((Apse k. Da a, Pl:oprittors. .11to•ppy . - BY 'S. U. ANDYIIBO3. ... i '• ;, ' '' • ' ----•' • ' ' ii. Earth has a t ousand happy hours, . . 'To cheer t *darkest lot,. A . thonsar) hlissful. memories That Will not he forgot; - - They bloomaround the wanderer's pathh Where storms and tempests Cornet 'Like those sweet dowers that cluster round His childhood's happy home. • • , . . Our . . u early home-with all its joys,.' -.• The streamlet and the :nil!, .; . The 'old oak tree 'neath which ye ihay'd, The singing of the rill ; ' , • The glad tones of our sister's f . cice, Pure as the Surnther flowers, Are with us - etill to make the earth Full of those happy hears. , - Earth's later.seenes when time .has sped, And brought some loved ode near, - • The whispering of whose brightest word • Was happiness to hear; • The echo of whore footsteps. nigh Like Spring-lime to the bowers ; Or bird and blossom to the tree - 'Fill'd earth with happy hours. And then the mother's gladsome The heaven irithiu her eyes, A...seated in her vine-clad cot, The loveliest 'neath the skies— he presses \ to hos beating heart The , #nage of that one, Tier heeit,hds chesPat for its home; From al/ beneath _the rint- Eve linings fi cheert al circle round— s old familiar hearth,, AnOiatiy a happy voice is heard % 4 In melody and _ No . discord in that evening song, . No jarring in that - strain, For heaves is bending down to bring Earth's happy boars aguin. Nighiii . not dark, for cove illumes The cottage with its ray ; Watches beside the sleeper's couch, Lists while the mother prays; Constant us Rope it mingles in' The image of each &cam, And lights theslevper's fancy with Its richest,krosiest gleam: Eartliabappy hours upon life's tide Fall with a kindling. glow, . . As those bright Mrs that frOirt. aborC Fall on. our path below ; A beacon fire amid the - storms To steer our barque aright,: And shed around the siultity , heart s 1 Their glory and their light. , , The past has many a happy.hour On Which the pure heart dwells, Aad draws its - stree:ness drop by drop From memory's honied cel:s. Tbortritts of the toyed. each took and word, The cadence of each tone Come back 'with happy, happy hours," , We never are alone ! Good deeds, bright thoughts on augers wings To make our Spirits soar - Above the rust and dross; of eSit . h, • ; Above the tempest's roar; Into a milder' purer F. ky, Beneath a brighter sun, . And stars that shine in gladness down- • On happy honrs•Legun. Oi w ommunicatioits. lintna 111 s—W BY E. A. WESTO.N For everything their is a - cause. :What 'marvel that so many ills embitter life - . Sub ject.a" child to the agglomeraion-ofhe reditary taints desemling from cane generation to.another for ag.ts,visiting the inipiiiies of the fathers'l upon him; subject him ( I use ;.. , . the term in' the generic sense) to innumerable periertions before birth; and after . . birth, keep him for two mouths iu close 'Confine ment, • in a close room darkened, with a close :stove, 'closely coverrd . under 'coverlids and counterpanes; swath him tightly Meantime; so that he could not, breathe if he had air ; contrive every way ; to impede free .action ; continue tins process, in effect, for 'rears or ibrough life, and add to it„. a cfu'shing sing load .of clothing faticilu , l'or needful, pen dent over vital organs; icssatue he needs ap erients and convert his stomach into. a minia ture urinariuw I !give paregoric beeause - he;cries,.