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ALL'S FOR THE BEST : I.e i.anguine and elieeFful, :Lad are friends in ; but t.,lte g..e. faithless aliil fearful, topry and t,:.• -t : i nistn I.ut kiv,ir it, p. \ . l• i 1.1 1 , 1 , 1 ; -and all•• fpr the best. lll=ll for the. 1,, ; :et this in your-.l..ind4rd, so: hoo of lot tom., or pilgrim cation., to. to the of thkpair may bai e wand. red, Nrly-Wl',llloll -W3ll fir or heart-tricken dove. 1.... t : I o in,al 1,,,t eontitling !'r oleo o goo. rn, the rest, ol the 1•:-,i1 1-11, of Ilk creature ib guiding lc .ftoi.lt -, 12,..e,a1l for the G• C. : then (ling a..rfay terrors. I .1 1., • awl fears in the van ; your dangers nr errors, '• „;,,• ,1,!.1. while you -trixe like a man f • fr .in the cast to the west,. :1; 'al-dont met mercy soeFoolultal, happy, that all'. fur the liiistritantous. 1101 r :NTUN PLAITS. 77 :ont Blanc is nnquestionahly the hen of cf' Ciatinouni—the niouutain ii:traets Hari , ts from all parts of the Ev,:rylioily has read of De SaaSSIII'V, ';si 10 s anti achievements, and a myriad Direct.aries toll of the exploits of Iji), Parry, Bosworth, Bonille, and ricl Ileicirca:zen, the S.Acilish advelitnrcr. ho leers !ias.,ed the glacier, fails to of Madam- Ileariette d'Angeville, and !,ei,i u:k the summit of " Monarch." 2.l,i:iv ha excel of the (";r;/trils and y-N liranil Plateau and the sharply defined ~.libruifles arid , (;eoe—the of Pelerins, :lie Ic, -towcts of t he Bosson'S-1 lie chasm.: Ticicciv. and the terrors of the Atm . & ,•,• Al; tile , T %%dialers are. the ,pccial :\iunt 1311Jac, and motor _• , r_f , , , novoirown•tank•os h. I•an afford to 1% a:to I.t•ad 11'1111 hi ro'oos of elou,. and ;wow, cola aud haughty a .1-: ,e,co a year there i, a candidate for i,r which is the "event iili the rc:o.deiit tottri,t6. And, :1 , 1 ii-eciisoin and it. preparations to I,e , tir eoui•nuuitt like that ho, L„rc:l %roll the 13revent, \‘ - itli ever• ti.,itre of the Mon t, turn t,3 ate new exeitethelit with alai:- e nn2fra n, the IV et terhorn, the Grimsel, peaks and 1111 , ,e'i that one ni Tanuliar terms with in Savoy and `wit id, n o for nothing, in point of interest and when (oinpared with Mont Blanc.— the first anxious glance we get of it on Ira, near the Fort de l'Eicluse, with the Line wilt( N of the Rhone at our feet, to :5.1)(1 view from the Florentine bridge at finally, straying neuth its slnt tirtL valley, one is kept in a xcitement. AiligenCe, or char, no 'natter in what .1 of Su Noy you be traveling, is certain to vntilUsiaAtic people of both 01 Mout Blanc . s,inie rapturous r, doubtingly, ulow lud;i• , , too, are always rapturous in re -I;lane. For many reasons. Some I by its ,grattdeur—otliers have read fainiliar description in Childe .ItL, r think its top is " so nice and • ;11.•! ii,ra.ilittally at languid has Hen it it Ir iia, IL sum% y cre,t to the foot n I ler sex. In this z.,zpeet Mont ~ • •as ~,tueziu taNte. It; icy harriers are -WI.. to female feet. What , a joyous u to tr.tverhe those snow-payed . • %%, hint ladie4 as guides, • instead of „r Savovarils. How the oald I,e, assuaged, and the perils em d, with a female voice, low and sweet, us on the - jeturney Every ice hi the sunlight would u'ear a richer line. yawning crevice would be robbed of its Desolation would become a delight. t ! eyond the " Cascade of the Pilgrims," rainbow flood of bright water, it is t inuo,sible for ladies to go. They must !tont to use their lorgnettes on the. Bre to.plitek slips of rhododendrons; on, the lielves of the Niontanyert ; to gaze at wreathed pinnaelils from the and with-pavilion - Visits to the Ffegere, the winding waters of the Arve. The grandeur" af,lkiont Blanc to• them te a waled book. Its heavenwardAnys- Inaq cold eo att inept, assay from their ,v. • nu inlwr meeting a imly mt Rnyounn who ~, ed the St. Bernard on a mule, (after -I ,o n of Napoleon Ic Grand, - ) who con -I,,oked forward to the epoch when all pa , :s'es and summits would be reach- Om .:cut le means of comfortable ballOons. comes to pass, then ladies will not 11 , 1 , 41 front enjoyimr the beauties of un- Ularee,sihilities. : .of which Mont Blanc :!,,lava are trio tyrants The " Cha mid Mout Blanc Incorporated Steain ymapany7 would most,-certainly -be --would do a safe, payivg bun I)y uo means original in this feeling•, Yvars I have hint a passion formoun aLks, and