ZILMICA 7"Zos UGMIA%S.TIpt,s WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1846 The Death of the Old Tear. =1 Fall ineeKleep lies the winter now. Arid the winds are wearily sighing. Toll ye the church bell sad and. slow And tired softly and speak low, ' For the old year lies &dying. Old year, you must not die; You esme to us so readily, TOO lived with us so steadily, • Old year you shall not die. ' He lieth still he :loth not move : He will not see the dawn of day,. He twat no other life above. He gave me a friend, and a title, true-love, And the New year will take ''em away. J 31.1 veer,you must not gb; So long ■s you bete been with us, • Such joyru you have seen with no, OW year; you shall not go. He froth'd his bumper to the brim; A jollier year we shall not see; • But though his eyes are waxing dim, And Oneh his foes speak ill °China, He was a friend to me. Old year you shall not die; We did so laugh and cry with yap.. hulla.rnind to die with you, Old year, if you must die. He WWI JOU of joke and jest, Bit all his merry quips are o'er, To see him ;lie, across the waste, His son and heir doth rid* post•hute, - But he'll be dead before. Every one fur his own; The night is starry and cold, my friend, And the New-year .blithe — and bold, my friend % COmes op to take his own. How hard he breathes! over the snow I heird just mice the crowing cock, The shadows flicker to and fur The crickr; chirp; the ligl tburns low; b newt twelve o'Clock. Shake hands, bef cc you dio Old year, we'll dearly rue fir you: 'What ti it we can do for you? • Speak Wi:t before you die. cacti. growing sharp and thin. Ahrk! oar 'friend is gone. Close up his eyes: lie up his chin : t , tep horn the corpse, and let him in That standeth there alone, ' • And waiteth nt the door. There's a new foot on the floor, my friend, And smear face at the door, my friend, "- ..k new face at the door. Tim ENGLISH PF:ASANT—There is some- I.ing humbling to pride M a rustic's life. It grates against the heart to think of the tune in which we unconsciously 'permit ourselves to ad 7 ,ress' him. We see in him humanity in, its ritople shape ; its a sail thought to feel that we tlespise it ; that all see respect 'ln our species what has been created by art—the gaudy ilre<s, the glittering equipage, even the cultivated intellect the mere naked material of nature, we eve with indifference trr trample on with disdain. Pour child of toil, from the gray dawn to the .etting son, one long task !—no idea elicital— no thought awakened bey and those that suffice 'o make him the machine of others . —the serf tittle hard soil ! And then, too, mark how we 'yowl upon his scanty holydays,`liow re hedge :1 his mirth with laws, and turn his hilarity mu crime ! We make thew hole of the gay world, It herein we walk' and take our pleasure, to him a place of snares and perils. If he leaves his labor for an instant, in that instant how many natiptations spring up to him ! And yet we have no mercy for his errors—the jail, transport-ship, the gallows ; those are our sole lecture books. nod our only method of expostulation—ah, fie ea the disparities tit tile world ! The.: cripple the heart, they blind the sense, they concentrate the thousand links between man and men, into tha two basest of earthly ties—servility and pride. Methitik; the devils laugh nut when they hear us tell the poor that Ilia soul is as glo rious nod eternal as mot own; and yet, when in the grinding drudgery of his life, nut a spark rat tout can be called forth;' When it sleeps, walled around in its lampish clay, from the cradle to to grave, without a dream to stir the deadness 410 torpor.—Bufwer. Wzarr.tis %V omits.—l saw there a couple of aestem beauties. The south produces elegant "'mien, and the valley of the Mississippi spien dtd ones. There is an originality—a raciness --among-the _women of the west, which is ems %Hey attractive. They touch the confines of roilization sod ' barbarism trith such a daring Dace. that the precise petits mitres of the At lantic ate thunderstruck or thundered into gaping nattier) at their fascinating wildness, and en chanting audacity. • A western belle fresh from the woods, is a sealed bOok to an Atlantic dandy. lie Cannot understind her; he has not the , key ; she is beyond his vision. To know, tem prop erly, to estimate them accurately. we must have hem lost on the Alleghenies, shipwrecked on' a foreign coast, drank sherbet with the Turk. tast ed the river Jordan; or been tilled and eaten by the pirates. It is quite distressing to see the Atlantic belles pick ,theii way through th e crowd ed drawing room. They' sometimes stand on the Outer edge of the crowd, mil 414 ileapalc ;ugly to a friend at the other end of the room, as one would lank upon:the spires, of Cincinnati ham the pinnacles of the Alleghenies. or a trav eller toots across the Arabian deserni. A wee tem belle dashes through the crowd as she would through the river. mounted on honse-baek.