A. 3. GERRITSON, Publisher.'
CO,MaX:I narcrlßlC/.
Back from the misty realms of time,
Back from the years agone,
Faintly we ace!) thefinging,rhyrrie,i
And hear the melody, and the chime
Of olden Ongp : and.: strains sublime,
Ofol_ - .ofzikds, , at daw.4. .
And ever we hear them, soft and low,
Harping their music sweet,
Songs that. we toyed in the long ago,
Rippling their-liquid ebb and flow,
Drifting'their cadence to and fro,
Ulm the fall of fairy feet.
Some faces our hearts will ever hold,
Some smiles we remember yet;
There were flowing locks like the sunset's
gold,
There lore parted lips of Cupid's mould,
And the songs they sung can ne'er grow
old,. •
For our hearts can ne'er forget.
The tunes that the voice of girlhood sune:,
The chords that we loved full well
When hopes were buoyant, hearts were
young,
When fairy hells in the flower-cups sung,
And ever fell from a maiden's tongue
The words of a witching spell.
Ah, 'tis a story past,
Which I may not tell again,
'Twas a happiness too sweet to last ;
The heavy clods on her grave are cast.,
anti her voice is stilled, and above her fast
Falls the soft summer rain.
BREAKING UP A SETTING BEM
"Timothy, that air faller hen's settin'
:gin," said Mrs. Hayes to Ler son, one
morning at breakfast.
Well, let her set," remarked Timo
thy, helping 'himself to a large piece of
cheese, " I reckon I c m Anil it as long as
he can."
"I do wish you would try to be a little
equinomical t 8 cheese, Timothy ; I've cut
the very last of my every day lot, end Ws
only the first of May. And now as soon
as soon as you've done eating I want you
to go out and break up that hen. She's
setting on an old ax and two bricks now."
" I hope she'll hatch 'mu," returned
Timothy.
" If she was set now, she'd hatch the
fourth week in May. It's a bad sign ;
something oilers 1 .9.F..n0 .
g i gg ling, Helen Maria, by the time you
gm, to ide as old as
your ma, ye'll see Inr
ther than you do now. There was-Jen
kiss' folks, their grey top-knot hatched
die first of May, and Mrs. Jenkins, sham
had the conjunction of the muss , and
would have died if they had 0.4 killed a
lamb and wrapped her ist the hide while
it's warm. That w ws all that saved her
life."
Wish sue ), a startling proof of the truth
nud th e amen before him, Timothy finish- .
e d his breakfast in haste and departed for
the barn, from which he soon returned
bearing the squalling biddy by the legs.
What shall I do with her, mother ?
She'll get on again, and she's cross as bed
lam-411s skinned my hands, and would
be the death of rue if she cou'd only g( t
loo9e."
•' I've heer'n it said that it was a good
plan to throw 'em up in the air," said
Mrs. Hayes. "Aunt Peggy broke one of
setting:oly three times trying. Spose'u
you try
"Up she goes, head or - tall" cried-
Timothy, as he tossed the volcano sky
ward. •
" Laud-o-massy," exclaimed Mrs. IL,
"she's coming down on the pan of bread
that I set out on the great rock to rise!
Tim, it's strange that-you can't do noth
ing without, overdoing it."
"Down with the traitors, np with the
stars," sang out Tim, eleva - .:rtg biddy
again with'something less thaw' a pint of
batter hanging to her feet. .
"Good gracious me, WEISS and wnss,"
cried Mrs. Hayes ' and Tin} agreed- with
her, tor the hen h ad comedown, on the
well polished ti:e of Esquire 13enretriwito
happened to be passing, and the dikuifit a
old gentleman was the-fatter.:otl4nthia
Bennett, the-young lady with whom - Tim
was seriously eniniored • • - "
The Squire looked daggers, brushed off
the dough with his handkerchief' and
I
strode On in silence.
"`Yes, but it's going up again," said
Tim, spitefully seizing the clucking biddy'
and tossing her at random-into the aire;•
Biddy thought it time to manifest herin- ,
dividnality, and with a lond-screate she
darted against the -parlor window, broke
through, knocked down the canary cage,
and landed plump in the silken lap of
3 48. Gray; Irbo Was boardink at the
hease. '
Mrs. Gray screamed with horror, And'.
