BY HENRY J. STAILLE.
39" YEAR.
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y opposite Wain pler's Thin inv Establishment,
one awl a half squares from the Court-house,
"Comm LER" on the sign.
eitoiec . i'ocii-,ii.
Wen We Hu ed the Corn.
Oeteber scorching firem the trees.
Awl asked lies the shivering sine;
While dimly u'er the distant mess
The fading lights of *umnier
Along the lane the negro blows
Deep su tumon* on his noonday horn,
And homeward troop the girls and beaus
From husking of the corn.
1 mind me men that autumn day,
When. 6 ve-and -twentryeari.
'We turned our Libor into play,
And huNked the corn for neighbor Lowe
Ah ! wife. w•e were the blithe,t pair
That e'er to wedded love mere boru;
For wais gay and you were fair.
A hu,king of the corn
.4, OIL 1, how we sang', and how we laughed !
' Our heart, pat lightd% on our lips,
As we the gol len cider quaffed.
And passed the boat with rustic quipS.
And wheksly hints of loie went round,
You glanced at ore with pontinv -worn.
Yet smiled, though you would lain have frowned,
A husking of the corn
Then when I found the sem-let ear,
And claimed the old traditioned
Tan bade me net appro.tch TAR) ocrtr,
— A - 11 , 1WILde.1 tha. 4111 pie.Pked
Away you'tied. and I pursued.
Till all too faint you were to warn;
And—know you not how well I wooed
A hu,king of the corn?
beieeT Mi3ecil4o.
Beautiful . Sentiment.
Ite , The Washington- Union, .speaking of
le Constitution of the United States, very
truthfully says that since first that greatest
work of kuman wisdom was offered to the free
and sovereign States of the. Union it was to
form, the Democratic: party has been its crib
staut and unchanging friend. With jealous
eyes it has watched over, aud with a strong*
arm uud fearless heart has repelled every at
temp: at encroachment upon its slightest pro
vision_ From the days of Jefferson until this
gnol h,air, the Dein.icral.3- hay e known but one
laith, have oect,p.ed but one position. With
the, Constitution they arose : with the Union
- which the Constitution maintains, they have
prospered ; with the fitll of the Constitution
they- fall, but not until then for, while the
CiThstitution - is left . , there will be a Democrat
ic party to uphold and defend it.
The Progress of Life.
Men rejoice when the ,sun is risen they
- rejoice also when it goes dhwn, Nvhile Alley
itre unconscious of the decay of their own
lives. Men rejoice on*seeing the face of a new
Felts ,n, ai the arrival of one greatly desir
ed. Nevertheless - the revolution iof one season
is the decay or human life. Fragments of
driftwood meeting in the wide ocean continue
together a. little space; thus parents, wives,
di ddren, friends and riches remain with ns
short -time, then separate—the separation, is
inevitable. No mortal can escape the common
of ; be who mourns terd - ctparted — relatives --
has uo power to cause them to return. Oue
standing on the road would readily say to a
number of persons passing by, "1 will follow
Yon," why. then, should a person grieve,
when journeying the saute road which has
been assuredly traveled by all our fore-fath
ers ? Lite resembles a cateract rushing down
with irresistible ini - Petuosity. Knowing that
the end Jf life is death, e‘ery riglit minded
man ought to pursue that which is connected
with happiness anti ultimate bliss. —.O/Win
luiversil,+/..tragtaine.
Fall Feeding.
Autumn is coming, and with it should come
a watchful care of toe stock. Stock well fed
in the so as to enter upon the cold season
in good plight, is half wintered.
We once kuew a shrewd merchant who
fused to say that goods well-bought, were half
suld. This remark may be applied to stock
well prepared for winter. We have known
farmers who gave their stock no care in the
they were exposed to all weathers, half
starved, left to "pick for themselves" till the
dogs were howling and the crows gathering
al,out in hopes of a speedy opportunity of
picking their bones. Such stock never gets
througa the winter well If is lives, it lives
to no purpose. Its - growth is stunted and its
health impaired.
Give the stock a good chance in the fall.—lt
is like a good-start-in-the-beginning of a race.
Especially should sheep and young stock have
good care and feed during the-autumn months.