— Nothing imbues her. She Makes Manners; and controls the rulers of society as she 'marches t hroughlt—throwing dandies' aside'as a 'ship does the billows., The southern lady 'glides like a sylph full of feeling arid'paasion , which gave edge to her etinversatiOM and foe in her * Yei•*'B. Portland Advertiser. . . • , . • . , . ' . ' . • . . ..._ ~ . . .: .4r ~.."—!:. .- ~• ' ~!., : i . -,-., ' • "., ', ..,,,,...,...„.:,,,,;., i.... ... ...: ..., . .- -...-• 1 ' f,. -, • '''' '. ''' .t.''': .1 ' •-•:. ''' , • - -7.; ".. '.'. 1 ,.1 ezi :;,:"....-r - - .1• . x.2' 5i":"...7 'C I I, ' •-:;•:(),-.,. ••••• '.. ' .„' •• '/, 1 • 7. •I •I , '-•.',. ' •..., : . . 'f. ; l .1 1 . ,! .. e - ', ..!( •i ' !;.: . .., „ • . ' li' ." • „ . .• .... . ..,•. , 1,1 ' • *.:. . . . . , . , ••• " • * , - ~ : , 1 ~. 1 ...., ; • ': . . ••• ......) f! , ' :II 4, •• . ~„ ' r '" ' -..:'' ' ' .i , •!? .;• ..-• •• . Throughout a. considerable portion of - the country, there isa scarcity of 'materials on which to feed stock the coining winter. , The general warmth and ritiistuitt of ' the atmos phtre, liotiever, since the occurrence of rains to the beginning of autumn. hive much pro moted the growth 'of grass thus' fortunately affording an' opportunity for grazing up to a late period of the season; 'And where fields• of rye have been sown for the purpose of giw ing late fall , and early spring pasturage.- the favorablenessof the season'has probably indu ced a growt h which will furnish support in a great degree', to light cattle and,sheep. Year tinge; calves and sheep map th erefore be graz ed on such fields. care being taken that the bite is not toe short. till t.snow covers the ground: and the spring growth may be availed of for the sante purpose to a longer or shorter period: ac cording to the necessities of the farmer. or the wants of his stock. If, white the stock is feed ing on the eye.• too lax a state of the bowels oc curs, as is sometimes the case, owing to the succulence of the rye, the animate should be fed with some dry hay. and a little salt as a condiment, which will check the tendency to puree. But under all circomstatirkes, the - rriost eco nomical appropriation of the`winter's stock of fodder, becomes an important desideratum.— The great aim should be the maintenance of the stock in proper condition with the least expense. The materials at the disposal of farmers for this purpose. consist usually of hay, straw Of sari ous grain. fodder, of Indian corn. different veg.. etables its greater or less quantities, with occa sionally some meal or •• Mill stuffs," A gen eral saving of all rough fodder may be made by cutting with a cutting machine. This saving results in various ways, some of which we will specify. I. Coarse fodder, such as rank hay, straw or cornstalks, are 'thee wrought. into a more convenient form for mastication, by which animals ate often induced to eat that which would otherwise be rejected, or only partially consumed. This is particularly the case with clover hay. more or less of which is almost always wasted if fed in the long state, but.when passed through a cutter, if it has been properly cured, is readily eaten perfectly clean. The same remark is applicable. though in a less degree, to straw or corn fodder. 2. By cutting. fo d der of an inferior qu a lity-may he easily mixed in any desired proportions with that which is better or more pdlatable, and the poorer kind thus be made to induce to the ani mals support. • Cutting also affords a conveni ent mode of mixing meal. shorts or bran, with fodder, by which may betgained the double ad vantage of inducing, stock to eat less palatable articles, and of so diffusing the meal that all its imminent is appropriated by- the animal. 