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For the Intelligeneer
Ebb, 0 Tide
Ebb, 0! tide;
Ebb to the sea,
Where o bosom 'wide
'.Vaiteth for thee.
:to ebbs youth,
(Had mountain stream,
Gushing love and truth—
All things a dream.
Silver age
Rolla like the wave ;
Dim eye, forehead sage,
Conning the grave.
Like thee, life
Elibeth away
Smiling, weeping, %trill
Las and decay.
0! tide, rest;
Sleep on the sea,
lin thy Mother's breast
Heaving with thee.
Xittraq.
The Light Gone Out
- .
A little child lay in the house. There
were black and white folding= al the
door; and flowing robes of whit , upon
the sleeper in the great parlor. It went
out last night when the stars were out,
when the moon had set, and the winds
were silent.. There was no struggle--
the little hands clasped, and went up
ward on its heavenward journey.
Alter all, there is nothing strange in
stu•it a going—nothing so sad in the
passing dew drop, in the Inehdly or t h e
voice now dumb forever; and NV,' Bart•
often wondered what there was tOrtears
when the little one was borne away
from the ;trills of its mother. It seems
to inc then. ought to be smiles instead
of _tears, and peace instead of wailing.
\Ve lifted up the sIIOW White covering;
and saw smiles only upon the lip, :out
no trace of suffering or sorrow left. The
summons (NOIR' to it. Went W:ty
in gladness.
We saw the mother, amid learn,
aside the forgotten toys and fold up the
little white robe, as if there was to be
2111 eternal shadow and silenee in the
household, anri we marvelled why this
should be. For we thought of the sweet
face, wrinkled whenage came; the hair
gray ; and the mail struggling in after
year.; for mastery in the world.
Then we thought of the new life ; the
years of
.lob grottiug hrlgiller through
endless cyttles ; and We thought, too, of
the little child waiting in the better land
for cooling friends; 'Chink of this link
binding earth to heaven—held in the
hands of a little child!
Oh, it is better, far loett , .r, thus to go
away in tile first flush of life thun wait
to be wrecked on the great ocean of the
world or gO down in the storm. We can
be reconciled to all this; we call drop a
tear upon the tare of the sleeper, and
turn away without a sorrow.
One child in heaven—one angel front
our household in heaven; and we dry
our tears, and pass on in life, enue(•iuus
that we and It will clasp Lands at the
threshold of heaven. - We murmur no
more, and follow the little household
god to the gra \e, thinking only of its
new glory and its angel rohe.
We will miss the laugh, and thesound
of littly feet ; and we will miss it at the
family meetings, and we may sigh as it
passes on its journey to the sky, but it
is not the sorrow of one eternally dead
to us. Take up the little coffin in your
arms, lay it on your lap in the carriage,
dress it with flowers, and lay it gently
down in the grave. Drop no tear, but
scatter roses above it, and go home, re
joicing and not weeping—not . that I lod
has taken it, and conscious tkat your
darling little child is waiting for you up
above the stars.
Think of it! a little child waiting in
heaven for coining friends from linun..
Tribulation
"Phis is a world of sorntw, and many
there are who " cony to grief." Nome,
like Rachael of old, mourn and will not
be comforted ; others take a calmer view
of matters, and draw coosttlation—as
signor Mitr does eggs—from an appa
rently empty hag. A type of the latter
class is the young and unsophisticated
girl spoken of in the following para
graph by the "local " of the San Fran
cisco Expr(t:s who I teemne attached —ac—
cording to the tel of Assembly—to brass
buttons' and a butte coat, tilled, as the
sequel proved, by a poor apology fir
human being. It seems they journeyed
but a short on the matrimonial
path, Nv en brass buttons and ,oat
"seceded," leaving the four-days I
to finish the journeyalone. The "Itieti I"
gives the following as the result :
"Yesterday a messenger entered our
sanctum conveying, the inteligenee that
a lady wished to see us immediately at
the - Hotel. ICe hnmediately re-
sponded to the call, and wended our
way to the locality indicated. I - pon our
arrival \v e were met by a young lady ar
rayed in a neat calico dress, with a cosy
little white bonnet covered allover with
flowers. She offered us a chair, which
we accepted in as graceful a marling' as
our einbarrassed situation would allow.
Soon she exclaimed, with a sharp, -mill
voice: ' I believe you are tile man
prints the Erpr( We answered in
the affirmative. At this juncture she !
pulled out a long red pocket handker
chief, which had been concealed in ;
some portion of her skirts, and com
menced rubbing her eyes. Soon the '
tears began to flow in a copious man
ner, and she gave vent to deep sob:.
We gazed upon her in deep sorrow.
At last we mustered up courage enough
to address her, and exclaimed: 'Madame
what is the cause of thy grief:" .she
continued to sob, and the red piece of
dry goods was fast becoming saturated
with tears. We spoke again and asked
her the cause of her anguish. She en
deavored to speak in broken accents,
overwhelming grief of her heart would
not allow her lips to give utterance.
After a lively application of the red
handkerchief to her eyes, she broke
forth as follows; wa-wa-want to
ad-ad-ad-ver-tise my, niy, my husband.'
In giving this sentence sobs intervened
in a most terrific manner. A long
pause e,psued. Business came to a
stand still. 'the tears began to slow
freely again, and a beautiful face was
again buried in the ample folds of a red
handkerchief. Soon she rallied again,
and removing tia cloth from her face,
said she had married a So-so-so-soldier
who had re-re-re-recently jined the ar
ar-army.' Who is he, we inquired, and
where is he from? He, he he, is from
Sis-sis-sis-kiyou county, and his name
is Zekiel. He ha-ha-had on a blue jacket
and br-br-brass buttons, and had with
him a ya-ya-ya-yaller dorg.' 4 How
long did you enjoy matrimonial alliance,
Madame,' we inquired. 'We was mar
ried four days,' she answered. After
vain endeavors to administer comfort to
the disconsolate one we left, with the
promise that we would make use of our
hest endeavors to find Zeke and the
yallerAlorg.' As we were about taking
our departure a thought struck her, and
her face brightened up as she exclaim
ed : Perhaps you can hear of the dog !
If you dew please send him to me it
would be such consolotio4."
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Mrs. Robert White and Family
The heads of wheat grew heavy and
golden under the summer's sun, and a
motherquail looked out with an anxious
eye one morning from her nest in the
fence corner. The reapers were whet
ting their sharp sickles, and laughing
and singing and talking as merry as
could be. In all probability they would
find out her nest, and then what would
become of her poor little flock? There
were a full "baker's dozen " of them to
look after, and no wonder she was
anxious. But Mrs. Robert White was
keen as a brier which grew over her
head.
