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THE ST ARS.
BC GROUGE D. rIIANTICE
•t•t t ,,,e bottling stars! what are they? [have dreams
That they were•bloasoms on the Tree of Life,
t)r glory thing back from the outspread wings
of God's archangel—or that you bluelskies,
With all their gorgeous blazonry of gems,
Were a bright banner waving o'er the earth
From the fair wall of !leaven l—Artil I hare sal
And drank their gushing glory, tilt I felt
Their flail, electric trtmbliog with the deep
And strong vibrations down the living wire
cliainless pasSion—and my every pulse
Was healing high, as if a spring were th re
To Inlv me up where! might ever roam
'Mid the unfathomed vastness of the sky,
And dwell with those high stars, and rye the light
ming down upon the blessed earth, like dew
rcoin the bright urns of .Naiads!
Beautiful stars!
What are y.e ! There is in any heart of hearts,
e t fonnt, that heaces beneath y ou, like the deep
Beneath the glories of a midt ight moon!
And list—your Eden tones a rh floating now
Around.me like an element—so low
so wildly beautiful, I almost dream
That ye are the living harp of OM,
1 l'er which the incense winds of Eden stray,
And wake such tones of mystic minstrelsy
As well might wander &own to the dim world
To fashion dreams id Heaven !—Peal on—peal on
Nature's high anthem!—fur my life has caught
A portion of your purity and power,
And seems but as a sweet and g,l,,riutts tone
Or wild siar,musie!
bleed things!
Ve are in Heaven and on earth. My soul
Even viith dre,yoltiflwitia's ru-h,can wander off
To your ifolnoral realm. but it must fall
Like yonr onrlent Pload trout ils height.
To dim its new caught glories in the dust!
The earth is beautiful. i lore
wilderuevs of spring (towers., its bright cloud+.
The in ilesty of umuniams, and ihe .!read
Magniticence of ocean--tur they come
Liite visions to my heart--but when I look
I'M your unf•adtil loveliness, l feel
Like a lost infant gaffing nn its home,
km) weep to die, and come where you repoEc
!'pon your boundless Heaven, like parted souls
On au eternity of blesscillaens.
listeliantons.
Economy in a Family
There is nothing which goes so far towards Oar,
trig .young people beyond the reach of poverty as
e.errionte in the management of their domestic al
fairs. Ii matters not whether a man furnishes lit
tle or much for has family, it there be a leakage in
his kinthen, flinch 'more in the parlor, it runs away
hr kncn - s no how, and the demon, waste, cries
ni tie, like the horse leech's daughter, until he that
provides has no more to gave. It is the busbarrics
duty to bring into the house. and the wife's d u ty to
s•e,that nothiug goes wiongtutly out of it—not the
I , as: article, h'owever unimportant in itself—to es
tablish a precedent t hog under any pretence, for it
opens the door for min to stalk in. and he seldom'
leaves an OpprWitniy - unintp«)ved.
A man gets a wife to look af er Las affairs, and
assist him in his jorney ifirongh fife, and not India
spate his property. The hn-band's merest should
he the wile's care, and the greatest ambition should
carry her no farther than his welfare or happiness
together with that of her children. This should he
her sole aim, and the theatre of her exploits in ifie
bosom of her family, where she may do as much
towards making's Icioune as he in a workshop or
counting room It is not the money that,makes the
man wealthy—it is what he saves of Itif earnings.
A good and prudent husband makes a deposite of
the fruits of his labor - ,with his best frrend;and if
the friend be not true to him, what has hew hope!
If he date notplaca confidence in the companion
of his bosom, Where is he to place ! A wife acts
not for herself only, but she is the gent for the
many she loves, and she is bound to act for- their
good, and,for her own gratification. Her husband's
good to winch she should airnsi—his approbation her
Selt-gratiticattou in rheas, itidulgetice in
appetite, or more company than Ins parse can en•
terrain, are equally pernieioes—the first adds tants
ty to extravagance—the second fastens a doctor's
bill to a butcher's long account—and the latter
brings intemperance, the worst of strides in'itelrain
A VICIOU3 Sneer.—Out WeDt a settlement was
itorey annoyed by a aloe who atele sheep Ire.
quently, but who, by his adroitness, always Man
aged to escape direct proof of hjs guilt. Cities in•
zumerable, only three shades below the legal
standard:of proof, were correctly recited against bum.
