that place, presents the folloir
? theory for‘the explanation of these phe
£o®ena:-- -1 | ■ r •
These bodies are : of the nature of planets,
circulate about the sun in orbits as uner-
M their Ifrger brethren' , When they and
sf th • co ® # t,° those points
***- fMoh are nearest together, the
Hj, 0 . often becomes superior to
to i ta ° “ e SB»»[;»nd ,the small massed are drawn
6ty ini 1^*06 * with enormous velo
fide «, these little bodies com
inch »• ? *** If ftp® 4 and * against it with
* as to produce
6006 endagh tofuse, and lightsuffidient
toilluminato the most refractory and darkest of
substances. The exterior and molten crust is
swept to the rear by. the resisting air; anew
surface becomw exposed.; this, in its turn, is
fused and carried backward, and so on till final
ly the track of the meteoris strewn with groups
of disintegrated and scintillating material.”
As yet we have . nothing to indicate when or
where our distinguished visitor terminated his
journey. It was going east at last accounts,
and if it went far enough it probably ended its
career in the ocean. We hope to hear of no de
predations^committedbyit oh its journey though
we confess that the less of such “ fast company”
We have about us, the better we shall be eon
tent. Fortunately they do.not come often, for
when they do come they are apt to do something
to make their visits remembered. It is a. well
ascertained tact that masses ,of stone and lumps
of iron—fob aerolites and meteors are the same
thing, differing only in density—occasionally fall
from the upper regions of the atmosphere, and
have done so from the earliest periods of recor
ded history, often doing incalculable damage.—
On the 21th of April, 1808, one of these bodies
fell near the lower L'Aigle,. in Normandy,
France, and by its explosion scattered its frag
ments over an area of thirty square miles. Four
instances are recorded of persons having been
killed by the descent of such bodies. Besides
these more solid bodies, others of a much less
density make their appearance as shooting stars
followed by trains of light; They now and then
appear like great fiery balls traversing the upper
regions of the atmosphere, sometimes leaving
long luminous trains behind them, sometimes
bursting with loud explosion, and sometimes be
coming quite extinct. Among the latter may
be mentioned the remarkable meteors of August
1783, which traveled the whole of Europe, from
Shetland to Romo, with the velocity of thirty
miles a second, at a supposed height of fifty
miles above the earth, with a light greatly sur
passing that of the full moon, and a diameter of
quite half a mile. On several occasions meteors
have appeared in astonishing numbers, follow
ing like a shower of rockets or flakes of snow,
illuminating at once whole continents and oceans
in both hemispheres; and it is remarkable that
these displays pave occurred in the early parts
of November and August. Fromjcareful obser
vation made at the extremity of a base fifty
thousand feet long, it baa been inferred that the
heights of meteors at the instant of first ap
pearance vary from sixteen to one hundred and
forty miles, and their relative velocities' from
eighteen to thirty-six miles a second. Altitudes
and velocities as great as these indicate an inde
pendent.planetary circulation about the sun.
Professor Bartlett suggests, as a condition of
things hot impossible, that some of these bodies
may have been converted, by the superior action
of the earth, arising from proximity, into per
manent satellites; and there are those who be
lieve in the existence of at least one of these
bodies which complete its circuit about the earth
in three hours and twenty minutes, and at a
mean distance of about five thousand miles.
[Alas. lUmans.
IN GRATITUDE TO PARENTS.
There is a proverb that “a father can more
easily mantain six children, than six children
one father.” Lather relates this story:
“ There was once a father who gave up every
thing to his children—his house, his fields, and
goods—and expected that for this his children
would support him. But after ho had been
some time with his son, the latter grew tired of
him, and said to him : ‘ Father, 1 have had a
son born to me this night, and there, where
your arm chair stands, the cradle must come;
will you not, perhaps, go to my brother, who
has a larger room V’
“ After ho had been some time with the se
cond son, be also grew tired of him, and said:
‘ Father, you like a warm room, and that harts
my head; won’t you go to my brother, the b%
ker V
“ The father went, and after he had been
some time with ; the .third son, he ifound bim
troublesome, and said to him: * Father, the
people run in an out here all day, as if it were
a pigeon bouse, and you cannot have your noon
day sleep ; would you not be better off at my
sister Kate’s, near th|o town wall!’
