POETRY.
wet, CD Patna
From the Balance.
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«Time and Chance Happen to all’
There’s a Chance for the soldier tho’ never
so brave,
On the ficld of his glory to sink in the
grave, ¢
There’s another chance too that he safe
may come back
With a cartlead of laurels-=of rupees a
lack?
There’s a chance for the lawyer to live by
- his writs,
And a chance for the gambler to win by his
|
There’s another chance too that the gam-
bler may lose,
And the neck of a lawyer find room in a
hits :
209s8¢€.
Theres a chance for the sailor a prize
ship to take,
And a chance for a whirlwind to come in
his wake ; &
Theres a chance on the ocean a treasure
to win
And a chance too that Neptune may have
it again.
There’s a chance for mechanics to live by
their trade,
And another chance too that this checks
wont be paid ;
There's a chance for the sexton to Jive by
the dead,
And a chance that he sometimes goes hun-
gry to bed.
There’s a chance for the doctor tolive by |
the sick,
And a chance that the @ehize horse’ the doc
tor may kick,
T'here’s a chance for the drunkard to live
on good wine ;
And a chance for the hangman to give him
a line.
There’s a chance for the poet to starve on
his rhymes,
And a chance for the vet'ran to beg in
hard times,
There’s a time and a chance for all men
on the earth,
To him that is wretched; and him full of
mirth.
But of chances and times in this world to
be found—=
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way : They raised “his {eft foot, which]
they passed gently over thie right leg and
from thence over his face. The inhabit-|t
ants of the Phillippines bend their body
very low, in placing their hands on their
cheeks ond rising at the same time one
foot in the air, with their knee bent,
The Ethiopian take the robe of another,
and ties it about his own waist, so that he
leaves his friend halt naked. This cus-
tom of undressing on these occasions take
other forms ; sometimes they place them-
selves naked before the person whom they
salute ; itis to shew their humility and
that they are unworthy to appear in his
presence-~Sometimes they ouly undress
partially. The Japanese only take oif a
slipper ; the people of Arracon, their san
dles in the street, and their stockings in
the house. Ina word there is not a na:
lion, (observes the humorous Montaigne)
even to the people, who when they salute
turn their backs on their friends, but that
can bejustified in their customs
observed of the negroes, that they are fond
of the ludicrous and thus make all thei
It must
ceremonies farcical. Snelgrave gives an
edd representation of the embassy whiz h
the king ‘of Dacomy sent to him, the cer-
emonies of salution consisted in the most
ridiculous contortions, * When two negro
monarch’s visit, they embrace by .spup
ping three times the middle fingers.
Barbarous nations frequently imprint on
their salutions the ‘disposition of thew
character. ;
When the inhabitants of Carmena (says
Athenzus) would show a peculiar mark of
esteem, they open a vein, and present for
the beverage of their friend the blood as
it issues The Franks tore hair from their
head and presented it to the persons they
The slave cut his hair and of-
The Chinese are
saluted.
fered it to his master.
singularly affected in their personal civili-
ties: They even calculate the nidmber of
reverances. Those are their most res
markable postures : The men move their
hands in an affectionate manner while
they are joined together on the breast
and bow their head alittle. If they res
pect a person, they raise taeir hands joined
and then lower them to the earth, in
bending the body--1f two persons meet,
after a long separation, they both fall on
their knees, and bend the face tothe earth ;
and this ceremony they repeat twoor three
times: Their expressions mean as little
as their ceremonies. Ifa Chinese is asked
how he finds himself in health ? he an-
And Pve travelled it and
than half round,
1 travelled it more | or
{dant felicity.”
swersy, © Very well ; thanks te your abun-
If they would tell a man
There's no chance so rare, if the truth fie looks well, they say, « prosperity is
GRU say,
As the chance that
Printer will pay !
BOSTON BARD.
ED 0
From the curio
Different modes o
ries of Literature.
salution in different coun |
tries.
The first nations have no peculiar mode |
of salutation ; they know ro reverences or]
other compliments ar they dispise or dis-
dain them. The Greenlanders laugh,
‘wheil they see an European uncover his
head and bend his body before him whom
he calls his superior.
The Islandersncar the Phillipines, take
the hand or foot of him they salute and
with it they gently rub their face. The
Laplarders apply their nose strongly
against that of the person they salute.——
Dampier says that at New Guinea they
are satisfied with placing on their heads the
leaves of trees; which have ever passed
This
zalutions are ve-
for symbols of friendship and peace.
Other
ry incommodious and painful j
is a pictui ‘esque.
it requires
great practice to be polite in an Island sit-
Hous -
man tells us they saluted him in this odd
uated inthe streights of the sound.
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SUBSCRIBERS the | ™ ounces your happiness.”
{them any service they say-—< My thanks
}
{should be immortal”
4
| suade myself of what you say of me
ted on youre 37 or “ybur air an-
If you render
If you praise them
they answer. % How Shall I dare to per-
If you dine with them ey tell you at
parting, ¢ we hay treated you with
sufficient distinct The various titles
{they invent for each other, It would be
impossible to translate,
that
it is to be ob-
served all these answers are pre-
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Titual,
There, are deter-
scribed by the Chinese
emy of Compliments.
mined the number of bows; the eXPress-|
nuflexions ;
ions to be employed ; the ger
and the inclinations which are to be made
2.0 3 _ 2
seit Liga, toe
to the right or to the
tations of the muster before the chair,
salutes it most profoundly, and wipes the
dust away with the skirts of his robe ; all
to the silent gestares by which you are
celebrated to enter the house.
class of people ar
The lower]
¢ equally nice in their
punctillios ; and embassadors pass forty
or Acad-it
an
nd
ceremonies "is oh bone ind reek
day very odd decrees are issued, to whichi
fre Chinese most religously submit.
