, 1£ 01LLAR PER ANNUM invariably in advance. ITOWANDA: Thursday Morning, October 14, 1858. Original (For the Bradford Reporter.] "IN THE DARK." y, soeoes of beautiful repose. Revealed hy the pale moonlight. Have ye no influence to restore A calm to my aoul to-night ? Ye trauquil skies, your majesty And beauty oft have given Visions of peace to my weary aoul, And dreams of rest in Heaven. I would dream to-night, but I cannot dream ; I cannot feel secure— By the icinpost tossed. In darkness lost, I long for something sure. Maker ! to whom these feeble powers. This strange existence owe, How should I spend these aimless hoars, What would'st Thou have me do T Why sm I here in fetters vile ? My destination where? Is there a world where the curse of sin Shall leave us pure and fair ? Ye dead ! who have entered the dark before, Why ne'er return to give Some sign, some token to assure Thst still your spirits live ? I long to know —how can I wait ? Earth's pleasures turn to gall— There is sorrow and sin in my earthly path, And darkness over all. Friend of the friendless ! herald of light! Oh! death, I come to thee Boldly I leap in the dark abyss, I And end uncertainty. IDS. Slisttllantous. JOHN BOGG'S BARN DOOR; OR, THE EFFECTS OF PROCRASTINATION. ' It is too bad!' said John Boggs. 'What's too bad T returned Matilda, his wife. Why—the cart's broken down; and now :be hands must be idle while it's beiug mend fi' The cart!' repeated Mrs. Boggs, laying wn the stocking she was darning, and re ading her husband with a peculiar look.— Do you mean the large ox-cart ?' ' Yes.' ' What's the matter with it ?' The hub is split right slap in two halves!' ' But 1 thought it began to split a long time Igo I heard you say last week, that you must H.ive a new iron band made for it.' I Yes—l know,' said John Boggs, rather l;:biooslv; 4 I did say something about it, but ■ rn I didn't think it was so oad.' I 'Yet you knew it needed mending, John; |':r vou said so yourself. I wish you would I run to be more prompt about these things. ■ Yoa lose more than you are aware of.' ■ 0. no, Tiddy. I don't lose anything.— ■ :>frvthing on toy place is as well as things -■rsncraily are.' Not quite, John. I know you manage to ■ irep things in pretty good order; but you ■ -it acknowledge that you are in the hubii lef procrastinating. It's only last week that I' n io*t w valuable sheep just because you put I liaending the floor in the shed. And now |'? must lose half a day's work of thiee hands I at because yon didn't mend your cart hub ■ bm it ought to have been mended. Ah— I'on do iose much; aud there's no use trying to Well—complaining won't mend it, that's a case,' muttered John. I No,' quickly but pleasantly returned MH- I i*: ' but paying heed to your experience f Htght mend the whole trouble.' 'Pooh! You sit here in the house darnin' Htockia's; and I 'spose you think 'cause you .H*: cf where to ruu your needle, you could ■ everything in a barn at once.' No, no, John,' said the wife smiling. ' You s,Hsct|Hitit in the right shnpe. I can see the B s *! of a stocking, aud when I see a place x H' :frtm 7 needle needs to run, I mn it there, l-ion't expect you to see but oue thing at a I ami also to see that it needs mending.tbeu t M l ** time to meud it.' I Joho Boggs commenced to whistle a medley t| : 'pasmodic notes aud at the same time drew ■ t coat He had got to go fire miles to a ■ Smith's shop to have an iron ring made. I John,' said his wife, plying her darning nee < a lesson one of these days that'll cost yon ■- > than you can afford to pay.' J°hn whistled with renewed energy, now uf fairly into ' Yankee Doodle,' and with ■ '•Mou* shake of her head, his wife turned —iß" Nation to her work. I ■ hn Boggs had two men to work for hiro, : by this breaking of the cart they were obliged to iie still or go at work which of little use. He had a large farm aud tXc *heot one for producing vegetation; and Quite ' well to do' in the world, llis r® *ere all daughters, and hence the of overlooking the affairs of the farm -volved upou hiui. fV-*® *e have seen, John Boggs had one fault put off till to morrow what could be l '- be done to-day. He contrived to a ' s p'ace looking clean and tidy. because ■ periods he would be seized with a d* ■ -v " fit, and would then roll up j)l TT vs and go at it. But this did'nt work ■ Many a time very im|ortaut things till ' v ftu like U.' Tbat wag a great of his; ' Well— when it ftU Ukt <.' p.i ° w there would be a break-down that ** to immediately; and while ■ .-/ l: hammer ami nails in his hands be " Q P several other things that had been M bis coming. Very often an hour was something which woald not have • minutes of his time, had he I V J a4a< * w ' hfa srst discovered it.