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OLD "FRIENDS TOGETHER.
0, time is sweet when roses meet,
With spring's sweet breath around them;
And sweet the cost when hearts are lost,
If those we love have found them;
And sweet the mind that still can and
A star in darkest weather;
But naught can be so sweet to sec,
As old friends mot together.
Those days of old, when youth was bold,
And timo stole wings to speed it,
And you nc'er knew how fast time flew,
Or, knowing, did not heed it;
Though gray each brow that meets us now—
For ago brings ivintry weather,—
Yet naught can be so sweet to see
As these old friends together.
The few long known, whoni years have shown
With hearts that friendship blesses;
A hand to cheer, perchance a tear,
To soothe a friend's distresses;
Who helped and tried, still side by side,
A friend to thee hard weather;
0, this may we yet joy to see,
And meet old friends together.
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KATE WOOED AND WON
BY ROSELLA
"What romps of girls Aunt Katie has; I
never saw the like, in my life, of her Kate ;
she had on the schoolmaster's skates to-day,
at school, and while he was hunting for them,
most all noontime, she was gliding like a
swan all over Moss pond, mixed in among
the boys, while her laugh was as loud as
theirs, only more ringing and joyous, and
filler of music," said Uncle Nat Hammond
to his wife and daughters when he came
home from the mill in the afternoon of a cold
winter day.
"Well, now !" said Aunt Mercy, and she
laughed until her whole body shook and
laughed too. • " Didn't Mr. Miles get his
skates at all at nooning?"
"I don't know," said her husband, " for
school wasn't taken up yet, when I came on
home; but I guess not, for I called at the
store, and while I was there young Harper
came in, and he said when he came away
Kate as still on the pond, and the teacher
was watching her and laughing, from behind
the big maple- tree, and that he didn't seem
a bit angry, for he overheard him say, just as
he came up slyly behind him. 'God bless
you, my sweet, wild Kate,' and that he got
very red in the face when he saw that he had
been overheard."
" It may turn out with Mr. Miles and Kate
as it did with Kate's mother and her teacher,
when she was young, for she was as wild a
romp as Kate is ; Kate comes honestly by her
hoyden manners."
"flow was that?" said Uncle Nat, as he
took off his big coped , old-fashioned, drab
overcoat, and hung it on its pin in the closet,
then rubbing his hands, sat down to an after
noon lunch—a cup of coffee and hot buck
wheat cakes and honey.
Aunt Mercy swept the wet footprints from
the hearth, and took up her knitting, that lay
in the cushioned rocking chair by the window.
"Why, you see, the winter before Katie
was married, father lived up on Stony creek,
on a rentedkrarm, in a real backwoods settle
ment, and all of us grown girls went to dis
trict school that winter. Oh, we did have
good times, I tell you! The scholars were all
so united, and the winter was a mild, plea
sant one, and the
. play-ground was grassy,
and clean and spacious. The teacher was an
excellent young man from the East, and as
the healthful part of our education, he re
commended exercise on the play-ground, and
rambles on the surrounding hills. This just
suited sister Kate, the pretty black-eyed romp.
Many a tine, the first fortnight of school,
while she waS whirling on one foot, or play
ing " blackmail" with the boys, I saw the
teacher's pale face peeping out of a window,
with his brow. resting on his hand. No ono
thought of the like but myself, and from the
very first I judged from his conduct towards
Kate that he loved her better than any other
girl in school. Tier copies were always "set"
the prettiest, and were generally a sweet line
or two of poetry; and if she carried her slate
to him for assistance, his face lighted up with
a real love smile that must have beamed
warmly upon her. If any of the rest of us
did the same he always said kindly, "please
wait 'till this class has recited," or "in a
moment."
When " boarding' round," and his week
was at our house, in the evenings, after our
lessons Were all looked over, we would spread
a mattress on the broad, grey-stone hearth
for all to sit on, to crack nuts; we always re
served the corner for the master, as the pon
derous jamb stone would keep the heat and
the glare of the blaze off his forehead. And
there we all clustered down together, crack
ing jokes, seasone&with merry peals of laugh
ter. Ah, those were good old days of long.
long ago
One cold, frosty Christmas night, after we
bad eaten apples, and cakes, and nuts, Kato
proposed that we should all go out and take
a ride down the hill on the little, hand sleds.
To please her we consented. There wore six
sleds in all, belonging to big and little chil
dren, and there wore six of us—the master,
our brother Ben, the two girls and myself
and Dick, the bound boy.