W. WARD,
TOBACCONIST,
INFORMS the public and those dis.
posed to favor him with their custom, that
i
having received a supply of Tobacco from
Pittsburgh, he intends keeping constantly
on hand a quantity of the best
SEGARS.
He apologizes to those Merchants who
so generously aided him when he first es-
tablished, and who have been disappointed
in their expectations-——Not bzing being
acquainted with the market from whence
he was supplied with tobacco, he neglect:
«dd to send for a supply in season, and by
vhis means has pot beep enabled to supply
them as usual. He assures them howey.
er that ‘in future, no such neglect shall
~
ake place. All orders from country
Vicrchaots and others shall be punctuaily
wend:d toy, and gratefully acknowledged.
Bellefonte July 26, 1819.
TO SEVTLERS.
100,000 Acres of Land.
THE subscriber offers for sale, on the
srate terms, about ONE HUN
THOUSAND ACRES
LAND,
most mod
DRED
of an excellent quality, in the Counties oy
fudiana, Jefferson,
Being part of the Holland Land
from all incumberance whatever, on which
there is
Dunkers and others,
The settlement is’ rapidly increasing.
not excelled by any other in the State,
the Land and rocds are good, and there
are erected on the premises several mills.
Payments to be made in eight equal an-
{nual installments. = Apply to
Charles C. Gaskill.
Mahoning, Indiana, June 19, ote
200
REWARD
WILL be paid by the General Post Of-
fice department, together with the neces-
sary costs; to any person who may be
successil in detecting” the person who
pt urloined from the mail, a letter put into
the Post Office at Bellefonte, Centre
County, on the 2nd day of May last,
directed to ‘Mrs. Abigail “Potts, Potts-
grove, Montgomery
County,
taining three notes of $100 each, of
the Bank of the United States, payable at]
the Branch in Pittsburg, ali dated 2d
October 1817, two of them Leiter CG; No.
241 266 and one Letter ID. No. 266 :
which
con-
onl. Any tn {ormation
Imay be communicated: to the subscriber
in Bellefonte, Centre County.
Joseph Miles.
August 3, 1319,
salu-|
$ - »
{detection of villany, are
these and other things are noticed, even |i
days in practising them before they are!
enabled toappear at courte A tribunal of | Bellefonte,
Lditors of Newspapers, friendly to the
reghcsied to in-
where the stranger is to be seated for hes¢crt the dbove.
LOOK HERE 111
THOSE persons who know themselves
indebted to the subscriber,
tol ene year,
for upwards
are requested to come for.
{ward and discharge the same immediately,
or payment will be enforced by compul-
sitory measures—this may be relied on.
James M’Gee,
September 8th 1519,
OF
and Armstrong.—
(tract,
and situated on and adjoining Redbank,
and other navigable streams; and free
a large settoment of German
letter h
CT has never reached its destina- | perior €
on ‘the subje ct lable terms,
NOTICE.
THOSE Stockholders of the Susquea
hannah and Waterford Turnpike roaq
Company, who have not paid the instal. 3
ment of five dollars required at the isgy.
ing of the certificates, as per notice of
January last, are hereby advised that if
the said instalment shall remain due ang
unpaid, after the first day of November
next, the Treasurer will be required to
institute suits for the recovery of the
same, together with five per cent pep
month Interest, to be computed from and
after the expiration of 60 days from the
Ist Monday of May last, conformably to
dect. 8th of the law authorizing the ins
corporation of said Company. Also the
third instalment of three dollars on each
share of the Stock of said Company wil
be required to be paid to the Treasurer
on or before the first day of Novembép
next,
By order of the board,
JOHN REYNOLDS Secretary,
Meadville, Sept. 25, 1819. :
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of
John Trautman deceased, late if Miica
township, Centre County, are “Fequesied
to make payment 3
and those having des
maliGs against said estate willpresent them
to the subscriber om or before the first
day of January next, properly authenticas
ted. :
John Shafer,
Administrator
Miles Townships Sept. 17,1819
Wm. T BROWN,
Will remove, onthe first day of Octo,
ber next, from the house which he now
occepies in Sunbury, to the large stone
Market formerly kept.
ihe
buildings and out houses are well known
house en nquare,
as an Inn by Charles Hegins, Esq.
tobe the most capacious and convenient
inthis borough ; and every exertion will
be made to afford comfort and gratificas
tion to travellers and customers, and he "
hopes from the great share of favor he 4
has already enjoyed, that he has hitherto
given satisfaction to the public——and be«
lieves that after his removal he shall be
enabled to much
accommodate them
more to their satisfaction as well as his
own: He therefore desires they will call
on him as usual.
Sunbury, Sept, 13,1819.
LAM
FOR SALE.
THE subscriber wishes to inform the
inhabitants of Bellefonte, and the people
{of Centre county generally, that he has
on hand
"Two thousand bushels
of well burnt Roach Lime, of a very sue
fi
jaality, It will be sold on rearon=
and may be had on applica
tion to Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson, or
Jolin ©M Kinley.
Wm H Culbertson,
SADDLER,
INFOR! y and the publie
in general, that Ig has commenced the
Saddling business,
He
eping constantly on hand a quan=-
Sept, 21,
MS his friends
in the Borough of Bellefonte. ine
tends ke
tity of ready made Saddlery, which he
will dispose of for Cash only.
August 12, 181 9s