, M PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. rj\)AY r : y 4ay Morning, December 23, 1858. ftlcttcb Poctnj. TRODDEN FLOWERS. r.Y AI.FKKU TKNNVSOX. . sn . some hearts that, like the loving vine, tn unkindly reeks and mined towers, that -after ami do not repine— • M! and sweet as low-trodden flowers 1 - from the passer's heel arise, .0 li.uk odorous breath instead of sighs. .. are other hearts that will not feel ] i .wlv love that haunts their eyes and ears; ■,v .and fond faitli with anger worse than steel. ! ul; t of Pity's spring draw idle tears. Nature ' shall it ever lie thy will n „. „ jth good to mingle, good witli ill ? , -Iwuld the toot of sorrow press willing heart of uneomplainitig love— , u tv that shrinks not from distress, •Vness, both her tyrants to reprove ? \ irtue weep forever and laiueht, hard heart tarn to her and relent? . ~,„M the reed lie broken that will bend ? t;,. v that dry the tears in others eyes . ;r .um anguish welling without end, . ,irnmei darkened with the .-111 ike of sighs? I f ;,i some fair Eden of his own ;,rat L-t, and leave us here alone. , T.|'th always weepeth for the past, . - that are. tor woes tdat may betide ; 1 .1,1.1 r"t hard ambition weep at last, 1 •,1 v and hatred, avarice and pride ? I i-| r-. sorrow is your lot. w.niM Is- rebels love rebelleth not. : ill istf II a lit C US. ! the first state prisoner. BY CHANT TnORRt'RX. 1 iii New York, June 1781, by trade : 1 nnilmnkcr, in the 22nd year of my In October following, (at that time the was at of town, and only JO,OOO iniiab with ten thousand fools, some big ! -ome .-mailer than myself, we stood the vibrations of the rope and iron , ihiring two long hours. Then the sheriff en the scaffold and read a reprieve. I - I was much disappointed, i expected a hanging, Gut no hanging was there. - man was Noah Gardner. He kept a . -hoe store in New York. He committed . v, which at that time, was death by the -e United States. The State prison a Vork was in the course of erection at ne: this was the first prison erected in rid for reform, instead of hanging. The of Friends were the chief promoters of imnne >v-tcin. One room in the prison ■nr ready to receive criminals. The . procured from the Governor a com 'ion from death to the State prison for ig a -lioemakcr bv trade, they gave him . wax, lasts and awls, and here com 1 tlie state prison shoe manufactory.— art, six vagabonds were scut to keep inpany, them lie learned to make shoes. 'I the prison three years after this. In ge room sat three hundred shoemakers, was provost marshal, walking through inks with cane in hand, punishing evil • ami praising them that did well. Seven ■having passed over him, the Friends wait tlie Governor. " Friend," said tliev, vears ago you wouid have lmng this : miw here is a reformed member saved "iciety." •received an unconditional pardon, and "'it. The Friends found him a store 011 1-trcot, found him money, endorsed his ' ami gave liirn their custom. Inimediatc was in a thriving way. He joined the ety of Friends, and said thee and thou ■ ltlie best of them. 11c had a wife, and :ren arrived at maturity, uis journeymen were chiefly men of families, d wrought at their own houses. One day yare a man a pair of boots, " Now friend," he, "thee must Gring home these boots on : day evening. Says he, "you shall have 'I lie boots did not coine home till the day evening. Noah was wroth. He gave man a long lecture on the evils of disap 'nient and want of punctuality. When lie ■ v up to breathe, the man replied: S i\ I am a poor man ; have three ehil dic youngest forty-eight hours old. I 10 '' ud to my wife and cor k for my cliil lt was not in my power to finish the -Miner." Noah still continued to magni iiorrors of disappointment. The'man angry ; the Scotch blood boiled in his "■ m struck the counter with his fist like hammer. " I know," said he, " its a '' thing to be disappointed. I remember - "|> to the I'ark to see you hung, and I as s 0 disappointed in my life as when I l ' c reprieve." w this was a knock down argument, as •hnian would say. It was a case in point, "? Kay in court ; and a fact beyond all ,( | -y, as they say in Congress. Noah ft'ah; lie opened not his mouth. He gave an another pair to make, kept him in his yni'tit, treated him kindly, but as, the bd, he never heard the word disappoint irop from his lips thereafter, h went on prospering and to prosper.— :a . v he borrowed various sums of money, tained a number of endorsements. The changed for gold : the endorsements •'1 in Wall-street. That night he : w parts unknown, taking with him a r, the wife of a young friend to cheer the way. The story is true to the let •"1 being the first subject of state prison ■ ,! 