3. Besides the advantages above mentioned, ano ther and riot less important benefit is known to he derived by laboring, animals in the addition at time it affords them for rest—the cutting per farming in a great degree the work of chewing, and prep ration for digestion. This benefit is regarded es so important by .thbse accustomed to feeding work horses and oxen on cut food. that nothing would induce theca to discontinue the practice. There are cases, however. In which the ad vantages of cutting may not repay the expen ses. 1f the food to he used is wholly hay of a very fine quality, and the stock consuming it is not required to4abor, it might be so fed that no waste would accrue, or nothing be gained by cutting. But wherever a mixture of fodder would be expedient, or meal. &c. us to he used. or working animals are to be provided for, the advantages of cutting will be found to repay the extienses ten fold. In times past. tile writer has hail some expe rience in feeding work, and has practised va rious modes with a view to eronotnizing food and ()81:i Paring , seasons of scarcity of hay. a course like the following was adopted with advantage. Good hay and straw. (oat and bar ley straw 'are preferable. but wheat and rye straw were.oftem used.) were cut together in equal parts, Chaff of wheat or oats was some times used instead of straw., This fodder was mixed with corn weal, at the rate of two quarts of meal to the hundred of fodder. F*kat a lay er of six or' seven inches of the hay and straw was thrown into a large box, spread over ihe bottom, and moistened with hot water—then the meal-was scattered k over it. and afterwards, well mixed with forks. Other layers were pre pared in the same way, until enough was rem. _dv for twenty head of cattle for twenty.four hours'. It was made the object to give each grown animal (cow or ox) twenty-five pounds of the cut straw and hay every twentv.four hours—that is, each was allowed twelve and a half pounds of straw, the same quantity of hay. •and a pint of meal per day. Younger and ,smaller stock was fed in proportion- . Cows giving milk, and oxen when working. had the meal inCreasedgivitig imstieb instanges. two or thr ee t quarts a day. Sometimes rye meal , shorts. and occasionally oil-cake. were used, either by themielves, or in connection with the corn - meal'; endeavoring to Air., about the relative, quantities of each which would afford, the same amount of nutriment; but as we had. no definite standard, we gave as nearly as prat. ticable eqUal weights. . , Not the least waste iitetnled'this coarse o feeding, and we found stock . to'clo, well . on it. Though not tel.-they were In' good triM, and their Coats got into fine :order, early IM ,Spring, so that they weni to ,griss in tion. In feeding potatoes or_other vegetables to, store stock. where the quantity does not esceed half a buehel'per day to each grown rot or or we have usually given them at one feed in the morning. after the first foddering of hay., agues, of Massachusetts, who is known. as an economical feeder of stock. adopts, the following plan. which. we copied sometime since from notes furnished by him::' , For 30 cows, cut with;it machine 30 bush els for one feed t, one•third eornmoa or gnglish, hay, of e•third salt hay, and one-third rye or barley straw ; ;Ada quart! of wbeatabran or shorts, end ten 'goons 'of oats and . corn meal f ~ 1111111 PITBLISfIED EVERWEDNESDAY, - ; iT TO Wlyte,rli; Stui. " HEOARDISII moistened with water. -,One linable! . Of this mixture_ is giveli'td each cow i ' the morning, and the same tioantityr in noon nd in the civil; ing. In addition to' this, a pock' of 'mantel unitizel is given to,each cow .perday., This mode of feeding has been found to produce nearly as much milk as the best grass feed in summer."' • • Stock must not be too much stinted in 'their food in th e fore part . 61 th e whiter. nor should an attempt be made to keep thtm afonce' on the poorer kititi of foddei. coldestivea they hf lanuarY and February,ftheir appetites Will he sharpest. and then the pooyfoddei will be eaten to the best advantage. We said their food shonld not be stinted - in 'the beginning: ihe reason is; that if they brOaght low in' flesh in the first of winter, they cannot stand the in clemency of the weather so well, and they fail rapidly towards spring. Hence if any pinch ing must be done. it had better be deferred to the last end of the season of feeding, as relief may be shortly expected from the. growth of grass. The greatest rttularity should be oh. served in feeding - =.l.ltrays civic," the food as near as practical at certain 6xrd time. But no food should at any time given to be left—all should be eaten to the last strtw which ie eata ble. Still, substances which are , really innu. trier:tun—such as the large. sour butts of corn stalks and the woody stems of large weeds and coarse herbage.