(who world not -weep.smarting un der injuries so vile?) lodge him oz a rotting feather bed ; soon a: his curiosity, his imita tion, and executiveness which are to lead him to much knowledge and achievement,. lead; him to much mischief, instead of encourage ' int and directing them, seek to repress them; send him to school, to !get him out of the way, taking care to impress hint with the idea. that ; the school-house is .a.; kind of , torture where be is to be deprived of all his libetthai And everything he deems aeli.ghtfill (he may ed it so„*.if you don't) and' that he is sent 4ere . because la:" wont mind"' at home; ,ompel him to sit there and "sit'still - on an' -uncomfortable seat where hislittle-feet can :not touch the floor, and where lie must doub ie himsellover his chest in orde, AtO slipport , timself in his position ; having ,klarpeued ibis ideas by keeping his stomach lull of : , ccxfifee,. ,pietitoric pork or othedecouiposing .Nnimal I matter, and like things, require hint. to study something Nvhichhe_does not anderstand . ,and; srhicit• nobody tries . to explain, - .While. he should. be sporting briskly. among the flowers in the free, fresh, balmy air • let him under-: stand thaOt.lpsa. wit hout comment, is Authority in all timings, so that be May never i ! think.; inslead of : the influence of mind on mind, the Attractiveness ..of trpth and right when. brought to view,_ the . winning power of 'true regard--in stead of these let,- the rod" be . thacomminvenforeer.; Or. adopt a . itiystem. of threats extravagant • and nugatory ; to his . thousand- :childish- qtaeriemt , =give -rebuff and'l .evasion, rathei.. than explanation ; make his .drink - Aiti&ilit :and :bpiiina or ifilunable ;. make his food all cotthAntrated- and refined I 'sake it stimulant add *suiting with . fusedtat': AndAacchat'ine Avne r tker, with Dun-.! gent and aci tie itiliitandO f ed'!hint kiiiindiAnd. car en dish ankt, from . c2,e- ' loppti Cloves and yap i 1 la and '2lo:jz,spissatt.4 'oozings.4if popy-beamist let. 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Whoever I . will not learn and obey these laws, her light- . nin e blast, her waters drdWn, her . fires con surne; her pestilence 'eXthigOisli„ ' All Ethical and relioiebs•hiseoties 'till . e, p . it in tellectual philosophers, mtutr over the de , 7,erieracy of the !Inman light and the errors of the human mind. I.3tit l'il;ere.. all the wrongs and calamities which peritin to the human race, to be classified 'acc4ding to - their more immediate relation to tiaLbody . `the intellect or the soul, I - belieye by 5r the greater por tion of them would be rot: d to 'proceed im inQiately 'from the bodily. appetites-and-pro pensities.- This body of ' rs in which the soul dwells—without •'vhiiii, as human be ings, we can do nothing, and are nothing— by. so Many ? 1/ , seems not less lost to its fiibt estate Of bless edness than either the midd or the heart.— I Of the three great channe4 through which • . dettrayity.sends out, its -4ious streams to corrupt the character of. individuals, and to blast the happines,sOf ihq race,. the' largest Current has its helidspringdn. the bodily ap petites and passi , ins.. We*eep and bleed at the terrible idea of " Adaiit's Fail." A to the body, • would to t;oci.ttiere had been but ~ one l' .fial. " . ..B . il t from -Islam thron , h all . the. ~ ovnerations to OurselV4, varat his it Leen ! ~ but a series of cascades, pkoi Ugt3 after„plunge, !`deep ix.:lxy debtlt! Wotild it • not be the direst of indignities and blhsphemies to - sug.; - ' gest that Pod could ever I.4N'e created a race so physichlly en eri , atc , ..l, , I:.arft.td and .