American qg 1 olcniter. JfY BOHN B. BKiTTOH. VOL. 39. Docttcnl. T HE DID Scnooi-BOUSE, BY Wltftflß WOODFBRN. thy school desk I —il is many a year Since in this little room t lingered o’er my tiresome task, , And longed for noon to come. Or watch'd the lengthening shadows creep Along the dusty floor, 'And tried to catch one golden gleam Of sunlight through the door. facre in this place f cut my name I fondly hoped ’iwould last ! Another hand has quite effaced i The records of the past ! But on the time worn window sill The very words remain, In which i strove to paint my lovo For charming "Mary Jane." see (ho fairy now, VVlih curls o( go'dcn hue, A mouth all dimpled into smiles, And oyos of soAeat blue. 1 have a sunny curl I stole Of that same golden hair, Alas, romance! for Mary now, Is "forty, fat, and fair 1” My schoo’matcs l.lhoy are scattered, And some have "gone before !** *Oh, would I were a happy child, Beside that desk once more ! Where is (he ivould not live His boyhood o'cMrglHn 7 Who bus no memory in his heart Of some sweet Mary Jane ! JWflCcUntrtoiifl. RUN FOR THE DOCTOR. 'Run ! tell him to come instantly. Poor Dubby ! flow ho cries I li must bo the plnot-spudding that has disagreed with linn! Jjno bring Diffy ! And il you oaii'l And it in'(lie right bund pantry shelf, look into the medicine chest fur the Preservative. Perhaps the doctor isn’t at home, and tho medicine will do the child good in the meantime. Quick, Jane ! 1 f you can’t And DalTy or the Preservative, bring tho Syrup of Poppies. • • • Ah ! you've got Daffy 7 Now, Jane, a teaspoon !’ You know the opportunity of physicing a baby ia hot to bo inisacd. Medicine is meant to do children ' good,' and therefore it ought to bo given. If a child series, run fur the doctor. Dot sometimes dotcors are ’wanted in two or throe places at once. So to pro vide against the contingency, ran to the medicine febest lor Daffy, puppies, ur calomel. Give one, all of them. You can then watch their effects, and lest the powers of the different medicines. The child cries ! It must be ill! Fetch the Elixir! it costs only cighlcen peaces a boll 10, ‘a real blessing to mothers,' ignorant ones especially. Let so honosl individual bint that the child has oaten 100 much, and the answer is,‘Nonsense ! What o%n you know nl that? The child is ill I Any one may see that with half an eye. Hand over the bottle aod the spoon.' 'Ah ! here comci Iho doctor!' Here he comes, in* deed 1 'What is the matter 7’ 'All, sir! ho cries end cries so, the poor dear must be ill I* 'What has he beeo eating 7’ ‘Ho lias only hud some plum pud ding, and a very tiny little bit of cake with comfit*; tttd an apple, ami - ■ * 'Why the child has 100 mud) I 1 ‘Ls, sir, it can't bo ; his appetite is re markably small—quite—quite—quite ' 'Ah I aoo ! Well, you must wait until morning. We, •hall ace bow it is then.' 'Wait, sir—wait? Why ihe child's quite ill! do must have some medicine.' 'The child is ill—that is true; but it is with over gorging—medicine would only make matters worse. Leave nature to relieve herself. Ho will be.bolter in the morning.* 'Won't you give him a little Dotty?' 'Oh, rank poison !' 'What, poison 7 1 have given it Co him fifty times, and be has always been the boi ler of it. 1 have given him some now.’ 'What 7 Ditty, plum pudding, comfits, apples, ect., det Why the child must bsvo the strength of a horse to sur vive all that 1* Daclorsdare not always be honest to customers, also they would oftnor speak out their mind freely, as this honest, but rather rough doctor did. People will have physic. Wlist else is the use of doctors but to prescribe physio for people 7 Mothers Hunk their children are nut done justice to, unless the doctor is drenching then! with black draught, and such like. The doctor may give advice about regu larity of living, and simplicity of diet; but what does he know of that 7 Cooks and nurses sro more likely lo understand moats—lot the doctors stick to physiol Ho may toll the uurao nut lo bandage Iho child lightly, and lo avoid pins, but ‘vviiit Can he know of childs clothes,or of their proper fastenings 7‘ Nn, there is old Belly, the nurse, who is the stand aid sulhoilty in ail such matters. The doctor may tell ihe mother to give her children exorcise ; but dues not she know butter 7 If they scamper about, won't they spoil their clothes? And if the little things should grow weak, sickly and dlscoassd, why then the order can bo given lo i un far the doctor ! If he tells the housewife to ventilate the children's sleeping room—to open Iho duurs and windows fre quently, that the thorough draught may blow through and vwoelon the moms—'Oh the children will get their deaths of cold.' And If they should then be come pale and fragile, weak in the chest, and deli cate in the digestion, on the slightest ailment or trouble, then—run for the doctor ! They hgd bolter tan for the glsxior lo put a ventilator in the window ; by for the carpenter to bore ventilating holes In the door; or, bettor than all, send the children out to Doctor Green-fields, and get the hue of health back into their cheeks again. It is not necessary that wo should livo according to nature, fur we huvo doctors! Wo cun livo accor ding to cor own whims and caprices ; and if nature at last should grow restive and rebel, then wo call in Daily, Morrison, or Cookie ; or if wo have a horror of quacks, then we can send for the'regular'man, •nd—run for (tie doctor! Screw the riba within slays; strap up the