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Spring's Advent.
Bt nits- BoaAps.
r x ., Winter into Spring the year has passed
to airo and noiseless as the anoivand dew— ,
:11c pearls and diamondswhich adorn his robes,
at the morning,: when the solar beam
T..ichts the fotlage - like a glittering wand.
is the sky above, the wave below;
aro' the ether glide transparent c l ou d s
s alted by the breeze, as on the sea
\Vllte silo are borne in graceful ease along..
its green spears thro! the harden'llground
glass is seen ; the yet no verdant shields
"tom! over head in one bright roof—,
Le that which rose above the senrietl . ranks
•, Roman legions in the battle plain—.. -
,fend it from assailing En and shour, -
3 guarded spots alone young buds exiiind,
\or yet on slopes along the southward sides -
f gentle mountains have the flowers unveiled
(heir maiden blushes to the eyes of Day. • -
i is the season when Fruition fails
o smile on Hope, who lover-likei . attends
fang promised joys and distant, dear deligl i tts,
tis the season when the heart awakes '
s from deep slumber, and, alive to all, .
be soft, sweet feelingtohat .from lovely font;
ike odors float, receives them to itself
,d fondly garners with a miser's care,
in the busy intercourse of life,
i ,ey, like untended roies, should retain
o fragrant freshness and no devil' bloom."
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le the coming of the;Spring is dear
he sailor thie first wind from land,
after some long voyage. he descries
ir, faint-outline of hisnative coast.
by The wave, when grandly rose the gale,
't how peaceful was the calm on shore.
by the wave, when died the gale away i
(reamed of quiet he'should find'at home.
hen T heard the Wintry storm abroad,
ten upon my window beat the rain,
ten I felt the - piercing, arrowy frost,
looking forth, Wield the frequent snow,
as mutely es-the steps of Time, ..
ig for thy glad advent, and resigned
spirit to thti s pl Nature wore, sotemplition Of the laughing hours
`ollow in thy train, delicidus Spring!
Written for the Clay Club.
Aln—lea Lucy Long
Oh, tate your time, Sir Harry,
Take your time, Sir Harry. Clay
A fearful weight, you carry,
And you eannot win the day. .
So take year time, Sir Ilarry, &c.
You've been a - gallant racer,
But you've seen fOlir-bri test day ;
And a blown Kentucky p
- Capnotbear the purse. siva
. 8o take your time, &c.
It's no use to strut and Swagger,' ,
2ior to bluff your pile of " tin :"
Your two bullets and a bragger
Want the age trimakti them *in.
So take your time, dce.
An ocean of Hard Cider
Could uoiffoat you to prize;
Faun anhot throw the rider
That like lead upon you lies.
So take your time, &c.
Be quiet and be wary,
Save'your distance, if you can;
But so dead a weight you carry
That you cannot lead the Vim - 1 .
So take, your time, c!cc.
Democratic Girl's Song.
Toss—Rosin the• Bow
If e'er I conclude to get married,
- And I ceataioly think I may soon,
The lad that I give my-fair band to
Shall net be a fussy old coon. •
taut toil'in the great unlertaking,
Be stirring by night and by day,
Tote igaittat that Demon of Etil,
he reckless and bad Barry Clay.
.4e heat of contest no flinching ! '
But firm for the land and the Uwe, ; I
The lad that will win me must, imttle 7
For the good 'old republican 4 5 0. ';
his locks maybe brilliantfarnsehingl;
His qintentutce fair as the :104 4 I
47 heart there'S'no place for atprY, I ,
Do you think twould friarq a poolg l i
i look to it well, ye yenng s gellents, I l•
The times will admit no:delay, ;
Add yon win the frank hCatt of Os mai den
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l'oa must work 'Oinst tbe debauehee ay - .
Iltendev my heart et the altar, 1
.'o one mho is able to say, -' '
--s-le is foUght, nay beloved, I
,
dad we've beaten the dissoltite Cla !
