BY DAVID OVER.
PKIXIT POETRY- -
THE VISIBL.E CREATION.
BY MONTGOMERY
The God of Enture and of Grace
In all his works appeals;
His goodness through the earth wc trace.
His grandeur in the spheres.
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1 Behold this fair and fertile globe,
By Him in wisdom plann'd;
i' was He, who girded like a robe
The ocean round the land.
L'.ft to the firmament your eye;
I'hither his path pursue;
His glory, boundless as the sky,
O'erwhelms the wondering view.
He bows the heavens—the mountains stand
A high-way for their God;
He walks amidst the desert-land,
'i' it Jidea where He trod.
The forest in his strength rejoice;
Hark ! ou the evening breeze,
A.B once of old, the Lord God a voice
is heard among the trees.
Here on the hills E* feeds his herds,
His tlocks on yonder plains;
His praise is warbled by the birds;
0 could we catch their strains
Mount with the lark, and bear our song
Hp to the gates of light,
Or with the nightingale prolong
Our numbers through the night t
In every at-am his bounty flows
Diffusing joy and wnalih;
la 'fvery bt.xxe his spirit irlows
—The breath of life and health.
llis blessings fall in plenteous showers
Gpun the lap of earth,
1 hat teems with folhge, fruit, and flowers,
And rings with infant mirth.
It God hath made ihis world so G-ir
Where sin and dealb. abound;
How beautiful beyond compare
Will Paradise be found !
"URICfcLTIiRiL.
From f/'te American Agriculturist.
IIOW LOSG WILL TREES LIVE,
Why may uot trees live forever? Is there a
necessary limit to their existence? Do they,
like animals, have their infancy, youth, matu
rity, decline, and death? This is the common
opinion. It is believed that they die, not sole
ly because accidents befall them, or diseases as
sail them, or because they are cut down by the
woodman's axo—but because, escaping all such
contingencies, their cells and vessels become
hardened and inorastsd, end the fluids ceaso to
flow, and they perish from sheer exhaustion and
old age. They wear out and run down, like an
old clock.
Let us overhaul this opiuiou a little. Vege
table physiology shows that the living parts of
an exogenous tree, that is a tree growing by ad
ditions to the outside are: (1) the extremities of
the stems and branches, including the buds; (2)
the extremities of the roots and rootlets; and
(3) the newest strata of wood and bark. These
are all that are concerned in tho life and growth
of a tree: and these are renewed every year.—
The functions of life in an animal are carried
on for a whole life-time in one set of organs;
and when these organs wear out, tho auinial
dies. But the life processes iu a plant arc car
ried on through organs annually renewed, and
hence the plant is not subject to decay, for the
same reason that the animal is. Every year
the urude sap rises from tho roots to the leaves,
where it is digested, and from whence it de
scends, leaving deposits on the way, of new
buds, bark, wood, and roots. If, then, all that
is concerned in tho life and growth of a tree is
annually renewed, making the living and active
paits of a tree never more than one year old—
way should not the tree continue to live on for
ao indefinite period? There seems to be no ne
cessary reason, no cause inherent in the tree it
self, why it should die.
Again: a tree is uot, philosophically rpeak
og, an individual, like a ntau, of any animal.
It is a community, an aggregation of individn
•lK The ouly real individual in a plaut is the
Sr*t ell of which the plant was originally com
posed. Krery bud on a tree may also be con
sidered an individual, since it has in itself all
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the cleuieuts of an independent plant, and may I
be made to produce one. Now, if it be object- '
ed that the inner parts of the tree die, or ut
least become inactive heart-wood, yet the outer
parts do not: individuals may perish, but the
community docs not, for it is renewed and in
creased every year.