of all others that; of Mont Twive have I visited Ithe- - Chattimmi for th e purpose pf. riMltitig:l4e,:aseeut; :ce inz!orious record as this may seem. .Not that I lacked enterprise (though I say it, who perhaps should not ;) not that the dread of dangers subverted the desire, nor that I could not bring to bear the energy and fortitude the task requires. There are other reasons, which I shall presently detail. There is a consolation in the knowledge that my fail ures were only two in ten titunsand, for if 'a faithful catalogue had been ,Maintained,, they would-surely reach that number. I am, there fore, not the only individual who has turned his back on the defiant peak with a vexed spirit., and then wondered why nature has shut her portals ofnow directly in my face. It was clear I we-not a chosen one, no matter h6w burning my ardor or intense my desires. Bulwer has written a famous line—" In the bright lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail," and there is a sea of apothegms float ing from lip to lip in which we are told " not to be cast. down," but " try on, try ever," and " upward, onward,' Excelsior !" bat till this praiseworthy advice does not stand one's friend when Mont Blithe makes up his Mind you shall not stroll on his crown. llemocks - your mighti est efforts, laughs at your spent skill, and cold ly spurns you from his breast. It takes more than maxims to surmount a chasm, and in the matter of glaciers, a pair of hobnailed boots is worth the tersest epithets ever coined. Never go to Savoy with nothing to your back but proverbs. They will serve you only as stairs of sand. My first essay in the Chamouni vale was early in the month of June ; and having con sulted the chef of the guides, he assure d me that it was at least a month too early to make the ascent. At that time, not fully compre hending thy difficulties, I pressed the matter, and at me suggestion he collected the guides and separately queStioned each as to the pro priety of the undertaking. A murmur ran through the group, and with one exception, they all refused,. urging that the glaciers were in too damrerom, a condition at that early pe riod of the year. A glance at the Arve after wank convinced me of their knowledge in this respect, as that stream was swollen from the hater or tin. Lti:,;.if r, to the extent of overflow ing. In netity, places. "Ten hours after, I cross (.l.l the Tete Vwn', with the Conviction dint Molt Blanc would, some other day, claim the honor of my society---aud it did. ) left my ,•:ird for him next, late in the month of August, when the neather was so perb..M4d not wreath of mist had been seen in iu the valley fur a week. Chamouni (provok ing. fact, l was full of company at the time,and the whole eounnunity,.from La Comptesse d'- An . , rh•bert, at the Hold Royal, to , .- the dirty hurl-ygurtly lay at the Pe:enius, preda-te(11 !..liattltl IK suceeNsful. • The night before the morning .I was to start. albeit I retired early for the parsiose of re freshing, I ihd not close my eyes, or if I did, they might as well have been open. All I could do Was to get up and look out of the window nt the moon, and then seek my pillow again,. which in no way encouraged the desire . to sluniher. I arose at live, and the florid east, as far as the mountain barriers Would pormit the g•tze to extend, i2,-are promise, of a brilliant day. Many of the guests of the Hotel de Londres were assembled to see me start, and the guides and porters (seven in number) were equipped . and loaded in due form. was attired in a coarse; warm:suit of dark Woolen stuff', With knapsack full of minor: necessities, in the way veils, spectacles (a prat ction against the glare of the sun on the ice,) and little bars of chocolate. A mule, elaborately caparisbn ed by my favorite 'guide, stood at the door, on which I was to ride as fir as the Pelerins. A hasty break fast in the sidle a manger, a stupen dous shaking of hands, a few 14 lances of bright eyes from the lattices overlooking the court yard, OM bustle and confusion among the por ters, the division of the knapsacks and lanterns, With:three loud cheers from the assembled lookers.on—the.se matters uttled and enacted, off I went on my mule, with the guides lead ing the way, and the porter: and a lot of their rabble compatriots bringing up the rear iu a ed a wild and singular aspect. We scented to very i)lettiresque manner. be wrecked en a g reat barque of rock in an For tau hours we toiled through a copse of immense ocean of tempest-driven ice, desolate, pine tutu shrubs up a rugged path,' avoiding. and lost, beyond human reach. This wasmere the ravine and turreut 011 the left, and (welt- ly a thought, however, for here we were oat sift:tally' liaving glimpses of the ice-turret of the of the way of the avalanches, niel in no dal,- Glacier des llossoits on the right, as the path ger of slipping down crevices. Tho oaly thing assumed a hasty elevation in its course. 