True Modesti.
what with uaeon,e➢oiis
y in
beauty shines :most
charms with edge widstless I
rha means no Cniochieldimo II
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limeade of Flogging
Thii maker Of a grammar-school ofi
burgh in the central district of Scotlaticl.
about seventy years ago, was a worthy"
TrOja4 of the name of . Hacket, a com
plete specimen of . the thrashing peda=
goguOs of the last age. Modern ears .
would scareely" credit the traditional
stories! which were ;told of this man's
• - -
severity, or believe that such merciless
punishment could have been alloWed to
takf place , in a country -ii ) c) far civilized,
as burs then was. ' Heavy and repeat
ed application's of a striped thong, call
ed the, taws,-to theopen hands of delin
quentS, were matters of familiar occur
ence. 1 Skults, as these were called were
•
inathing. But Hackett wouldialso;twenty
times la-day, lay victims across the end.
of a table, and thrash as long as he could
hold with one hand and lay on with the
other , s! Horsing was one of his highest
indulgences of luxuries, and he had an
ingenious. mode of torture peculiar to
himself, by causing the boy to stride be-
Wen two distant boafds, while he en- .
deavdred to excire the thifiking faculties
by bringing a force to bear frogs behind.
Thomas Lord Erksine and his broth
er Renry were brought up at his schmol,
and remembered - Racket's severity
throtigh life, coMplainiiig particularly
that it was all one whether you were a
dullor bright boy, for ,if the' fornier.you
were thrashed for yonr own proper de
merits., and if you were bright, you had
a monitorial charge aligned to you over
the rest,'.and suffered for all' the short
comin of your inferiors. We wonder
at this now; but the wonder is very su
perfluous. The w hole system was bas
ed on a prevalent notion that severity to•
children was salutary and benficial, nay,
indispensable, and that, if yon at all lov
ed your son or pupil, it was - your first
and iniist solemn duty towards him to
give him a sound strappation on all pos
sibhi occasions. ; Flogging was simply
one of the bigotries of our grandfathers..
/*angst Racket's pupils was a boy
whd had come from a distance, and was
boaded with' a family in town. His
. i
name for the present s Anderson. This
youth, placed far -from his friends, felt
the !ruthless severity of Hacker very
bitterly, and, as he was by n,o means a
genius, he .Was both well stfapped him
self, and prdbably the Cause , of much
strapping in others. Naturally of a re
served and reflecting character, he said
little of his sufferings to any of his com
panions ; but the stripes sunk into, his
very soul, and, secretly writhing under
a' sense of the injustice' and indignity
with which he was treated, he conceiv
ed -the most deadly sentiments of re
vengeaagainst his master. To get these
wreaked out in present circudistancewas
impossible .; but he determined to take
the first opportunity that ()tented, and
in tithe mean.trine to nurse his wrath, so
that time should not interfere in favor
tile tyrant, who seemed to him to de
serve the utmost vengeance that could:be
inflicted.
A-Anderson. like "so'many other.Scot
tikh youth, was draughted off at an early
age to India, where he served for twen
ty-five years, during whiCh he never
once was able to revisit hik native
shores.—Having now attained 4com-
Petency, and settled his affairs, he re
lurned to , Scotland, in order to spend
there the-remainder of his , life. It will
scarcely be believed that he still cher
ished
his? scheme of vengance against
!Racket Racket; but the fact is that he did. so t
and this indeed is what gives any value
to the anecdote we ,are relating—it is
curious only as a genuine instance of a
feeling persevered in much beyond the
term usually assigned to human feelings.
He came home—he purchased a short
but effective whip--lielourneyed to the
tpwn.where he had been educated, and,
establishing himself at the inn, sent a
polite message to Racket (who was still
in the vigor of life, though retired froni
active duty,) inviting hini to dine that
afternoon with a gentleman who bad
once been his pupil. All seemed now
in train for a retributory visitation up
on the epiderm of the old gentleman;
and the reader may be trembling for
the consequences of a trenge , sci'much
beyond the limit of all COmmon:resent
ments.
.01d . locket dressed himself that day
in his - beit—ruffi.es at the-wrists, and
silver buckles in Ids shoes—l-expecting
from the appeakince of the man servant
who delivered the message, an enter
tainment of 'a recherche kind, from oue
who, no doubt, felt _a difficulty in ex
pressing _his-gratitude for the unspealta
ble benefits of a sound flagellatory educa
tion: . He 'was Ashe i red ;-into a room,
where he' saw. table . prepared 'for din !
ner. A gentleman` presently entered;
*tido Whig , surprise, turned and-delib
erately locked the door, potting the
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Regardless of Denunciation fiom any Quarter.—Gov.-PORTER.
key into his picket. Then, taking
down a whip from the mantle-piece, .
this gentleman came sternly up to the
venerable school -master, aneasked if
he' had any recollection of him. allo,"
said - the teacher. •i• Then, sir, I shall_
insure that you remember me forever
after. Do you recollect a boy at your
,
school twenty-five years ago, of\the
name of, Walter Anderson ?" "I dare
say I do.?' u Then, sir, I am that
Walter . Anderson. I have now come
to punish you for the many unmerited,
thrashings which you gave me at
school. They Were .savage, sir,- and
Only something of the same kind cant
expiate them. All thd time I was in
India, I never allowed this design _ to
lie dormant for a moment, and now the
time kir, its execution Strip,
, is come.
sir, this • motoent, and let, me do full
justice.upon you- Resistance is alto-,
gether in vain, for the people here are
all in my pay. Entreaty is ; equally
vain, for nothing on earth could induce
me to let you escape."