'e day dreamers of the present time ""•e the question, whether hanging or l'"son reform, is the surest way of curing / 11 HI ate villain. His family and friends "card trom hun. THE BRADFORD REPORTER. Wounds on the Brain, The popular notion as to the almost neces sarily fatal character of wounds on the brain is a very exaggergated one. Perhaps, however, there is hardly an instance on record of a family of six people being all so dangerously struck 011 the skull with a hatchet into the very substance of the brain, and all remaining at the end of the week alive, and so many of them in a fair way for recovering, as the Gonldy family were at the end of that period. Probably the very force, suddenness and madness, with which the blows were inflicted, and the sharpness of the instrument, have contributed not a little to this. A round ball, though not making half so ugly a wound, would almost cerfainly have prodne ed a greater amount of displacement and con fusion of the edges of the wound, and hence a subsequent inflammation ; and blows delivered with only half the fierceness and violence might have produced worse fractures of the skuilbone, and a greater jar of the whole brain, than the rapidly dealt and nervous strokes of this young madman. It is thus a pistol ball will pass through a window without cracking the edges around the hole, while a spent ball or a stone coming with half the force will shiver the glass in every direction. There is nothing in which nature seems more capricious as to the effects she causes to ensue j than in wounds on the brain. Sometimes a i slight fab. or a verv trifling blow that does not j break the skin proves fatal in a short time ; and other times not only may the skull be pier- j ced or fractured, but large pieces of the skull- i bone be removed, as by trepanning and a very considerable portion of the cerebrum or upper portion of the brain itself be lost, and yet all the functions of life be carried on for years. If. however, the cerebellum, that is the lower and back part of the brain, be injured, it is a very different matter. A slight wound there pro duces immediate death. But a man may, in certain circumstances, lose a teacup full of brain without death or the loss of reason for even an instant. Perhaps this may go far to show that the brain is the organ through which the mind acts, but nothing more. The mind is a whole and entire thing, independent of its organs of operation. A few years ago a man, in blasting, explod ed his charge too soon by ramming it down with an iron bar or drill. The drill was driven up clear through the roof of his mouth, through t he Grain of course, and through the top of the -kill! high up in the air. The man coolly got, into a wagon standing near and drove some distance home. No one supposed hecould live; but actually he did survive, certainly for some months, with his senses perfect, and we have not heard of his death. We know of a case of a barkeeper in the South being shot through the forehead. He took up pen, ink and paper and wrote to his wife that he was shot, and probably he died in twenty-four hours, the blood dropping on his paper. A more remarkable case was that of a well digger, who, while in a well, had his skull bro ken in by the fall of a heavy timber upon his head. He was taken out insensible, and re mained so for ten days, his death so momenta rily expected that trepanning was not even tri ed until the end of that time. By degrees he recovered his mind perfectly, and even his strength, so far as to be able to walk around : the room, after losing a verv considerable part lof the brain itself. Although, near sixty a new Gone began to grow ; and this, at the end of about eighteen months, piovcd his death, owing to a small spike of the new Gone, not an . inch long, growing down the brain, producing 1 irritation, pressure and death. It is then, not, the loss of blood or the sub stance of the brain that is so much to lie fenr i ed, as the irritation and inflammation which ensue. Congestion of the brain may stupefy, or the liemorhage through the rupture of the blood vessels cause death But, as we have 1 said, quite a considerable quantity of the brain itself may be abstracted without necessarily : occasioning death ; and, in some instances, without sensibly impairing the senses or mental ! powers. There is, however, we suppose, no 1 doubt a loss of nervous forces, especially of the power of endurance, in all such cases. . Still it is worth while to bear in mind the ' distinctions between the effect of the loss of ! the brain and the pressure upon it. That, if not fatal, seems always to produce a disorder ed action. Whether this pressure is produced i by an external wound, or by internal determi nation of blood, whenever it becomes such that a supply of pure and healthy blood does not I flow freely and continually through all the ves , sels, the mental action assumes a disordered character. Remove the pressure, and some times the restoration will be as sudden. The removal of a portion of the skull that had been fractured and indented three years previously, was known, in the case of a sailor, at once to restore him to a state of insanity, although with a perfect oblivion of the whole intermedi ate time. Whether congestion of particular ! portions of the brain is not the true mode of i accounting for the occasional idiosynracics of many men, and beyond what is ordinarily sup jrosed, who shall say ? A QUEER MISTAKE.