Trees have been happily compared to the
"brancing or arborescent coral."' This struc
ture is built up by the combined labors of a
multitude of individuals—"the successive la
bors of a great number of generations. The
surface or the recent shoots alone are alive: all
underneath consists of the dead remains of for
mer generations. It is the same with the veg
etable, except that it makes a downward growth
also, and by constant renewal of fresh tissues,
maintains the communication between the two
growing extremities, the buds and the root
lets." {Dr. Dray ) As tho coral struotUre,
considered as a mass, lives on indefinitely,
though the individuals composing it perish, so
a tree considered as a composite structure may
live on in the some way, without uny assignable
limit to its lite. Every joint in the root, aud
cveiy bud from it? branches might be token off
and set up by itself to form a separate and in
dependent tree; but if tbey all choose to stay
ou the homestead, need they ond the family die
out?
So much for theory. We shall present some
facts next month.
PROFITS OF SINGLE GRAFF. VINES.—We
have often urged all our readers to set out at
least one cr two grape vines somewhere in the
garden or door-ysrd—not usually to raise
grapes for sale, but to secure a supply for home
consumption. The first cost of procuring and
setting a vine or two, or three, is trifling, while
the product is large and of great value. A
grape vine requires but little ground room, and
whoever has a few feet only of soil by the side
of the dwelling, may put out a vies, where
"there may net he even room for a fruit free to
expand its branches. The vine may be trained
op over a porch, or on the sides of the dwelling
itself.
Ou page 337 of Lt volume (Nov. No.) wc
gave an account of two vinos (a Concord, and
a Hartford Prolific) which yielded 60 lbs. of
!ncious grapes the 2d year after planting. —
| These were unusually well-rooted wheu pet. out
but ore an indication of what may be obtained
very SOOD after planting. We now give ar.oth
'cr item which we recently gathered from our
, old frieud and long-time subscriber, Stephen
Hnigh', of Dutches Co., N. SL. He has an Is
abella grape vine, 12 years old, which is train
ed upon a trellis, and branches out about 25
feet each way from the root. The past Au
tumn he picked from this single vine two hun
, dred and twenty six pounds (22G,) leaving at
the same time fifty pounds of unripened grapes
which were afterwards made into wine. (In
all 276 lbs.) The ripe bunches were carefully
looked over, and the green, bruised, aud de
caying berries cut out with a pair of scissors.
They were then packed precisely according to
tho directions we gave in October last (Vol.
17, pago 307.) Dec. 22, when grapes were a
rarity in the city, Mr. Haight sold the product
of his single vine here, for $564, (25 cts. per
lb.) Pretty well for ono vine.— lb.
BRAINS.
An American slooo of war had put into an
English port, and the first lieutenant went
ashore to reconnoiter. In the course of his
travels, be entered a tavern where a number of
British officers were carousing. They at once
recognized the lieatenant's nationality by his
dress, and resolved to amuse themselves by
bullying him.
"Well, comrade," says one, "you belong to
tho United States, 1 see."
"Right," was the answer.
"Now, what would you do to a man who
should say that your navy did not contain an
officer fit for a buroboat?" continued the En
glishman.
"I would blow bis brains out!" returned the
lieutenant, with great coolness.
There was silence amoDg her majesty's ser
vants for a moment, but finally, one ot' them,
more muddled than the rest, managed to stam
mer out.
"W—well, Yank, I say it!"
The American walked to bis side, and re
plied. calmly:
"It is lucky for you, shipmate, that you have
no brains to blow out /"
Struck by the dignity of the answer, the of
fender at once apologized, and our hero was
invited to join the mess.
The greate&t charm of books is, perhaps,
that we see in them that other men have sut
. fered what we have. Bome souls we ever fiud
who could have responded to all our agony, be
what it may. This, at least, robs misery of its
loneliness.
Tbfe origin of Pennsylvania is thus given by
an eld epigrammatist':
Penn refused to take bis bat off
Before the King, and therefore sat off
Bome other country to light pat on
Where he might worship witb Lis bat on !
BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1859.
DANGERS OP SKATING. !
A correspondent of the Philadelphia North
American writing from a town in Massachu
setts, where skating is all the rage, tells about
his adventures ofl the ice with Mary.
Hear him :
WHO MAIiY IS.