'tailing up, dislodged biddy, who flew at
her reflection in the lookingglass with an
angry hiss. The glass was flattered and.t
down came the Len, astonished beyond
measure, against a rase of flowers, which 1
apset, and , falling •knooked oyer - .-the
stan4,ll6 - h and deleged with water a pair.
of drah-eolered, veliet slippers which Hel
en Maria 'was embroidering fore her lover;.
Mr.lanies Renshaw.
Helen entered the room just ea the true , „
cillef bad been donei , and viewing
in,aho at once laid it to her brother Tim
othy. She heard his step behind her,and
the nnfortnnate,hen
. she flung full in his .
face.
There was a .smothered oath, and the
hen eaine back with the force of a twenty
pound shot.
Helen was mad. Her eyes were nearly
put out with the feathery dust and dough,
and she went at Timothy with a true fem
inine zeal. She broke his watchguard in
a dozen ; pieces, crushed his dickey, and
began to pull his whiskers out by the
roots; when suddenly she remembered
that Timothy had no whiskers to pull out
by the roots.
But when title came to look closer, she
perceived the man she had nearly annihi
lated was not Timothy, but James Hen-
sha w.
Poor lielen burst into tears and fled in
to her chamber, the usual refuge for hero
ines; and James, after washing his face
at the kitchen sink, went home, sternly
resolved never to marry a woman with
such a temper as Helen ILiyes had.
The hen, meanwhile, whb is the hero
ine, returned to the barn to establish her
self on the ruin of her nest, deters ined to
set if t he heavens fell. •
Mrs. Hays sqpn discovered her, and she
having heard that dipping, in water would
cure '• broodiness," she set. forth for the
brook with the lbw' in her apron.
Mrs. Weaver, an old lady of very quar
relsome temperament, who resided near,
and was at sword's points with Mrs.
Hays, was just coining to the brook for a
pail of water, and spied the yellow head
of the bird peeping out from Mrs. Hayes'
apr'on.
" There !" she exclaimed, "Now I've
found out what puzzled me to death nigh
a week. I've found out where that yel
low pullet has gone to. Mrs. Ilayes,4 al
lars kuowed you was a wicked, deseatful
woman, but I didn't .think you'd areal."
" Steal ! me steal ! Who are you talk
ing to, Mrs. Weaver ?" salt: Mrs. Hayes
on her dignity.
"I'm talking to you, madam, that's
who I'm talking to. You've stolen my
hen what I got of Uncle Gilliea, and paid
for in sa , sengers. She's a real Dorking.
Dice her to me right away or I will use
force."
Dlhe's my lien, and you touch her if
vou dare !"
" I'd show . you what I dare!'' yelled
Mrs. Weaver, growing purple, and seiz
ing the
. id-starred fowl by the tail, she
o wreneh and ;.
11:311a.
The sudden cessation of resistance up
set Mrs. Weaver's balance, and she fell
b9Award into the brook, spattering the
mud and astonished polliwogs in every
direction.
She was a spry woman and was soon
on her feet again ready to renew the-as
sault.
" Give me my hen,", she cried,-thrusting
her fist into Mrs. Hayes' face, "you old
hag and hypocrite you!" and she made .a
second dive at the bird.
The hen thought it proper to show her
colors, and trtiering an unearthly yell, she
flew out of the covert square into thelace
of Mrs. Weaver, which she raked down
with her bails until it resembled the page
of a ledger, crossed and recrossed with,
red ink.
Mrs. Hayes caught a stick of brush
wood from • the fence—Mrs. Weavee did
the same, and a regular duel would prob
:,bly have been fought if the bank of the
creek had not-suddenly gave way and pre
cipitated both the beligerant women into
the water.
Tin y scrambled out on opposite sides,
and the hen sat perched in an apple-tree
and cackled in triumph.
• The ladies shook themselves, and by
consent went -home. They have not spcw
ken "since.