“ The old man remarked how the wind blew,
mid said (a himself. ‘ Yes, I will do so; I will
go and try it with my daughter. Women have
softer hearts.* K
“ Bpt after be had spent some time with his
daughter, die grew weary of him, and said she
was always so fearful when her father went to
church, or anywhere else, and was obliged to
descend the steep stairs, and at her sister Eliza
beth’s there was no stairs to descend, as she
lived on the ground floor.
“ For tfaesake of peace the old man assented,:
and went his other daughter. But after some
time she, Wo, was JtiWd of him, and told him
by si third person thit her house new the water
was.too damp for « man who suffered with the
goat. »pd her sister, the gravedigger’s wife, at
St. John’s had much drier lodgings.
“ The old man himself thought she was right,
and..went outside "the gate to* his youngest
daughter, Helen, But after he bad been three
days with her, her li|tle son said to his grand
father: ‘ Mother yesterday to const* BU
zabeth, that there was no better chamber for
you than such a one os father digs *
“ These words broke the old man’s heart, so
that he Bankbook In hisq.hair, and died In a
a oigppt,” ■ •
v5«-
Mr. Green, the famous diver, tells singular
stories of his adventures, when making search
in the deep waters of the ocean. He gives
some neweketches of what he saw at the Silver
Bank near Hayti:—
" The banks of coral on which my divings,
narrated in the] previous chapter, , were mode,
are about forty miles in length,'and from ten to
twenty in breadth.
“On this;bank of corals presented to the di
ver one of the most beautiful and sublime scenes
the eye ever beheld.
“ The water varies from ten to!one hundred
feet in depth, and so’olear that the diver can see
from two to three, hundred feet when he is sub
merged, with but little obstruction to the sight.
“ The bottom of the ocean, in many places on
these banks is as smooth as a marble floor; in
others it is studded with coral columns,, from
ten to one hundred feet in height, and from one
to eighty feet in diameter. The tops of
those more. lofty support a myriad of pyra
midal pendanta, each forming a myriad more;
giving the reality to the imaginary abode of the
water nymph. In, other places tho pendants
form arch after arch, and as the diver stands on
the bottom of the ocean, and gazes through
these in the deep; winding avenue, he finds that
they fill him with as sacred awe as if he were in
some old cathedral, which had long been buried
beneath “ old ocean’s wave,” Here and there
the coral extends even to the surface of the wa
ter, as if those loftier columns were towers be
longing to those is lately temples that are now in
ruins.
“ There were countless varieties of diminutive
trees, shrubs and plants, in every crevice of the
coral, where the water had deposited the least
earth. They wereall of a faint hue, owing to
the pale light they received, although of every
shade and entirely different from plants I am
familiar with that vegetate upon dry land. One
in particular attracted my attention ; it resetn*
bled a sea-fan of ixmmense size, of variegated
colors, and of the most brilliant hue.
The fish which inhabited those Silver Banks
I found as different as the scenery was varied.
They were of all forms, colors and sizes—from
the symmetrical goby to tho globc-like sun-fish;
from those of the dullest hue to the changeable
dolphin; from the spots of the leopard to the
hues of tho sunbeam ; from the harmless min
now to the voracious shark ; one of small size
resembled the bull .terrier. Some darted through
the water like meteors, while others could
scarcely be seen to move.
•‘To enumerate and explain all the various
kinds of fish I beheld while diving on the bonks
would require more space than my limits will
allow, for I am convinced that most of the kinds
o* fish which inhabit the tropical seas, can be
found there. The sunfish, sawfish, starfish,
white shark, ground shark, blue or shovel-nose
shark, were often: Seen. There were also fish
which resembled plants, and remained as.fixed
in their position ais a shrub. The only power
theyLposseased was to open and shut when in
danger. Sonxe of tnem resembled the rose in
full bloom, and were 6f all hues.
“ There were the ribbon fish, from four inches
to three • feet- in jlength. Their eyes are very
large, and protrude like those of the frog.—
Another fish Was spotted like the leopard, from
three to ten feet in length! They build their
houses like the beaver, in which they, spawn,
and. the male or female watches the egg until it
hatches. I saw many specimens of the green
turtle some five feet long, which I should think
would weigh from 1400 to 500 pounds.