`We'll show them a trick, little dears,"
said she, with a merry chuckle. ":When
I give this sort of a ery, do you dive,
each by himself, into the tall grass on
the other side of the fence, and I will
take care of the rest. Only mind, when
you hew• one whistle ' liob White' quite
softly, all come Lack to the nest again,
for then the danger will he over."
Sure enough, that very afternoon she
had occasion to put her scheme into
praetiee.
" Hallo!" said the furrner'sson, " here
is-a quail's nest, loya. If we will take
home the little ones, they will grow up
as tame as chickens. The old hrown
hen hatelted out two last year, 1(11,1 they
staeod:Tout the Lars all winter."
Ilia when Master Tom sought for his
prize he found att empty nest. Just
het ., :re WilS the old mother
hird,, panting :mil heatini the ground
wit li lien wings at a terril.le rah, Ilia
terhor 'slowly on like a wounded
but discreetly taking a course .ittite dif
ferent from that which her meetings
had taken. she seemed so easy a prize
th . c hogs did nut greatly - exert them
seive,:, hut walked leisurely on in the
lath he in li ated, until at last, by an
annul dodge, she luiie eluded them. It
wan :I piece 01 generalship, and
honorahle 1.0 her motherly feelings. The
hoys were called off to their work again,
and the happy mother awaited their
departure hefor: she called together her
, lilllll.l , if] iwat•e, t
in .aht, la , : reaper
had loft the field, — B . lll rellitallher the
le , - , on I IIIIVT• tZ111 , .2,111 )'Olt 111-II:Ay. It
111:1 . % 1 , 11111• 11 , C1 . 111 a great many times ill
your live,. (Itir tall enemy iI ,o avari
cious, lie will al\vays
if
he trot paA to-day, tts avarice al Nvays
ili-appointniiiat awl vexation.'
Anil then, in 111..41ec,
the tul of a fence rail, awl sang a
ilatining song for
her 111111 fun, \, -.onto iii•ople inter
prot this \\ ity .
Denny. i) , 1111y, cerde pay no , the
twe-aed-,i.x-peneey , ifi'veoNved 111 e more
than a yea: :Ind a half now!
't , he. — ale' de \vi) Itc)ve in tile gra,:
in. i Merry's Muscluil.
The Five Cradles
A Hiatt w h o hail recently mecum('
votary to Bacchus, returned home one
'dela iu an imeinieiliate state of lioozi
lies,. 'Flint is t,, he
drunk, Mit Ix rreetly conscious of
his unfortu-note situation. Knowing
that Ili, wife Wa, asleep, he decided to
attempt gaindlii_i his lied without dii,-
turlihez her, mid, I v sleepimr, off his
ineliriation, conceal the fact from her
altoi2setlier. Ile reaohed the door M . his
room witleittt distuviiite4 her,met.; Mier
ruminating a few moment, on the
matter, he thought if he could reach
the bedrio,r; and hold on to it while
lie slipped oil' hi , apparel. the feat
w,411(1 Ise caSly avrolli iShell.
twat ely for his sehetne. a cradle
stood ill a direct line with the bed
:Wow the middle of the floor.—
course, hen his shins came in con
tact with the :Aforesaid pieceof furniture
he pitched ov,r it with perfect loosenes,
anti upon gritinilu2; an erect position, ere
an equilibrium NVO., established, he went
over linek‘viirtis, in ;ill e Itially summitry
manner
\ ~ t rougloil trr Li
foot, and hoot forinno,t over Ow bower
of infiiiit Lalrliinc .\ t length, with
the fifth filth pnlionoo lieonnio
and \vas p.t . t o b e
overcome. [IT (11•-•pi•rati , 111 Ill` 4 • I • il`11 ( 1111
hi.lerlrin, l arnnr:
\\*lit!! \Nile' how Dlally erzt.llt-,ll:tve
yozi got in the iloils.e? I'vr lallcn ovcr
five. :111.1 lwrore nn
A Food Appearane(
, tyle of dress an d
manner i, th:tih leases without
attim•tiugany partieul. talon. 'l'he
romplhoeut yOll au pny to the
fires of 0 holy or gentleman i, not to
3 11101111 , C1' 3t hat it \\M , ---0111y that they
Nl - ore Nv o ll :111,1 appropriately - drese(l.--
Even (•legaitoe, grnre, and beauty be
come t , trensive tho Illo110•111 thou :11V in
IVe people over-dressed,
over-elei.nuit, over-polite.
But is. it too wor-e to err in the (oiler
extr,•nn , ? The Ind y who wn-3 olnn up
the aisle ()Cu churk•ll to be huirried, but
\\":111:Cti Off without waiting
~t, n 11)11y, In•vaus, her tenet anJ
l• 1 . ; • ; t ; pr,d,aidy
right. .\ wan, who could treat his wire
with disre-Tuct. rudene, , , , , and indecen
cy then, NV:i , 110( likely to make a good
hu,band.
People vcLu Wv:ll'l , )tig: unt nnt4ed h a ir.
terrific heard., hroatl and
matte tip in eccentric
Lace -,•fe c ioi e ,onte \\*here. \Vc
sho't' Nvi,l , ollf hv ilecetit t.ofif,•rillity to
plea,ingi xicrual ap
pt.aance 11,i "illy a matter ,clf-iti
i,rk•-1. 'hut 1.1“ w can we
our flienti. tin l '.y uutkiug.
11=1!11111
111:kt !II a malt alld
(•,Aitt,ll'y n it k,ttCer
err 011 the tutu
Lake too tuuciu nitht r thalt to,' little care
ot . pursolittl
Ilow lie hot the Apple
When the lion. William , now
M. C., was a boy at school, his bench
was shared by an urchin named Muggs.
The teacher had instituted a rule that
any scholar seen eating during school
hours should ewe on the floor and
finish eating what he had begun, to
the merriment of his fellow pupils. One
day Bill brought a fine large apple t from
home, and laid it on his desk ; and so
tempting was the fruit to Muggs that,
in consideration of his best slate pencil,
Bill promised hint a "taste" when he .
should eat it at recess. Not many
minutes after this Bill's attention was
called another way, and Muggs, watch
ing the opportunity, took the apple and
purposely commenced munching it, di
rectly before the eyes of the teacher.