chest, ■o that vulgar nature shall bo kept within fashionable bounds; and then, if vertigo, nervousness, indi gesltoo, or consumption should ensue—run for the doctor I Lei young ladies expose their chests In hot draugh ty rooms, where they are alternately half stifled and half frozen—taking now a cup of hoi coffee, and then an ice—dashing through a waltz at fever heal, and the next minute cooling themselves by standing in the passage or tho doorway ; and then, if a fit of coughing, or a sore throat, or Inflamed lungs should ensue—run fur the doctor! Send children out of doors'picturesquely* dressed, In the garb of Macnllummoro, or the Stewarts of Appin— with kilts above the knee, and chest half exposed lo tho keen oast wind. It is very ‘plolur* esque* indeed; but not so is tho croup. No matter— run for the doctor I Let men of mature sense, or senses, booze over the dinner table at that generous British drink, Lon don port, eschewing ozeroiso in favor of venison and turtle soup, Cbosbire and macaroons, hal there oomes « villanous twinge in the thumb or the great too.— Then comes the cry of'John—run for the doctor !* 6bqt out the light, and ahu| out the sir ; use cold water sparingly, and hot water'mixed with sterner ■toff# copiously within j take liqueurs, pastry, popper ■bd ale, mixed with cheese, nuts, wine and olives; ftltap late, and wear little shoe leather. When you |p abroad, ride in a carriage; and when you ail at btime. soak and eat, poking around the fire, with all ibe windows listed up so as to keep oat 'the draught*' iiadoimbn loot thoraiolvcs in their workshops, and slir not oat from tho'receipt of eastern* Saturday or Sunday; sleeping at nights in close curtained beds, with the chimneys lightly stuiTed or boarded up; shunning above all things cold water and gen eral ablation in tbo mornings ; and depend upon it, thoro will bo no want of bad health; and tbo cry will be every frequent of‘run for the doctor.* If people could run far a little common sense, oven though they paid well for it, it would bo much better for them. But common sense is still ot a heavy discount where health is concerned. —Eliza Coo Ar's Joamal. A FRAGMENT. Swiftly glide on years; they follow each other like waves of the ocean. Memory calls up the persons we unco knew—-the scones in which wo were once actors; they appear before (ho mind like the phan. toms of a night vision. Behold the in tho glory of the soul; the wheels of timo cannot roll too rapidly for him*; tbo light of hope dances in his eye; tho smile of expectation plays upon his lips ; he looks for long years of joy to come, bis spirit burns within him when ho hoars of great men and mighty deeds, ho wants to bo s man, bo longs to mount tho hill of ambilion, to tread the path of honor, to hoar the shouts of applause. Look at him again : he is now in the meridian of life, care has stamped the wrinkles on hie brow, disappointment has dimmed the lustre of his eye, sorrow has thrown its gloom upon bis countenance, ho looks back upon the waking.dreams of youth, and sighs fur its futility, each revolving year seems to diminish his happiness, and ho dis covers that the season of youth, where the pulse of anticipation boats high, is the season of enjoyment. Who is lie of sged locks 7 His form is bent end tottery, bis footsteps move more rapidly towards the tomb; lie looks back upon tho past, his days appear to bo few, ho confesses that they were evil, the mng. nificcnco of the great is to him Vanity, the hilarity -of youth, folly, be considers how soon tho gloom of death must shadow the one,and disappoint llio other, the world presents lilt Jo to attract, and nothing to dehghl him, still ho would linger in it, and still ho would lengthen out his days, thought ofbc-auly’s bloom, o( fancy's flash, of music's breath, ho is formed to exclaim, •* I have no pleasure in time." A few years of infirmity, insanity, nnd pain, most 1 consign him to idiocy or llie grave, vet this was the 1 guy, ihu generous, the lugh-souled b..y. who behold his ascending pah of life strewed without a thorn Such is human li c, but such cannot bo tho ultimate destiny of men. The Wit of Sarcasm. To bo sarcastic is thought by some people a proof of ability. Such individuals are hko a puck of Chi nose crackers thrown into a crowd, continually ex ploding in every direction, but with grootor noire than injury. 'Phare is more ill breeding than wit in a sarcasm ; and more ill nature than either. True wit does not consist in abuse, but in profound wis dom tersely expressed. Nothing, therefore, can be further from wit than sarcasm, and whore they go together, one is pressed into the service, and is nut a Icgil imalo a lly. Nevertheless wo know many, mostly young per sons, who set up for wits on the score of sarcasm.