Nobody, however, could furnish the 'evidence
which would stop up the 'Rogue's Gap of Ileasotta
btu Doubt. Pettibone was too wide awake for .
that.
At length, one Sunday morning, a neighbor on
some sudden emergency, was passing' across `the
country—perhaps fur a Doctor-thtoogh • sr tamed
out field but little frequented, and where a small
flock of sheep were accustomed to graze. Hem
he saw Pettibone in pursuit of a fat ewe, and too
enthusiastic in the pursuit to observe that there was
a spectator of the chase. At length Pettibone over.
hauled the bleating Mallen) or influPenea anti with
glittering blade let out its life. AL this juncture,
Ins aforesaid spectator rode up and exclaimed:
"Alt! you infernal sheep stealing rascal;
caught sou at' last, have T, tight in the act of killing
John Stmpson's sheep i"
" Yes!" shouted Penibone,• thrusting forward
his face and shaking his head defintately at • his in•
terlocuter, while ho flourished bis black; itulignant•
IY—" Yes f and I'll kill any body's deep that comes
and tries to bag met"
The detense was worth a sheep, and they only
requiral'euy to wore the netaboihood, lest all
the sheep become vicious,
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Preseryitu; Fruit Without Sofa!!
We have received numerous applieatinnsftn in
formation about the modes operandi of putting up
fruit so as to preserve it in a fresh slate, without
cooking, drying, or packing in sugar. It is a busi•
noes that cannot so wel f t be done in families as in
large manufactories, where everything is arranged
for convenience ; but still with a little experiince
and awful attention every family can sate enough
.of the various fruits of the'season to furnish their
their tables with kgreat delicacy during that per.
'tion of the dear when they can get nothing of the
kind. The whole secret consists in expelling the
air from bottles orcans by heat, and then sealing
up the contents hermetically, if the article+ to be
preserved is peaches, select such as you would for
sweetmeats:ml pare and cut them so they can be
put in the bottle, and yoo most do this with the least
possible delay, or they will be colored by the at
mosphere.
Some persona want them to retain their natural
whiteuese, put them under water. When the bot
tle is lull, cork it tight and wire down the co-k
with very little ()rejection above the glass. When
you have bottles enough to fill a kettle,,auch as may
be most convenient, put them in and boil with the
water all around up to the nozzle, for about fifteen
or twenty minutes, or until the bottle appear to be
full otisteare—the atmosphere having beet} forced
out the cork. As soon as the bottles are cool
enough to handle, dip the corks in seating wax so
as to cover them quite tight- An additional pre
cautiln is used by some it; putting tin toil over the
wax%
AnJtlier plan is to conk the fait slightly in a
kettle,'and pour hat syrup of sugar in to fill up the
itcers'ices, and then cork and seal—the heat of the
bun and syrup answering to expel the air. But the
less they are cooked, or sweetened, the more na
tural will he the taste, like fresh fruit, when open
ed We have satin peaches a year old that we
Could !rot tell from those sugared an hour before.
ram: A loes are very easily preserved, and retain
their freshness better than almost any other fruit.—
The small kiod are only wed. Scald and peel
diem wi•trout breaking the flesh. Bottles should
11111 ab.nit a quart only, because, when once open
ed, the contents must be need up at once. Bottles
made on purpose, with large throats, and a ring on
are the beet, and bottles are better than
carte for all acid fruit. The cane, however, are
more easily seemed by solder than the bottles by
calk aud i wax, as tae air is let out through a small
puncture atter the large opening es soldered op and
cans heated, and that hole stopped With a single
drop of solder.
Every article of fruit will keep fresh if the air is
exhausted and the bottle sealed tight. The least
particle of air admitted through any imperfection
ut the sealing will spoil fruit. if the air could be
driven out without heat, the r e would be no need of
any corking, and only just enough should be given
to expel the air and not change the taste. Many
per-one prefer to add syrup made by about one
p rind of sugar to a quart of water, to all suitable
fruits. Green corn, beans, peas, tomatoes, pie
pant, rut rants. gooseberries, cht•rrics,'plums, rasp
berries, strawberries, peaches, are the most com
mon tiling: put op to ail , ' way. They add greatly
to the pleasure of the table, and to 11 e health of
those who ron'ume them; quite unlike, in that re
spect, the common preserves.