-rangre ,_ .., e, , . , nous as , ours . aoiv- isl,- , not develciped .bnt ~ . stunted, nut, beautiful but dcornied, not .heal thy, but instead of health :bat appallirg, eat-, ah,gue Oeidisea- , ,,e5, :whore ' l definitions "crowd the Sistdv6 of the physician's libra - rY and ex - r , linost thelcopionsness of three languages fur I, their notp.en-clature. The:Se' eholerss, these. plagues, 'these pale consnmptiotA „and- bnrn ingfevers!rithis taint and corruption. of blood V - Yhich, afl i. flowing tintr , it ground for two or three, gen rations, burst, ups,from theirFlll;- t- '. ~- tartinan )ass.atres to,tormeat the, lineage. of ottilty pritenitors-,--' r were all these, do you •Sity,.irttpUillted and indigeniouS in the first generatioiis of „ Ten, 1 V . . ..G'od's providence; or Lave ‘ll . l not all sm,,e.b t .Rat g_ncrated by maws abue ? Congenital bliriduessidea - f-inti- tism•, by 4 :cephalus; insanity, idiocy, did (,e these come' ormally - through 17, , 10r lily. re:-' ,, son of the','•u ost, fiagiant violationslof law ?--L - , . - .... : ,.. • I 't ' ' 1 With one(,' milt part.of the,,lmman race ay.- ;•ing, befor,c.t y attain the age of lone. year, what sacr4t . ..ge to suppose that. qia, .saidi of 1 such kract;"Let . ttitnitke: man. in Our m- 1 i - • i age." fed• pien added,' i , 6 ,God ,created. t an i i in his ouititnacTe rtna - te. and female,. eiea l ted ' lie thin: t , intemperance,gout,.scroftiht and ' the throe] It and lbrotiall rotteuuess of. the li-' cent:oils 1 `in—tlid "God enact laws which by, i their fait ?al : c obseri• - ance, would. - bear', such fruits in -I.h k sters-a -s the vine ' - . ... - • . - .bears grap . ' _ i t. T Trace b,ick the pad:figre o ,4 any bodily pain, dispaSei or ilrik.sitioi l:tienaeiliiltd , iii anoweiii in the';s-coi. i lloWerer reMot4i, will; he -foun d. , a- 1 -i- • - ;, Lion of Gcl's pitysictill taws,' or in a "cutmina iiii.- serieslof Violatia too 'wick l edly ;,great j for individual .itt.e,rp:itse. Through the te rup 7 tation of.2'. hodlly aPPtite r m uPit MI all tiaAcvleal iChool and:. Wile , incleties, tintniFtine* - in ia tratt ons and ortlitiKneei ,,. t will never - rei'nstate Itim jit his fi'ritstitteiraritt!,' tin; 4 ' it ''.', h lfttli'll' '‘ L 'lt'' '. til thelaws. of it jell; ca t 1 a ..trt utup , • hy. britinitig t he ittadi,l y. appetites.and .mift,,ionit . , • within . thtdottittixt4,:mtwienneimrt retigitimi - -444••xmiTeraat . titid: long-oonunned have -been tlfe%'iolatiopkofiil4.6,allitiys`,.iiid ', str;rttnni , ... • ~,...; . - 4.. -..,4J - - , t . ~..r:-.. presentis ,httn*it,',n„,.34ring•as_ the'. - 94(2ce• 'etc that the. rely trariition of perfect state of hi:alth has tied 4igl t from among Meu. ' W 4 A 71,1 Y 30 - PRITAL--DEVQTED TO, POLITICS, NEWS, - LItERATURE, '4C,7II.I2OLTU:BE,'S.CILM.: AND: BiIiALFET. ' _ Perfumery;l I : would produce "..,golds;"let „him eat iviii:n he , i ciare.if %is every hour.of the day ; ;i . 1 n a few , i• ; • ; years, make him. toill i'M remitti ogly,elso house him altOgthei'tis . th4eitiltioibiKg else to - do, ... ,• . let him dance till daylight, with a ''Stipper at i Midnight; if 4 . inheritance he's brainless and rieli; let him lounge. voluptuoudy and coin ! Plain of "eunui,":.let him • put On gloves, to . . [protect - lion-1 the.rnOrning, and: rail iiitinielf i from ;the shadow's' of _erening; - and, let him I hire a lack fr to clier for him and . give him Ihis breath . 1 if- he's . of, the, fast 'and -: bust ling . i kind, let hiin hairy,: hurry! eat in a' hurry, sleep in a luir y,:liVe in a - hurry ; and when ali these tl i 3 ngii tiiiike hint ,sie.k,:i . s . tiley should do and. wilt, -then Insteaci: of;i-eutoying . : the cause . and fesorting to hyg,ienie, . tigeticies or rthe conditions of health; let him - depend on 1 adding to and intensifing - unnatural 'condi ; ti k .ms be plying all sorts of ".1-;eineilie.i,; "med- licinesnnd nostriiins beird of: or ;unheard of, cOuceivable or inconc l iveablii---and what a iiiiin you will hive! Yet not withsttinding tlie abuses and men t. ' strnsiti4s, flow' . much 14ippines;:z esisis, what i•noble'deedsare achieved. lto w' pertinace.