-should not be given to stock with theexpectation that they will be eaten and benefit be derived from them. I Story of Packet Plotting. The adroitness of the nimble-fingered gentry whii make pocket picking their profession. is often a matter of astonishment to the unpraciis. ed. We have heard of a case which illustrates the legerdemain of this wide spread and dan gerous species of villiany more thoroughly than any we have heard of. It may be relied upon as authentic.--4/bany Citizen. A few weeks wince, a gentleman at the Astor House, in New York. suddenly missed a gpld watch, which was worth more to him than , :to any one else. He marvelled much at its ab seence, for he knew he had only been in and out of the ()glee and reading room of that hotel since he noted the hour by it. In the hope of recov ering it. he advertised his loss and offered a re- ward of fifty dollars. The same day lie receiv. ed a note, informing him that he could have his watch by calling at a certain house in an obscure part of the city. After some little hesitation he resolved to go. The watch wasn't) valuable to him to be given up without at least this attempt to recover it. So he went. His call at the door was promptly answered oy a gentlemanly looking person, who in reply to his enquiries, that he had in his possession the advertised watch, and that on payment of the offered re ward he would deliver it up. The loser prom ised to pay the $5O. provided lie was convinced the watch was his. It was ezhibted and the gentleman recognized it at once, paid the reward and gladly replaced the recovered treasure in its place, in the vest pocket. As he was turning to go away, he remarked. •• I am glad, as you,may suppose. to get my watch hack again. antil should really be pleas ed to know how you took it from me." •• That I will inform you," readily replied the pick-pocket. Do yon remember holding an animated conversation with two other gentle men in the reading room of the Astor House. on the morning you lost your watch?" "I do," replied the loser. " Well, do you not also remember that a gen tleman who stood dose by, left his newspa per. drew near and filially joined in the discus sion ?" " Very distinctly." replied the other. " and also that he han engaged in it with much warmth!" " Precisely." continued the narrator. "and do von not remember that he at one time, in Ms earnestness, tapped you two or three times MI the left breast,./fins ?" (suiting the action to the word.) Yes," replied the gentleman. " Then I took your watch," said the other. ; 'and turning. shut the door and disappeared. The gehtleman returned to the Astor fiouse.i musing on this strange occurrence. and while, relating it to some of his wondering friends, was( astonishment that his watch was again missino When the sdroit 'knight of the nimble fingers de4 scribed to hint how he had once filched from him his wzach. he took it again . ! So the gentle man finally I st his watch, after having paid to the thief the reward for its recovery. Coot) Antrim —The fruits are to be pre. served by the exercise of Economy. The man of business, must be careful always to ex pend less than he earns. He should be frugal, without parsimony. and never part with a dol. tar uselessly or extravagantly. He should in no instance porehise what he 'can di; without, merely on the score of its cheapness, nor buy an expensive article of clothing. or household furniture, when a cheaper one would answer as well. Dr. Pranklin's maxiin should he al. ways borne in mind when tempted to any tri. flint , outlay. Not a copper should slip through his fingers. merely because of its inconsidera ble value. "Take care of the pence," should he ever foremost in his mind. and he will soon find that. pounds" Will not be wanting to "take care of themselves." In the - prttritice of such a sysleth of economy, a man's earnings, howev. er small, will goon increasing from year to year, until at last 'he will find , hinitrell" in the possession of a fortune, and be Surprised at the ease with which it has been' acquired. FI4IAL love should be cher ished. It has. especially. s softningend enno bling effect on the masculine heart. It has been remarked, that almost ell the illustrious men have been . distinguished by love for their mothers.- Their -wives may advise or repri mand, unheeded, bin their Mother: as an oracle, consulted. confided in, listened to with respect and 'delete*. honored to the latest.hour; and remembeMd,witb affection and regret. been be yond the.grave. Wives may die, and 'we can: replace them. children perish: and others may be 'born- unto us but who shall restore , the mother when she passes away, and is even no more i F DEMCIATION FROM /INV queamt. BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. 