"I'm afraid I can't guide the sled right,"
said the teacher to Kate, as we all walked up
the hill, through the orchard, up to the edge
of Oak Grove, pulling our sleds after us. .
"Well, tell you," said Kate, "if it
won't start when you are ready to go, you
must hitch forward, with a foot sticking out
on each aide of the shaft, which you aro to
turn back and hold in your hands, If it
turns to the right too much, plow your left
heel into the snow a little, till you get it
turned straight, not too much,,or it will whirl
right around. If you want to stop still, you
must plow both your heels into the ground
hard."
)~
"What a glare of light this is! Oh, deli
cious! I want nothing rarer than this world I"
said Kate, in all the exuberant joy that was
brimmin,,cr over the fun-loving heart.
We got to the top of the hill, and placed
our sleds in a row, Kate behind, so as to have
the longest ride.
," Make ready," said Dick, " take aim,"
said the master, in a voice by no means as
joyous as the occasion demanded.
"Fire !" shouted Kate, in a voice ringing
among the old oaks, like the notes of a bugle.
Away we flew, like a line of winged swal
lows, the fine frosted particles of flying snow
cutting into our faces, and powdering our
clothes.
"Faster, sir!" shouted Kate, distinctly,
above the noise of the gliding runners.
" pass, by your leave !' and she flew
circling round the teacher, and came like the
chain of lightning down the hill, and past
the wood pile, steadily through the open gate,
when her sled jumped with a leap across the
gutter in the street, and away she went down
the road, as though riding a wild steed who
had never felt the curb or rein. Under the
elm tree, she stopped and looked around just
in time to see the master's unmanageable
sled plunge over the top of the milk-house,
which stood close in under the ledge that
skirted the hill.
We had all stopped our sleds at the gate,
except Jennie, who had run through the
closed side gate, and bore it off with her, into
the gutter, and Ben, who had run up the
wood pile, and fell back with his sled on top
of him, and half a cord of ranked stove wood
rattling about his ears.
We all ran, laughing, to the milk-house,
while the most uproarious merriment from
under the elm greeted us.
Poor teacher 1 his fall had been no cause
of fun for him, for he lay insensible, with the
blood flowing from a gash in his hamrsome
white forehead.
Dick ran to Kate, with his finger on his
mouth, a token of silence; but she could un
derstand no dumb signs, for she lay in the
snow yet, in 'convulsions of laughter.
rather helped carry him into the house,
and we bathed his face with camphor, until
life returned. It was several days before he
could continue his school.
"Are you sorry for me, Katie?" he said
plaintively, as he leaned back on the pillows
in the rocking chair, when he detected traces
of tears in Kate's black eyes.
"Yes," said she, "for I amto blame," and
the pent up tears burst forth anew.
"No you are not, Kate," said he kindly;
" but let us leave such sport for children,
and we will spend our evenings studying As
tronomy. I will teach you these bright,
starry eves. Oh, Kate," and softer grew his
manly voice—" you will ripen into a glorious
woman if you lay aside your over-sportive
ness, and merriest moods, and seek to beau
tify your mind, and make it worthy of the
beautiful casket that enshrines it. Will you
Kate ?" and he took her hand in his; so
pale and thin. She rose in tears and left the
room.
" What a good influence the master exerts
in our family I have you observed it, father 2"
said my mother one evening.
"Yes, bless him I" was the answer.
"I've been thinking, because of his good
influence, and because he has poor health,
and boarding round gives him a fresh cold
every few days, - we'd better have him board
here the rest of the term, said my mother, in
all the mirth and goodness of her motherly,
womanly nature.
"Very well, Mercy," and my father went
on with his whittling.
With many thanks to my poor mother, the
master accepted the kind offer, and then the
front bed room was his, and called the mas
ter's Mom.
We all observed, with joy and surprise,
that our Kate was surely growing more wo
manly,-more firm in her good resolves, and
though very cheerful still, was far less rude
and wild. We made better progress in our
studies now that the teacher was with us, and
that winter, in our after years, was one to be
pleasantly remembered.
One day at school, in the morning, the
teacher stood looking out from a back win
dow; watching the little boys and girls carry
ing stones up to the top of a steep knoll be
hind the house. They carried them to the
top, then one at a time rolled them down the
steep.
Looking round upon the circle of girls who
sat busied with light sewing, knitting, and
embroidery, his eyes sparkled with a new
idea, as he said, put by your work, girls, and
before school takes up, let us all go and join
those merry little ones in a round of play.