Mary is as pretty a piece of humanity in ihe
shape of woman s you can find this side of
Heaven. Such eyes! such hair! such teeth!
And her hand ! Well now there; I think it was
just ttie smallest, tho whitest—why, ivory is
slow to it. And her foot was ]{{j 0 a lit
tle white rose bud, its snowy leaves just show
ing enough to set off the neat covering that
concealed 'he rest from profane eyes. It did
not seem a foot, as one saw it reposing in its j
tiny kill slipper, like a Canary bird in its nest. I
MARY HAS THE SKATING FEVER.
Well, sir, this Mary caught the skating fc- j
ver, which is now raging so fear fully. I heard ;
her express a wish for a pair of skates and the
next day she had the best pair that could be
found in the city, and nobody kuew who sent
them to her—but, bless me, bow my blood boils '
at the thought of the consequence?.
MARY PUTS HER FOOT IN IT.
We went down upon the ice, and there that
little devil of a Mary just set quietly down,
ordered mo on my knees and quietly placed
that foot, tho foot, the poetio myth, in my lap
and bid me puton her skatos. Sir! had Venus
dropped from heaven, and Lid me rub her
down with rotten stone end oil, it could not
have astonished uie more than when that divine
foot was "placed in my unworthy lap. I felt
very faiut—but J buckled OD the skate, and
stood up, with Mary by my side.
THE BACHELOR'S DEAD SWIMS.
Have you ever taught n woman to skate I
No ; well, let me tell you. You've been in
a room lined with mirror?, havo'ut you?—
You've seen a kaleidoscope with a few old bills
of glass, &e., in a tin tube, and turning it have
seen all sorts of beautiful figures. Just irna
| ginc a kaleidoscope, and in place of beads and
broken glass, please substitute blue eves, curv
ing eye lashes, lips, ivory, wavy hair,crinoline,
gaiter boots, zephyr worsted, cupids, hearts,
darts, a clajj. at" thunder, a fia*L f iiyh using,
and 'auld Nick.' Imagine yourself the centre
of a system with all these things revolving
rouud you, and a viols', buuk IrealLiog sighs
upon you all the while, and you have Mary aod
ber victim in the first skating lesson.
GAITERS IN THE PIT OF HIS STOMACH.
Hut just let mo try to describe our perfor
mances. Mary I start—she on my left arm all
square. Lord have mercy on my poor puzzled
; brain while 1 try to describe the stirred end
mixed rainbow of sights aod sen timet, U.—
First, Mary's dear little gaiter loots present
themselves to my astonished vision, and before
1 have time to wonder how they canto up before
me 1 feel them pressing their blessed beauty,
with emphasis, into the pit of my stomoeh.
MARY PITCHES INTO niM GENERALLY.
Next scene—wavy hair, with & thirty dollar
bonnet and a divine head, came pitching into
my waistcoat, with such force that I fetl the
buttons against my spine. Next—Mary gazed
up at me from between my jack boots, and
anon her blessed little nose is thrust into
bosom of my shirt. Ah ! nr. friends, all re
search and study on (be mysterious subject of
woman has teen comparatively in vain, till i|
this eventful year of 1859, the fashion of skat
ing has opened and varied sources of informal
lion.
MARY SUBDUES HIM.
1 car Mary! I offered myself to her ever,
tiuio she turned up, r came round. I am
hers : but I wish to enter my solemn protest
before the world, that she alone could not have
j conquered me. Hut who could hold out, when
surrounded by cn army of Marys on skates?
I au hers!—but lam awfully sore! Ah! I
have learned something. Cupid makes bache
lors tender as cooks do tough steaks, by ham
mering and pounding.
COURTING BY TELEGRAPH.
A ceitair, young utan, whom we shall call
Smith, was employed at an office on the Na
tional line. In the course of business, ho as
certained that a person having charge of a
station in a small town some seventy miles dis
tant, was a youDg lady, and that her name was
Sarah, Forthwith, in an' interval of leisure,
flashed ever the wires this message :
"My name is Smith—how old are you ?"