The following interesting story is told by
Gleig, in hjs interesting “ Life of (Wellington.”
We should scarcely credit it, if it were not
vouched for by-the “ Iron Duke” himself;
Referring to the advance from the Ebro to the
Douro, the Duke stated that he was “ famously
taken in on thkt occasion.”
11 The troops had taken to plundering a good
deal. It was necessary to stop it, and I issued
an order stating that the first man taken in the
act should be hanged upon the spot. One day,
just as we were sitting down to dinner, three
men were brought to the door of the tent by the
protest The ease; against them was clear, and
I had nothing for if.but to desire that that they
should be taken away and banged in some place
where they might W seen oy the whole column
in its march in|ext jday, 1 had a good many
guests on that Occasion, and among the rest, I
thin!;, LordvNnggSt. They seemed dreadfully
shocked and could not eat their dinner. I didn’t
like it much mjjrsolf; but, as I told them, I had
no time to ihdoge my feelings—l must do my
duty. .Well, the dinner went off rather gravely,
and the next morning, sure enough, three men
in uniform were seen,hanging from the branch
es of a tree close to the highroad. It was a
terrible example, and produced the desired ef
fect—there was no; more, plundering. . But you
may guess what my ; astonishment was, when,
some months afterwards, I learned that one of
my staff took counsel with Dr. Hump, and as
threo men bad just died in the hospital, they
hung them up, and let the. three, culprits return
to their regiments.: f.- ;■
“ Weren’t you vfety angiy ?” was the ques
tion. - i i‘- • v > , ?-■ .■■■■.•■
“ Wdl, I was nt as I had
no wish to take the; poor feiiowa’ fives, and only
warned the example, and as the example had
the affect, n^y ; anger ahon died oat, *nd
I confess to you that ! am very glad'nny
the thrM lires yrere spared.”
ALTOONA, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1860.
BOTTOM OP THE SEA.
SINGULAR SUBSTITUTION.
[independent in everything.]
Explanation of the Troubles in Syria.
The New York Observer publishes a letter
from the Rev. Wm. M. Thompson, Missionary
of the American Board of Syria, author of “The
Land and the Book,” from which we take the
' following, which explains the heretofore almost,
incomprehensible condition of affairs in that
country :
Ist. The European governments having adop
ted Turkey in the general family of nations,
consummated their folly by deciding that no in
terference with her governmental operations
was to be allowed. Hence the Consuls of all
nations found themselves paralyzed by positive
instructions forbidding them to do anything to
arrest this mad and infernal work.
2d. Beirut has been governed for the last few
years by an old, talented, but most bigoted
Pasha, who has managed to get the Christians
of Kesrawan, of Zableh, and of Deir el Kamar
into a state of semi-rebellion against himself,
and he has been .plotting their destruction for
a long time. By increasing the ill will between
all Classes, and especially by stiring up the
hatred of the Druses towards the Christians, he
has now succeeded.
Bd. The Christians having been now for so
many years without any acknowledged head,
found themselves utterly disorganized and un
able to resist the wild onslaught! of their enemies
| Except at Zaleh, they have made no real resis
tance. The whole affair was driven through
with startling rapidity. All Lebanon was in a
blaze in one day. The Turkish Government
everywhere assisted the Druses.
4th. I regard the s access of the Druses and
its accompanying atrocities os their final and
utter destruction as a body.. Never again will
they rule over Christians. Remember that the
scenes of cold blooded butchery of unarmed men,
of women, of priests, monks, and nuns, not to
speak of conflagrations of towns, villages,, ham
lets, churches, convents, &c., has no parallel in
the history of Lebanon. - I have this very year
read through the entire history of Lebanon,
since the Arabs have resided on it, and it con
tains nothing that can compare with this terri
ble tragedy.
sth. There was no European ships-of-war on
this coast at the' outbreak, and they are just be
ginning to assemble, but their coming is certain
and non intervention is at an end. The Con
suls yesterday received orders all to act in con
cert to stop the war.
