OSE HOLLAR PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWTVISTDA.: Ciatnrimn Wonting, Jnljj 21, 1855. ftltdtb Dpottrj. ONE BY ONE. One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going— Do not seek to grasp them all. One by one thy duties wait thee, Let thy whole strength go to each, Let no future dreams elate thee, Learn the first what these can teach. One by one (bright gifts from heaven) Joys are sent thee here below ; Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go. One by one thy griefs shall meet thee, Do not fear an armed band ; One will fade as others greet thee, .Shadows passing through the land. Do not look at life's long sorrow ; See how small each moment's pain ; Rod will help thee for to-morrow, Every day begin again. Every hour that fleets so slowly Has its task to do or bear; Luminous the crown, and holy. If thou set each gem with care. Do not linger with regretting, (r for passion hours despond ; Nor. the daily toil forgetting, Look too eagerly beyond. Hours are golden links, God's token, Reaching heaven ; but one by oue Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done. (L : Mutational. [For the Bradford Reporter.] In an article published some four weeks since, 1 >poke of the importance of selecting a pleas ant locality for our school houses, and also of having the grounds around them decorated with ornamental shade trees; atid in short, overv thing about them as pleasaßt and invi ting as any private dwelling house iu the dis trict 1 will pursue this subject, by calling atten tion to the structure of the houses themselves. 1 do not projjose to enter into detail upon this subject, or to say how the benches, desks, Ac. should be made. There are several books awl pamphlets upon the subject of school architec ture, in which these matters are treated at length—some of which should be consulted by any au<] every person who is to construct an edifice for the accommodation of the youth of the commonwealth. There has also been a com mittee api>o'uited by the proper authorities to make a full report upon this subject;—thisre port will soon be spread before the public. So it would be out of place for me to enter into minute detail, even if I were disposed to do so. I shall content myself, therefore, with sub mitting a few general remarks. To convince any one that our school-houses are miserably constructed, having no regard to the comfort or health, or physical well-being of those who are to spend their time within them, needs no argument. Children are at school just at the precise time when they need the most watch ful care to be exercised over their health, when bad habits, as regards the laws of health, will produce the most disastrous results. A child at this age may, and no doubt many do, con tract habits, or plaut in the system the seeds of disease that will torment them as long as they live and bring them to a premature grave, ;u-t because parents think that it is of but lit tle or no consequence what kind of seats their young children occupy while confined in the school-room, or what kind of desks they have to write ujH>n, or what means they have of j wartuiug and ventilating the house, provided 1 always, their own houses are furnished with tae easiest cushioned chairs and sofas, and the rcost approved patterns of stoves and veutila ting apparatus. It is the duty of the citizens of everydistrict I ' provide a good comfortable school-liouse for of their children. Not a smoky, ffinrry building, located at the corner 'here three or four roads cross, upon a spot so barren that no one deems it worth cultivating, ia 'l so contracted that four-lifths of the house ia the highway, and so bleak that even the --met of animals warns them to shun the Not a house with slab seats, with legs iODg that three-fourths of the pupils are un ie to rest their feet upon the floor while sit - "pon them, and rough planks for desks, so • and arranged that part of the scholars sit so bent over when writing that they ' ? iQ danger of producing curvature of the lue , while the other part, if they write upon planks, will elevate oue shoulder while ( ""mr is correspondingly depressed ; thus ■ "'""ing, a K j n rde other case, a distortion of 'pinal column. Not a house so open and ex posed to the winds that the furred of the frozen zoue would suffer with ' al one dme, or iu one part of the room, ,' r ],,^ OSe l h e Aery regions of the South, as much with extreme beat at p'aj tUUeS au( * ' n ol fi er localities. Not a £ w ' Q uowing grain, or caring meat, or ' ? oat the eyes of the scholars. No, not THE BRADFORD REPORTER. such a building as this should be provided for our youth in which to receive their impressions of the arts and sciences. Temples dedicated to the sciences, where the youth of the com monwealth go up