A pound lost now, is as much as two lost the
last of winter. Sonic attention should bo
paid to having the fields opened to stock in
turn, and when they need them. And if tie
ce,sury, a little graining or feeding on roots
shJuld nut be neglected.—At all events the
t, k should be made in good trim for winter.
Go id farmers understand this. lint some are
areless, ilia - 1 others thoughtless about what
beiJogi t6--their best interests. All need re
inioding of the importance of preparing for
w ter .
A _lfardcriiiy fttrxwi.---A Republican paper
in Kansas, after giving an exulting aecountot
one. of the late skirmishes, thus triumphs iu
the death of a Barder Ruffian :
"Ile was shot through the heart by a cler
gyman named Martin White. After being
killed, and while lying on the ground with
mouth relaxed and open in death another
shot was fired down his throat."
The American Citizen says "the Martin
White who performed these gallant exploits is
the same .chivalrous divine who frequently
supplied. Beeciier'a pulpit in Brow:4n."
, a k . 'Lli . . -. 1)/itklita . it('.... OTmitpittr.
ffeb)spoei.---bebole Rgibieqiito•e, Y.0e41 eAcqehli jot eiii9eqee, ?Aires, &e.
Taking Toll.!
It is autumn now, but it was winter, clear
and cold, awl the snow was finely packed,
when Dr. Meadows was, one of a sleighing
party, which he describes, so far as he and
the young Widow Lanykin were concerned,
in the words following:
"The lively Widow Lambkin sat it, the same
sleigh, under the suite buflido-rube witli-me-,-
" 'Oh, oh: don't, don't!' she exclaimed, sts
we came to the first bridge, at the same time
catching me by the arm, and turning her veil
ed faCe toward me, while her- little eyes
twinkled through the moonlight.
"'Don't what ?' I asked. 'l'm not doing
any thing.'
".Well; but I tluinght you were going to
take toll,' replied Mrs. Lambkin.
"•7 1 0,' Irejoined ;'what's that?'
"'Well, I declarer cried the Widow, her
clear laugh ringing out above the music of
the bells, 'you pretend you don't know what
toll is !'
"'indeed I don't, then,' I said, laughing;
`pray explain, if you please.'
" "You never heard, then,' said the Widow,
most provokingly—'you never heard that
when we are on a sleigh-ride the gentlemen
always—that is, sometimes—when they cross
a bridge, claim a kiss, and call it toll. But I
never pay it.'
"I said that I had never heard ofit hefore;
but when we came to the next bridge 1 claim
ed the toll, and the Widow's struggles to hold
the veil over her face were not enough to tear
it. At lust the veil was removed, herround,
rosy face was turned directly toward mine,
and in the clear light of a frosty moon the toll
was taken, for the first time in his life, by
Dr. Meadows. Soon we came to a long bridge,
With several arches ; the Widow said it - was
us use to resist a man, who would have his
own way, so she piid the toil withUut a mur
mur.
•• 'But von won't take h;11 • for every arch,
will you, biietor?' the Widow said so archly,
that I could not IA to exact • all my dues, and
that was the heginning---:" - But_ never mind
the rest. The Lamhkiu had the Meadows all
to herself in the spring.,
Leaving Suddenly.
We have heard of tiintin who was supposed
to he dead, and was actually coffineil- for bu
rial, but fortunately coining to life before he
was taken to the grave, he was taken outaud
restored to health. This happened when he
was a youth, and the coffin was kept in the
house as a memorial o f his narrow escape.—
Le_usetLit_allids_life time_for_a_box_to_keip
liis jwircite - papers
.was a better experience than that of
a very respectable citizen of Alexandria, who
disappearedyery suddenly and mysteriously
a few weeks ago. lie was sought for in vain,
till at length the body of a drowned man was
found,' identified by. the family as his, and
followed to the grave with all the sincerity
'and habiliments of woe. Several days after
ward the absent husband and father returned,
safe and sound, from a journey he had been
compelled to make without giving warning to
his friends. The bill for his burial. was pre-
Kented to the man alive; it was a very large
one. for every thing hail been done in the most
approved style of modern mourning, and at
the order, too, of his wife, who had spared no
expense to testify to the sense of her irrepara
ble loss. The city' authorities very properly
refused to pay the funeral expenses which
they had not- inearreil. unit the traveled gen
tleman hail the pleasure ofpaying for his own
burial. To avoid a repetition of the saute do
mestic drama, he haspromised his wife nut
to run away so suddenly hereafter, but when
lie goes off, even a-fishing, to drop a line.