- ousir nature Struggles to necornplisli. her de: signs, What inight not : complete undwin‘ died men and if omen . do t . Bear Tlorace, Maim President of Antiareb College. In liis inaugural address, while al luding to titan as a physical, mental and .moral, tieing, he says of the.:finit : • "Ile holds relation to'all material things: Ile, is adapted . to them, and they to him; his eye to the light, his - feet to lOecnnation, his muscles to resistance, gavitation and force.— If man moves in harmony with th,: physical universe around bin], it prOspe . rs kind 'blesses all his works, lends him-its: resistless strength endues Mtn with its linen-inn- skill enriches . .. • • .1 • - , I.:4llontrost, Sitsqudjann : a Cauntij, renn'a, Tljurstrini Ortobir 11, 1455,. • 1 - are wonted to the presence of debility .and fi:iirk - Religious' men' teach '04... to accept •Wealme...'-s and debility suffering as tile 'a ppoin. tea' lot .of humanity. Ilence the 'conditions of 14alth andlOngevityare not, merely disre garded hut ignored, and 'men of the profound eA l'i,!, arning on'other subjects, are here igno' ran . Lief eleMents,.university . professors know howl to tike ca re:Of .the solar system, but do :no* how to'tate care of their systems; mire the rules of Prosody by which . Grecik Latin verse flow into harmonious numbtirs prefer the tuneful pulse . which never ~..s an eliSion; to an MuSie of classical Httr::. etergYMen'are fbrever.exhortiro. .t.-t keep our spirits' clean anti pure, . and lin their outer-Man they exemplify their ling by the defilements of tobacco. e 4 ialestuenand learned doctors 'debate anti !IPA the Minor questions of political econe hut forgot that a blight on public health rt re Oejti!n iary . disa st ero u than mildewed ~ anti that the most adverse balances of • are inirtori-hing than the expen- 1 es for sickness,: the non-productives of', Iv imbecility, and the costs of vice and * • +lt '4* not I ad' and but mak' ctop t tad di tit CTIIII came from the hand•of God so perfect in 11 - :s baPily organs, defiant of cold and heat and droilit and humidity, f.O surcharged With vital force, that it took more, than two ' thoukand• rear. of the combined abominations appetite and ignorance, it• took successive „- noes l ontra.Teous excess and debauchery, to drain off his eletric energies and. make him even' aceessable to.disease ; and then it took ages, more to breed.all these vile distempers which now nestle, like cumin, in every organ and fibre of our bodies - • . Daring all this time, .however, the fatal causes were - at work, which wore away and finally ex - hanged the g,lorions and abounding rigor of the prilktine race. -* *. Nyholepeopli like the Ifoubites and Aor it-e.4.iiTre.the direct fruit of drunkenness and meest, - -* * • IL- : : a- At length its history became almost too shocking to be refered to: irits greatest men. • its wisestits God-favored men, like, David, could be guilty 'of murder for the sake of adultery, or like Solomon could keep a se raglio of a- thousand wives-and c6nenbiries ; what blackness' can be black enough to paint the portrait of the people they ruled 'and the _. children thew beg at ? . r - . -titer i fhe exodus, excesses rapidly durekr;:d into' diseOs:es.- First came enlaceoils distem- . - pers. * * * - And so f: igh trullv;so disgrace !fully numerous have , diseases nos 'become that if we were to write .down their name,,..... tin the smallest legible hand,' on the suiallest I bil l s of . paper,- there Would : . riot be - room le.nOfegh on the Human body to paste the !a -1 kis. 1 Every diseased manhequeathg his maladies . to his othpring; every drunkard Who rears I chitren from_ his corrupted and inflamed blood ; every licentious min . who transmits • : his wickedness and weakness as an :inherit ance of Suffering, is anOther repetition of the, I ' - NI of man. FrOm such causes by , adaman- . 