to offer oblations to the muses, and slake their thirst at Pvrean springs, should be located in quiet, retired spots. The school-yard ought to be the most inviting place in the whole district—the house itself a model of architectural beauty and utility ; everything around and within it, should be so inviting that children and parents shall be lured to the place by its beauty and superior accommodations. — Spacious apartments, high walls, neat and con venient desks, comfortable seats, good accom modations for warming and ventilating each room—clothes rooms well supplied with con veniences for keeping the outer garments of ' the scholars in a good condition, should all be provided for our peoples' colleges. Instead of such buildings, our children arc obliged to sit upon seats without backs, with their lower limbs dangling, or if they have anything to support their backs, it is quite commonly the sharp edge of the plank that is used for the writing desk. The floor not unfrequently is so open, that in winter the feet of the teacher and pupils are exposed to a current of cold air, while the stove or fire place is far better cal culated to smoke the inmates than to warm them. Those nearest the fire suffer with heat, while the teacher is endeavoring to raise the temperature sufficiently to keep those from freezing who sit the farthest from the fire.— Very frequently there is no place for the hats, bonnets, coats, shawls, cloaks, Ac., and all are thrown together—the one coming to school first will therefore have his at the bottom of the pile, no matter how valuable or how much injury may be done, llow can children who attend school learn lessons of order and system in this arrangement of their wardrobe? Is it to be wondered at, that young children who know nothing of the importance of an education, should dislike to go to school arid be confined in a pleasant day, for six long ' hours in such a place, and sit on benches that will cause every bone in the body to ache ? j Why, if parents are obliged ouce a week to sit upon the same benches but one hour, they will groan and complain of soreness the whole I week, and very often will they make an excuse . for staying from meeting that the seats are so uncomfortable. Still these same parents deem j it little better than robbery, to levy a tax to make the school houses where their young chil dren are to spend six hours—five days in the week, more comfortable. There is not a seat in the house that the poorest man in the dis- j trict would not be ashamed to offer to a visi tor. If parents would only spend three hours one day iu each week in the school house with their children, and be obliged as they are, to sit on the same awkward, comfort-sacrificing, health-destroying seats, write upon the same rough, haggled desks, or rather apologies for writing desks, suffer with them from cold and heat, as the mercury alternately rises or falls, gaze upon the same unsightly, disfigured, smok ed, patched up walls—suffer as they do from the inconvenience of obtaining water, and from the want of proper out-houses, play iu the same barren, shadeless, fenceless, muddy, contracted yard, or dusty, noisy, filthy road, breathe with them the impure air that is constantly inhaled in crowded rooms, bear as they are obliged to, the head-ache and debility caused by breathing such an atmosphere ; —I say if parents would do this, instead of seeing school houses situated in the highways, and built as cheaply as pos sible, because they are paid for by taxation, and as uncomfortable as possible, because no body but the children and the teachers are to use them, and with as few conveniences as pos sible around them, because it is not absolutely required bv law to have them ; instead of this, we should see them located in the most delightful spot in the district, upon large lots, surrounded with trees and shrubs, and out-buildings, while the interior corresponding to the external, would invite the youth of the district to come and spend their joyful, happy, youthful days withiu their walls, there to learn lessons of or der, neatness, as well as those of science and art. Make our school houses as comfortable and convenient as we do our best dwelling houses, (I do not say as expensive,) and we shall not so frequently be obliged to drive our young children to school. X. July 9, 1855. THE TATTI.ER. —There is no being 011 the habitable globe more degraded and more con temptible than a tattler. Vicious principles, want of honesty, servile meanness, despicable insidiousness, form its character. Has he wit? In attempting to display it he makes himself a fool. Has he friends ? By unhesitatingly disclosing their secrets he will make them his most bitter enemies. By telling all he knows, he will soon discover to the world that he knows but little. Does he envy an individual? His tongue fruitful with falsehood, defames his character. Doe 6 he covet the favor of any one ? He attempts to gain it by slandering others. His approach is feared, bis person ha ted, bis company unsonght, and his sentiments despised as emanating from a heart fruitfal with guile, teeming with iniquity, loaded with envy, hatred and revenge. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " RESARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." Ut istell antaits. The Yankee Pedlar. Old Squire who, some years age, lived in the town of TV , in New Jersey, was " death on pedlars," and wouldn't allow one to come withiu gun shot of him if he could help it. It so happened that oue Nat. Tucker, a Yan kee pedlar of the most incorrigible kind, in dry goods, clocks,and other" notions," chanced that way, and having heard of the aversion of the Squire to itinerants of this class, he looked up on him as fair game, and determined to " sell" some of his wares and the old man at the same time. Accordingly the first house he drew up at 011 enteriug the town was the house of the Squire. It was at the close of a warm day in July, and the old man sat complacently smok ■ ing his pipe under the porch of his house. As N'at approached him with a clock under his arm and a dozen of silver spoons in his hand, the old man majestically waved him off, at the same time exclaiming : " Clear out ! Don't you come in here—l dou't want any o' your tribe round me ! I know you !" " Wal, I mus 'low, Squire," said N'at, good naturedlv, " that you've got the advantage of me, for I dou't know you, and I guess your neighbors don't nuther, for they tell'd me you was a good Christian, and never turned a hungry man away from your door." The coolness and self-pos session of Nut caused the Squire to pause, for he was a whole-souled, hospitable man, and lie began to think he might be mistaken in Nat's true character. At length he inquired, look ing the visitor steadily in the face, " Answer me oue question—ain't you a pedlar ?" " Ped lar be denied ! —110," said Nat. "Then what are you briugin' them things in the house for ?" queried the old man, pointing to the articles which Nat was carrying. "Wal, the fact is," replied Nat, " I don't much like to leave these silver spunes in my wagon, for somebody might make love to'm, and as for this ere clock, I couldn't afford to lose it, no how, for it's jist one o' the greatest clocks out. I want a bowl of bread and milk nation bad, and if you'll ac commodate me I'll thank ye, and if you won't, I'll hev to go further, and if anybody axes my opinion of yew, in course I'll tell 'em how good you are to strangers." This settled the mat ter, and N'at was invited in. The Squire's wife was out, but the old man soon placed a bowl of pure milk and some white bread before N'at, who laying aside the old fashioned spoon which the old man brought him, supplied its place with one of his own, and proceeded to " go in" as though he had fasted for a month. ; When he had about half finished his meal, Nat remarked, as he paused to turn his spoon over and eye it admiringly—" how much bet ter milk tastes out'll new silver spune, than it does out'll old one !" " Yes, I spose it does," replied the Squire, who had all along been eye ing the remainder of the set, and wishing lie was the possessor of them, that he might as tonish the old lady (who by the way was given to strong-miiidcduess, that is, wearing the breeches) on her return. " I got them ere spunes very cheap," remarked Nat again, as he swallowed a large mouthful of the " lacteal," " and I've no doubt my Nance'll lie delighted with 'em." " I spose you wouldn't care about partiu' with 'etu, would you ?" asked the Squire, hesitatingly. " Wal, no, I don't keer much about it," answered Nat, "but, seein' it's you, I mought, and I gesss there's some more of the same sort left, which I kin git before I go hum. Tell you what I'll deu, Squire—if you'll give me them ere spunes o' yourn and seventy-five cents to bute, jest to pay me for my troube, they're yours." " Done !" said the Squire, and immediately he was put into possession of a doz en plated spoons, for which he exchanged a dozen solid, old fashioned silver ones and " the boot." Nat seemed to regret his bargain, and showed no disposition to take the old sjioons which the Squire laid in a bunch before him, when the latter fearing he might alter his mind and demand his property back again, left the room for the purpose of stowing them snugly away. A broad grin passed over Nat's face as the old man disappeared, and rising from his seat he approached one of those solid, old fashioned English clocks, specimens of which may yet occasionally be met with, which occupied a position in one corner of the