Too Ugly to Live.
Tn the eastern part of Delaware county, in
State,, a short time since, there resided a
man , a ver y sensible man, but by common
-consent- the—itgliekt_laok
whole country—being long. gaunt, sallow, and
angry, with a gait like a kangaroo. One day
he was hunting, and on one - of the mountain
roads he met a matt on foot and alone, who
was longer, gaunter, uglier, by all odds, than
him s elf. He could give the Squire fifty a - nd
beat him. Without saying a word, B—
raised his gun awl levelled it at the stranger.
"For God's sake, don't shoot shouted the
man, in alarm.
"Stranger," replied B—, "I swore ten
years ago, if I ever met a man uglier than
Lwas, l'd shoot_him,_a,usLy_o_u_arii the first o
I have seen."
The stranger after a careful survey of his
rival, replied :
"Well,.if 1 look worse than you do, shoot ;
I don't want to lire any longer."
Music ut Me Hureni.—A letter from Con
stantinople says: ‘•The European taste for
music has of late made immense progress here.
The Sultan has at present, fir his harem, an
excellent orchestra, comprised of women alone.
One, in particular, is remarkable for her per
formance on the violin, her style of execution
resembling that of Theresa filanoso. Very
few harems are now without a piano -forte,
and many of the Turkish ladies are excellent
performers. The Sultan has signified his in
tention of building a theatre."
10,-Hood never made a better pun than
that of Hook, who was walking with a friend,
when they came to a toll-bridge.
"Do you know who built this bridge ?" said
he to Hook.
"No," replied Hook; "but if you fro over
you'll be tolled!"
Itil'That_ was a very natural, hut a very
ludicrous remark of a venerable lady, now in
her one hundredth year, on the death of her
daughter, who had attained the good old age.
of eighty. The m• - .ther'is grief was great ;
and to a,friend who came to condole with her
she'could only say, "Oh, dear oh, dear ! I
knew I never should he able to raise that
child !"
"Shrieking for Freedonz."—llow aptly do
the following lines from Milton apply to the
Black Republicans of the prehent day :
••They bawl for freedom in their senseless mood•
Yet still revMt when truth would ...et them free;
License they mean when they r•ry Liberty.
For who loves that must 6rst6e wise and good.:'
Z4r.The man who can crack a joke in half
a minute after a fift2,--two pound weight has
fallen on his toes, may be cullel excruciating
ly funny.
GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA: MONDAY, NOV. 17, 1856.
One of the members of the Lower House of
the Legislature of the State of New York re
joiced in the name of floss. Ile had the
honor of representing the County of Monroe,
and.if his sagacity as a legislator did not win
for him the respect of his associates, his ec
centricities often ministered to their enter
tainment.- M-aur` rt - good — story is told - of - tlrem
shrewd replies with which Mr. Blass electri
fied the house; but we recall nothing better
than his thrust into the member from one of
our own up-town wards—an inflated fellow,
whose windy speeches at the primary meet
ings and the oyster ( - tellers had wonfor him a
reputation as an orator, and procured his
election to the Assembly, where he was
bound to be distinguished as the most elo
quent man in Albany. So he was in his own
opinion, and he lost no opportunity to sub
mit his oratorical powers to public observa
tion. Literally he sought to ventilate every
subject that came before the house. One day
in the midst of a windy harangue that had
come intolerable for its length and empti
ness, he stopped to take a drink of water.—
Blo.s sprang to his feet and cried,
-Mr. Speaker, 1 call the gentleman from
New York to order !"
• The whole Assembly were startled and
stilled the "member from New York" stood
aghast, ivith the glass in his hand, while the
speaker said,
"The gentleman from Monroe will please to
state his point of order."