— - * ccly >o, bat be lost ia two other wayi THE BRADFORD REPORTER. It required more nails to do the work at this late hour, and could never be made so good, at that, as it was before, nor as it would have been had he attended to it in season John had often promised his wife that he would reform, but be had not done it yet. He did not realize how much he lost; or if he did, the effect was momentary. When he lost his sheep he would never let such a thing go again. Aud yet there was at this very moment a bad place in the floor of his tie-up, where the cows were kept He had noticed three days before. He saw one of the cows tread upon it and he knew that a heavy ox would break through there at once. But the floor was not mended yet, for all that. When the ring, or the hub band came home, Mr. Boggs went to work aud put it on. But it would not work. He had missed a figure in his calculations. The spokes had worn the sockets so much that all the straps in the world could never fit that broken hub on agaiu. i 'Jerusalem!' muttered the disappointed man, ; as he found that he could not make the thing work. 4 lf i had only fixed the thundering things when I ought to, this wouldn't have been! It's too bad—too thundering bad.' But there was no help for it. A new hub must be made. He made out to find au old wheel which he could use while the wright was fixing his, and in this uncomfortable way he managed to get along without losing much over a day's time. One morning about a week after the break ing of the hub, one of the little girls came run uing in while the family were at breakfast. ' Papa ! papa !—the white faced heifer's broke right through the floor!' 4 What?' uttered Boggs, starting up. 4 Bro ken through V John Boggs knew that his wife was looking sharply at liiin, and he avoided that peculiar glance which he felt sure he should find there if turned that way. He called up the two men aud hurried out. As good fortune would have it, the heifer was not seriously harmed; but John knew he could not claim credit for her safety. When he came back bis wife said not a word upon the subject. At first John was atraid she would reprimand him; but when he found that she kept silence upon the sub ject, he felt worse than he would have felt had she just eluded him a little. He knew she felt it—that she understood it—and her continued silence seemed to indicate that she considered him incorrigible. From that moment he re solved that he t could reform. Ah—he had made just such resolutions before. For two mouths no real accident happened, for John Boggs kept things pretty straight, but still there were some short-comings. The hale ! it of procrastination was too firmly fixed upon him to be easily thrown off. A autumn drew uear, John Boggs began to look around for an opportunity to carry into J executiou a plan he had l>een considering for some time. He had a very choice stock of cattle, and having received au excellent offer ! for them, he could buy in the spring to good advantage. So he suld eight oxen for a price which might by some be considered almost fab ulous. The same purchaser wanted horses ! and John sold his three heavy ones, keeping only a three year old colt, which he thought would answer for all his riding through the winter. Very near John's farm was a large tract of land covered with heavy pine trees —most of them magnificent white pine; and he had part ly contracted to cut those trees down, fashion the logs, and haul them the aistance of three miles to the river. The contract would be a j valuable one for him, besides he lived so near to the woods. He supjosed he could find plenty of men who would be glad to come on and furnish teams if he would keep them. He had hay and grain in plenty, and of course wished to have most of it eaten on the place. Bv selling his oxen and horses he had made a clear profit of about one-half all he got for 1 them; and now if he could get some one to come on and furnish teams, and in return, take one-half the proceeds of the job, and have their j animals kept, he would do well. But he found it more difficult than he had expected, to ob tain the help. He could find pieuiy of men who would gladly come with such teams as they owned; but he wanted heavier ones. At length he hit upon the very roan. ' I've found him,' he said to his wife, one evening on his return from a visit to a neigh boring town ' I've found just the man. He's got teams enough, and will come on as soon as wanted.' ' Who is he ?' asked Matilda, quite pleased at her husband's success. 4 Aarou Rolf. You know him don't ye ? He's got six yoke of oxen and four good horses; and be says if I will give him equal shares of what I am to have, and take care of his ani mals aud men he'll come.' ' Aaron Rolf?' repeated the wife. 4 I know him well. If he says he will come then you may depend upon him. He never makes a promise until he knows he can keep it; and he never undertakes to do a thing which he can- ; not do as it should !