6th. It is expected that Russia and Prance
will act separately from England, Austria and
Prussia, and the downfall of the whole Turkish
Empire may be looked for. lam slow to blow
the trumpet of alarm, but this grand and fear
ful result is not improbable
A Beautiful Picture.— There are artists
who excel in the use'of the brush on canvass
who make pictures almost surpassing the beau
ties of the rainbow, and whose genius- often
times brings before us, with living freshness,
the features of loved departed ones, or the glo
ries of the, far-off landscape; bat the following
“ picture” by Taylor, of the Chicago Journal,
indicates more than ordinary artistic skill, albe
it drawn with mere “pen and ink.” Is it not
beautiful 1
“Talk of pictures as we may, there is no
fairer sight than this—A field of-grain fully
ripe in a bright day, with a little breath of air
in it; woods, old woods, on two sides of the
the field, to 1 set off ’ the dull gold; woods lying
three-plied velvet,, tint above tint, oak and ma
ple and elm, , edgings of willows, and lettered
in silver with)flowers of sweet elder; the wind
just turning yut the white lining of the poplars,
and lightly touching the grain here and there,
till it brightois and darkens all over field,
as if an April face smiled and grew sober again
two or three times in a minute ; the sun-shining
aslant the. picture; the sun just ready to set;
the tree-tops o-fire, ‘ burning bushes’ along the
fences—and no Mount!—the groin looking here
as if splashed with fresh gold, and there as if
day had died on it and stained xt through and
through with red glory. Not a reaper in sight,
not a ora lie’s wooden fingers thrust stiff and
stark through the fence, not a suggestion of bog
s or bin anywhere; only a zigzag flash of a squir
rel along the rails, that ‘ takes his pay as he
goes' ;’ only a bird that dipped in the yellow rip
ples and skimmed singing away; only a butter- ;
fly dickering like a pair of hickory leaves in an
autumn wind.” •
WontH Tbtino.; —Prof. Maury, in a recehr
work, states that an abundance of sunflowers
about a place is a sure .preventative
against fever and ague, and; that he has tested
it in many of the most unhealthy localities.—
They we to be sown late/ so as to arrive at ma
.turity in the fall, and to be placed between the
place where the miasma is sup
posed to arise. The theory is, that they absorb
the miasma which causes the disease.
“ Father said a young lisper of some
four summers, “ when waththe flood
“ Oh, my son,” replied the parent, “ that
happehed.d long time ago.” ;
VWath We all. afive then persisted the fit
tie inquirer. v • ’ / • • ,
“No, dear,” was the reply, “the flood we
of & the Bihiehappened "many thousand
years ago.” .
v Well, now,’:' ' rejoined the boy ut great dis
gust, “ that Ik too Jbad 1 I jthonght Tpm ;
(pothertae sajmblage)’ yathfib
bin. ' fle thaid tq me this morning (hatha iron
there and waded through 1” . v
HAPPY WOMEN/;
A happy woman I is not she the very sparkle
and sunshine of life? A - woman who la happy
because she can’t help it—whose smiles even
the coldest sprinkling of' misfortune cannot
dampen. Men make a terrible mistake when
they marry for beauty, or for talent, or for style;
the sweetest wives are those who the
magio secret of being contented under every cir
cumstance. Rich or poor, high or low, it makes
no difference; the bright little fountain of joy
bubbles up just as musieally in their hearts.—.
Do they live in a log cabin T the firelight that
leaps on its humble' hearth becomes brighter
than the gilded chandeliers in an Aladdin pal
ace ! Do they eat brown bread and : drink cold
water from the well ? it affords them more solid
satisfaction than the millionaire’s pkte de foie
gras and iced champaigns. Nothing, ever goes
wrong with them—no trouble is too serious for
them to “ make the best of it.”: : Was ever
stream of calamity so dark and deep that the
sunlight of a happy face, falling across its tor
bid tide,, would not wake an answering, gleam!
