DIE DOLLAR PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOWANDA:
(£!)itrsi>an morning, 3nne 25, 1857,
Sclctteb Ibttrg.
UNSEEN TEARS.
Unseen tears are like a river,
Springing from the mountain high,
Gliding noiseless—flowing ever—
Hidden from the gazing eye :
None may mark the tear-drop starting
Froui affliction's bitter smart —
Kone may heed the hope departing,
From the broken, bleeding heart.
When alone, in silent sadness,
Comes the heart-felt gushing tear,
Quenching every ray of gladness—
Quickening every anxious fear ;
Then, indeed, we feel the sorrow,
bursting from a soul of wo—
Shadow of the gloomy morrow,
Growing darker as we go.
Heartfelt anguish 13 retiring
From the world's unhallowed eye :
Solitude to grief's inspiring,
Freeing every struggling sigh.
Thus the spirit bears the wringing
Sorrow brings in dreary tone,
While our ceaseless cares are bringing
Countless fears, because unknown.
'Tis within the soul's recesses,
Deep and hidden from the view,
Where the heart-pang closely presses,
Smiting every vital through.
When the raging flame of sorrow
Boils the caldron of the heart,
Scalding tears will reach the furrow,
And the eyelids feel the smart.
Could we see the inner weeping
Of the dark despairing soul,
Think you we'd neglect the keeping,
Or unheed our brother's call ?
But, alas ! the world is telling
Startling things of human wo.
While ten thousand hearts are dwelling
On the griefs but One can know.
Utisffllitneons.
CHANCES AND CHANCES.
BY FRANCIS D. GAGE.
" 1 s*v, Mr. Conductor, when will the next
express train go out to St. Louis !"
" Eleven o'clock and thirty minutes, to-night,
sir,'' was the gentlemanly reply to the rough
question.
" Eleven o'clock and thirty minutes ! Go
to Texas ! Why, it's ten this very minute.—
I'll bet my boots against a jaeknife the morn
ing express is off."
" Yes, sir, it has been gone half an hour.'
" Why in natur' didn't yon get us here
sooner ? Fourteen hours in Chicager is enough
to break a fellow all to smash. Fourteen
hours in Chicager, puffing aud blowing ! I've
been told they keep a regular six-hundred boss
steam power all the while running to blow
themselves up with, and pick the pockets of
every traveller to pay the fireman and engi
neers ! Wal, I guess I can stand it ; I've a
twenty that's never been broke, and I guess
that will put me through. Why didn't you
fire up, old brag—give your old boss another
peck of oats ? I tell ye this fourteen hours
will knock my calculations ull into the middle
of next week."
" Very sorry, sir—we've done our best • but
as we are not clerks of the weather, 1 hope
you will not lay your misfortunes to our ac
count. Snow-drifts and the thermometer six
teen below zero, are enemies we can't readily
overcome."
" That's a fact," said the first speaker, with
a broad emphasis, and a good-natured, forgiv
ing smile. "Fourteen hours in Chicager !"
The stentorian voice, sounding like a trum
pet had aroused every sleeper from elysiau
dreams into which he might have fallen after
his long tedious, cold night's travel. Every
head was turned, every eye was fixed noon the
man who had broken the silence. He was
stand by the stove warming his boots. To
have wanned his feet through such a mass of
would have been a fourteen hour's operation.
Six feet four or five inches he stood in those
boots, with sliou!dcrs(cased in a fur coat, that
booked more like bearing up a world than
you will meet ordinarily in half a lifetime.—
His head Websterian, his shaggy hair black
a* jet, his whiskers to match, his dark piercing
eye, aid his jaws eternally moving with a quid
lietween them, while a smile of cheerful good
humor, notwithstanding his,seeming impatience,
attracted every one attention.
Fourteen hours in Chicager, eh? Wal,
I f an stand it if the rest can ; if twenty
dollars won't carry me through, I'll berry of
my friends. I've got the things that will bring
'em."