— They are usually very conceited, or very foolish, or very unaminblo individuals, and by no moons the terror lo others they imagine. Persons of sense are no more affected by llicir sarcasms than mastiffs are by the yelp of a lap dog. A real wit never conde scends lo reply to them. Wo have known many of such | sarGaelic persons in our experience,and always found they cured themselves ol (his childish habit as toon as they grew up; or, if they did not, that they remained children in their tempers to the end of their c ircor. Il is a mean sort of revenge that seeks to gall another's feelings by sarcasm; for whom it chances to bo s-iCccssful, il is hko the cop per shot of tho Mexicans, which gangrenes the wound. "Old Foiksat Home," the last negro rnolody, is on everybody's longue, and consequently in every body’s mouth. Pianos and guitars groan with it night and day, sentimental young ladies sing n, sentimental young gentlemen warble it in midniglrt serenades, volatile young " bucks" hum it in the midst of their business and pleasures : boatmen roar it out sontoriully at all hours and at all limes, all (he bands play it, amateur flute blowers agonize over it at every spare moment, the street organo grind it out at every door, the " singing stars" carol it on the theatre board and at concerts, the chambermaid sweeps snd dusts to iho measured cadence of " Old Folkt at Home the butcher's boy treats you to a strain or two nl it os ho hands yuii in the steak for dinner, the ifiilk nun mixes it dp strangely with the harsh ding dung accompaniment of ins tireless hell, there is nut a •* livo darkey," young or old, but can whistle, sing, dunco and play it, and throw in " Ben Boll" by way of •• seasoning." Indeed, at every hour, we oro forcibly impressed with the interesting fdet that— •• \?uy ilow n upon liic Sn onec riltber, Par, for. way— . Übn-'s ulm my (wait is turnin' ebber, l)uro'» wlm Hie ti|<l folks slay while the pathetic—wo may add, the soul-stirring chorus breaks upon the sympathetic oar in the ful lowing strain : " All <hu world am sail nnd dreary. Ehry where I mam ; Oh ' (liykies, how mv heart xrows weary. Par hum du old folks at huinc." An Editor ;n the Blues —The editor of tlio Saratoga Republican, pours forth his lamentations in the following indignant strains: Printing Eitablithmenl for Sale. — Having made precisely money enough at the printing business, the subscriber is satisfied to give up and retire to the poor house. Under those cnouinstancoß, he is in duced to offer the Saratoga Republican fur sale.— The paper has a'circulation of about one thousand, one fourth of which may bo called paying, and llio other (hroo-fourths non.paying patrons. The office has a good variety of job type and a fair run of work of this description, provided the work is done at the reduced Now York prices, and the printer will lake " oats and dogs" fur pay. This village Is one of the prettiest places in the world fur a news paper publisher. Everybody will find fault, do the best you can, and the editor who pleases himself will stand but a slim chanco of pleasing anybody else. .The subscription list and good will of tho office will bo thrown in if tho purchaser willt&ko the type, presses and milorials for what they are worth, and pay for thorn, so that there will bo no prubabiliiy of the present pioprictor being obliged lo take the estab lishment buck and return to tho business. J. A. Corey. Saratoga Springs, 001. 21, 1652. Remarkable Wedding. —The citizens in the vicinity of Laurel and Hopkins streets wore con siderably annoyed on yestordny evening, by s crowd of boys who kept up a constant rattling of tin pans and blowing of horns, for the purpose of serenading a couple whu wore being married in that vicinity.— It will be remembered that aomo four weeks since several of tho daily papers of tho city announced tho remarkable wedding of a man who had married his sixth wife, and gave the names of the parlies as Mr. Samuel Parker and Mrs. Ann Lorow. Well, it scorns, for some cause or other, the parties wore not married, and that the match was broken off.— The old gentleman, however, determined be outdone, immediately commenced wooing another fair lady, a Mrs. Margaret Horton, and waa oo’ yesterday evening married lo her, by tho Rev. Mr. Franklin. Tho old man is seventy years of age, and now married to his sixth wife. Hols a native of tho State of Now Jersey; came lo this oily aomo thirty years ago, bringing his third wife with hiim He has, since his Aral wife,always married a willow, and never remained a widower more than six month# at any one time.—Cincinnati 7 \mes,Oct. 5. Luxury, pride, and vanity, have frequently ‘as much influence in corrupting the sentiments of the great, as ignorance, bigotry and prejudice have in misleading tho opinions 01 the multitude. “ OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWA' CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1852 One of tho Olden Men* A book entitled "Tbo Hundred Boston Orators,” has just been published in Boston. Tho following picture from it of tbo famous John Hencock will doubtless be interesting to our readers : Personal Appearance of John Hancock.—One who saw John Hancock in Juno, 1782, relates that ho had tho appearance of advanced age. Ho had boon repealed and severely afflicted with the gout; probably owing in part to tho custom of drinking punch—a common practice in high circles in those days. As recollected at this time, Gov. Hancock was nearly six feet in height, and of thin person, stooping a little, and apparently enfeebled by disease. His face hod been very handsome. Dress was adapt ed quite os much to bo ornamental as useful. Gen tlemen wore wigs when abroad, and commonly caps when at home. At this lime, about noon, Hancock was dressed in a red velvet cup, within which was one of fine linen. Tho Utter was turned up over the lower edge of the velvet one, (wo or threo inches. He wore a blue damask gown lined with silk, a white slock, a white satin embroidered waiscoat, black satin small clothes, white silk stockings and red morocco slippers. It was a general practice in gen teel families to have a tankard of punch made in the morning, and placed in a cooler when the season required it. At this visit, Hancock look the cooler standing on tho hearth, a full tankard, and drank first himself, and lherf*b(Tered it to those present.