To which Mr. floss with great gravity re
plied,
"I submit, Sir, that' it is not in order for a
to. go by freer!"
It was a shot between wind and, water ? . the
ventose orator was confounded, and put him
self and his glass down together.
A few weeks ago a Black Republican meet
ing Nuns held in Clermont county, which was
attended by a stnall boy who had four young
puppy dogs, which he offered for sale. 'Final=
iy one of the crowd, approaching the
.boy,
asked:
"Are these Fremont . pups, my son ?"
"Yes, sir."
"Well, then," said the nigger shrieker,
"I'll take these . two."
About a week afterwards the Democrats
held a meeting at the same place, and among
the crowd was to be seen the same - chap and
his two remaining pup;, lie tribd for hours
to obtain a purchaser, and finally was ap
proached-by a DeMocrat, and asked :
"My little lad, what kind of pups are these
you have?"
"They're Buchanan pups, sir !"
The .black Republican, - who had purchased
the first two, happened to be in hearing, and
broke out at the boy:
"See here, you young rascal, didn't you
tell me that those pups that I bought of you
last week were Fremont pups ?"
"Y
-e-s, sir," said the , young dog - merchant :
"but these toot—they've got their eyes open!"
—Cincinnati _Enquirer.
Bees and Quails.—The Itev. A. A. Milburn,
in a lecture on the West, says :,—.6Two remark
able facts are to be noted in 'respect to. the ad
vancement of the Whites. : The first is : the
quail. which is unknown to the Indians, makes
its appearance—whence, nu man knows—
when the white man plows and plants his
fields, affording an abundance of delicious
food to the pioneers. The see, aid fact is : the
honey bee is not to be found in the country
w hil e in possession of the Indians. It keep.;
just in advance of the advancing wave of civi
lization.—Wfuen the Indians see swarms: of
these new visitors, their wise men sadly ac
knowledge that it is time for them to abandon
their hunting grounds and the graves : of - their
lathers, and seek new homes. -
z f r'A. gentleman who resides in North
Pearl street went a fishing the other day, and
among other things that he hauled in was a
large sized turtle. To enjoy the ,surprise of
his servant girl, he•placed it in her bedroom.
The next morning the first thing that bounded
into the breadlast-roam was Biddy, with the
exclamation :
"Lte.jabers, I've got the devil."
':What devil'!" eselahned he, feigning sur-
gii2l
"rhe hull bedbug that has been ateing
the children fur the last month."
As this is agood name fur the domestic assas
sin. we thought w•e wuuld let it out. Bull bed
bug is good.
V i rThe Irish Census Talley, just publish
ed; report that in one year there were 21,770
deaths from starvation 1, The editor of the
Medical Times, commenting upon. this apall
ing statement, says : "The figure must be far
short of the truth. The harrowing details
, iv 6 in the body of the report leave no
' floubt that multitudes perished by the way
side, and in the cheerlesq Irish hovel, whom
neither policemen nor coroner's hique4 ever
took note of."
•Well eotAnporary says: "In our
opinion, the result oflong experience and oh
sersation, an editor of a newspaper deserves
far more credit for what he keeps out of his
paper than for what lie puts in it."
cThe Cincinnati Gazette having asked,
"What is the difference between a Buck Demme
ocrat and a buck nigger," the Enquirer
replies, "Just the difference !here is be
tweA JAMES BUCHANAN and Jous C. FRE
MONT."
Big Prwlier.-1 hog exhibited at the Chili
cothe
. (0111 , J) Fair, last week. weighed - 1,135
pounds, and measured 9 feet in length and
about the same in girth. lie I%us twu years
and three mouths
Wind and Water.
A Sharp Boy.
old-Saw.
An upper mill'and lower mill
Fell out about their water,
To war they went, that is to law,
ite6olved to give no quarter.
A lawyer was 1,3; each engaged,
And hotly they contended;
'When tees grew scant, the war they waged
They judged were better ended.
The heavy costs remaining still;
Were settled without pother ;
One, lawyer took•the upper mill,
"TRETIL IS MIGHTY, A:4ZI) WILL PREVAIL."
LIM
The Father of Six Children Who Nev
er Saw One of Them.
