OIL DSLIAI PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDA : (Tlliirsban fUontmn. ircbrnarn 4, 1557, poctrn. ALL'S FOR THE BEST. All's for tin- Lest: le sanguine and cheerful, Trouble and sorrows are friends in disguise ; Nothiii r hut fully goes faithless alal fearful, (.'mirage forever is happy and wise. AU'> for the la-st : i. man would but know it, UP vuke.ee wishes us all to Tie lilest; Tbis is no dream of the pundit or poet, Heaven is gracious—and all's for the best. All's for the be.-t; set this in your standard, Soldier of fortune, or pilgrim of love, Who to the shores of despair may have wandi red, A wiry-wearied -wallow or heart-stricken dove. All's for tin I r the Lest; unbiassed, unbounded, 1' ovidenee reigns fr nil the east to the west, And by both wisdom and mercy surrounded, Hope and be happy, that all's for the best. i'H i s 1111 ;uu ou s. MOUNTAIN PEAKS. Mont Blanc is unquestionably the lion of tin." \ ale of (Jhamouni—the mountain magnet that attracts tourists from all parts of the globe. Everybody has read of I)c Saussure, hi- anxieties and achievements, anil a myriad of Alpine Directories tell of the exploits of Auhljo, Barry, Bosworth, Count Bonille, and iiabriel Ilendrcngen, flic Swedish adventurer. No one who lias passed the glaciers fails to hear of Madame Henriette d'Angeville, and i<: heroism on the summit of " the Monarch." Everybody has read of the (Irastds Alu/els and tit.' rosy Miiisets —the Grand I'lateau and the moonlight—the sharply defined .1 iguiJ!es and the I l ine dii (i/'Ufe. —the Cascade of Pclerius, ami the Ice-towers of theßossons—the chasms iu tin- Taco-iay, and the terrors of the Murde l.i Cote. All these wonders are the special j.iojxrty u! wondrous Mont Blanc, and under l gorgeous circumstances he can afford to rear his white head with his robes of clow, and di runs ot snow, in so cold and haughty a A! East once a year tln re i> a candidate for tie horror- of tlie summit, which is tbe "event of the season" with the resident tourists. And, to say truth, an ascension and its preparations ■ii • uiculuted to bestir a community like that of Ciiamouni, wiio, bored with the Breveut, and familiar with every fissure of the Mon ti-avert, turn to any new excitement with alac rity. Tbe Jtingfran, the Wetterhorn, (lie Grimsel, and a thousand of peaks and passes that one "t- on familiar terms with in Savoy and Swit ianri, go for nothing, in point of interest and ).r stige, when compared with Mont Blanc.— From the first anxious glance we get of it on the Jura, near the Fort de FEclusc, with the i _ r ht blue waters of the Rhone at our feet, to h grand view froin t'le Florentine bridge at. > ; iiu he, ami, finally, straying neath its sha d.c.is in the Chainouni valley, one is kept iu a throb of excitement. Tee diligence, or char, no matter in what • rtiori of Savoy yon be traveling, is certain to ' rnwdeil with enthusiastic people of both talking of Mont Blanc, sonic rapturous ly, others doubtingly, a few knowinglv. 1 he ladies, too, arc always rapturous in rc - el to Mont Blanc. For many reasons. Some • ii ti-d by its grandeur—others have read 1.-.rd Myron's familiar description iu Childe H iroli! others think its top is "so nice and '•*' fe.' arid occasionally a languid bus lieu - - - that it denies its snowy crest to the foot "t :lie gentler sex. In this respect Mont biiiiic is wanting in taste. Its icy barriers are s. " -sible to female feet. What a joyous ' :• would be to traverse those snow-paved 'Veins - .1 we had ladies as guides, instead of a ruab of ill-looking Savoyards. llow the Hingt-is would be assuaged, and the perils eni- To ilcr. if with a female voice, low and sweet, ' • a.-company us on the journey Every ice I" 1 lit in the sunlight would wear a richer hue. Fu ii yawning crevice would be robbed of its '"'irs. Desolation would become a delight. I'it ' cyond the " Cascade of the Pilgrims," 1,1 Ii Us rainbow flood of bright water, it is jiiniost impossible for ladies to go. They must •"■content to use their lorgnettes on the Bre ' :to pluck slips of rhododendrons on the ' 'hi shelves of the Montunvert ; to gaze at ■ !l unless cloud wreathed pinnacles from the c: and with pavilion visits to the Flegere, '"'we the winding waters of the Arvc. The u i'l" r grandeur" of Mont Blanc to thein j he a sealed book. Its heavenward tiiys di 1 - must lie cold ai d silent, away from their scrutiny. , J '''"member meeting a lady at Ravenna who ■ ""1 