>e doue. Some |>eople call him odd; and I don't know but he is, in one sense of the word; for he minds his own busi ness; has everything in its proper place; aud will have no one about him. if he cau help it, who will not follow his example.' •Why—you seem to know him well, Tiddy ' ' And why shouldn't i ? You forget that I lived in his father's family several years.' 4 Oho! Is he a son of old Beu Rolf V 'Ye* —his eldest boy.' "Aha—that's it eh "? Well, I'm glad he's such a man. It'll make it good for me.' ' I should like to have him here very well this coroiog fall and winter— that is if you must have some Que.' So John Boggs gave himself no more uneas iness upon the subject of his fall's work. Mr. Rolf was corniug over to look at the timber, before he closed the bargain; but then Johu had explained everything tally to htm, aud be was perfectly satisfied. Oue day John weut to tie the colt np in the stall, and he found that the edge of the trough was worn almost down to the hole through wfcicb the baiter wa tied. He kaew that it PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'JIEARA GOODRICH. 44 RKSARDLKS3 OF DENUNCIATION FROM 4NY QUARTER." was not safe. A slight poll would break it out. 4 1 declare,' said he to himself, 4 1 must fix that when I get time." He meant when he felt like it, for he had ample time then. All that was necessary was to step into the wagon-hcuse, get an inch and a half augur, and bore a new hole. It would have taken him, perhaps, five minutes to have performed the whole operation. He led the colt into the next stall, and then weut to the house and sat down. Ah—the old habit was not gone vet. He would fix the tie-hole when he had time!— John Boggs hadn't quite reformed for all his place looked so well outside. Au eveuing or two afterwards, just as he was sitting down to sapper one of his daugh- i ters came in and told him that the back baru door had tumbled down again. ' Why I set a log of wood np against it 1 firmly only a little while ago,' exclaimed John. ' ' Then I guess some of the sheep must have rubbed it down,' said the girl. 'John Boggs,'spoke the wife almost sternly, 4 havn't you fixed that door yet?' ' I declare. I'll fix that to-morrow,' was John's response. ' But why havn't you fixed it before ?' per sisted Matilda. ' Why—l havn't had time.' Johu, held down his head as he made this remark. ' Havn't had time ?' repeated the dame.ele- 1 vatiug her eye brows in real astonishment.— j ' John Bogg's, what do you mean V ' Why—l did mean to fix it ; Hut whenever J I've thought of it, it lias been when I was busy i about something else.' 4 Ah, John—let me tell you that kind of, work won't suit Aaron Rolf.' ' Let Aaron Rolf mind his own business,'re turned John warmly ; 4 and ' he added with a bold l)ok iuto bis wife's fice, ' there's other folks, too ; that might do the same to advan tage.' Matilda Boggs smiled, for she saw that her ! husband was playing the brave—a thing which he seldom did in her presence. Not that she was the wearer of garments unmentionable,hut she was oae of those straight, forward, sound sensed, stern virtued women, who find it ab solutely necessary to guide an easy husband sometimes. She had intended to a>k her lord to go out and fix the door after supper; but as he was already chafed, she concluded to say uo more at present. The facts about the barn door were these: The lower hinge had beeu useless over "two weeks, but had been made to work by ben.g ' careful in opening and closing the door. But some three days had elapsed since tlie upper one had become so loose that no dependence con d be placed upon it. John had nbticed. and he had said to himself: 'lt must be fixed ; und he had resolved to do it when he felt like it.' The next day came; and in the morning John Boggs went out to the barn,and passed through into the yard, lie set the back door up after him, aud braced the stout cord stick against it to hold in its place. ' I declare, that must be fixed ! I'll attend to that right off.' He went out into the field,and when lie came back he went over to a neighbor to see about some help, and remained there till dinner time. Just as they werp sitting down to dinner. Aaron Rolf drove up to the door. One of the hired men took his horse, and be came in, where he was warmly welcomed by Johu and his good wife. In the afternoon the two men went out to the timber lauJ, and it was nearly dark when they returned They had seen the whole lot. and Mr. Rolf was much pleased with the proposed plan in every way. As near