"Oh, come !" said Kate; with all her old
spirit wide awakened from its sleep, and she
jumped up, dropping her work, while her
spool of floss and thimble rolled across the
floor, do ! do !I and then catching his oyes
she looked down, while the rosiest of blushes
spread over her face and neck.
"The same
her
yet," said ho , laughing
and enjoying her pretty embarrassment.
At the foot of the bill we each selected a
round stone, as large as we could carry with
ease, and climbed with them up to the sum
mit.
"We have the royalest kind of a play to
day, master," said little Lucie Gorham; "you
see, we call it telling fortunes ; the way the
stone we throw rolls down hilt, is just the
way we are to be, and act, and get along in
life.
"Ab, you winsome little sybil," said he;
" but if it'don't roll at all, what then, Lucie ?"
"Why, if it stopi soon, the one that start
ed it ain't going to live long," was her earnest
reply. A merry laugh from us, at her origi
nality,- made hor hang her head and shy off
to an older sister.
" Well, let us try Lucie's game, then," said
the teacher. " Mary Vail, you roll first."
Mary rolled her stone, which went swiftly
down the hill, knocking everything in its
way, making sparks fly from splinty rooks,
splitting little sand stones, pitching sticks
hither and thither, until its force was ex
hausted and it rolled down slower and slower
until it stopped.
-rERSEVERE.-
HUNTINGDON, PA., JUNE 16, 1858.
"A straight-forward, upright life is to be
yours, Mary ; neither temtation, nor malice
nor slander will harm you, for you will walk
straight ahead in the line of duty," said the
teacher, looking towards Lucie, with a mock
air of seriousness.
. And so we all rolled each stone down the
hill until it came to the turn of the master
or Kate, "Now it's your turn,Kate," said he ;
" I'll wait till the last and ave the best for
tune of any." Kate stood near the teacher,
as she let her's fall from her hands, and at
the same moment, either purposely or acciden
tally, his dropped too.
Would you believe it? They rolled along
side by side, steady keeping even pace with
each other—no knocks, but perfect unity—if
large stones impeded their way, they skip
ped over them, and trotted, and capered, and
gamboled along together as nicely as Deacon
Elliot's span of dapple greys.
Then as they came to where the hill stretch
ed off into a gentle swell, their pace slacken
ed, and they moved along side by side until
they rustled in among the dry flags and sick
le grass, on the bank of Crystal Creek, and
then with a low splash, not half so loud as a
grassy sod falling upon a coffin they dropped
over the bank, not three seconds apart.
"You two would work together well ," said
Lucie ; but there was no word dropped from
the master's trembling lips in reply, and Kate
her head was turned aside examining some
fossils that Lina Rice had found on the brow
of the bill.
To hide the teacher's visible embariass
ment, I laughed heartily, and said that it
was a real funny play of Lucie's, after all.
We all ran down the hill to school, and I
observed that Kate tried to keep away from
the master, by linking her arms in with a
girl on either side of her. I guess she began
to see matters in a true light. .
That evening there was a taffy party at
Nora Grove's house, to which the whole
neigborhood was invited, besides the teacher
and all his scholars. It was sugaring off
times in the old sugar camp, and Squire
Grove had told Nora to invite everybody,
and we might spend the evening in the big
old kitchen, and that we might haVe three
pails of syrup to make into taffy, sugar was
and sugar. The teacher said, when he dis
missed in the evening, we must not wear
silk aprons to the _ party, -or head dresses,
and the boys must not wear their Sunday
vests or nice neck ties, for it would mar the
pleasure of the party if any of us had on
clothes that would be easily spoiled.
We three girls wore pink gingham dresses
and white aprons, and mother made the mas-
Zer wear one of father's homespun linen-coats,
to save his nice black cloth one, for she said
taffy was as bad as tar on one's clothes.
I thought Kate never did look sweeter than
she did that night.' The _waist of her small
checked pinked gingham dress was gathered
full behind and before on to a belt, her white
jaconet apron was full and short, her brown
wavy hair was done up plain, white glossy
fragrant geranium leaves were fastened in
her hair behind, and around so as to almost
lie on the left temple. Her cheek wore an
unusual glow and her eyes deeper tenderness,
while a smile, born of joy that was holy in
its pure new happiness, radicated about her
sweet lips. That day's nooning had told her
a revelation.
Mrs. Grove put on her sun bonnet and went
to the sugar camp with her husband, saying,
we would enjoy the evening sports bettor if
there were no old folks about.