" The young man who is eating an
apple come on to the floor and finish it,"
said the teacher. Muggs obeyed with
with well-feigned reluctance, blinking
at Bill under the arm that shaded his
' roguish eyes, while Bill shook his fist
and vowed vengeance the very first re
, ,ess.
How to be Hateful.
There are some persons who seem to
treasure up things that are disagreeable,
On purpose. I can understand how a
boy that never bad been taugllt better
might carry torpedoes in his pocket,
and delight to throw them down at the
feet of passers-by and see them bound ;
but I cannot understand how an in
structed and well meaning person
could do such a thing. And yet there
are men that carry torpedoes all their
life, and take pleasure in tossing them
at people. "Oh," they say, "I have
something now, and when I meet that
man I will give it to him!" And they
wait for the right company, and the
right circumstances, and then they out
with the most disagreeable things. And
if they are remonstrated with, they say,
" It is true," as if that was a justifica
tion of their conduct. If God should
take all the things that are true of you,
and make a scourge of them, and whip
you tt ith it, you would be the most
miserable of men. But he does not use
all the truth on you. And is there no
law of kfulness ? Is there no desire to
please awl profit. men? Have you a
right to take ally little story that you
can pick up about a man, and use it in
such a way as to injure him, or to give
him pain ? And yet, how many men
there arc that seen) to enjoy nothing so
much as inflicting exquisite suffering
upon a man ill this way, when lit (am
not help hinisei ! Well, you know just
how the devil feels. Whenever he has
done anything wicked, and has made
somebody very unhappy, and laughs,
he feels just as, for the time being, you
feel, when you have done a cruel thing,
and somebody is hurt, and it does you
good.
Custom is not only a sP.olilt nature,
but it is continually mistaken for the
first.
When Gas was Introduced
The gas used for ordinary purposes is
one of the products of the destructive
distillations of pit coal, submitted to a
great heat in east-iron retorts. Certain
permanent gases are given off, and are
collected in a large pipe half filled with
tar, after which they pass through a
series of iron pipes, cooled on the out
side by streams of water. The tar and
ammoniacal liquid generated are thus
condensed, and the gases proceed to
another part of the apparatus, called
the purifier. her being submitted to
tile purifying process, it is collected into
large reservoirs, called gasometers—
more correct ly gas-holders—from which
it is conveyeit by large pipes, afterwards
branching otl• into lesser ones, to all
parts of the town.
The artificial production of an inflam
mable air frotit coal is first mentioned
by Ilse Rev. Mr. Clayton, in a letter ad
dressed to the Royal Society, May Li,
1655; he states that he distilled coal in
a close vessel, collecting the gas in blad
ders, and afterwards burning it for the
amusement of his friends. In the 'year
1707 he erected a similar apparatus in
Ayreshire, wiiiirc be then resided, and
in 1705 he was engaged to put up his ap
pa paths a p t the manufactory of Messrs.
lioulton, Watts & Co., Soho, nearßirm
ingham. The illumination of the Soho
WV•orks by gas in 1503, on the occasion of
peace, brought it into general notice,
and it was soon adopted by many in
dividuals, wbo, acting upon their own
ideas, introduced various modes of col
lecting and purifying it. A public ex
hibition of it in London took place in
1800. Golden Lane was lighted with it
in 1507, Ptdl Mall in 1500, and all the
streets generally in 1514.
A Benevolent Ph3sietan •`Sold.'
The 'l' roy nwifirt' tells a good story of
the manner in which a certain M. 1).,
residing in Troy, was recently taken in
andeompletely " sold'' by a German, a
stranger. it seems the latter called on
the aforementioned disciple of Eseu
lupins for medical assistance, told him
that lie was here without friends, and
showed him papers which represented
that he was worth considerable pro
perty at Chicago. The Doctor, in the
" goodness of loss , heart," took the
stranger in and properly eared for hint,
until he died on his hands. Before
- grin' Death " had seized him he made
a will, leaving all his property to his
benefactor, at the saute time drawing a
check for S':;,.loo.tin a western hank—
that being the amount he stated he hail
on deposit at such hank—and kindly.
donated the proceeds the Doctor.
!tumor adds that he was recently laid
out at the house of the Doctor and
buried in a respectable manner; lout it
is added that the property, cheek,
money, said to be o<vited hy the
deceased, have since turned out to be
all in "Nis eye," tind the Doetor's anti
cipations of realizing a " small for
tune has been blasted.
An Old Lady Adi ice to Johnny
"Now John. listen to On. oliler
than you or I eouldn't I,e your norther.
N,ver ,10 v 4 m rry a y.ung wornon,
i 11 1 ,:: heforc
breakfast. You should know how late
she lies in bed in the morning, you j
should take notice whether her com_
plexion is the saint. in the morning as
in the evening, or whether the wash
and towel have robbed her of her eve-
Iting You should take care to
surprise her, so that you may see her in
her morning dress, and observe how her
hair looks when she is not expecting
you. If possible, you should he where
you can hear the morning conversation
iwtween her and her mother. If she is
ill-natured and snappish to her mother,
so site will be to you--depend on it.
But if you find her up and hissed neat
ly in the morning, with the same
smiles, the neatly combed hair the
same ready and pleasant answers to her
mother which characterized her deport
in the evening, and particularly if she
is lending a hand to get breakfast ready
in good season, she is a prize, John and
the sooner you secure her to yourself
the better.
—ln the City Hall at Luneburg,
Hanover, is a monument to a pig—a
glass ease, enclosing a ham, still in good
preservation. A slab of black marble
attracts the eye of visitors, who find
thereon the following inscription in
Latin, engraved in letters of gold:
"Passer-by, contemplate here the mor
tal remains of the pig which acquired
for itself imperishable glory by the dis
covery of the salteprings of Luneburg."
—The subject of a universal language
is now exciting considerable attentis)n in
England. A code of symbols have been
invented, which is declared infallible.
The symbols are thirty-four in number,
and have been tried in most of the Eu
ropean and Oriental languages. It is
said that apenon of common intelligence
and education can learn them in a few
days' study.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 30, 1864.
The Way of the World.
There goes a virtuous and honest man.
Whosares! Nobody looks a- t , him or
cares a fig how he looks or dresses.
Here passes a man of wealth. The
old ladies run to the window. " Who?"
"Where ?" " How does he dress ?I' He
is a great object of attraction. " HoW
in the world did he make so much ?"