We hare known hen for pies put up in - three
(part cans, by partially cooking in an open kettle,
in a syrup just sweet enough for o'o, anti 'putting
the fruit in the cans hot, and soldering immediate
ly. It kept thus perfectly.
Some fruits keep much better and with I essheat
in; than others. Peas are among the hardest arti
cle to keep; they contain so much tised.air.
We advise every family in the country to try
this plan of putting up fruits for winter use, on a
small scale this year, and it successful, enlarge up
on it next year.
ANECDOTE OF CHARLES LAMB —The following i
an original " Lamb," and was, we believe, lucked
up by Fields, the poet. Charles was once'riavel
ing m the vicinity of one of the Engting watering
places, in company with several ladies; one of
them, who was more'remaikable for prudery than
good taste, took occasion to call forth the polished
satire of the wit, alter Ibis fashion:
" Dear ms, Mr Lamb, that'ashocking!"' -
„ W—wh—what,'Madamel"
"Why, there? down'On the beaeh - those boys
Charles looked, and saw some hall dozen tin e
rtircbirts, gamboling in !IWO atra.enconceated
light along the'sparklieg 'Sands, autl lbws rebitired
his companion : -
," These are girls, Madame, are
they not?"
" Why, Mt:, Lamb!. no— I assurepyoh they :ate
bhys !"
fs Are—are the, Ab ! well ex—c—use me,
Madame at this dis/ance I know the
difference!" •
Tor Futiv Qcsgett ' tong shwa a
t , friend," who rejoiced in the nein° of .oornfon,
Oa his davoirs to a young- mut attractive Quaker
'-vridowitereed Rachel H. tither' her griefs were
tiiti newt or beg liters too 014, Of jinni:sortie - other
-cause; his -oiler . was declined. W bereupon'e Qua
ker frien4 ` - tietitlielThacwitit ,tbellatrandern in
stance he bad keeallt.w.liere Raebel tefoseci to be
comforted.n The anecdote lavernaikable es being
the - first.Qcialies run on'record. ' •
A CONVISCING ARGIIIIFr.-T:HiShOp 6UTITcq =CO
1)1101410d Nature Vilifies; n, artuCtniu3h Ptutuied by
his saint, - Bud, utterierg - a:tehtinus truth tri -ttrfy
earnest 'Danner, with pest "'”hiruttice struck firs
4atio4 l •bana upon thi 441094
", Who dares deny.thial"
" Faith," obaireed %hi gine, in a key not molts
so loriat as the preacher,. ". ; riabody, I should thick,
that irithin reach' of that great hst:ol yourr7"
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Kidd, the, Pirate.
On the twelfth of May, one hundred and fifty
three years ago, the celebrated pirate Kidd was
hang in England for the crime of murder. The
following sketch of the life of the pirate, is from
u Valentine's History of the City of New Yorlc:"
The slave trade, being a legitimate pursuit and
followed as a regular branch of foreign trade for
many years, was exceedingly profitable, though
somewhat hazardouA, owing in piratical advenmr
ers, who followed them into their remote trading
places, - and often robbed them of their stores'and
money need in the purchase of negroes. This
practice became so great a pest to the mercantile
interests, that efforts were made by influential mer
chants of New Yolk, to induce the English Minis
try to assist them in fitting out a cruising vessel,
properly armed, to ad against the pirates. Col.
Robert Livingston, of NeW York, en active and in•
fluentiat citizen, brought this matter before the En
glish government; and introduced Captain William
Kehl, of'New Yolk, as an efficient and well known
commander, whose fitness for such service was
well understood in New York. He was a man of
a family, and had resided in New York for several
years. It was proposed to engage in this enter
prise on the footing of a private adventurer, al
though it was also desirable, or some purposes,
that the scheme should receive the official counts
nanze of the government. The King, Lottl Somers,
the-Earl of Romney, the Duke olSlnewsbory, the
Earl of Darold, and Lord Bellamont, joined in mak
ing np the necessary expense of a proper vessel;
Col. Livingston also contributed a proportion. The
profits were to be divided among the owners of the
ship, allowing a liberal share to Kidd.