Carrie Hill and our Dick superintended the
boiling, while the rest of us amused ourselves
looking over Mr. Grove's books and Nora's
hair book, and scrap book, and album and
magazines, and geological specimens. As
soon as the specimens were boiled enough,
Dick called us, and we had fine sport mak
ing candy wax, and sugar, in that great old
kitchen, with its wide fire place and massive
jambs.
When we were quite done, and hadfixed
our candy away to cool on the shelves in the
pantry, - Dick proposed a game of "blind
man's buff." And the chairs were all set on the
porch, and we took off our shoes so as to slip
around slyly. Dick made a capital blind
man, for his arms were so long and muscular;
he could take great swathes, like a mower in
a meadow, and gather us in laughing, and
dodging, and holding our hands over our
mouths, and slipping about on tiptoes. Oh,
it was rare good sport, but better yet when
Kate was blindfolded and caught the teacher
by the long lined tail of his borrowed coat,
and hung dangling to it until she had twisted
it up like a stout cable, and through very
weariness had to let him go. Oh, what merry
shouts went up then in that old kitchen.
Little Lucie Gorham, said Ella HeSs, and
Ida Clarke just rolled on the porch and laugh
ed, and brother Ben said he did wish that
old dyspeptic, Mr. Sigler, was only there
awhile, for surely a miraculous cure could be
performed. It was bright moonlight, and
some of the smaller ones proposed a game of
" Silly bang," so we all went out into Uncle
Grove's yard among his trees and shrubbery,
to have one more good play before we went
home.
Jimmy Grove and Kato stood by the base,
which was a large beech tree in the centre of
the yard with covered eyes, counting sixty,
while all the rest of us hid ourselves. There
was a good many of us, and it took a long
while for us to hide.
At last Carrie Myer called out "all ready,"
and the search began. I was hid behind the
.kitchen door, and as Jimmy came in the
kitchen I ran out and reached the base un
touched. Nora Grove was hid round the
corner of the house, and as Jim's step sound
ed near her she started for the base, and
looking over her shoulder to see how near be
was, she ran her head, shaking full of brown
curls, into a young locust tree that grew up
close to the window. Dear Nora! she begged
of us not to dispose of her after the manner
of poor Absolem; and it took along time to
get her curls unloosed, but the play stopped
for that game, while the girls helped her
out.
The next game Nora and brother Ben stood
at the base and counted, while the rest hid.—
I hid in an old wheat bin in a waste cabin
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that `stood a few rods from the house away
back in the dark corner of it, and I hardly
hushed my noise breaking, when I heard a
step come in at the door, and some one
crouch down in the old corner near me. An
instant more and a light tread came in and
ran into the same old closet. It was sister
Kate, I knew by the pink dress and neat
apron.
"Is this you, Katie, darling ?" I heard
whispered in the same schoolmaster's voice.
"Oh ! are you here, master ?" was the fright
ened reply, and Kate darted out, but only a
step, for his hand held her arm, as he bowed
his face down close to her's, and his tones
were low and musical as a soft ripple of a
rill in a meadow.
" Dear Katie, can we not walk through
life ? more than mother or sister do I love
you ;" and his trembling voice was hushed
in tears.
A womanly curiosity made me peep out
and lean forward just in time to see our
blushing Kate burst in tears too, and lay her
hand in his. They stood by the old paper
window, and through the broken roof stream
ed down the moonlight, with a silvery sheen
enwrapping them. They stood side by side
and wept, and though my own eyes were full
of tears, I wondered why they should weep.
"Do you love me, Kate ?" said his low,
sad voice, and he drew the weeping girl to
his side and looked into her face.
Kate ! frank, noble, honest Kate—how I
loved her when I saw her, in all the beauti
ful faith of true womanhood, raise her hand
to his brow, and push back his soft brown
hair, look into his eyes and whisper, " Dear
Louis ! dearer than all the world beside,"
and then, with a touching grace bent for
ward for the seal of betrothal. Reverently
as as a benediction,
and as holily was the
first kiss laid upon her forehead.
"Darling! mine!" said his glad, full soul,
and the words dropped as pure as pearls.—
Just then hasty steps came up to the cabin
door, and the teacher had merely time to
slip in the closet out of sight, while Kate's
dress exposed-her hiding place.
After she ran and had been gone a moment
he followed, and when he was out of sight,
I ran too. They never knew, even to this
day, that I witnessed their avowal and be
trothal. I never told them yet; it was a
scene too holy to make merry over. After
that Kate didn't go to school any more.—
They were married the following year, and
moved to Connecticut, and staid there till
her little Kate was two or three years old,
and then they came to Ohio to reside.