Ilecket, it may well be believed, was
in a dreadful panic, for he saw that he
was in the hands of a man not to be tri
fled with. He was, however, shrewd
in human nature,. and possessed plenty
of presence of mind. Well, well,"
said he; thisa a bad business ; but I
suppose it is true that I was rather se
vere long ago stith my , boys, and so
must just submit. I see, however, that
preparations have been made for din
ner, and as I believe you to be a gentle
man, I cannot suppose that you invited
me here to that meal without intending
to give ;t me. Now, if it is the same
thing to you, I should much preler hav
ing dinner first; and the licking after
' wards. Come, shall it not be so ?"
The man of vengeance was taken by
surprise, and assethed, though inward
ly resolving - that nothing should in the
long iun..baulk him of his purpose.—
They sat down, and the dinner and
.wine proved excellent. Hacket began
to talk-of old times, and of \ \ miler boys
who had been fellow pupils with his
host; also of many spats and frolics
in which Anderson, amongst others,
had indulged. He told—what he had.
learned of the subsequent fortunes of
many of these youths, and gradually
engaged Anderson in a relation of his
own history. The whole bearing of
the old man was so 'cheerful, so sympa
thising, and so entertaining, that Ander
son, like the gloomy sultan, felt him
self gradually .dispossessed of the spir
it which had so long animated him.—
It becaMe eviderilly an absurdity to
- think 01. lashing a neatly-dressed old
gentleman, who , seemed to be the very
pink of good humor. Once or twice
he spasmatlically ehdeavored to re
awaken the, flagging , emotions of de
structiveness, but it would not-de—an
other droll chatty story front the peda
gogue stilled them down again_ at once.
By and by he gave way entirely to the
spirit of the 'hour; and ceased to think
of, his whip or its intended perfor
mances.. _
Hacket got home that night' in per
fect safety, for r Mr. Anderson insisted
upon. escortinehim to his own door.
TUE FATE OF THE INVENTOR OF THE
GIIILLOTINE.--Ilis retreat was so pro
found, that It Was said, and readily be
lieved,.that hcqoo had fallen a victim
to his own invention. But it was not
so; he was indeed: imprisoned during
the Jacobin reign of terror—his crime
being, it is said (Gnyot, p. that he
testified an indiscreet ( indignation at a
proposition made to him by Danton to
superintend the construction of a triple
guillotine. There is no 4oubt that , a
dotible instrument was thohght of, and
it is said that sucnn machine was made
and intended to be , erected in the great
hall - Of the Palais de Justice, tint it was
certainly' never used ; and we shoUld
very Much, and.for many reasons, doebt
whether - it could have _been a. design of
Damon. Theleneratgiol delivery of
the 9th Thermidor released Guillotin,
and he afterwards lived in - a decent
mediocrity of fortune at Paris, esteem
ed, it is said, by, a small circle of friends.
but overwhelmed by, a deep sensibility
to the great. -- though' - we cannot say
wliully undeserved, misfortune which
hail rendered his name ignominious,
min his very existence a(lubject of fear
ful curiosity: He, just lived to see the
restoration, anti died in his bed, in Pa
ris, on the 26th of May, 1814, at . the
age ofseventy-sis.—[Quarterly R e view;
PREMlCi:—Prejudice mq be 'coil:
sidere& as 'a continual false medium o
viewing thingi,, for prejudiced persons
nOt.onlyoever speakwell, hqt also nev
er think well, of thoie Wham they dis
like, and•the whole Chaiae,ter and con =
duct is Considered with an eye to that
Particnlar thing which offends him:
[Fiona' the some Journal and Citizen cddie
Printing... Book s; and Antiquities,.
" Thou host caused printing tobe used, end
contrary to the King, his crown, and dignity,
built a paper • Sulasesaa*.