jTo-sed the St. Bernard on a mule, (after hi-liion of Napoleon le Grand,) who con it iy looked forward to the epoch when all is t;u pa-scs and summits would lie reach y the gentle means of comfortable balloons. ,''" eve- comes to pass, then ladies will not 1 "imi' d from enjoying the beauties of un • njLi.. jiiar e>sil)ilities. of which Mont Blanc •' malavu are twin tyrants The "Clia ami Mont Blanc Incorporated Steam S ••'ton ( oinpany" would most certainly be | ' and -would do a soft, posting busi- I Fuagh by no means original in this feeling, | . years I have had a passion for moun | " (Htaks, and lt f a || others that of Mont | " ''' Twice have I visited the Chamouni [nr the purpose of making the ascent, ' Fee failed inglorious record as this may seetn. 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 1 shall presently detail. There is a consolation in the knowledge that my fail ures were only two in ten thousand, 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 of snow directly in my face. It was clear I was not a chosen one, no matter how burning my ardor or intense my* desires. Buhver 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 1" but all this praiseworthy advice does not stand one's friend when Mont Blanc makes up his mind you shall not stroll on his crown. lie mocks 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 chnks jof Cognac and viu ordinaire, throwing down i the knapsacks and staff's. On quitting the Chalet, after partaking of | the refreshments, the ground grew at every step more desolate and arid, and, with the ex ception of a clump of rhododenrons here and there, struggling with the sharp air for exis tence, there was nothing to be seen but frag ments of rock, and the coarse stones left in the descent of avalanches. We found the famous I Pierre Pointue nothing more than a great mass |of granite. Here I consulted my tliermomc j ter, and it stood at thirty-three degrees—just above the freezing point—but, the exertion ' being excessive, we did not observe the change of temperature. We were now traversing the j huge buttress of the" Aiguille du Midi, which was somewhat dangerous, great rocks rearing j their broad fronts on the left, and the right looking over the precipice down to the moraine. of the vast glacier. The view that here pre -1 sented if off wis very impressive ; but as tbe precipice i -tccp, and the route narrow and uncertain. 1 found it better to keep my eyes ahead, and not permit them to wander over the cracLTV grandeurs ot the glacier. A false step might have bait a fatal teriniuatiou. Another hall-hour, after crossing a trouble some collection of stray boulders, and we reach ! Ed what tlve guides termed the Pierre a I'Ech elle, where we found a ladder iu tolerable re . pair, and an old knapsack, full of short billets lof wood, which had evidently been left by 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 its servite was most important, after getting into the gla cier. 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 tague de la Cote, on which the celebrated de Saussure, tbe 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 out bold and lofty, their summits tipped with white. Above us vast ridges of suow rose on all sides, and through them we could distinguish colossal masses of glittering ice, that looked as if thcy had been split and torn asunder by the furv of a tempest. Looking up tbe glacier, jutting pinnacles and frosted crags fiercely broke the gaze. '1 Uese glistened in the sunlight so that we could scarcely look at thcin. The shatter ed surface ol the two ridges shutting in the channel we were about to traverse, presented ledges cf ice ol inconceivable magnitude. Had we been nearer to them our wonder would 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 linn, we found no difficul ty in proceeding while we kept in each other's track. \\ e 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 oi the glacier, as seen from the val ley, presents no remarkable feature beyond that ola score of glaciers met with in Switzer land ; but, when on it, how startling the im pression ! A million ice-crags, rent and torn asunder in the most giotesque shapes, and secattered about 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 sinali walls ol ice had to be clambered by means of footholds cut with a hatchet by Jean, who displayed wonderful nerve and .