And he thrust a hand in a little less in size
than a common spade down into the cavern
depths of a broad-striped, flashy pair of pants
QU( ' brought up that great red hand, as full as
d could hold, of shining twenty dollar gold
pieces.
" Bon't yer think I can stand these ere Chi
caners for one fourteen hours ?"
A nod of assent from three or four, and a
smile of curiosity from the rest, answered bis
finest ion in the affirmative.
You must have been in luck, stranger,"
an envious looking man - "You've
more than your share of gold."
I have, eh ? Well I reckon not. I came
wnestly by it. That's a fact. And there's
"ro living who can remember this child when
/' round the prairies trapping prairie
'■'-' is and the like, to get him a night's lodging,
or a pair of shoes, to keep the masaasaugers
r otn biting my toes ; I've hung myself up
"ore nor one night in the timber, to keep out
the ways of the wild varmints ; best sleeping
'J the world, in the crotch of a tree-top !
- °w, I reckon you wouldn't believe it, but
\e gone all winter without a shoe to my foot;
sua lived OH wild game, when I could catch it.
t flat s a fad '■>
" Didn't stunt your growth," said a voice
near.
" Not a bit of it. It brought me upright.
The prairies are wonderful roomy. I thought
one spell 1 would let myself out entirely, but
me and mother held a corcus, and decided that
she was getting old, and blind like, and it tuk
too long, and cost too much to sew up the legs
of my trowsers, and so I put a stop to it, aud
concluded that six foot five would do for a
fellow that couldn't afford the expensive lux
ury of a wife to make breeches for him. It
was only love for my mother that stopped my
growth. If I'd had any idea of a sewing ma
chine, there's no telling what I might a
done."
" You have so many gold pieces in your
pocket, you can afford to get your trousers
made now. Why don't yon and your mother
hold another caucus, and see what you can
do ? If she would let you expand yourself, you
might sell out to Barnum, and make a fortune
travelling with Tom Thumb, and take the old
woman along."
" Stranger," sai'l the rough, great man, and
his whole face loomed up with a mingled ex
pression of pain and pride ; "stranger, I spoke
a word here I didn't mean to ; a slightly word,
like, about my mother. I would give all the
gold iu my pocket to bring her back for one ,
hour to look upon this country as it is now. I
She had her eabiu here when Chicager was no-:
where ; here she raised her boys—she couldn't j
gire them laruin', but she taught us better
tilings than books can give : to be honest aud
useful, and iudustrious. The taught us to be 1
faithful aud true ; to stand by a friend, and j
be generous to an enemy. It's thirty years, ■
stranger, since we dug her grave by the lake
side with our hands ; and with many a tear
and sob turned ourselves away from the eabiu
where where whe had been raised—the In
dians had killed our father long before, and
we'd nothing to keep us—and so we went
to seek our fortunes. My brother, he took
down to St. Louis, and got married down
there som'ers ; and I just went where the wind
blowed, aud when I'd scraped money enough
together, I came back and bought a few acres
of land around my mother's old cabin, for
the place where I'd laid her bones was sacred,
like. Wal, in the course of time it turned up
right in the middle of Chicagar. I couldn't
stand that—l loved my old mother too weli to ]
let the omnibuses rattle over her grave, so I
come back about fifteen years ago, and quietly '
moved her away to the buryin' ground ; and ;
then I went back to Texas, and wrote to an j
agent afterward to sell my land. What cost
a few hundred to begin on, I sold for over ,
for over forty thousand—if I'd kept it till
now, 'twould been worth ten times that—but j
I got enough for't. I soon turned that forty
thousand into eighty thousand, and that into
twice as much, and so on, till I don't carc
what I'm worth. I work hard, am the same
rough customer ; remember every day of my
life what my mother taught me ; never drink
nor fight ; wish I didn't swear nor chaw ; but
them's got to be kind o'second uatur' like, and !
the only thing troubles me is my money—havn't
got no wife nor children, and I'm going now
to hunt up my brother and his folks. If his
boys is clever and industrious, and ain't asham
ed of my lag boots and old fashioned ways,
and his gals is young womeu and not ladies ;
if they help their mother, and don't put on
mor'n two frocks a day, I'd make 'cm rich
every one ou 'em.
