' reS4.OII,II)2,IPOOTOXIL , . ,V4,411e (imp e*ellenti the follow. plit„ p *bop , home of ONO remnants ,O 1 yip supitetifiogi •is which -no One • avowedlybelieves, while 'Tau few ° are entirely uninfluencedby-them ' Yes, sir ; you will find very few people who do not entertain tome suyierstition, or other, theught perhaps yery few •Will udmit it., I hope PO rate will adopt 'any, 'new ones from reading these remarks, and I wonld like to inspreso .1111011 par unto theitziportance of biding _their stt 'perstitionsheliefs (if" they' can't over= come them,) from the children, for su • pentitions are certainly Useless,' abd ten inconvenient, ifjthey are no worse: .. I Was tnaintsining that nine persons out of ten held some superstition, when gentleman insisted upon it that be hadn't wetness one. I lay in wait for him,. and, _atlait. - caught He didn't like to COUtlt' the . eArcimes at,' fitters! l .!'Why L'"19_11; I don't know." 'A, onmstition,.Mr. Blank. Many. wait an tit Swhole feneratpreceesion,,,,has . gone sby,,rather thin ge lietWeen the carrmsest tp ormi s .the road.. • , . assured me she hadn't . a saperststicia. One day her little girl took' up: her' mother's .ktst;.,which was hlack crape, and. woo %sing to put - it;„on her. head. "Minnie," exclaimed her mother, "don't 'put that on.". • Why?" said.the &N.. Because I'd, 'rather you would not." Then turning ome she said, _hot-' to roes, "Somehow or otheri never di) HA to have the children pot Many of my black crape things." Superstition, Mrs. Blink. Then if allogbowls at night, hOw Many . turn pale? . "Some one, in the rihighborbood is going to dire,, sure.',' I must NY I was astonished ono evening, when a dog howled outside ; our Windows, to see s realty good, pious old Methodist lady deliberately take off heriliPper and turn it Wrong aide up upon the rug. "Why, Mrs. ileekandmild, : what is that for?' "Oh, they evil' you hears dam, howl youloust lekeoff your slipper and 'turn it up." . "Well, will put' slipper be enough to save the 'lives of all in this house, or must each, one of us .folloiv snit?" "Isn't it ridiculous?", she said; but, I noticed she allowed the slipper to raisin there until she wasquite surethat the dog bed taken himself off out, of burr rig. goon the olditutchman believed in that superstition,' fo - r 'he told a friend, "De dothowl tredful last night, and yen I tekes up mine paper dis morning, vet you tinke? Somebody die in Philadel phis I" - The*, how many believe that if the scissors, knife,or any' sharp thing falls to the , floor and stands. up straight, home visitor is coaling I Why, I've seen youpg tidies in the early morning put down their sewing and take the crimps out of their hair an hour or two.earlier than usual,. kat *suite the gassers fell off, their lap and stuck up straight. Its blue bottle comes suddenly into the room arid whizzes around . pretty in dustriously, they say " A stranger is com ing." (I 'should say a stranger had One lady told me she wasn't sapersti• flout tit all. "But," she added, " there is one thing 6E41 do not like to do, and that is to break a looking glass." I said, "Well, I don't suppose any of us would occupy ourselves with that little performance 'just, for amusement."-- 1' Oh l but," she Went on to say, " I never yet broke a looking glass, or knew of any one else breakieg one, that the per. son breaking it,or some relative, didn't die." Some won't sing before breakfast foe fear they should cry before night. Others resit give a knife or scissors to a Mend without making him give a penny or, come amount of money for it; lest it should "cot love." A gentleman once asked melt' I had three cents about me. I said, "yes, and I mean to keep them." "No, you won't—you'll give them, to me for, this -Itnife"—(a silver npunted beauty and veil) , cheap for the money)—so I purchased the knife from him, and we remained very good fr iends. I- was walking with a lady the other day, and "stubbed" my toe against a stone., Site turned and asked me with which foot I stumbled. Wonderingly, I. asked her what possible difference it made. She smiled but insisted upon knowing; so I told her it was . the right foot. "Then you'll be welcome where you are going.' I pace handed a gentleman and a , . .40W IC, , cup' of tea. Be tisiell the teolpooufskitumed _off the b thles•ots •the surface of the tea, saying, ealtingly f ."45h I took I"..and hastily popp d them intoltis,moitth. ."Well," said ,"what tiw, of it . 