During the month of January, 1850, while
stopping at the Sutter House, in Sacramento
City, I accidentally overheard a conrersation
between two gentlemen, one of whom was
from New York city., and had been in the
country nearly a year. and the other had just
arrivea. The new comer was lamenting his
condition, and his fully in leaving an abun
dance at home, and especially two beautiful
daughters who were Just budding into wo
manhood—when he.asked the New Yorker if
he had tt.
"Yes, sir, 1, have a wife and six chil
dren in New York, and 1 never e jaw one
of them."
After this reply, the couple sat a few mo
ments in silence, when the Interrogator again
commenced.
"Was you ever blind, sir?" .
"No, sir."
"Did you marry a widow, sir?"
"No, sir.'.
Another lapse of silence.
"Did I understand you w say the you had
a wife and six children in New York, and
never saw one of them ?"
"Yes, sir.—l so stated it."
Another and longer pause : of silence. Then
the interrogator - again inquired:,
"How can it be, sir, that you never saw one
of them ?"
"Why," was the response, "one of them
was horn after,l left."
"01 , I alt !" and a general laugh followed ;
and after that the New Yorker was especially
distinguished a.s the man who had °six chil
dren and never saw one of them."
A Mercantile Anecdote.
All are familiar with the story of the man
who made a thousand dollars before breakfast
One morning by marking up his goods. We
heard a good story somewhat similar, that may
never have seen print. A store woe broken
oi.eu one night, but. strange to say, nothing
Ira S carried off. The proprietor the nest
morning was making his brag of it, at the
same time expressing his surprise at losing
not.hing.
"Not at all surprising ," said his neighbor ;
"the robbers lighted a ramp, didn't they ?"
."Yes," was the reply.
"Well,']--ekntinued the neighbor, "they
found fOar Owls marked up so high that
they couldn't afford to take them."
sarTwo,gentlemen wore lately ("comining
the breast of - tr: plow on - a - stall in the market
place.
"I'll bet you a dollar," said one, "you do
not know what it's for."
"D'one,":_said the other—'
The let was paid.
,te"'ln n recent sketch of an old pensioner's
death and career it is said that he was the
man (a . Highlander Picton's brigade) who.
when a little Frenchman at NVitterho cried
L"Quartre, ctartre," answered ''Quartreye?
She has no time to - do that, sae ye matines_jten
he contented to be tutted in tWa."
Chu'lty to Children.—" Jim, does your moth
er ei - er whip you ?."
'No • 1 but she does a precious sight worse,
thou !"
-
"What's that ?"
"Why she washes my fare every morning."
Ite - Temale wages are still very high in
CalifOrn in. A dvertisements. in San Francisco
papers offer $6O a month, and c;-1O fur a girl.
A letter says—A•lt would astonish you to see
some of our servant girls in full rig in Mont
gomery street. A $75 blue velvet dress ) a
3O bonnet, gold chains and big cameos to
match; arti - not at all unfrequene r •
Fish Epidentir.—The State Journal says
--that-tislrare-again - dying - in Grand river. Du
ring the past week the shares have been liter
ally strewed with dead and dying fish—some
Of them of almost fabulous size. We learn
that they are also dying in the Shinaase.
This is the second fish epidemic that has pre,
wailed this season. A few months sinee:every
living creeping thing that moves upon the
waters, by myraids, was cast dead upon the
banks .of the Grand river. Lizards of enor
mous size and disgusting' appearance were
piled in heaps, where they were thrown by
the eddying current. Rats, snakes, and eve
ry-specie:, of slitny T -sea-mtutstersh. , .
common fate. They must have been pretty
' well cleared off, as we observe nothing but
fishNdying at this time.—Delrat Adrerli.vr.
Doctorate Declined.—The Rev. S. Thurston,
of Searsport, has declined the honorary de
gree of Doctor of Divinity recently concurred
upon him by Waterville College, Maine. He
wholly disapproves of the practice, regarding
it as in ‘•sharp conflict with the spirit of the
Gospel," and as fostering -the spirit of wain
ambition."
