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TIIE AGATE
'11 . 11793, the Marquis de Fosscret was one of the
happiest Marquises in France, which, a t t h at t i me,
was not saying much. Having been in Paris but a
few' days. unknown to all, feeling no regrets for a
court with which he was not acquainted, a king and
a queen whom he had never seen, dressed in a
cannag,nole and a' red cap, he was, in the eyes of
his hostess, plain citizen Fosscret as, his passport
certified. We must not believe that the Marquis
sympathised, in the slightest degree, with the opi
nions of the times; he was simply a country gen
tleman, indifferent to all political matters. Royal
ty, the Republic. the Gironde, the Mountain, were
things in which he took no interest, and which, in
his estimation, were not of sufficient value to dis
turb the current of his life. His property, Which
ccas considerable, was in safety, out of the king
dom; a friend of his in childhood, the only person
whom he loved, the Chevalier de Bapaume,.had
just succeeded in emigrating without accident, and
had 'reached Sicily, with his young wife and a
a:night& of three years of age, who was named
Augustine, the diminutive of the christian name of
godfather, M. Auguste tie FeFseret
After, having seen Parts, the 'Marquis intended
to visit Italy, and then join his friends, M. de Ba
paume, at Messina. lie frequented the clubs, the
theatres. *id, thanki to his costume, his common
place 14ce and provincial manners, no one would
thought of taking him for a marquis. It is a great
error to believe that the revolution assailed every
body without distinction ; it kit more poisons in
repose than : is usually thought; or, to speak more
clearly, all those, with a few 4 exceptions, indeed,
Who really wished to remain s), and who were
strangers 'to the event and to the ac ors, were spec
tators to this grand, drama, without ben g mingled
in it. The. Marquis did not trouble himself about
the revolution, which on its side, left him equally
undisturbCd. lie was present at thecivic fetes, and
(*toyed Ills time in ettjo) ins the pleasures of the
capital. .
' - zoite day, in a deserted street of the Marais, he
eneounteued a young girl, accompaniel 4 by her mo
ther. returning homeward, keeping close to the
walls of the houses. and -proceeded at a hurried
step. Both were clothed in mounting. The sin
gular beauty °Gibe young maiden made a lovely
impression upon him, and he was seized with a
sudden passion lot-her—a pa.ss ion the more violent,
Losoin was entirely bee from the agitations
ut the times.
To to!low these two remales, to discover their
dwefling, and to learn their names from a lotion
iou; neighbor, all this wits done with the prompt-
tret-s natural to a young mart in lore.
•• And are you sure that they lice there ?•' he said
to the fruiterer's wife, as he pointed
_to the house
which the two dames had entered.
" Yes, citizen," replied the woman. " a der fat,
mother and daughter; they are culled Vergtm , --
before the Republic, De Yeti-pies; they have nous
son, and they owe me I don't know how much in
a. , signots; but they arc worthy people."
These few words were eoeu for the Marquis;
he jL aseendel to the apartmedit occupied by these
dM..-s, gave his name and oViered his services.—
In those storm} , times, equality of birth and simila,
city of opinion were strong ties. The Marquis was
kindly weleomed,.and he learned from Madame
de Vergues that her husband, who had emigrated
about two years before, haul left her in France, with
out resources, and in complete ignorance of his
fate. Au intimate friendship sprang up between
these three persons, with whom we must include
M. de Fossett's domestic, Guerard, who had serv
ed bum Irom childhood. The Marquis changed
his abode, took ich,ings in the house occupied by
Madame de Vergnes, and his passion increasing
day by day, he made an offer of his band and his
toritAne. The marriage was performed in a cham
ber aanFfortned into a chapel. Guerard and an old
commander, a friend of Madame de Vergnes, were
the witnesses, and a nonjuring • priest blessed their
vows..
Here, - said-the spouse to the young girl ; as
the • eft the altar, "the times in which we live
suit me to offer you neither jewels nor rich
robes, noth;ng, indeed, which is usually given to a
youn7 bride : take this engraved agate, it is not of
great value ; and was a gift to me from my mcther
1 cannot ask you to wear it, it is too heavy and mas
sive-, but ever preserve it; conceal it in the casket
in which you keep your most precious jewels, and
so long as you love me let the two agates never be
separated."