7" ‘.'hioneyl" geld h 0.,, yoirsupposktbat that ~ ow, d t usadtheligb that ilwallo*lng those bubbles would bing hiM airy good luck in the money linis 7 Of coins. lip dida't vend if he should - see this' in 'Trutt, he would• be shocked. to thitik that I could imagine him serious in 'the matter, but take my word for it, he would mrer allow hi,s tea babbles Co es• cepellasioT lack of diligence on his past to gather them e • ' • 1 have been.oll the lookout, lately*for the enperetitiona of those abopt me,,aud could gave yoit hundrecle s of others, but these are enongh,for 'samples of those o'retnnants.V • • ..' ,1. .. „ ; How TO un it ß.kto iiiiiTai. ftemlit every 47. • . to , • . 2, ,Iten. A " so orioles, one verso at , a Ilene - . • ' 8: 'Read, sometimes, ono, paragraph at A tithe: • . , 4. Reed, sometimes, a whole chapter; at others, a whole book. • ' 6. 'Sometimes_, read by subjects ; e: g., thi triblesi by themselves ,; one after 'Etat or, etc. . 6; Take one , "character," and trace. it thrqugli.the. 014 and New Testaments ; thuie; direet history or geography; illus ,ixatiVe.cominenbs, either in' the why , of enforcing as ha example or'exhibliing as warning, by ~ contrast with others of a different type. Find Out the contrast between the old And New Testaments; between One saint . and another ; • between some leal ens Christian and some zealous penmen tor between Jew and SarnaritMl. I. Take a-verse, sometimes, to piecia, word by word f and find'len the poten tial worsts are used as else here, and iii what case. D. Use all the helpa' you can get,—if you hates't Et commentary, put by , the, passpges to sal; jour minister the meaning - 0j thein. 10. Above alt, endeavor Co make your Treading of God'e Word improve you in the article of , -self , exemination and rowth in :race. • CUirrek/POS Wit. 2 • CU irlite4 wit. was ilouble-edged,• and cut, like 'a sword,' Ric ruling, pinion was .his jOke, 'and' , it: was 'strong, if . not in death, at least in Lie lan illneea:, One inoraing his pbysicur observed that he seeinsd to "cough with Moro "That is rather-surprising," answered Curran smiling sadly, '-'for I have been practicing all night." While thus lying ill,,turraU,:was visit.' ed by a friend, Fathcr O'Leary, who also hired his joke., "1 wish, 01-Asity," said Curran to hini abruptiy, "that .you bad the, keys Of hearth." "Why,, Often ?" Pecatise you could let; nie in," 'osi& the facetious counsellor.' " would be pooh better for you,Cur. ran," •ipaid. .the good humored priest, "that I had the key of the other , place, because I could then let you out.' A vicar remeekable feature in the to pography of the country presents itself in Wise county, Virginia. At or near the Pound Gap, on the Kentucky side, Is * mountain about four miles in circumfer ence at-its base; in . . this mountain head four rivers, flowing in different directions, nearly corresponding With the four car dinal points of the compass. The, four springs can be seen at one view from the top of this mountain, and they are nearly equt•distant from each other, say a mile apart. These rivers are : the Guest riv er, flowing south into the Clindh the Lick, fork of the Kentucky, running west ; the Cumberland river south, and the Pond river north into the Sandy. They flow through four States, and are all tributary to the Ohio river , Amos° the recent English patents we noti6 one upon an invention which cob• sistkin saturating jute, hemp, or other fibre woven into canvass cloth, or in its manufactured state, with gutta-percha in a soft or liquid state, and pressing' layers of such saturated fibre or canvas cloth together while warm, so as to form a tough fabric of any required thickness, which may be used for the soles and heels of boots and shoes, and for other put.. poses, BlLlVtliblr AND Taug.