— An ignorant follow, who was about to get married, resolved to make himself perfect in the responses of the marriage service ; but, by mistake, lie commit ted the office of baptism for those of riper years ; so, when the clergyman asked him, in the church, " Wilt thou have this woman tobe thy wedded wife?" the bridegroom answered, in a very solemn tone, " I renonnce them all." The astonished minister said, " 1 think you are a fool !" to which he replied, " Ail that I steadily believe." THE slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produces amendment; the greatest is insufficient if it do not, THERF. is a man in Vermont so dirty that the assessors have taxed him for real estate. TTr who hates his neighbor is miserable him j &e t, aud makes all e.i ouud him feel miserable PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " R.EOARDt.ESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER.." How Darkey Jake was Cured of Butting Some years since I was employed as ware house-clerk in a large shipping-house in New Orleans, and while in that capacity the follow ing funny scene occurred : One day a vessel came in, consigned to the house, having on board a lot of cheese from New York. During the voyage sonic of them had become damaged by bilge water, t he ship having proved leaky, consequently the owners refused to receive them; they were, therefore, sent to the consignees of the ship to be stored until the case was adjusted. I discovered a few days afterwards, that, as to perfume, they were decidedly too fragrant to remain in the warehouse in the middle of June, and reported the same to my employers, from whom I re ceived orders to have them overhauled, and send all that were passable to Beard Cal-! houn's auction mart, (then in the ohl Camp- i street theatre,) to be disposed of for the bene-1 lit of the underwriters, arid the rest to the ! swamp. I got a gang of black boys to work on tlicm; and when tliey stirred 'era up, "Be 1 the bones of Moll Kelly's quart pot! but the smell was illegant entirely." 1 kept a respect able distance, believe me; for strong niggers i and strong cheese, on a hot June day, just j bangs all common essences—including acer ; J tain '• varmint" -we read about. Presently the boys turned out an immense fellow, about three feet six inches "across the i stump," from which the box had rotted. In ' the centre, a space about ten inches was very j much decayed, and appeared to be about the consistency of mush, of a bluish tinge, which ' was caused Gy the bilge water The I toys had j just set it up on its edge, on a bale of gunny-1 bags, when I noticed over the way a big dark- ■ cy (then on sale) from Charleston, 8. C., who was notorious for his butting propensities ; having given most of the niggers in that vicin ity a taste of his quality in that line. I had seen him and another fellow, the night previous practising, they would stand one 011 each side of a hydrant some ten yards distant, and run at each other with their heads lowered, and clapping their hands on the hydrant, they would butt like veteran rams. A thought struck me that I might cure him of his bragg ing and Gutting, and have some fun also; so I told the boys to keep dark, and 1 called " Old Jake" over. "Tliev tell me you arc a great fellow for butting, Jake ?" "L is some, massa, dat's a fae. I done butt dc wool 'tirelv orf old Pete's head last night and Massa Nichols was gwinc to gib me goss! I kin jiss bang de head orf any nigger in dese parts, myself,—l kin ?" "Well, Jake, I've got a little job in thnt line for you, when you havu't anything else to do." " I'se 011 hau' for all dem kin ' ob jobs, my self,—l is." " Well, —you see that large cheese back there ?" " 1 docs dat. 1 does myself." " Now if you can butt a dent in it, you shall have it." " (Jolly, massa ! you're foolin dis nigger?" "No I'm not, Jake,—just try me." " Wot ! you gib me de hull ob dat cheese if 1 butt, a dent 111 um ?" " Yes." "De Lor ! I'll bust 'em wide open. I will, myself. Jess stun' back dar, you Orleans nig gars, and clear the de track for Ole Souf Car liuu, case I'se a