ZILMICA 7"Zos
UGMIA%S.TIpt,s
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1846
The Death of the Old Tear.
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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
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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
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PITBLISfIED EVERWEDNESDAY, - ;
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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
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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
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