To which an answer was promptly return
ed :
"My name is Sarah —None of your busi
ness !"
The next one ran thus :
"1 am not married—What are you worth ?"
"To which the words came back :
"Worth a tuillioD."
As a climax, the youth replied :
"Will you marry me?"
Tho answer was, 'Yes'—aud in four months
tbey were married.
An Irishman who had returned from Italy,
where he had been with his master, was asked
in the kitchen, 'Yea, then, Pat, what is the
lava I hear the master talking about ?"
"Only a drop of the crater," was Pat's re
ply.
A Yankee doctor has got up & remedy for
hard time. It consists of ten hoars' labor well
worked in.
Wontod by a Dutch gardener—a journeyman
cooper, to head a cabbage.
What tune can make every one glad? Ans.
Fortune.
VARIETY IN CREATION.
There are 56,000 species of plants on exLi
tion in the museum of Natural History of Par
is. The whole number of speoies in earth and
sea cannot be less than four or five thousaud.
These aro of nil sizes, frfcui the invisible for
ests tC a bit of mouldiness to tho towering
frees cf Maltbar, 50 feet in circumference, and
the fcanisas, whose shoots cover a circumfer
ence of five aures. Each of these has a com
plicated system of vessels for the circulation
or its juices. Some trees have leaves narrow
and short; -others, as the talipot of Ceylon—
have leaves so large that one of them can shel
ter fifteen ot twenty tnen. Some exuviate
their leaves annually, as a whole robe, leaving
the tree nude, its bare stem towering and its
branches spreading themselves uncovered in
the shy; while the leaves of others drop off
one by one, new ones constantly growing in the
place oFlfae dismembered onep, aud the tree re
taining its perpetual verdure -
There have actually been ascertained, in the
animal kingdom, about 60,000 species of liv
ing creaqsrcs. There are 600 species of mam
malia—tioso that suckle their young —the
most ofwbiob are quadrnped*. Of birds,
; there are? 4-,000 species; of fishes, 3000; ot
reptiles.'ToO, and of insects, 44,000 species.
' Besides|hese, there are 3,000 species of shell
fish, am )not less than eighty or one hundred
! thous&naspectes of animalcules invisible to the
I naked c\ A
Some iVrfA of life require a moist atmos
phere, a dry oße. A blue water lily
' grows in 4s canals of Alexandria, which,wbeD
the water Jfosporates from the beds of (be eq
uals, driemp; end when the water is again in
the nanelsm again grows aad blossom;. Aud
some of tboweßt animals may he completely
dried and fcpt in this state for any length cf
: time, bul irsn they are again rrcistened, they
resume th®tnctions of life. Some plants are
adapted ufijf to particular climates; others
grow in d*;reat climates; but they do not
flourish eqwify weli in these. As a tree which
in the Soutfcrn States attains a height of 100
feet, at Grt Slavo Lake, the Northern limit
;at which :■ found, becomes dwarfed to a
; shrub of oal five feet high. Life, both vege
table aod atfcal. is infinitely modified; tut in
all cases irsXst development ts only uudcr
those oonditmg to which it i specially adapt
' Bff."~ "How flialfOM wnr rtry- O Guff! in
wisdom tbou Kit fliade them all.— Life Illus
trated.