1 was we had to look out for was not to go too the only one of the party. mounted, but my I near the edge of the parapets and •-slip off, animal, in its steep, zigszt.g progress ; threw me but this only wanted an exercise of ordinary into so many painful attitudes, that I was tit- caution. ly delighted when I got to my feet at the Chas The novelty of our position, the pure air,:.nd let de la Para, on the arid-hillside. I the, favorable Sit II:1(.1(111 for rcst, a!lconit, - ,,,ii to The. Chalet was quite deserted, and looked put us in good spirits. When t le. stet shifted very bleak and crazy, but the , guides. insisted ' his beatns from my lecke we prepared dinner— on refreshing hei.eoind produced, their flasks ' fashionable triiur, it being-about five—and all of Cognac and vin ordinaire, tht•owing!down fell-to in earliest; . the knapsacks and sta ff s. , . It was arranged that : we „should quit the Ott quitting : the Chalet, after partaking- of , Midas, and stii . ct for . the Grand Plateau as the - refreshments, the ewound•,grew: at every I soon ds the nitilOn aros e, but it I seetns tre'rea step more desolate aud7arid, and, with the ex- i vied withoutlonedidSt. •Thirinir Our banquet ception Of (Lc mp of -rhododenrons here and a mass of clouds appeared. in the -south-east, there, std -• • g with the-sharp air, • for exis- and gradually spreadcaromel the loftiest sum teace; there was nothing to:be seen but fra , r- mitt,-,inelndieg thecokhleof;.Moat Otatati,lJean ments of rock, and the coarse stones 'Olin the seemed.to Ittontepsy,at,„ this, ~and, btood with desceiit of ai - alanches., We found" the 'fatuous his arms fteded,,gazing ahove, as if something Pierre Pointne nothing more than a great mass 14M-taut %Vii's'passing•ialtis mind': 'AtTerigth of granite; -"Here I consulted : ray thermome- i'he eleinbered'tirer. Mr' triy tklitTriird, with' a se ter, aud it stood at thirty-three degrees—just 1 riot's air, communicated the unpleasant eonvie above the, freezing . point 7 —but,, the exertion I.tioa that lie believed,the : weather, was g oing to being excessive, we did not obserVe the change a change. , The very thought palled,mefor the of temperature' - We were now traversing the "moment, as I knew it would be iMpessible to huge buttress' of the—Aignille du Midi, which I aseentPLa Cote;:is there was a elotid'in that was soinewhat dangerous,.great.rocks rearing I quarter. • : I suggested it might-'possibly , clear their broad fronts on the left, and the right up.tiefore midnight. He shook his headdoubt- Fooking ()V e t• the precipice down to the 'nu; rabic . ingly, bat promised to . wait. After , pas.sius, of the vast "glacier. The vie* that here pre- , securely, one of the most . dill:knit portions of sented itself was very impressive . ; I but es 'the the n Journey; this Was indeed djsPiriting,' and I precipice:is steep, and the route narrow and anxiously witteltedWiYintrometer.with thehOpe uncertain. I found it better to keep . my, eyes 'of 'detecting , . a':.fatorable.:alteration nil, the ahead, and : not permit them to wender,over.the.:glass,c:.. Ifs., ;.-1,!: :.1,.i, -;,; 73 ,::,;: . 3 ,, ; 3 i.,.. • cravy grandeurs.of the glacier; ; ,..4. , fo§p step, . 3 .'