— 1119 equipage was splendid, and such as is not cus tomary at this day. His apparel was eumptously em broidered with gold and silver and looe, and other decorations fushionabloomong men of fortune of that period; and ho rode, especially upon public occasions, with six beautiful bay horses, attended b? servants in livery Ho wore a scarlet coat, with rufilos on hiflslecvia, which soon become the prevailing fash ion; and U is related (0 Dr Nathan Jacques, the famous pedestrian of West Newbury, that ho paced all (he way to Boston in one day, to procure cloth for a coil like that of John Hancock, and returned with it under his arm, on foul. AMERICAN WOMEN From « variety of causes, nothing is more common ihon to find Amerejn women who liuvo nol (ho slightest idea ol household duties. A writer lima alludes lu (his subject : In this neglect of household duties, American females stand alone. A German Indy, no mailer how high her rank, never forgets llial domestic la. born conduce lu the health ol body and mind alike. An thighs!) 1 1 dy, whet Ik r she is only a gentleman's wiio ur • duku’a docs not despise liot huuschnld. and even though she has a housekeeper, devotes u par lion of her time to this, her true, her hippiest sphere. It is reserved lor our republican fine lady to bo inure clt<>ico ihnn her monarchical and aristocratic sinters. The result is a lassitude of m md, often as fatal to houlth.as the neglect of bubily exorcise. The wife who loaves her household cares (o her servants, pays the penalty which has been affixed to idleness since the foundation of the world, and either wills away from sheer ennui, or is driven into all sorts of fash, lomiblo follies to find employment for her mind. Haste re ds Married. —The town where Ihc oc- [ curronces happened (hat are related below is Wake I field, in New Hampshire : The rapid succssioa hero of woman to the matron ly honors of their deceased friends, sti ikes a stranger very unpleasantly. It argues nothing against the 1 cherished memory of the loved ami lost, which I 1 supposed their burial customs might prolong ; bat arises, I am sorry to say, from (ho matter of course, 1 business like style, with which the relations ol mat* ] iimony urc generally assumed. 1 know of two In- i stances in which widowed men, within n very short l lime of the death of their first wives, rode to the house of llie Udy upon whom they had designs, and without dismounting,Jscnl for her to the gale. In one case she came, the proposition was there made and accepted ; in the other the gentleman was obli ged to come into the house, but only to receive a similar reply to his suit. A friend of mine a .tended (ho wedding of a widower here, at which a clergy may officiated, who waa a stranger alike to (o the parties and the habits of the place. Taking the little daughter of the bridegroom upon his knee, previous to the ceremony, he asked her how long it was since her mother died 7 The girl in the inno cence of eight or nine years, refoi ring l o her father •aid,'Mother's bcch dead almost six weeks, hasn't she father V Even those who wore‘not to manner born, felt the shock. I add, that 1 know one clergy* man hero, who took to himself three wives within the spaed of a year and a In If. To this insensibility of wedded love, i however, am glad lu say, tout there are many honorable exceptions. These rude bills ore yet full of matter which may bo strange or inter esting to your readers. Common Sknsb Maxims.— Porsovcro against df*. courugoments ; keep your temper. Employ leisure in study and always have somo work on hand Bir punctual and methodical in business, und never pro craslinalo. Never bo in a burry. Preserve self possession, and do nut be talked out of conviction.— Rise early and bo un economist of tunc. M linlaio dignity without the appearance of pride | manner'!* something with every body, and everything with sumo. Bo guarded in discourse, oltontivo and stow to speak. Never acquiesce in immoral and perni cious opinions. Bo not forward to assign reasons to (hose who havo no right to ask. Think nothing in conduct unimportant and indifferent. Rather set than follow example e; practice a strict temper an co ; and in all your transactions remember the (Inal ac count. A FirtLK.—Aristotle tells a story of a fairy who, by some mysterious Uw of her nature, was con domed to appear si certain seasons in the farm of a I'jul and poisonous snake. Those who injured her during the period of disguise wero forever excluded , from participation hi tfio blessings she bestowed; but to those who in spile of her loathsome aspect, pitied and protected her, she afterwards revealed herself in the beautiful and celestial form which was natural to her, accompj Inod their steps, granted alt their wiahes, filled their houses with woafih. made them happy in love and victorious in war. A useful moral might bo drawn from this little fable, in favor of showing kindness cod' civilly to the most degard cd and unhappy. o ~j* A few days ago, a gentleman named Sholdom, residing at Copper's litll, N. J., stopped into a store at that place to wait a few minutes for an omnibus, when the attendant stepping out, toft him alone for ■ short time, and. after lolurning found him silting in his chair, lifeless, his c.mo still in his hand, and segar still in Ilia mouth. During the afternoon sev eral neighbors called to see (ho corpse, through curi osity, and among others Mrs. Shivers, wifo nf Char les W, Shlvors.residing at Cooper’s (Jill, and auoh was the shook to her feelings, from looking upon the corpse, that shcSvss thrown into spasms, and died a few hours afterwards.