IJFE
How truly § es the journey of a single day,
its changes at: its hours, exhibit the history
of banian lifaj We rse up in the glorious
freshness of (fyiog morning. The dew? of
night, those ffeet tears of nature, are hanging
I from each boi*h and reflecting morning. Our
hearts are biting with hope, our frames are
buoyaut sri:!* health. Wo see no cloud, we
fear no storm, ar.d wirh our chosen and belov
ed oompanioi clustering around us, we com
mence our jiiirney. Step by step, the scene
becomes mo® lovely; hour by hour, our hopes
become brighter. A few of our companions
have dropped away, but in the multitude re
maining, and the beauty of the 6cenery, their
loss is unfe*. Suddenly we have entered up
on a new country. Tho dews of the morning
are exhaled by the fervor of the noon day sun;
the friends that started with us are disappear
ing. Some remain, but their looks are cold
I and estranged; others have lain down to rest,
i but new faces are smiling upon us, and new
! hopes are beckoning us on. Ambition and
' fan.a arc fcefoio us, but youth and affection are
behind us. The scent is more glorious nod
i tiriliiani, but tho ho.-nty and the freshness of
i ;ho morning have faded and forever. Onward
l and ouwsrd we go; the horizon of happiness <
land fanio reoodes as we advance to it; tho
Iphadows begin to lengthen, aud the chilly airs
of evening are usurping the noon day. Still
We press onward; the goal is not yet won, the
j|aven not yet reached. The orb of hope that
Jad cheered us on, is sinking in the West; our
mbs begin to grow faint, our hearts to grow
j d; we turn to gaze upon the scenes that we
j Lave passed, but the shadows of the twilight
; have interposed their veil between us: we look
; around for the old and familiar faces, the com
panions of our travel, but we gaze in vain to
find them; we bavo outstripped them all in the
; race after pleasure, and the phantom yet un
oaught, in a land of strangers, in a sterile and
j inhospitable country, the night time overtakes
' us—the dark aud terrible night time of death,
and, weary and heavy laden, we lie down to
rest in the bed of the grave. Happy, thrice
happy, is he who has laid up treasures for him
, self, for the distant and unkuown to-morrow.—
1 Knickerbocker.
MASKS AND FACES.
A great masquerade ball was given iu Mil
! waukee about a week ago. The News of that
! city, io the course of an article describing it,
'says:
"One gtutlemen fell iu love with his own sis
ter, while another man danced, talked and
promenaded with a geutlemau iu a woman's
dress three hours in the vain hope of finding
out who tho dear creature was. One youog
man took his mother to the sapper, and groat
was the surprise of both on learning how mat
ters stood. One of our leading merchants gave
his ring to a young lady if she would raise ber
mask that he might see her features, when it
was bis own sister, who he supposed was at home
witb the toothache! Two gentlemen got into a
warm dispute as to who a certain young lady
with a black domino was, aud after making a
wager of two bottles of champagne, found out
that the young lady was the yonger and mis
chievous brother of the losing party."
Wanted to kDOW —where the hail stones are
quarried?
FUTURE EQUALITY.
We stand upon common ground. The Great
Leveller will knock at your door, Sir Million
aire, as well as at mine, and we must both open
to him, whether we bid him welcome with
our hearts or nqf. Roll along, then, in your
chariot, nor heed the poor pedestrian who drags
his blistered feet over the hard sidewalk.—
Stoop not at the imploring voice of the ragged
mendicant. We aro all travelling the same
way, and shall ultimately reach the same inn—
the grave. "There the wicked cease from
troubling, and the weary are at rest." The
weary! is there not consolation in the assur
ance?
Courage, then, storm beaten joumcyera over
the desert of lifel Toil on, yet, while autid
trials and tears. The goal is at hand—your
home—your haven of rest. Does the man of
this world, who has laid up stores for many
years and spoken peace to his OWD soul, afflict
or oppress you? forgive him. He is your fel-.
low traveller to tho land of souls—he will
soon stand upon an equality with yourself.—
His treasures cannot bribe the spoiler. His
gold may soon become cankered, and his fine
gold be dim.
Let not the rich be unduly elated, nor the
poor unduly depressed; for in the great com
munity of the dead there is nothing known of
inequality. Let the proud bo bumbled at the
thought, and the humble lifted up.
Come, neighbor, thy hand! We will trudge
along life's uneven road together, if you please
and encourage each other so to live—will it
uot be Cie tetter way? that when our summons
comes to depart benoe,
"We go—not like the quarry slave at night
Scourged to his dungeon—hut sustained aud
soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach onr grave,
Like one who wra-ps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to plasint dreams."
HOW COFFEE CAME TO BE USED.