„llnl,9l,Ouds,„lnst,eadff: disappearing,. slowiy mi g ht have list a` ftitaherhihintion. • ' .all around was A nOther liall-hanri after crossing a trouble- dense,' l darli; aniPtlireatenitig:-I'Tlie•giiirltSbtilti some etillection of stray boulders, and we reach- a consultation, andifeltlrmined that an attempt ed what tke guides, termed , thol-Pie‘rie - tillEch- I-- to Prdeeed 'Weald lie;righ,Jilivith : , t h ec-wdat her • elk Whetft'ufolind:a.VldOt io:itcaelaitalgAre4.ling-A4n igMektl4 VEcifP,g4c%leit9i prided pair, aud : an. old. kip psitek„fal I tif _ shot t_ billilsi,,th at . , typ 31 440, 1 4.4 cr .: , tiescpid r; to, ' 9 o,,,valley of wood; i'vtii6h h e ad - evidenilY 'beti. lift by early inlitA itormug, 'or i'%o medit suffer 11' ' OM' PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. some former pilgrim. Jean told me that a ladder is constantly, kept here, to assist trave lers in crossing crevices, and I found ds servit c was most important, after getting into the gla- cter. It was still twenty minutes' walk to the bor der of the ice, which we reached without diffi culty. We had here a fine view of the Mon tagne de la Cote, on which the celebrated de Saussure, the pioneer of 'this hazardous route, proceeded, on his ascent in 1787. Beneath us the valley sloped away, and its chalets and sloping pasturages looked like a confused and chequered surface far in the distance. The pine forests on the mountains looked like a sear livery, while many of the chain of peaks, rising behind the village, stood oat bold and lofty, their summits tipped 'with white. Above us vast ridges of snow rose on all sides, and through them we could distinguish colossal masses of glittering ice, that looked as if they had been split and torn asunder by tile fury of a tempest. Looking up the glacier, jutting pinnacles and frosted crags fiercely broke the gaze. These glistened in the sunlight so that ,we could scarcely look at them. The shatter ed surface of the two ridges shutting in the channel we were about to traverse, 'presented ledges of ice of inconceivable magnitude. Had we been nearer to them our wonder wOnld have been still more excited,. as the vastness of the view, .and the impossibility 'to calcu late distance, destroys all idea of proportionate bulk. Jean Carrier now went ahead on the glacier, and, the snow being firm, we found uo diffcul ty in proceeding while we kept in each other's track. We all put on glasses and veils, and found them extremely useful in protecting our eyes from the dazzling shimmer of the sun on the ice. As we advanced, we, found the way less practicable, and frequently encountered chasms of terrific width, which caused us to make detours of several hundred yards. The upper part of the glacier, as seen from the val ley, presents no remarkable feature beyond that of a score of glaciers met with in Switzer- Lind ; but, when ou it, how startling the im pre,sion ! A million ice-crags, rent and torn asunder in the most grotesque shapes, and serattered nhout on all sides, forms a scene of the most splendid and overwhelming cha racter. We found it necessary, as a mutual protec tion, to tie ourselves together with cords, and step with extreme caution. The fissures were every moment growing more numerous, and small walls of ice had to be clambered by means o f footholds eta with a hatchet by Jean, who di.,pl a yed \vomit.' fill nerve and skill in his ope rations. Several of these walls or aridies wenr steep and narrow, and after two of the gnides had reached the top, the rest of us were half drau n up, assisting ourselves as best we could by clinging like flies to the footholds. I stood wore in awe of treacherous paths across the crevices than any other of the various dangers, as a block of the path giving. way, the whole \weld slide. and we should be hurried nwreiles:dy down to a chasm of unknown depth. I was trul,y Bled when wc toe. au the ascent of the (I rand Millets, the lofty rorks that rise from the desert of ioe at-the extremity of the glacier we had jest toiled over. • We scrambled on to these rocks with no lit tie trouble, and immediately set about arrang.- i!lg the knapsacks and c , ntents, which had been violently knocked about by our troubles on the glacier. Jean arranged a sort of tent for rue on a platform of rock, with batons and a couple of blankets,. that looked excessively inviting, considering we were two thousand feet above the line of eternal frost. It was the cold, though, that had annoyed us atter we had changed our garments, bat the fierce heat of the burning SIM striking on the cornices of the rock. The teat so kindly thought of serv ed as a protection against its rays ; and, after covering 'the surface of the ledge with two or three knapsacks, and blankets over these, I assumed a lounging position, and rest from the fatieue jwt undergone. Our yroune Oil the cone-like rocks present "REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." what seemed to be approaching storm. With all my anxiety to accomplish the ascent, I could offer no objection, feeling convinced that he based his advice on au experience and sagaci ty which I had not. The sunset glories seen from these rocks have been so often vividly detailed by able writers that I will not attempt to describe what I saw. A feeble pen like mine never do justice to the gorgeous scenes that passed around and above me. I remember them as a magnificent dream, wild, splendid, inconceiva ble ! I was spe,ll-bound and entranced by the changing glories.that hovered like fairy visions on every side. It was an atmospheric romance ; soft, transparent, changing, and beautiful, be yond comprehension. I trembled with,rapture as I watched those wondrous effects ; and when they passed away, it was as if I had awakened from a strange unearthly vision, the memory of which filled we with emotion I could not comprehend. After the resolve to remain at the Mulets al l night, the guides arranged themselves about the edges of the rocks as best they could, and soon were wrapped in slumber. Jean sought 1 ray tent, and was also quickly asleep, and I alone kept watch , in ,the dreary ice-bountlsoli tulle. It was feudally impressive, with not a star to be seen, nor light, except the dire cold reflection frOm the ice of the glaciers that lay silently beneath. "Ile'elondi above still thick ened, and glooin, black, end impenetrable, hung over us like a canopy-of..evil. * - . * .*„ At last the morning dawned. it,was chilly, and uncomfortable. ,The clouds, were still overhanging the high Peaks=., and we pre pared to descend. The guides 'attacked the remainder of the provisions, and once more as sumed the,packs, now well nigh emptied of their contents. I .was so stiff and paralyzed by the cold, and regretful of the necessity of returning, that I could partake of nothing but a cup of chocolate. The men seemed to regard the whole affair as a " matter of course," and uttered nothing in complaint except a few idle remarks, which in no way tended to soothejny disappointment. In twenty minutes after bid ding adieu to the rocks, the descent of which required some caution, we were full upon the glacier., repassage of this vast ice-field ryas mark ed by no incidents of importance. It was the. same toilfome undertaking as before Witkall my desire to attain the summit, I felt that the myriad anxieties, labor, oppression and danger, overbalanced the solitary glorY-of standing on the crown of the Monarch. I was contented in the knowledge that j was Once more aji and On a soil unetwompassed with danger. 1 reached Charnouni in a deplorable star of ex haustion, where every comfort was prepared for my reception. I sought my bed with a weary, intense disgust of everything in the shape of mountains and glaciers. I was liter ally worn out. Just as I was settling: my jad ed faculties into slumber, Jean rattled at my door to say that a furious flood of rain was tla,:hing over our recent path. We had es caped it. I remember I attempted t - ) utter a sentiment of thankfulness, but the effort died on my lips. I was asleep. A NEw 14:m.4,1%—A German who resides in Mill Creek township, while recently sulTcr ing from a pulmonary attack, sent for a phy sician who resides (Al College Hill. Ina short time the doctor called on him, prescribed two bottles of cod-liver oil, and receiving, his fee of $B, was told by the German, who disliked the size of the bill, that lie need not conic again. The German, who by the bye, had not heard the doctor's prescription very well, supposed he could get the oil and treat himself. The doctor saw no more of his patient for some tune, but ooe day. riding past the residence of the German, he was pleased to see him out iu the gardmi digging lustily. The case seemed such a proof of the virtues of the cod-liver oil, that he stopped to make more/particular en quiries about it. " You seem to be getting very well," said he, addressing the German. " Yaw, I isle well," responded the formes sick roan. " You took as iniich oil as I told you ?" que ried the doctor. " Oh yaw, I have used more as four gallons of de do:r-livur " The r so d, the astoniihedAoetor " De dog-liver oil dal..yoa.say I shall take. I 'have killed most every fat little dog I could and do dogli‘or oil lime cured we. It is