" He doesn't look as if he was worth a
penny."
This is the way of the world. Every
body; gazes with admiration upon the
rich while they turn away from virtu
ous poverty.
Let a man make ten thousand dollars,
and he is a gentleman every inch of him.
Everybody has a kind word and a smile
for him.
Be poor and honest and no one knows
you. Men and women have heard of
such a name as yours, and you may live
at their elbow, but they are not certain
about it.
Possess a fortune and-live at the mile
post, and your neighbors and friends
would line the heart of the city. All
would know where you lived and point
a stranger to the very door.
We repeat—such is the world. tiold
en vice is caressed, while humble virtue
is unobserved.
Will the time never come—ncrer !
when men shall he honored for their
virtues and despised for their vices;
rather than be earesseet for their riches
and condemned tin• their poverty'.
Everybody, in words, censures the idea
of honoring the rich because they are
rich, and yet, such are the regulations
Of society, that everybody dots humble
in his mani,crs and feelings when in
the presence of the " upper ten thous
and." As long as ladies will associate
with the voluptuous rich and shun the
virtuous poor, so long Will vice be con
sidered no disgrace, iind \VC:Oth will pay
for the sacrifice of virtue,
The hour of Death
A paper on this subject was lately
read at the British Association by Mr.
Haviland of the Bridgewater Infirmary.
It is stated that tin author had collect
ed over 5,1)(5) cases of death, with the
hour of death and other circumstances
recorded, which he had tabulated and
exhibited on a large chart. By this
chart he showed that in 1,000 cases of
death in children under five years of
age, the periods of the greatest mortality
took place during the hours between
one and eight ill the morning ; that an
extraordinary, depression took place in
the succeeding hours, and that between
9 and 12 P. M. the rate of mortality was
at its minimum. He t hen compared these
statistics with 2,591 deaths from all
causes, and the chart showed bow re
markable the wave lines of death com
pared with those above. In the ease of
death from consumption, although there
slurred a general resemblance in the
wave line, yet between the hours of 4
and 8 o'clock, A. M., when there was a
depression when compdred with the
first four-hour period, the mortality was
the greatest. The extraordinary mor
tality was in the early hours of the
morning,, when the powers of life were
at their lowest ebb, and, strange to say
when the patient was most cared for.
He urged the necessity of feeding and
stimulating the patients at their weak
est hour, so as to tide them over a criti
cal period, and, even if death be inevi
table, to support the patient so that he
might at least have a few hours more of
life snatched from eternity to admit of
his being able to carry out some ne
glected duty, pardon some enemy, or
see some beloved
Next to being a bride herself, every
good looking young woman likes to he
a bride's maid. Wedlock is thought by
a large proportion of 'the blooming sex
to he contagious, and much to the credit
of their courage, fair spinsters are not
at all afraid of catching it. Perhaps the
theory that the affection is communi
cated by the contract is coxrect. Cer
tainly we have known one marriage to
lead to another, and sometimes to such
a series of " happy even ts '' as to favor
the belief that matrimony, as John Van
Buren might say. " runs like the
cholera.-
Is there any book entitled "pubes tin• •
Bridesmaids" in secret circulation
among young ladies? It seems as if
there must Is', for all the pretty heneh
women act precisely alike. So far as
official conduct is concerned, when you
have seen one bridesmaidyou have seen
the whole fascinating tribe. Their lead
ing duty seems to be to treat the bride
as " a "victim led with garlands to the
sacrifice." They consider it necessary
to exhort her to " cheer up and stand
by." It is assumed, by a poetic fiction,
that she goes in a state of fearful trepi
dation to the altar, and upon the whole
would rather not. Her 'fair aids pro
vide themselves with pungent essences,
lest she should faint at the " trying mo
ment," which, between you and us,
reader. she has no more idea of doing
th an slre has of i s tr ue , she
sometimes tells them that she " feels as
if she would sink into the earth," and
that they respond, "poor, dear soul,"
and apply the smelling-bottle; but she
goes through her nuptial martyrdom
with fortitude, nevertheless.
In nine cases of ten the bridegroom is
more " flustered " than the fi : agile and
lovely creature at his side; but nobody
thinks of pitying him, poor fellow ! All
sympathy, compassion, interest, is con
centrate, upon the bride, and if one of
the groomsmen does recommend him to
take a glass of wine before the ceremo
ny, to steady his nerves, the advice is
given supercilliously—as who should
say, "what a spooney you are, old fel
low."
Bridesmaids may be considered as
•brides in what lawyers call the " in
choate " or incipient state. They are
looking forward to that , day of trium
phant weakness when it•shall be their
turn to be " poor dear creatured," and
Preston salted, and otherwise sustained
and supported, as the law of nuptial
pretences directs. Let us hope they
may not be disappointed.
THREE IMPORTANT TinsGs.—Three
things to love : courage, gentleness and
affection. Three things to admire: in
tellectual power, dignity and graceful
ness. Three things 16 hate: cruelty,
arrogance and ingratitude. Three things
to delight in : beauty, frankness , and
freedom. Three things to wish for :
health, friends and cheerful spirit.—
Three things to pray for: faith, peace
and purity of heart. Three things to
like: cordiality, good humor and mirth
fulness. Three things to avoid : idle
ness, loquacity and. flippant jesting.—
Three things to cultivate: good books,
good friends and good temper. Three
things to contend for: honor, country
and friends. Three things to govern;
temper, impulse and tongue. ,
Bridesmaids
Little Girls.
I cannot well imagine a home more
incomplete than that one where there
is no little girl to Stand ln the void of
the domestic circle which boys can never
fill, and , to draw all hearts. ithin , the
magic ring by the nameless charm 'of
herpresence. There is something about
little girls which is especially loveable ;
even, their willful, naughty ways seem
utterly void of evil when they are so
soon followed by the sweet penitence
that overflows in such gracious showers.
Your boys are great noble fellows, gen
erous, loving, and full of good impulses,
but they are noisy and demonstrative,
and dearly as you love then', you are
glad their place is out of. doors ; but
Jennie with her light step is always
beside you ; she brings the slippers for
papa, and with her pretty dimpled fin
gers unfolds the paper for him to read ;
she puts on a thimble no bigger than a
fairy's, and with some very mysterious
combination of " doll rags," fills up a
small rocker by mamma, with a \ton
derful assumption of womanly dignity.