At the time Columbus discovered America,
coffee had never been known or used. It only
grew in Arabia and upper Ethiopia. The dis
covery of its use as a drink is ascribed to the
superior of a monastery in Arabia, who, desi
rous of preventing the monks frm sleeping at
their nocturnal services, made them driok the
infusion of coffee, upon the report of some
shepherds, observed that their flocks were
moae lively after brovreitig on the fruit of that
plant. Its reputation rapidly spread through !
tho adjacent countries, and io abont two hun* j
ured years it reached Paris. A single plant, i
brought ir 1614, became the psrent stock of '
ail the coffee plantations in the West. Indies.—
I'be extent of consumption can now hardly be
realized. The United States alone annually
consume at the cost of its landing from four
teen to fifteen millions of dollars. You may
know the Arabia or Mocha, the best coffee, by
its smaii bean and dark color. The Java and
East India, the Dext iu qualily, is a larger
bean, and of a yellow color. The West India
Rio has a blue, greenish gray tin'.
OBEYING ORDERS.
A certaiu General of the United ?ta!es Ar
my, supposing his favorite horse dead, ordered
an Irishman to go and skin him.
'What, is Silvertail dead?' asked Patrick.
'Wbt is that to you?' said the officer; 'do
as 1 bid you, and ask me no questions.'
Pat went about bis business, and in about
two hours returned.
♦Well, Pat, where have you been nil this
time?' asked the General.
"Skinning your horse, your honor."
'Did it take you two hours to perform the
operation?'
'No, your honor, but then you see it took me
about half an hour to eateb the horse.'
'Catch him! fire and furies! was ho alive?'
'Yes, your honor, ond I could not skin him
alive, you know."
'Skin bim alive' did you kill him?'
'To be sure I did, your honor! and sure you
know I must obey orders without asking ques
tion'.
WHEN DEATH COMES.
Death comes at morn, when the sun is just j
rising in the east; at noon, when its rays are
moswesplendeut: at eve, when it gradually;
sinks beneath the horrizon ; at midnight when ;
it is entirely hidden from view. It comes to :
the babe just commencing to prattle , it comes
to the man of middle age, when the connecting j
links binding us to life nre most strong ; it;
comes to the aged man with trembling limbs i
and faded eye sight, led aloDg by others ; it
comes to the poor, struggling to obtain a
meagre sustenance ; it eomes to the man in |
! easy circumstances, by whom life is best em
ployed ; it comes to the wealthy, re.hng in
affluence and ease; it conies to the idiot laugh
ing at his own folly ;it comes to the man !
just neuse enough to pass through liie easily ,
it comes to the educated man glorjiug in nia
Cicero and Homer; it comes to the christian
who looks upon it only as a happier land.-
Reader these words are spoken to you. " ill
you heed them ?
CHRISTIAN EARNESTNESS.
How beautiful and how needful in our
churches is Christian earnestness ! What are
professed Christians doing to bring sinDcrs to
the Saviour ? Shall not the sight of souls in
the guilt of unnumbered sins, and under the
threat of everlasting woe, move us ? Surely
there is power in the death of Christ as a
motive. May His love cousiraiu us, as it did
one who was "wounding Him iu the house of
his friends," but was brought to repentance
aod to duty by a picturo cf the Crucifixion
beneath which were engraved the words :
"I did this for thee ;
What Last ihou done for me?"
VOL. 32, 0.12.
THIS LORD'S PRAYER,
We hare lately fallen upou something very
different from the usual poetical paraphrases of
Sacred Writ. It is a versification of the Jjord's
Prayer—an orison, the brevity and concentra
tion of which ought to be a lesson to those
who indulge ia many words when tbey pour out
prayer and praise. It has lately been publish
ed in Loudon, is composed as a duet, and har
monized for four Tcioee, with an accompani
ment for the organ or piano-forte. It runa
thus :
<; Our Heavenly Father hear oar prayer;'
Thy name be hallowed everywhere ;
Thy kingdom come : thy perfect will
lu earth as 10 Heaven, let all fulfill ;
(live til is day's bread, thot we may live;
Forgive our sins as we forgive ;
Help us temptation :o withstand;
From evil shiel! us by Thy hand ;
Now and aver u:ifb '1 bee.