as they could cal culate it would take them,with themselves and four other men. and six yoke of cattle and four horses, a hundred days. Perhaps more but surely no less. Rolf found that his share of the proceeds would amount to eight hundred dollars. Then from this lie must pay the two men whom he was to bring, leaving him six hundred dollars for his oxen, horses and him self. But as he was to be at no expense at all in feeding anybody or anything, he considered the remuneration just fa.r. ' I cau have more than that for hauling goods for our new railroad company,' said he; ' but I should have to be away from home all the time, and I don't like it. I like this plau. I can go home as often as I please, and feci perfectly free to remain away a day if I wish.' During the evening the work was all p'an ned ; and before they retired. A iron Ilolf bad ra ide up bis mind that they should sign ihe arti cles ot agreement. It was arranged that they should go to the justices and have them legal ly drawn up. John Boggs thought there was no need of any such paper, but Mr. Rolf thonght differently. Said he : • We may forget, but a written paper can't forger.' And upon that they retired for the night. In the morning .Mr. Rolf got up, and went out to snuff np the fresh air Having washed and com ed bis hair, lie thought he would go down and look at bis horse ; and perhaps give him some water. He saw one of the hired men and a>kfd him if he had watered the animal. It had not been done. So he weut on to the barn. He found the stable where he had seen the man bitch his horse the night before—but the horse was gone! He went through to the back of the nam, and found the dcor not oj>eD, •ut flat upon the ground ! He went on into the yard—and there he found the bars down ! He hunted up the hired man. ' Look ye. my man, have yoa seen anything of my horse ?' 4 No sir,' was the answer. 4 Jast come here.' The man followed Rdf to the empty stall. ' Did you hitch my horse there last night ?' the visitor asked, poiutiug to where the hole bad been broken out. 4 Yes, sir, yoa know that wouldn't bold a horse V 4 1 suppose Mr. Boggs had fixed it, sir. I heard him say two or three days ago he must do it when he had time. It was kind o' dark wheo I hitched the boree. acd I d ; da't cooee' 4 Fix it when he had time ! 4 repeated Roll, in surprise. 4 Hasu't he au auger ?' 4 Ye 9, sir.' 4 And hasn't he had five minutes to spare within three days ?' 4 Yes, sir—a good many of 'cm, I should think. 4 ' But how abont this door out here?—didn't you know that was unsafe ?' 4 Yes, sir. It's been so a long while. But Mr. Boggs said he'd fix it wheu he had time, and so I never touched it.' 4 Who lugged that great logot wood around here to hold it with V 4 Mr. Boggs did sir.' 4 He did, eh ?—yes, yes. And now how do you suppose them bars came down V ' Bars !' repeuted the man somewhat star tled, ' are thein bars dowu again V ' They are down, sir.' ' Well—l'm glad on't ! Mr. Boggs said he'd fix 'cm. I asked him yesterday morning if I should fix 'em, and he said no. He said I might go to wrork and he'd alteud to that.— Now the cows are all gone !' 4 Ah—l understand,' svid Mr. Rolf. And as he spoke he turned away and followed the tracks of his horse to the road, and saw that it was tnrned towards home. He knew the nature of his horse, and he was sure he should find him in his own stall. So he returned to the barn ; and having taken the bridle on his arm. and thrown the light saddle over his shoulder, said to the hired man: ' You can tell Mr. Boggs that I have gone after my horse.' ' But shan't I go with ye, sir T ' No. I know just where to find him.' So Aaron went away all " saddled and bri bled." When Mr. John Boggs came into breakfast he looked very 44 blue." ' Why—what's the matter John?' the wife asked, for he looked realy sad. He made no answer ; and Matilda was upon the point of asking him again when one of the rosy-cheeked little girls came running in, with eagerness upon every round feature. '0 mamma !' she cried, 'don't you think— Mr. Rolfs horse has ruu off! He broke out of the stall where the halter hole was worn off down to 'on a'most nothing !—and he run out through the barn door tbat was tumbled down!—and he got through the bars where the cows hook 'em down!