Mademoi-elle de Vergnes was named A,gathe,
and as he made this poor pun, the Marqu i s gave
his wife a beautiful Antique agate, upon which was
engraved in relief "a cupid with-his linger raised in
arch mystery.
Possesing, ituread of &;minishing M. de Fos
seret's love, only augynented it ; he would have
been perlecily happy, he said, but for his wile's
coldness. A year passed in repose and' solitude.
After the lapse of this time, two events occurred
to trouble the tranquility of the youug pair. A let.
ter from the Chevalier de Bapaumo brought
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• "Sly friend," wrote the emigrant to the Afar
sincel hare inhabited a little villa, in the
neighborhood of Messina, amid the calmness and
the - happiness which I here enjoy, I have-a hund
red times regretted that I was deprived of your so
c.ety, and that you were in France, surrounded by
numerous perils.. Now that dea h has robbed me
of my wife, it is for my own sake that I grieve.--
Alt, why can I not clasp your hand and bear your
voice, which alone would somewhat soothe my
sorrow!. Your little god daughter, Augustine, who
has just tiraelicd her I. Atli year, augments illy WI
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xiety. Come, my friend, I need your aid laud con.
solution to enable me to endure n:1 the bi(mlens of
life."
Madame do Vergnes was. seriously ill when the
Marquis received this letter. .She did not kw sur.
vire, and Paris then became as insupportable to
the young wife as to the Marquis himself. They
left the capital, traversed France, and soon reached
Marseilles, where they embarked for SicOy. While
they sailed over that fair and azure sea, where each
rock recalls a remembrance of the past, the Mar.
Tits ; as little interested. as' history is in politics,
spoke of the friend whom he was about to meet
one more.
My dear Agathe," he said to his wife, "hith•
erto we have always lived secluded ; now the
friendship of M. de Bapanme will throw a charm
over our existence. Ah, with what pleasure shall
I clasp him in my arms!"
Ile then called Gueranl, his demestic, wholiad
accompanied them, and led• him to speak of his
childhoeil; which had passed so pleasantly in the
society of Charles de Bapaume; of the grace and
loveliness of the lire Augustine, his god-daughter,
and the happy life they were about td lead to their
voluntary and shoit exile; for who ever leaves
France without the hope of seeing it again ! They
reached Messina without accident. Charles de
Ikaoine was waiting for them ou the shore. lie
was a handsoMe young man of twenty-eight years,
with features pale and passive iiievpression, and a
noble form, which appeared to advantage in the
simple moniing apparel which he wore. lie clasp
ed his friend in his arms, and after respectful salu
tation to the Marchioness, he conducted the new
corners to his villa, a Sicilian habitation ; spacious,
adorned with marbles and mosaic, but entirely des
titute of the commodious luiury which pmvails in
a French mansion.
A few scattered chairs, tables of carte wood,
and half a dozen of those porous vases in which
wale acquires the coldness of ice—these were the
condorta which the hospitality of M.-de Bapaume
offered to tie Marquis and his wife. This was, in
deed, about all that M. de Fosseret %vauld have
found elsewhere on the island. In warm countries
the needs of life are few, and the indolenceengen-
Sered by the climate renders the inhabitants ne
glectful of the cc nveniencei and luxuries so eager
ly sought after by those of colder regions The W
ill Augustine was playing in the arms of a robust
and dark-haired Sicilian woman As soon as she
saw M. de Fosseret, she ran towards him with the
gaiety of a sporld child, who, brought up in the
country, carresses inditlereutly with every stranger
who is willing to smile upon her. 'She was a most
beautiful child; her dark eyes shone with all the
ardor and brilliancy peculiar to the -Women of the
squth, and her complexion possessed that swanlike
whitene'ss which characterizes those of the north;
her ;;raceful movements,,her round& pliant frame,
gave promise of perfect beauty. The Marquis lav
ished his carresses upon this child, and remarked
to the father that, however unhappy the premature
toss of Madame de Bapaume might have rendered
such a daughter ought ( greatly to soothe his
grief. The Choral er cast his eyes to the ground,
and clasped Augustine to his arms.