0. & H. P.:OOOO4CW tiaa,N‘as!Fuli, Daily Adiellts69 The leekaules Studis. raexpLre 01 on,F7INsTatTOTION, Why, may not the young attic* who takes op thisi paper, become a learned man 1 The thing has been done before, and may be 'done again, Many a soul of genius is this moment buried, in the'ahop and the factory. 1 -shall proceed . with niy exampleiii, availing myself Of the autharities already nientliied! " • • The best b'egintiitqf l'can Make is with the case of James Ferawsoo, the Scottish philosti plier.- • James was the son of a day-laborer.and was born in 1719, Such was his early thirst for education, that he learned to read tolerably well before his Sather had• any suspicion that he kneW his letters, Whin about eight years of age he began to make experiments with levers, which he called bars, and succeeded in discovering the great mechanical principle which regulates their operation. In the same manner' he found out the law of the wheel and axle ; being without honks or teacher or any ' tools but his father's turning lathe. and a pack et knife. ' HO had actually written out an ac. count Of his suppled discoveries. before he learned that the tame, things were contained in printed books. While employed as Sheep- • boy, he used to amuse himseif, in the midst of his (limit, by making models of spinning-w begs and mills; and at night he studied the starry heavens, fits method was io wrap himself in a blanket, and with a lighted candle to lie for hones on his back in the open fields. I used to stretch," says he, a thread with small beads on it •at arm's length. between my eye and the stars; sliding the beads upon it, till theyPhid such an euch stars from my eve; in order to take their apparent distances fain one another, and then, laying the thread down on a paper. I marked the boss thereoa by the beads." Mr. Gilchrist, the minister of Keith, coming to the knowledge of this, furnished him • with el:impasses. ruler. pens, ink, and paper: and set hint to copying maps. His kind Master often took the flail out of his hands. and work ed himself. while James sat by him in the barn busy with his pen, rule and dividers. A neigh boring butler gave him some hints in dialling, decimal fractions. and algebra. and lent him books. Among these was a Geography, which contained a description of a globe. but without any figure: This set Ferguson. at work, and he made a wooden ball, covered it with a map . and thtis made the first artificial globe he ever saw. By the aid of this he solved problems. Soon after this he became an invalid, and went into the service of a miller. Here he 'made a wooden clock, and afterwards a wood. en watch, both of which kept time pretty well. From this he proceeded to clean clocks, to copy prints, and even to take likenesses; and fol lowed the business of a painter for six and twenty years. Here we may leave him, after paying that his numerous works on philosophi cal subjects are still held in high esteem. Next 1 adduce the case• of Thiamas Simp. son, the great mathematician. " He was born in 'Leicesterahire, in 1710. His father was a weaver, with whom Thomas, after learning to read imperfectly, began to learn his trade. Rot loved books. and was resolved to be a scho lar. This led to repeated quarrels with his father, who turned him out of doors. He found refuge in the house of a poor widow, and here stole a little time for reading. From a fortune telling pedler, who pretended to astrology. he acquired some state for astronomy. Cocker's Arithriletic. and a book of Algebra. introduced him to the exact sciences. He became a schoolmaster for a time. but soon returned to the loonhatill baking wonderful attainments in knowledge. Having heard of the mysteries of the Differential Calculi's. so procured two works on Fluxtons, and not only mastered them, butlqualified himself to write a book on this, iutricate pubjeci, which was afterwards published. and ga•ned great applause. After this tune his mathematical publications rapidly followed one another ; he became Professor of Mathematics at Woolwich. and a Fellow oldie Royal Society ; and died in 1761. The next example is not less instructive, though it is that of a less celebrated tnan.