A commission was issued December 11, 1695,
under the great seal of England, directed u to the
trusty and well-beloved Capt. Williani Kidd, com
mander of the ship Adventurer Galley." He set
sail from Plymouth, in April, 1696, and arrived on
the American coast, where be continued for some•
oecaeicraally entering tlieliarbor of New York,
and visiting his family in the city. He was consid
ered useful in protecting our commerce, for which
he received much applause, and the assembly of
the province voted him the sum of two hundred
and fifty pounds, as a complimentary return for his
services.
Soon after this he lett this vicinity for more ac
tive operanans :on the coast of Africa, and it was
not long ere the astounding news arrived that Kidd
had commenced the trade which he had been en.
gaged to subvert, and had committed several pira
cies. The report of these (acts coming to the pub.
11c knowledge in England, the circumstance was
made the subject of a violent attack upon the gov
ernment by the opposition party, and in the excess
of patty zeal, it was alleged that the King himself,
and those concerned in the expedition, were privy
to the piratical adventure and shared in its profits.
This charge having color of foundation, from the
actual circumstances of the case, made the question
a !inf l ect of slate inqu.ry, and thus the name of
Kidd, thnuph perhaps personally less obnoxious to
the odious characteristics of his profession than
others in history, became, from its awn:ninon with
partizan warfare between the great men of the state
the (ameba among•the pirates of world. The no
blemen engaged in the enterprise underwent the
form of a trial tot their lives, but were acquitted.
The principal scenes of Kidd's piracies were on
the eastern coast of Africa, at Madagascar and the
vicinity, where he captured and titled, as we pave
been informed by history, committing extreme cru
elties upon his captives._ The only porson proven
io have been k fled by him, being a seamen of his
own, named William Moore, whom he acciden•
tally slew, by hitting him with a bucket, for insub
ordination. Kidd having amassed a fortune by his
ciuise, shaped his course homeward believing,
with a mange fatuity, that no -iiihnination of his
depredatiuus hi those remote parts of the world,
had reached the scenes Obis home. He brought
his vessel into Long Island Sounds in the year
1699, and went ashore at Galante'', Island, where
from some undiscoverable motive, he made known
his desire to bury a quantity of treasure on the is.
land, and did acemilingly deposit iu the ground a
considerable quantity of gold, silver and precious
stones, in the presence of Mr Gardiner, but under
strict injunctions of secresty. This deposit consist.
ed of eleven hundred arid eleven ounces of coined
gold, two thousand three hundred and fitly ounces
of silver, seventeen ounces of jewels and precious
stones, sixty-nine precious stoner, fifty bags of so.
gar, forty-one bales of merchandise, seventeen
pieces of canvass, one large loadsione, frc. fisv :
ing thus disburdened his ship, he departed for Hoe.
ton, with the ;design, it-is supposed, of selling his
'vessel. While I%6mi-however, ho was recognized
in the street. and apprehended. He was sent to
England for trial, arid 'indicted for the murder of
William Moore, before spoken of; and being con
victed was hanged in chains, at Execution Dock,
May 12, 1701. The wife of Ruff continued her
residepee in this city :after his death > herself and
daughter living in-seclusion in a habitation on the
east aide of the town.
Lottacnvv.—There are few persons advanced
in years who consider their decease• as an event
which will shortly rake place. -An old gentleman,
aged oly eighty four years on being informed oleo
death of an acquaintance - at the advanced age of
ninctrix, snatirered," f am 'sorry to bef►r oi his
death s bilt.l COeless ram not mootiatiiitriiied. His
constitution was naturally weak. and. he.wai habit.
call? careless of his.health. I cheap pedieted that
teotsfetnet fie long lived P'
A Cluitinany.-Td • on a : soli between two
pretty gide, one with black eye., jet ringlets and
rosy tbeeks--tbe - other w ith sok blew eyes, ninny
. 'ringlets, and red o fi eeks-and Recited, -Itingh
init die same iirda: W know Ofilothing chore
tcytn one's EterVelts UP)6811 -tAtlt to have both
hands to the dough and 2 tlcs up the leg of iiut
trowels.
A 'Oocmit:Otie.
For a chart .siory, the following iv the best one
we have read for sometime:
ti Pat oat the light."—Shakspeare.
" And then—get into bed."—Jenkins .