The hen disappeared and was not seen
until three weeks afterwards, when She
made her appearance with eleven nice
yelloW chickens. She found some other
fowl's nest and had set in spite of fate.
But although not "broken up" herself
she broke up two mathes—for Cynthia
Bennett was not at home the next time'
Timothy called, and Mr. Henshaw never
foygaye Helen for having such a temper.
•
How Burglars Operate on Safes.
A.inontli or two ago we remarked that
thi exploits of the London - burglars upon;
thC premises of Mr. Walker, the jeweler,
and,-the. subsequebt trial between Mi.
%%Talker. and Messrs. -Milkier, have led to
great : lllms being put, forth by the safe
makers to increase the security, of their
wares. Since that time as many as for
ty,patents liave been . got out bfsafe ma
kers, all with the view to increase the
ability Orthe safe's to rei.ist the attaCksOf
burglars. Wer have just seen 'a safe that
has been conk:meted on (Me of these pat
ents. it was produced by a Wolverhamp
ton firm-that of Itir. George Price, of
the Cleveland Works—and , by the time
this appears' in 'print; it will' be on tho
premises of the t purchaser; 'in 'Lonikin.
it has been. bought byllin Johnson, joir.
eler, of • Tbreadneeille' 'qtreet, %Ow .wiasi
robbed, of prOperty worth about , 4;000
poands, in lso4, by a party of- burglars
known as Scotty's" gang. The ability
with which the burgiank;opboed :the safe
io the. Steel''' . Office at MaaCheeter; *ad
MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, OCT. 23, 1866.
--- -
stole property worth .£7:000 lately, hati
shown that the thieves have improved in•
their method of attack since the robbery
at Mr. Walker's. In 'the opening of Mr.
Walker's safe, no drill wa.s Used, bat the
outside band was forced partly away from
the left hand side of the safe, sufficiently
to allow the point of the crow bar to en
ter and bite under the door plate. With
the stamp Office safe, however, the bur
glars first drilled a piece out of the point
of outside band, at the extreme left hand
corner, over the door. They then cut the
piece so drilled square, which exposed the
back of the door plate, behind which they
drove their first wedge, Or chisel'. Next
theyfdreed another wedge a few inches
from the first, but against the face of the
outside band, which brought away the
door plate sufficiently to allow the crow,
bar to be got at the back of the door, as
with Walker's safe, and with one wrench
the door was opened. We examined the
safe after the robbery, and, with the ex•
ception of the piece—about one inch by
half an inch—cut out of the outside band
=scarcely a mark was observable on the
exterior. In respect of the new safe
which has been rent from Wolverhamp
ton, "the object of the maker seems to
have . bees to construct one, without any
additional mechanism to the ordinary safe,
so that it shall be impossible for a burglar
to insert a wedge around any portion of
the doOr at, all Irly making a safe wedge
proof, it is also crow bar proof, as the
latter instrument is of no value without a
bite and a fulcrum; Mr. .Price.'s doors be-
ing case hardened ; lie had only to carry
the principle a little lnrther and case har
den the frame into which the door fits.
This ie what he now does, and, in addi-
tion, forms the inner frame of Lars inch-
es wide by I inch thick, which, instead of
'
being dove tailed at the corners, as is Noeleon s Pheasant Preserve.
usual in all safes, he bendS the bars. In I The imperial, pheasantry covers eight
order to make the four pieces into one hundred and forty two acres of the forest
continuous ring or bantiyhe dovetails the of Fontainbleau. It 'is managed by ten
straight pieces in,to the b en t.pi eneai an d wen; four keepersy two pheasant men, two
so obtains' 'the greatest Strength such a servants and two egg hunters. There
ring or band of iron is capable of F,iving. are, besides eight night watchmen who
This case hardened continuous ring or shoot hawks, owls, and other birds and
band is put inside the body plates—not beasts who destroy game. At the season
outside, as in the safe opened at Walker's of the year when the hen pheasants begin
and the Stamp Office; 'As a further pro- to lay eggs, they are each of them inclol
tection,if thought to be necessary, the' ed in a circular wired coop.. All tbesit
inventor welds 'another bstof iron 5 inch- coops are placed in a field set apart for
es by 3.g inch, and shrinks on to the out- this pnrpose.: All these coops are placed
side at the back and front of the safe.' in a field set apart for this purpose. As
The construction of thia;ea_le*.decidpilx, .fast, as tile iien pheasants lay . eggs, the
simple,' and' it seems: to''laiiiiiffer'i 1 4t* -"--”4 taken and ' Vliee - d Wider hen
-,.' 'I .1. ~ chickens, wmir - uutcn- - nem, so Hie tren
ftrest-amorinV _roe. <., . - 1- t_ .