great medicine, dot dog-livor oil." The doctor had nothing to say, but rode quickly away, mid noted iu ids memorandum book that consumption might be °as readily cured wjtlidog-liver a§ cod-liver'bil. • ' DOES rn WiIRLD frATF: to this questit - t,- the-eilebrateti-- Sidney Smith saysiz ".It is n0t. , .1 rue tes jail ty( . nrdet.au.4 upoliviou§ . p,ioty which fills the heart with . :binan ehitritiet'and tnak ; es >i man r.rehtle io Otheig: . severto himself; is an cdijeet of nnitersaf yen eration". : ißnt Mankind , Mite Itie last-Of power ; when it.ds, ' tintier, : ..tile-„ of ~pioty ; they hate cant aneltypochisy n i,44l. l bL4e l ,ad vertisers and quacks in in piety theyd() not eho.ose.tn be instilted . ;, they love to tear folly and intiuit;iiee`tritiii the" altrirs''Whit'll Only be a . satietttitry'for s the'riglitedusettiid titd good.". 11121 •: . 1;41. - 0 Ti .113 . 4 E SiBST !TIT T —4 rerOant young lawyer oneOf the iliggins, Who strange - mode of ninfinfailnring wards 'when at a loss for .the` right one; W.OE; .recently invited to act.aa tvelerk-in: the nhsefnaepf the minister. at the " disuiet meeting," and during ths,exereiseay ho emir:took. to .",give liymein Which , di:idrogy h • ° usu. i.a;t . ' 6 he "conid:eatild'init 'get taild'of the word, he•twittestedtite 'vollgregation - t , t! -sing t-‘, four verses and'a .sodirtlfdagqrr ;;-t;! • . 1 Il .11 • I h a 4;3'99l:Vint .in 0-; AcrOful . ept„,o3pr,itll,,j,titys t)itOt E lm! '1 tic 'unroll:6r I'o 4 qin'r&ppii'liVfr !tit ' . A systematic attack -was made, not long ago, at New Haven, Connecticut, by rats on some children, each singling out his victim, and jumping with a simultaneous squeal upon the little girls playing in the yard. A little boy of tWo years was caught by the knee, and held until the child's grandfather went to his assistance, and then, as the rat scorned to run it had to be killed. Attempts had been made to poison these rats, with partial success, and it may have been in retaliation for their poi sonous attempts that this concerted change was made. The rat is one of the most interesting ani mals on the globe. In Europe he makes his toric& eras--different hordes of invaders bro't their peculiar rats in their train. Europe has seen the Tats of the Goths, the Vandals and the Huns. Europe now has its Norman rat, and its Tartar rat , , and the great rat of the Purisian sewer is of recent date and Muscovite origin. The brown rat, otherwise known as the Nor man riit, has established itself all over the world, by the commerce of civilized times. It had posession of France for the last six 'or se ven centuries ; but within the last it has found its master in the Muscovite and Tartar rat, called hi Paris the rat of 3lontancon. These new rats, pre'vionsly unknown to Europe, des cended.from the heights of the great central plafead orAsia, from which the Hun and Mon gol horseman descended, who spread - right and left, and took possession of Rowe ou the one hand and Pekin on the other. • The estathislitnent of the tnuscov:te rat in France -,counneneed with the extirpation of brown or Norrnau rat—th:it rat has almost disappeared, and is found only in the cabinets of the curious collectors—while the Muscovite rut is daily increaslng iu size, ferocity and cou rage, The Russian rat devours the dog, the eat, and attacks the child asleep. The corpse of a man is a dainty for this beast, and it al ways.rommences by eating out the eyes. Its tooth is most venomous ; and the author from whom we derive much of this article states that lie has known of ten eases of amputation of the leg, necessitated by the bite of this rat. The cat turns tails upon this rat, in the most ferocious state. A„good rat terrier is the best destroyer, but forttmately, rats and ratopha gus, eat one another, fis.ht duck - , and grand destructive battles. Were it otherwise they would make this world an unpleasant place for man to live in. We should have to tight our way, and not unfrequently like the Archbishop of Mayenee, should be dragged from their beds at midnight, by au army of rats and devoured upon the spot. The rat is the emblem of misery, murder and rapine-1i cannibal and a robber—devot ed to the principle of war spoilatiou. Will it ever disappear ? Simeox tinhosoms her Avrongs as follows : --" I married Sintrox eight years ago, at which time my gowns were fastened