— Edmrmd Stone was the eon of the Doke of Argyle's gardener. As the duke was walking one day in his garden, he observed a Latin cu. py of Newton's • Priticipia . lying on the grass and euppasn.g it had been brought from his own librarc, called upon some one to carry it ' back, • Opori ' this ' (says his biographer) i "Stone, who was then in his eighteenth Year, claimed the book as his own." '. Yours r 7. te plied•the Duke: •• do you understand Ucotue. try..Latim and Newton!" "1 know a little of them." replied the young man. The Duke was surprised; and, having a taste for the et , i. ences, nhe entered into conversation with the young mathematician. He asketi.liim several questions ; and was astonished at the furee.the accuracy. and the , candor, of : his oils wer5...... • Hut how,' said the Duke, ••• came you by the knowledge of all these things!" , iltune repli ed, A servant , . taught me. ten, yearsagp. to read, Pots one need to know more Wm Site tmentyfour /Wert in iordet io learn E ' VeWthiiig: gie.Oat one wishes!" „ The Duke`i curiosity re-doubled y ; he eat dowri - on 'a batik, and 're. quieted a detail; of the whole process by_tv Mph 1 he tad became so learned. . , ' • •I. brat learned readt ,. . 1 4;4 Slone -,, .4 iti . the masons Were the Wat tvOrken your hope,, I approached there, one day. and rihserred iliti , the . architect, used a rule,and compasser, ai•d . that he made calculation.... , I inquired 'wli.ii might be the meaning and tire 'of thei:e tlotigs . and I was informed that'*there was a I , ,ieti..e called arithmetic. I,purchased a lamk ..Inriiii metic., and learned it. I was told t i t tle was another sciencn ,called geometry :.I 1 .49121 it the. ,hecessarY, books. and 1 learned , : eiergur v . ,p v. reading., [found that dive werehOoh's ii . iliel.e ' two sciences in • ,Latin ; I boug h t a'ilictiona . ry. and I learned Latin. I understood, also, that theta were,good , books ;of the Same kind in . Fretteh ; ,I. bought s - dictionary, and- learne d French.,,And this my Ord. is what,l have done 4 ,'ltseents in me that we,ceay learn every thing when we know the twenty-four lettera,of the alphabet.'" Stone • also became a useful. mathematical writer. ands member oldie goy al Society; and though het is by no.ineaini to "be compared with Simpson. yet it was one:of Stone's-books from which Simpson acquired his first knowledge of furious. In closing this paper, let me earnestly recom mend to every inquiring mechanic. a hook by Professor Edwards. of Andover. entitled the " Biography of Self-Tough „ C HARMS QUILL. • Eneasy Predicament. We are the witnesses of a ludricons incident which occured-in this city a few days since, fur relating which we crave-the indulgence of the. gentleman directly concerned--deeming it to be too good to be lost. While sitting at our desk and laboring assidu ously, With pen. reissors:und paste. to make unt a readable paper for our patrons, we were sud denly frightened from our propriety" by the hasty entrance of a gentleman, exclaiming„!.for God's sake help me to see what's the matter I've got some dreadful thing-..scorpion ut tat atm the leg of my pantaloons I Quick.. quick—help me." We instantly. rose from the chair, half fright. ened Ourselves. Our friend had broken in en suddenly and . unexpectedly upon us, and was to wonderfully agitated that, we knew not whether lie was indeed in his sense, or not. We !nuked at hint with a sort of suspicion mix. ed with dread, and hardly knew whether to speak with, or smite and confute hint for a madman.— The latter we came near attempting. .There he stood quivering and pale. with -one hand lightly grasped upon a part uf his pataloons just in the hollow of the knee. • What's the matter with you 1" at lam ask. etl we. " The matter !" he exclaimed. "oh, help me I've got something here. which just run up my kg ! Sonic infernal scorpion or lizard. I expect! Oh, I can't let it go: [must hold it.. Alt. there!" he shrieked, I felt it move just then ! these pants without straps t I'll never have an other pair open to the bottom as long as I live. Aft ! I feel it again !" •• Feel what ?" we inquired, standing at the same time at a respectful distance from the gen-, tleman ; for we had just been reading our Cor pus Christi correspondent's letter about snaket, lizards. and tarantulas, and began to imagine some dead) insect or reptile in the leg of our Iriend's " unmentionables," as they are some times called. " I don't know whil l it .is," answered the gentleman ; " help me to see whit it is. I was just passing that pile of old rubbish there, in 'runty( your office, and felt it dart up my leg as quick as lightning." and he clenched his fist still more tightly. If it had been the neck of an anaconda, we believe he would have squeezed it to a jelly. By this time two or three ,of the news boys had come in ; the clerks and packing boys hear; ing the outcry, stopped working, and , editors and all hands stood around the sufferer with looks of mingled sympathy and alarm. .