"And is uncle Louis the very same school
master ?" said Annie, with wide open eyes
and parted lips.
" The very same," said her mother, "and
it is not a fortnight since I heard you won
dering how he got that scar on his forehead,
just under his hair. You know that he got
it when he took his last ride on a hand-sled.
—Ladies' Home Magazine.
A PETRIFYING Si'REA3l.—There is a little
stream in Shasta Valley, California, which
possesses the property of encrusting every
thing which falls into its waters with a com
plete coat of stone. Flowers, leaves, grass,
pine buds, and things of that sort, will be
come completely enameled in the course of
a week or so, retaining in the process their
natural form.--Exchange.
[There are several lakes, rivers and streams
in the world which petrify wood, changing
it into stone, but none so rapidly as the
above California stream, so far as we are
aware. It must be very strongly charged
with the carbonate of lime. There is a. drop
ping spring at Knaresboro', England, which
possesses petrifying powers nearly as great.
We have seen willow baskets, birds' nests,
and various curious articles, said to have
been transformed into stone by this spring,
in the course of a few months' exposure].—
Scientific American..
SuccEss.—Every man must patiently abide
his time. He must wait. Not in listless
idleness, not in useless pastime, not in quer
ulous dejection ; but in constant, steady,
cheerful endeavor; always willing, fulfilling
and accomplishing his task, that when the oc
casion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
The talent of success is nothing more than
doing what you can do well, without a tho't
of fame. If it come at all, it will come be
cause it is deserved, not because it is sought
after. It is a very indiscreet and trouble
some ambition which cares so much about
fame ; about what the world says of us ; to
be always looking in the faces of others for
approval ; to be always anxious about the
effect of what we do or say ; to be always
shouting to hear the echoes of our own voices.
—Longfellow.
Itura.t.L HousS.—As every man's house is
the proper theatre of his hospitality, the scat
of self fruition, the home of those most dear
ly cherished by him and the place where its
possessor enjoys the most of his true comfort
and happiness, it may well deserve his most
earnest consideration how ho can best apply
the means he proposes to appropriate to
building a house, so as to make it not only a
shelter from cold and heat—from storm and
sunshine—a habitation where . himself and
family may bo lodged and fed, but that it
may be so arranged, constructed and. adorn
ed, as to make it as comfortable, convenient,
expressive, and beautiful as the circumstances
of the case will admit.
AN IRISH " untit."—On Saturday after
noon some people on Staten Island were en
gaged getting ship timber from a forest. A
tree, some sixty feet high, had been dug
around, and a man sent to fasten a line at the
top, so as to pull it down in a certain direction.
Soon after reaching his destination, to the
consternation of the few spectators, the tree
began to fall. The man clung to the trunk
of the falling tree, and landed on the ground,
with the tree above him. The company hastily
gathered around, expecting to see the man
gled remains of the climber. Judge of their
surprise when they were thus saluted, "Ah,
boss, an' shure didn't I bring her down
nice :"
Editor and Proprietor.
NO, 52.
Girls at some.
There are two kind of girls ; one is the
kind that appears best abroad, the girls that
are good for parties, rides, visits, balls; &ea
and whose chief delight is in such things
the other is the kind that appears best at
home, the girls that are useful and cheerful
in the dining room, the sick room, and all
the precincts of home. They differ widely
in character. One is often a torment at
home ; the other is a blessing. One is a
moth, consuming everything about her, the
other is a sunbeam, inspiring life and glad
ness all along her pathway.
Now it does not necessarily follow that
there shall be two classes of girls. The right
education will modify both a little, and unite
their characters in one. Girls are not made
altogether for home, any more than boys are.
Society would be of but little worth without
girls, without women. The first pleasure
and duty of every woman should be at home
her next should relate to the refinement and
well being of society. But in order that she
may benefit and adorn society, she must first
know how to benefit and adorn home.—
Hence all girls, rich and poor alike, should
be early and well instructed in all the duties
and cares of home. From the cellar to the
garret, she should know all that is to be
done. From the kitchen to the parlor she
should be complete mistress. All the inter--
ests of home should be familiar to her as
household words. Neither idleness, folly or
indifference should prevent her from enga- -
ging heartily in,all the concerns of home life.
This will be to her a school more valuable
than the seminary or the ladies' college.