William and John occopied separate beds in the
same room. John was honest but lazy. Oa en
tering their room to retire for the night, John with
his nsuitalaredY, Undressed and jumped into bed,
while William was pulling oft his boots and decid
ing which side of the bed would most likely prove
the softest.
After a lew minutes delay, William 'sprang into
bed, placed hie head upon two pillows, and doubl
ed himself up, preparatory (or the comfortable
snooze, when what should he dircover when just
ready to U drop off,"' but thathe left the fluid lamp
burning. This discovery gave rise to the following
soliloquy :
" 'rwout do to leave that lamp burning, but it's
so very cold that 1 hate most awfully to get out on
the floor; but still the lamp must be blown out. I
wonder if I can't make John get out. try.—
John !" •
" Hitlo•"
" Did you ever know Dmiel Hoskins, fJteman
of engine thirty seven 1-
" No. Why ?"
" Nothing, only I didn't know but you knew
him. I aav3 by the l apers that his death was
caused last week by inhaling the oaharogon fluid
al vapors from a lamp that he accidentally left burn•
ins in the room. After the fluid was all consumed
the chernist:said the oxide( suction of the wick so
o unturned the °nitrogen of the lungs, that the flin
dical vapors suddenly stopped the inspirdtion, and
the heart ceased to beat."
John rai,;e4 himself up in bed, gazed with a
sternness indiscribable on the reclining term of
his room Mate, and in a stentorian voice exclaim
ed :
,4 Why in thunder don't you blow ow that
lamp ?"
'; Well, sore enough," was the reply, it ain't
out is it? Well, never mind, John, it'll go out
itself in a little while,"
No it won't go ont itself, in a room where I
sleep." And in a twinkling of a cat's tail, John
had extinguished die light and returned to his bed,
muttering ae be did en, " I'd rather get op a dozen
times, than to die as Daniel Hoekins did."
In the morning John wanted to know all the:par.
neuters about the death of Mr. Hoskins, but Wit
ham had no recollection of ever speaking of it, and
accused the honest fellow of dreaming.
Cuatostma or Crites —Here is a man leading a
white goat with only three legs, which he wishes
to sell, but on a careful examination we perceive
that one of the forelegs has been neatly amputated,
while the animal was young. There are halt a
dozen gaming tables, each surrounded by its crowd
of player: and spectators The Chinese are inset.
erate gamblers, air as the stakes at many of these
tables are low as a single cash, lew are so that
they cannot make a venture. One of the methods
has some resemblances of the " little jokers,'' so
well known at our race•courses. The player has
three sucks, tho ends of which are thrust through
his fingers. There is a hole through each of the
other ends, which are held in his limn) ; a , cord is
passed through one of them, and the play con
sista in guessing which one, as the cord may be
transferred from one to the other by a quick move
ment of the fingers. I put a "cash" on the hoard,
make a guess, and win a cake of suspicious look
ing candy, which 1 give to the nearest buy to the
great merriment of the bystanders. There arc also
stands for the sale of pea-nuts, reminding us of the
classic side.walks of Chatham street, and for the
sake of Young A merica,.we must invert a few cash
in its favorite fruit. But here is an etnertaintnent
of an entirely novel character. A man seated un
the pavement, holds in his hand a white porcelain
tile, about a loot square. This ho overspreads
with a deep blue color, from a sponge flipped in a
thin paste of indigo, and asks us to name a Rower.
I suggested the lotus. He extends his fore-finger,
croaked, flexible as an elephant's trunk, and as
sharp as if the end had been whittled oft--gives
three or four quick . dishes across the title, and in
ten seconds or le* to ! thefts is the flower, exquis.
Rely drawn and shaded, its @army cup hanging in
the midst of its tong, swaying leave it. Three more
strokes, and a whiftrbiril with spread wings, hov
era raker it; two more and a dog stands besides il•
The rapidity and precision of that forefinger seem
almost miraculous—He covers the 'tile with new
layers of rotor, arid (laver after flower is da-hed
out on' the blue ground:—Bayard 'Taylor's letters.
(*--" Don I carry on so, said Mrs. Partingfon
to Ike, es she issw birn restiog bis heill on the
irciuncc in a vain atterrspf ta throw his heels Into
the air. - there'Alls a solleitude in her Gnu; and
corn `broom in her hand:as the lo r iited al - biro
.