All the houses in Sicily have an inner Court, pro
, tected against the sun ' s rays by high walls, in the
midst of which standsa basin of water, from which
leaps a fountain ; around this basin are ranged di
; vans, and it is here that the indolent Sicilians pass
in soft repose, the most sultry hours of the day.— I
It was to this retired spot that the Chevalier first
conducted his guests; it was here that the two ,
friends related to each other their varied fortunes
since the day of their separation. The Marquis
was rich and the husband of a young wife; the
Chevalier, a widower, lived upon some secret aid,
which as a French emigrant, he received from the
I ' Roman States; but M. de Fosstret would have
g.iven all his wealth for a chill like Augustine.—
lie hired a villa adjacent to that el his friend, and,
atter the lapse of some montlet, he congratulated
himself upon the resolution which he hail taken
to Sicily, the climate of which suited his- wife,
while the customs tastes of the country were pe
culiarly adapted to his temperament. Violent and
irascible; he was but ill fined for the polished
manners of city-life; careful not to wrong another,
he would unwillingly have resigned to the law the
office of avenging his injuries ; a devoted friend,
lie was an implacable enemy, and this feature of
resemblance with the people around him attached
him to the Sicilians. Still fend of his wife, but
'without resources in himself to wile away the time
hetpassed long days id hun ing.
the reaming he started with. the Chevalier,and
returned in the evening, both, loaded with game.
Not a day went by that he did not piss an hour or
two with little Augustine; be disputed with Cata
nea, the Sicilian servant, for the pleasure of sup
plying her wants; he listened to the childs prattle,
half French, half Italian; be dandled her upon his
knees, and returned home only when Augustine
had fallen asleep and could no longer reply to his
caresses. Soon the Chevalier grew wearied of
these long hunting excursions, and left the Marquis
to enjoy them alone. One day, M. de Fosseret
feund the 61111 so scorching and the game so rare,
that he resolved to return home earlier than usual,
and he retook the 'read to his villa: before enter
ing his house he wished to see little Augustine,
and he stole softly into the house of his friend--
The Chevalier was absent, and Calmest, the Sicil
ian servant, was asleepnpon the maitre in the vest
ibule. After some search he discovered Augus
tine in the inner court of which we have spoken.
The child was lying upon the grOund at the edge
of the basin, and was. plunging her little arms into
the water, apparently in order to find some object
which she had lost.
L Augustine," said the Marquis in alarm, "what
are you doing there You will fall into the wa
ter, imprudent child.
tic ran towards her and raised her . : Augustine
placed her wet finger upon her lips in token of
silence.
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" Hush ! hush!" she said; "if Cutaneit should
see me she -would tell papa s and that won!' ruin
all."
" Catanea is asleep-i-fear nothing. What has
happened
" Papa's ring has fallen into the water."
" Your father's ring! what ring !"
The child fretted ; wept, and, unable to explain
what ring she meant, she be g ged her god-lather to
seek for it himsel4 casting, the while, timid glint•
ces towards the gale of the coati, (atrial of seeing
Catanea make her appearance.- The Marquis
placed his fowling piece in the angle of •two warts,
took WI his light hunting coat, rolled •up his shir t
sleeva, and plunged his arm in the water. The
task, difficult foe,* Add, was easy for a man, for
the basin was of but slight depth. But would it be
possible for him to find the ring, concealed as it
probably was amid t h e weeds and moss which
carpeted the bottom of the basin! This was the
Marquis's first thought, as ho passed his hand to
and fro over the spot pointed out by the child.
" Fear nothing!" he iuld to hie god-daughter,
who slid wept, " I will arrange the matter with
Catanea, and if necessary with your father. If we
cannot find the ring we will have the basin drained
and searched. Ah, I believe I have it! Tee, here
it is. • •
The Marquis withdrew his arm from the water,
and reachrd the ring to the child, without even
casting a glance upon it.