tton of the urglar's imp l ements w hi c h p h easants continue to lay eggs during the
have recently proved so destructive of se- whole season without interruption. June
curity.—lroutnonger. 1 is the month when most of these eggs are
- -.no- AM -0.-
Old Things.
Give me old songs, those exquisite
bursts of melody which thrilled the lyres
of the inspired poets and minstrels of long
ago. • Every note has borne on the air a
tate of joy end rapture, of sorrow and sad
ness. They tell of days gone by, and
time has given thein a voice that speaks
to us of those who breathed those melo
dies; may they be mine' to hear till life
shall end; es "I launch my boat" upon
the seas of eternity, may their echoes be
wafted on my ear, to cheer me on my
passage frofn earth to fatherland !
Give me the old paths where've have
wandered and culled the flowers of friend
ship in thO days of " Auld Lang Syne."
Sweeter far the dells whose echoes have
answered to our voices, whose turf is not
a stranger to our footsteps, and whose
rills have in childhoods days reflected
back our fornis, and those of our Merry'
playfellows from whom we have parted
and meet no• more in the old nooks we
loved so Well. May the old paths be wa
tered With 'Heaven's 'own dew, and be
green forever in my'memory !
Give me the Old house upon whose
stairs we seem to bear light footsteps,
and under whose porch a merry laugh
seems to mingle with the winds that
whistle through the old elms, beneath
Whose branches lie the graves of those
who once' trod the halls and made the
chambers ring with glee.
And •O, above all, giveme old friends;
hearts bound to mine in life's sunshiny
hours, and a link so strong , that all the
storms of earth Might not break it asun
der; spirits congenial, whoaelearts thro'
life have beat in unison With •my own.
0; when • death shall 'still this heart, I
would not ask for - aright more sacred to
hallow my diist• - than the tear or an old
friend. • •
Keeping' Apple's in Winter. of to brood hen they are subject to a dys-
At the 4ist State Fair in this city, De- entery, which is fatal to a great many of
los Randall had on exhibition Russet Ap- them; :' No specific for this disease has
pies, grown a
..year ago. These apples f been discovered. When the pheasants
were plump, fresh and of good flavor, leavt; the brood hen; they are placed un
quite as good as the same kind of apples der coops in shady places to gain strength;
are ordinarily on the approach of spring. here they, remain ifor a fortnight, and then
VVe inquired, as to the manner, of keeping, they are let loose in 'the undergrowth of
and. were informed that the apples were the preserve. This undergrowth consists
put in refuse,; boxes obtained ,at the gro- of young oaks plthited close together, and
ceries, and .in the ~following manner.: A his causes them to throw out a great ma
layer of dry sow duet, was sprinkled at the ny thick leafed lateral branches, which
bottom of the, box, and then a layer of., give the pheosants the shade and humidi
applesl placed, in it, SQ that they did not aty they like. They are now free, and if
touch each other.
,Upon_ these was plat- I they are wise, they. fly oil' in the forest
ed.a layer otsaw dust, and oo on till ; the where they are secure from gun, and take
bet Was filled:: The botes - after:. being the lordships with the
,security of fiber
peeked iiilhlti,wak Were placed on it wall ty. Few, perhaps none of them, are,scr
in'the'cilitir,,up from the sronnd, wherel sagacious or so strong willed-as to resist
tifeikePt, perfectly, retaining their freoli f , the, pleasure ofleing fed daily with:reg-
neSS auirflaV'Or, - ufitittroitght out; ulartty and abundance, Every- evening
Whited at the Fair. He says that he has
kept apples in this way some months la
ter than the time named.
From experiment made with dry sand
packing the apples in the same Way he
finds that saw . dust is much superior to
the sand, the litter,.he• thinks, 'being too
heavy a inaterial, and pressing the apples
too much, causing them to decay more
rapidly than with the saw dust. The
above experiment, perhaps, may be sug
gestive to those desiring to preserve ap
ples late in the season of the next year.
It will be-needless to remark, perhaps
that no apple will keep late, by any pro
cess of packing that, has been bruised or
injured in picking. Apples should be
handled carefully, and the less moving
about, after having been picked, the bet
ter. A large part of the fruit grown and
sold in market, has been so injured by
careless gathering, pouring into barrels
and rough handling while being driven to
market, that it soon decays under what
ever treatment it may be subjected for
the purpose of keeping.— Union Herald.
A correspondent of the Country Gen
tleman, on the same subject says : " You
ask for the experience of others in refer
ence to packing apples. My experience
is that apples should be kept in a dry
building until quite cold weather; then
very carefully picked over and headed in
an air tight barrel and removed to a cool
cellar. They will keep better than any
other treatment I have ever tried. A
cellar for keeping fruit should be well
drained, but should not have the bottom
made of hydraulic cement. Cement pre
vents evaporation, and as the coolness of
a cellar is caused by evaporation mainly
it is important that nothing be done to
prevent this.
they are placed in great baskets, wadded
at the bottom and sides with loose wool,
where they cluster and move and get on
each other like tray fish in a fisherman's
basket. As fast as possible they are
placed in long white boxes, divided into
two unequal portions. The small portion
is occupied by the hen chicken, and it is
divided from the larger portion by wide
bars which allow the pheasants to come
and go at will, but keeps the brooding
hen from Weir food, which is placed at
the further end of the box. This, food is
rare, and even in so vast a forest as Fon
tainbleau, it cannot be obtained in suffi
cient puantities. It is ant's eggs. Every
morning before daybreak, the two egg
hunters go in light carts to ant bills in the
forest and open them with a trowel.
They take all the eggs they find in them,
and sit them od their return home. Once
every fortnight the same mit' hills will af
ford a supply of eggs, but as each egg
hunter is expected to bring 'home daily
two hundred quarts of eggs, a great ma
ny ant hills are necessarily visited every
morning. This hunt is extremely annoy
ing.
The ants; whose castle is invaded and
sacked, sally forth in numbers and sting
the hunters, pouring into the puncture
formic acid (that acid more corrosive than
vitro', and which the modern chemists
can make with sugar) which irritates the
epidermis in a painful manner. The
young pheasants' require, in addition to
the four hundred quarts of ant's 'eggs
brought by the egg bunters, one hundred
quarts of porridge, which is made of hard
boiled eggs, meal, and some other ingre
dients, all chopped- fine. The imperial
pheasantry at Foutdinblean annually pro
duces 0,000 pheasants, 1,500 g ray pat
ridges, and 600 Chinese patrid ges,'' Cali
fornia colins, silver and golden pheasants.
While•the pheasants are under the care
at four o'clock mashed boiled potatoes are
distributed to them. At the appointed
hour the whole lawn of the preserve is
covered with silver, golden, red, ordinary
and Chinese pheasants, patridges, colins,
presenting a most animated and interes
ting spectacle. But this feeding by band
and this food domesticates the bird and
destroys his game flavor and makes shoot
ing such wild fowl as tame as a barnyard
massacre.—Letter from Parial
Lost Arts.
In regard to colors we are far behind
the ancients. Noue of the colors in the
,Egyptian paintings of thousands of years
ago are not in the least faded, except the
green. The Tyrian purple of tte entomb
ed city of Pompeii is as fresh to day as it
was those thousand years ago. Some of
the stucco, painted ages before the Chris
tian era, broken np and mixed, reverted
to its original lustre. And yet we pity
the ignorance of the dark skinned chil
dren of the ancient Egypt. The colors
upon the walls of Nero's festal vault are
as fresh as if painted yesterday. So is
the cheek of the Egyptain prince who was
contemporaneous with Solomon, and Cle
opatra at whose feet Cmsar laid the rich
es of his empire.