— t/nion Weekly. Tho pool Crsbbo, onco, in a fermenting mood, on velopod the following crabbed, oroukod, cross and crusty oriliolsm : Socrols willi girls, like loaded guns with boys, Aro never valued (111 lliey make a noise i Toshow how worthy, (hoy their powers display— To show how worthy, they their trusts botrsy, Like ponce in children's pockets pennies lie In female besoms—they must burn or fly. Wo see it stated that Mr. Charles Mowry. of Auburn, has invented an arrangement, by which (ho elasticity of compressed air can bb used to pro. pel railroad engines any distance required. The air is compressed by water (lowbr, or otherwise, and carried in a tube ot pipe tho whole length of the road. A man says the first thing that turned his attention to matrimony waa tho neat akilful manner which u pretty girl handled a broom, lie may see tho time , when the manner in which the broom is handled will 1 not afford him much satisfaction. BIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY, INDIAN SUMMER. We do not know tho author of tbo following pies ant poem, which wo find in & recent number of the Musical Review. A sweeter fancy of lht> "Indian Summer,” wb btvo never seen. There js a lime, just ore the frost, Prepare to pave old Winter’s way, When Autumn in a reverie lost, Tho tiellow daytime dreams sway ; When Rummer comes, in musing mind, To gjizo once more on hill and dell, To mafk how many sheaves they bind, And see if all is ripened well. With balmy breath she whispers low, Dying flowers look up and give Thoir sweetest incenses cro (hoy go, For her who made their beauties live. She enters 'noath the woodland shade, Rcr zephyrs li/l the lingering loaf. And bear it gently whore are laid, Tho loved asd lost ones of its grief. At last old Autumn, rising lakes, Again his scepter and his throne, With boisterous hand the trees ho shakos, ! Intent on gathering all hie own. Bweol Summer, sighing, flics the plain, 1 And waiting Winter, gaunt and grim, See miser Autumn hoard his grain. And smiles to think it's all fur him. A Straggle for a Kiss. 'Ah,Sally, give mo a kiss, and be dune with it, do!’ ' 'I w6n'l, so (hero now.' ‘l’ll lake it whether or no. 'Do If you dare. So at it wo went, rough and tumble. An awful destruction of sUrch now commenced. The bow of my cravat squii up in half a shake. At the nest bout, sina<>b went my shirt collar, and at tho same lime dorne of the head fastenings gave way and down came Bully's hair, tike ■ wood in a mill dam broke loose,cnrry Ing away a half a dozen of combs. One Cig elbo w and my blooming ruffles willed I down like a dish cloth. But she Ind no time to boast. Soon bor neck lacklmgs began to shiver, parted at (ho Ihioftt, and whurah came n|<tring of while boids scampering and running races every way you could think of over I ho floor. By hokry, if Sully Jones ain’t the grit there is no •nukes. She fought fair, however, I must admit, and neither tried to bite or scratch, and when she could fight no longer for wont ol bream, siio yUHod u«i.a. somcly. Her anna fell down by her side—her hair j back over her chair: her eyes closed ; and there lay : a little rosy mouth, all in the air. Lord! did you over see a hawk pounco upon a robin 7 or a bumble, bee on a later blossom 7 A Spirited Lady writer for a northern literary journal, whoso writing name is “Fanny Fern,'' publishes (he following tart letter in reply to a shocking aspersion by some graceless wight on the other side of the water—seemingly the great Christopher himself: Fannv’s Letter. —“ Don’t marry a woman un der twenty. She hasn’t come to her wickedness boloro then.”— DlackwooiCa Magazine, i Well! if 1 knew any bail words. I'm awful 'afraid I should say ’em. 1 just wish I had hold l of the perpetrator of that with a pair ol tongs. I’d [ bottle him up in spirits and keep him for a terror i to liars, ns sure as his name is Kit North ! •Set a thief to oalrh a thief. How rams you to know when that crisis in a woman’s life occurs 7 Answer mo that! I'll tell you what my opinion is, and won’t charge you any fee either. A wo man comes to her wickedness when she comes to her husband; and, if she knew anything good be fore, it all gc.es by the board then—it's no more use to her alierwards than the fifth wheel of a coach. you know, you wicked calumnia tor, that ihumler don’t sour milk more effectually than matrimony does woman’s temper! Como to ihoir wickedness indeed ! Snow flakes and soot! They'd not know the meaning of the word ‘*u tekod" if your sox wero blotted out of ex Utence. Wo should have a perfect little heaven uponbarih—n regular terrestrial paradise, no run* away matches; no c.