The utility of printing, as far as re
gards the progress of truth, is counter
acted, by the great expense Of setting ;
type; for as all, books sell best which;
flatter.prevailing opinions and support
vested interests, and as they are' printed;
chiefly at the risk ofiraders, .who print
for sale and profit, so few (very few)
printed hooks contain the whole truth,
and nothing but , the truth.
Before the art of printing, books
were of incredible price. From. the Oth
to th e 13th century many bishops could
not- read,.and Kings were scarcely able
to sign their names ; and hence the use
of seal and sealing. In the year 1471,
when Louis XI. borrowed the worki of
Rasis the Arabian physician. from, the
faculty of medicine in Paris, he not on
ly deposited in pledge a considerable ]
quantity of-plate, but was obliged to
procure a nobleman ] to join with, him
as security in deed, binding himielf
under greatforfeiture to restore t. When
'any person made a presentof a book to
a church or a monastery, in whichwere
the only libraries during several ages, it
was deenied a donative . of such value ] ,
that he offered it. on the altar, pro rent
edia animce euw, in ordir to obtain the
forgiveness of his sins.: These were
the ages in which superstition, witch
craft and priestcraft obtained so univer
sal an ascendency. From 500 to 1200
all learning was in the hands' of - the
Arabs, Sarasnec and Chinese. It is
supposed by many that the art of print
ing originated it? China, where it was
practised before , it was !known in Eu
rope. The Romans had the possession
of the art long before they were
,con
scions of the rich- possession. , And it
is a curious fact, that-a, Well known Ital
ian, to whom learning ]owes ac
tualiy published a treatise on the art of
reading a printed book, which Was ded
icated to the higher and more jenlight
ened class of society. Copying was
in ancient Greece and Rome, a product
tive employment, b l ut it afterwards fell'
into4he bands of monks, who copied
chiefly theolog,y.. A good cotiy of the
bible, on Vellum employed two years; .
and the works of either of the Fathers
still more time. Jerome states, that he
had ruined himself by buying a copy of
the works of Origen.
Books were originally boards, or the
inner bark of trees. the word being de-'
rived from Bench a Beech tree. The'
Horn-Book, now used in nurseries, is ,
a primative, book. Bark is still used
by some nations'; skins are also used,
for which parchment was substituted.—
Papyrus an Egyptian plant, was adopt
ed in that country, and an article of
commerce, thin plates of brass. were
also used ford the,church service'. The
Papyrus and' parchment books Were
commonly rolled on round sticks, with
a ball at each end, and the composition
begat at the cenlre, the other fold being
its termination ] ; these were called vol.
nines.' The ouisides inscribed just as
we now letter books.
'The MSS., in Herculaneum, consist
of Papyrus rolled, charred and matted
together by tliifire, and are about nine
inches long an one. two or three inch
es in diameter, being .a.volume of sep
arate treatise.
Specimens'of most' of the modes of
writing may be seen in the British Mu
seum. No. 3478,in the. Sloanian li
brary, is a Nabob's letter; on a piece of
bark; about two yards long, and richly
Ornamented iVith gold. No. 3207,, is , a
bark of Mexican hierogliphica - printed
on bark. In the, same collection are
m
various species, any from 0* Male-.
bar coast and the East. ~The litter
writings are chiefly on leaves. There
are several copies of Bibter written on
palm leaves, still preserved in 'various'
collections .in Europe.. . The ancients
doubtless. wrote on any . ' leaves they
found 'adaptekl to the purpose.'
Among. th ese ea rl yAnven tiOns many
were - singtilarl, . rude, and miserable
substitutes for a better material. In the,
shepherd state they.' Wrote the* songs
with, thorns and awls on • strips - of leath
er, which , they - wound „round
. their
crooks. At the ' town Hill Hanover,
are kept twelve WoOderi bars,` over
with beeswnx, on which are-written th
names. of -ciwnera of houses; linnet the
names.pf strects., z The wooden manu
seripta, must have - existed before 103,
wben Hanover was Min- divided:inW
The laws of the twelve tableswhich
the Romani chiefly fr om the
Grecian Code' wer:ei afterAherhad_been
approval- by thepeople.x ingraven,
blase, were melted by, lighMing , which-
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apitdli and consumed other
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re highly .regretted. by. Au- .
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laws—a lam
gustus.