And who shall tell how the, little thread
of speech that flows with such sweet,
silvery lightness from those innocent
lips, twines itself around the mother's
heart, never to rust, not even when the
dear little face is hid among the daisies,
as so many mothers know.
But .fennie grows to he a woman, and
there is a long and shining track front
the half-latched door of eh ildhood, till
the.girl blooms into the mature woman.,
There are the brothers who a INV:I3'S low
er their voices when they talk to their
sister, and tell of the sports in which
she takes almost as much interest as
they do, while in turn she instructs
them in all the little minor details ttf
home life, of which they would grow
up ignorant if not for her. And what a
shield she is upon the dawning manhood
wherein so many temptations lie.
Always her sweet presence to guard
and inspire them, a check upon pm
faulty, a living sermon on immorality.
How fragrant the cup of tea she hands
them at the evening meal, how cheery
her voice as she relates the little inci
dents of the day. No silly talk of in
cipient beaux, or love of young men
met on the promenade. A girl like that
has no empty space in her head for such
thoughts to run riot in, and you don't
find her spending the evening in the
dim parlor with a questionable young
man for her company. When her lover
comes, he must say what he has to say
in the family sitting-room with father
and mother; or, if he is ashanti•d
to, there is. no room for hint there.
Jennie's young heart has not been
filled by the pernicious nonsense which
results in so many unhappy marriages
or hasty divorces. Dear girl, she thinks
all the time of what a good home she
has, what dear brothers, and on betided
knees craves the blessing of Heaven to
rest on them, but site does not know
how far, very far, for time and eternity,
her own pure example goes, how it will
radiate as a blessing into other home
where a sister's memory will be the
consecrated ground of the past.
Cherish then the little girls, dimpled
darlings who tear'their aprons, and cut
the table-cloths, and eat the sugar, and
are themselves the sugar and salt of
life! Let them dress and undress their
doll babies to their heart's content, and
don't tell them Tom Thumb and Red
Riding Hood are fiction, but leave them
alone till they find it out, which they
will all too soon. Answer all the funny
questions the ask, and don't make fun
of their baby theology, and when you
must whip them, do it so that if you
should remember it, it would not he
with tears, for a great many little girls
lose their hold suddenly before the door
from which they have just escaped is
shut, and find their way back to the an
gels. So he gentle with tick darlings,
and see what a trael , of sunshine will
followlin the wake of the little bobbing
heads that daily find a great many hard
problems to solve.
Popping the Question
To us gentlemen this popping the q ties- -
lion is no 'easy matter. It drives,
verilybelieve, a bashful man almost into
hysteric's. Many a cold sweat, many a
choking in the throat, many a knock
ing of the knees together•, have these
poor• rascals before they can summon
courage to ask a girl to have them.
it isn't so, egad, with all—some do it
with an easy impthiency—soma dO it
in a set speech—some (I() it because they
can't help it—and some never at all, but
getmarried, as it were, by instinct. Only
give two lovers fair play, kick your
match-making aunts to the duce, and
my life for it the most demure will find
a way of being understood, even if, like !
old Sir Isaac Newton, they have to make
it with their foot. As they get cozier,
they will sit gazing in each other's eyes
till at last, when they least expect it, i
perhaps the question witl pop out like
the cork from a champaglie bottle. It's
all nonsense this lending young folks a
helping hand—take my wool for it, all
they wi , ll ;slit he left :Mum ; ))11 , 1 iftlu•re
be an, c .nfounded young-i,
let them be put to bed or drowned, it
dosn't matter a fig which. If lovers
have no tongues, haven't they eyes,
egad! and where is the simpleton that
can't tell whether a girl loves him with
out a word on her part ? No one ad
mires modesty more than I do ; but the
most delicate angel of them all won't
disguise her little heart when 3 - on are
with her. A blush, a sigh, a studied
avoidance of you in company, and a low
thrilling trembling of the voice at times
when no one is by, tell more titan the
smilesof a thousand coquettes. Ah, you
needn't, Amy, shake your head—you'll
no doubt be soon enough—butif you fall
in love, as you will, my word on it—the
very echo of one footstep will make your
heart flutter like a frightened bird.—
Jeremy Short.
CRITICISM OF SHAKSPEARE BY A
SAlLOR.—President Felton in his " Fa
miliar Letters from Europe," recently
published by Messrs. Ticknor & Fields,
relates the following incident that oc
curred on the good ship Daniel Webster
in which he was a passenger in 1853:
"Last night I read some passage from
the Midsummer Night's Dream to the
captain. When I came to the descrip
tion of the mermaid riding upon the
dolphin's hack, he pronounced it a
humbug. The dolphin's back is as sharp
as a razor, and no mermaid could pos
sibly ride the beast unless she first sad
dled him."
—A gentleman long since, in one of
his rides in Southern Illinois, sought to
make himself interesting to a good,
looking mother of a sweet baby, occu
pying the next seat in the car. After
duly praisin ,, the baby he remarked to
the mother "He is a real sucker, I sup
pose." " No, sir;"..said - the lady, blush
ing; "we had to raise himon the bot
tle. The gentleman resumed his read
ing and has not 'bragged on any strange
baby Sipe:
iortMizeouo.
The Pyramids—Who Built Them?
From Blackwood'fi Magazine.i
The pyramids--i. e.,three which mo
nopolize the name, for some sixty or
seventy more of inferior size exist in
Lower Egypt,) stand in a diagonal line
from northeast to southwest, with the
sides of each exactly facing the fourcar
dinal points. The northern is the largest
and usually called the first, though
some conceive the second or middleone
to be, in truth, the oldest. These two
differ in size and construction, covering
over some twelke acres Of ground, and
rising to a height of four hundred and
fifty feet. There are now the only sur
viving remnants of the famous Aeven
Wonders of the World, and are without
doubt the oldest, as well as the largest,
edifices extant. The third is but half
their size, but of superior construction.
All three, as Herodotus was informed,
were executed by the kings whose nam es
they bore for their own sepulchres—the
first by Cheops, who reigned fifty years;
the second by his brother, Gephrenes,
who reigned fifty-six years; and the
third liy Mycerinus, son of Cheops.
They were faced with slabs of stone
carefully formed, and presenting a
smooth, inaccessible surface from top
to bottom. There was an inscription
on the side. of the first pyramid; from
Which Herodotus' guide read to him
that sixteen hundred talents of silver
had been expended in buying radishes,
onions, and garlic for the workmen.