The kingdom, power, and glory he. Amen."
Here notbiDg ia redundant, nothing wanting.
The music, simple and melodious, is said to be
worthy of the words.
OWE OF THE SENTRIES.
In a recent lecture upon Washington, Theo
dore Parker told tho fallowing anecdote:
At Cambridge, Gen. Washington had beard
that the colored soldiers were not to be depend
ed upou for sentries. So one night, when the
pass word was 'Cambridge,' he went outside
the camp, put on an overcoat, and then ap
proached a colored sentinel.
'Who goes there?' cried the sentinel.
'A friend,' replied Washington.
'Frieud, advance unarmed and give the coun
tersign,' said the soldier.
Washington came up and said 'Roxbury.''
'No sar,' was tLe response.
'Medford,' said Washington.
'No sar,' returned tho colored soldier
'Charlestown.'
The colored man immediately exclaimed,
'1 tell you, Massa Washington, no man go by
here 'out he says Cambridge.'
Washington said 'Cambridge,' and went by,
aud the next day the colored gentleman was
relieved of all fuither necessity for attending
to that particular branch of military duty.
PROSE POETRY.
I gsv2 fast* n rose ha? t rieg, and
I asked her to marry me then—but she sent
them all back, the insensible thing, and said
she'd no nothing of men. I tcld her I Lad
oceans of money and goods, and tried to fright
her v.ith a grow}, but she answered she was not
brought up in the woods to be scared by the
screech of an owl. I called her a baggage
and everything bad ; I slighted her features
and form, till at length I succeeded in getting
her mad, and and she raged like a sea in a
storm. And then ic a moment I turned and
smiled, and called her my angel, and she fell
in my arms like a wearisome child, and cxtfa
iioed, "we will merry this fall."
DO RIGHT,
i A man that has a seal worth a six-pence
must bare enemies. It is utterly impossible
for the be6t man to please the whole world, and
the sooner this is understood, end a position
taken in view of this fact, the better. Do
right though you have enemies. You cannot
escape them by doing wrong, and it is little
gain to borler away your honor and manhood,
aud divest yourself of moral courage, to gain
what? Nothing! Better abide by the truth
—frown down all opposition, and rejoice in
the feeling which must inspire a free and in
dependent man.
WEIGHT OF A MILLION IN GOLD.— In answer
to the question "what is the weight of a mil
lion of dollars in gold 1" an officer of the mint
calculates as follows : The weight of one mil
lion of dollars of United States currency, in
gold, is 53,750 troy oz. This makes 4479
pounds, 2 oz, —or nearly two tons and a quart
er, reckoning 2000 lbs only to each ton. As
weighty as this is, we have no doubt that, if
the amount were offered to any body who would
lift it, there would be enough persons found
ready to break their necks in tho vaio at
tempt.
THE INCORRUPTIBLE PRESS.
The incorruptible of the feuilletonist may
be judged ef by she following fact- A di
rector was vaunting the success of a new
piece—
"Why," he said, "the very cheek-taker is
rubbing his hands, put that in. Tell the pub
lic that the check-taker is rubbiDg his hands
with glee."
"I cannot, sir.**
"l-annot! Why not ?"
"Because, sir, the check taker has enly one
hand."
A lover had been offered a kiss if he would
prove His assertion that locomotives wore ac
customed to chew tobocco, ss well as smoke out
of their pipes :
"Observe the sound
As the crank oome* round,
He archly said,
"It's choo—choo—choo,
To go ahead,
And ohoo— oho©—choo— chtw,
To 6cfc'er."
Benevolent impulses, where we should not
expect teem, in modest privacy, enaot *
scene of beautiful wonder amidst the pi"*" l ' B
of angels.
Calamity never leaves ns where it found US ;
it either soften" or harden* ibe heart of its
victim*. ,