The X'xt Crop of li r b.eal.—The Lexington
(Mu.) Express of the 25th ult. says: '•We
have never seen the wheat look so tine at this
season of the year as now. The late rains
have brought it up most beautifully, so that
it now thoroughly mats the ground. In some
localities South, however, it has been greatly
injured by grasshoppers. A . ..gentleman from
Southwestern Missouri says that they have
been destructive in that region. We do not
hear of them in Lafayette, but in Johnson
county we understand they have made their
appeafance, and we have ourselves seen some
fields in the last named county completely de
stroyed by them."
A True Reply.—A damsel was once asked,
"When a gentleman and lady quarrel, and
each considers the other at fault, which of
the two ought lo be the first to advance to
w•ards 'a reconciliation ?" Her answer 'cm,
'•The best hearted and wisest of the two."
Wf-Many a true heart that would have
come back like a dove to the ark, after its first
transgression. has been frightened beyond
recall by the angry look and menace, the
taunt, the havage charity of an unforgiving
spirit.
tr&"Scolding is the pepper of matrimony,
and the ladies are the pepner-boxe4 So-nays
an old fogy ba....helor. We would give his
name, but are - aTraid that the peace of the
neighborhood might be disturbed. by the nuts°
of a broom baudle.
The Way the Fromonters 'Canvassed.'
Enter Deacon holy-dom; speaking as he en
ters—" Excuse me, Ma'am, for entering. hat I
have, 118 you way bey e, a great interest
in the cause of religion cylid morality, and I
...
have called to ask you (suppose your hus
band is not at home ?")
"No Sir."
"Well, nuetun, I called to ask you how your
hushand is going to vote in the next election
Deacon holy-dom, my husband has
always been a Democrat, and I presume he
will vote for Mr. Buchanan."
"Yes, Ma'am ; but your husband, is I be
lieve, a moral and religious man, and we sup
posed all the pious
_people would of course
rote of Fremont and'Frecdom."
cull-on her then ; but before I
go allow inc to leave you a "document" which
contains an account of the manner in which a
poor woman in Kansas had her tongue pulled
out of her mouth awl tied around her neck!" -
"Why, Deacon Lloly-dom, that would be
horrible ! but-how isit-possible-r -
t true, Ma!am ;it is published in all
the moral and religious papers in the country,
and I can--vouch for every word they utter.—
Good morning, Madanr:
Ana Deacon IloliAom reports at the next
" , tntine:44 - meeting" at the "hnt,"-- Old one
lady had listened to him, and her busbund
would go in . Ntrong for " rretnont and Jessie,"
and the cause of morality generally,--Boston
/'wrt.
Aiw np Righf.—At the Democratic prinia
iT election m. San Frateiseo, all tWtlllebetig
fill candidates were known opponents to. the
'Vigilance Committee.
Right, sink or swim, popular orlimpopular`.
If our liberties shall ever wither away, the
last green sp it will be under the WA Demo-
"it's for sale."
exatic flag
' "Peaceable Entigruals."—Some of the Kan
sas correspondents for the newspapers were
-terribly—i-i i gltitt '
"peaceable
,einigrants" in that 'territory by
Gov. Geary, but who subsequently-were ye
leaB'ed On promises of behaving themselves
peaceably. The, baggage wagon cif these
peaceable -emigrants, when overhauled, show
ed the following implements of industry:
- "Three boxes of navy pistols, all new, viz:
, 6 six and 5 live-shooters, 12 Colt's navy size;
4 boxes of ball cartridges ; 1 bag of caps; 6
small lots of- rifle cartridges; 1 box-10
.Sharpo's rifles;. 145 breech-loading musktets ;
85 percussion muskets ; 115 bayonets ; 61
common - sabres ; 2 officers' sabres ;. l d kegs Of
gunpowder; dragotm saddles; 1 drum."