-kill in his ope rations. Several of these walls or arches were steep and narrow, and after two of the guides had reached tho top, the rest of us were half drawn up, assisting ourselves as best we could by clinging like flies to the footholds. I stood more in awe of treacherous paths across the crevices than any other of the various dangers, ' as a single block of the path giving way, the I whole would slide, and we should be hurried mercilessly down to a chasm of unknown depth. 1 was truly glad when we began the ascent of the Grand Mulcts, the lofty rocks that rise from the desert of ice at the extremity of the glacier we had just toiled over. a We scrambled on to these rocks with no lit tle trouble, and immediately set about arrang ing the knapsacks and contents, which had been violently knocked about by our troubles on the glacier. Jean arranged a sort of tent for me on a platform of rock, with batons and a couple ol blankets, that looked excessively inviting, considering we were two thousand feet above the line of eternal frost. It was the cold, though, that bad annoyed ns after we had changed our garments, but the tierce heat of the burning sun striking on the cornices of the rock. The tent 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 fatigue jiHt undergone. Our bivouac on the cone-like rocks present ed a wild and singular aspect. We seemed to be wrecked on a great barque of rock in an immense ocean of tempest-driven ice, desolate, and lost, beyond human reach. This was mere ly a thought, however, for here we were out of the way of the avalanches, and in no dan ger of slipping- down crevices. The only thing we had to look out for was not to go too near the edge of the parapets and slip off, but tbis only wanted an exercise of ordinary caution. The novelty of our position, the pure uir.ariii the favorable situation for r ,>f, nil comb u d to put us in good spirits. When tli sun shifted his beams from my ledge we prepared dinner— fashionable hour, it being about five—and all fell to in earnest. It was arranged that wc should quit tho Mu}cts, and start for the Grand Plateau as soon as the moon arose, but it seems we reck oned without our host. During our banquet a mass of clouds appeared in the south-east, and gradually spread wound tbe loftiest sum mits, including the ailotie of Mont Blanc,. Jean seemed to lie uneasy at this, and stood with lis arms f'ylded, gazing above, as if something important was passing in his mind. At length lie clambered over to my tent, and, with a se rious air, communicated the unpleasant convic tion that be believed the weather was going to change. The very thought palled me for the moment, as 1 knew it would be impossible to ascend La Cote, as there was a cloud in that quarter. I suggested it might possibly clear up before midnight, lie shook his headdoubt iugly, but promised to wait. After passing, securely, one of the most difficult portions of the Journey, this was indeed dispiriting, and I anxiously watched my barometer with tbe hope of detecting a fa>orable alteration iu the glass. Tho clouds, instead of disappearing, slowly thickened, and by midnight all around was dense, dark, and threatening. The guides held a consultation, and determined that an attempt to proceed would be rash, with the weather wearing an unsettled propped. Jean added that we had better de.-ctnd to the valley early iu the morniug or no might suffer from " RESAK.DL.ESS 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 an 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 tbe gorgeous scenes that passed around and above tne. I remember them as a magnificent dream, wild, splendid, inconceiva ble ! I was spell-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 tiembled with rapture as 1 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 tbe Mulcts all night, the guides arranged themselves about the edges of the rocks as best they could, and soon were wrapped in slumber. Jean sought my tent, and was also quickly asleep, and I I alone kept watch in the dreary ice-bound soli | tude. It was fearfully impressive, with not a ! star to be seen, nor light, except the dim cold reflection from the ice of the glaciers that lay silently beneath. The clouds above still thick ened, and gloom, black, and impenetrable, hung over us like a canopy of evil. * * * * * * * /kt last the morning dawned. It was raw, chilly, and uncomfortable. The clouds were still overhanging the high peaks, and we pre pared to descend. The guides attacked the remainder