No other writing is mentioned, and
this has long since disappeared with the
casing stones, which the Arabs stripped
oft; tile pyramids to use in building their
t'j y of Marcel (:ahirch i'Misraim the
Victorious). by unbelievers ignorantly
railed Cairo. Herodotus learnt that this
'stone was brought from the Nile, and
drawn by a causeway erected for the
purpose front the river to the end-of the
desert. This causeway, which" took ten
years to building, and was formed of
p. d ishedstones,seulptured with animals,
was, in his opinion, a work little inferior
to the pyramid itself.
What say the pyramids themselves?
First, they sift rm themselves to he tombs
and temples. Sepulchral vaults have
been discovered under each, and there
is no trace of any religious uses what
ever. The vaults, however, have no
eommunications—and never could have
any with the Nile, being all considera
bly above the level. Hence, the story
of the Cheops and his insulted tomb only
prove that the priests were not acquaint
ed with the interior of the pyramids.
At what time they were first opened, we
know not—apparently not till after
I le rodot us's visit-perhaps before fit ratios
who mentions the entrance into the
larger one covered by a movable stone.
They were probably violated by the
t-sians. and certainly by the Arabian
ealiphs of the seventh century.
l fence the absenctlof a body, or any
traces of one, in Ow larger pyramids,
does not amount to a corroboration of
t he legend that the fottAilleni were never
buried there. Then_ t the vault is
empty, the Great Pyramid contains
what neither Herodotus nor Diodorus
ever expected, a ehambesp—indeed two
--in the heart of the superstructure ;
and in one of these, called the King's
Chamber, a plain granite sarcophagus
ill remains.
it must be noted that all the chambers
and vaults are secured by portcullises of
stone, wit' every precaution against
disturbance or subsequent entry.
Another point to be noted is, that the
vaults are entered by sloping passages
opening high in the northern face of
etch pyramid, and running at about the
same angle straight into the bowels of
the earth. In the Great Pyramid the
passage is upwards of three hundred
feet long, and so exactly straight that
the sky is visible from the lower end.
Its angle with the horizon is 26:41 which,
according to a cah•ulation made by Sir
John Hersclhel, would have pointed
four thousand years ago to the star a in
the constellation of Prato, which teas
d north star. This fact has been
called in to assist in determining the
date of the structure. At all events,
when coupled with the exact emplace
ment of the sides, it proves that some
astronomical considerations were in
view, though the pyramids were hardly
suited for observatories.
laron Bunsein insists ot.o„;ilolatry be- ;
jug coeval with the language and na
tionality of Egypt, and will allow of no
sesdi changes in the religion or monar
chy through all his romantie periods.—
t ingifiries of a lower flight will find
it !C pyramids themselves the clearest
';lenceof at least an entire revolution.
lN,t only are they manifestly different
in character from all other monuments,
but the very tradition of their origin
was lost. The idol priests knew noth
ing about them, Their founders were
impious, accursed men who closed the
teroplesPhilition, the shepherd, and
so forth. What does this mean, but
that they were men of another religion,
i in l ived before the temples were built?
The Pyramids were, like Stonehenge—
r,•l4.s of a former state of society, which
bad no succession among those who
talked so ignorantly.
(ii the numeroll- pyramids,
, 4111 10,s is known than of the famous
three : yet around the apices of the
hoary structures Baron Bunsen per
; steak,: that lit ha, wovon, so
j a= never to hi' removed, a history to
ti k effect
Man was created in the year 11. C.
lu,S:i-1, when everything 1101111 of the
Alps was 1111 open sea, the 1..ral Monti
! tains standing up as an island, and
; Britannia not having yet arisen from
out the azure main.
The rase is simply this: We may
conjecture the oldest pyramid to be of
age of Abraham, say '2lOO years B. C.;
any earlier date is worthy only of the
Antldan Knights." The strongest
grounds, moreover, of this conjecture,
arc eat away by the Egyptologists,when
they reject the astronomical indications
and is icy a origin. If the
ab, are ut -,uiptiirt, can be reemndled
with the contemporaneous idolatry,
and Chutfus is to be connected with the
tombs of Ghizen and Benihassen,
the
argument heroines very strong fort
much later date. There is no trace of
an idolatrous building in Lower Egypt
before the Theban Amosis, who, accord
ing to an inscription yet remaining in
the quarry, built the temple of
Phthah, at Memphis, in the twenty-
second year of his reign. The Egypto
logists choose to consider this a rebuild
ing after the shepherd desolation; but
the shepherds are a myth, unknown to
the monuments as to the Bible and He
rodotus. Then, too, the argument for
unity of design comes seriously into
play ; only, instead of carrying the
Sphinx back to Cheops, it will bring
Cheops down to Sphinx. The monster
is unquestionably of Theban origin, and
was probably constructed in the early
part of the eighteenth dynasty as a
monument to the new monarchy. In
that ease the second pyramid may be
the oldest (as Bunsen thinks,) and Am
osis may be Lhafra or Chahryis, its
founder.
Chufu and Mencheres may be succes
sors or colleagues and Nitocris may be
the regent sister of Thothines 111., whom
Wilkinson calls Amunneitgori and
Lopsius, Funt Amen. For ourselves we
incline to the queen of Psammeticus as
at least the second founder of the third
(or rosy-faced) pyramid, and if one was
built in this age or archaic restoration,
why not the others also ? Taking this,
the last date, the pyramids will stillbe
the oldest monuments in existence, and
the last of the Seven Wonders of the
world. Surely we may be content with
so marvellous an antiquity, without
following the Prussian enthusiasts in
their attempts toout-Manetho Manetho.
As a question of critical evidence, there
is absolutely nothing in their specula
tions to determine, one way or the other,
the problems that were insoluble to
Herodotus. - One or two interesting
coincidents between the names in Egyp
tian legend and the interpretation from
the monuments (genuine or fictitious)
is the utmost yet attained to. To set up
these scraps and guesses against the au
thority of such a history as the boolr. of.
Genesis is, froin a purely literary point
or a view, rtdiculono. To pbm
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thern• against the authenticity and
spirationot the Illoaale, Wrktings, at/wag
in the New Testament even more
strongly than in the Old, is an offence
to our common Chriatianity.
Aihtata After Its XllPtare•
Correspondence:of pie Xtost,on JCp=4d.]
All along th is street---Disirietta—and
in this neighborhood the cottages and
houses bear the marksof our cannoned;
ing. The smaller -houses and some of
the larger ones have their chimneys
built on the outside. These are often
badly battered, while broken fences,
roofs, piazzas, huge rips and ordinary
sized cannon holes in the sides of the
buildings, in every conceivable part, all
attest that war in its most earnest tem-
per has been wagedin and around At
lanta.