You most nor azt PO gymnastily; dear," contin•
tied shfi l f• Von will force all the brains You hese
got into your head, if you do. You cau't do like
the circus riders, because rrovidence has made
thern..p' purpose for what they do, out of Ingee
rubber, and it ilort't hurt 'ern at all, 1 ben, rent got
bones like other people, and
..can turn heels, over
head w,eb perfect impurity. 'Pon't do it l" scream:
ed she, as ths : hoy stood on, one leg upon the nod.
en horst, and made a feint as if to throw a isomer.
set, " you'll Jesecrete your neck, by arid by, with
your nonsense, and then you'll regret it as long as
you live" I4e 4esiraed, is the dame smiled, and
held a circular piece ofeopper Wore his gaze ; such
passive potency bad !bit erilile Over . him; barked
by dm copper.
'er- I t ; Ceptitini what's the tali to St. Louis !"
" Viltat,itarroribehesi, do ktiowisti to jficia—
cihin or deeli
Hug
. your cabin the ' gentleman front
todfa—e' t fivi - rnalt,abin it hiais ; givo' mi the
Oat yokt'irs got , ' •
What Is the hardest Mode to Die I
To be abut dead is one of the easiest modes to
terminate life; yet, rapid as it is, the body has
leisure to feel and reflect; On the first auempt of
one of the frantic adherents of Spain to assassinate
William, Prince of Orange, who , took the lead in
the revolt of the Netherlands, the brit passed
through the bones of the face and brought him to
the ground. In the instant that preceded loupe
faction, he was able to frame the notion that die
ceiling of the room had fallen and crushed him.
The cannon shot which plunged into the brain
of Charles XII, did not prevent him from seizing
hie sword by the hilt. The idea of an attack, the
necessity for defence, was impressed on, hint by a
blow which we should have supposed too tremea
dons to leave an interval for lhonght. But it by no
means follows that the inflicting of fatal violence
is accomplished by a pang. From What is known
of the first effect of gon shot wounds, it is pos-ible
that the impression is rather storming than acute.—
Unless death be immediate, the pain is as varied
as the nature of the injuries, and these are past
counting
Dot there is nothing singular in the dying sense,
tion ; though Lord Byron remarked the physiolog
ical peculiarity, that the expression is invariably that
of languor, while in death from a stab, the coon.
tenance reflects the traits of natural character, of
gentleness or ferocity, to the last breath.
Some of these cases are of interest, to show , with
what slight disturbance life may en under a mortal
wound, tilt it finally comes to a sodden stop.—A
foot-soldier at Waterloo, pierced by a mu , ket ball
in the hip, begged water of a trooper. who chanced
to possess a canteen of beer. The wounded man
drank, returned his heartiest thanks, mentioned
that his regiment was nearly exterminated, and
having proceeded a dozen yards on his way to •the
rear, tell to the earth, and with one convulsive
movement of his limbs, concluded his career.—
" Vet his voice," say: the trooper, who himself
tells the story, " gave scarcely the slightest sign of
weakness."
Capt. Basil who in his early ynnth was
present at the battle of Cmunna, has singled nut,
from the confusion which consigns to oblivion the
woes and gallantry of war, another tistance, ex
treme''' similar, which occurred on that occasion
An old officer, who was shot in the head, arrived
pale ant! taint at the temporary hospital. and beg
ged the surgeon to look at his wound, which was
prenontweil mortal. " Indeed, I feared an," he
responded with impeded utterance, "and yet' I
should very much like to live a little longer, if it
were possible " He laid his sword upon a stone
at his side, "as gently, says Hall, " as if its steel
had been milted to glass," and almost immediate.
ly sank dead upon the turf. , —Quarterly Review.
Tuts VARICEErN lieLL.—Burson tells a capital
story of" The Yankee in the Infernal [Jealous "
His description of some of tile characters lie found
"down below," 13 laughable in the extreme.—
Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Jews he dee
vibes coot, 31" :ill fours," and par ienharly P'Cpert
in ihe toppatation of " suhid " The introduction
of the Yankee to his infernal inajerity is peculiar.
"How d'ye dew, lo,11 . 4," said the etttmzer,
puffing away at a long segar; . 1 ilk the blue devil
at hum 1"
11i noiesly looked saltpetre at the
ittirthler.