by eight hooks and eyes. Now you will readi ly conceive that no woman can hook and-eye herself. Whilst a spinster, she obtains the aid of her sister, cousin, mother, or Betty the maid. When she becomes a married woman, the hook and-eye duty naturally devolves upon the hus band. For the first year of my marriage, Sim cox, like an affectionate husband, hook-and• eyed the whole eight ; the second year he some what peevishly restricted his attention to se ven ; the third to six, the fourth to live, the fifth to four ;, and so on decreasing until this moraine—the anniversary of our eighth wed ding—when you would hare supposed him pos sessed by the dearest and tinniest recollections, he dropped another hook and eye, intimating to me that for the term of his natural life lie should restrict himself to one—the hook and eve at the top. As I know you have a crowd of female readers, I thought it a duty I owed to the sex to warn them, through the medium of your publication, of the craftiness and, I. must say it, sellkhness of man. • They will, I hope, take warning by my condition, and ere they enter into matrimony, stipulate for a due performance of toilette attention on the part of their husbands." VEGETABLR SOUPS.-A 11 vegetables that are put into soups should be put into cold water, and gradually brought to the boiling point -- This will cause them to diffuse their flavor through the whole mass. Irish potatoes should never be put in soups until first having Leen cut up in cold water ; this extract.; their bit terness and renders them fit to mingle in the other vegetable mass. The meats to flavor legetables, soups may be beef, veal, .mutton or clkiekeu, and like-the vegetables should be put into col 4 water.,, There ar© fewer- good soups mole in the,.coutitry Allan; almost any , Woo. anal : the reason.is.obvious—it take:s, time to Cook,them,.; 4 ku -okra- gumbo soup should bOil'inceSSantly ix hours, then the flavor of the meat, vegetables, and condiments arc so intimately and delicately blended that they all seem'ime delicious mass. Salt hardens W'oter mud flesh; and ShoUld not be lint into soups un til the mciis is done! , "Pil.)=,. Mrsi. 7ahriska, why do, you whip your children so often ?" "'Li, Worthy, tdo it for their.enlight entactit " . tneirer - whips one of theniin niy life that he'clidiet acknowledge that it made him smart." U br..Tob nson compered plaintiff and Oc feudal& in an action 'fit: law, to bro men dkli tub., tl!Cir litints in . a, 'bucket, and - daring each other to rethain longest under, watet., • . • • 3•• •,, . The use of:magnesia, as powder forap p4otioo to the Nee, is, deeidealy injurious, and tJle complexion, reuderiug itobard;.kuurvy; mut lighJe 'eruptions. • • • te-,..ltpttit,s-imintiral . ,' Nftt- hom , n the fitantv`holbet4 lie'sitteti3;ttittnlievho l'to. bet let " • : 4 -1 •!,•10. ,1 • Rats, IBM VOL. 35. A Sotaptova System of IllodeWog. A writer in the London Athenrum of a late date, thns describes one of the first and most important processes of producing a marble statue : " Mr. Hiram Power's process of sculpture modelling in plaster of Paris was diosreourte ously explained to me in a detailed manner, by himself, in Florence, in the year before last.— He reverts to literal sculpture, manufacturing in the first place a block of sulphate of lime, (bounded merely by the rough outlines of his intended statue,) which he then cots dovin, by means of hatchets and chisels, to the more ac curate figure, and finishes by means of spuds and files of his own invention. The original block is constructed in masonry of small bricks laid in plaster, and of dimensions varying from three to four inches long by two and a-half , inches wide, and about three-quarters to one inch thick. These piled together, become a homogeneous mass of sulphate of lime, and an easibly workable artificial stone. The block so made is next chipped down to the required size, the component limbs and trunk being hewn out of the solid, principally by the aid of small and light chisels and hammers. Upon the scaly chipped surface of the figure in this state, the modeling of the muscles and features is ef fected in a paste of phister, dabbed on with .trowels, floats, and finally spuds of various si zes The finished surface of the nude is lastly worked up by hollow files, pierced at one end, like- a iullender, with holes, half