In the business part of the town and
in the west end, there does not appear
to have been much damage done. One
block was burned down ; the foundry
buildings and the large engine house—
one of the finest in the West—had their
roofs somewhat injured ; but, on the
whole, one is astonished that, with such
a long cannonading so little permanent
injury has been inflicted on the town.
Fifty houses, however, in different parts
of the city, were burned to the ground
by fires kindled by our shells.
We walked through the town on the
morning after our arrival. It spreads
over a large space, and, outside of the
business district, the - houses are wide
enough apart, having gardens, or rather
grounds, around them, to insure a tole
rable:, degree of protection to property
against the fiercest bombardment. The
v;ide streets and open spaces took the
shells very good-naturedly, and have no
recollection of their visits. The demo
lished lamp-posts and shade-trees shat
tered alone remind one that something
has happened out of the ordinary way
of business in the streets themselves.
GOPHER HOLES.
What are those red mounds in the gar
dens ? Go in, nobody will question your
right to do so ; for almpst everybody is
out of town, or getting ready to go, and
the few who remain will not dare to
order you to' halt. They are either
friends,who have not gone North yet,
or rebell who must leave within twenty
four hours, or contrabands who like to
be called Yankees, or "Constitutional
Union men," who prefer to seek new
homes in the free States and Canada, to
risking their lives, and liberty, and
property again in the Confederacy,
which they still hope to see an indepen
dent nationality.
We went into two or three of the gar
dens to examine the red mounds of
earth. They call them gopher holes.
Whenever the stealing began the wo-
men and other non-combatants who
could do so, left their houses and ran
into them for safety. They are holes
dug in the ground, boarded up, and
covered several feet deep with earth.
You descend into them by steps, which
are dug on the side from which the shells
do not come. They are seven or eight
feet in height or depth, and about four
in width, and will hold—those we saw
—from six to a dozen persons. They
have a flooring and a rude beach to sit
on. An air-hole and the stairway afford
ventilation and fresh air. If a shell falls
on the roof and explodes it does no one
any harm. They are living graves.
Perhaps you may have seen a picture of
them, labelled " Cave life in Atlanta,"
in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.
If so, I despair of giving you a correct
picture of them, until you forget that
engraved and mendacious lie.
We saw others dug in the hard clay
embankments of the railroad. They
are first dug straight in a few feet, and
then suddenly turn to the left. As I
have not spoken yet with any one who
lived in them, and will not adopt Frank
Leslie's mode of supplying a lack of
facts by an abundance of fancy, you
must imagine for yourselves the amount
and degree of comfort likely to be found
in these subterranean abodes.
Never may the wives and daughters
of New England have to seek such places
of safety ! I think if some friends that
I have-in Boston were to see the batter
ed houses and the gopher holes here,
they would be far less ready than they
now are to wish for a war with England
or France as soon as the present strife is
ended. Atlanta once seemed far less
likely to need such caves than Boston
and its suburbs would do in case of a
great foreign war.
THE BUSINESS DISTRICT.
Although the business district of At
lanta was but slightly injured by the
bombardment, it affords a sadder illus
tration of the effects of war than even
the gopher holes of the shattered dwel
lings. The streets were never more
thronged than now in the brightest
days of its prosperity ; but every store
is empty and deSerted or tenanted only
by military men—by the commissaries
or the quartermasters, or the regimental
post offices.
Atlanta was a oity with a settled pop
ulation of at least fifteen thousand, and
refugees from various States had more
than doubled its inhabitants since the
war began—such, at least, is what some
of the leading citizens say. It was the
Yankeest place in all the " Yankee
States of the South," as the Georgians
some years ago loved to call their coun
try. It was a thriving, driving city—
for the South. It was the terminus of
several railroads. Its business blocks,
depots, and foundries, and round houses,
would have done credit to any Massa
chusetts town ; and; now? There are
two hotels in operation,
several barber
shops and' embalming the dead estab
lishments, and three news depots—and
that is all, absolutely ALL—the business
now carried on outside of governmental
control, unless one excepts the Adams'
Express Company, and also the Sani
tary Commission, which has at length
been permitted to have two agents here.
The Government is running the found
ries, and everything else except the
churches, and these will probably soon
run out by expulsion of their congrega
-1 tions under the recent stern and rigor
ous order of General Sherman.
The depots are lined with refligees
and their household goods, patiently
waiting to move North—into "Gods'
country," as our soldier boys patrioti
cally and peetically call the North.
I would not guess that there are over
a thousand citizens left in Atlanta, in
cluding those who have accepted Gov
ernment work, and their families.—
There are quite large numbers of blacks,
but every one of them is employed in'
the commissary and quartermaster's
departments. and the recruitment of
them is jealously prohibited by the
military authorities. The streets are
thronged with men on foot and ou
horseback—but they are nearly all in
uniform. Not one per cent. are clad In
citizens' attire. The larger part of the
dwellings are either open or empty, or
occupied as the headquarters of the offi
cers of the different departments.
THE DEFENCES
We walked along the railroad to see
the defences. Military men speak of
them with great admiration, and say
that it would have been utterly impos
sible to carry the city by storm, or only
at a hideous sacrifice of life.
There are three lines of works which
are said to extend without a break all
around the city. They are twenty-two
miles in length. The middle line is
very strong, and, at short distances, are
well built and strong forts, which sweep
every approach to them. Some of them
were mounted with six and eight guns
of; heavy calibre. Chevaux de frise—
long trunks of trees, with spokes ex
tending three or four feet both sides of
them, so that turn them ask you would,
their spurs opposed you—are placed in
front of them • and outside of these,
again, are felled trees, to arrest and baf
fle the march of the most desperate as
sailants. Some sixty guns in all, of dif
ferent calibres, were captured, but their
carriages were burned and they were
spiked. I saw some of them. Theybe;
longed, when they were made, as they
now belong, to." 5.," as their uncle
faceable imprints attest.
But our, large army and our able gen
eralship „inade all this vast work of no
avail;
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until we ,forced the.mazuniotit military
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The Relative Positions of Brant and Lee.