1 tine la ws,and - through unalterable predestina thluis has4_Oura our present :diluted -and' de pleted hulanity ; effete,diSeaSedand corrupt lof blood ; abnormal, wasted snd-short lived; I with itlrnatainess so:evaporated - and -its tia [-five ffre4-soquenebea, that our present world compared with what, it - should be and .what, .it might be is but a lazer-bouse pr disease and an asylum for the.feebleniinded. l'he imbe cile races of Italy and Spain, the half7grown . :- tmlliOni, of I ndia and .Icxico, like river mouths are the drainage of ancestral continents, 'j all gushing with fountains of debilitating :t - I‘i corrupting vices. • • * * * rids theviolatiOn of the laws ,of health and life,i emphatically reper.t,whieb has . Cut down die years of-man to.t!ris contemptible breviti i and barrows those yeats,With Lain;" Which . ' surrounds thecradle . with diseases that spring liktiptes, upon the infant at hi; birth, and - U'hied insteNti of the olden. days when no 1 ( child was de:id-Loin; brings suCh‘ multitudes into the world who tho'l they .'maw not be - - dead-born as to breathing, are so as to intel : leet and 'heart. : A joy that kod . wings and laUghter, mice inhabited :every joint and 'or gan of niatis frame.-Pain has cOtiqti ered this restic'e domain, and turns human-breath into :-.i,..b.: . . No other part of the organic worli with which we are acquainted, has: suffered this dire change. Under intelligent culture, the veg itable world is constnntlY outgfo . wing itself in site, beauty and ricboesi. 411 animal ua i ttrei thrive strengthen,:tud surpass the progen tors cf the,stock when subjected•to the law of their being. - • . litian alone, of all the pales, and dwart4 and sickens; begets children, ibe. pr .! ticek;red tissue .of whose existence ib the Iwoof of our disease woven „into the warp of another; transmits insanity and gout and consuruption'and scrofula ; procreates blind, 'ness and deafmuteness and' those human ' 1)13 brainiertaiii!ots; Apawns polished imbecility thriittfih Our Which they -by their ii&tlth send + . ..6colleige - -fo• be converted' info pil;l~s of chireb .And why s" Solely beei!zse,o.tan will break.,,bettvett's laws. Popes nrsillientrehs,send, to g.ordan to obtain lt holy wat(iin•for the-biptism of tbeii chit= dren, visit they tiny give - their spirits a kru nkive hut. will not keep - them 1' Stir s FJ(.slick'svitit. Pure•water 44 - t4eir door and Abe tety.al *inner imports a, few, ea - bic~ya'tds of " htily cattle from' Jerusalein, which that body of be buried wheri- . in sit; has rioted and Insiatoned through all E his life t.-4s though they thought I niseienti could be cajoled into tbrgetfulneSs of the difference between "'holy water" or " ho- lv earth," and the pure in heart and the'Obe-, dient in life:" • • "- • • But besides tidying all the la . ws, of God in regardto pure air, cleanliness, diet; exercise; and the selection of healthful occupations, and healthful sites for residences;--:besides these sins of - omission, how numberless are the sills of cominission which ire comtnit;--41Tist! which are .expelling all 'manly- power 'and 'Wil l:manly endurance from the race.' -To say! , uothing . of stimulants taken in oar common (.morning and evening beverages, Itihich, arer no more necessary or Useful to enable healthrl I r men or women to pe.tfnrrn theirlabor morning drum-is-for the lark or the cagle;,for the butlido or the leviathan)—to say tothing 'of these the peopie of this nation 'annually maden:theic brains with twc bundrt.N . l millions. Uf galionq Of intoxicating