" Now, gentlemen, 'taint often I'm led to
tell on myselt, after this fashion. Hut these
old places, where I trapped when I was a boy
made me feel like a child agin—and I just feel
like tellin' these youngsters about the changes
and chances a feller may meet in life, if he on
ly tries to make the most of himself.
" Hut, boys," said he, turning to a party of
youug men, "there's something better than
money Get education. Why, boys, if I had
as much larn'm' as money I could be President
in 185" just e-a-s-y. Why, could buy up half
the North, and not miss it out of my pile.—
Hot get larnin' ; don't chaw tobacco ; don't
take to liquor ; don't swear and mind your
mtoher's —that's the advice of a real live Suck
er ; and if 3011 mind what I say you may be
men (and it aint every feller that wears a
goatee and breeches that's a man, by a long
ways). Poller out her counsels ; never do a
thing that will make you ashamed to meet her
in Heaven. Why, boys, I never heard my
mother's voice reprovin' me ; and I never done
a good thing and made a good move, but I've
seem to hear her say, "that's right, Jack," and
that has been the best of all. N'othin' like
a mother, boys—nothiu' like a mother."
All this had passed while waiting to wood,
just out of Chicago. The great man was
swelling with emotions called up from the
dark shadows of the past ; his big rough frame
heaved like a great billow upon the ocean.—
i Tears sprung to hi 6 deep set and earnest eyes
they welled up to the brim—and swam
round, asking to be let full as tributes to his
mother's memory—tributes to the love of the
past. Hut he choked them down and humming
a snatch of an old ballad, lie thrust his hands
down into his pockets, walked back to the end
of the car, pulled the gigantic collar of his
shaggy coat up around his cars, buttoned it
close, and leaned buck against the window in
silence.
The oars rattled 011. What a mind was
there ; what a giant intellect, sleeping, buried
away from light and usefulness by a rubbish
of prejudice, habit and custom—doing but half
work for want of culture.
" A mute inglorious Milton," or rather Web
ster, going about the world with his own soul,
yet bound by cliaius of ignorance, which pre
cluded his doing but a moiety of the good it
lay in his power to do.
All the way through our long, tedious jour
ney, he had beeu ever on the watch to do good
lie gave up his scat by the fire to an Irish
woman and her child, and took one farther
back ; goon a young girl seated herselt by his
side ; as the night hours wore ou, and she
nodded wearily as he rose, spread his beauti
ful leopard skin with its soft rich lining on the
scat, made a pillow of his carpet-bag, and iu
sjstcd that she should lie down and sleep
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH.
" REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER."
" \Y hat will you do ? said she naively.
" Never miud me—l cau stand up and sleep,
like a buffalo ; I'm used to it."
A little boy, pulled up from a sound nap to
give place to incomers, was pacified and made
quiet by a handful Chestnuts and a glowing bit
of candy out of the big man's pocket. When
lie left the cars for refreshment he brought
back his baud full of pies, and distributed them
among a weary group. A mother and seveu
little childreu, the eldest not twelve years old
whose husband and father left the cars at every
stopping place, and returned more stupid and
beastly each time, scolding the little tired rest
less ones with thick tongue, and glaring his
furious red eyes upon the poor grieved victim
of a wife, like a tiger upon its prey, "because
she did not keep her young ones still ; they
would disturb everybody." No bite of refresh
ment, no exhilirating draught, no rest from
that fat, cross baby, came to her all the long
night, save when the big man stretched out
his great hands and took her baby boy for an
hour, and let him play with his splendid watch
to keep him quiet.
" I'll give ye a thousand dollars for him,"
said he, as he handed him back to her arms.
" Von may have the whole lot for that,"
answered the drunken father, with a swine like
grunt.