And in regard to metals. The edges
of the statues of the obelisks of Egypt,
and of the ancient walls of Rome, are as
sharp as if but hewn yesterday. And the
stones still remain so closely fitted that
their seams, laid with mortar, cannot be
penetrated with the edge of a penknife.
And their surface is exceedingly hard, so
hard that when the French artists en
graved two lines upon the obelisk bro't
from Egypt, they destroyed, in the tedi
ous task, many of the best tools which
can be manufactured. And yet these an
cient monuments are traced all over with
inscriptions placed upon them in olden
times. This, with other facts of a stri
king character, prove that they were far
more skilled in metals than we are. Quite
recently it is recorded that when an Amer
ican vessel was on the shores of Africa a
son of that benighted region made from
an iron hoop, a knife superior to any on
board of the vessel, and another made a
sword of Damascus excellence from a
piece of iron.
Fiction is very old; Scott had his coun
terpart two thousand years ago. A story
is told of a warrior who had no time to
wait for the proper forging of his weapon,
bat - aeixed it red hot, rode forward, but
round- zo Ins surprise that the cool air had
tempered trl. -.
weapon. The tempering of steel there
fore, which waanew to us a century since,
was old two thousand years ago.
Ventilation is deemed a modern art.
But this is not the fact, for aperture, un
questionably made for the purpose of
ventilation, are found in the pyramid
tombs of Egypt. Yet thousands of years
ago the barbarous Pagans went so far as
to ventilate their tombs, while we yet
scarcely know how to ventilate oar hou
ses.
Railway Over the Alps.
The pass over Mont Cenis, joining the
festilt fields of Sardinia and Savoy, has
always been the favorite of alpine passes.
Although the military route for ages, the
road was in a deplorable condition till, by
the enterprise of Napoleon, a substantial
carriage way was constructed at an ex
pense to the government of seven million
francs. Piot a number 'of years past this
road; in connectioa with the French and
Italian railroads and the Adriatic steam
ers, has formed the most direct Eindittlie
ditions mail route to India and the East.
The stow and tedious mountain passage,
originated the project of completing the
missing link of railviay communication
by tunneling the MO.
Whether this gigantic undertaking will
ever be completed, admits of doubt. In
the meantime, a company has been star
ted with the design of accomplishing this
same object by constructing a railroad
over the summit of the mountain.
Mr. Fell, an English engineer, read an
interesting paper on the subject before
the British Association, and his state
ments' eave no dotibt as to the feasibility
of the plan. Both the French and Italian
governments favor the' enterprise: opera
tions have already begun, and iu all prob
ability the road will be completed by
March next.
From the difficulties to be overcome,
the work must fairly be ranked as one of
the greatest in the records of engineering.
The inclines to- be traversed by this
road—without exception the steepest ev
er attempted—require a special construc
tion both in the railway itself and-locomo
tive.
The variations of climate during the
year—always no important consideration
in allowing for adhesion, or bite of the
driving wheels on the rail—constitute
here an important element, and necessi
tates the employment of a third or center
rail. By this means not only is the prop
er amount of adhesion produced, but the
additional advantage is obtained of fur
nishing means for applying an increased
amount of brake power, and also prevent
ing all possibility of either car leaving the
track.
The engines and-carriages :have•eaol4 is
addition to the usual, vertical:V.4oo4par.
I VOLUME XXIII, NUMBER 43.
horizontal wheels, having flanges under
lapping the center rail, connected with
brake so as to grip the rails; these, in con
nection with the usual sets, give' a brake
pressure of 60,tons in an engine weigthig
16 to 17 tons.
' This principle of obtaining the adheiditt
required, in order to develOp traCtivi i
force on railways, is equally applicable to
an, even much steeper . gradient, than any
found on the Mont Cents road, and that
consistently with the economical expense .
of mechanical power.