Of course as Books were •scarce, and
the art of reading uncommon, they were
very dear. The bequest of one, at a
religious house, as we have already
stated, entided - the donoi to masses for
his soul, snd , they Were commonly
chained. to their station, and some to
this day. 1 • •
As specirens of the prices of bOoke,
the Roman de la Rose was sold for•
above 30—and a _Homily was enchangL
ed for 200 Iteep and five quarters of
wheat; an they usually brought dou
ble ortrebla their weight in gold.
The first! pr inted books were trifling
Hymns and !salters, with' images of
saints, °and being printed only on one
side, the leavek were pasted back to
back. Oita of the first was the Biblia
PaußeruinJ of forty leaves,, which past
ed togethe, ads twenty. An entire
Psalter .was inted in 1457 by Faust
and c - licelTer and a bible in 637 leaves,
in moveable type, was printed at Mentz
between 1355 ; but the most important
part of the invention (that of the move
able types) in' uncertain both as to name
and date. The , first characters Were
Gothick ; land Roman type was first
used in 1467. _
rs give the, invention of
uttenburg, of nayence;
',scribe it to Faust (often
ustus,) of_the same city ;
Ito Laurence Coster, of
Some w rit
Kin tO,
while others
called Dr! F
and "others
Haerle
The II I open of Krongstod.
- • 1
- T am . assu ed, on good authority that
dungeons
the subm a ri n e of KrOngstadt
contaiii, emOng other _State( prisoners,
miserable', bein gs who were placed there
-in the reign- of Alexadder. These un
happy :createres are reduced to a state
below that of the brute, by- a punish-,
Meat, 'the atrucity of which nothing can'
justify, Ciluld they now come forth
out of the -e rib,- they would rise; like
so ' ,nianyj avfnging. spectres, whose ap-,
pearanceiwiuld make the despot recoil.
-with . horro and shake the fabric of
.despotism.to its centre. Every thing !
may be decended',bY plausible words, '
and even' plod reasons;' not - any one Of '
the opihion:s that divide the political,
the literary ' or the 'religious world lacks
argument b.which to maintain itself;
ril ,
but let the say what they 'please, a
system, il, violence of 'which i requires
such mehn of support; must, be radi
cally intenifely vicious. - The •vietims
of his.odioiO3 policy are no longer men.,
Those enfatrtunate beings .denied f the
commonbsi rights, ' cnt,' - off from the
;world. fermien by every one, aban
: doned to t hemselves in. the . - night of
the captivy, during which imbecility
becomes` the frait,, and, the only remain
ing consolation, of their never ending
Misery, !h4ve lost their all, as well ' as
all that gi of reason, that light of hu4!
inanity; .which no one
.has a right to
•extingutshl in the breast ofj-his felloiv-,
i hey have even forgotten their
being.
names, nr 'ich the keepers amuse them
selves bY slung with a brutal derision,
for whiolt there is ,none to call them to
account; or there reigns such Confu
siohin th depths of these abysses of
inignityl, e• shades are•so thick, that
all traces f justice are effaced. •
Eireh he crimes ° of some of the.
prisoners are ' not recollected ; they;
are,•ihere ore, retained forever; because
it is'pot Frown to',whom they , should
be deliered, and it is deemed less in
.conVpment to perpetuate the mistake,
than! to publish it.. The bad effect . of
su in`rdy r t justice is isared, and thus the"
evil :is aggravated,' that its success may
not! requ're to be justified.=;Empire of I
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anY thi l n
say
~the
whO can
we all #.
babies i
to beaut
!:.-It strikes us !bit there are
. told about babies thsn ,abOUt
else in the world: l iTe all
are. sweet, ,'yet evury% body
smell knows they are 'sour ;
y they are lovely, ,yet` nine
tett have no more pretensions;
'than p pup: dog; we praise
_
theireireisive eyes, yet all babies
squint; we call them little doves, the
one; of It, 'ent makes more noise - than a
oldny f screech owls ; we vow they
are ,noi ouble,, they:, must be tended,
t l
; fight y arOday ; we insist that they re.
t "
:usl i for all our anxiely, tho' they take
- very opportunity ?of scratching 'our fa
ecal& poking their fingers into our eyes:
in Short, we make it, our :business. -to
tell' - pui irtest:palpable falsehoods' about
them 4yeiy hour of the day. Yet,
strange ko say,' wedlock see:Us avoid .
withotiel them,. and :those itho have
them, e en while telling . theile"self.evi-.
'dent en uthi, `look just as if . they . ex.'
-Fleeted °pie te6lieve theto.—N.,. Y.
