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STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. APRIL 5, 1855.
' 'NO, 20,
VOL 15.
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"GIYE HE THE- OLD."
,..' BY P.. II. rJESSIXGER.
Old'icine to drink, old icond to hum, old books
,xtb-rcad end old friends io converse with.
- 0i wine to drink! 4
-Ay. give the slippery juice,
T-itat.liippcth from lhejrape thrown loose;
uhippethfrom ihe
Within the tun ;
uP!uckd from beneath the cliff
v Of sunny-sMed Teneriffe, ''r
And ripen'd 'neath the blink
t Of India's'Eun !
' " Peat w hiskey hot,
TempeiM with wel!-boHcH" watgrj,
These make the long night shorter,
Forgetting not . .. ? ? I ll I
Good stout old English porter! ii-y-
Old wood to bnrn! . a-K-.'
Aw brinT the hillside beech "t"
Fmm where the ou lets meet and screech,1
And ravens crnak ;
The crackling pine, and cedar sweet;
,Bring too a clump of fragrant peRt,
Dug neath the furn .; ' "
The knotted oak,
A faggot too, perhap,
.Whose bright flame dawning,, winking,
Shall light as at our drinking
While the oozing sap
,Shall make sweet music to our thinking.
Old books to read !
Ay, bring those nodes of wit,
The braaen-claso'd, the vellum writ,
Time-honor'd tomes !
The same my sire scann'd before,
The-samc my grar.dsire thumbed o'er,
The same his sire from collpgc bore,
The well-eam'd meed
Of Oxford's domes;
Old Homer blind,
.Old Horace, rake Anacreon, by
Old Tully, Plaulus, Terence lie;
Alort Arthur's olden minstrelsie,
Quaint Burton, quainter Spenser, ay,
And Gervase Markham's venerie
Nor leave behind t.
ft V
E5ft
.9 .
I rpj,e T-j(,iye Bools by w hich we live and die.
Old friends to talk !
Ay, bring those choeen few,
: TJie wiee, the courtly and the true,
So rarely found !
"Htm for my wine, him for my ttud,
Iiim for my easel, distich, bud
In mountain walk !
Urinsr Walter good:
With soulful-Fred; and learned Will,
And tliee, my alter ego (dearer still
, For every .mood.)
These add a bouquet to my wine !
.These adJ a sparkle to my pine !
If these I tine,
Qan books or fire, or wine be good!
Curious Statistics.
' , Soma statistical genius declares that
''more money is expended in the United
States for cigars than for all the common
leohools in the Union." A wag, who is
undoubtedly a lover of tho weed, seeing
V this statement going the rounds of the
paperSj gcti off the following:
It has been calculated that the cost of
.gashing linen, that might just as well be
worn two days longer, amounts to enough
in this country to moro than defray tuejHowgad a rcflection, and how expressive
riespenses
oi mo iimeriuuu .uuaru on
'Foreign Missions.
The expense of buttons worn on the
"backs of our coats, where they are of no
earthly use, is equal to the eupport of all
orphan apylums.
The. value of tails to dress coats (of no
lue in reality for warmth or convenience
Vfil
greater than the cost of our.
excellent system or common scnoois.
It hasbeeu estimated that the value of . oW a'g6j with tottering step and silvery
old boots thrown aside, which might bave;bairj dr00pg Hke a w;tuerod ieaf it is yet
:neen worn at least u uajr juSei, w u'"lc.too soon. Vhen the middle-aged, with
than enougu to Duy a nannei mgnt, gowu
for every baby in the land.
AJbo, that the cost or the extra men on
the tall shirt collars of our young men is
equal to tho sum necessary to put the
. . . m .. f 11..
Bible into the hands of every one of the
Patagonian
giants.
t- Men arc sometimes accused of
pride, more because their accusers would ,
'be proud themselves were they in their?
places.
They have got to 'growing chick
v.5ps.so large in jilassacnusetts, the farm--ori
have to sell them by the quarter, like
- pork. These are chickens to crow over.
iBGT If folly were a pain, there would
dfceproaninin every house.
