NEE LINE'S. On seeing a Poetical youth from the country pay fifty dollari fur a galvanized watch at a mock auction estab• lialimont hi New York. • , Peter spare that hard, Touch not a single dirno In youth he labored hard; And now he's in his prima. He hoed his f,ther's corn. He carried the grist to thin ; He worked both night and mom— . Don't touch a sin,gl, mill. You porketsp his pewter, _ Look pious as a monk,. Pity he wasn't coo?, tjh ! Wieited Peter Funk ! You cannot long go free, --You worthless, lazy c Ater ; Sona,ld puniqhell be, As surFolronr nanie ' Met, Some niOnt of old Nick's ' Will take' you In his junk—, Then row you overthe Styr, Amid romt. you, Peter Funk-I fit (nib ijumor. , A STORY with n, Moral.-14 hen Charles the Second dhastried the Royal Society, it-is nar- - rated of him jhat he 'was disposed- to give the - philosophers a royal, but at the same time a whole-'1 some lecture: e 1 't,Wby is it. my' lords and gengetiven,".said he, 'that if-you like vessel with water to thejery.' brim so that it will n9t hold a single dror - more... pet putting a turbot lint° the water' i will not' e s overflow the'vesgel 1 " Many were _ tl e sage con; lectures; that the flit) would drink as lu h water as compensated for his own bulk—that he eon . :densed the water to that- fimoutit—that the, air bladder had something to do with the phenomena —and a huntireil - other3, which were pro pounded 'and Oandeued in their turn, much to the amuse ment of the merry monarch. At length. Mr. Wren (afterwards' Sir Christopher) modestly' ' ailed, but is . your majesty sure that such would he the case 1" t-Aye,, there, ,. exclaimed hi; Ma , kisty, laughing, tiYou have it;.,-always. gentlemen. find out if a dring be true, before you.proceed .to account for TE; then 'I shall not be ashamed of the - charter I he i Ve given yot.r..' . - i r • DR. FRAN, OLIN -and 7ilks.—The Alexan dria Gazelle says :—.il'ithis in the U. S." has called Co mind an anecdote which Mr. Jefferson used to- tell, in relation to the. cut jest, which is authentic, -and tiro good to be lost. The anec dote has been repeated-to us by one who has ... heard .Mr.'.lefferson mention it. In the Conven tion lbr forming the Constitution of the United . States, it was proposed that f din should he given tir:the high officers of the government ; atid the Preposition met with favor. The discussion of the subject had gone nn for some time. when Dr. Franklin arose,-and with great appareut t gravity, ,remarked—•ithat as this matter seemed' to be se riously entertained, and plight he carried, 'he hid tio,,•suggest onelitle which would he new arid k _ propriateit was a title for the Vier. Presit ir t -,—„pnd was, 'His Most stiperAtious Hichness!' . . Where was not much more said about titles after • o thi5." .. .7 . - • A HOME THRUST.—.The late iley.Dr. B. of a certain town in Maine, an eccentric but hon.! eat minister, was once, preaching on thO practical • virtues, and basing n sh'art tone-previously !taught load of wood' 01 one of the ellicers - of'the church, and finding it fall. short in iiWasure, took this oc casion to ypeak. thus plainly , on the subject; ..'Any man ; that will Bell se‘en feet of wood for a cord is rio Ghrtstian,.'whether he sits in the gallery, below, or in the deacon's seat." RETORT`.—An old gentle:nen fell in love with a young lady narned l'uge. in a bull room the ynurti; lady dropped her glove—instantly he took It np, end his address was in preventing it— 'lf from gli.rn v u tikii pie letter'(:.' Q'hcv slurp m41te..5 lore, rrhiei 1 pre'ent to thee?' . . • . I 4 i 111:11 tr....writ. • . • • : 'And if fr,en l'azr! you tali. , rue letter 'l', , '• 'nun 'NA, ilvtitem ,!,rj., 1.11.1't ut won't do for rim' . ,Z '' J • . . cry ,une - fizi - Irs*.ip g conundrum recently took a prize cup at St..Lbuist .. Why are the late. battles fought. by General Scott, in Mexico, like a suit of clothes made by a neat seamstress 1" Bei:ails° .the .work;Wrs done as well as it could be done without having a tailor ,Taylor) to do it! expect," said a physician. just beginning the practice of medicine, "to see a good many death feeds." "No doubt," said his friend, 'if you have many patients." . (rj•-lim, did you' divide that cake qiiriy with your brothcrA I" , •17e.s, ma; I kept half mself. and then gave half' to Dob. and the ether half to Dick." Jim had' just been studying one of Tour arithmetical qtiestions, probably vulgar frac , lions. S -7 7:..11 7 . 1 1idi. is the Lest tihop to get u fiddle at 7l aski'id a pupil of Tom Cook, the .musician. apfifhecary shop," answered the wag. —Because if you buy a drug there, thby always give you a vial-in. • The late Duke of was nalictmaatacli ed to the bottle... On a ina,altieintle night; he a-k .ed Foote, who - was hi: intimate. friend, what now character he shou!d go in. t•Go sober," Enid Fooie, • • tt.:ool..—Jkihn, has the (looter arrived r—L 'Yes; sir." '"Then immediately for the under taker' MEI E7r4 Clergyman told an Indian he should love his enemies,"lice do love 'em," replied the latter. •• Mi hat er;en)ios do , you love most Rum and cider:" There are too many such j over Books for the Ladles.' -Trill Lady's fluidt• In Embrnidery and A pidigan:lln ing instruction in 'embroidery on silk, vclv,•t. inns lin, lace. nierinn, etc., and in aptd Wu 'heantifully engraved patterua. The I.ady'a self, It