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Likewise, in due time the grass will be in order for hay making, and then we are prepared to furnish you with Allen's Mower, a splendid maehine for rutting 'grass of any kind. And in mblition, when desired. we have also the combined Mower and Reaper. of Munny's Patient, which is manufaetured mom. a dif ferent principle from those made heretofore. and war ranted to out grass and grain as fort 113 one team of horses can draw it. And further, we have the Pre mium Corn Sheller of Lehigh county, and as there has been sold a ten . v Jorge number in a short time that have rendered univers - 11 smisfaelion. we are eon !Went in ~aying. Bout it has no superior here or else where. We likew ise hale IL mill for chopping ftted. which has bout tested 0,11410'1y in different sort inns. and nll who have itnessed its operation:, testify to the good qunlitie; of the mill, owl recommend it to farmers Its an nrliele to sure time. and likewise grain in the amount which is yearly given to millers in the shape of toll." In short we have almost ally article which farmers Numb: fur agricultural purposes. such as Ploughs of almlol. nay" lantern, em-,, Cultivatore, Revolving Hay Rakes, Ilan Forks, Corn Ploughs, Corn Planters, Limo Spreaders, Thrcsiting•Machines and Horse Powers of different kinds, and all warrant ed to give satisfaction. Repairing done in all the different branches, on reasonable terms and nt short notice. Any person residing It a distance, in want of any Of the above articles, smut obtain them by ad dressing the subscribers at No. SO West Hamilton Allentown, Pa. . S.WEITZER 1 SAEGER. =E=M Reuben Helfrich, North Whitebidl ; Charles Hen ringer, do ; David Henry, do; David li.uhus. Moen n gy; licorge 1 einel. Allentown. CORN SHELLER REFERENCES David Bartz. Weseee , ville : John L,n•:r., Cedar l'reek; Jaeub IVenuer, Lower :%lactingy : A: W. Edelman. Allentown; Iteuben Unekenbaell, North FEED M ILL REEF:RENO Churlem Stint:relives, Allentown. Allontown. April 2. WARREN'S IMPROVED FIRE AND WATER PROOF COMPOSITION ROOFING. Joseph Clowell, Allontown, Agont for Lehigh Co NrOUR ottisitimi respectfully solicited to the nbove nathot of Rooting. now 11111 Ch n=cd in Philadelphia and vicinity, anti which has been exten sively in use in many of the eitius of the We,t, during more than eleven years past, during which time it has been tested under every variety of circumstances, and we cuunilently ogler it to the public as a mode of Roofing tlllobjectionablo in every important particular, while it combines, in a greater degree than any other roof in use, the valuable requisites of cheapness, du rability, and security against bath lire and water.— This is L t . ', enpercaBiuig thin use of nil other linids of roofs, wherever it has been introduced, giving gen eral satisfaction, and is highly recommended by till who have tested its utility. These roofs require an inclination of not more titan tune inch to the foot, whichis of greta Mirantage in tutu , Of and for drying 'imposes. They are offered at a price consid erably less than any other roof in use, while the umuunt of umterial saved, which would otherwise i.e used in extending up the walls and framing for a steep root; often makes a still thrther impertant re duction in the cost of building. Cutters luny be formed of the saute material as the roof, at much less expense than any t they. In ease of deli.iet or injury. from any cause, there is no rind' s° easily repaired. The materials being mostly non-cenductors of heat. no roof is so cool in summer, or so warm in winter. Those wishing to use our root; should give the rofter.l a pitch of about ono inelt to the foot. For further in formation apply to Joseph Clench, at Allentown, our agent for Lehigh and Carbon comities, who is pro pared to execute all orders nt short notice. . . 11. M. 'WARREN & CO.. No. •1 Farquhar Buildings Walnut 61, Philadelphia P.1 7 .1 . . : 1 0- ACENCES, 'rho fonnwing nlnnoil gentlemen in Allentown have their houses roofed with the oho% cd mimed composi tion, mid ore obit) to testify to its superiority over any other kind of roofs: IL Tunxt.un, Union st., between Ninth and Tenth 11. STETTI.IIL, t st., between Eighth :Ind Ninth F. Butu.nx, Seventh St., between Ihunilton A: Linden Ron, ,t Eno E. Lindmt it., between Fourth A: Fifth J. It. WOLLE, Sixth s. t., between Iltunilton A: Linden SmiPtt KNAUsg,Ninthtth,between Linden A: Turner A. Klotz, earner of Union unit Seventh street. R. E. WRIGIIij Fourth at., hetireen Linden A; Turner Feb. 13, 1856. —I v VIA N. A. GRIM , A.M. • OFFICE AT TILE MILALCA-1..."E 1-10°1 7 MI MS, NO. 3 WEST HAMILTON STREET, ALLENTOWN, PA Allentown, Feb. 11 3213 l° p ttrpuAi retail, at Reimcee•Shaying Salami, No. 10 East Ilnmil ton Street. in/Y.71111r colored at all times, and satisfaction warranted. Allentown, March 5. ly 1 47() eilania 9 111:1111 0 311EITW - T3111[M.1711r... HAS removed his offieo to No. 70 West Hamilton Al. street, botwoon-Eighth and Ninth sta., over G. Rebor's Clothing Store, next door to George's Hotel, whom ho can be found nt all times by those who need his professional services. Artificial teeth mounted on gold, silver and platina, in the highest perfection of art, and on the most scientific principles. All opera tions belonging to the Dental profession performed in the most skillful and satisfactory manner. • S. W. SINE. Allentown, April 0. • —ly Job- Printing, Of all kinds neatly executed at this Office. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY HAINES & DIEFENDERF YOUNG & LEH, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, Cape, Lamps, Trunks, Valises, Carpet . Bags, &0., No. 15 East Hamilton street, Allentown, pa., A GAIN tsko pleasure in calling the attention of the 1 citizens of the town, and the public generally, to the largest and freshest stock of the above goods ever exhibited in this place, consisting of spring and stammer BOOTS and SHOES purchased direct from the manufacturers in New England, at the low est CASH PRIC-ES, which enables us to offer rare in ducements to our eustefuers. either wholesale or retail. Ureat cure has been observed its to style, quality and sizes,—such sizes as are best suited for this section of country. In this particular we are prepared to give Letter satisfaction to country merchants than they will receive in either Philadelphia or New York. In connection with the above we desire particular ly to cull attention to goods of our owumninufacture, suitable B urs' . classes, consisting of Men's, oy' Youths' and Children's Coarse. Kip, Calf, Morocco, Pat ent Leather and Buckskin Sewed and Pegged Boots and Brogans, Congress and Button Gaiters, Monter ey,,. Oxford Tics, &c., Women's, Misses' and Child ren's Calf, Kip and Morocco Lace Bouts, BuAin and Jenny Linde, also, Patent Leather, fine Lasting and Italian Cloth Gaiters, of various colors. We have paid particular attention to the selection fp of our stock of IiEME '35L -1 s for spring and collator wear. We have a very hand some and complete assortment, of Soft Hats for Gents. DIV and Youths. Our Gents' Silk or Moleskin llats urn not equalled by any establishment in town. they are all manufaetured to order by the most fash ionable Hatters in Philadelphia. STRAW GOODS.—lkthis line ire are not sur passed by any establishment out of the largo cities. Our ,stuelc very large, consisting- of Mon's. Boys' ...mouths' Panaina. Maricailm, Leghorn, Peddle, :7zennette. Palm Leaf, Canada, Michigan, die.. de.— Chil,lron's Fancy Hats and Leghorn Caps, Misses' Plats. Ladies' Riding Hats, 011 r assortment of Lamps. Trunks and Carpet Bags is as usual, full and complete. P. All Ow above goods will he furnished to MerclutnU in the country at the very lowest city Job bing priec3. Orders :u•e respectfully solicited, and will receive prompt attention. April ---.tf li esir Clotlaimw Stove 1 . In G. H. REBER, 4 11... I\T O. 79 \Vest Hamilton street, next door to ' E. 5: J. George's Hotel, has just returned from Philadelphia with a large and elegant Mock of goods, such as, French, English and Ger man Cloths, Cassimeres, Vestings, Cassinets, and Tweeds, which he will be pleased to make up to order, in the mast approved style, which ho is satisfied he en n do. from the fact that he has employed that popu lar cutter, Albert J. Newhard, who is always the with the times in fashions, and coin and tits to suit the ta,tes of patrons, after any fashion they may choose .R EADYMA DE CLOTHING. 1191 Or readymade Clothing he has a complete assort ment. comprising all styles, qualities and prke.:, and dupartmult claims yreeedeace from till, MO that lhu Clothing is all manafaetured at home, or good tmteriale, and the superior style it , t which it will always secure for theta a ready nod satiz...tetury sale. FURNISHING GOODS, 4r Embracing a largo assortment of Shirts, Collars. Stocks, Thi4.l)lnek anti ';...27 Silk Cravat,, Eosiery. Suspenders, blaelc and Silk Moves, black Kid Uluciß tiellnl White and fancy Handkerehief,,l - mbrellits, and lot, a nt her artiele, „too numerous to mention. ttentletnen furnishing their Cloth can have their garments made in good :Flyie and WarralMA to give , atisfuetion. Cutting dune at short notice. . A Ism It 19 Great Robbery IN ALLENTOWN. AST week one night one of our citizens Iran robbed .4 of about SSOO, but it is lucky lit nil the rent of mankind did not sham the same (lite, us .137 f tftl 'DEC' CUD - 111 . .113P 2 ' yjsterday morning• opened his new CHEAP CASH STORE, nt his new building, No. 115 West Hamilton •ireet, Allentown, and would advise one and all not to let their money lay idle and in danger of being stolen, but go at once In . JOS. STOPP'S CHEAP CASH STORE, as he has opened ono of the finest assortments of SILKS of all colors and prices, and Ladies' Dress Goods, the finest, that ever lots been seen in the place, and about 500 Shawls of all colors and prices, Calicoes by the Cart Mad, cheaper than ever, Para sols. Enthroideries and hosiery, a.very large assort ment of Ladies' Collars at 5 cents and upwards, La dies' 'Stockings at fit cents and upwards, Ladies' Moves at 2 cents per pair anti upwards, Linen and Union Handkerchiefs at 6.1 cents a piece. Also, a splendid assortment of bleached and unbleached mas titis; bed ticking, table diapers, toweling, floor and table oil cloths, glass and queenswaro, looking-glass es, be. Also, a splendid assortment of READY :WADE CLOTHING, very cheap for cash. So I would say to ono and all to be thankful that you have not been robbed, so that you may have the pleasure of going with your money without delay to JOS. STOPP'S CHEAP CASH STORE, and do as about half the good people Of Allentown done yesterday. Almost every house has been filled with new goods front Stopp's Cheap Cash Store, which consequently has been the town-talk over since. j5: - .1, - -Don't forget that Joseph t:. 4 topp has moved four doors below. April 0. • -tf CM ASSIGNEE NOTICE: W HEREAS Joseph Freiman and his Wife Lydia, of North Whitehall township, Lehigh county, on the 24th day of Itlareh,lBso, made a voluntary assignment to the undersigned, of all their property, real, personal and mixed, for the benefit of their cred itors, notice is hereby given to such persons who arc indebted to said Joseph Freiman, to. make payment within 30 dais, and swh who tinny have legal claims against said Freiman will also present them well au thenticated to • PAUL UALLIET, FRANKLIN P. MICKLEY, } Areigneoe. March 26. —4l COURTLANDT STREET 31 E 1 1 1 E 4 11EIV3E`JME] 31E_, ig 28 Catirtkamit StiTet, NEW YORK. J. S. STEBBINS, PROPRIETOR. New York, March 26. —am Farm Lands for Sale. OVER TWO MILLION OF ACRES OF lit Tracts of 10 ctercn rued tiptrrtrde, on lofty Credits and (tt jolt mt.; If litieretd. THESE lands were granted by tho Government, to aid in the construction of this Railroad, and in elude some of the richest and most fertile Prairies iu the State, interspersed here and there with Magnifi cent groves of oak and other timber. The Road ex tends from Chicago, 011 the North-East, to Cairo at the South, and from thence to Galena and llunleith, in the North-west extreme of the State, and us all the lauds tic within fifteen miles on eaelf side of this Road, ready and cheap means arc athwded by it for trans porting the products of the lands to any of those points and from thence to Eastern and Southern markets. Moreover, the rapid growth of flourishing towns and villages Mom , " the line, and the great in crease in papal otttion by immigration, etc., afford a substantial and growing home-demand fur farm pro duce. The soil is a dark, rirb muld, from one to five feet in depth, is gently rolling Dad peculiarly fitted for grazing cattle and . sheep, or the cultivation of Itheat, Indian corn, eh% Economy in cultivating and great productiveness are the well known characteristics of Illinois lands. Trees are not required to be cut down, stumps grub bed, or stone picked oIT. as is generally the case in cultivating new land in the older States. The first crop of Indian corn. planted on the newly broken sod. usually repays the coot of plowing and fencing. Wheat sawn on the newly-turned s o ul is sure to yield very torg , • pvitm. A man with a plow cud two yoke of oxen will break one and n half to two acres per day. Coot roots Con be made for breaking, ready' for corn or whent, ut from to 2.51) per acre. Ity judicious nuinagement, the laiul may be plowed nod fenced the lint, nod under a +dote of cidtiratitm the second year. Corn. grain, rank, ctr.. will be .fornarded at rea sonable rates to Chicago, for the Enctern niorket, nod to Cairo for the Southern. The larg er yield on the cheap lands oflhh,is over the high -priced lands in the Ens tern and 3lGt hin States, is hoown to be much tiore than sufficient to pay the ditrerenee of transpor tation to the Eastern utrhet. Bituminous coal is mined at, several points along the Load. and hi a cheap and desirable fuel. It can be delivered at several points along the Road at $1,50 to SA,IIO per ton Wood eon be had at the same rates per curd. Those who Blink of settling in lowa or Minnesota, ;:liould bear in inlet that lands there of any value. :,lung the water courses Milt for aunty miles inland. have been disposed of,—that for those ha:ailed in the interior, there are on conveniences for transporting to market the produce, Railroads not having been intro duced there. That to send the produce of these lands one or two hundred miles by wagon to market, would ro=t much more Allan the expense of cultivating them, and hence, Bovernment lands thus situated, at $1,23 per acre, are not so good investments as the land of this company at the prices fixed. The Same remarks hold good. in relation to the lands in liansas and Nehrasha, for although vacant lamb may be found nearer the watt!' courses, the distance to market is far :7rea ler, tel e‘ery hundred miles the produce of the. lands at earl 'fed either iu wago n s. or interrupted water communientions, increases the expenses of transportation. w hich must be borne by the settlers, in the reduced !wive of their products, :old to that extent preeisely are the incomes from, their farms, and el' course on their investments, annu ally and every ye:.r re Bred, The great fertility of the knits 110 W offered for sale by this company,'and their Comm i ttent yield over those of the Eastern and Middle States, is much mon , sullicient to pay the difference in the cost oh transportation, , eiteciolly in view of the facilities furnished by this Road, niiernith which it con nects, the operations of which are not the low water or ,ntnnotr. or the frost of winter PRICE AND T1:1:118 OF PAYMENT. The price will vary Irma to according to location, grotlity. ere. l'ontruots for litaals 'nay he made Miring the year n'ati, , tipubitilly: the parehn, money to be paid in live tummil find to beetnile mimic in two yearn from the bite of eon tract, and the other: , annually thereafter. The lint pliyment will hee , on.• 'Me et the end of the aixtli year 1•r0111 the date of the contract. (.1.1::01tilli H. REBER. --If lutetyst kill be ot only !Twee p i er cent. per As a security to the rcrformanco of the contract, the first two Veal, interest tatut he paid in advance, and it must be tol.kr,tood that at least one tunth "I tho land latrchi , beil shall yearly be brought under cultivation. Twenty' per cent, from the credit price will he de dpeted for enah. The CompaWs construction-bond will be received as c.tA. • Really focused /ia•rn intildiny4, which can Ge set IT in a fete days. eau br abfuiaed rCepolltiitlC lav ewi.v. They will he 12 feet by 21) feet, divided into one living and tln•ee bed-rooms, and will'cost eumplete set up on ground.ehosen anywhere along the Road, $l5O in cash, exclusive of transportation. Larger buildings Witty be contracted for at proportionate rate::. The • Comicany 101 forward all the materials over their• road promptly. Special arrangetnents with dealers can be made to supply those purchasing the Company's hinds with fencing materials, agricultural tools, and an outfit of provisions in any quantity, at the lowed wholesale prieca. Itis believed that the prive. long credit, and low rate of interest, charged for these lands, will enable a man with a few hundred dollars in cash and ordinary in dustry, to make himself' independent before all the purchase money beconies due. In the mean time, the rapid settlement of the country will probably have increased their value four o r live fold. When requir ed, an experienced person will accompany aPplicants, to give information and aid in selecting lands. Circulars, containing numerous instances of suc cessful farming, signed by respectable and well-known farmers living in the neighborhood of the Railroad lands, throughout the State—also the coat of laming, price of cattle, expense tit harvesting, etc., by con tract—or any other information—will be cheerfully given, on appliention,mither personally or by letter, in English, French, or Gert»an, addreSsed to ". JOHN WILSON, • Lund Coonnitodoorrqf !Wools Centro! Roil It. Co. Office up to the lot of May-52 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Da., after that date iit the now . Stone Paasenger Depot, foot of South Water Street. April 16. • —Gm ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given that letters of Adminis tration have been granted by the Register of Lehigh County, to the undersigned. upon the Estate of John Kelchner, deceased, Into of the *Borough of Allentown. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make payment within three months, and all persons having claims against the same, to pro , sat them for settlement. April 16 CARPET BAGS . —Brussels-toll, Venetian and Oil Cloth Carpet Bags, just reeuived and for sale by ELIAS MERTZ, 71 Wert Hamilton St April 23. Allentown, Pa., April 30, 1856. The Illinois Central Railroad Company IS NOW PREPARED TO SELL FARIVIONC LANDS, BENJAMIN . STETTLER. -61 R AT ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS PER ANNUM, pnrtirat. THE FIRST BABY We advise the author of the following effu sion to leave town immediately ; for, if discov ered, he will certainly be lynched by a mob of young mothers, and drowned in a butt of para. goric : I have been to see the baby, And its face was very red, And the down was very scanty, On its funny little head. It had a little turn-up nose, And eyes, and ears, and paws; These latter looked fur all the world, Just like a chicken's claws. These parents showed the object up, With seeming pride and pleasure; Nu doubt, they prize the little imp, Above all earthly treasure. I surveyikl it at a distance, ' Asked them what its name might bo-- Fearful, lest they might have named it Seth—in compliment to Inc. ".Isn't it a pretty baby?" "Yes, indeed," Wll4 my reply:— Wasn't it a dreadful pily, Lad to tell a lie. Soon the thing became uneasy, Squirmed and squalled as if in pain; So I bade my friends good morning Promising to call again. • Dreaming, that same night I funded 'flint the baby was my !,on; I awoke, with terror trembling, found I was alone. Then awhile Ihry there musing,, On my bliss and others' wo, Till I found the 'placid slumber, Only bachelors can know. And ever since, when I reflect, On inch a scene its that, 1 thank my stars, I ne'er was blest With wire or little brat. Time and Eternity. 4 lady once looked into a book and saw a word which made her much afraid. She could not sleep that night. She loved life. She loved this world. She did not wish to leave it. The word she saw in the book was ` I:TERNITY.' It is a solemn word. I do not wonder that it tills the minds of sinners with fear. Yet the pious do not hate the word. They think if it often. They love to think of it. But what is eternity ? It is like a sea which has no shore ; a race that is never all run ; a liver that has no spring and no mouth, yet always flows. It is forevcr•and•evcr. None but Clod fully knows what it is. We know it is not time told by hours, days, months, years and ages. We ,v414 ... 0f an eternity past, and of an eternity to aro'not two. But wo so speak, because we arc at a loss forr.s. ."7 go back, back, back, until our minds tire ; but we come not to any point where eternity began. We go on, on, on, until we can go no further, and yet there is no end. A teacher in a blind school, once gave this sum to one of the, hays. Ile was to work it out in his mind A pile of sand is ten feet high, and seventy feet long. Each square solid inch contains ten thousand grains. A bird comes every thousand years and takes away one grain at a time. lbw long would it take to carry away all The sand ?' The little blind boy soon gave the answer, which was, that it would take 1.20,90,000,000,000 years. What a long row of figures ? You cannot form an idea of ' such a sum. Now put all the sand on the sea-shore into one heap, and let a bird take away one grain every thousand years till all is gone, and yet that would not be the end of ! eternity. Eternity has no end. Some of the nncients tried to give some idea of eternity bfitirawing a circle. A circle has no end. In that it is like eternity. But in no other respect. We can measure all circles, but we cannot measure eternity. None but God knows What it is. The 'Flinger Ring. The idea of wearing rings on the fourth fin ger of the left hand, because of a supposed ar tery there, which went to the heart, was car ried so far that, according to Levinus Lemnius, this finger was called Medicus ; and the old physicians would stir up their medicaments and potions with it, because no venom could stick upon the very utmost part of it, but it would offend a man and communicate itself to the heart. • It is said by Swinburn and others, that there fore it became the wedding finger. The priest hood kept this idea, by still keeping it the wed ding finger ; but it was got at through the use of the Trinity, far in the ancient ritual of Eng lish marriages the ring was placed by the bus. band on the, thumb of the left hand, With these words. "Iu the name of the Father :" ho then removed it to the forefinger, saying. " In the name of the Son ;" and then to the middle fin ger, adding, " And of the Holy Gost ; finally, he left it, as now, on the fourth finger, with the closing word, "!amen." CM Uncle Ben's Sermon. A correspondent of the Boston Post furnishes the following, which he calls Uncle Ben's Ser mon, and which, he remarks, contains many wholesome truths : UNCLE BEN'S Ssnmos.—Not many hours ago, I heard Uncle Ben discussing this matter to his son, who was complaining of pressure. " Rely upon it Sammy," said the old man. as he leaned upon his staff, with his grey locks flowing in the breeze of a May morning ; mur muring pays no bills.—" I have been an obser ver many times these fifty years, and I never saw a man helped out of a hole by cursing his horses. Be as quiet as you can, for nothing will grow under a moving harrow, and discon tent harrows the mind. Matters are bad, I acknowledge, but no ulcer is any better for fin gering. The more you groan, the poorer you are." Repining at losses is only putting pepper into a sore eye. Crops will fail in all soils, and we may be thankful that we have not a famine. Besides, I always took notice, that whenever I felt the rod pretty smartly, it was as much as to say, hero is something which you have got to learn. Sammy don't forget that your schooling is not over yet, though you hate a wife and two children. Aye, cried Sammy, you may say that, and a mother•in-law, and two apprentices into the bargain, and I should like to know what a poor man can learn here, when the greatest scholars and lawyers are at loggerheads, and can't, for their lives, tell what has. become of the hard money. Softly, Sammy, I am older than you! I have not got these grey hairs and this crooked back Without some burdens. I could tell you stories of the days of continental money, when my grandfather used to stuff a sulky box with bills to pay fur a yearling, or a wheat fan, and when the women used thorns for pins, and laid their teapots away in the garret. You wish to know what you can learn ? You can learn these sev en things : . First, that you have saved too little and spent too much. I never taught you to be a miser, but I have seen you give your dollar for a noth in', when you might have laid one-half aside for charity, and one-half for a rainy dny. Second, that you have gono too much upon credit. I always told you credit was a shad ow ; there i:; a substance behind which casts the shadow ; but a small body may cast a larg er shadow, and no wise man will follow the shadow any farther than he can see the sub stance. You. may now learn that you have followed a shadow, and been decoyed into a bog. Thirdly, that you have gone in too much haste to be rich. Slow and easy wins the race. Fourthly, that no c; urse of life can be depend_ ed upon as always prosperous. I am afraid aplen in America M=2EE have a notion that nobody will go oruin us side of the water. Providence has greatly blessed us, and we have become presumptuous. Fifthly, that you have not been • thankful enough to God for his benefits in past times. Sixthly, that you may be thankful our lot is not Worse. We might babe famine, or pesti lence. or war, or tyranny, or all together. And lastly, to end my sermon, you may learn to offer, with more understanding,:the prayer of your infancy, " Give us this day our daily bread." The old man ceased, and Sammy put on his apron and told Dick to blow away on the forge bellows. The Fly and the Spider. The cAlren once went with their grand mother to see a spider's web ; they thought it very curious, and they talked a good deal abon it, though they could not see the use of such things, nor why there should be such creatures as spiders at all. Their grand-mother replied, " My dear children, I can not tell you just now all the reasons why the all-wise God created and sustains the various creatures which we see around us, though we may be sure there is some good end to be served ; but I will tell you a pretty story; which may at least help us to think upon the subject. A young prince used often to wonder for what purpose God had made flies and spiders ; as he could not see, he said, what use they were to men, and, if he had the power, he would kill them all. One day, after a great battle, this prince was obliged to hide himself from his enemies ; and wandering about in a wood, he laid down beneath a tree, and fell asleep. A soldier passing by, who belonged to the enemy, was quietly draw ing near with his sword to kill the prince, when all of a sudden, a fly stung his lip and awoke him. Seeing