—lli a late arti cle:lh Freatiel Magazine, this brief, but beautiful - and it*e passage occurs : "Ed uestion does not commence with the Al phabet—it begins with a mother ' s' lore; with a father's smile of approbation, or die of reproof; with a sister's gentle forbearance.; with ok handful of fl owers in p, green' and dainty mead ow; with a bird's, nest admired, but not 'touched ; with creeping ante; of an 1111010 it imper ceptible comet.; with pleasant walks in shady lanes, and with thoughts directed in sweat and kindly touts and words to nature; to acts of benevolence to deeds .of virtue, and to the source of 411 good —God himself." • o • MR, Mann, an analytical chemist in England, had been studying Leviticus, and concluded that the "ashes of an heiter"-1. e l ; ' Animal i t etarobal,and blood Poured ut upon the ground-4i, e., 1 blood and clay all mixed toget er, would make an excellent purifier. Ho _ tried his mixture in tbirty•six thousa d gallons of sewerage and purified it in twenty minutes; . the residum, was found to be worth tw ice the coat of the experiment. It has always been a mystery how the sacrificial' court of the temple was kept pure, and Mr. Wigner's experiment may explain the method. Da. Jzszizos t a well known and highly respected physician of Titusville, Came to hie death 'involuntarily on the 9th inst., by taking a deadly potion of tincture, aconite roof, which ha Mistook for tinc- 1 , tiire,ef orange eel. reeling unwell, be went into the drug store, as was his habit, and the vials standing on , the same shelf. and being of the same size and gener# appearance,and holding conversation witn• a frien d at the Moment, he seems to have accidentally taken the wrong one. This was before breakfast, and about 11 o'clock he was corpse. CHICKEN JaLLT.—EOr chiclen jelly take a large chicken, ut it up into very small piece", bruise the bones, and put the whole into a stone jar wit h a-cover that will make it water•tifiht': Set the jut in a large kettlo of boi water,and keep it boiling for four . hours. Then strain off the liquid,and season it slight. ly, with salt, pepper and mace, or with lemon juice,secording to the taste of the person for whom it is intended. The jelly may be tuadg'of as old fowl. Gems iiouvreig til t . Mr. speaker, 'what eball flay to my! multi. tutenia," exelalnitt) et wfitthfiel member of Conroe on the painsig, 'of a bill, to' which be wall utter!,'o posed. .Met , oho I say?" ite repeated, but foiind' it impossible to ,get beyond. the interroga tory.- 4 "Tell them,"- .replied the waggish Speaker, "that you tried to make a 'speech, but couldn't." ''jr being reported that Lady Caroline Lamb bad, in the heat of passion,knoek ed flown one of her pag es t with a stoo), the poet Moore said, Oh t nothing is more natural' for a li4rarY lady than to double down a page." Lord Straugford, to whom this remark was made, replied: 4 4 I would rather advise Lady &ohne to turn over a new leaf,!' Tits Governor havirig received official information from the flipreme Court that a writ of error, specially cllowed, had been issued in the case of the con• demned prisoners, Brooks and Or*, charged with the, murder 'of Theodora Brodhead, withdrew, the warrati ) ts for their execution, which was to hav taken place on the 26th WM. A NEW HAMMEIIIIE man, told a story about s flock of crows thrao mites hang, and so thick that , you could not see the sun through it. 