«sea of c-conscience; no divorces; no deviltry of any kind. Women would keep young till (ho millenium; in fact, millennium would bo merely a nominal jubilee, because it would have already come. The world would be one universal garden of protty, rosy, laughing wo mep{ no masculine mildew to mar their beauty, or bovy (heir Sweet hoods, the blessed year found. Now, you’d belter repent of your sins, Mr. W r hat’s-your-nanie( for, as sure as preaching, you will go where you will hayo nothing to do but think of ’em; and you won’t find any women there, either, for they all go to the other place. ffj’A piece of romantic rascality lately transpired at Tay iur’s Springe, Lauderdale Co, Ala. About a your ago, a man colling himself Anderson, a gny and oh'gsnt Lothario, in appearance and manners, located there, as a school toucher, and soon married a young Isdy of respectable fumily. Nut long since, however, a gentleman and lady, from B-ilon Rogue, Louisiana, visited the place, and rocognixod in the handsome teacher ond happy bridegroom, a man named llcndetsun, who bod a wife and throe children living at Baton Rogue. The intellectual and facina. tmg bigamist, that night, stole s neighbor's horse, and sloped to parts unknown. Mrs. Sarah Bliss,of ftehobalh, Mass., reached the ago of one hundred years on the 13th of this month. On the occasion of her birthday, there was assembled a large company at the house of her son, Cyrus OMrs. Among them wore quite a number of her doecendans —children, grand children, groat grand children, great groat grind children. Seventy five of her do. scondunla are believed to bo now living. There wero present In the company, twenty one persons ■evenly years ofogo and upwards, whoso aggregate ego was eighteen seventy nine years. Slrrp.—Sleep is the surest, and oftentimes the only friand which misfortune is not certain to drive from the side of (ho unlisppy . It pours fthe price, less treasure of its wealth upon the poor, unbought; it sheds it upon the couch of agony, when the leech despairs; at its magic touch (ho straw of the maniac is turned to the softest down ; the dungeon and the fullers diveulvti before its spoil, and oven remorse Itself forbears to prey upon the victim whom its shield protects, while, of all luxuries of life, it Is the -one that pampered opulence can never command. Whispering in Company. —Tills habit, sojoflen in dulged in by young ladies in thospicaonco of friends or strangers, savors strongly of rudeness, if not of grass ignorance. The vainest being, tho most con. coiled, or the most perfect, buffers alike under that emancipation fiom the government of true polite, ness. Wo cannot help, though perfect we may im. aglno ourselves, to consider pur humble solfthe (homo of a merry whisper, and tho pain rankling in our wounded self love, loaves a thorn which sooner or later will sling (ho sggroscor, and provo a thorn to them. Whispering In the presence of strangers without some cogent apology, is therefore entirely, ant of place, and ought to bo avoided.—JVdffonal Intelligencer, People of slender constitutions should ezorols? * great deal of care at this season of tho year, epd not expose themselves unnecessarily, A slight cold, or tho iosst exposure, may cost them their lives. An old man named James 8. Wilson,died recently • l Terre Haute, Indites, under (he singular delusion that his son end daughters were wisards and witch* os, and bequeathed bis property (6 a stranger. Effect of Extreme Cold. The intensity of cold experienced by the expe ditions engaged in tho search of Sir John Franklin, was truly astonishing. Dr. Sutherland stales in his Journal, recently published in London, that Pastorelli's spirit thermometer stood at 40° below zero; and the mercury in Fahrenheit was frozen as solid as a leaden bullet. Even under cover, be tween decks it was 10° below zero. Vinegar, porter andule were frozen in the casks; and tho other liquid contents of the medicine chest were in a stale as.little adapted for use had they been required. Of the effect of the cold on metals, the Doctor says: “It was necessary to be very careful with our drinking cups. Tin never suited, for it always adhered to the lips, and took a portion of the skin along with it. A dog attempting to lick a little fat from an iron shovel, stuck fast to it, and drag ged it by means of his longue, until, by a sudden effort, he got clear, leaving several inches of the skin and subjacent (issue on the cold metal. One o> the seamen endeavoring to ohange the size of the eye of (ho sylico in his track-rope, pul the markling-spike, after the (rue sailor-fashion, into his mouth; the result was, that ho lost a groat por tion ol tbo skin of his lips and tongue.” The lightning—A few Hints, It may be well to encourage timid people who are religiously or constitutionally alarmed ol light ning, to slate the doctrine of chances. As a gene ral thing, tho lightning does not strike within the space of a square mile more than once a year. If the person ia a rod distant, he is seldom if ever killed. Now there ore 70,400 square rods in a square mile, and if the lightning struck rod alter rod, it woqid taka 190 years to go over h; but it smites here and there, and that 11 will smho any speotified rod, there ia not muro than one chance to a hundred billion. Again, other things being equal, the chance di minishes as it regards a low object, ae the differ- j ence between the square of its height and that of a 1 lower; so that with a person six feet, and a tree sixty feet there is but ono chance out of 3504 of the person’s being struck. If he will go dose to a tree, or house without a rod, hta danger is pro portionably increased. Again, objects, non-conductors when dry, be come good conductors when wet. A dry silk um brella, it not tipped with metallic substance, will wil'd off U.o lightning, hut if wet not. Gel light ning rods for your houses, and see lo.il that the fastnings are much smaller than the rods—that the rods enter the earth, and fear nol the “red artillery.” it