" It's a bargaiu," said the big man, "pro
vidin' the mother's williu'."
" Indade, sir, it's not the one of them can
be bought for money," was the quiet yet de
termined respouse of the mother's hoart.
How kii.dly he helped her off of the cars
when, at the break of day, they came to their
journey's end.
Thus all night had he been attracting the
attention of the waking ones in the cars. But
his kindness would soon have been forgotten
by the mass of the passengers, had he he
not stamped it upon our memories with his
gold.
" I wonder who he is ?"
" Where did he get in ?"
" What an interesting character."
" Education would spoil him."
" What rich furs !"
" Did you notice what a splendid watch he
carries ?"
" He's some great man incog."
Such were a few of the queries that passed
from lip to lip. But there came no auswer ;
for he who alone could have answered sat
crouched in his fur coat, seeming unconscious
of all but his own deep thoughts.
" Chicago !" shouted the brakeman, and in
an instant all was confusion, and our hero was
lost in the crowd. The uext we saw of him
was at the baggage stand looking up a band
box for a sweet-looking country girl who was
going to learn the milliner's trade in the city.
As he he passed to our carriage we discovered
him again, holding an old man by the hand,
while he grasped the shoulder of the conduc
tor of another train with the other, getting
for the deaf gjay-haired sire, the right infor
mation as to the route he should take to get
to his " darter who lived near Muscatine,
lowa."
" God bless him for his good deeds!" was
our earnest aspiration, as we whirled round
the corner. May his shadow never grow less ;
nor the gold in his pocket diminish, for in his
unnumbered charities and mercies dropped so
unostentatiously here and there, he is, perhaps,
doing more good in his day and generation,
tlian he who devotes his thousands to build
charitable institutions, to give honor to his
own name.
01), how much Ihc world needs great hearts
that are able to comprehend little things !
and yet how often it happens that the learned,
the wise, and the rich out-grow the every-day
wants of humanity, and, feeling within them
selves the power to move rightly, pass the
humble duties that would make a thousand
hearts leap for joy, and push on, looking for
some wrong to right, some great sorrow to be
soothed, some giant work to be accomplished ;
and failing to find the great icork, live and
die incarcerated in their own selfishness, and
do nothing at all.
This rough man's nature seemed the nature
of the little child. His quick eye saw at a
glance; his great heart warmed, and his
groat hand executed his little work of charity
—so small that one would have expected to
to see them, slip between his giant fingers un
accomplished—yet were they done. There
cording angel will have a longer column to set
down to his account of deeds well done, than
all the rest of the passengers on that crowd
ed car, on that long tedious, stormy uight, in
January, 1-SSG.
A story is told of a grave divine on
Cape Cod, uot long since, who awoke from a
comfortable nap in his chair, and discovered
his amiable helpmate in the performance of an
act for which Gov. Marcy once made a charge
of fifty cents to the State—in other words
mending his pantaloons. Inspired with a love
of fun which seldom affected him, he enquired,
" Why are you, my dear, like the evil adversa
ry spoken of in Scripture ?" Of course she
was unable to discover any resemblance. " Be
cause," said he, " while the husbandman slept,
you soircd the ta res /"
EDUCATION is a companion which no misfor
tune can depress—no crime can destroy—no
enemy can alienate—uo despotism can enslave.
At home a friend—abroad au introduction—in
solitude a solace—in society an ornament. It
chastens vice ; it guides virtue ; it gives at
grace and government to genius. Without it
what is mau ? A splendid slave ; a reasoning
savage !
Early on a very cold morning, a travel
ling profile painter called at the house of a
wag, aud inquired if he wanted a profile ta
keu. " Yes," was the reply, " I want yours
taken from the door.
tS!r A geutrous man will place the benetits
he roofers beneath hie feet—those he receives,
nearest his heart.
Joan sf Arc.
Joan was born in 1411, the daughter of a
l>oor peasant in the province of Lorraine. She
was taught to sow and spin, but not to read
ami write, and to the last of her career she
could not sign her own immortal norne. She
was a geutle, beautiful, bashful child, deeply
imbued with religious feelings. Her religion
was the concrete Romanism of the time, and
was learned at her mother's knee. The re
ligious teaching instilled into her soul, became
the life of her whole being. She lived in an
interna! world with saints and angels, and
this inward life became dearer and nearer than
her outward existence. She was a poet, as
well as a devotee, and the greatest that France
ever had. She was indifferent to the pastimes
of youth, and spent much time in prayer to St.
Catharine and St. Margaret. The disturbed
state of her country kindled her devotion into
a flame of self-devoted patriotism. Her inter
nal world became endowed with external ex
istence, aud her visions pushed themselves into
voices, and shapes, visible to her entranced
eyes. The sense saw what the soul wished.
At 13 years, walking in her father's gar
den, she heard the voice of the Archangel Mi
chael calling upon her to go to the succor of
the king. Then came voices naming her the
deliverer of France No historian doubts her
faith in the reality of what she saw. The
most modest and bashful of women, she resist
ed long this inward impulse. The news of
the seige of Orleans at last decided her. Then
commenced that course of entreaty with the
governor whieli at last forced his common sense
fo yield to the persistency of that sense which
is not common. She was permitted to go to
the dauphiu at Chalons, 150 leagues through
a country occupied by-the enemy. She de
tected the disguised dauphin, told him lie was
the true heir, and assured him heaven had
sent her to see him crowned in the city of
Rheims. After much hesitation her aid was
accepted. Her work now was to relieve Or
leans and to see the dauphin crowned in the
city of Rheims, then in the bauds of the Eng
lish. Her inspired earnestness spread enthu
siasm around, and many believed in her pow
ers. She was hailed as a saint She reform
ed the army—converting the soldiers from ma
rauders into crusaders, aud changing the camp
into a camp-meeting.
Her name went before her, and fought her
battles in the armies of the English. It was
a superstitious age, and they said, if she is of
God, it is impious to fight against her—if of
the Devil how can we prevail against all France
backed by Satanic powers ! With 200 men
she entered the city, without opposition from
the English. Great was the joy of the be
seiged. Religious ceremonies were performed
and then came the attack. Her military skill
consisted only in resolution and audacity.—
She mounted the walls of the English forts,
and though struck down by an arrow, she
again ascended, and struck terror into the Eng
lish, who thought her dead. They began to
see visions in their turn, and declared that St.
Michael appeared in the air cheering on the
French. In seven days the English burned
their forts, raised the seige and retreated. —
Two months after, Rheims opened its gates,
and the king was crowned. Joan's task was
done—her vision accomplished. She asked to
lie allowed to return to her mother and the
care of her flocks. Policy dictated a refusal,
and she was still retaiued to sustain the cause
she had saved. The only reward she asked
was that her native village might uot be tax
ed, which it was not for 300 years.
But she no longer felt that she was doing
the work of God, and her heart was not in
the work. The saint was sinking into the sol
dier, when she was saved by captivity. She
was taken prisoner by a Bnrgnndiau soldier,
and sold to the English for 100,000 livres.—
Their joy knew no bounds. The hated "witch"
was at last in their hands, and they prepared
to glut their vengeance. Charged with here
sy and sorcery, she fell into the hands of theo
logical wolves and foxes, who exerted all the
malice and ingenuity of their mean natures to
entrap her, without success. Her simplicity
and truthfulness evaded all their snares. Hav
ing persecuted her from a heretic to a Catho
lic, these infamous creatures persecuted her
from a Catholic to a heretic, that they might
condemn her to a stake. She was burned in
the city of Rouen on the 10th of May, 1431.
Thus was consummated one of the darkest
crimes recorded on the page of history, which,
as it blazons on the eye, across the interval of
four centuries, throws a lurid glare of infamy
on the names of those who perpetrated it.—
Such beautiful simplicity, such angelic devo
tion, was never before, nor never hereafter
will be witnessed on earth. Victorious over
persecution, peerless among women, the name
of Joan of Arc will perish not so long as beau
ty, devotion and goodness shall be cherished
among men.
To GET RID OF HOUSE ANTS. —The best
way to get rid of ants is to set a quantity of
cracked walnuts, or shellharks. on plates and
put them in the closets where the ants congre
gate. They are very fond ot these, and will
collect in them in myriads. When they have
collected in them, make a general auto-da-fe,
by turning nuts and ants together into the
fire, and then replace the plates with fresh
nuts. After they have become so thinned off
as to cease collecting on plates, powder some
gum-camphor and put in the holes and crevi
ces ; whereupon the remainder will speedily
vamose. It may help the process of getting
tliem to assemble on the shellbarks, to remove
all edibles out of their way for a time.
Be®- Trees with double flowers are, too of
ten, the emblem of friendship—there is plen
ty of blossom, but no fruit.
A young lady says that if a cart-wheel
has nine felloes attached to it, it's a pity that
a girl like her can't have one.
Itesiy- Human existence hinges upon triilc
What is beauty without soap
Rules for Restoring the Drowned.
BY MARSHALL HALL, M. I)., F. P.. S.
The following rules are the result of half a
year's investigation of apnoea and asphyxia—
a subject which I propose to prosecute still
further, knowing that truth only comes of long
continued labor and research. I wish especial
ly to put to the test of careful experiment the
correctness of the dogma that, if the heart has
once ceased to beat, its aetiou cau never be re
stHred —a dogma calculated to paralyze our
efforts in many cases in which hope may not
be totally extinct :
First: Treat the patient instantly on the
spot, in the open air, except in severe weather,
freely exposing the face, neck and chest to the
breeze.
Second : Send with all speed for medical
aid, and for articles of clothing, blankets, &c.
Third: I'lace the patient gently on the face
and with one arm under the forehead, so that
any fluids may flow from the throat and mouth
—and, without loss of time :
/. To Excite Respiration :
Fourth : Turn the patient on his side, and
—(lst) —apply snuff or other irritant to the
nostrils. (2d) —dash cold water on the lace,
previously rubbed briskly until it is warm. If
there be no success, again lose no time, but
ll. To Initiate Respiration:
Fifth : Replace the patient on his face ;
when the tongue will fall forward, and leave
the entrance into the wind-pipe free—then,
Sixth : Turn the body gently, but complete
ly, on the side and a little beyond, (when in
spiration will occur), and then on the face,
making gentle pressure along the back, (when
expiration will tuke place) alternately ; these
measures must be repeated deliberately, effi
ciently, fifteen times in the minute, only ;
meanwhile—
lII. To Induce Circulation and Warmth.
Seventh : Rub the limbs upwards, with firm
pressure and with energy, using handkerchief,
Ac., for towels.
Eighth : Replace the patient's wet clothing
by such covering as can be instantly procured,
each bystander supplying a coat, waistcoat,&c.
These rules are founded on physiology; and
while they comprise all that can be immediate
ly done for the patient, exclude nil apparatus,
galvanism, the warm bath, Ac., as useless, not
to say injurious, especially the last of these :
and all loss of time in remowtl, Ac., as fatal.
—London Lancet.
A SNARE TALE. —Says the lawyer : " Ani
mals sometimes very nearly approach reason
in their cunning. I got interested in the study
of serpents down in Arkansas, where I spent
the most of last year. I don't know why, but
I was constantly watching them in new situa
tions, and surrounding them with novel expe
dicnts. Of all kinds I experimented most with
rattlesn&ltes and copperheads.
" One afternoon I seated myself on a little
knoll to smoke and read—for 1 always had a
book or newspaper with me—and had been en
joying myself for sometime, when I espied a
copperhead making for a hole within ten feet
of where I sat. Of course I threw down*ray
book and cigar, and proceeded to try a new
experiment. As soon as I stirred the rascal
made a rush for the hole ; but 1 caught his tail
as lie got nearly in, and jerked him some twen
ty feet backward. He threw himself into a
coil in no time and waited for me to pitch in.
But I concluded to let him try his hole again.
After a while lie started for it, stopping when
I stirred, to coil himself up, but as I kept pret
ty quiet he recovered confidence and again went
in. Again £ jerked him out. No sooner did
he strike the ground than he made a grand
rush for the hole in a striglit. line for my legs !
But that didn't work, for I got out of the way
and gave him another flirt !
" This time lie lay still a while, appearing to
reflect on the course to be taken. After get
ting his head a little way in, he stopped and
wriggled his tail as if on purpose for me to
grab it. I did so : and quicker than a flash
he drew his head out and came within a quar
ter of an inch of striking me in the face. How
ever, I jerked him quite a dista* ce, and resolv
ed to look out next time. Well he tried the
same game again, but it wouldn't work—l was
too quick for him.
"This time lie lay in a coil half an hour,
without stirriug. At last, however, lie tried
it once more. He advanced to within five feet
of the hole very slowly, coiled again, and then
the rascal got the start of mo by one of the
cutest things yon ever heard of."
" How was that?" we ull exclaimed in one
breath.
" Why," said the narrator, sinking his voice
to the acme of solemnity, and looking as honest
and sober as a man could look, " why he just
turned his head toward my hand, and went
down the hole tail first !"
FOLLOWING A DOCTOR'S DIRECTIONS. —Some
days ago a good-looking fellow was arraigned
before Court, charged with having stolen a
watch. It was his first error, and he was rea
dy to plead guilty. The Judge addressed hiin
in very gentle tones, and asked him what had
induced him to commit the theft. The young
man replied that, having been unwell for some
time, the doctor advised him to take something,
which he had accordingly done. The Judge
was rather pleased with the humor of the tiling,
and asked what had led him to select a watch.
" Why," said the prisoner, " I thought if 1 on
ly had the time, that nature would work a
cure !"
fcaT" An exchange asks very innocently il
it is any harm for young ladies to sit in the
lapse of ages. Our opinion is, that it all de
pends upon the kind of ages selected. Those
from 18 to 25, we think arc rather hazardous.
gtff- An exchange says that at New Orleans
it requires three persons to start a business
firm ; one to die with the yellow fever, one to
got killed in a duel, a.id a third to wind up the
luisfucss.
VOT,. XVL 11. XO. 8.
J How PETEK AXD PAEL LOOKED. —It isallow
-1 able to mention general notion of the forms
j and features of the two Apostles, which have
, been handed down in tradition, and as repre
? seated by the early artists. Paul is set before
us as having the strongly marked and promi
nent features of a Jew, not without some of
the finer fines indicative of Greek thought.—
His stature was diminutive, and his body dis
figured by some larucnc.Ss or distortion, which'
may have provoked the contemptuous expres
sion of his enemies. His beard was long and
thin. His head was bald. The characterise
1 ties of his face were a transparent complexion,
which visibly betrayed the quick changes of
his feelings ; a bright gray eye under over
hanging and united eyebrows : a cheerful and
j winning expression of countenance, which invi
te d the approach and secured the confidence c-f
strangers. It would be natural to infer, from
his continual journeys and manual labor, that
he was possessed of great strength of constitu
tion ; but iiiirii of delicate health have often
gone through the greatest exertions, and his
own words, on more than one occasion, show
that he suffered much from the luck of bodily
health.
I'eter is represented as a man of larger and
stronger form, as his character was harsher
and more abrupt. The quick pulses of a soul
revealed themselves in the flashes of a dark
eye. The complexion of his face was full and
sallow ; and the short hair which is described
as entirely gray at the time of his death, curl
ed black and thick around his temples and chin
when the Apostles stood together at Autioch
twenty years before tlieir martyrdom. Believ
ing as we do, that these traditionary pictures
have probably some foundation in truth, we
take thein as helps to the imagination.