liquors; and not only stupefy and defile themselves, trans mit irritable nerves and Contaminated blood t) their children by the consumption of'more than thirty Million dollars' worth of tobacco. Of this immense gum, squaniered forthis foul and abominable weed, it is estimated , by Dr. Cole—au able writer on physiology—that the members of the church of r - Jetis .Christ: take fi)e million dollars' worth for-their share. It is an indisputable fact,that tithing the whole United States together, much. mete mony• is .expended fqr the single article of cigars than for all the common schools 'hi the Union.— Cigars against schools ; cigars against the • great cause of popular-education; and appe tite triumphs over intelleet and morals l And . where these natural poisOnS of alcohol and to bacco are-used most freely, the chur'eh and the school-house are seen most rarely. I say nothing of opium and othe \ r narcotics:. And . after. (preaching still more the expiring ern7 berg. orvitaiity that yet , glimmer in the race, and corrupting its cOrruption ! to a more ma lignant type, we call ourselyeS civilized, and. —ulay heaven pardon the andacity—chris tiat Are those .thepractices of civilization thigh houeycombe the bones; and leave the muScles godlier!, while they irritate the nerves and evaporate electricity froni the brain Is that Christianity. which obeys the . crinionial law rather than the eternal ; which ! asks the 'blessing of heaven.' upon its food;- and then gorges' itself like a wolf.? • The time will come when men will . - speak of chriStian and unchristian! ;is they .•ow do of Christian and uiiehristian - Character. * * In view ; of all this, it is 'no- - extravagance to say that our,yonth need physiolrienl knowl edge, 'as - a preveltive, both against the debili ties of ill health and the-ferocities of animal passion, as much as they *need; literary and scientific knowledge againSt:the calamities of ignorance and.superstition, or religious . train= ing for the love and service of God. HOwever well=intentioned- Men' may be- , come unddr the influence of literary and re;, halters institutions; -vet when the bodily or ganization is `veal, the power of virtuous • ef fort is proportionably- enfeebled. In a lan guid fMme be'nevolence and piety themselv&s degenerate . into revery or .barren'.contempla tion. Sickly, man dare not take the field and wage war pith their satanic' foes. 'lf If wicked'men build distilleries or kiduap Af-. deans, they can only write a moral tract .or sing a pious - song,. and let distiller and kid napper go on. Next after heaven the brave heart of Martin-Luther had its reinforcements from his strong frame. All along the life way ()fa pure-minded but feeble-bodied Man, : on the right iland.and.on the left, his path is' lined by memory's gravestones, which mark , the spots' where ocnevoient enterprises per ished and were buried, :through : lack of phys ical vigor to embody them in deeds. - 'Tis then a painful sense comes . oni OfeornetliingmLolly lost and gene ; • * * . . * • * Of something from our being's chain Broks'off, not to be . baked agsiu;,' 4e * i often used to Wonder why the . mcslerns, withal our accumulations of pOw er derived from the F. eiens; with .such an expansion of the useful arts; by which, flint' : the medium . of ni:chinery, we train the for ces of nature to do the far greater. portion . .of our work, and with a coUscionsuesa every way so much richer than belonged to antiquityl -I have often wonderCd, I say, why•the mod erns with these incalculable advantivre,s are comparatirely so little iu advance' of tie an cients. With the experienciesnand di4Cover ies of all past times treasured in; out bOoksi with our alliaikie and co-partnership with the