coiuiu' myself,— I see." And old Jake started back some fifty feet, ' and went at it with a good quick run, and the next instant I heard a dull, heavy sound, a kind of si/veish, and old Jake's head disappear ed from sight, with the top just visible on the other side as lie rose with Gis new fashioned necklace, the soft, rotten cheese oozing down all round him as he settled down, so that just his eyes were visible. From the centre of it Jake's voice was scarcely audible and half smothered, as he vainly tried to remove the j immense cheese. " O-o-o-o ! or de T,or ! Mass—'ook um orf. O-00-o! bress de Lor ! Lif um up! Gor-a might ! I ." Meanwhile, I was nearly dead myself,— having laid back on a cotton bale, holding i myself together to keep from bursting, while ! the bovs sto< d round old Jake, paying him off. 1 "De Lor ! how the nigger's bref e coud husband THE INVENTOR OK FRICTION MATCHES DEAD. —Dr. Abial A. Cooley, the inventor of friction matches, died at Hartford, COllll., 011 the 18th ult., aged 7li years. This is the simple announce ment which the papers bring us of the death of an inventor. In these days when friction matches are nearly as cheap as dirt, when eve ry ragged urchin can afford to have a pocket full to light the stumps of cigars which he finds in the streets, it is difficult to imagine how peo ple could ever have lived without matches.— But there is scarcely a man over forty y.ars of ago who cannot well remember the time when matches were not, ; when our ancestors used to cover up the live coals of the wood lire with ashes, and when they uncovered them in the morning and nearly blew their brains out trying to start a flame ; when the old flint and steel and tinder were brought into reqni- ! sition, and how knuckles used to get hard ! cracks iu the ineffectual attempts to "strike a light," the knuckles often getting struck in stead of the flint ; how lights used to be kept j burning all night ; how at length there came a little improvem-nt in the shape of a stick, j with one end smeared with sulphur, dipped iu j the oil of vitro!, which creates a (lame ; and then the mysterious phosphorous bottle, and the pieces of punk and pith that were carefully S preserved, and the burning glasses which the amateur huntcis used to invariably carry with | them in fine weather, thinking themselves won- ; derfuily lucky to lie able to get a light in the course of from three to five minutes. To those who remember these things or at least heard their parents tell of them, the. man who invent ed friction matches appears in tin; light of a benefactor to the human race. How tliey paid cheerfully their three or four shillings for a box of matches, a handful of which could now be bought for a penny. Then to giyp a man a match was something of a favor : they were worth giving and worth keeping, and the man who invented tliem was likely to be appreciat ed. Rut, now the very humanitarian •Imracter of the invention seems to conduce to the obli vion of the inventor, for the match lias become a public iiidespensibility,aiid has grown too com mon for the people to wonder what w'as used 1 before thev were invented, or how long ago i tliey were first known. The invcntois of the spinning jenny, cotton gin, railroad, steam boat and telegraph, are immortalized as the be nefactors of the race. But now we have just ceased one of the grandest ovations onr coun try eve:* witnessed to those who laid the Atlan tic telegraph cable, while its flaming record overshadowed the simple announcement of the death of liirn to whom the masses, at present at least, are quite as much indebted. Who can tell whether, when the men we today hon or have attained the years of three-quarters of ' a century, the prevalence of the fruits of their energy and enterprise shall not have becomes > great as to make them cease to lie a wonder and their names unheralded as that of the in ventor of friction matches. If the grandeur of the fact that by the move ment of a muscle we cnc transmit our thoughts for thousands of miles beyond the seas is ac companied by any feeling of gratitude towards those whose genius has accomplished that wonderful feat, that same feeling of grateful ness should extend to him who has in the nar rowest sphere of domestic life, given 11- an in- I volition comparatively as great. There have been many modern improvements in the maim- j factnring of matches, as there have also been I in the steam engine and the telegraph, but we believe that to Mr. Cooley is due the credit of the original practical invention of friction matches. " PIT HER T. ROUGH."