The drum as an implement of husbandry is
a striking improvement upon the old-fashani
ed molcof subduing a wilderness and the
large quantity 'of gunpowder proves that the
party expected plenty of game. -
One of .the 7').inkB of Burglars.—From n
confession made by a rogue now in jail at
Hartford, Ct., for various burglaries committed
in Farmington, it appears that one of the gang
with whom he eras connected tra.veled through
the various towns polishing powders,
with a view of ascertaining where silver plate
was to be found. In visiting the dwellings
he was always quite bold in following the in
mates to adjacent rooms to test his powder
upon silver spoons or plate. Ile made a mem
()minium in a book of what he saw, noticing
artiularly those lion ses_where_a_Akig—w
kept,
Di. orginy a Lizard.—Last week John
Mitchell, of the town of Chemung, was taken
with- a -fit-Of -vomiting,-and--finally'disgorged
from his.stomach a lizard near nine inches
long! lie had drunk several potations of
whiskey, together with three quarts of milk
- that day, and it is supposed" that the lizard
got drunk on milk-pu,nch—hence his gettinc ,
so high as to Come out of his lodgment. The
lizard is supposed to have been swallowed
some four years since, as about that time Mr.
Mitchell inhaled something whilg watching
at a "deer lick," which had_ caused a slight
debility in the stomach ever since.—Elmira
Gazelle.
A Model Mayon—Mr. Clow,
.the mayor o
Port Lavaca, Texas, so soon as he was elect
ed, pulled Willis coat and rolled up his sleeves,
and went to work at the repairing of one of
the bridges, which was - in so dilapidated a
condition as to injure transportation. The
Lavaca Herald thinks that 3,tr. Clow will make
an efficient mayor.
Wheat at Milwaukie.—There are said to be
now in Milwaukie warehouseg and railroad
platforms about 500,000 bushels of wheat,
which have accumulated within the last 60
days, above the current shipments in that pc
riod.
father holding his little son across
his knees and spanking him, the little urchin
bit him severely on the leg; on which his
parent said :—"you young dog, huw dare you
bite me?" The boy : turned his bead, and
looking him in the face, sr.id, "Father, who
began - first ?"
dip-What's the difference between a candle
in the Mammoth Cave and a dance in a public
house? The One is a taper in a cavern, and
the other a caper in a tavern. . _
Ancestry.—The boast of them who have
nothing else to boast of.
"Is Mr. Fretnont a- pious nian, Deaeon
Ilolv-dom?"
"bh yes, 'Ma'am :• Mr. Fremont is a very
pious man his whole life has been devoted
to the cause of freedom and piety, and there is
great danger that if Mr. Buchanan is elecifd
that slavery will be introduced into Rhode
anil These dear little ones - of yours
will be placed in a state of bondage." (Here
Deacon Holy-dont puts his handkerchief to his
right eye, while he looks at the lady with his
"Do von really think so, Deacon ?"
-"My'deur Madam, there is not a doubt of
it, and 1 sincerely hope you will do all in your
power to induce your husband - to leave the
wicked parry with which he has hitherto
keen associated, and veto with us. Hoy dorm
the woman's husband voto who lives in the
next house?"
"Oh. he's a Democrat too." •
"Indeed, how shocking? Is her husband at
home ?"
i , No, he's at work."
TWO DOLLARS A-YEAII,
Curios Calculation.
What a noisy eature man would be, were
his yoke in prop Lion to his weight, as that
of the locust. A ( ust can be heard at the
distance of one-sixteenth of a mile. The
golden wren is said to weigh but half an
ounce, so that a middling sized man would
weigh down not short of four thousand of
them ; and it must be strange if a golden wren
would not outweigh four of our locusts. Sup
posing, therefore, that a common man .weigh
ed as much as gixteeu thousand of our locusts,
and that the note of a locust eau he heard the
sixteenth of a mile, a man of common dinien
sions, pretty sound' in the wind and limbs,
ought to be able to make himself heard at a
distance, of one thousand miles.
London and Old Rome.—Rome in , thedays
of its glory Was a magnificent and reut city ,
but historical students assert that London i'd
ri-ady surpasses what that city was in her
ptilmiest days. London has a population of
,500,000, and what is very remarkable, it in
creases proporthinably faster than any. city
in England.-11 itgoes on increasing for huff
century as it has during the last fifty years,
it will then have,a population of six
The Commissioners of Sewers in that city are
now providing drainage for such a population.
What a human hive !