• Bring a chair, F:ritz." said we, ; .. and let the gentleman he seated." " Oh., I can't sit!" said the gentleman ; " I can't bend, my knee ! if I do, it will bite or sting me ; no I can't sit." .6 Certainly you can sit," Said ire: 66 ketp your leg straight out, and we'll see what it • is you've goi." Well, let me give it one awe. hard squeeie; I'll cinch it to death." said he, and again he put the force of an iron vice upon the thing. If it had any life by this time, the lust effint must have killed it. He. then cautiously seated him self, holding out his leg as stif f and straight as a poker. A sharp knife was procured; the pants were cut open carefully, making a hole large enough to admit a hand ; the gentleman put on a thick glove and slowly inserted, his hand, but he discovered nothing. We were alrloOking on in almost breathless silence to see the mon strous thing—whatever it might be ; each Wady to scamper out of harm's Way should it , be alive; when suddenly the gentleman became. if possi. ble more agitated than ever. "By heaven's !" he exclaimed, " it's inside my drawers. it's alive too.—t f ee l i t ! quick !.—give me the knife again !" Another incision was made—in went the gentleman's gloved band once more:and lot. out came his wile's siockirig. flow the stocking ever got there We . are un able to say; but there it certainly was; rind such a laugh as followed. - we hav'nt heard for many a day. Our friend; know.' has told the joke'llimself.'and Ding pardon us for doing so. Though' this is all about a stoe,kirte, we assure our ieaders it is no ;t yarn ." - -N. 0. Picmjunc. Ssyntrci %turn:rut-14 most ingenious piece of mechanism has lSte been made known to the public in France, the , inientor of which has been eneaged during • the least 15 years in bringing it to hs present State of perfection. It is a sewing inachine.'o3initi its'-details and eilatilated to revolittionlie completely' the ate srf sewing. It will perform 200 . stitcliee to the minute-enlarge or Contract the stitcheit by the simple turn of a screw--ziead 'the needle along all the sintiosities and itregularitieilif the stuff to he sewed. ivitti6irt the least danger of wit'. whatever may be lie texture of the stuff, and do "every part of the setting of altiat, button hole' excepted, Tireinventor IN.: 3ir Thi. ninlinter, tailor at Alipieptuis: Frannrr. , Tsnrsyny.-- . lllan Must have oreopatinn or' Toil is tTib price or aleep and apiwtoe. of health and enjoyment: ' The Very t.cres*,ity which Overcomes our natural sloth ,The' world does not Cor.tain briar that olivine mercy • could - have Spared. ale happier witktlie Sierdity_Which 'we .7ut overcome by industry than we could with 14 Onnt , anenus nail unhounded prittusion4 The Tio'dy and the' ind are improved by the toils that, fatigue lhem t that toil is a thousand times awarded by the pleasure which its bestows.— Itti enjoyments are peculist, no wenitit ean Put._ chase them., no indolence can taste them:-. They flaw only NO 04 ',squat 71!icb 1147 teP?Y+ ;-, ' ' • • 11111 ~~"~ 1•111 ,~ Y~ Um life of? llauppet • •: , - • ;„,•• • '• - INIUTTSN sr, rrassis. • My life, is shortly told. My first impression, was the sensation of a tremendous but ikon squeeze. whiclk tesunnly iiirplu . „ltm into - 4e bud thought. 1- was-now spread out to the \ light. QM a gfow of intelligence completely \ pervaded me: :My ideas were at first- news, umittlarious end confused.; Italians, politics, : courts, speeches. merchandize,fightings, feasts, deaths. marriagei, ditties, poetry, roade,up all my thoughts. which were *minus and mixed. 1 lay in'aritlint state of wonder and great amazement. 1 . soon found that *it but one of 'a very' large family. that was ushered into this carious' World at the same time: ' Out whole {amity • waslaid in regular Urtler in a pile; my situs, twin, being 'ontrof the first born, was particular.' lv uneasy, tlarnly and uneomfottable; l 110 e' silent, intuitive, longing wish to get into the world.; which was at last gratified.' Morning came. and 1 was carefully folded and laid, Moses, like. in a basket, by a boy. who was called the carrier and borne into Ma -street, The said carrier I sun found was an object of interest and desire. lie soon , accosted by an elderly looking man, with threadbare, rusty breechea— " '• Have you .a spare paper, this morning, my boy 1" •• No. sir," war the alinrl reply. and he trudged do with us, muttering s. Not as you know on, old gripese-i-you are the name chap that proinised me some coppers for a paper the other morning, and hein't paid me yet; you are too stingy to take the paper you wont's get another from me, 1 guess 2" My brethren were now fast leaving me, be ing deposited at their proper deitination: at length my turn came, and 1 was tucked into the crevice of a shop door, "The first sample of the kind Was notstall alluring. 