One A r wit .:.‘.. •_•,.D -;, ;:: . I
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tuziaa ewouaneuict, of-4ata
Ope of the most strikiogcharacteris- .
tics of Africa is the - deserts, and•nothing
can be more desolate , than the-appear
ance presented by them. They have
generally a flat and uniform surface, on
ly •checquered by moving hills of sand,
which, like the.billows of the mighty
ocean, are raised one instant' and level
led again the next, by sudden bursts'cif .
Few; trees diversify:the 'scene,
save here a miserable and stunted thorn,
withering under a scorching sun and,.
unclouded sky of intense and dazzling
blue. ,No ceoling breezes can ever.
visit ; for the , earth resembles a vast
'sheet of heated metal ; and the winds
which sweep over it are like blasts from
a burning furnace. The effect of these
winds can scarc,ely . be conceived by
theinhabitants of , a temperate clime.--
They come in violent gusts From the
mountains, pierciisg, though hot, and
loaded with sand so fine as io be al
most imperceptible, but which pene
trates into - every crevice: Sometimes
they rage with the fury of .a tornado;
•bending the loftiest 'palms alike reeds,
-and rolling the sand before _ them in,
mighty columns, • overwhelming the
whole country through which they
pass.
FITZ-BOODLE'S HINT TO THE.LADIES.
=Whilst ladies persist in maintaining
the strictly defensive condition, men
must naturally, as it were, take the op
_posite iine, that' of attack; otherwise,
if both parties held aloof, there would
be no more. marriages; and' the two
hosts would die in their respective inac
tion withoilt ever coming to a battle.
Thus it is evident that, as the ladies
will not, the men must take she offen
sive. I Tor my part, 'have made, in the.
'course of my life, at least a n scare of
of chivalrous attacks upon several for
tified hearts: Sometimes I began 'my
work too late in the season, and winter
suddenly came and rendered - , further
labors
_impossible; sometimes I =have
attacked the breach. madly sword in
hand, and have been plunked violently
from the scaling-ladder into-the ditch ;
sometimes I have made a decent lodg
ment in the place,-when—bangs blows
up a nine, and I am scattered to the
deuce ! and sometimes, when I have
been in the, heart of the citadel !—ah,
that I should say it !—a sudden panic
has struck 'me; and .I have run like the
British out of Carthagenal One grows
tired after a while of such perpetual ac
tivity. Is it not time that the ladies
Should take innings ? Let us ividowers
and bachelors form an association •to
declare, that for the nest hundred years,
we will make love no longer. Let the
young women make love to us; let
them write' verses; 'let them. ask us
bi - dance, get tie ices' and cups of tea,
and help us on with. our cloaks at the
`ball door ; and if they are eligible, we
may, perhambe induced to yield,"and
to.say, La, Miss Bopkins—l really
neverl am So agitated—ask papa!—
, Plazer' 8- Magazine.
The Tyranny of , Fashion.
Fashion rules the world, and a most
tyrannical mistress she is,compelling
people td subdtit to the most inconven
ient things imaginable,for fashion's sake.
She . pinches our feet with tight shoes,
or chokes us with a tiglit neck handker
chief ; squeezes the breath out of our
body ,by tight lacing; she makes pee
ple sit up by 'bight when they ought to
be in bed, and keeps theft' in 'bed in the
morning, when they ought to be up and
doing. Slie,makes it vulgar to watt on
one's self, and genteel to live- idle and ,
useless.
She makes peopli visit when they
would rather'stay at h,ome—eat when
they are 4tot hungry, and drink whin
they are not thirsty. , • .
„ She .invades ;our, p l eas u re, and inter
rupts our business.-
She nompels;the people to dress' gai
ly; whether err. their own property,
or that of others, whether agreeable to
theiword.of God or the dictates of pride.
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1 - 103i(EPATIIIC SOUP Fake two
starved pigeons, hang them by a string
in ihe, kitehen,window so that the Autt
_wifi:aast
,the shadow of the •,pigeove
into an irn pot aliemly on the fire, and
which will:hold 'ten gallons of water,
boil the siladow , over a slow' fire far
ten hours, and - then give the patient one
drop, 'in a' glass,• of water . every. 'ten
SeumurtE FOR IT.—A distinguished
Writer say , so4 There is.but•orie passage
in the Bible where the:girls are • mit
t:needed kiis:th'e nun,. acid that is in
the golderirale, ' ,,, Whalsoeverye would
dist '..lnert should: do Antos you, do ye
even ict.theito - • ' •
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Keg itlEo
The Desert.
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