is well lor persons who are naturally timid to get electrified a number of times, h renders them less electric, and herefore less In danger. Fi nally, a death by lightning is the easiest of all deaths. An electric enters, we are instantly filled, and life is gone without a pang. “Ah J but the hereafter!” Well, live right here, and it will bo all right with you there—if it must be so. The number of clocks made in (Ins country would rather surprise ono who is not somewhat posted up lu the matter. The Jerome Fuolory of Now Haven, mokes on an average, GOO per day! This ia equal tu3.GUU per week. 187.200 per year. Those clock* •ell on an average for three dollars ouch, which shows that (ho annual earnings of ono Gunncolicuil clock cut a blishmonl foots upssGl,6oo. Brewster Sl Brown, ol Bristol, Connecticut, also turn out on immense number of those popular lime pieces. The firm sends to London alone 75,01)0 clucks per voor—or about 1,500 per week. It rnual not bo supposed, however, that the English consnmo all (ho clocks sent to Ureal Britian, for it is not so—thousands of them being sent through the London Agents to all purls of the world. Of so much importance is the American clock trade to the Commission merchants ol the United Kingdom, that the duties on them have been lately reduced to ten per cent. In the ol clock making, the people of Conreclicul ‘lake down 1 any community in the world. They have reduced the thing to t system, and can if they choose, build clocks lor u less price per dozen than any other na tion charges for rat traps. Tux Monica—Despise not thy mother when she is old. Ago may wear and waste a mother's beauty, l strength, limbs, senses, and estate : but her relation I as mother is as the sun when ho goes fourth in his' •night, for it is always in the mundian, und knowoth no evening. The person may bo gray headed, but her motherly relation is ever in its flourish. It may bo autumn, yea winter, with a woman, but with the mother—as mother—ft is always spring. Precocious Youth.— 'Well, my lud, to what town or village duos (ho road you've come, take one t‘ ‘Doml know, xor.’ •No! Where dues that 7’ pointing to (ho right. ‘Doanl know.’ ‘Or that 7’ to the left. 'Sura I doanl know.’ Kannv Fern. It is a desperate case, and the traveller, looking at the threatening sky, turns mildly in the direction his Icet hud measured—a long length of dusty road, with turnings innumerable, and never a house, and point ing down the darkness, cries : ‘Then, do you know where that leads V A ray of intelligence lights up the stolid face of the innocent, and with a smartness of reply that provoa a confidence in its correctness : •Ees, 1 do ; that loads wlioam ?' Habits.— Like flakes of snow (flat full b’nperccivcd upon the earth, the seemingly unimportant events of life succeed one another, as (ho snow gathers to gether, to are our habits formed. No single flake (hat is added pile produces ■ sensible change; no single action creates, however It may exhibit, a man’s character: but as (ho tempest hurls ihe aval anche down the mountains, and overwhelms the in habitants and his habitation, so passion, action upon the elements of mischief winch perccious habits have brought together by imperceptible accumulation, may overthrow the edifice of truth and virtue.— Jeremy Btntham, iluitAi. Tastc. —There are, probably, more pretty rural homos within lon miles of Boston, owned by (boso who 1 1 vo in them, than ever sprung up in so sho'l a space of time in any part of the world. The tas(o onco funned (here, it has become contagious, and It diffusing itself among all conditions of men', and gradually elevating and making beautiful (ho whole neighborhood of (hat populous city. Scarcely anything can bo more charming than thus ruralizing the environs of city roaldonco.— Downing. Cj' Our first fault, like the prolific poppy of Abou logo, produces seeds innumerable. The wind wafts (bom away, and we know not when ityoy fail or where they rise: but this we know, that they meet ns at every step upon the path of life and strew it with plants of bitterness. How to Keep Poor.— Duy two glasses of ste every day, at five'cents each, amounting in one year (o 936.50 : smoko throe cigars, one after each meal, counting up in tho course of tho year to 954.75 keep a big dog, which will consume in s year at least 915 worth of provisions, and s oat 95 more.— Altogether this amounts to the snug iitilo sum of a 110.25— sufficient to buy sii barrels of (lour, ono hundred bushels of cool, one barrel pf ftogar, ono sack of coffee, a.good coot, a respectable dress, besides a frock for the baby, and a half a dozen pair of shoes —more or teas. Just think of it. Poverty has, in large cities, very different appera. aoce. It is often concealed in splendor and often in extravagance. It is tho care of a very good part of mankind to conceal Ihoir indigence from the rest.