room. Opening the door, Nat carefully cut the cords which sustained the weights, so that the slightest jar would be sure to part them, and then thrust ing his knife up underneath the face of the clock, he clipped all the cogs but one from one of the wheels, closed the case again, anil had but just taken his seat when the Squire enter ed. " Tell yon what, Squire," said Nat, as suming a frightful expression of countenance, " I begin to feel bad—'fraid I'm goin' to have one o' them dratted fits which takes me down sometimes. Yes, there it comes !" he yelled, and immediately after he jumped froin his chair high enough almost to touch the ceiling, and came down upon the floor with a force which shook the house to its foundation. " Bang ! hang !" went the weights in the old clock, and " rick 1 rick ! rick ! click ! click ! snap ! snap!" went the wheels, till the Squire was fairly dumb-foundered, and knew not which to attend to first, the old desk or Nat, who lay writhing upon the floor. The scene did not last long, however, for Nat very speedily recovered ; and then the Squire alluded to the noise which the clock had made. Nat examined it, and pro nounced it worn out. He told the Squire he had better either make a rat-trap of it, or sell it to the first seeoud-hand furniture man that came along. Then he incidentally and quite carelessly mentioned his own clock, and com paring it with the Squire's, pointed out the new improvements, especially the " alarm" ar rangement, at all of which the old man was eousumedly tickled, and the upshot was that the clocks changed owners as the spoons had • lone previously, Nat receiving the old clock worth about twenty-five dollars, for a ten-shil ling article. Nat now thought it about time to travel, and accordingly departed. He stowed the old clock, together with the Squire's spoons, carefully away in the bottom of bis wagon, out of right, and stsrted. but had not gone fsr when he met the Squire's wife, of whom he had managed to get a full description, both with regard to her temper and appearance, re turning homeward. " Ain't your name Mrs. B. ?" he inquired, as they met. " Yes," said the old lady, snappishly, "but what's that your business?" "Oh, nothing," replied Nat, "on ly I didn't know but what you'd like to buy a few notions—a pair of scissors, for iustance.— I stopped into your house yonder, and the Squire tell'd me he had broke your's since you bin gone—but he said he wouldn't buy any new ones for you, and you shouldu't buy any for yourself." " Did he say that ?" said the old lady, defiance flashing from her eye. "He did so," replied Nat, "said you shouldn't buy scissors or nothing else without his consent." " It's all very well for him to talk that way behind my back," said Mrs. 8., " but he wouldn't do it if I was there. I'll show him whether I'll buy anything or not 1" she continued deter minedly, as she immediately proceeded to pur chase numerous articles to the amount of about three dollars, all the money she had with her, after which she proceeded homeward boiling over with wrath, and Nat proceeded on his way whistling. Words would fail to give a correct description of the scene of crimination and recrimination which followed when the Squire's wife reached home, and we shall not attempt it, but shall pass on to an incident which occurred some time after. The old folks had become reconciled to each other, and went by invitation to a neighboring town. While there they found their way into a show-shop, and almost the first thing that attracted their attention, was their old clock. It looked as natural as ever, and was altered in nothing save its history—they learned for the first time, from a label upon it, that it had once been the property of Gen. Washington, and that it had been bought at auetiou by a gentleman, togeth er with the documents proving its identity, and sold to the proprietor of the show for tn'o hun dred dollars! Nat Tucker was the lust pedlar that ever " sold" the Squire. WHAT O'CLOCK IS IT? —When I was ayounar lad, my father one day called me to him that he might teach me how to know what o'clock it was. He told me the use of the minute finger, and the hour hand, and described to me the figures ou the dial plate, until I was pretty perfect in my part. No sooner was I quite master of this addi tional knowledge, than I set off scampering to join my companions at a game of marbles ; but my father called me back again : " Stop, Hum phrey," said he, " I have something more to tell you." Back again I went, wondering what else I had got to learn ; for I was certaiu I knew all about the clock, quite as well as my father did. " Humphrey," said he, " I have taught you to know the time of the day, I must now teach you to find out the time of your life." " The Bible,' says lie, " describes the years of man to be three score and ten, or fourscore years. Now life is very uncertain, and you may not live a single day longer; but if we divide the four score years of man's life into twelve parts, like the dial of a clock, it will allow almost seven years for every figure. When a boy is seven years old, then it is one o'clock of his life, and this is the case with you ; when you arrive at fourteen years, it will be two o'clock with you ; and when at twenty one years it wall be three o'clock, should it please God thus to spare your life. In this mauner you may thus know the time of your life, and looking at the clock may perhaps re mind you of it. My great-grandfather, accord ing to his calculation, died at twelve o'clock, my grandfather at eleven, and my father at ten. At what hour you and I may die, Hum phrey, is only known to Him to whom all things are known." Never since then have I heard the inquiry, " What o'clock is it ?" nor do I think that I have ever looked at the face of the clock without being reminded of the words of my father. WHAT lIE DIED OF.— We overheard once the following dialogue between an Alderman and an Irish shop-lifter : " What's gone of your husband, women ?" " What's gone of him, yer honor 1 Faith and he's gone dead." " Ah, pray what did he die of ?" " Die of, yer liouor ? He died of a Friday." " I don't mean what day of the week, but what complaint 1" " Oh, what complaint, yer honer ? Faith and its himself that did not get time to com plain." " Oh, he died suddenly ?" " Rather that way, yer honor ?" " Did lie fall in a tit ?" No answer. " He fell iu a fit perhaps 1" " A fit, yer honor ? Why not exactly that. He fell out of a window, or through a cellar, door—l don't know what they call it here." " And broke his neck ?" " No not quite that, yer worship," " What then ?" " There was a bit of a string or chord, or something like that, and it throttled poor Mike." The editress of the Ladies' Repository says : " Kisses, like faces of philosophers, vary. Some are as hot as coal tiro, some sweet as honey, some mild as milk, some tasteless as long-drawn soda. Stolen kisses are said to have more nutmeg and cream thau other sorts. As to proposed kisses they arc not liked at all. A stolen kiss is the most agreeable. We have been kissed a few times, and as we are not ve ry old we hope to receive mauy more." An Exchange very impertinently inquires—" At what hour may the lady be found in her of fice ?'' "Sammy, Sammy, my son, don't stand there scratching your head ; stir your stumps, or you'll make 110 progress in life." "Why, father, I've often beard yon eay that I he only way to get on in tfcis world was to I scratch-a-head." Effects of Wind and Water on Climates. In a short article, a few weeks since, we described the particular influence of the "Gulf Stream" upon the climate of Western Europe, and presented the opinion entertained by some, that the waters of the Amazon River were the cause of this wonderful current. In Lieut. Murray's new volume, " The Physicial Geogra phy of the Sea," we find this question discussed with rare ability, and with profound knowledge of the subject. He compares the Gulf Stream to a water heating apparatus for buildings.— " The warm waters," he says, " which are con fined in the Gulf of Mexico is such a heating apparatus for Great Brittain, the North Atlantic, and Western Europe." Instead of attributing this stream to the waters of the Amazon, he says, " the furnace is the torrid zone, the Mexican Gulf and the Carribbean Sea are the Chanldrons ; the Gulf Stream is the conducting pipe, and its heat is taken up by the genial west winds, and dispersed through out Britain and the west of Europe." 111 another place he says, " it is the influence of this stream upon climate that makes the Emerald Isle, and clothes the shore of Albion in cver-geeen robes ; while in the same latitude 011 this side, the coasts of Labradore are fast bound in fetters of ice." In an article in the American Journal of Science, Vol. 45, Mr. Rcdfield says, "in June 1831, the harbor of St. John's Newfoundland, was clothed with ice ; yet whoever heard of the port of Liverpool, 20 degrees further north, being closed with ice, even iu the dead of winter." It is indeed a peculiar arrangement of Him who rules the wiuds and the waves, that the temperate climates of different countries in Europe are dependent 011 a hot water sea basin, situated near the American continent, and that this hot water should pass by large tracks of countries on this side of the Atlantic, leaving bound in icy fetters, and dispense its favors to nations on the other side of the ocean. But so it is, and requires the wiuds as well as the waters to distribute those genial favors to western Europe. During the past winter this was displayed in a remarkable manner. For about four weeks easterly winds had prevailed in Great Brittain and Ireland during which period the warmth of the Gulf Stream was prevented from being wafted to those coasts. The result was, that the most intense cold within the memory of man was experienced there ; ice formed in large quantities on the sea coast, and, as a world's wonder, the navi gation of the rivers Thames and Mersey was greatly obstructed, and the port of Liverpool almost ice bound for some days. In Irelaucl the effects of this severe cold was such, that thousands upon thousands of small birds— larks, thrushes, Ac., —which do not migrate, were found dead in the fields, and on the high ways. In Scotland, the effects of this severe cold were more wonderful still. Hugh Miller —that eminent geologist and keen observer— in the Edinburgh Witness, says, " the present intense frost—coincident at new moon with a stream tide—has killed manv of the littoral shell-fish around our shores, and they now lie by thousands and tens of thousands along the beach. On the beach below Portobelio, *and for at least a mile ou the western side of the town, they arc chiefly of two species, Solen Siliijua, or the edible sprout-fish or razor-fish, and Moctra Stultorum, or the fool's cockle, both of them molluses which burrow in the sands above the low water line of stream tides. The sprout fish, when first thrown ashore, were carried away by pail and basketfull by the poorer people ; and yet of their shells enough remain in the space of half a mile to load several carts ; but the fishes themselves, devoured by myriads of birds, chiefly gulls, have already disappeared. It is probable that both species will be less common on our coasts than heretofore, for years to come ; and their whole sale destruction by a frost a few degrees more intense than is common in our climate, strikingly shows how simply, by slight changes of climate, induced by physical causes, whole races of animals may become extinct. It exemplifies, too, how destruction may fall upon insulated species, while from some peculiarity of habit, or some hardiness of constitution, their con geners escape." Had the genial west instead of the dry east winds, constantly prevailed in England during the last winter the atmosphere of that count; y would have been moist and warm as usual, and 110 such severe frosts as that described, would have been experienced. From these new facts, we can form some new and more correct ideas of the effects of the winds and waters upon climates ; and how they effect the destiny and welfare of nations, and living creatures, on the land and in the sea.— Scientific American. DESTRUCTION OF ANTS.—A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger says : We give you a sure remedy—procure a large sponge, wash it well, press it very dry ; by so doing it will leave the small cells open—lay it on the shelf where they are most troublesome, sprinkle some fiue white sugar on the sponge, (lightly over it) two or three times a day, take a bucket of hot water to where the sponge is, carefully drop the sponge in the scalding wa ter, and you will slay them by the thousands, and soon rid the house of those troublesome in sects. When you squeeze the sporge, you will be astonished at the number that had gone in the cells. ttsF* The six degrees of crime are thus de fined : He who steals a million is only a finan cier. Who steals half a million is only a de faulter. Who steals a quarter of a million is a swindler. Who steals a hundred thousand is a rogue. Who 6teals fifty thousand is a knave. But he who steals a pair of boots or a loaf of bread, is a scoundrel of the deepest dye, and deserves to be lynched. tST A great man commonly disappoints those who come to visit him. They are on the look out for his thundering and lightning, and he speaks about common things much like other people : nay, sometimes he may be even be reen laughing. VOL. XVI. —NO. 0. THE CORSICA* WOMEN. —With the approach of evening, the temperature underwent a sadden change, from the driest heat to a damp cold. A tomb by the wayside attracted my observa tion ; a man was buried there, who Lad shot a peasant in a love quarrel about a vounggirl to, whom he was a suitor. Nothing interests man kind so much as the romance of the heart.—• A simple love tragedy makes as deep an impression on the mass of heroic action, and is often cherished in the memory for centuries. The Corsicans are very demons in jealousy, and avenge love as blood. My Companion related to me the following example : A young man had left the maiden, whom he was addressing, for another. One day, as he was sitting, on the public square, in his village, at a game of chess, his abandoned mistress preseuted her self before him with a torrent of imprecations, and drawing a pistol from her bosom blew out his brains on the spot. Another maideu once | said to her lover " If you desert me for another, you will repent it." Two years elapsed, after tiis desertion of her, when he led a bride to the altar. As he was coming out of the church door with her, the rejected one shot him dead ; the people only exclaimed, " Evviva, well done 1" She was arrested, and condemned to three months' imprisonment. Young men rivalled each other in aspiring to her hand, but none desired the young widow of the murdered man. The Corsican women, who sing the bloody songs of vengeance, are also able to combat wit!) gun and pistol. How often have they not, gallantly fought alongside of the men. It is said that the Corsicans were, in a great part indebted for their victory over the French, at Borgo to the heroism of the women. They also fought in the battle of I'ontonuovo, and everybody yet speaks of the Giulio Francesco, of Pastoreccia, who wielded a guu by the side of her husband during all that disastrous conflict. .She was engaged hand to hand with a French officer, whom she overcame and took prisoner ; but wheu she saw the Corsicans dispersing in flight, she gave him his liberty, saying, at the sume time, " Remember that a Corsican woman vanquished you, and restored your liberty." The Corsican women are the living female figures of Tasso and Arioste. A KNOTTY TEXT. —There was once an itin erant preacher in West Tennessee, who possess ing considerable natural eloquence, had gradually become possessed with the idea that he was also an extraordinary biblical scholar. Under this delusion he would very frequently, at the close of his sermon ask any of his congregation, who might have a " knotty text" to unravel, to speak it and he would explain it at once, however it might have troubled less distinguished divines. On this occasion, in a large audience, he was particu larly pressing for some one to propound a text, but no one presuming to do so, he was about to sit down without an opportunity of showing his learning, when a chap by the door announc ed that he had a Bible matter of " great concern." The preacher quite animatedly pro fessed his willingness and ability, and the congregation was in great excitement. " What I want to know," said the outsider, " is, whether Job's turkey was alien or gobler ?" The expounder looked confused, and the con gregation tittered, as the questioner capped tho climax by exclaiming, " I foteh him down ou the first question !" From that time forward the practice of ask ing for " difficult passages" was avoided. THE FLTIRE. —What is more simple and beautiful ami true than this from IKE MAR VAL ? " The past belongs to God ; the present on ly is ours, and short as it is, there is more in it than we can well imagine. He who can measure it with his purpose is doing a man's work ; there are few who do it,and many who do less. A man cannot go around it in a day, lie cannot measure it with a bound, nor gather up its harvest in a single sheaf. It is broad er than the vision and has no end. SCENE IN THE CARS.— Xcrvous old Lady.— Dear me, what makes the cars stop here'! Is there anything the matter ? Smut Young Man. —Yes inarm ; a chaw of tobacco is lying right before the locomotive. As soon as it's removed, we will be under way again. Scene closes, the old lay* giving ati extra tic to her bonnet string, and an inquiring look at a small leather satchel with a cloth handle. A lawyer once approached a pretty Quakeress, and said she looked so charming ho couldn't help giving her a kiss. " Friend," said she, " thee must not do it." "Oh, by Heaven, I will." " Well, friend, as thou hast sworn, thee may do it ; but thou must not make a practice of it." fiKtr CI ristians in Greenland very seldom, if ever, absent themselves from public worship on account of the weather. When it is so cold that their breath freezes and forms icicles on their faces, they yet go long distances—men, women and children, through snow and ice, storm, &c. to the house of prayer. Through much great er sacrifice than the Christians of more favored lands do the poor Greenlaudcrs obey the in junction not to forsake the assembling of them selves together. A bickering pair of Quakers were late ly heard in high controversy, the repentan husband exclaiming, " I am determined to have one quiet week with thee 1" " But how wilt thou be able to get it ?" said the taunting spouse, in " reiteration," which married ladies so provokinglv indulge in. " I will keep thee a week after thou art dead, wa£ the Quaker s rejoinder. _ fray LORENZO DOW defined a death-bed re pentance to be the burning out of the candle of life in the service of the devil, and blow ing the:>uus in the Lord'c face.
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