ot the provisions, and once more as sumed the packs, now well nigh emptied of theii contents. I was so stiff and paralyzed by the cold, and regretful of the necessity of returning, that 1 could partake of nothing but a cup ot chocolate. The men seemed to rcsrard the whole affair as a " matter of course," and uttered nothing iu complaint except a few idle remarks, which in no way tended to soothe my disappointment. In twenty minutes after bid ding adieu to tiie rocks, the descent of which required some caution, we were full upon the glacier. Xbc r( passage of ibis vast ice field was mark ed by no incidents of importance. It was the same toilsome undertaking as before With all my desire to attain the summit, 1 felt that the m\i iad anxieties, labor, oppression and danger overbalanced the solitary glory-of standing on' .he (Tov.ii of the Monarch. I was contented in the knowledge that I was once more alive, and on a Soil unencompassed with danger. 1 readied Chamouni in a deplorable state of ex haustion, where every comfort was prepared tor my reception. I sought my bed with a weary, intense disgust of everything iu the shape of mountains and glaciers. I was liter ally worn out. Just as 1 was settling my jnd od faculties into slumber, Jean rattled at inv door to say that a furious flood of rain was dashing over our recent path. We had es caped it. I remember I attempted ta utter a sentiment of thankfulness, but the effort died ou my lips. I was asleep. A NEW REMEDY, —A German who resides in Mill Creek township, while recently suffer ing from a pulmonary attack, sent for a phy sician who resides on College Hill. In a short time the doctor called on him, prescribed two bottles of cod-liver oil. and receiving his fee of *B, was told by tlie German, who disliked the size ol the bill, that be need not conic again. Tbe German, who by the bye, bad not heard the doctor's prescription very well, supposed be could get the oil and treat himself. The doctor saw no more of bis patient fur some time, but one day. riding past tbe residence of the German, lie was pleased t.o see him out in the garden 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. " Von seem to be getting very well," said he, addressing the German. " Yaw, I isli well," responded the former sick man. " You took as much oil as I told yoti ?" que ried tbe doctor. " Oli yaw, I have used more as four gallons of de dog-liver oil." " The w ltatsaid tbe astonished doctor. " De dog-liver oil dut you say I shall take. I have killed most every fat little dog I could catch, and de dog-liver oil have cured me. It is great medicine, dat dog-liver oil." The doctor had nothing to say, but rode quickly away, and noted in his memorandum book that consumption might be us readily cured with dog-liver as cod-liver oil. Dors the Wom.n H err Piety ?—Tn answer to ibis question, the rvietrrated Sidney Smith says : " it is not true that tiie world hales piety. That modest and uuobyious pictv which fills the heart with all human ehhritiefj and makes a man gentle to others and severe to himself, is an object of Universal love and ven eration. But. mankind hate the lust of power when it is veiled under the garb of piety ; they bate cant and hypocrisy ; they hate ad vertisers and quacks iu in piety ; they do not choose to he insulted ; they love to tear folly and impudence from the altars which should only be a sanctuary for the righteous and the good." L.vlohabue Sußsriri'ri'o.v.— A verdant young lawyer in one of the California diggins, who had a strange mode of manufacturing words when at a loss for the light one, was recently invited to act as a clerk in the absence of the minister at the " district meeting," and during the exercises he undertook to "give put a hymn" fu which the word doxoiogy" occur red,; as he could could not get hold of the word, he requested the congregation to sing " four verses and a soek-doUigtr Say what yoq will, a marriage by ad vei'Uaeuicnt, after all. (says Punch,) must be ill!' Milfoil of two' *" coiTt ponding" ni'iuF Rats. A systematic attack was made, not long ago, at New ILxven, 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 laid been made to poison these rats, with partial success, and it may have been iu retaliation for their poi sonous attempts thut this concerted change was made. The rat is one of the most interesting ani mals on the globe. In Europe he makes his torical eras—different hordes of invaders hro't their