THE VARIOUS GASES. —The use of gas in any
form, is comparatively modem. Coal gas has
been known as an inllammublo substance for
some two hundred years, and received from
different chemists different names. But no
practical use of this discovery was made for a
long time. A German chemist, Becher, at
tempted something of this sort about the year
ITGO, and entirely failed , and it was not for
many years afterwards that any progress was
made in that direction, in 178.), Lebanon
proposed to procure illuminating gas from the
distillation of wood. In 1792, Murdoch first
applied eoal gas to purposes of illumination,
and made the first public exhibition of the pro
cess and its results in 1802. Illuminating gas
is heavy carburet fed hydrogen gas—which is
synonymous with carburet ted and per enrbu
rettcd hydrogen gas. The term Olefiant gas,
or marsh gas, refers to the same product.—
There is a light earburetted hydrogen gas,
"Containing but half the proportion of Carbon
required iu illuminating gas, and possessing
very iittle illuminating power. This is always
mixed, more or !es, with the heavy. Oil gas
requires less purifying than coal gas, for it con
tains no snlpher, and less carbon and hydro
gen ; one gallon of it produces ninety cubic
feet of gas. The illuminating power of oil
gas is to that of the best coal, as 2 to 1 ; and
the specific gravity of oil gas varies from 445
to 1.100. Iu Rheims, gas is produced from
the soap used to free woolens from grease.—•
The soap water is treated with sulphuric or
muriatic acid, when the fat collects on the sur
face of the liquid ; this is remeltcd and puri
fied by a little sulphuric acid, to effect a clari
fication, then with crude soda, to make soap,
and the residue is distilled in retorts, like ros
in, for the production of gas One pound of
rosin yields from ten to twenty cubic feet of
gas, the illuminating power of which, compar
ed with that of coal gas, is as 3 to 2, and with
that of oil as 3 to 4.
MEMCAI. USE or SALT. —In ninny cases of
a disordered stomach, a tca>poonful of salt is
a certain cure. In the violent, internal agony,
termed cholie, add a tenspoonful of salt to a
pint of water ; drink it down and go to bed ;
it is one of the speediest remedies known. Tin;
same will revive a person who seems almost
dead from a heavy fall.
In an apoplectic fit no time should be lot
in pouring down salt and water, if sufficient
sensibility remains to allow uf swallowing : if
not, the head must lie sponged with cold wa
ter until the senses return, when salt will com
pletely restore the patient from the lethargy
In a fit, the feet should be placed in warm
water, with mustard added, and the logs brisk
ly rubbed, all bandages removed from the neck
and a cool apartment procured, if possible.—
In many cases of severe bleeding at the lungs,
and when other remedies fail, lb llnsh found
that two teaspoonfuls of salt completely stay
ed the blood.
In case ufa bite from a mad dog, wash the
part with a strong brine for an hour, and li eu
bind on some salt with a rag.
In toothache, warm suit and water held to
the part, removed two or three times, will re
move it in most cases. If the gums be a fleet
ed, wash the mouth with brine. If the teeth
be covered with tartar, wash them twice a day
with salt and water.
In swelled neck, wash the part with brine,
and drink it also, twice a day, until cured.
Salt will expel worms, if used in food in a
moderate degree, and aids digestion, but salt
meat is injurious, when used much.
Is A Ijt'Ml". Klder Jones was not remarka
ble for his eloquence, nor was he a very good
reader, especially among the hard names.—
Iut lie said that "all Scripture is profitable,"
and therefore he never selected any portion,
but read the first chapter lie opened at after
! he took the stand to preach. One day ho
stumbled in this way upon a chapter in Chroni
cles, and read, " Kleazer begat rhineas, and
Phineas begat Abishua, and Abishua begat.
Bukkie, and Bukkie begat Czzie," and stum
bling worse Hitd worse as he proceeded, lie
stopped, and running his eye ahead, and see
ing nothing better in prospect, lie cut the
ter short by saying, " And so they w
and begat one another to the end
ter" " .v*