Why, these joyous tempered people don’t know
half the good they do. No matter how cross
and savage you feel, Mr. Grumbler—no matter
if your brain is packed full of meditations or
“ afflicting dispensations,” and your stomach
with medicines, pills and tonics, just set one of
these cherry little women talking to you, and
we are not afraid to wager anything she can cure
you. The long drawn fines about; ihe mouth
will relax—the cloud settled gloom will vanish, 1
nobody knows when, you’ll be laughing— yes,
positively laughing! Why? That is another
thing; we can no more tell why than we can tell
whj you smile involuntarily to listen to the first
blue bird of the season, among the maple blos
soms, or to meet a knot of yollow-eyed dande
lions in the crack of a city paving .stone. We.
only know that it is"so.,
Oh, these happy women 1 how often their
slender shoulders bear the weight;of burdens
that would smite man to the ground ? how often
the little hands guide the ponderous machinery
of life with an almost ivisible touch ! how we
look forward, through a weary day, to their fire
side smiles! how often their cheerful; eyes see
co'uleur de rose where we only behold thunder
charged clouds ! No one knows—OQ one ever
will know, until the day of judgement, bow
much we owe to these hopeful, uncomplaining
women!
BST To-day, says Quilp, I’m forty-four, which
I take to be the “age of discretion’? - that one
reads' about. It is commonly supposed to come
with a young fellow’s majority. But that is the
age of in-discretion, as the doctors will tell you,
if you happen to doubt it. • Nobody canbo con
sidered safe till he is forty-four. It; is the age
of wisdom and strength, and precisely the date
at which it would be pleasant to stop, if such a
thing were possible, “ Perpetual yotxth” was
the blessing the gods used sometimes to grant
to their favorites among mortals; bat I would
prefer, if it is nil the same to them, to be made
a fixture a little later in life—say at about for
ty-f^ur! Ripe in judgment, chastened in ima
gination, experienced in the ways of the world,
strong in mind and muscle—capable of work-or
play, adapted to all manly offices in the gift of
of nature or the government—who wouldn’t be
glad to halt awhile at forty-four"? But, eheu 1
ii can tbe done! Forty-four, in the course of
a twelvemonth, must give place to fprty-five;
bye and bye—jf we live long enough—comes
fifty, and sixty, and seventy-five, and tha( is .do
tage, downright senility, and then—,” Her*
Quilp broke off, and so do we. —Boston Pott.
Theillino Incident.; —Jn a lecturtj; recently
delivered by Grace Greenwood, at Boston, on
“Heroism,” she referred to an incident that
took place at tpe burning of a steantep on one
of the Western Lakes :
“ Among the few passangers whose! courage
and presence of mind rose superior tb the per
ilB and horrors of the night, was a mother,* who
succeeded in saving her two childreniby means
of a floating settee. While they were in the
water, the mother saw’ a man swimiph toward
the settee, and as he wosabouttogrimp it/she
cried : ‘ Douft take it away from .my poor
children!’ The man made no answer,' yet the
appeal struck home: for, by the light of the
flaming vessel, she could see that his face was
convulsed by the struggle between t|e inigbty
primal instinct of nature and something better
aud holier. It was but. for a zhoideht He
threw up his hands, with a groan of imnneia
tion, flung himself over backward,, niad .went
down,” ' ’ .
' . — l ——— : -••• : •
Bulesof Behavior.—-On ; of be
havior in company, Leigh fiiohmond giv&r the
following excellent advice to his daughters:—
“Be cheerful, but not gigglers. BesWious,bnt
hot dull. Be communicative, hut not forward.
Be kind, but not servile. fiCware of silly, un
meaning speeches; although you. may forget
them, others will not. Bemember God’s eye is
in every place, and his ear in every company.—
Beware of levity and familiarity with young
men; a modest reserve, without affectation, is
the only safe path. Court and encourage seri
ous conversation with those who an truly seri
; ons and converdble ; and do not go intb valua
ble company without endeavoring to improve by
the intercourse permitted to yon, Nothing is
more uaheooming, when ons part of the compa
ny wi engaged in profitable and Interesting con-;
; venation, than that another part should be tii
•fling, giggling, and talking comparative non
sense to each other.” , 1 s i
, "EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
To. Kat*.—l tn thinking of tho time Kate,
when sitting by thy side, and shelling henna, I |
gased on thee, and felt a wonderous pride, la
silenoelearnedwe o’er the pan, and neither
spoke a word, but the rattling of the >»««".
Kate, was all the sound we heard. Thy auburn
earls hang down, Kate, and kissed thy lilly
oheejk; thy asure eyes, half filled with tears, be
spoke a spirit meek. ,To. be so charmed 'as I
was then; had ne'er before occurred, when the :
rattling of tho beans, Kate, was all the sonnet we
heard. I thought it was not wrong, Kate,
leaning o'er the dish as yon snatched up ahand
ful o’beans, I snatched a neotared kiss. And
suddenly there came, a shower, as I neither saw •
nor stirred; but the rattling of the beans, Kate,
was all the sound we heard.