To Color thellair Black.—Alex. Reed, of
Pittsburg, Pa., writes to the 41cienlifie Ameri
can, that the following receipt will do it :
"Take one part of bay rum, three parts of
olive oil; and one - part of good brandy, by
measure, and - wash the hair with this-mixture
every morning. la a short time the, use of h
will make the hair a beautiful black, without
injuring it in the least." •
The Power of Widow.r.---4•Witlows are the
very misOiief. There's nothing like 'em. It'
they make up their minds - to' marry, it's dour.
I know one that, was terribly afraid of thunder
and lightning, and every time a storm came
on she would run into - Mr.-Smith's house
(Smith was a Widower) and clasp her little
hands, and fly around like a hen with her head
cut elf, till the man was half distracted for fear
shawould he killed ;and the consequence was,
she was Mrs. John Smith before three than;
dcr storms . rattled over her head. How many
they htul -a'tcr that, I
_don't edzacilly know
myself."
ger-A Yankee down • east hai invented
machine for corking up daylight,—which will
oventually_supercede gas. Be covers the in t
torior of a flour barrel with shoemaker's wax
--holds it open to the sun, then suddenly
heads up the barrel. The light sticks to the
wax, and at night can be cut and sold to suit
purchasers.
Sta."l know antan in this . place," writes a
correspondent, "engag;ed in the mercantile
business, who is much - troubled to recollect
names, and who, one reining, with pencil in
hand and quill behind his, ear,‘calleti out to
b in—partner,--e-13illy- r :whatls--John—Supplo.
beam's first name ?" And he never discover
ed his mistake till he.began to write it, when
he forgot the laid name: and with the 'same
unconsciousness, sang-out, '!Fizense
bat 1 have forgot Johri Supplebiam's tad
name now I" The roar of laughter which en
sued, restored his memory.
,An English Arisen—Daniel- Dancer, when
he had 43,000 a year, used, to beg a pinch of
snuff from all his friends, and when his box
was full, barteied its contents for a tallow
candle. -But his parsimonious ingenuity
-j►ears contemptible in comparison with that
of the Russian - miser, Who learned' to bark,'
that he might avoid the expense of keeping a
IMI
Heavy Preinitns.—ThePetersburg . Express
says that at the late Virginia Agrteultural
Fair there, Mr. John G. Turpin, of Chester-
field, who exhibited cows, swine and poultry,
ti!ok preptituns to the amount of .$4OO.
r 'pick told his wife when he saw her out
walking in her new silk dress, that he never
before realised the force of the novelist's re
mark of his horolue—"she swept gracefully
along."
arliow can a man, who has no wings, be
said to be ".winged" ni an affair of honer
Because, iu fighting a duel, he makes a goose
_of 1 i uself.
Potutom—dt, is stated that-25,000 bushels
of potatoes have been shipped from Ports
mouth, R. 1., the present season. They com
mantleti_fram $1 50 to $l. 87i,per __bushel._,_
Lockjaw in Horses. 7 -Bleed the horse in the
third bar- of the mouth, and drench it with
strong gait water. This method has been
known to he successful when nil others have
gar Never, perhaps, are children dearer to
their parents than when, as at
. present, the
price of bread and meat is excessive,—Punch.
ZWhat animal has the greatest quantity
of brains ? The hog, of 43ourse, for. he has a
hogshead full.
SErSir William Temple said, and it was
very well said, that the first ingredient in
conversation is truth ; the next, good sense ;
the-third, humor, and the fourth, wit.
1023f""Tis strange," Muttered a young man,
as he staggered home from a supper party,
"how evil communication corrupts good =to
ners. I've been surrounded by tumblers all
the evening, and now I'm a tumbler !"
,'Girls should never object to being kiss
ed by printers. They should make every al
lowance for the freedom of the press,
commit this to memory.
xparMinds capable of the greatest things
can enjoy the most- trival, as theelephant's
trunk can knock down a man or pick up a
pin.
26'He was a sensible man who maid the
newspaper is the best breakfast cvmpany in
the world.
Two hogsheads of new sugar—the first
of the crop—were received at New Orleans un
the 21st ult.
Sar"Guilty or not guilty," asked a Dutch
Justice.
"Nat guilty."
"Den, Tat_ tc tyful (1.1 you Here? Go about
fit your pizusts:"
NO. 8.
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