"Oh, my god-father," cried Augustine, "this
is it indeed."
The Marquis then rove, Wiped his wet hand and
era, mid put on his coat.
" Let me see the ring." be said.
" There; take it god-Father !" replied the child,
placing the ring in his hand.
The Marquis took the ring, and scarcely had he
cast a glance upon it, when his hands trembled
and his face was covered n ith a death-like paleness
It was the en;mverl agate, which, fifteen or
eighthen months before, he had given to his wife
on the day of their nuptials; he turned and return ,
ed it in his hands, to see if, by chance, some acci
dent had happened to the stone or the setting.
which had induced his wife to give the ring to M.
de Rapaume, in order to have it-repaired. It was
entire and brilliant, as if it-had jest left the hands
of the jeweller.
" Is this your father's ring!" he said to Angus.
tine.
" Don't say a word! don't say a word, god-fath
er ! I will tell you alt r
Augustine took the Marquis by - the band, and
led him out of the coot; they entered the vesti
bule. Augustine satisfied herself that Catanea was
still asleep upon the matting; she then ascended
the stairs which led to her father's apartment and
stopped upon one of the steps,
Stay !" she said, "it was here I found the
key."
" What key r replied the Marquis, in great agi
mtion.
" Why, the key of the drawer where papalierps
his rings."
" Ah, ha!' said the Marquis.
lie sullered Augustina to lead him to the sleep
ing apartment of the Chevalier de Bapaame. It
was a Sicilian chamber; a small bed covered with
a netting, two unmatched chairs an old secretary
inlaid with rosewood, with a border of bronze,
composed all its furniture. Augustine advanced
towards the secretary ; the key, which the Cheva
lier de Bapanme had dropped that very morning
upon the stairs, upon leaving the apartment, was
still in the lock. The child had only lb pull the
key towards her to open a drawer which she point
ed out to the Marquis. She then saki--
" It is bete that papa keeps tha ring."
The Marquis hurried towards • the drawer, and
found it filled with letter, the hand-writing of
which be at once recognized by the superscription.
They were letters from the Marchioness. He seiz
ed them and thrust them into his pocket; he kep
the ring, locked. the drawer, the key of which he
also retained. Then, by a method of reasoning
which could only deceive a child of four and a
half years of age, he made his god-daughter com
prehend that, in order that her fattier might suspect
nothing, it was necessary for him to take away
the key, and that, above all, she mud not open her
lips upon what had passed. The child promised
obedience ; but as the ring was a plaything in
which she took delight, she wished to have it re
stored to her. The Marquis, to quiet her, gave her
a ruby which he usually wore ; and now, as NU
icus not •to be seen by Catanea as his god daugh
ter had been a moment oefore, be took Augustine
in his aims, softly descended the stairs, placed the
child in the court where he had found her, and
then seized his fowling ince, be left the house un
observed, after hiving once more admonished the
child to keep silence.
Too deeply agitated to recant home, he entered
a patch which led to a thicket, where he was in
the inhabit of reposing, and where a few clumps of
trees sheltered him from the rays of the sun.—
When here, he cast himself upon - the parched
ground, and wept bitterly. The loss of his mak,
the . overturning of society, exiled far from his
country, all these had been indifferent to him, and
had seemed to him as natural accidents. But he
was attached to two persons; to the one for love;
to the other from friendship, and he held in his
hands the proof of the perfidy of these two objects
of his affection. ' He at last dried his taus, lea ne d
his back against a•tree and read the Marchioness's
letters.
They contained the histoty of a woman who, in
a moment of penury and wretchedness, espouses
a man whom she' oes not love. Madame Agathe
.de Posseret expatiated at length upon her reaborut
for not loving her husband. She declared, that
from the moment when she had seem this Chevalier
new feeling awoke within her boom. It was a
virgin heat that she offe'red to M. de flaipanme ;
it was a drat love. T,.en the eoroplaigeil languid
ly of the affection which the Chevalier had felt for
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his deceased wife; she displayed a , retmeitective
jealousy, and ended ben letter by rows of eternal
-tenderness; not a word indicated regret or remorse.
Presently the unhappy Marquis lighted upon a
small billet, the first probably, and one in which
the hesitation of his wife seemed to prove a fixed
and dersevering design.on the part of the Cheva
lier to lead het from the path of duty. It was
hf.. de Bapaume, then, who had prepared the
Marcuionees' ruin ! On comparing dates the outJ
raged spouse Discovered that he had for the fast
three months been the dupe of these faithless be
ings, and that the moment when he bad been he—
frayed coincided esartly with the time when M.
de Bapaume bad lost his relish for the chase. 4 4 k
last hotter made strikicg impression upon the Mar
quis. •
"My friend," wrote Agatha to am Chevalier,
" receive the ring' that I send you ; it is now the
most valuable gift that I can offer you ; it has vir
tues, which, if your attachment to me is sincere,
will render it precious to you; it compels the one
who has given it to love the person who possesses
it; thus the-Marquis from whom I received this
jewel loves me against my will. Heaven grant
that henceforh, my friend, I may not love you
against yours."
The dishonor of the. Marquis was complete.—
Deceived in all his affections, betrayed in all his
hopes, he east his eyes around him, and remem•
bered that he was in Sicily. He then folded the
letters carefully, plared his engraved agate in his
pocket, and continued the hunt so unhappily inter
rupled. At evening he returned home, supped
with his wife as usual, and at the accustomed hour
retired to his apartment,. followed by his domestic
Guerard.
Gueranl," he said to him, " I am attached to
three persons in the world) my wife, for
whom I have a violent passinn,the Chevalierde
Bapaume, this friend of my childhood, and your
self; I do not speak of Augutgine, she is still but a
child. Of their" three persons two eenairly have
betrayed me, and perhaps the third is tharaccom.
Guerard in great astonishment, protested his
nnocence and his fidelity. The Marduis, ; who bad
kernel] his resolution, placed his wife's letters be
fore the eyes of his domestic, and having assured
himself of the devotion of the only Wend that
remained to him, they endeavored to discover the
means which the culprits employed to 'see each
other in secret. During the long hours when the
Marquis was absent the Manehirmeits never left the
house ; Chevalier de Bipaume did not visit her, or
if he did, it was in no ostensible manner. At last
Guerard recalled to mind that the Marthioness
passed all her time in a , small apartment on the
ground floor, which was situated in a corner of the
building. The two repaired to this apartinent, and
after a careful scrutiny discovered a sret door
which led to a dark vmdt. The two vffia.s were
adjacent; it was not difficult to divine the outlet of
this mysterioo. passage. '
" And now,' said the Marquis, " I an? about to
avengernyself. Can I count upon you, uerard!"
" Always, my lord Marquis."
" Reflect well, Guarani," added M. de Fosseret,
drawing a poignard from beneath his coat. "1
shall show no mercy !"
it Let as go sir."
With these words both entered the' unknown
passage.
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dregs have all gone towards the cork, they are dis
chaged by what is called "divorginei The bot
tle is lifted caretully from the rackoritb the neck
down—the Elting is cut, the cork flies, MO with it
dregs. napkin of the workman is in /letting all
the sediment, escaped, and as hula as possible lot
the wine, and it is satprising how accurately hey
perTorms this operatiMi. Another cork is ready the
instant the bottle is tamed up, and as soon as the
100 has been supplied by clear wine, the bottle is
again placed in the rack. This processt is repeat;
ed until no (Dore Bailment remains, and the trims
is then fit-for market:"
The manufacture of spurious ehampaigne is spee
dy and easy enough. To make it, they take the
poorest Chablis, woi4h bat five or six cents a bot
tle, sweeten and refine it, and then pit it through
an apparatus which charges it with catholic 'acid
gas, and in fifteen minutes it is ready for market.
This eta is bought in Boston, New YOrk and
bany, where fashionable people and spendthrifts
swallow it at the rate of two donate a bon/e. in
England, a great deal is made from gooseberries,
and the stalks of rhubarb. An immense quantity
ii made from cider in this country, particularly at
Nets : ark, New Jersey; and - nine oat of ten who
drink it cannot tell it front the rend. As it takes
just as mach Money to bay it, as it will make a
a man more drunk and stupid, and give him a
worse headache than the French, we don't know
why it is not worth quite as much.
Pmirrca's Eamon.— A rather green village editor
up country, was very desirous of Orling the good
graces of the new minister; and in describing his
first entrance into the church, wrote , "he is a most
venerable sample of antiquity." But to his aston
ishment and the amazement of all the inhabitants,
it came out the next Morning in types : t:_ffe is a
moot venerable sample of iniquity."
A FEw Tuning vo Avoni.—A bottle of wine at a
public dinner. A short cot when you ate in a bur
ry. Walking between two umbrellas on a pour
ing wet day. "mut another glass befoni you go."
Going into a church without a shilling. -Being the
mediator of a quarrel between a, man and hitiwift
BOwing to a lady from the, top of an omnibus.—
And lastly, taking a new- hat-to an evening party.
(Cr' A maiden lady of fort; in reply to an ironi
cal question why she did not antler into- the holy
ante matrimony, said . ; Why, by waiting, I may
'get one of the, best of husbands; and if I get a bad .
one, I shall have reason to rejoice that khavn't long
to live with him.'
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CAMIE or &mgr.—A *Pinches', tanner," wri
ting to the Germantown Telegraph, gives the fol
lowing practical directions - for the ease of sheep:
An opinion prevails in some sectionsthat sheep
requires no water during winter, and that they ac
tually do better without than with it. This, howev
er, is ir great mistake, and one that** unfrequent
fy lives rise to serious losses. When permitted.,
sheep, though they a,e capable from their peculiar
'nurture and habits of subsisting a longer time
probably without ,water than any ether &Meiotic
animal, will think . from four to eight times a 'day,
and with evident advantage, particularly during
winter, when they am necessarily restricted to dry
and indigestible food, which naturally engenders
thirst, and requires much drink to resider the econ
omy of digestion and assimilation sufficiently rapid
and perfect to insure a continuance of thrift and
health. When practicable, there should always be
a watering through in shed or yard, to which the
animals can at all times have free access, without
mingling with cattle or larger stock, as they are li
able to be injured by the latter, especially when
with young. When there is a pump in the yard,
as there always should be—the trouble attending
such arrangement, is comparatively slight, even
where the slier? Lad cattle yards are, as they -ought
to be distinct From twenty-tire to thirty sheep
are as many as can be well kept in one enclosure .
When the number exceeds this, unless special care
be bai to secure the most perfect ventilation, the
animals are liable to contract diseases, and never
do so well u when confined in smaller flocks. On
king sheep from the pastures, in aretunm, thesud
den change from green to dry food often opera
detrimentally, which is sufficiently evinced by the
loss of appetite and consequent ernariation evinc
ed, and which is often attributed, erroneously, to
disease. As soon as•they are taken fmm the , tan
gee, a couple of messes of potatoes should be given
them daily fora week or so, gradually lessening
the quantity as they become accustomed to, and
acquire a relish for other food. By adopting this
plan, and allowing, them a liberal supply of salt and
water, their,vi,gor will remain nnimpared, and the
change tendered unavoidable by circumstances,
will be productive of no unpleasant results."
GA - scs.—Good gates are a, great convenience
They save no small amount of trouble, and when
properly constructed, wilt endure for years. Every
passage way, path; lane and rood, should be se
cured by a good substantial gate, hung on durable
poets, and attached thereto by firm iron hinges, ca
pable of sustaining the weight without asityger of
breaking, even when roughly used. True, it costs
more to construct and hang armed gate properly,
than it does to construct a pair of bars, but when it
is once accomplished, you have a defence which
!rill not require replacing or reparing for years, and
which will subject yco to but little trouble or loss
of time in opening and abutting--an item of no
small' consequence when ono is to pass some doz
en or twenty times a day.
SILT FOR Blunt Cows. —When cows in milk
are kept on green, succulent boa, they require a
regular and liberal supply of salt. So, also, when
cattlej are first turnedlo pasture in the spring, they
require salting more frequently than in the latter
part of the season when the berbage is less succu•
lent and fresh. It is often the cane th t animals,
taken from dry food, and supplied exclusively with
iveen fermentable herbage. are greatly debilitated
I I et anana,” Salt, in due quantity, is a certain pre
rentitive of this malady. On first . going to grass,
cows should be continued for a week of so, and
then not Mopped suddenly, but gradually.
GOOD Annum—Never keep a poor or malform
ed animal of any kind. It is better to kill or give
away such, han incur the expense of keeping
them, wet *le risk of having their peculiar deform
ities communicated to the rest of your stock. The
judicious Caney, has truly remarked that, "of all
animals of whatever kind, those with the smaller
and clearest bones are generally the best propor
tioned, and covered with the beat and finest grain
ed meat; they ate the hardiest, healthiest, and best
seders, able to bear the molt fatigue, when hying,
find worth the most per pound when dead."
Goon Toois.—ln providing yourself with far
ming implements, always endeavor to obtain the
best. It is bad policy to select a poor or imper
fect instrument, simply because you can get it.
cheap. Your ten cent pen knives and shilling ra
zors are the dearest in the end, every one will ad:
mit, and the same remark applies, with equal cor
reetnessoo cheap scythes, axes, shovels, spades,
plows, hoes, izc. Ike. • -
Rura Bps FOR HORIIRL+The horse, when fed
on these valuable roots, furnishes his own root cut
ter.votes
AU that is n o enable him to per
form upon them t o mastication, de
glutition and digest' ,ts to place them in the man
ger before him. The largest and finest roots soon
disappear, especially after the animal has had slit
tle experience in " irori4sig up."
Cosine= rue Bestow; Ircsaor Arsz.c Tiers.
=Tr,
—R. Manning, of Salem''l the Woe
some from a Baldwin apple tree in the =Spring of
its bea ri ng year changed their s ul year to the fol
l Owing season. The unfmitful seasons bare be
come bearing years, and rice Tenn.
Trim Pam Tasne.—The Patent Office Raped
for 1847, states that the quantity of apples shipped
from Oneida county, N. Y., (chiefly from four
RoWnships,) wastes thousand in 1645, seven or
eight thousand in 1846; and eighteen thousand in
1867. • The most productive orchard, known as the
Goodsell orchard ; containing abed six acres, yield
ed in 1845 mom than one thou end barrels, •which
sold for over a thousand dolts.
J t P.:l 0;
• : "
1 , Tee sur.ao looking at
our age, I amstruck brume !lately wklb one .41111•
mending character"- ie ; end Oat is, die ferefet*l
of all is movOments to expansion, to diffusion, no
univ'entdity. •ITo t i ask yeas urtettflom Thin
' tenderer is directly . sto the spirit of *Mu.
niceness, restriction, narrowness monopoly, semis+
has pfevailed in • ssgen. Mum* action is now
liver, • mom one %nods, adnam%ms,
help, are more • .hr aff. respriviler e ,ed petted
individual is heroin ng less, and the human . race
are becoming more. The multitude rising from
the dust- Once we heard of the kw,- new of
. the
many ; once a part now of
the rights fooling as never
before, throegb relopments of ranks
and classes, ' we whir/ is below
theta; ami • that every being
who panaki Jams to ealtivise,
selerna don isolienithre rights to as
sert, a vast Tbe irand' idea
.of borate swan as 'inrin, is
-spreaJing tot that the worth
of the hum; =tootles it should
be ; but thr through the dark
ness. A has seised on the
public mini ,feet portions of so-
ciety are el better condi
tion, for w signed. The grand
doctrine, should have the
means oft to knowledge and
virtue, of 'ropiness, of exer
cising the _ of a man ; this is
slowly taking the highest social truth.