—and —don't you think he's gone off to try and catcli hin ! lie went with the saddle on his back! My sakes, ain't it too bad ?' Matilda B >ggs looked at John Biggs a full minute, and then she went back to her break fast. She spoke not a word further upon the subject. The next forenoon there was a letter left at the hou*e of Johu Boggs. Tnat individual received it from his wife when he came to dinner. He had been fixing up a door, and some bars, etc. He opened the letter and read as follows : OAK HILL, Sept. 23. IS—. MR. JOHN" Boons— DEAß SIR : You may consider tbat all business relations between u* are at an end. But it will not thus abruptly break off mr plans without giving any reason. It is this : lam by nature very uervou*, and 1 could not trust my interests in the hands of a man who cannot take cure of his own. Were I not assured that the accident of last night was the result of what lias become acomfirmed habit with you, I might hesitate ; but I un derstand it all. This will remain a secret wrh me ; and, trusting you may overcome an evil which cannot but result in barm to you if you follow it up. I remain vours, etc., AARON ROLF John Boggs read this letter, ami then rushed from the house Matilda picked it up and read it. A cloud passed over her lace, and then a ray of sunshine came. In a few moments she looked happy and contented. Bat the dinner was getting cold and she sent one of the children after him. He came ic, loodiug sad and dejected. His wife went up to him and placed her hand IIJMJU his shoulder. 'John,' she said kiudlv, ' canuot you buy some oxen ?' * Yes,' he returned moodily. ' And can you not buy them and still have much of the money left which you recicved for those you sold ?' " Yes.' ' Then go anil buy oxen, and hire yonr men, and do that work yourself. I'll do all I can towards taking care of your baud*. And lam sure you'll make much more than you would to have a partner. Come —we can do our duty without the help of any man who does not want to nssist you ' John Boggs was dumb with gratefni emotion lie understood bis wife perfectly. He knew how noble >he was ; and he now realized thai if he had o.ily given heed to her advice before, lie might have Ireen spared of his shame. Bit he soon gazed up ; and In* only answer was to draw the faithful woman down and kiss her. That very afternoon he commenced upoa a rule of life which he resolved not to deviate He posted off at once, and In-fore night he was the owner of eight yokes of oxen. They were not such leautirs as those he had sold,but they were stout working-oxen. Next he engageti his men. Aud when the seasou for work com he went at it with a will : The logs were ah menced out and deposited in the river, and he was the clear, net gainer of one thousand dol lars by the operatiou. But that w as not uil he gained from that fal len barn-door. He gained the life lev-on he >.• much ueeded ; and from the rule it ga"e him he never after deviated He never age in saw a thing upon bis place that needed attention without bestowing that attention at once. And the result was soon manifest. Everything was in its place, and everything was safe. Llis wif,- was happy, for she had no more occasion to perforin that moat unpleasant of a!i domeetic dotiea to the true wife—the chiding of a bus band. And there was one more thing : H conld pat a friend's horse into his stall withon' ihe danger of the animal's making off during the night, through a hole that should have been. LNJ: out. r.oppec oy a BAJN THOSE WHO NEVER COMPLAIN. —We rever ence the stout of heart. We admire the man, whatever fortune betide, who can still expand his face with a bland and niiwriukled smile.— The intemperament.tbe owner which will laugh while others cry—the man who can still elicit thoughts for congratulation in situations that would bring forth only growlingsand repinings from others, is the true philosopher—the man for the "times." What are hard times to him'. He is not cast from his equilibrium though banks break, debtors become insolvent, or all the kings and emperors of earth suspend. He still finds cause for rejoicing, and is still happy. He has enough to eat and drink—enough to wear—he never did, never could make use of more. Not tliis,however,the apathy of indifference, far from it. His soul is awake, be sees ruin around, in the midst, impending, but it hurts not until it hits—why should it ? He never complains. Suffering may come, he bears it with a stout heart, like a man. Starvation—but he wastes not his declining strength in vain repinings that serve only to make bad worse. How benig nant the rays of happiness that beam from his jolly, rubicund face. Ilovr delighted, weaker morals love to nask in the superabundant mag netic emulations tbat radiate, in the full knowl edge of their strength, from his over-flowing soul-battery. All around are happy. He never complaint. He talks, but tlie sunny "-ide alone appears to find congenial resting place in imagination bright pictures alone suit liirn He alone is the true philosopher. How van it be otherwise ? j Why, must life be pissed through, and flowers and thorns bestrew the path, vhy not pick the former and eschew the latter ? There is time enough for