PITTSBURGH• GAZETTE , . nicE OLDAIIIp.CTI MI.. rd rather' theniO.titile4;_oiil. bell In reek]ess disiordAzing. • ' •••••• tom stoostharmamom swell, 0. Thoughllara'selle Lidd should sing. • i thens is Stlanguagn In its sound— Mut aim* in toad= .1- • Calling:bright images around— , • iteatorin' g pleasures gone: • It falls on mylong-exiled enr, To mike the dead Ore; Friends, kindred, early looes appear, Ana early hones revive. . _ i;ot:Orpiltros, be wham fabled lyre -Gaye breath to stocks and stones, " i.k.ould halm:nth wondrous life inspire • • As thatold tiell a !era tones: • • -A bhild,'onee more, inSunday suit, • - • pemis tny tooth;rS side, . sey•teiyish ,' rattle te Lest Gotland she should chide. A youth, with glowing fancies fraught, The long-lost thoughti arise, Ao when ; in well-known pews, I caught fair Etat lore's soft eyes.' Inman, Lioled roe ago and worth-, 'The fa here of the race; ' , And busy memoiy.ealls them forih Totalca .their honored plane. But...father, mother, early lore, :And early hopes are tied; friends who now my heart etrine mole ~-41.4.deene mo front the dead. end ClLfUl . ge hes iimae, on me on all - The very house of Troyer fillellaught but thy familiar. call , itie there. • • • Jting out, old hilt! Thy noisy chime Ie music to' my hind; • Ring, ring,•utel drown the voice of Time, Lest dreeme and all deport_ J. B. ' . Best Rooms. _Amon all. the follies, prevalent in. the !middle classes, that of sacrificing family :eon:d'art and convenience •tti - the absurd dc 411's- of having abut roam, is 'one 'of the :most ridieelous.. • Let it not be infer* - 4 '.' that we _consider good furniture, elegant, %cnrtains, and• handsome carpets, as super...A dunces luxuries for people in iilebeian St to . " --fat-Irene it. Consistent taste and prod art ', display are to be its riineh„ 'admired in e ' house of a commoner as in the' saloons 'o e • noblenaan; but when a room • is set apart in .rt small domicile as•the mere receptacle of. company, and all in that robin held sac d to frigid ceremony and ostentatious pret n - does--when 'chairs are cased in _ll-ol d jackets, and the carpet puts on a Olaf' re of the same material for months togetheq— ' when the apartment:is literally shut la indicating that fartuly comfort lies a within it, then may the best room be c n derailed as worse than useless. , . For our oivia part, we think there is something perfectly .terrifying in,. bemg • asked into.a stately and fine drawing room, the pillished. bani shining with unnatural brigiatnee4" the' fire irons arranged in stiff angles., evidently never appropriated to their _ purpose; the' table most geometrically sty& tied -with glossy; unread volumes of rubbish; • and the besilked and betasselled sofas.lonk iy ing as if they'were intended. for anyth g - ' bet sitting on. ' We give' an involnn shudder as we, are left to gaze on :.c c ostl y - chimney ornaments and -japanned - scree s, . while the lady of the house is most pro - bly making a rush to execute the•meta r.. plume of dress and cap. 'We would much. ' rather have been introduced to the comition . parlor, where we should have beheld so no urgns of .vitality, and thawed ourselveli into good humored cheerfulness; but then and 'there we might have beheld a basket !of • etockingeand socks undergoing the process of repair; the young mese:eight have been lugging the chairs about, and left a tailless '',horse and li.vrheelless cart 'in the fdre- , grOund; we might Bre formed iniapicums that - bloaters had been among the matin - , .1.-.eondiments; and 0, most dire of all ! We linight have found the mistress in a exile -*hat rumpled morning wrapper, and' a -- "fright of neap." Still, we should greatly ; prefer ,the risks of breaking our neck over Noah's ark, sitting down on a heap of iin darted hose; and encountering a firth-r4te - headgear, to the petrifying, spiritdamping .. fifteen minutes we are sentenced to sit iii a "best room." ' '''.The childien,.if there hap Pen tole such humanizing things in , the establishment; look on the walls with a sort of religianis. awe..: They never "play" in the "best "rooraf they-never dream, of chitching ;at the splendid bell-rope. they never have the remote idea or making lord mayor's most. :manes of, the embroidered footstools, inid =never think of playing at the "be-peep" Wand" the - richly fringed damask draper!.; -- they never dare to speculate as to whether, . :., with a stout pin; they could pick out ,ho eyes of ; the queer little min on the Indian, Pei' boxy - mirth and mischief are thin .' onghly mesmerized, and .the little darling! •• --sit or , stand - -as though-their life-tide iniu "—• been euddenly manufactured into the lihst. starch'"- . - 1 . ' And let us confess that we ripe - mace • no inconsiderable sense of misery oarselnes l in such a situation:- It may-be tbai a tram of ging blood is in our veins,,or that .; :some natural disqualification for " geilli '' ty,".,n'qually, igeoble, marks n - s, but wed ere m.. , UW.• ' ' , never:quite comfortable in a room that is only occupied on "grand occasions." ! 1 -.—Erizapooke. , . I thathg:ffickory Timber. Permit me to ,mentions fact in relation to cutting hickory timber for farm and other uses: Threo Or four years ago, I w 31 - tOd by a very old man, (who is famous for his forks, rakes; &v., made of hickory,) that if I would diet the wood upon tho 4th, 50 and : 6th days •after the new moon ' in Augdst, that:llo ..wpald warrant it not to be destroyed by the worm or berei. • The result Thriller eral years has verified ,the old man's predic whilst that cut through the-winter, and at all other times through the summer,: and not ,harked, (as a trial,) has been mien Sizroughout, . 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