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ELIAS EME1UCII,
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'ship near Emerich'. Tavern, and ha. jtt.t
icj a splendid stock of
.'.ill and Winter GOODS-
stock consists or Cloths, Cassimeres, Ca.si
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fry Country produce taken in exchange at
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Lovver Augusta twp., October 10,
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CHESEBROTTGU & PEARSON,
ommission Merchants and Dealers in
'ISM. CHEESE ASD IKOTISiOS,
Vo. 5, .V. Tinier ft., 3 doors tthove Market,
PHILADELPHIA.
audi ai nre buuuuh;
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.lackcrel. I Codhsli, laru,
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Salmon, Beef, Ham,
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Feb. 27, 1858 3m.w.
ALEXANDER KERR,
iMt-oirriu WnoLWuia Hr.LEii is
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U South Wliarvtt, Philadelphia, Pa.
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March 13, 1858. firti
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i. much more durable, and is not anecletf by
the weather, remaining the .amain .ummer af
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March l4.t857
8TJNBURY STEAM FLOURING MILL
rWMi E .ubacriber. respectfully announce to the
A public, that their new Steam Flouring Mill
inth'n place, ha. been completed, and will go
into operation on Monday the 31st day of Au
gust, inst.
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Miller, they trust they will be able, with all the
modern improvement, adopted in their mill, to
give entire .atisfaclion to all who may favor them
with their custom. .
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Sunbury, August 29, 1857. If
"""GILBERT BTJLSCITj
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October 24, 1857. :
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a
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August 15,
1857. tl
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ngntnl Mx.
THE FATAL FLOWER.
BY ECHO Ql'IU.rEN.
'Twas on Niag'ra'g lofty height,
Our Ida May, so lovely gay,
Viewed from the giddy precipice
The plunging tide ana sporting spray,
The aqueous sheet, its smooth descent
Down nature's wondrous battlement.
Thrilled with delight the scene she scan'd,
Jts grand magnificence ador'd,
And peering close, a flow'r she spied
Where human foot had De'er explor'd
A single flow'r withont a mate
To share with it its high estate.
That flowret fair whoso color bright
Knhanced the beauty of its smile
Its petals op'ning to the light
Jts pearly bosom to reveal
Looked sweetly op so winsome bland,
To charm tbo eye and tempt the hand.
Adown the clifT the blossom hung,
To gain it Ida May would dare,
And down from rock to rock she sprang
As lightly as gazella most fair :
Jler comrades terrified with fear
Cried after her she not hear.
Soon, soon buo reached tho pending crag
That high o'erlooked the awful byss J
Here 'gainst its ruggod side llm flow'r
Doigued lifo to draw and sunlight kiss :
With exult beaming in her eyes,
Sweet Ida gazed upon the prize.
Impet'ous girl 1 she know no fear
Thought only of the trophy "won"
Of vent'ring where no other dare
Of praise from the applauding tongue :
Ambition swayed her ardent 60ul
Mild 1'rudence no more had coutrol.
And quickly kneeling over the verge.
She reached far down her lily hand
And seized the flow'r : bot, oh ! tho surge
That whirled beneath ber 'gainst the
straud
Upheaving its tuniult'ous breast
A moment did her gazo arrest I
Appalled her equipoise she lost
A horrid shudder chilled her blood
A shriek it soem'd a voiceless gasp
She dropped a victim to the Hood :
They found poor Ida in an hour
Her hand yet grasped '-The Fatal Floutr."
Ki.vsHi'ttti, !S5(j-.
THE BRIGHTON COACH.
ltv TiiEononr. hook.
Jt was one day in the autumn of 1829, just
as the pavilion clock was striking three, that
I Btepped into Mr. Goodman's coach. In it
I found already a thin stripling enveloped in
a fur pelisse, the otly distinguished murk of
whose sex was a tuft of moustacho on his
upper lip. He wore a traveling cap on his
head, girt with a golden bnnd, and he eyed
me and his other fellow-traveler as though
wo had been of a different race of beings
from himself.
The other fellow-traveler I took to be a
small attorney. He was habited in a drab
great coat, which matched his round, fat face
in color ; his hair, too, was drab, and his hat
was drab ; his features were those of o young
i) ir.
There was or.o more possenger to take up,
and 1 began wondering what it would be like,
and whether it would be male or female, old
or young, handsome or ugly, when my specn
lations were speedily terminated by the arri
val of an extremely delicate, pretty woman,
attended by her maid. The lady wus dressed
in tho extreme of plainness-, and yielded the
palm of gayety to uer soubrctte, vvho mounted
by the side of Mr. Goodman, at the moment
that her mistress placed herself next my
pig-faced friend and opposite me.
The lady in question cast a hasty glance
round, merely, as it should seem, to ascertain
if she was personally acquuihted With any of
her companions. She evidently was not;
and her eyes sauk from the enquiring gaze
round the party, upon a black silk bag which
lay oo ber lap. She was about four or five
and twenty ; tier eyes were blue and her hair
fair it hutig carelessly over her forehead,
and the whole of her costume gave evidence
of a want of attention to what is called "set
tine one's self ofl to best advantage." She
was tall tbin pale j and there was a sweet
expression in her countenance which I shall
never forget ; it was mild and gentle, and
seemed to be formed to its plaintive cast by
suffering and yet why should one so lovely
be unhappy?
.. 1 M . .. . . . n't . 1
As tbe clock strucu we stariea. i ue sud
den turn of the team round the corner of
North and Church streets brought a flush of
color into her cheeks : she was conscious of
the glow which I was watching ; she seemed
ashamed of her own timidity. She looked
up to see if she wus observed ; she saw that
ebo was, ond looked down again.
All this happened in tbe brst hundred aou
seventy yards of a journey of fifty-two miles
and a half.
My pig-faced friend, who sucked bis barley
sugar sonorously, paid little attention to any
body or anything, except himself; and, in
pursuance of that amiable tenderness, pulled
up the window at bis side. The lady, like
the beau in tbe fur coat, laid ber delicate
head back in the corner of tho coach, and
slept, or seemed to sleep.
The horror 1 felt lest my pig-faced friend
should consider it necessary to join in any
conversation which I might venture to origi
nate with my unknown beauty opposite, kept
me quiet: and I "ever and anon" looked anx
iously towards bis vacant features iu hopes to
see the two gray, unmeaning things which
served mm lor eyes, closed in a sweet and
satisfactory slumber. Hut no ; although he
spoke not, and, if any one may judge by
countenance, thought not, still be kept
awake, and ready, as it should seem, to join
in a conversation wnicn ue nau not tbe cou
rage to bogio.
And so we traveled on, and not one sjlla
ble was exchanged until we reached Craw-
lev. There my heart was mucn relieved,
At Hands' Cross be bad dropped tbe cornet
with tbe tufts : horses were ready to convey
him to tome man's bouse to dinner ; and
ben we were quitting Crawley 1 saw my
excellent detnolisber of barley sugar moo at a
regular Sussex buggy, and export himself to
soma town or village out of our road.
1 here made a small effort at ice-breaking
with my delicate coropauioo, who consorted
with ber maid at tbe ead of the room, Wbile
I, with one or two more sensualists from the
outside, was refreshing myself with some cold
fowl and salad. I ventured to ask ber whe
ther lbs would allow me to offer ber soma
wine and water. Ilanir it. thourht 1, if we
stand upon gentility in a stage-coach journey,
smart as tbe things are, we shall never part
sociably. he seemed somewhat of tho same
opinion, for she smiled. 1 shall never forget
it ; it seemed on her placid countenance like
sunshine amidst showers she accepted my
proffered dranght.
"I rather think," said I, "we shall travel
alone the rest of the journey our communi
cative friends have left us."
She made no answers but from tho sort of
expression which passed over her features, I
was very sorry that I had made the remark.
I was iu the greatest possiblo alarm lest she
should require tho presence of ber maid to
play propriety. Hut no ; she bad co sncb
notion.
A summons from Mr. Goodman soon put
the party in motion, and in a few moments
we were again on our journey the dear in
teresting creature and myself tete-a-tete.
"Have yon been long at Hrighton ?" aBked
"Some time," replied tho lady "some
months, iudeed."
Here came a pause.
"You reside in Loudon, I presume," said I.
"In the neighborhood," replied the ludy ;
at the same time drawing tho glove eff her
left hand, (which, by the way, was as white
as snow,) to smooth one of ber eyebrows, as
it appeared by what sho actually did with it,
but, as I thought, to exhibit to my sight the
golden badge which encircled her third finger.
"And," said J, "have you been living alone
at Hrighton so long 1"
"Oli, 1)0," said tho stranger, "my husband
has only left me during the last few weeks,
and has now summoned me home, being uua
blo to rejoin mo on tho coast."
"Happy man !" said 1, "to expect such a
wife."
Now tbero did not seem much in this com
monplace bit of folly, for I meant it for little
else than jest, to summon up a thousand
feelings, and excite a thousand passions to
raise a storm, and cause a flood of tears.
Hut so it was.
My companion held down ber bead to con
ceal her grief, and the big drops fell from her
beautiful ejes.
"If." said 1, "you will so far trust mo as to
coufide your sorrows to me, I pledge myself
to secrecy, and even to procure any course
which you may suggest for relieving tbem."
"My story is brief," said my companion j
"promise mo not to refer to it at any future
period during my life that is, ir o should
ever meet after to day and 1 will trust you."
Here the pressure of the band was equivo
cal j and by a corresponding yet perhaps
more Tervent token, 1 sealed the compact
between us.
"I am the daughter," said she, "of a gene
ral officer, who, with my exemplary mother,
resided chiefly in Somersetshire. Tbo cares
and attention of iny parents were affection
ately devoted to the education and improve
ment of their only child, and I became, as
they have a thousand limes said, the blessing
of their declining years. I was scarcely sev
enteen when 1 lost my father, and his death
produced not only a change of circumstances
in our family, but a change of residence
My mother and myself removed to Hath.
t here we resided until we were inaucea io
visit the
continent, wLere-I am ashamed to I
nobleman became my avowed ad-
3d made an offer of marriage. His
go on a
mirer. and made an offer of marnace
rank was exaltad, his fortune large, but 1
could not love him ; was 1 wrong in refusing
to marry him ?"
"1 loved another, a being all candor, open
ness, honor nnd principle ; talented and ac
complished, gny, full of feeling and generous
to a fault. His name my mother would not
hear me mention. She expelled him from
our house, excluded Him irom my society.
What then ? trick and evasion on my part
supplanted obedience and sincerity. 1 ho
bouse or a mend atlordud opportunities lor
our meeting which my own denied my youth
ful spirit could not bear restraint we eloped
and were married-"
"And thus you secured your happiness,"
said I.
'Happiness!" said my companion; and
never shall 1 Torget tlie bllternoss, sorrow
and remorse which animated her countenance
as she pronounced the words "Misery mis
ery beyond redemption I My mother died
two years after my ill-fated union with the
man of my choice ; and died without forgiving
me my sad error. 'No,' said my angry pa
rent, 'she has chosen hor Course and roust
follow it, and when I am in my cold grave
she will repeut, aud 1 hope to be forgiven.'"
"Hut now were your prospects oi nappi.
ness biiehted ?" said I.
Ab said my companion, "there is the point
there is the story which I dare not tell.
Can 1 betray my uusbund t Can I accuse
bim T Can I commit him to a stranger?"
"lieiDe to a stranger," said I, "and one who.
according to your own commands, is likely to
remain a stranger to him aUays, you surely
may."
"Then hear mo," said tbe lady ; "we bad
scarcely been married three years when, by
some fatality to me wholly unuccouutable, be
became infatuated by come woman woman
1 must call ber who led bim into gaycties
without bis wife ; who fascinated by bis agree
able quantities, became the moaarcb ot bis
auections, the controller ol bis actions, end
who, not satisfied with others attracting bim
from home and all its ties, excited in bis
breast the fiercest jealousy against me.
isut, said 1, "you are returning uome I
I am," returned the lady ; "because the
rival 1 am doomed to boar with it no longer
in Londou and bocause tho avocations of my
husband will not permit him to live in Paris,
Wbituer sue is gooo. lie thinks I am igno
rant of all this, and thicks lama dupo to all
bis artiGces ; and wby should I undeceive
him."
"This rival," said I, "must be a very potent
personage if your ore unable te break the
charm which fascinates your husband, or dis
pel tbe mUuence wbicu she na. over mm.
You must bave tbe power, if you have tbe
win to do so."
"No.' said she, "my power Is cone bis
heart ia lose to me, and is inaccessible by me!
Oh, you little know the treatment I bave to
receive from bim I from bim whose whole
soul was mine, but whose mind is steeled and
poisoned against me. No human being can
tell what 1 bave suffered what I do suffer.
Tbe moment arrived, and we reached tbe
Klephaol and Castle. The sudden check of
Goodman took my poor Fanny by surprise
and threw ber forward so as to bring her in
contact with myself but tbe lamps of tbe
coach bad been lighted ot Smitber ' bottom,
and wt were in the dark, compared with ob
jecti without ; and never shall I forget tbe
burried scramble, with which she "righted
herself" as ber eyes glanced on a counte
nance outside tbe carriage, brightly illumina
ted by the lamp on that tide she teemed
thunderstruck.
"My God I" said she, there is Charles I"
"Who tha dovi. ia Charles V said I.
"Hush I my husband," replied tbe lady j
"he's coming i I'm so glad these people are
in tua coach.
Tho door opened and a band was introdu
ced. "Fanny 1" said tbe master of that hand in
soft tone of endearment.
"Here I am, love," said m? companion.
'Alone what 1 quite full ?" said tbe bus
band. "Yes, dear," snid tbo wife, "and so tired.
I never was so glad to get oot of a coach io
my life."
In a moment I thought be recognized the
voice of the husband. 1 coiled myself into
the corner. She would bave gone out with,
out my being betrayed, if she bad not drop
ped her glove. Why the deuce had she ta
ken it oil ? A light was sent for, and the mo
ment it came 1 beheld, iu the object of all
my indignation and tbe cause of all her sor
row tbe oldest friend of my life Charles
Franklin.
:'Why," exclaimed be, the moment he re
cognized me, "is this you ? fellow-traveler
with my wire, and not known to each other?
this is curious 1"
"Franklin !" Baid I, in a sort or tremor.
"Do you know my husband, sir?" said the
lady "bow very strango !"
"Yes," thought I, "1 wish it were impossi
ble." "I have not seen yon these ten years," said
Franklin. "Come home with us you most
and 1 "
"Indeed," said I "I "
"Oh, come, come," said Franklin ; "you can
bavo no engagement you Bbull have no en
gagement to supersede this. I rejoice in
having found you after so long a separation"
and then Mr. Franklin introduced me to
his wifo in due form, much to the astonish
ment of onr fellow-travelers at tbe other side
of tbe coach, who concluded by what they
bad seen, as indeed they had shown by what
they had said, that we were, if not actually
man and wife, two of tbe oldest and most iu
timate friends.
We loft the coach. My trip from Brigh
ton being periodical and frequent, I bad lug
gage, and we proceeded, with the maid and
the bandboxes, to my friend's bouse of
course I shall be excused mentioning tbe lo
cality but it was one of the prettiest bijoux
I ever saw ; good taste predominated in eve
ry part of the decorations, and I soon discov
ered by certain drawings which were pendent
on tbe walls that my fair companion was an
artist, whilo tbe piano forte aud harp bespoke
her (as she had herself, indeed, informed me
she was,) accomplished in other sciences.
Aftor a suitable delay of preparation, such
as taking off things, and rejreshing, aud all
that, our dinner was served nothing could
be nicer or neater.
"Fanny, dearest," said Mr, Franklin, "let
me give you this wing ; 1 know, my wife, yon
like it."
"No, Charles, dear, not a bit more, thank
you," said Fanny.
"Come, love, a glass of wine with me," said
Charles "it is an old fashion, but we bave
been apart some weeks, so our friend will ex
cuse it."
"To be sure be will," said Fanny, ond tbey
drank to each other with looks admirably
suited to tbe action.
"How strange it is," said Franklin, "that
after so long a separation we should meet in
this extraordinary manner, and that Fanny
SJUUJ have found you out or that y
bould not have discovered her ! '
,. my dear Charles ' said Mrs. Iran
ou
ronk-
lin, "strangers do not talk to each other in
stage coaches."
"Very trne, my angel," said Mr. Franklin;
"but some accident might bave brought your
name to his ears, or bis to yours."
Whilo this was going on, in a stato of per
fect! amazement. -
About this period Funny retired, nnd pro
ceeded to the drawing room, cautioning us as
she departed, "not to bo long." Charles flew
to the door, and opened it for his departing
fair be accompauied her beyond its thres
hold, and 1 thongbt I beard a sound some
thing very like a kiss as they parted.
"How strange it is," said he, resuming bis
seat and pushing tbe wine toward me, "that
you should have thus accidently fallen in with
Fanny ! she is very pretty J don't you think
so?"
"More than pretty, surely," said I ; "thcro
is an intelligence, an expressive niauuer about
ber to me quite captivating."
"If you were present when she is animated,
said her busband. "you would see that playful
ness of countenance, or rather the variety of
expression, to advuutagei her mind lights up
her features wonderfully ; there is no want ol
spirit about ber, 1 can assure you."
"1 was quite surprised when I beard of
your elopement, said 1.
"iter niotner," said manes, "an oiu wo
man as proud as Lucifer, was mad after a
title for ber, and some old broken down lord
had been Wheedled, or coaxed, or cajoled oi
flattered into making ber an offer, which she
would not except, and then tlie old lauy leu
ber such a life that she made op her miud to
the step that made her mine."
"Aud insured your happiness, said 1.
"Wby, yes." said Franklin, "upon my word
taking all things Into the scale, 1 Bee no cause
to repent tho step, lietwcen ourselves oi
course I speak os an old mend runny lias
not the best temper in tbe world, and of late
has taken it into her head to be jealous. An
old acquaintance of mine, wbom 1 knew long
before 1 was married, has been over from
France, and 1 have been a good deal about
with ber during her stay, and as 1 did not
think ber quite a person to introduce to fan
ny, sbe took buff at my frequent absence from
home, ond began to play off a sort of retalia
tion, as she fancied it, with a young lieuten
ant of lancers of our acquaintance. I cut luo
matter very short; I proposed an excursion
to Uri-'hton to visit my mother, to which she
acceded, and when I bud settled ber out of
reach of her young hero, and nnder tbe eye oi
my mamma, i returned io iuiuii my cubb
men! in London. And now that this fair ob
stacle to ber happiness has returned.' to the
continent, so 1 have recalled my better half.
"You aeeui. however, to understand eacu
nther nruttv well.', said I.
"To be ure. replied l-baries, -iue omj
loint is to keep ber in good buuior, for inter
not her temper la tbe very aevii once m
haw to manaire that, and all ifoes well, nnd 1
flatter myself 1 have ascertained tbe mode of
doing that to nicety.
Whether it was that Fanny was anpreben
aiA th.r nnnVr tha venial influoce of her bus
band's wiue, or upon tbe score of old friend
ship, I might let slip some part of the day s
adventure 1 Know noi, uui we wer ij
summoned to coffee, and I confess I was by
no meaos displeased at tbe termination or the
conversation which every moment I expected
would take tome turn that would inevitably
rnuinr. a. recurrence to the iouroey, and per
haps eventually tend to betray tbe coufldeoce
wbicb the oppressed wife bad reposod io me.
We repaired to tbe drawing room. Fanny
hi raclinino- on the sofa. looking as raciua
lino- a. crer I taw a ladv look. "Charles.
dearest." taid she. "I thought yon would
never come up, you and your frieud must cer
tainly bave bad something very interesting
to talk about to nave attained you so long
"Wo did not think it lonp, Fanny," snid
Charles, "because we rOall; were taking on a
very interesting subject we were discussing
yoo."
"Oh, my dear Charles," exclnmed the lady,
"you flatter me ; and what did hu say of me?"
the said, addressing me.
"That, snid I, "I cannot tell you j I never
betray anything that is told me in confidence.
Her looks explained that she was particu
larly glad to bear me say so, and tbe smile
which followed was gracious in the extreme.
"Now." Said Clmrln. -'that rnn Intro tl.n.
Itrahgely found yonr way here, 1 hope we shall J
see you oiien. "
"And I hope so too," said Mrs. Franklin.
I really believe sometimes that things ihich
we blind mortals call chance are preordained.
I was not coming by the coach in which I mot
you, nor should I have been in it if the other
cooch bad not been full, and then "
"I should have lost the pleasure." snid I,
"of seeing an old friend enjoying the delights
of domestic happiness."
Here Fanny gave me a look expressivo of
tho perfect misery of her condition ; and
Charles, whose back was turned toward us
at the instant, in coming np the room again,
wbile ber back was turned to bim, made a
sort of face, something between the sorrow
ful ond the grotesque, which I shall never
forget, but which indicated, most unequivo
cally, what his feelings were on the subject.
Shortly after this tbe happy pair began to
be so excessively kind and tender to each
other that I thought it was time to beat a
retreat, and accordingly took my leave, ear
nestly pressed by both parties to repeat my
visit as often as I could and let them see as
much of me as possible. 1 returned them my
warmest thanks for their kindness, but named
no day for my return, and wished them good
night.
I have not been there since. I called,
indeed, once, and Charles called on me, but I
hove been little in London during the last
season, and they have been much in the
country. I could not have equitably main
tained an intimacy with them, for I felt
neutrality would be quite out of the question.
Thus, although the recurrence of my old
friondship with Charles Franklin has been
productive of no very satisfactory results, os
relating to ourselves personally, it has given
mo an additional light in my path through tho
world, and now whenever I see a picture of
perfect happiness presented to my eyes, affec
tion on one side and devotion on the other,
assiduity met by kindness, and solicitude re
paid with smiles, instead of feeling my heart
grow with rapture at tho beautiful scene be
fore me, I instantly recollect that I once tra
veled to London io a Hrighton Coach.
Coffee Curious History of its Use.
From Venice, coffee wa. introduced to Eng
land, France, and Holland. Tho First public
coll'ee-house was opened in London in the year
1652 a few years afterwards a second appeared
in Paris, and a third in Amsterdam. Not, how
ever, until the year 1602, wa. collee known in
Germany ; it wa. imported from Holland already
roasted. Tlie first public collee-house was es
tablished at Leipzig, in the year 1780, which,
no doubt, is the oldest coffee-house in the world,
and it is even at the present day a place of
public amusement. Two circumstanco. contrib
uted principally to make collee a generil beve
rage in Germany : firstly, that conce wa. excep
ted by the government from the taxes laid on
beer and wine; and secondly, the powers of cof
fee to produce an agreeable excitement without
producing intoxication. These qualities made
it the most agreeable to ladies and business
men. '1 he Jew. in Germany, known to be the
most active merchant., became exceedingly fond
of thi. enlivening beverage, and also the poets.
It is a well known story, that Kosseau, once on
a visit to Voltaire, remarked to the latter that
collee was a poison. Voluiro replied : "True,
but a poison that affect, the health very slowly,
as I have been drinking it for sixty years."
The greatest opponents to coffee drinking are
the homeopathic doctors, who consider collee as
most injurious In the health. Indeed it is, to
nervous people, particularly strong coffee ; also
to dyspeptic, it may prove not Uigastible, but in
tho latter case, its ill-digestion arise, from the
impure milk which i. mixed with it.
The French and German, drink more Mack
coffee than white, and take soon afterward a
glass of pure cold water, and that custom ia one
which it would be useful to aJo(.t in this country ;
a. in this manner coffee i. not injurious to ple
thoric people; it they drink only a .mall quanti
ty of it. It serves under this condition to aid
digestion, and Io enliven the spirit. To young
people, u I. not so wholesome a. Ieer soup.
which is used for them in Germany. 1 here is
often added to coffee roasted roots, aa that of
succory orcanot, for instance, which dimini.he
tho flavor. Roasted beans of cocoa, on the
other hand, are most healthy and palatable if
mixed Willi coffee. The 1 urka add ditlerent
spices, and the French pour rum in it, as do also
the Italian, and Germans; and they use some
time, the yolk of an egg instead of c renin, which
i. commendable where there i. no gdod milk to
be found. Particular care is every where taken,
except in this country, not to roast or grind cof.
fee before it is wanted lor immediate use, other
wise it loses by exhalation the volatile oil which
imparts such an excellent flavor to it.
t he smoke of roasted collee I. one ol the most
powerful disinfectants. Coffee ia also ar anti
dote Io poison, ol opium, cherry laurel, and in
toxication. The coniumption of collee is from
year to year increasing. In t.uro alone, lor
instance, the importation in a period of ten
years, from 1HI7 td 1627, increased from one
hundred and sixty million, to two Hundred and
twenty-five million, of pound..
The collee tree reaches a height of twenty
feet, ha. with its branches pyramidal formed
evergreen leaves, and is considered one of the
most beautiful of trees. In the third year it
yield, three pounds of beans. In highest esti
mation, concerning the quality, stand. Mocha
coffee, from Arabia; next to it St. Domingo,
Java, St. Jago de Cuba, anJ then Rio, of Brazil
and Cuba. However, one kind i. found more
palatable iu one country than another, and dif
ferent nation, give preference to a different kind
of coffee.
By-akuBv. Here's a little scrap or rhyme
which more than one may profit by reading
Not a few good resolutions, sincere pledges
and warm hearts are broken, by listening to
tbe syren, tbe burdeu or whose song is "Hy-aud-Uy."
There's a little mischief-making
KICn, wbo is ever nigh,
Thwarting every nndertaking.
And bit name ia "By-aud-By."
What we ought to do this minute,
"Will be better done," be ll cry,
"H to-morrow we begin it
rut It off," sayt "By-and by."
Those who bead bit treacherous wooing,
Will bis fuithless guidance rue 1
Wbat we always put off doing,
Surely we shall never do.
We shall reach wbat we eodeavor,
If on Now we more rely ;
But unto tha realms of Nkvks,
Leads tbe pilot "Hy-aod by.''
No man believes absolute DODtense, al
though be often speaks it.
THE ciiilCBEN.
MART 1IOWITT.
I'tsuliful tliechriMreii'i fncet !
ftpitfi of all (hat nuns nnd tram ;
Ta my inmost Iwnrt appealing;
CflHim forth love'i teitdcreit fevting j
8tf ppiny all my ul with trail.
Dmi ii ent the children'! fncei
Povprly'ti !enn look, which snitrt,
Saveui! anveui! woe lurroundi un;
1 .title krrowtedjxe sore cnnfoiifitlf u ;
Life ift but a lingering death.
Give ut light amid otit dark new ;
Iet ui know tlie gMd from ill ;
llule m not for all our hliitdncas ;
Itovc tin, lead lift, show ua kiiidnrps
You can innke til what you will.
We ore willing, we are ready j
We would learn if you would tench ;
We have hen it tlmt yearu to duty ;
We have miudi ulirc to beauty ;
Sou la that any height! can rcneh!
Paiae ua hy your Christian knowledge;
Coiiftccfnte to man our power ;
!etua take oul propet station :
We, the riling gencmtimi,
lsct ui stamp the ngc aa ours !
We aha!l le what you will mn'ke us
Mnke ua wise and innke us good !
Make ut strong in time of trial ;
Teuch ua tetnperancc, sc-lf-driiial,
ratU'iice, kindness, fortitude..
Iook into our childish (aces :
See ye not our willintr heurti ?
O11I7 love usonly lead ua j
Drily let ua know ymi needs us,
And we all will du our parti
We are thousands m;my thouaiiiids
Kvery day our rnnka inercnw: ;
Let ui inarch beneath your banner,
We, the legion of true bonnr.
Combating for love nnd peace '.
Train ui? try ui! duyi alide onward.
They cau ne'er le oura again :
Save ua! aave, from oar undoing !
Have from ignorance and ruin ;
Make ui worthy to be men
Send into our weeping mother,
Angebatamped in heart and brow!
We may be out father! teacher i ;
We may be the mightiest preachers,
In the day that diaweth now!
Such the children's mute appealing,
All my iniaoit aou I was stirred ;
Aud my heart wui bowed with aadncii,
When a cry, like summer! gladness,
Said, "T.ie children! prayer u heard. M
lisccIIancou5.
1 LAGER DEtn ISTOXICATIKti.
We observe by the New York papers that
onother trial took place on Monday last be
fore Judge Duly of the Court of Common
1'luas, in Brooklyn. Tho proprietor of a sa
loon in that city, and was charged by two po
lico with selling intoxicating liquor on tho
Sabbuth. In the course of the trial, Dr. lo
roniue was placed on tho stand and testified
that ho had analysed six specimens of Lager;
"the chief constituents of ench being three
per cent, water, three per ccht. alcohol, and
two, four or six per cent, of extracted matter,
consisting or a variety or organic substances; j
alcohol hud generally a Mimulntinp effect on '
tho system ; Lager Beer bos a kind of a t-Ui- j
pefying effect, and does not produce a ten- '
iluucy to enmbativeness wbicb follows '.lie
drinking of soma other oleobolie drinks;
Brandy contained 53 to 55 percent, of alco
hol ; Madeira wino 20 to 23 per cent.; Port
wine 25 ; Kliiue wine 10 to 12 ; Claret 12 to
10; I'orrer and Alo 5 to t ; Cider 9 to 10 ;
the alcohol has a tendency to produce an ex
hilarating oflut-t ; coffee and tea are exilera
ting in their effect, but not in iho manlier in
which alcohol is ; witness believed that a per
son could get intoxicated by drinking I.sger
Beer, and his belief was founded on a scien
tific examination of the substances it con
tained." A witness named Haas, swore that he had
drunk one hniulretl and six glasses, equal to
10 gallons in on day, and that before coming
to Court that morning bad drank twenty
three or tweuty-five glasses. Several other
witnesses testified to having often drank from
20 to 60 glassses wi'.hin a space or less than
twenty-four hours.
t'IK(.TLTlO OF COSGttlisStOVtL.
SPECCHES.
Tho Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune gives tbe statistics or tho num.
ber or speeches sent by United States Sena
tors to various sections during the first five
months or the present session. Some idea
may be had or tho enormous tax or money
time, and labor imposed upon tho members
or Congress, by glancing over the figures
appended to tho various names. Tbe overage
cost or these documents is said to be S2 per
hundred, which is paid out of tho pockets or
thoso who send them. The number distribu
ted by the members or the Ilodso or Ivepre
sentatives cannot bo less than three or rour
million, and they must doubtless exert con
siderable Influence upon the mi:.ds of the
reading portion of tbe country, whether suffi.
cient, however, to pay for tho expense be
stowed is questionable.
VflKE STJTKS;
Itiiinlin. y.t .
FrMrmlrn, Me.,
Male, V II ,
l-Xuk, N. II.,
Faole. VI.,
Colkiintl, Vt.,
'il il, Mum ,
SWuuuer, Mmm ,
Kiiiimiin.. It. 1 j
1 1,7(10 Itiuler, lVuun , 18 vxi
II,. tin Waile, Ohm, I .Duo
3,011 Pupil, li!v. Ssttsj
S.wsi Fil.-l, 1ml , III 8(10
3 1 1' Hiiflil. ImI . IHO Till
.I.'iOTiiiiiiIhiIi, III , SIMilO
III IIHl l..iifii. Ill . I'fe.Of.l
euurhaiialrr. Mieli., :mi
t.li Ptlinrt, Mich , a.!M
:i llurlun. low a, rj.lKto
,tWI.I.lir, r
8 -.110 Puikee, Wi , S.lil.1
V,7'Ji Ui.'lilllr, Wis , r.KiO
17, SO rtwin, Cnl , ( SW1
ti.usi Hr. JctK k, Oil , 1 U"
OKiia,
,0ooi Touil, S-t,rt(
SI.AVK STATKS. '
Allen, II. I.,
r-.ler, Contl ,
llixon. Conn.,
Hewsrtl. N. V.,
Kinu.N.Y.
Ttownnsnn. V J.,
Wiittht, N 1 ,
Cuiiieron, Peuna.,
Iliiynid, rirl ,
P nicer. Mil.,
KrtmeJy, Mil.,
Mioit, Va ,
llimtrr, V. ,
Held, N C ,
U,alfs, N. e.,
Kvaua, feV 4-.,
llainta.Msi, tt. C,
lvcrs4i, lis.,
Toombs, i
Mnllory. Kla
Vole, Fta ,
I, 7.iK Klltnutrirk, Ala ,
I'lUKr Hhiwn, Mis..,
A, 100 l)nvi, Mlu ,
V 70JI Itriijxuuil, l.a.,
II. 'l.i 1 41 ,
l J,iliiiui, Ark ,
tun SrUislmii, Ark,
?i.l (irreu. Mo.,
i.7UII',lk, Mo.,
'jnu'Urittt-ii.leil, Ky ,
g, oi -Bell, 'ivuii ,
t.llSJ tloukkli, Tnai,
Clay, Ala ,
,7sul Total, IVC.bAO
Making a grand total of 811.C20 speeches
circulated iu tbe short space of five mouths.
"I Don't Believe it't any use, this vaccina
tion," said a Yankee. "1 bad a child vaccina
ted, and be Ml out of tbe wiuder a weik arttr
and got killed "
Quilts are tbioct that art sometimes taken
rom the pinnion of one goose to spread ta
piuious ol auottier,
(!kms From M n. Bum-nfen't I.if k TttotoiiTH.
"1 foul sensitive about theologies. Theology
Is good in its place but when Jt puts Its
hoofs upon a living palpitating, human heart
my heart Out against it."
"There nre many troubles vjjiich yon can
not cure by tho Bible Arid tho hymnbook, but
which you can cure by n good perspirulioh
ond a breath of fresh air."
The most dangerous iufidelity of the day is
tlie Infidelity of the rich aud orthodox chur
chos."
"Doctrine is nothing but tlie skin or Truth
stuffed add set np."
"It is not conviction or truth which does'
men good ; it is morul consciousness of
truth."
"A conservative young rnah lias otlnd np
ti is life before it was unreeled. We expect
old men to be conservative but when a no
tioh's joilng men are so, its funeral bell ii
tolling."
"A man in tbo right with God oil Ills sidd
is iu the majority! though he be olene."
"The stream of life forks and religion is
apt to run in one channel and business io tho
other."
Novel Mrtiiod to I'hkvent fotAtd IWi
-Soinu Belgian boysi a few yenrs since, fof
omu8emelit, Inserted some peas into potatoes
and planted them. The result was an un
usual yield or peas and a crop of tubers per
roctly sound, though In a Held wbcrotho pota
toes woro badly affected. Acting1 on tho
hint, Mr. Jackson, of Leeds, l'lnglolid, develo
ped tho theory that the potato, being defi
cient in nitrogen, would receive ah equivalent
of that article Trom the pea during tho time
of growing, nt-.d soils tendency to diseases
would be counteracted. Ha then tried tbo
experiment, iuscrting Tour five peas into each
potato, carefully avoiding Injury to the eyes,
and then planting in tho usual way. Tho re
sult was perfect success an unusual yield of
both peas and potatoes, obd tbe latter per
fectly free rrom dlsettsoi The tubers wore
found healthy the next spring, nnd werO
again planted With the same results.
'l'he Moist, Cool Wcalliert with which thr)
latter part of April and the present month of
May, up to this Writing the 20th have been
visited, lias almost entirely stopped tbe plant
ing of corn ; and whern tbe crop was put ill
tbe grouud in the early part cf the month, a
large portion of it rotted and required to bo
replanted. It should be borno in mind, that
when the ground is moist, or during a Wet
spell, Beed corn should be planted xJnj. -Sleeping
of every kind Will tend only to de
stroy it. Any advantages expected to be se
cured by the stepping process, can be attained
by proper after Culture. Vcrmantown Tele- .
yrajih.
A Wo.NPKRFti. Woman. There is a wo
man named Hayes, in Ne" York State, irt
tho neighborhood, e believe, of SkaneatleSi
who lived a whole year wholly on dried rasp
berry juice ; the next year on a small quanti
ty of Cold ttaler j and no for nearly a year;
she has neither ate or tlrnnk anything I Still
more Wonderful than that she has been
known to live as many as aixlij-txcn minutvt at
a time trithditt breathing! Though it is sup
posed that she is nourished by the atmos
phere, her Vitality is certainly extraordinary,
and fully equal to that of a toad imbedded in
a rock.
Trck fort O.vcn. A traveler announces as
a fact (and, though be is a traveler." we be1
I'eVe him) that he once in his life beheld peo
ple "minding their own business !" This ro
m&rkublo occurrence happened at sea thd
passengers being "too sick" to attend to each
other's concerns.
Tutor. "What is tho chief difference be;
Iween birds and (neu ?" Boy "Don't know,
sir." Tutor "Why look at a pipeon. nnd
then at a mail, is there no difference " Boy
"Don't see any, eir.'' Tutor "l!a not
a bird wings, and" a man lias none?" Boy
"Yes, sir, but men used to buVo wings." Tu
tor jumps out of his sent at this astounding
reply, and calls on tho boy to explain. Boy
"1 saw it in the History or Fngland. It says
tbat James II. took flight into France. 11 o
couldn't bave taken flight ir bu hadn't bad
wings."
In Ono of Onr City Schools, riot long ago,
a member of the committee asked tin n em
bers or a clars which was under examination
"What is the cause or the saltliess or tho
ocean I'' "oon one little gil l raised her head
flushed with the discovery which had Mushed
upon her mind. "You may tell," said the
committee-man. "Salt fish, sir," said tbe
pupil.
(Jo Ui, t.Mioxs ! A Virginia paper records
the marriage of Miss Jane. Lemons aud -Mr.
Kbenezor Sweet t
How Ilapi'V the extremes Jo meet,
In Jaac auJ Kuenczcr ;
Phe's no lonier sourj butSHvRKr,
And h:' a I.kmon squeezer !
A poor Jilted Blade says :
"Woman's love It like Scotch .nuR",
You get oils pinch and that's enough."
Whereupon a darkey of more sense, as well as
soul, responds t
'Woiiiuu's InU, like Ingy-rulilier;
lMtreleli de more' de more yoU lab her."
MkdicAi. KI'itaphs. At Acton, in Corn,
wall, says a writer in "Household Words,"
there is this particular neennot of how onu
Mr. Moreton came by bis end ;
"Here lie. eiitorhbcd one Ri-fer Moreton,
WiieMe death vu. curl)- liroittfiit on ;
Trwne one day hi. rom to mow off,
The ru2tir slipped and cut hi. tc on,
The toe or lutber whut it grew to,
An Inn .immllien quickly flcW to ;
Tlie aru they took to mortifying,
And poor dear Roger took to d) ing."
Amoso tub Inormous MAcnixn. Yet
tc be invented is the muchiuo for "cluauiug
house. This adtniruble affair should bo un
der such control that it will "put tl.iugs to
rights" without creating confusion aud trou
b'. Tbe S,B ho perfect so d niraVe a
pieco of work ought to bo immortuliscd by a
statute of gold made from his own profits. .
lie will b a beuefactrvr to the human race,
especially the women folks j and be will bo
ono for whom husbands, no longer by house-
cleaning troubles, will coulinually pray.
"Mr; Oreeiii when you said there Was too
much American eagle In the tpeuker'a e)it
courso, did you mean that it was a talon-ted
production; and to what claws Of tbe speech
did you especially refer )
It btt been said with iuslica. that tbo ttott
solomn of birds is ah oI, and the most sol
emn of beasts, an ass, and tht most solemn1
of men an ass too.
A drnnkard't nose it Said to be a light
house Warning as of the little water tbat pas
sea underneath.
Cabbage a plant that is very pt pulut
air.ong tailors witL large families.
ffuiiii'7. A ijuu l, ibji