peculiar rats in their train. Europe has seen the rats of the Goths, the Yaudals and the Huns. Europe now has its Norman rat, and its Tartar rats, and the great rat of the Bat isian sewer is of recent date and Muscovite origin. The brown rat, otherwise known as the Nor man rat, has established itself all over the world, by the commerce of civilized times. It had possession 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 in Paris the rat of Montaucon. These new rats, previously unknown to Europe, des cended from the heights of the great central plateau of Asia, from which the Hun and Mon gol horseman descended, who spread right and left, and took possession of Rome on the one hand and Pckiu on the other. The establishment of the must ovi trat in France commenced with the extirpation of brown or Norman rat—that rat has almost disappeared, and is found only in the cabinets of the curious collectors—while the Muscovite j rat is daily increasing iu size, ferocity and con-; rage, The Russian rat devours tbe dog, the cat, and attacks the child asleep. The corpse ! of a man is a dainty for this beast, and it al ways commences by eating out the eyes. Its tooth is most venomous ; and the author from i whom we derive much of this article states that he has known of ten cases of amputation of the leg, necessitated by tbe 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 fortunately, rats and ratopha gus, oat one another, fiurht duels, and grand destructive battles. Were it otherwise they would make this world an unpleasant place for man to live in. We should have to fight our way, and not (infrequently like the Archbishop of .Ha vener, should be dragged from their beds . at midnight, by an army of rats and devoured upon the spot. The rat is the emblem of misery, murder and rapine—a cannibal and a robber—devot ed to the priuciple of war spoilatiou. Will it ever disappear ? f'.-sT" Amelia Simcox unbosoms her wrongs as follows : —" I married Simcox eight years ago, at which time my gowns were fastened by eight hooks and eyes. Now you will readi- j lv 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 bus- 1 baud. For tho first year of my marriage, Sim- j cox, like an affectiouate husband, hook-ami- j eyed the whole eight ; tiie second year lie some- j what peevishly restricted bis attention to se ven ; the third to six, the fourth to five, the i fifth to four ; and so on decreasing until this j morning—the anniversary of our eighth wed ding—when you would have supposed him pos sessed by the dearest and fondest recollections, he dropped another hook and eye, intimating to me that for the term of his natural life he 1 should restrict himself to one—the hook and i eye at the top. As I know you have a crowd j of female readers, 1 thought it a duty I owed : to the sex to warn them, through the medium ' of your publication, of the craftiness and, I j must say it, selfishness of man. They will, 1 hope, take warning by my condition, and ere they enter into matrimony, stipulate for a due performance of toilette attention oa the part of their husbands." Vf.getac.i.k Sores. —All vegetables that are put into soups should be put into eold water, j and gradually brought to the boiling point This will cause them to diffuse their flavor j through the whole mass. Irish potatoes should never he put in soups until first having been cut up iu coid water ; this extracts their bit terness and renders them fit to mingle in the other vegetable mass. The meats to flavor vegetables soups may be beef, veal, mutton or chicken, and like the vegetables should be put into cold water. There are fewer good soups made iu the country than almost any other dish, and liie reason is obvious—it takes time to cook them. An okra gumbo soup should boil incessantly six hours, then the flavor of the meat, vegetables, and condiments are so intimately and delicately blended that they all seem one delicious mass. Salt hardens water and flesh, and should not be put into soups un til the mass is done. " Pray, Mrs. Zabriska, why do you whip your children so often ?" " La, Mr. Worthy, I do it for their enlight enment. I never whips one of them in my life that he didn't acknowledge that it made him smart." Dr. Johnson compared plaintiff ntid de fendant iu an action at law, to two men duck ing their heads in a bucket, and daring each other to remain longest under water. frxT The use of magnesia, as powder forajv jflicaiion to the face, is decidedly injurious, and ultimately ruins the complexion, by reuderiiig it hard, scurvy, and liableeruptions. Betting Is immoral, but how can the m m who beta be worse than he who is no bet ter ? vol.. XVII. NO. 35. A Soulptor'3 Systom of Modelling. A writer in the London Athnieum of a late date, thus describes one of the first and most important processes of producing a marble statue : " Mr. llirain Power's process of sculpture modelling in plaster of Paris was most courte ously explained to me in a detailed manner, by himself, in Florence, in the year before lost.