1-had not been long in my new situation, when a reluct antly early comer, swinging a key in his hand wistfully eyed tie;—and. casting a look about hitn, feloniously seized the. and thrust me into his pocket. ~My rightful owner=by virtue of advance pay, being in sight, hailed and arrest. ed the pilferer, and with threats compelled him to relinquish his prize. Ile entered his store and 1 soon found that I was the first object of his attention. After hastily drying me by the fire, in which progress I narrowly escaped con flagration, he ran over me, and fixed his eves upon sales at auction, advertisements. &c. I was then more particularly examined an! dis missed with condemnation. Nothing but foreign news—. Congress and Cabinet—love stories, and accidents by flood and A Newspaper should be acommets cial report,/ one side at least shotild be devoted to prices current." [ was then pettishly thrown upon the cannier. but was soon in re quisition. A boy came in, with a " Please to lend ma-your paper a few tninutes.lust to look at the ship news I" The request was reluctantly granted. with something about the plague of paper borrow ing and a determination to stop it. I was soon borne to a neighbOring house. The good old woman. phose husband was at sea, eagerly sought the ship news, but was ditappointed in her search. " flow negligent and careless these.printers are," said she, " hot a Word of intelligence of the Wind iiird r they print of Poland. and poetry. and fill their papers with adyertisements and that is all they care about," Miss now took her turn. She sought the stories the poe• try, and marriages. which in half an hour were all devoured, with " the wonder that . they put anything else in the paper." An elderly lady now took me. who, adjusting her spectacles. surreyeil 'up a Wile while, and declared me a • terribly uninteresting Paper ; hardly a col umn of deaths and hot more than 6fieen or twenty miittlers and accidenti." -• in this. wait I passed through - all the hands of the family. and after being well soiled - and somewhat torn by the little ones, was sent home. For three whole days 1 had no rest. but was cant innatly borrowed and abused.— At the enti al this period: I was supptantedly a new tace.and was then discharged and thrown aside like alt eetgantß. when they,_ have hePatee useless. .1 was, ,lioweyer, ;gain resuscitated and employed as awrapper to tome merciiao diae,.and,sent Min the miuptry: There, I again 6ecoine ihe object of event the rounds of the neighborhood, and was a " nine days wonder." ' am new queie4 hinging up in '3 iliatier edrendition: in a farmer'si kitchen, (rein which I have ivritten this brielmemoir: I have seen 'mueh - of the wnritl, and learned that _mankind are unreasonable and ringratefutil and that. in: a world nigreat variety of taste and wishes it is itnpossible to plea Usti.- : To vnionnvE PoTimm—The . following simple method of preserving initatoes has been discovered by accident.. A riersou at Anna here had a quantity'nf eharecial inside cellar. which he removed fdr , tho purpose of deposit. ing a,large ,heap, of pOtatoes ita place, but omitted, to.lweep up she dust at the bottom., At the , end of the sprang, When thesf.generslly begin to sprout, Le kiind that not one of these potatoes had , germinated, 'tfnii — ob being - cirelied,theftE6ined, all theit'ortginal &sot. .tevak.—=l'his territtle disease e 'prevailing in the - Inuit of York . . Pa. to 4 great extent The Tork Democratic Prteriel" %V educe ttiyilnitt.si ye *noire . scarcely a rlaY Pa 4 4" that Ihereatir not • more &mils to receti. tit Nit are generally...the victims, although there ate some adults now suffering from it. lo one camily . thnine the last week, Once: must afflicting occutrenee." isrterrravor-t:roocia 1. desirous to raise olio or the learned.men of the age to the highest dig; pities of .the Church asked him it he litre or noble -;deseit• Tour msjesty." answered. the Abbott. •*, there ‘veie three brother*: in Ark. ' 1. Cantiot 'Tiosititely ohtth I am F , , =I PXIEI
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