this, and it might be done, if man kind only lmd the disposition. And were such the case, how soon therefore would come the 4 'good time coming." It would be at our doors —in the inid-t of our families—in our hearts. Man is weuk. pitiably weak—he has not the strength to follow that which he knows is for his own good. But let him not grumble, for it is as bad for his digestion ; let him not ha bitually seek pleasure in growling, for it will work an injury to his stomach and conscience; let him not accustom himself to contemplate the somber and the shady, for it w;!l spoil his good looks, and render him repulsive aud dis gusting Hasten, on, then, the 44 good time," and never complain. DESCRIPTION-OF GREAT SALT LIKE.— AS the great Salt Lake of the Mormons has of late year* become a place of interest to the reop'e of this country, 1 send you an extract of a let ter from a resident of that place, giving some description of it. " Tiie Like is on the west side of the val ley. 80 inilcs long 40 miles wide, without siuk i or outlet. The deepest water is 41 feet,'inter- j spersed with islands, mostly at the north end, ; two at the south end, one twenty miles long, i the other fifteen ; on the east i>land brother Fair keep* a herd of some tine cuttle, a fine , ranche, plenty of water, plenty of wood. The j bost island StatiburyV has very little wood ! and fresh water, but line grass ; cattle sum ■ roer and winter on these i-iunds, making the! fattest beef I ever saw. 1 have boiled salt at ' the south end of the lake, called Black Rock, j for live years. There is on a mountain some : forty miles north, bordering on the Lake any amount of copperas and alum. Three Vears ago, ( 51) three pails of water made one of salt. The lake has risen seven feel in five years ! It now takes nearly five pails of water to make one of salt ; so that not much salt makes on the lieach now. Four years ago I loaded a wagon in two hours, ol as handsome coarse -alt as you ever saw, and as good quality. The water is impregnated with glanber salts, lime, copperas, alum, mu riatic acid, Ac. The salt springs issue from the foot of the mountains. There is not a pure fresh water spring on the whole of the south end. The spring which we use from is too much flavored to suit strangers. It is a wild romantic place, but I love it, it is my home—we were driven from our homes by a band of ruffians, that would give ns no res' day or night. Here we can sleep sweetly am d the dashing of waves, the howling of the wolf, and the grizzly bear, and the yell of the sav age.—iLvu (.V. I") Sentinel. TNP LAWYER'S A:VICE. — 44 Soon after I wra< admitted to the bar, I accidentally happened HI tiie court room during the trial of some criminals. After being there a short time, a mail w.is arraigned, cuarged with the corumis s.on of the crime of horse stealing, lie plead ed not guilty ; aud tiie court, finding that iie bad no counsel, and that he was too |oor to ee one, directed me to defend him. A jury was a!>ut to be empanueied, when I stated to the court that I knew nothing of the esse, and desired an interview with my client. This was not oily granted me, but the court per milled me to withdraw from the TOOA with my client, and d.rected me to give him the >et legal advice I could. We retired, and •fter the lapse of some inmates, 1 returned to the court room and t body's names, wheu t is ut'erly impossible for thetn to kuoT what the.* c*n tsjy a a:ter-**^.rd VOL. XIX. —NO. 19. -J VELOCITY OK RAILWAY TRAILS. —Dr. Lard . ' nor has made some curious calculations with i regard to the velocity of railway traius. Ac { cording to these, a speed of seventy miles an i ' hour is about equivalent to thirty-five yards t per second, or thirty-five yards between two : | beats of a common clock. All objects uear ; j the eye of a passenger traveling at this rate, i ■ will pass by liis eye in the thirty-filth }>art of a second ; and if thirty five stakes were erect ed at the side of the road, a yard asunder, thev would not be distinguishable one from anoth er ; if painted red, they would ap|>eur collt-c- I lively as a continuous flash of red color. If two trains with this speed passed each other, 'j the relative velocity would be seveiry yards | per second ; and if one of the trains were sev enty yards long, it would fla.>fi by iu a single ' second. Supposing the locomotive which draws such j a train to Imre driving whet-la seven fee: iu I diameter, these wheels will revolve five times in u second ; the piston moves along the cyl inder ten times in *1 second ; the valve moves and the steam escapes ten times in a second. But as there are two cylinders, which act al ternately, there are reuily twenty puffs or es i capes of stenin, in a second. The locomotive can be heard to " cough " when moving slow ly. the cough being occasioned by the abrupt emission of steam, up the chimney ; but tweu ! ty coughs jmr second cannot be separated by the ear, their individuality becoiuiug lost.