It behooves mothers therefore to feel that
they are teachers of the first dignity in posi
tion. Their daughters will be much what
they make them. The home education will
lay the true foundation of character. It will
fix the true principles of life in the young
girl's mind. It will give her an insight into
domestic duties and teach her that to be use
ful is one great end of life. Book education
can easily follow a good home training ; but
good home training is not apt to follow the
education of the schools. Girls well taught
at home are the girls that appear well every
where. Give us the well read girls and we
shall have - no need of any other. They will
make the true woman.
A Strong-Minded Woman.
Mr. Clayton, author of a book on the Cri
mean campaign, met, in his journey, with a
strong-minded woman. lie says :—"We next
touched at Malta, taking on board a few
fresh passengers in lieu of some we landed
there. Among the new corners was a lady
of most violent temper, so ungovernable that
she hated mortally all who did pot agree en
tirely with her ideas upon everything. Her
husband informed us that before his "mar
riage, he was warned by several, of the lady's
fiery disposition, and, to test the accuracy of
the information, one evening, as he sat next
to her at supper, he managed cleverly to jog
the servant's elbow, as a plate of mock-turtle
soup was offered her, which of course was
upset over the young lady's white dress of
tulle lace. No complaint, not even a frown,
being evinced, the delighted tutor concluded
that what he had heard was'a mistake, and
that his inamorata had the temper of a lamb
which had been fed upon mashed potatoes,
and as harmless as water gruel. So the mar
riage took place ; but soon the lady's real
character displayed itself, - as is always the
case after marriage, but never before, and his'
wife, like a human Stromboli, was subject to
fiery eruptions every ten minutes, upon a fair
average.
"llow is it, my dear," said the happy hus
band, "that, having such a bad temper, you
stood the ordeal by soup so well ?".
"Why," answered the lady, "I may have
appeared indifferent at the time, but good
heavens! you should only have gone into my
room a little while afterwards, and seen the
marks of my teeth on the bed-post !"
MIRTH A MEDICDZE.-.1 know of nothing
equal to a cheerful and even mirthful con
versation for restoring the tone of mind and
body, when both have. been overdone. Some
great and good men, on whom very heavy
cares and toils have been laid, manifest a
constitutional tendency to relax into mirth
when their Work is over. Narrow minds de
nounce the incongruity ; large hearts own
God's goodness in the fact, .and rejoice in
the wise provision made for prolonging use
ful lives. Mirth after exhaustive toil, xs one
of nature's instinctive efforts to heal the part
which has been racked or bruised. You
cannot too sternly reprobate a frivolous life;
but if the life be earnest for God or man, with
here and there a layer of mirthfulness pro
truding, a soft bedding to receive heavy cares.
which otherwise would crush the spirit, to
snarl against the sports of mirth, may be the
easy and useless, occupation of a small man,
who cannot take in at one view the whole
circumference of a large one.--Arnot's 1114
of Proverbs.
ALL ANIMALS CAN TALK.—At the annual
meeting of the association for the advance
ment of science, held lately at Boston, it was
shown that, after all, there aro no " dumb
beasts." Dr. Gibbon read a very interesting
paper on the language of animals. He says
that " every variety of animated being pos
sesses some means of intelligible communi
cation. Each creature, by peculiar sounds
or signs of correspondence, has a language
understood by its own kind, and sometimes
learnt by others. Emotions of caution, affec
tion and fear—of joy, gratitude and grief—
are disclosed by simple tones of voice, or by
impressive gestures, to signalize feelings,.
strictly comprehended, and often answeredi.
Insects and birds, fish and beasts, thus ex
press themselves—in distinct languages,sign
ed, spoken and sung, seen, heard and felt.?/'
He illustrated his theory by stating familiar
facts relative to domestic aniraals..—libmr3 -
,roul'ilal.
COOL InpuDENcr..—The editor of a western
paper owes a bank about $lOOO, for which
they hold his note. The defaulting wag. au
nouces it thus in his paper—" There is a
large collection of the autographs of dfetha
guished individuals deposited for safe keep
ing in the cabinet of the Farmers' and Mer
chants' Bank each accompanied with a note
in the hand writing of the antographist,
We learn they have cost the bank .a great
deal of money. They paid over a thousand
dollars for ours. We hope great care is ta
ken to preserve these capital and interest-ing
relics, as should they bo lost, we doubt
whether they could be easily collected again.
Should the bank, however, be so unfortunate
as to lose ours, we'll let them have another
at half price, in consequence _of the very
hard ti2nes.
Par Beauty eventually deserts its posses
sor, but virtue and talents accompany him
even to the grave.
par The first interest of a country, is the
honor of its public men.