, " - :- TYuth isiknowVbutdfWcry-jew--
' 'aeMen often blu6h tq.shear .whathrHile falso -opinions go4u1re0jthi"Be
jfney were not ash amod toaot. rest of tho 'world'.' " --"V "X j
, , , m km, 7. -?.-:. - , mm V" . . a
Faithful PreachiDg.
Rev. W. H. Millburn, to illustrate the
peculiar faithfulness of some of the early
Kentucky clergy, said in a recent lecture:
'An incident related by Ewell White,
himself a man of note, will illustrate this.
It happened at one time that a meeting
was appointed in , in old Simon
Kenton's county. A preacher named old
James Axley, familarly called Jemmy
Axlcy, by his friends, and very popular,
was expected. But when he came ho
brought another with him, who spoke
first. This disappointed the people, and
there was a good deal of noise and confu
sion, and great inattention on the part of
the audience. It is customary when two
ministers arc present, for both to address
the meeting ; if onQ drivc3 in a nail of
truth, the other clenches it. When Axlev
arose, all was still, everybody was dis--
posed to listen.
" 'My friends,' said he, looking round
with a keen observant glance, 'it is per
i haps a painful, but always a necessary
1 .
duty or your minister to reprove sin,
AVUerever found, and be assured I shall
uot shrink from it on this occasion. Kow,'
said he, 'that sandy-headed man, standing
by the door, that went out while the
brother was speaking, staid as long as ho
wished, got his boots covered with mud,
came in and made such a noise cleaning
them as to disturb everybody, and pre
vent their hearing scarcely a word, that
man thinks I mean him. And well he
'might think so, for it was a disgrace to
i Kentucky to say he was raised here and
had no more manners. Now, my friend,
I advise you to go home, and learn how
! , 1 .alt t
to keuave when you come to the house of
prayer
isui i clan i mean mm.
" 'That little girl about the middle of
the floor, with flowers inside her bonnet,
that was giggling and laughing and chat
tering all the time the brother wasspeak
ing, thinks I mean her. And she ought.
I am sorry for her parects,who have raised
a girl to fifteen, without learning how to
behave modestly and properly, and they
tire to be pitied. Little girl, before you
come again, learn to be quiet and rever
end in thehousc of God, and respectful
to the ministers He has sent. But I do
not mean her.
" 'And now that man on the bench
towards the corner, that's looking up as
bright and wide awake as if he had nev
er been asleep in his life, and never ex
pected to be, but who was nodding and
bowing all through the preaching, and
snoring so a3 to disturb all around him
' he thinks I mean him. And indeed he
well may. My friend, the house of God
is not intended for a sleeping-room.
When you want to take a nap, go home
and go to bed and take it regularly ; but
you come here for another purpose. But
I don't mean him.'
" 'And thus he went on, fixing his dark,
piercing eye on each offender,' singling
him. out in such a manner that he could
not be mistaken, till be had nearly gone
through with all who had made anv dis
turbance, ending each reproval with, But
I don't mean him, or her. White, mean
while, was sitting on a bench in front of
' Axley, enjoying the fnn amazingly, laugh
ing, rubbing his hands, chewing more lus
' tily, and spitting more vigorously and pro
fusely than before, af each new offender
was brought, till the aisle before him was
a puddle.
'r Now,'' said Axley, darwing himself
up, and with a severe look, 'Icalculate you
want to know who I do mean,' pointing di
rectly to White 'I mean that nasty, dir-
; ty, filthy tobacco chewcr. Look at the
I filthy, brown puddle before hira ; a toad
wouldn't hop in it, and to think of the sis
ters dresse3 having to go through it.
" White was thunderstruck. He nev
er apain was known to chew tobacco in
meeting."
Too Soon.
Upon the monument erected to the
memory of Hon. C. G. AthertCjTj, of New
Hampshire, is the following inscription:
This I expected, but Us too soon."
or weaknessi loo soon is tne last ex
pression of all thing3 human and earthly.
When the smiling flowers deck the land
scape with their gayest dress, the frost
too soon nips their tender lives. When
the merry sleigh-bells jingle, and when
t home "compliments" and "will be
fl v.mit tuh a Hnnnr.fi.lirII
the spring with its "merry, merry sun-
ll - inn RnnT, nn(t ernr.n Whrn
elastic step and manly air, confronts the
rough world, then falls into the grave
like blasted fruit, his wife and little ones
hutpr firv. wv-.f. ton sonn
Wheil tho infant a frail biossom that
bloomed upon the verge of the grave, has
been garnered to its kingdom, the strick
en parent in humility bows to the afflic
tion, but writes upon his memory, "he
- died too soon." xoo laie wo discover tne
deception when too soon makes grief
doubly sorrowful.
jQ j An Irishman in Worcester, Mass.,
who bad been fined several weeks in suc
cession, for getting drunk on Saturday
night, coolly proposed to tho judge that
he should take him by the year at a re
duced rate.
Dishonest Servants How the Supplies
. Disappear.
In families where the internal kitchen
arrangements are left almost solely to thej0f Pauperism," says : "I do not know
management of the domestics, the very how it is in other states, but in this there
large demand for supplies for the table 'is a doleful lack of agricultural laborers,
not unfrequently escites wonder as to especially in the domestio department;
what becomes of all the articles furnish- and in looking for the cause, I take into
ed the larder. There are many families, J account that Pennsylvania was principai
without being aware of tho fact, supply-jly settled by German and Irish. As it
ing one or more families with greater or;js scripture wisdom to look at the rock
less quantities of bread, tea, sugar, cof-
fee, coal, wearing apparel, and various
other articles, all of which is dispensed
in so ingenious a manner that the invol
untary donors arc cot aware of their un
heralded philanthrophy.
Tho following incident will illustrate
the point in question: A few weeks since
Capt. Hayden, residing in Fifth street,
near South Eighth street, (late Williams
burg,) returned home in thcevening, ac
companied by a friend; their overcoats
wcro hung in the hall, and at a late hour
were found to be missing, and of course
a verdict of "stolen by hall thieves" was
rendered. At various timos articles were
missing sometimes jewelry; at others,
wearing apparel or bed clothing all in
a very mysterious manner. Tho grocery
bills were found to increase at an alarm
ing rate, and the coal disappeared like
snow before a March sun. Finally, the
heads of tho department held a consulta
tion and decided to dismiss the servant
girl. Tho girl had been absent but a
short time when, before Mrs. Hayden had
an opportunity to go in search of help, a
girl applied for a situation, having un
derstood that there was a vacancy, (all
vacancies are immediately made known
amongst servants.) The girl was hirod,
but articles of various descriptions con
tinued to disappear in the samo myster
ious mannei; and finally, last week, the
second girl was discharged. On the same
day a female wa3 lookiug for a situation,
when she was met by one of these girls,
aud in answer to an inquiry was told that
she knew of a situation. The two then
proceeded to the residenco of the females
who had been discharged, in Division av
enue, where they partook of a dinner.
The girl w&3 then told that the place
where the' would send her was a good
one that they had taken bedclothes,
dresses, jewelry, provisions, and even
coal, without being detected. They de
sired that she should secure the situation,
and continue to plunder. She should
pack up a basket of provisions every
night, and they would call or send for
them every morning at 4 o'clock. This
wa3 the plan they had pursued all along.
The girl left them under tho impression
that she coincided with their plans, and
proceeding to Captain Haydeu's resi
dence, related the facts as they had been
stated to her. A search warrant was im
mediately procured, and on the officer
entering tho house, the girls were found
employed cutting up a splendid silk dress
which had been stolen from Mrs. Hayden ;
eorne linen sheets were being made up in
to under garments, and some bed cloth
ing and other articles were also found.
The girls, whose names were given a3 E
liza Wcisser and Teresa Fry, were taken
before Justice Boswcll who committed
them to the Penitentiary. Eliza Wcisser
has since been discharged by paying a
fine of S10, her friends agreeing to take
her into the country. N. Y. Herald.
Grafted Chestnut Trees.
The Cincinnati Gazette publishes a let
ter from Mr. Sheldon I. Kellogg, to the
Wine-Growers' Association, dated Bor
deaux, France on tho cultivation of the
chestnut. He says :
" I have been much surprised in seeing
the great dependence the poorer classes
make upon tho large chestnut for their
daily food. It 13 cultivated in this neigh
borhood in great abundance for this pur
pose. All classes use them more or less;
the rich haying them daily brought upon
their tables a desert, either boiled or
or roasted. It is often made into a soup,
which is highly esteemed. They are
cooked An a multitude of ways, and I
know of nothing of a farinactous nature
which is so very delicate and nourishing.
Tho marron, or largo chestnut, is the
produce of tho wild chestnut after being
engrafted. The wild tree, at three or
four years of age, is cut square off, way
four or five feet from the ground. The
stump is then split twice. These splits
intersect at right angles at the center of
the stump. There is then inserted one
good sized branch of the same tree in ev
ery section of the splits, making four
branches in each stump. Care is always
taken to make the bark of the branches
and the bark of the stump join each oth
er as closely as possible. The graft is
then surrounded with clay and moss, to
prevent the outflow of the sap, and it
scarcely ever fails of success. The per
iod selected in this climate for this opera
tion is the month of February. The pro
duce of this graft is usually a fine, large,
beautifully colored marron, about the
size of our buckeyes. They are much :
moro delicate in texture and flavor than
our own wild chestnut. They are never
eaten without being cooked, lne tree is
a very beautiful oue, being, though not
so high as ours, much more dense in fol - '
lage, anu euauiug a larger epuuu ui
ground."
m . mt j. I
HnsRcau tens us mat .to wrtto a coou jiut wno sunnosou. ueacon. inai a, man oi
love eireryouoxighV to 'Begin with6ut'your years would give such.dvjce i tp,a
knowing what yon rhbah to say and finish person jujstarting in life?" f , .
without knowing what you have said. ' This took (he deacon down.
Woman's Mission.
Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm, of Pittsburg,
in a letter on "The Cause and llemedy
from whence wo were hewn, and tho hole
0f the pit from whence wo were digged,
let us recall the Dutchman by no means
a myth who thought the pretended
freedom of this country all a humbug be
cause a man could not whip his own wife.
Wo 'have a neighbor who was lately
clearing a piece of ground on the side of
a steep bill. A German resident in
quired, if he would plow it?
"Oh, no!" was the answer, "it is.. too
steep." n
"Oh, by sure we plow that in Ger
many." " Plow that! Why, man, a horse could
not walk on it! How would you plow
it?"
' Mit vomans !" was the sturdy re
sponse. " With women, Charley!" exclaimed
the owner of the tillable hind, doubting
his having heard aright.
"Oh, yes; hitch eight vomans in they
blow dat very goot."
While the Pennsylvania railroad was
in course of grading, somo Irish lived in
a shanty near. Tho woman carried all
tho coal used from a pit, a mile distant.
The owner of the coal told one of the
husbands to bring his cart and draw coal
for his family.
"An' be my faith, an' what would she
have to do then?" was the reply.
"These are extreme case of the spirit
of our ancestors, but I assure you, sir, the
blood has not run out in the old Key
stone state, as you will see by referring
to our laws which declare a man's title to
the services of his wife, and enable him
to collect her wages. In cities, the pe
culiar marts are fast wearing out; but in
rural districts, the old sturdy German
spirit which hitches "de vomans in the
blow," is still very perceptible in its
workings. From all observations I have
been able to market, it is my firm con
viction, that, on an average, each Penn
sylvania farmer's wife does as much
drudgery as three house servants in any
slave state in this Union."
Power of Women in Turkey.
A man meeting a woman in the street,
turns his head from her, as if it were for
bidden to look on her. They seem to do
test an impudent woman, to shun and a
void her.
Any one, therefore, among the Chris
tians who may have discussions of alterca
tions with Turks, if he has a woman of
spirit or a virago for his'wife, sets her to
revile and brow-beat them, and by these
means not unfrcquentiy gains his point.
The highest disgrace and shame would
attend a Turk who should rashly lift his
hand against a woman; all he can venture
to do is to treat her with harsh and con
temptuous words or to march off.
The sex lay such stress on this privi
lege, that they are frequently apt to in
dulge their passion to excess, to most un
reasonable in their claims, and violent and
irregular in the pursuit of them. They
will importune, tcazc and insult a judgo
on the benoh, or even the vizier at his di
van. The officers of juslice do not know how
to resent their turbulenco ; and it is gen
eral observation, that to get rid of them,
they often let them gain their cause. Sir
Larpofifs Turkey.
Important to Sportsmen. Tsot long sinco
a youthful friend of ours accidentallyswal
lowed a lead bullet; his friends were very
naturally much alarmed, and his father,
that no means might be spared to save his
darling boy's life sent post haste to a sur
geon of skill, directing the messenger to
tell him the circumstances, and urge his
coming without delays
The doctor was found heard tho dis
mal tale, and with as much unconcern
as he would manifest in a case of common
headache, sat down and wrote the follow
ing laconic note :
"Sir Don't alarm yourself. If after
threo weeks the bullet is not removed,
give the boy a chargo of powder.
Yours, &c.
P. S. ''Don't aim the boy at anybody."
Our friend Ferguson having so much
confidence in the skill and experience of
the doctor, obeys directions.
An Incorrigible Fellow. "Young
man, do you believe in a future state?"
"In nnnrcn T finna finil
what's m
more, L
r
intend to enter it as soon as
Betsy
gets
her wedding things ready
"You mistake me. Do you believe in
r . . . I 1 1 1.
ments?
a luture state oi rewards anu puntdu-
"Most assuredly, If I should cut mugs
with a red-headed woman, I should ex-
ect my uat indented by the first cistern
j0 sue couid jay nor nan(j3 on
- (q0 t0 young man, you are incorrigi-
rjQ iQ
"Go two! if it wasn't for the law agin
bigamy, darnod if I wouldn't go a dozen.
Mi rational.
Fi-om the Massachusetts Teacher.
A Scheming Master.
" He could not govern them ; so he tack-
ed and tickled them.1' These words were , a pound, &c., for the exercise of the, eye
uttered by an observing and influential and the hand. Vases for flowers and nat
sca captain, respecting a. ahrcwd teacher ural grasses. Grammar schools should
of the Grammar School in his place. Ho be furnished with apparatus on'th'e.ol
tried to rule his pupils from true princi- lowing branches of science : Laws of Mat
pies, at first; but this course did not make tor, Laws of Motion, Mechanics, IIydro3
him immediately popular. He held them tatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Electrici
to a close rulo, of discipline in school ty, Optics, Magnetism, Astronomy, A'rith
Jiours, but in play, was as much of a boy metic and Geometry,
as any of his school, to keep their good j Schools thus furnished with a suitable
will. His pupils obeyed in school, be- , library aparatus, have auxiliaries and fa
cause they were pleased with their teach- ' cilities for tho acquisition of a good edu
er; and not because tho line of duty de- 1 cation greatly in advance of such as- are
manded was right. The end never eanc- : deprived of them. Therefore every School
tifies the means. A true teacher should should be amply furnished with such need
not play ball; should not coat with his fu' helps. The wise expenditure of school
young ladies in his lap; should not play money, and the faithful improvement of
games of chance with them, even in sport; the time of the scholar demand this. In
should not go out from house to house, 1 difference and negligence with re?pect to
having "grand times;" should not fre- thus equipping the youthful mind for its
qucnt playing parties with his pupils; ; work, are not only unkind, but cruel in
should not romp and play with his young ;
ladies, in the school-room, after school
hours; should not "get in with" a wealthy
and influential men, to the neglect of oth-
ers: should not make a jest of genuine pi- I
ety; should not deride the personal relig- j
ion of a pupil, assistant, or fellow teach-
er; should not build up a reputation, by
condemning authors and authorities;
should not tell most of the parents, who
send to him, that their children are the
first in his school; should not build his
own reputation, by sacrificing that of his
predecessors in the school,
Should a teacher do these things, he is
educating a school on a wrong basis of ac
tion. A man of very limited acquire
ments may do all this, and be popular,
when a gentleman of rare abilities will
fail to follow rn his footsteps, because he
will not stoop to such low arts. Besides,
such a course forms a wrong standard,
both of taste and of conduct in the young.
It makes caprice, and not conscience nor
judgment, the umpire of the deportment.
Man is too prone, already, to be ruled by
impulse, rather than by the right, with
out the aid of a false school training.
There is far too much of this "tacking
and tickliug" business, in the world about to the human breast. Keeping aloof, we
us, without having our children taught j resolved uot to mar, by any interference,
it, by the example of their teachers. the by no means mystifying operations in
Such example is completely undoing to which the monkeys were engaged,
all true family discipline. It destroys the ! The boa constrictor lay, thoroughly
weight of all truly noble examples, of j gorged, and like a log of wood, beneath
our best men. It purblinds the youth, the same projecting ma-s of cliff, where I
as he goes forth into tho world, so that . had left it. On the summit of this rock
ho rarely form3 a correct judgment of I a troop of monkeys were assembled and
men and things, and thus falls a ready three of the largest and strongest wereoc
victim to their artful and designing icupied in displacing an immense frag
schemes. j ment of massive stone, already loosened
We want our teachers to be model men ( by time and the elements, from the rest
and women.? The pupil should be brought , of the ledge. This mass almost overshad
up to the proper standard, and not the owed the reptile. By enormous exertions
teacher brought down to them. It is a ' made in a silence that was rare with them
fact in human history, that, while a few 1 they at last succeeded in pushing it on
strike out and grow up independent, most- ward until it hung over the boa's head,
ly of examples about them, most persons when uttering a fierce yell, in which every
imbibe from the practical world the char- separate voice mingled until it took a di
acter and manners which they ever after apason of indiscribable discord, by a vig
bear through the world. It is, therefore, , orous movement they shoved it sheer down,
a course full of danger to employ improp-' The heavy mass fell right on the serpent's
er teachers, because they arc so apt to i head, crushing it as if it were a cocoanut ;
leave a copy of their defects in those whom
they teach.
A Parent,
New Bedford, February, 1855.
SCHOOL APPAEATTJS.
Every school should be furnished with
a uorary, wuiuu biiouiu inciuuo, i. doous
on schools and school systems, for the use , remeRlbcr of no corded facts that sur
of the school officers and parents ; and on j this ovidcnco in favor of Iuonk
the theory and practice of 'teaching, for; me am monkey Wwd01B ; aud I
the professional instruction of teachers.- yQach for ita tmh as far as Jt Q
2. Books of reference for the use princi- weU that fripnd Noor;ood.De(,n
pally of teachers and the more advanced . stjj flourishin in lhe Black Towa of Mjld.
scholars 3. Books for circulation among i raSi v.m add hh testi to any;appi
kill; jiupua iu vuuiiii. -x. jjuuns iui lu-
culation among the parents and inhabi
tants of the district and neighborhood.
Tbeso books ahould bo free from every
thing of a sectarian or partizau character.
. In the arrangement and furniture of a
school-house, proyisiou should be made
for the library and apparatus.
In addition to the library, evory school
house should be furnished with such ap
paratus as shall enable the teacher to em
ploy the hand and eye of every pupil in
ilustration and experiment, so fur as if
may be practicable and desirable iu the
course of instruction pursued in the school.
The following articles are indispensa
ble in schools of every grade.
A clock. Tho cardinal points of the
heaveus painted on tho ceiling, or on the
teacher's platform, or on the floor of the
recitation room. As much blackboard,
or black surface on the walls of the school
room and tho recitation-room-, as can be
scoured. A portion of this black surface
' should be in full view of the whole school,
, for passing explanations ; and another
I portion out of the way within reach of the
smaller pupils. One or more moveable
i blackboards, or large slates, with one or
j more moveable stands or supporters.
i All the appendages to a blackboard, such
; as chalk, crayons, and rubber, of soft cloth,
leather, or a sheepskin, and- a poiuter.
j An inkstand, fixed into each desk, with a
lid, aud with a pen-wiper attached. A
! slate, iron bound at the corners, coverod
' with a pencil holder and sponge attached.
A few extra slate? for tho use of tho youn-
gcr pupils, under tho care and direction
f of the teacher. A map of the district,
I i i.. Cfafn inil nnmitrv. A lav-
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restrial globe,
properly
tn
ouutod or sus-
"Firm, n Hi "in iitiiiiriliMiiilWBiii' i litiii m-'-" -""i1 jiB8r1
! pended on n wire.- The measuro of an
j inch, foot, yard and rod, marked off on
; the edgo of the black-board or on. tho
wall. Real measures of all kinds linear,
superficial, solid, and liquid ; as a foot-
rule, a yard-stick, quarts, bushels, an ounce,
the extreme.
The STonkey'3 Sevenge.
A writer in the Chamber's Edingburg
Journal gives a curious anecdote of tho
power of revenge in the monkey tribes.
Climbing one of the slanting asceuts of
the Rummundle cliff, he heard an unusual
commotion, and creeping round a rock,
saw a beautiful brown monkey, which was
nearly crushed to death in the foldseof an
enormous boa constrictor. He thus con
tinues :
When the reptile had fairly commenced
j his repast, and the before flaccid body
! began to fiil and swell, I retired from the
scene of conflict and hall of banquet, desi
rous of summoning my friend Noor-ood-Deen
to assist me in capturing the sated
giant. I knew that when gorged to re
pletion there would be no difficulty in ma
king a prize of the serpent ; and the moon
she entered into my plan?, right willingly.
Accompanied by a stout lasear, bearing a
strong cudgel and a sharp knife.for slaugh
ter and skinning, we lost little time in
reaching the scene, where, however, fresh
marvels were being enacted, proving that
i that the passion of revenge is not confined
I and as the reptile lashed its fearful tail
anout in tne nnai strumcs ot me, we
could not refrain from joining in the sin
gular chorus of rejoicing with whieh the
monkeys now celebrated their accomplish
ed vengeance. Truly, from the feats of
the malicious baboon that gloried in the
name of Major Weir, to the amiable crea-
, nf p, , rwu. foil, T nnn
cant for confirmation of the anecdote;
Well Answered. Uncle Bill Tiyd was
drover from Worcester County, Being
exposed to all weather, i.is complexion
suffered some; but at th best, lie was
none of the whitest.
Stopping at a public house near Brigh
ton, a man rich in this world's goods, but
of notoriously bad character, thought as
Uncle Bill came in, ho would make hina
the butt of a joke.
As the black face of the wcatlier-oeat-en
man appeared in the doorway, he-exclaimed
:
"Mercy on us ! how dark it grows !"
Uncle Bill, surveying him from head
to foot, cooly answered
"Yes, sir ; your character and my com
plexion are enough to darken any room."
A little incident occured in one of tho
schools in West Lynn, recently, says the
News, which is, perhaps, worth relating.
One of the classes was reciting, nnd'the
teacher asked a little American girl' who
the first man was. She answeredtbatehe
did not know. ' . 'X
The question was put to tha uextscjbol:
ar, an Irish girl, who answered c;
"Adam, sir," with apparent, satisfec
tion. -.. - v- .ii i
"La,", said ' tho first soho&r, "you
needn't feel so grand about it, he wasn't
an Irishman I"
Say twiee without a mitkei Pctcr
Piper's peacock peeked a peckdf pepper
out of apewter platter-; if PetcPTpar'a
peacock' pecked a pepk of pppeQutof a
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pevter plater, wuere s mcpeuitfur pepper
! Peter Piper's peacock pecked."
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