round, which a tooth is raised. Thee files are extremely effective : they are made by the artist himself, of every shape, size, and curvature, and rasp , the dry plaster away beautifully, leaving a plea ; saint texture of surface. In the fingers and ex tremities of the plaster model, copper wires are inserted, being the only representatives of the unwieldy muss ,f iron frame-work necessary for the setting wand support of a clay model ; and -these wires, by their ductility, afford suf ficient liberty for changing the pose and atti tude of members, if, as the work proceeds, oc casion arises for so doing. A linger, for in stance, requires to be more bent ; it is sawn through to the wire at the joint, the wire is twist's] into the required position, and a fresh modelling of thejoiet , muscles is alone requir ed. The as in fact, take the place of bones. For finishing the limbs of his figures with that extreme nicety which he does, Mr. Powers adopts a hold and novel mode. He has invent ed a vice—which is set upon a ball-and-socket joint—and has, by virtue of raising andilepres shin screws, every possible variety of motion. This instrument is the perfection of ingenuity. The sculptor cuts off from his figure an arm, a head, a leg. when modeled sufficiently for his purpose, and, fixing it in the vice, trim, twists, scrapes and polishes it at his ease, to the most detailed finish. In eutting.off•-a dowel is in serted into one side of the cut, and a mortise hole left in the other—and these are so arrams , ed, - With regard to a groove which is first made on the outside of the limb, as to insure an ab solute accuracy in refitting. By arrangements of this kind, the working of the torso is ren dered much less difficult than when covered hr part by limbs stretching before it ; and the finishing of the nude to that exactness which Mr. Powers always adopts before touchline. e' the drapery, becomes a less tedious operation. The several ,advantages obtained by his system Mr. Powers explained to be—the saving of one whole micration, viz , casting—the model it self being used for the points ; the convenience of being able at any time to put aside or re sume a study without that intervening watch fulness anal care in moistening and coveringnp which a clay'model requires ; the facility of bending the extremities when modelled by weans of their central wiry bones, which would only cut through instead of moving the clayey limbs ; the saving of time and labor by remo delling a portion only, instead of a whole limb, when slightly altered in position ; and, last ly, the better anatomical exactitude with which members detached from the body may, as cum tiers, be worked." Le- The Athens (Ga.) Messengri, gives Ak following obituary notice of a deceased citiieh of that country : " Ile was the father of eleven sons—five of the sons having married five sis ters. Ile had also one hundred and eighty nine grand-children and nt his futleral, two weeks ago last Salibath, two horses were stung to death by bees, and another came =Hosing his life by the same !" -M - '" A Yankee is srlf-denying,, and into everything prying,' lle is a lover or piety, propriety, notoriety, and the temperance society. lie is a bragging, dragging, striving thriving, swapping, josilia7, wrestling, musical, quizzical, - astronoiniCal, philosophical, poetical atarcriminal sort Of a character, whose mani• fest - destiny is to spread civilization to 'the re , Motest' eorner of the earth, . te,„7,r• " Where's Mrs. Sufi'?" asked an ac ua ip tance; with a shawl ronml iris shoulder:, of Mr. Nuff, who was shivering over a dying fire. " Gone put,7 was the reply ; .!‘ she has the shawl to-day—Aqinorrovi'll be my turn." It is an extraordinary fact, that those •who get to high words, generally use low lan guage. A. few days Alum., n barber drered a reward for instantly removing smile nous hair. Among the aes‘CPei was one fors led by a gentleman' in 'Kingston. We give " tru tlertake to kiss as woman against her will." , : ,, ,, entletnan of our acquaintance bays that he is the hy:t matt in the world that -will ever tyrannize over a daughter's aftectious. So.rong as she nurtrirs the man of his choice, lie,doul, care Who she orts.,. square-A. rel e—settle up year bill for ltarya attire:: dry goodS . store or with . BE
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