— A gentleman had occasion to send his little daughter up to the garret far some article which he wanted. The 1 child soon returned, crying, and upon being j asked what the trouble was, replied : "that the i snow had sifted in upon the garret stairs, and she had slipped down and hurt herself." "Well, did you get. what I told you?" inquir ed lier father. She replied that she had not. "Well, then," he exclaimed, starting up, " I'll go ; 1 guess I ain't afraid of a little snow." After he had gone, the child observed that she hoped papa would fall just a iittle, to pay liiin for laughing at her. Soon afterwards a distant tumbling ami roil ing was heard, accompanied by the sound of suppressed wrath. The family listened with awakened inteiest, but. the object of tlmir soli tude was heard above whistling quite soberly, as though nothing had happened. He crossed two rooms above, ami as he approached the head of the stairs, thundered out— "Open the chamber door ! The next you j know, you'll have me tumble down here and break my neck. It's so dark now " But the sentence was never finished. Trip went his heels and rolling and thumping he sprawled his six feet of length upon the kitchen (loor, where lie was greeted with bursts of mer riment from the collected family. He lay quite still for a moment. At last he shouted out: "Open the cell or door —l may as well put her through to the bottom A WESTERN paper mentions as among the advantages derived from a residcce in lowa, that " people who have endured a childless union for ' lo those many years' in other states on removing there have been blessed with ' well springs of pleasure' to the full extent of their desire." How folks differ! We chew tobacco, the Hindoo takes the lime. The children of this country delight in candy, those of Africa in rock salt. A Frenchman "goes his length" on fried frogs, while an Esquimaux Indian thinks a stewed candle the climax of dainties. Si.F.r.r— DEATH'S youngest brother, and so like liirn that 1 never dare to trust myself with liirn without sayiug my prayers Sit Thomas Browne. IT was a saying of Sir Robert Reel, that " I never knew a man to escape failures, in either mind or body, w-ho worked seveu days in a week." A CAUTION TO VOL VO MEN. —A young! mnlieal student from Michigan, who Imd been attending lectures in New York for some time, and considered himself exceedingly good look ing and fascinating, made a deadly onset on the heart and fortune of a blooming young lady who was boarding in the same house with him. After a prolonged siege the lady surrendered. They were married on Wednesday morning. The same afternoon the "young wife" sent for " beau:i u! little daughter," three and a half years of age. "Hood Heavens ! then you were a widow," exclaimed the astonished student. " Y'es, iny dear, and this is Amelia, my youngest : tomorrow, Augustus, .lames and, Reuben will arrive from the country, and then | 1 shall have all my children together once j more." The unhappy student replied not a word ; 1 his feeling were too deep for utterance. The ! next day t!)° "other darlings" arrived Reuben ! was six years old, .lames nine, and August us a i saucy boy of twelve. They were delighted to hear they had a " new papa," because they could now live at home and have all the play- ; things they wanted ! The "new papa," as soon ! as he could speak, remarked that Augustus | and .lames did not much resemble Reuben and j Amelia. " Well, no," said the happy mother, " my first husband was quite a different style of man from my second—complexion, temperament, color of hair and eyes—all different." This was too much. lie had not only married a widow, but was her third husband, and the astonished step father of four children. "Hut her fortune," thought lie " that will make amends." He spoke of her fortune. "These are my treasures," said she, in the Roman matron style, pointing to her children. The conceit was now quite taken out of the ' Michitrander, who, finding that he had made a complete goose of himself, at once retired to a ; farm in his native State, where he could have a chance to render his " boy-" useful,and make them sweat for the deceit practiced upon him by their mother. PLKI CriKVCF. TLKTWKKV A WATI'H AVI* \ ('J.OCK —A watch differs from a clock in its having a vibrating wheel instead of a vibrating pen dulum ; and, as in a clock, gravity is always pulling a pendulum down to the bottom of its are, which is its natural place of rest, but does not fix it there, because the momentum ncqnir- I ed during its fall from one side, carries it up 1 to an equal height on the other—so in a watch ! a spring, generally spiral, surrounding the axis of the balance wheel, is always pulling towards the centre, but does not fix it there, because the momentum acquired during its approach to the middle position from either side carries it i just as far past on the other side, and the j -pring has to begin its work again. The bal ance wheel at each vibration, allows one tooth of the adjoining wheel to pass, as the pendu lum does in a clock ; and the record of the beats is preserved by the wheel that follows. A mainspring is used to keep up the motion of \ the watch, instead of the weight used in a J clock ; and as a spring acts rq i illy \v■! 