— 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 cuts down, 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 piaster, and of dimensions varying from | three to four inches long by two and a-half i inches wide, and about three-quarters to one i inch thick. These piled together, become a homogeneous mass of sulphate of lime, and uu 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 plaster, 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 Cullender, with holes, half round, which a tooth is raised. These tiles are extreme!v effective : they are made by the artist himself, of every shape, size, and curvature, and rasp the dry piaster away beautifully, leaving a plea sant texture of surface. In the fingers and ex tremities of the plaster model, copper wires are inserted, being the only representatives of the unwieldy mass of iron frame-work necessary for the setting up and support of a elay 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 bout ; it is sawn through to the wire at the joint, the wire is twisted into the required position, and a fresh modelling of the joint-mnscles is alone requir ed. The v ires, in fac-t, take the place of bones. For fin : iiing the limbs of his figures with that extreme nicety which he does, Mr. Powers adopts a bold aud novel mode, lie has invent ed a vice—which, is set npou a ball-and-socket joint—and has, by virtue of raising and depres sing 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, turns, twists, scrapes and polishes it at his ease, to the most detailed finish. In cutting off, a dowel is in serted into one side of the cut, and a mortise hole left in the other—and these are so arrang 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 in part by limbs stretching before it ; and the finishing of the nude to that exactness which Mr. Powers always adopts before touching the drapery, becomes a less tedious operation. The several advantages obtained by his system Mr. Powers explained to bo—the saving of one whole operation, 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 and care in moisteuing aud covering up which a clay model requires ; the facility of bending the extremities when modelled by means 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 mem bers, be worked." The Athens (Ha.) Messenger, gives Uic following obituary notice of a deceased citisfeli of that country : " He was the father of eleven sons—five of the sons having married five sis ters. fie had also one hundred and eiglity tiine grand-children : and at his futy.-fal, two weeks ago last Sabbath, two horses were stung to death by bees, and another came near losing his life by the same !" A Yankee is self-denying, self-relying, and into everything prying. He is a lover of piety, propriety, notoriety, and the temperance society. He is a bragging, dragging, striving thriving, swapping, jostling, wrestling, musical, quizzical, astronomical, philosophical, poetical and criminal sort of a character, whose mani fest destiny is to spread civilization to the re motest corner of the earth. " Where's Mrs. XulT?" asked an ac quaintance. with a shawl round his shoulders, of Mr. Nuff, who was shivering over a dying lire. "(lone out," was the reply ; "she has the shawl to-day—to-morrow'l) be my turn.' 7 It is an extraordinary fact, that those who get to high words, generally use low lan guage. A few days since, a barber offered a reward for instantly removing superfluous hair. Among the answers was one forwarded bv a gentleman in Kingston. We give it—" Un dertake to kiss a woman against her will." t: . An old gentleman of our acquaintance says l hat he is the la.t man in the world that u ill ever tyrannize over a daughter's aflfectlous. So long us Hie marries the man of his choice, he don't care who she loves. To square a circle—settle up your wife's bill for fa;eft at the dry goods store or uiilh t tier's