The world sr ail and eat km a few ;
that society i if;that no hordne being
shall perish, its own fault; that the
great end of ; to spread a shield over
the rights of Impositions ate growing
into axioms, r of them is coming fotth
in all the der efunesine.
-Tile Loss BORN —We have read
of a young i newly buried be fin. 4
born. Her , visit her, and, ee find
ing her sweet he asked bow she had
attained sod . She replied, " I used
to think of m many. whether sleeping.or
waking—to • ! more beautiful than oth
er children. _ ..ssappointed if visitors omitted
to praise his eyes; or his cods, or the robes-that 'I
wrought for him' wiih my needle. At first I be
lieved it the natural current of a mother's love.—
Then 1 teamed it *aR pride, and sought to bumble
myself before 'Mtn who reststeth the proud. One
, 4 rii
night in dreams thoeght an angel stood beside
me, and said, 4 S, ere is the little bud lbou nur
sest in thy bosom 1 ' I am sent to take him away !
Where is thy littl harp ? Give it to are! It is like
those which sou d the praise of God in heaven."
I awoke ie teats my beautiful boy drooped like a
bud which the w rm pierces; his last wailing was
like the sad • from shattered barpstrings; all
my 'world seem gone; still in my agony I listen
ed, for there was a voice in my soul, likethe voice
of the angel wb bad warned me, saying, "God
loveth a cheerful giver." I laid my mouth in the
dust and said, let Thy will be mine ; and as I arose,
though the tear yon my cheek, there was a smile
also. Since this nice. has been heard amid the de
fies "Of every d y—methinks it says continually,
" the cheerful gi er." II
C mesices
000 bottles of C
annual guzzling
000 of bottles.
quisite to prod
case which a
through before
lows:
At the vial
tasked, before
cask till March
bottles are pil
layent, so that
can be taken
years, each
neck downwa
• the neck, Th'
bottle three or
down with a '
two or three
VIAZEL ETES--Major Noah says that a hazel eye
inspires at first; a Platonic sentiment, which gradn
ally but surely expands, and emerges into love as
securely foimaed as the rock of Gibraltar. A wo
men with a babel eye never elopes from her hus
band, never chats scandal, never sacrifices her bas.
band's comfort to her own; never finds fault, never
talks too much or too little, away" ia.an• entertain
ing, intellectml, agreeable and lovely creature.—
We never knew but one uninteresting and unaniai
ible women with a hazel eye, and she bad a nose
which looked, as the Yankee says, like the "!ittle
ecd of,nothin,g whittled down to a point."
A Patoor
FATHES.-....Th
inlaw; and a
rietl the son,
The widow as therefore mother to her husband's
father, and ... , . neatly grandmother to her own
husband. '. .ey had a son, to whom sbe was
,1,1
great-grandrn her : now, as the eon of a grial4lo-
de, this boy one or the other. He washisoin
grandtatherl is was thepasewith ahoy alsehool
at Notwhich.4—ifoolsAidgatine. .
Anrict TO n Lungs.—Always dress as neatly
and as plaint, aa,poutible—let Flora be your jew.
eller ' and a rose God the onlY gem about you,--
Thiscoveri yourself with gewgaws, like far eat.
tle, only in - that you are intended, like them,
for the mark "
He is _
chief power
nice eases
than it supp
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I France pieduaes about 50,000,-
ampaigne wine every year... The
f the world amounts to 300,000,-
deal of skill and labor and re =
pere wile. A part of the pro
( favorite Cbampaigne wine goes
is offered in the market, ides
• in September, the wine is at once
fermentation. It remains; in the
r April, when it is bottled. The
in stacks, with laths between the
cee which burst, some 12 per cent.,
At the end of two or three.
is placed in a rack, with the
( 7 , and the dregs gradually Sink into
[ process is hastened by lining the
four times a day, and placing it
I -re When it has received some
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unarmd of these shocks, and the
T ♦ MIN c* SC HIS OWX awn
e was a widow and her daughter.
an and his son. The widow mar-
d the daughter the old gentleman.
at simpleton wdo imsgins that the
of wealth is,to supply wants. In abet - •
tof a handred ft mates more wants
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