1 wh it - : i rer be its position, a watch keeps time al- j though carried in tiic pocket, of in a moving i ship, in winding up a watch, one turn <>t the axle on which the key is fixed is rendered i equivalent., by the train of whceis, to about four hundred turns or beats of the balance wheel ; and thus the exertion, during a few seconds, of the hand which winds up, gives motion for twenty-four or thirty hours. OI'R RELATIONS TO (Ion.— I)o you suppose a man to know himself ; that he comes into this world on no other errand but to rise out of the vanity of time into the riches of eternity ; do you suppose him to govern his inward thoughts and outward actions by this view of himself, and then to him every day lias lost its evil, prosperity and advers'ty have no difference because lie receives and uses thorn both in the same spirit; life and death are equally welcome because equally parts of his way to eternity. For poor and miserable as this life is, we have al! of us free access to all that is great and happy ; and carry within ourselves a key toall tl e tea i re; tl at heaven has bestowed up nus We starve in the inid-t of plenty, gn a i under infirmities with tlie remedy in our own hand ; live and die without, knowing and feel ing anything of the One. tilth) gy<.7 whiM we have in cur power to know and enjov it in n< great a reality, as we know and feel the power of tiiis world over us; for heaven is as near to our souls as this world is to our bodies ; and we are created, we are redeemed, to have our con versation in it. (3od, the only good of all in telligent natures, is not an absent or distant ! (Jod, but is more present in and to our souls than our own bodies ; Mid we are si rancors to heaven, and without (lod in the world, for this only reason, because we are void of tliit spirit of prayer which alone can, and never fails to unite us with the One, null/ gmi.l, an I to open heaven and the kingdom of (iod within us. A root set in the finest so I, in the best cli mate, and blessed with all that -an, and air. and rain can do for if, is not in so sure away lof its growth to perfection, as every man may be whose spirit a-pires nfierall that which Hod | is ready and infinitely desirous to give him.— j For the sun meets not the springing bud that j stretches toward him with half that certainty i as (iod, the source of all good, communicates j himself to the soul that longs to partake of i him. We arc all of us by birth the offspring !of (iod, more nearly related to liiiu than we j arc to one another ; for in him we live, and i move, and have our being William Law. A CKI.K PRATED actress, whose fresh smile and silvery voice favored the deception, always called herself "sweet sixteen." She stated her age at sixteen in a courtroom as a witness Her son w as directly after placed on the stand 1 and asked how old he was. " Six months older than mother," was the honest reply. "Can von return my love, my dearest Jn- Hit I" "Certainly, sir. I don't want it, I ain ' suit." VOL. XIX. NO. 09. ! MISTAKES OK I'RINTERS. —Some people are j iiiunlly wondering at the " enrelesssness'' ! <>!' editors In allowing so many errors and i b'utidcrs to appear in tlx-ir columns, and mir the print. Such people kmw very littleof the difficulties—we had almost said impossibilities —of keeping them out. The most careful at tention to these matters will not prevent errors from creeping in, even when professional proof I readers are engaged expressly for the purpose, j And when it is borne in mind that in most J papers such an expense i•.necessarilydispensed i with, and the proofs, on that account, arc often 1 hurriedly examined, the fact will no longer ap pear si range. In connect ioi with this subject i the following anecdote is not inappropriate. | A (llasgow publishing house attempted to | publish a work that should be a perfect spo- I cinicn of typographical accuracy. After hav ing been carefully read by six experienced proof i readers, it was posted up in the hull of the I*diversity, and a reward of fifty pounds oflfer i cd to any one who should detect an error - Each page remained two weeks in this place ; and yet, when the work was issued, several cr j rors were discovered, one of which was in the ' first line, of l/ir first jpage. When such was the case in a city long cel ebrated in (1 rent Britain for publishing the I finest and most correct editions of the classics, I what is to lie expected in a newspaper, which