Spiritual FACiB.-rThat whiskey ds the key
by which many gain an entrance into our prls
one and almshouses. - o s :y-
That brandybraada thenoaenofall those who
cannot govern their appetites,..; "
Punch is the cause of: many unfriendly
punches.
That ale causes many &iliugs;wlule beer
brings to the bier. ;.!V
That wine causes many, to, tpke awihdinjgwsir
home. ...
That champaigno.is the source of many real
pains. ; . , •-o:;
That gin. slings hare “slewed” more thah
slings of old. ■
A Coot. AND RxPRESHIHQ SUMMER DtDK.r*
From the receipt book of a Western member of,
Congress.
The following is said to make a
eragej Take one pint of whiskey, stir in.on*
spoonful of whiskey; add one pint of Whiskey
an.d beat well with a spoon. Take one‘ gallon
of water and let a servant carry it away beyond
your reach ; then put two spoonfuls of water in
a tumbler, immediately throw it ont and fill
with whiskey. Flavor with whiskey to trait
your taste.. When it is to be kept iong in warm ~
climates, add sufficient spirit toprevpnt souring.
Doo Instinct.— Once on a stage coach through
Barnstable, a dog came out, received his tnaft
ter’s newspaper, and ran up a lane with it t?
the house. The driver assured me that the prsr
vions summer an opposition coach Was run, the
driver of which thought ho could fool the dog
with an old paper. On the intended'afternoon
the rival whip outdrove, his competitor, and
threw the dog a paper, done up in imitation of
the genuine; but the dog .turned up his nose
with a knowing look, and he ran up the kill,
leaving the bogus article upon the roadside; but
when my friend appeared, he seemedi to *akO
his offering with more than the usual alacrity
and soon deposited it at his master’s .feet, f i
Kindness. —The language of reason, unao-*
companied by kindness, will often fail of making
an impression; it has no affect on the under
standing, because it touches not the heart The
language of kindness, unassorted with reason
will frequently be unable to persuade {because,
though it may gain: upon the affections, it wants
that which is neocessary to convince the judge
ment; but let reason and kindness be united da
a discourse, and seldom will eTen pride or prc
judioe find it easy to resist' •
“ Gentlemen of the jury,’* said a West*
ern lawyer, “ I ..don’t mean to insinuata that
this gentleman is a covetous person, but Til bob '•
five to one that if you should bait a stoU trap,
with a new three cent piece, it within,
three inches of his mouth, you would batch hit *
soul. I would nob?-the Court and gentlemen of.
*h® > jvould not trust him in a room with;
a millstone and the angel Gabriel to guard it :
who has never .experienced the af
fectionate bitterness of loye, who has neypr'
Jcnown how earnest irony and passionate sar*~
CMffl “W he the vpry language of love, in its;
deepest, saddest moods; Is utterly inoapabloofr
even Judging this passion. K
aSS* When i» a plant like a hog T
gins to rpot Andwhen is ir like is
When it begins to shoot Andirhen isit Uk»'6 : .
lawyer ? When it begins to blow.
• IQT'A ffian can do without his ownoPßO**
iaapoiety, both© mostmake exerthmto
when alone; without it, solitude ia
to be enduied. * - ••
'-WSt" A yoong lady says the reason ahe(UU>
ries aparasol is, that the son Is of the masetyv
line gender, and she cannot withstand 6ln ? at»'
dentglanoes
man once asked a company of litttV
boya what they were good for ?—One little
low promptly answered, “Wo are good to «n«pk •
men of.” '--v'-f-
9Sff* Take away my first loiter, takeaifa;
my second letter, take away slimy and '
lam still the same.—The postman. " ■
•i®» An old maid being asked to subscribe'',
for apappr, declined on the ground that wheit i
she wanted news she manufactured it ; '
If yoa hear any person "say he hu soj a *
fnend in the world, you may be pretty san itft
dosn’t deserve one. * “ 1 ‘
mfi Aman winds up
run, and hht business to make it stop. "
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