" Reptile? he exclaims.% in a voice of +homier.
that runabl6cl aril revei4ierate3 in the tieptler tit a pit
without botom, " Who are you that dare ttermic
npon our sacred privacy !'
" Whew," ha ri the stranger, " thut't tear your
shut! why what .con earth is the use of going , oil
half cock in that way ! Why do you pimp for More
you're spurre3 ''. theta aim such all almighty oc
casion for you to i,et your dander su awlul riz, jest
as if you was goin' to burst your biter. Seette that
your clirnale's rather of the wormem, rt would only
he Join' the civil thing of you pst said, Mister,
toe the mark, and take your bitters."
" Worm, hence to your apposim4.l place in the
yawning gulf! there, is the hottest flame—"
" Wall, I guess not !" (trawled nut the men,
with itupurterable calmness. " I've gm my ticket,
:dieter, horn the regular agent, and I don't choose
ti birth so nigh the injure !"
bright mottling to your fait hire
,Mitres. Murphy." •
"%Vella gno.l mNuirt: John
" 01311! 1 1 4'0116'PS Murphy, WlltilaVrt t WO. a rapt
shiny, Irish morn like 'hie, it puts me just in
mind i)I ihe °aid connihry, and of the time when
lived with your lather rust him t•owt,
inorihiviir drew breath and rini.A a roar mather
niver passed his door without a hit ol'a tor,'".
" Troth, he was John,"
tit Mistie*s Macphy," pulling out a flask Irani
his porVot—" woi3lll you truttt me for half n pint rill
fgo down to ilie:vrtiail, antl. rimy
.0)e-41y" away
with the soot of -my jacket.; but 1 11. pry 5 I:ca I:ehite
the run goes to twit."
tt Rem the dhinp, John, till ye pay for the hall
pint ye p,ot yeste'itlay
'• Miatreas Murphy "—emphatically,") knot%
yet mother, and she was an old hod carrier, and
•yet father was an old dirty -washer werearf t and 1
seed him etautO with six wattle big hulls' to the
gallows, you old . thief of the world."
John sloped in sloub►e qt;ock time r and a pewter
-beer mog• rattled wrathfully across the pavement.
IIC:1
t r IMO T M e love 1 4 ,1 10 11 Inv". Phil
them this way and the•other way, and they_ only
bend to never break. Trip them down, and , in a
nice they are on their fact again. Bury them in the
mud, and in an Ituut they woutd be out awl brii, - dit
You cannot keep thorn down—.you cannot destroy
them. They ate the salt of the earth. Who but
they etait.any_noble profect. They built oar cities,
whiten thers2cean 'pith go t !astir, and blacken the
beivena with smoke of rhett car,. Look .to them,
young men,.and es:ch the spade& their energy.
SALT.—Common *salt is one of the molt
impor
tant substances for domestic and general use. it is
obtained from three sources; from mines, where it
exima in solid form, evaporation of sea-water, and
from saline springs About five hundred thousand
10014 01 fossil or rock Salt are annually produced in
England The priticipal of these mines are sitnat.
at Norwich, in Cheshire. There sterna-sal. mines
u( extraordinary capacity and depth at Cracow, in
Poland. Salt is a state motioply in Austria; it is
obtained of excellent quality from the mines of 80.
'•hina and Witheza, which yields upwards of thirty
thousand tons annually, and would produce an in.
exhaustible supply. Piussia raised tsva hundred
and fifty thousand tons in the year 1842. and the
article is also procured extensively in' Calabria,
Catalonia in Spain, and Tuscany " Vast natural ea•
fines or salt ponds exist on the chores of Patagonia,
at Key West, Syracuse, and some other pinata( the
United States, and in the Bahamas. Eight or ten
million bushels ♦te made annually in the Milted
States, and nearly as much more is impotted, chief
ly (corn Turk's Island. From fotty•one to forty-five
gallon' of the brine of the Syracuse salt spring fur
nishes a bushel of salt. Salt to the extent of eighty
thousand lona was shipped in 1549 from Syracuse.
The wliolo coast of north of the province of
Venezuela furnishes a considerable quantity of salt
of a beautiful whiteness.