Court was in session, and amid the mai-.
tiplicity of business which crowded upon
a Sheriff at term time, he was led to the
door of a beautiful widow, who, by the'
wayohad often bestowed melting glance*
on the aforesaid Sheriff. He was admit
ted, and the widow appeared. The con
fusion and fright which the arrival of her'
visitor occasioned, set off to greater ad
vantage the—captivatinc , charms of the.
widow M. Her cheek are the beautiful
blended tints of the apple blossom ; her
lips resembled the rose-buds, upon which
the morning dew yet lingereyl, and her
eyes were like the quivers of Cupid; and
glances of love and tenderness with which
they were filled, resembled arrows which
only invited a "beau" (pardon the.pun),
to do full execution. Atter a few com
mon-place remarks :
"Madam," said the matter-of-fact Sher
iff, " I have an attachment for yofl."
A deeper blush than usual mantled the
cheeks of the fair widow,while the, glance
of her downcast eyes was centered upon
her beautiful foot, which, half °encoded
by flowing drapery, patted the floor. She
with equal candor replied :
" Sir, the attachment is reciprocal:"
For some time the Sheriff maintained
an astonished silence, and at length said :
"Madam, will you proceed to court?"
" Procee d to court," replied, the lady,
with a merry laugh ; then shaking her
head, she said :
"No, sir, though this is leap year, I
will not take advantage therein granted
to my sea t and therefore greatly prefei
that you should proceed to court."
"But, madam, the justice is waiting": ,
"Let him wait; I am not disposed so,
harry matters, and besides, sir, whettibi
ceremony is performed, I wish you to-tinv
derstand. that I greatly prefer a minister;
to ajustice of the peace."
A light &mined upon the Sierittiv.
brain.
with solemn dignity, "t. ere is
mistake here ; my language has been inis. •
understood ; the attachment of which I
speak was issued from the office of Squirt!
C—, and commands me to bring
instantly before him to answer a contei
of court; disobeying a aubptena in 'the
case of Smith vs. Jones." , .
" Meadow's History of the Chinese,”-
lately published in London, in a chapter. ,
on love, has the following •
A Chinese, who had been disappoin•-•
ted in marriage, and bad grievously sup;
fered through women in various ether
ways, retired with his infant son to:tbe.
peaks of a mountain range in Kweichoti„ -
a spot quite inaccessible to little footed
Chinese women. He trained- the &Tie'
worship the gods;, and , stand in awe sad
abhorrence of the,rdevilis, but be never
mentioned women t 6 him, always descen
ding the mountain aloneto bny.tbe focaL
At length,
'
,bowever tlxiinfiralitive ofagel
compelled him to take the , young matti;.
with him to carry the beavyleg of rkw,2
As they were leaving the .market tean .
together the son suddenly stopped-abort
and, pointing to three approaching
jects, cried—
" Father, what are things 2 Look •
look ! what are they ?"
" The father answered with the. per
emptory order—
" Turn away your head ; they are dev
ils !"
The soil, in some alarm, turned away v
noticing that , the evil things were gazing:
at him, with surprise from behind their
fans, He walked to the mountain in
lence, ate no supper, and fromtbat day t
lost his appetite and was afflicted witlL
melancholy. .For some time his, punted:
and noxious parent could get no satizfioit
tory answer to his inquiries, butat length
the young wan burst out crying with -IV
explicable pain—
"Oh, faiher, that tallest deAl! that
tallest devil "
SMART Ut RTJ3.-At an • exarninatiou
one of onr young . ladies' seaiinariep, tli~i `;
other day, the gnat:ion piitto
of little ones: - t_ •
Who makes the laws in Oaf ,
went?"
" Congress, " was the ready reply.
" How is ongress divided ?" was die : :
next question ; but the little girl to whom
it was,put failed to answer it... 1 Aotttttor
little girl in the class railed op her hai r :
judiUltting, that she eouldonswerit.
" Well,' said the exataluer.,-
lie, what do you the
InstantlY, with an air. of oonfiden‘
well as triumph, the &'i e--Vilo.;
iliaad 4 half civilized, au. aaVager!
A Sheriff's Attachment.
Never Saw a Woman.