his danger, he sprung to his feet, and quickly made the soldier: run off. That night the prince again hid hiMself in a cave in the same wood, and during the night a spider wove her web across tho entrance. Two soldiers belonging to the .army which had de feated him, and who were looking for the prince, pasSed the cave in the.morning, and the prince heard their conversation : • Look,' cried ono.of 11 them, he is surely concealed in this cave.'' No,' replied the other, ' that is impossible ; for if he had gone in there he would have brußbed down the spider's web at the entrance. hen they' had gone away, the prince raised his,hands and eyes to heaven, and thanked God for such good ness in yesterday saving his life by means of d tly, and now again by a spider', and acknow ledged that the ways and works of God aro per fectly good and wise.— London Child's Compan ion. The carrier pigeon has, says a magazine writer, fur many generations, shown something I like a monopoly of this prodigious inspiration of geographical knowledge. It has been sup ( posed that the eye of this extraordinary bird is endowed with so distinct a sight as to enable it to discern small objects at a distance of fifty miles, which is contrary to the laws of optics; and clearly impossible. Again; the convex of the eye of the bee is so great that it must evi dently be near•sighted, - as doubtless is reqtrisito for the work it has to do. Yet bees will take • an excursion of five, six, or eight miles, and return to their hive " ere set of sun." In shorty this faculty exists in so many animals, and is so curiously and marvellously developed on special occasions, that Dr. Good has expressed a suspicion of the existence of a sixth senso in certain animal tribes. His theory, however, is not confirmed by anatomy, although it is not impossible, as this naturalist elsewhere sag gests, thitt, some modification of the sense of smell may guide some animals on certain occa sions. May not locality, combined with memo ry of objects, an organ large in the cranium of all birds of Hight, be the cause of unerring pre cision with which they direct their course to distant points ? It has been suggested that modifications of the magnetic currents, which like rivers in the ocean, flow through the at mosphere—negatively from east to west—may direct them to the most appropriate places for food and incubation. Whatever the cause, speculation will hardly explain it. It is, nor doubt, in itself simple as any other of the laws of nature; but, until experienced, will seem' to' man a complex problem.--Sunday Dispatch. " First, gets up at ten in the morning --dress: es himself--puts on his hat, in which are siX or seven bullet holes, and goes to a restaurant for breakfast. After breakfast starts to thif office to look over the papers, and discevers that he is called a scoundtel in one of them, a liar in another, and a puppy in another. Ho smiles at the prospect of having something to do—fills out and despatches three blink chal lenges, (a ream or two of which ho alWays keeps on hand ready printed, to save time)— - commences writing a leader, when as the clock strikes eleven, a large man, with a coivitidi) in one hand and a bowie knife in his • belt, walks in and asks him if his name is answers b knockin . the intruder doWn two' rob him—kills a dog with d piece of paving' stone—gets run over by a cab, and has the tail of his coat slit with the thrust of a• knife and two bullet holes put through his beaver Its ho steps' within his own door—smiles at his es: capes—writes until two o'clock, and then 'tome' in' with the happy concimisness of hating two duels to fight the next day:" • lady had been teaching a suinther* school in a certain - town, and a young sprig of the law paid her some attention, so much that ho was joked about her. Ile replied that "he should look higher for a wife." It came to the lady,s ears, and she meditated a little bit of re venge. An opportunity soon oared. they were at a party together, and to redeem hei forfeit she was to make his epitaph. She gave , the following: • . 0:7By a strange coincidence which will not again occur for a long time, theffear 1866 corn' menced on the same day as in 1849, and conse quently all through the year the dato will be on the same day. NUMBER 31. d Animal Migrations Editor In California. "hero lies a man who looked so Tie passed all common danisels by; And they who looked us high as he: Declared his bride they would not be So,' twist, them both, he died a 'bad,' And now has gone to the old scratch.. 0 '
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