— They'support themselves by temporary •gpedients, and every day is lost In contriving for to*»murrow. American Work Shops, AT $9 00 FEB ANNDI Station* ot (Solar. H 0 declares himself guilty, who )ast!Ses him. self before accusation. Praying will make ns leave off sinning, or tio« niog will mako us leave off praying. We are esteemed for excellence in trifles it Ihi expense of more valuable accomplishments. Wholesome sentiment la rain—which makeft the fields of daily life fresh and odorous. Many an event in life, when viewed in the fu ture, looks impossible. Some men seem most severe-when they are (9 reality moat affected, os snow turns to Ice when on the point of molting. Abundance is a trouble, want, a misery, honor, a burden, and advancement, dangerous, but com petency, happiness. Flatterers only lift a man op, as it is said lb's eagle does (he tortoise—to get something by the fall. • J Man wastes his mornings In ontirjpatiog his afternoons, and ho wastes his afternoons in regret ting his mornings. There may bo more water in a flowing stream only four feet deep, and containing more force more health, than in a sullen pool thirty yards to the bottom. Love is a compound feeling, and is fed with the grossest food ; but friendship is a passion which must exist on a moral or intellectual diet. Though love is more fiery and ardent, it is also more fickle and uncertain. Most precepts of parents and teachers are lost sight of at the very time when It Is Important to observe them—as ihe label “shut the door” is In visible when tho door is opened widest, and thrown back against the wall. Politeness is the spontaneous movement of a good heart and an observing mind. Benevolence will leach us temperance towards the feelings of others, and habits of observation will enable ua to judge promptly and easily what those feelings are. The mixture of one error with much truth adul terate* Urn whoU - u ilia okalioa of pore liquid la rendered dangerous by the Infusion of a drop of poison. Wo should, therefore, beware of all ef ror, however slight and inconsiderable it may ap pear. One error may soon lead to a hundred, ay. to a thousand. J Choose ever the plainest road; ilalwaysanswere best. For the flame reason choose ever (o do and try what is the most just, and tho most direct i his conduct will save a thousand blushes, and a thousand struggles, and will deliver you from ao eret torments which are the never falling attend ants of dissimulation. Our first fault, like ihe prolific poppy of Abou lage. produces seeds innumerable. The wind wafts them away, and wo know not when they fall or where they rise; but this we know, that they meet us at every step upon the path of life arid strew it with plants of bitterness. 35oU«r’fl JSufltt; Whai IB the worst tlnd Sf faro for a man to lira on 1 VV aifuro. Why is a newspaper like an array 1 Became it has leaders, columns and reviews. “Jnlus, am you oonwalescent dis mornln’V* “No, I was conwalesconl yesterday, bul 1 took medicine lasi night, and worked it off." A rtow York alderman was applied to the other Jay lo suppress the cuttle nuisance, but he replied that he did not care a lost up about it. Why is a thought like the sea 1 Because it’s a notion. Why is a whirlpool like a donkey 1— Because it’s on eddy. “Aim it wicked to rob a l.en roost, Jim!”— “That’s a great moral question, Sam; wo have no tune to argue it—hand down another pullet.” “I am glad this coffee don’t owe mo sard an accountant at his breakfast. “Why sol” inquired his wife. “’Cause 1 don’t believe it would ever sotile,” he replied. “Nonchalant” means that peculiarly Indifferent look which is pul on by men "who never pay when dunned for money.” it should bo written non shell out. Ibo luledo Blade tolls lire story of a c(iap oo their road, who, apprehending a collision of the cars, pul lus life preserver on, blew il upi and* loaning Ins buck against the side of the oar, re* signed himself to Ins fuio!” A recent traveller slopped al a cabaret In Franco, whore ibn host had two sorts of wine, which ho callrd “first laMo” and “common table.” “I Uiod them boih,” says our traveller, and found them lamentable.” “Poppy, I know why some pistols are called horse pistols.” “W iiy, my son 1” “Because they kick so.” "Mary, pul that boy to bod; he’s getting so sharp he’ll cut somebody yet, see it he don’t. Vkhv (iooo. —A woman out Wost having been convicted pf having two hupbandn, a rniemporo'rV says, she loved not wisely but t{oo well. The nightmare is now politely termed “lh6 nocturnal horse of the feminine gender.” “Gone o ducking.” Thai is a lerm used to a young follow in Arkansas who goos lo “sal up' 1 to a young woman. 'Johnny, my ton, do you know that you have bro> ■ kon (ho Sabbath 7' 'Yea, daddy,' said hia liltlo tls* (or, 'and mother’* big iron pot, 100, in Gve or sil piece* !' •My friend ha* a great reverence for iho truth,’ •aid a gentleman lo Hrppo. 'So I perceive,' Defr replied, ‘lor he always keep* * roapcctablo distance from it,’ Punch recommends, ass euro preventative of rsli way cuilißiun*. that each train havo one of tba Dlroctora securely fastened In a neat iron chair, placed directly lo front of the locomotive. 'Jake,' aaid an old farmer lo one of hia mowers* 'do you know how many horn* there «re fit a dileou nia 7 ‘No,’ replied Jake, 'but I know how oispy' horns there are in a quart of whiskey.* Jake Is ooi an advocate of the Maine Liquor Law. A Dutchman once prosecuted an Irishman for kill* ing a dog of his. The counsel (or Iho Dutchman asked the Irish man II he killed the dog. •• Bo jabore I did,but ye’d bettor lot him prove it." counsel remarked to his client that the defendant acknowledged hit guilt* and wanted him to aay what the dog waa worth. " He Ish not wort one cent, but ash he Is to mean ash to kill a dog, ha shall pay (ho full value of him. 0 An Irish lad having been asked If the man Who' had Just Hogged him was hls own falhery r*pliet},' “Ye#, sure enough, he’s tho parent ov me,.bul ho 1 dates me as if f was bis son by another father an<J mother."
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers