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,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 '
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