From the Richmond Cor. of L9ndon Times. ,
In many of my previous letters
pointed outto your readers the true dia
frfivantages of Lee's position as corn- _
Fared With Grant's. Alia general illus
tration it may be said that Lee.is on the
arc, Grant on the chord of a. circle ; but
as this expression does not exactly de
fine the position of the two armies,
,whose lines (extending each of them
over a length of thirty miles) do not
pursue any uniform course of inclina
tion, I will endeavor, at the risk of re
pealing what I have described many
times before, to make my meaning
clearer. Your readers will understand
'that, in such an attitude as is occupied -
by the armies of Lee and Grant, the
army which takes the initiative and
acts on the aggressive has an immense
advantage.
Lee is like a skilful one-armed prize
fighter, 'who is fighting a big bully with
two arms, taller, more active and keener
sighted than himself. The most tempt
ing and promising opportunities offer
themselves to him every day. He can
not afford to. hazard even twenty lives
in a tentative operagon. The fact of his
great numerical i n Merl ty to his enemy, •
and that he is tethered down and forced
to keep always a large portion of his -
army before Petersburg, are disadvan-°
tages equivalent to the loss of an arm
by a prize fighter. Grant, on the other
hand, has, in the eyes of those who
rightly survey the ground, such advan
tages as make it astonishing that, in the
four months between the 12th of June,
when he crossed the James, river, and
the present time, he should have made
so little use of them. In his centre lies
the James river, with its dozens of Yan
kee gunboats and Monitors, covering the (Y:
federal base of operations, and making /
it even unapproachable bypeneralLee.
It is doubtless with a view to getting
still more out of these Monitors that
General Butler is attempting to cut a
canal through Dutch Gap, into which
he hopes to tempt the James river.
It is not thought here—l may say
par paren these—that any advantage
will result to Butler's comrades from
this canal, even if, contrary to Federal
experience at Vicksburg, it prove a
success. By means of the pontoon
bridges which, connect Bermuda Hun
dred with Deep Bottom, Grant can
throw any number of men by night or
by day to the north or south of the
James. It is almost impossible for Lee
to know if Grant's demonstrations,
whether they threaten Richmond on
the extreme Federal right, or the South
side Railroad on the Federal left, are
feints or realities. On the other hand,
from the configuration of the ground,
it is almost impossible for Lee to cut
Grant's extended lines in any vital
place. The most tempting place to as
sail those lines would be somewhere not
far from the spot where Grant's mine
was sprung. But the shape of the
ground and the position of the position
of the forests is such that the lines can
only be attacked. at two or three con
fined spots, and here naturally Grant
has defended himself . With triple fron
tiers of fortifications, and keeps always
strong bodies of men in position.
I am in hopes that during the coming
winter rest will not be denied to Lee's
army, as it becomes stronger; but be
that as it may, I am convinced that
when the true history of the Confederate
campaign of 1864 in Virginia is written,
it will record a struggle unsurplfssed in
heroism, and in the patience and self
denying endurance of the troops since
the time when blood was first spilt upon
the earth, and man first lifted his hand
in anger against his brother.
There is one plan by which, at the
price of the bricks and mortar of Peters
burg, General Lee might curtail* the
existing prolongation of his lines,might
assume a much stronger defensive posi
tion and considerably increase the diffi
culties of his opponent. That this plan
will be adopted, if occasion requires, is
by no means improbable; but so long
as General Lee feels himself strong
enough to hold and protect Petersburg
as well as Richmond he will continue
to cling to both. If he gave up the
town of Petersburg, and he fell back
upon the western and higher bank of
the Appomattox, holding the heights of
Pocahontas, which guide Petersburg on
the west and north, his strength for de
fense would be much greater; but he
would have, in the same measure, to
give the little city up to its assailants,
much in the same fashion as Fredericks
burg was given up to the Federals while
the Confederates held Mary's Heights.
It has often been urged by wise mili
tary heads that this would be a judicious
step, but experience has shown to what
misery the inhabitants of towns surren- -
dered to the enemy are reduced, and to
this misery Gen. Lee will not consent
that Petersburg shall be exposed, if he
can prevent it. My own expression is
that the success or failure which may
follow Hood's daring move in Georgia
(of which I spoke in my last letter) will
govern the operations of Grant against
Richmond. The reciprocity and mutu
ality which have: always existed between
the various armies of the Federals on the
one hand and of the Confederates on the
other, in the East and West, were never
more apparent than at this moment. If
the Confederates maintain theirpresent
attitude before Richmond, and continue'
to hold their enemy back until, as is
here anticipated, a great disaster has
overtaken Sherman in the West, I do
not scruple to say that, in my opinion, -
Richmond will laugh its assailants to
scorn. If, on the other hand, Sherman
is able to extricate himself from his pre
sent critical position, by either beating
or outwitting Hood, there will be reason
for apprehension about Richmond dur
ing the coming winter tire like of which
has never existed before.
Meat Preserved Many Thousand Tears.
We have now eviderke of man having
coexisted in Europe with three species
of elephant, two of them extinct, name
ly, the mammoth and the clephua anti
quus, and a third the same as that
which still survives in Africa. As to
the first of these, the mammoth, I am
aware that some writers contend that it
could not have died out many tens of
thousands of years before our time,
because its flesh has been preserved in
ice in Siberia in so _fresh a state as
to serve as food for dogs, bears, and
wolves ; but this argument seems to
me fallacious. Midendorf, in 1843, af
. ter digging through some thickness of
frozen soil in Siberia, came down upon
an icy mass, iu which the camas of a
mammoth was Imbedded so perfect that,
among other parts, the pupil of the eye
was taken out, and is now preserved in
the Museum of Moscow. No one will
deny that this elephant had lain for
several thousand years in its icy envel
ope ; and if it had been left undisturbed,
and the cold had gone on increasing for
myriads of centuries, we might reason
ably expect that the frozen flesh might
continue undecayed until a second gla
cial period had passed away.—Sir Chas.
A CHILD ON SABBATH-BREAKING.—
One Sunday, as a little girl of four win
ters was on the way home from church,
with her father, they passed a boy split
ting wood, when the father said,
" Mary, do you see that boy breaking
the Sabbath ?" She made no reply but
appeared to be very thoughtful, as she
walked homeward. After entering the
house, her mother asked her what she
had seen while she was gone, when she
replied : " Oh, mother, I saw -a boy
breaking the Sabbath with a big as !"
.
-In 1810 Judge Tanerias Bo feeble that
a gentleman whOhad'a law snit, refused
to give it to hiM for fear he world die
hefore the case was tried: - 1 11413 was
lifty-four yeao3 before the great jurist.