—- Such a locomotive spied is nearly equal to one fourth that of a cauuou bail ; and toe luomen tum of a whole train moving at such a speed, would be nearly equivalent to the ag regate force of a number of caution balls iqual looue fourth the weight of the truiu. Scir.KTinc PARADOXES. —The water which drowns us, a fluent stream, can be walked upon as ice. The bullet, which, when tired from a musket,carries death, will be harmless if ground tu dust before being fired. Tiie crystalixed ! purt of the oil of rosea, so graceful in its fra grance—a solid at ordinary temperatures though readily volatile—is a compound 6ub stunce, containing exactly the same elements, and in exactly the same proportions, aa the gas with which we light our streets. The tea which we daily drii.k, with benefit and )des urc, produces palpitations, nervous tremblings, ' aiu' even paralysis, if taken to excess; yet the peculiarly organic agent cailed theme, to which tea owes its qualities, may be taken by itself I (as that, not as tea) without any appreciable effect. The water which will allay our burn- I iug thirst, augments it wbeu congealed into i snow; aO that Lapt. Buss declares the natives of the Arctic regions " prefer enduring the ut most extremity of thirst rather thnu attempt j to remove it by eating snow ;" yet if snow be ; melted it becomes drinkable water. Xeverthe : less, although, if melted l>efor® entering the : mouth it assuages thirst like other water, when melted iu the mouth it has the op|K>site effect, lo render this paradox more striking, we have only to remember that ice, which melts slowly in the mouth is very efficient iu allaying thirst. —BlacJ.voca. SFEAKI.VO OTT TV P -.EMS — A correspondent jof the Richmond L)ip.itch—a remarkably good ; paper for its size, by the way—tells the follow ; ing iu a letter from one of the Springs : An amusing incident occurred on the cars ! of the Virginia and Tennessee road, which most ! lie preserved in print. It is 100 good to lie ' lost. A< the train entered the Big Tunnel, ' near this place, in accordance with the usual custom a lamp was lit. A servant girl, ac companying her mistress, had sank into a pro fou id slumber, bu? just as the lamp was lit she awoke, and. half asleep, imagined herself in the infernal regions. Frantic with fright, die implored tier Miker to have mercy on her, remarking, at the ome time, " the devil has got me at last." Jler mistress, sitting on the seat in front oi the terrified negro, was deeply mort'fied, and cailed upon her—" Mollie, don't make such a noise, it is I, be not afraid."— Tne poor African imediatelv exclaimed. "Oh, ! missus, dat you : jest what I spec-ted; 1 always thought if elier 1 got to de bad place, I would see you dur.'' These remarks were uttered with neh vehemence, that not a word was lost and the w hole coach Ucime convulsed with laughter. A PRACTICAL JOKE —In Berks county, sars an exchange, one of political parties had for twenty years been in the habit of holding their nominating conventions at the house of Mr. G lie happened on a recent occasion, for the firvt time, to lie in when they had finished the,r business, and heard & little d*-legite move that " this convention adjourn sine die " " Sine die !"* s 1 Mr. (*., to a jtersou stand ing " Why, that's way in the northern part of the county !'' said his neightor. •• H * on, if you please Mr. Cheerm&n, taiJ the landlord, wit'a grc it empasa and earnest ness, " I.old on. Sir. I'd like to be heard oo that thai question. 1 have k°pt a public house for ruor'u tweity years. I'm a paor man. I have always belonged to the party and never split in my life. This is the most central loca tion in the country, and its the place where we've always met. I've nerer had nor asked an office, and have worked night and day fur the party, and now 1 think Sir, it is contempti ble to go. to adjourn this convention tcny up to sine du V Ccr.c TOR Mcsqcno BlTES — Accord iug to an exchange, spirits of hartshorn if applied im mediately, constitutes a thorough antidote for tl e bites of musqniios, or any poisonous insect or ar.'mal. Travelers should goveru themselves accordingly, wbiie every summer resort that is lii.ble to a visitation of gnats, and oiber offensive and anuoyiug insects, khonltl | keep constantly ou band a iiberai supply of the j antidote. Lime water is also believed to pro drice the same salutary eff.-ct, and if neither of tl e articles cameo cau be obtained, any strong lie o ( woc'd ashes and rer, scay bo resjitri ' to w;ti LtO*?