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ANIMAL. LIFE tat A WARM. CLIMATE.--Thu fol
lowing description by llumboldrgises some idea
of the exuberance of animation, eren in its low
est foams, under the equator:
At noon, in these burn trig climates, the beasts o f
'he forest retire to the thickets, the birds hide them
selves beneath rite foliage of the trees, or in the
crevices of the rocks. Vet amid this apparent
silence we hear a dull vibration, a continual mur
mur of insects that fills, it we may use the expres
sion, all the lower strata of the air. Nothing, is
beater fitted to make a man feel the extent arid
power of organic life.- Myriad's of insects (vett,
upon the soil and flutter round the plants, parched
by the ardor of the sun. A coaled noise issues
from every bush, from the clefts of tho rocks, and
from the ground undermined by the lizards, mille
pedes, and eecilat. These are so Many voice,,
proclaiming that all nature breathes, and that ender
a thousand different forms fife is diffused through.
out the cracked and dusty 5011, as well as in the
bosom of the waters, and in the air that circulates
around us.
AattßlCL—When Kate and Ktlen Bate-
man were in Londori,they were invited by the Queen
at Windsor Castle with the royal children. While
on their visit the Prince of ►Wales took his seat for
the first time in the House of Lords by the side. of
his mother. When he returned heme,he writs:aft - 4M
allow the glittering jewels to be taken from his
breast, he sought Kate naternan, and Boding her in
the royal nursery, with hi* sisters and brothers, he,
t`sattits, her hand, said , " Kate,,am !Mt as lam a
man, ma's going to give me the throne, iMI, then
VII make you my t~ i(e and queen " Kate then
%aid, 4• Weil, little Wales, I you will be a good
boy, study hail, and when you grow op, select
some honorable profeision, take your case into
consltlxratioti."
Scrrr:Rs.v Avr•ecrros.—asdathera love their Janet •
ters better than sons, at.d \ mothers love their sons
better than daughters, an do sisters feel towards
brothers a more constant aentiment of attachment
than towards each other. None ni the lotto van,-
lies, heart burning* and jealousies that, alas, for
pure human nature' are but too apt to spring up
an female hearts, can (or at all events, should) arise
between brother and sister; each re proud of tho
success of the other, because it cannot interfere
with self—nay, on the contrary, is liegeting to sett.
ileum, if there be a bumd of latnily union more
tree from the selfish blots that interrupt at: others,
it is that which exists between an affeetinnate ats•
ter and brother.
TIIE Stycr nv A tcrtu. Pastrrs Fcrlart,the
naturalist 01 Kchi,Eres Arctic Expedition, states a
cnrious fact respecting the condition of the vegeta
We world during the lone day of the Armee Sum
mer. Although the sun never sets while it lasts,
plants make no mistake about the time when, if it
be out night, it ought to be, but regularly _as din
evening hours approach, and when a midnights:on
is several degrees above the MI6/on, droop their
leaves and sleep, even as they do at sunset tit more
favored clones.. " If matt," observes 3.1 Scvsus,
should ever reach the pole, and be undecided
which way to nun when his emnpasst him become
Ring rah, hie ttme.pieee out at order; the plants
which he rnay happen to meet will show him the
way:, their sleeping leaves tell him !ha! telarlight
I. Al /111 ill, and that at that tune the Min is etantitUi;
,tir..he north.
A. Wises. flays —ls a Man all'
.his tfeoue 3 '
arkuil the wife tit a man in a Plato .ot stupelacnon,
as eh-• was E( 4 1d111/4 hN suhinc head in tenth hands,
'• Yea, 1 suppose SN P Veils 1110 Teisfy.:: „ :
...,'''tt•ti;ell then." said ,she : " I eame:lßU f
um
drunk last mght, and I ought to bo,asitatoeii.ul tie, •
twit !"-
This tilck•hande3 rchoku, from an affectionate
wile, effectually cured him of his Jrtukuv, pw
penoutee. . • .._.
Tri ti rti, t ma Lady : the other (Tay, in ror
cer•tng wiilt a wend, aahl that her daft) went 1 1
a female cemetery, and tva" learning at a won rate.
having got as trr as wary nugtockc, branches et
edneatton net heart of at her days! For fee het
part, oho did not soe %shy they could not ,get shel
"choolm, as the gala began to ma attet,the
enetterly enough !
CerrrCowehem finnuy, telip us what rho
four *flagons are.'' rePper, Bait and
moor. them's wha motherteisons
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