powers of nature; with the , beacons" pEanr cierit error to warn, and the illtiminatiOns — of ancient wisdom to direct,Oni ; adi4nee_beyond all of onraneestois eiight blr greater than it is. Thesolution of , . the painful problem . is this:' that - all ourim merise'adVantages, have but - a little more than indemnified us forthe 'appalTing : - degen - er - acy of 'our physical .iitrength; and . our mentalin- tuitions. When l'ponder tipon the wealth of human happiness' that lies folded within 'Clii;'topic; artt ahnost tempted to call upon the, studetat to leave his learning, and the,phflosoplieihis sciences, and the' elergynyta". 1 i _tlieulugias, and first teach men how:_to,o64 the, laws ~of G odin theirph vsieal framei—hqw tft , gictrifY him.in their bodies as an aeeFanpisniineat j , it not a prerequisite to glon7yingllAlmitt ... 4* . t,eau dui is, ever'Ciiin4i l 4 and eter renewinn , beauty :of 'health-I.—the mar e nit reap n iepOse . bf infartille sleep . ;, the singing gladiiere of -'ehildhool 'exultant " and sometimes wayward impulses youtb, iiated and' bewildered - by varieties of joy; the firm right Onward march of manhood un barred by an arrow of pain,- "and uncrippled age at last, venerable iti its :serene and lofty fronts ;—how , beautiful am they all Less beautiful is the clehr Springing fountain with its flower-adorned brink ;less noble the migh ty-river cleaving its mountainf•barred,lpassage io the deep,' and less - rellective of all :the ries - of heaven, its - - orttspresdiag'and'-calmer current as it lapses and dies into- theseit!" " Miscellaneous. Using a Thole Egg: A friend told us . a•story a few days since' illustrating theftee, generona charneter . of the Irish, which We consider too good tobelost, and• therefore, give it. to our rkder4." - -Our frientrs wife .I,eing in delieate health, it was resolved.-that a girl shouk he proenr;t4l to do the housework, - that the • lady tni•4l:t have an opportunity to recover Let and spirits. - After visiting an intelligence office for two or three thornings,n fine buxomlass of about 20 years of age; "but six monthS from swate Ireland ;"."was selected and instructed as to ,the duties that would be expected of her. , "Now, then," • saYs the lady; "pour the ground cotlceinto the - pot, then pour in the hotivater and after-boiling, put, in one half of an eg , 7, so;" and the lady illustrated each description by demonstration. " You under stand, don't you ?"-says the lady. • - • • " Intlade I do, mum," was the respthise; / bil the coffde, - grind -it the wather, ..and dro in the half of an egg. Isn't that it, now, mu 1" .. ctll right," replied the lady.. " Now, then, tomorrow morning we'll see how well you remember it." - To-morrow morning came, and the coffees was as good as 'could be expected. The third morning dune, and:to the astonishment of our friend and wife, the coffee was undrink able and nauseating, even the ordor of it was sickening. Bridget was called and. ques tioned, as follows: • • ‘,l3ridgo i .dicl you first pUt the ground in the 'coffee pot !" " Indade I •- - "Did ou then put in the hot - water r "Serelldid.". ihmilong did.you let it boil ?" " plum." Zll , l ,-.);s do, - then ?". • "I put iu tile i.g;.!.; mum." • - • "Justns Ishowed you this morning?" . " Well, 'to tell.ye tho truth, mum," says Bridget, giving her garments a twitch% with her brawnyltand, "to 'tell ~ye the truth, ,I would hake put, in the ha!f.ov the egg, as, yo tould ine,l;but the egg was a lind -one,: and I thoughti!ye wouldn' t mind about Lapin, the half of it,land so I dhropped the criteria as it 4as.". ' • “Don't Speak so• Cross.” Don't speak to cross," said one little boy yesterday'..in the street.:..to another. "Don't Speak so crowd, thereriS