must necessarily be hurried through the press ir/ti!r it is lines ; and wher; the eom|>en.satioft will hardly a (lord onc"cxperienced proof reader,'' let alone six. The wonted accuracy of our ' papers is really astonishing. PKF.CARATIOX OF GL TT V PERCH V. —The first process in the treatment of gntta pereha for manufacturing purposes consists in cutting the block into slices. There is a vertical wheel, on the face of which are fixed three knives or | blades ; and while this wheel is rotating with ! an immense speed, a block of gutta pereha is supplied to it, and quickly cut into thin slices. These slices show that the gulta pereha is by no means uniform in different parts, either in i color or texture. To bring about uniformity I is the object of the shredding or tearing pro cess. The slices are thrown into a tank of wa ter, which is heated by steam to such a temper- I ature as to soften the mass ; the dirt end hea vy impurities fall to the bottom, leaving a pas ty mass of gum, and this mass being thrown into another rotating machine, is there is so | rent and torn, and drugged asunder by jagged : teeth, as to lie reduced to fragments. The fragments fall into water upon the surface of which, owing to the small specific gravity of j the materia:, they float, while any remaining dirt or impurity falls to the bottom. These ! fragments are next converted into a dough liko substance by another softening with hot water. 1 and the dough undergoes a thorough Kneading; it is placed in hollow heated iron cylinders, in which revolving drums so completely turn, squeeze and mix the uowpurified mass, that all : parts become alike. C.wsE OK FROG SIIOWKRS. —The actual fact 1 that considerable spaces of ground have been j -nddenly covered with numerous small frogs, where there were no frogs before, lias been | proved beyond a doubt. Some have called in J the aid of waterspouts, whirlwinds, and similar | causes, to account for their elevation into the ! regions of air, and some have even thought that they were formed in the clouds, from w hence they were precipitated. It hasgeneral ly been in August, and of ten after a reason of drouth, that these hordes of frogs have made their appearance ; but with Mrs. Siddons we a I exclaim, " How got they there ?" Simply a follows : The animals have been hatched, and quitted their tadpole state and their pond at the same time, day before they become visible to, or rather observed by, mortal eye. Finding it unpleasant in the hot, parched fields and always running a great chance of being then and there dried up by the heat of tho sun, they wisely retreated to the coolest and dampest places they could find, viz , under clods and stones, where, on account of their dusky color, thev escape notice. Down comes the rain, and out come the frogs, pleased with the chance. Forthwith appears an article in too country paper ; the good folks (lock to see the phenomenon. There are the frogs, hop ping about ; the visitors remember the shower and a " simple countryman" swears the frogs fell in the shower, and lie saw them fall ; frogs vi-itors, countrymen, editors, are all pleased, and nobody undeceives them, nor are they wil ling to be undeceived.— HvcJdunu's Curiosities "J JVuliirtil History. Anvu K (WORTH MU.MOSS,) GRATIS.—Ev ery man should keep the wolf from his door. Evcrv woman has a right to lie nny age she pleases, for if she were to state her real ago no one would believe her. Every one lias a right to wear a moustache who can. Every woman has a perfect right to believe that she makes a better pudding than any other woman in the world. Every man who carves has a decided right to think of himself by putting a few of the be>t bits aside. Every woman Ins a right to think her child is the "prettiest lit j tie baby in the world," and it would be the , greatest folly to deny her this right for she | would be sure to take it. Every young lady h.s a right to faint when she pleases, if her lover is by her side to catch her. Every fool , has a right to be on the best terms with him | self, and that man is a greater fool who differs j with him about those terms. Every child who 1 makes a noise has a right to be turned out of the room : and, supposing you have not tho right, \on are perfectly justified (if its parents : are absent,) in usurping it. 1 A 1.1 MI A MAN in New Bedford has a dog ' some six months old, that was horn with only two leg-—tlm fore us well as the four leg! In ing absent The puppy is healthy and other wise in good co ulition. The canine can projv , himself quite well bv resting on his | which is entirely smooth, and accelerates him self by his hind legs. He is quite a curiosity. i Tm:- nperflu'ties of professed christians WOU [ [ rend the gospel to the whole world.