'Don't beliefe it," was the reply. "Wal l " said the' narrator, "yoli'ro a stranger, and I don't want to quarrel with you. • So, to please you, Pll take off a quarter of a mile from the thinnest part." —Governor Bowie has issued orders to the oyster police to arrest and bring to justice all • parties found violating the Maryland oyster law in the waters of the Chesapeake mid its tributaries. lie is determined to test the law and protect owners of oyster beds from further dep. relations Jy marauders. Tax bee-raisers in We • Louisville, for a circuit of miles, were recently startled cover, that their bees bad all cooly decamped, going no' whither.. The mystery as • still The deserted hives were all fill containing from sixty to g pounds each. ,THE number of miles of li by telegraph in the United 1818; was estimated to be ab, In 1858 the number had in nearly 40,000, and before th this year there will be comple operation about 120,000 mil, graph wire. —Thio Warren Ledger of the 11th hut says that the recent election in tbat A I for borough officers, resulted n the it: , cess of all the Democratic can , idm es , ti cept for Burgess (which resulted in &hi, by a larger average majorit y than erer. —Thames Donohoe, tried t illoogi burg for participation in the unirdq I f W. A. Hen, was acquitted on Thai* morning last, the jurylliaving elibew d all night. Hester, Daffy and Prjor in yet to be tried as his accompli es.. —Frederick N. ilVeille age about h years,, was instantly ki lled n . tbi 60 enst4 in a saw mill at, Claysvi k; Weil ington county—leaving, a wi e and ir.l child, which was born .but al few tor previous to the. death of tho fa her. .4A Western editor thinks t Enoch Arden has encourage. of husbandb, who would °the kept away. The Enoch Ard. life is usually a scallawag, home ragged, dirty and drunk —The New York Sun looks bf the so•called robberies with community has been startled a and as only a convenient de'', ering np defecatiOns, or uv• payment of delta. —Mr. Carpenter, the new Senator, has announced the op, the present adjustment of the; litiotts is a relic of barbarisW no better foundation than t i m toe. —General Lee has publishap biting to hie caallege: He wan, parttucnts cleate d of aricul• merge ind applied chemistry; provement in the engipeer!pg —ln Englend, thieving 1 grease from the wheel boa* The 'WWI of the greem small, but the *damage from. liable to be enormous. . correspondent tells avenue mansion decorated wj lace curtains, lndia46arilcoveri fiirniture, bronze doors, and oi ()gram!' on• every g. • —A contemporary thinks t of the temperance pledge by gressmari. le commonli,lhe p of a series of sprees of unuaual and duration."' ' • . —The Boston Post- tegreto "bear" that used to Sourish on mon is dead ; for since last avei ceedings, he,would make a goof of Congress. • —A New York conductor says he bi been railrorkding for 8O years, but ad met with one 'accident, and he swami five millibn questions from paesergen. —Mr. Sanford; a banker of •Waterford, was inn over and instantly killed on di Bth inst., by being knocked don oil run over by a locomotive, at Coiry. —A bill was to have been ilitrodon? in the Newfoundland Legislature, on fie. urday, for the entrance of Neiqoundlel into the Dominion Confederation. —Washington papers are tell' United ; States Senator on Pen avenue se drunk i that he cos) help himself . along." —ln New York. two boy crawling over the roofs of build recently fallen off and beenkille off the roofs, boys. —Governor Meryl'low, of T lent his resignation to the Legi t the State recently, to take ell' 2Gth Instant: --John C. BrecLintidge is to y dent of h NOntocky ' unsolro Of tiont, le w or w Statti, ut 12,0 k 114 rtaaed t, close V. ed and it s of telt o poeld kindli wise hiTi n in ft & nd c P' 5 11 141?f in ill g :: st! Vibcoviiik inios Britain. , and iv Ivy cl k aced f t 5 tell' it ure l ce t also is •chool syl {l! ti • f tallflt ttkeir its !ono f • i . e.) porn nponi Iver it e 11. ha p , itlitntt that the Co ek's pro mak ng of ' . l nolvan 1 Id hardli p, Ado d. Ket? ennentr, .161 are of et 00 be Pre,
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