VOLUME XL FARMERS LOOK THIS WAY. fir HE opposition say that in a short time the ground will be ready to sow Oats, Barley, he. How they know this wo are not able to say, but this much we will say, that whenever it gots ready, you had better give us a call for one of the beet Grain Drills, and warranted nt that, (no large talk about refunding money,) but if the article is not no represented, it can be returned, and all matters satisfactorily arranged. Likewise, in due time the grass will - be in order for hay snaking, and then we arc prepared to furnish you with Allen's Mower, a splendid machine for cutting grass of any kind. And in addition, when desired, we havo also the combined Mower and Reaper. of Manny's Patent, which is manufactured upon a dif ferent principle from those made heretofore, and war ranted to cut grass and grain ns fast as one tenni of horses can draw it. And further, wo have the Pre mium Corn Sheller of Lehigh connty, and as there has been sold a very largo number in a short time alit:bug rendered universal satisfaction, we are con /M.oOn saying, that it has no superior hero or else where:. We likewise Imre a mill for chopping feed, which has been tested thoroughly in different sections, and all who have witnessed its operations, testify to the good qualities of the mill, and recommend it to farmers as an article to save time, and likewise grain In the amount which is yearly given to millers ill tile shape of " toll." In short we have almost any article , which farmers require for agricultural purposes, such as Ploughs of almost any pattern, Corn Cultivators, Revolving Hay Rakes, flay Forks, Corn Ploughs, Corn Planters, Limo Spreaders, Threshing 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 at short notice. Any person residing at a distance, in want of any of the above articles, Can obtain them by ad dressing the subscribers nt No. 80 West Hamilton st., Allentown, Pa. SWEITZER SAEGER. • • {LAIN DRILL REFERENCES. iteuben Helfrich, North Whitehall; Charles Hen 'ginger, do; David Beery, do; David Kuhns, Macun gy ; George Helsel, Allentown. CORN SHELLER REFERENCES. David Boris, Wescoesville; John -Hertz, Ceder Creek; Jacob Wenner, Lower Macungy ; C. & W. Edelman, Allentown; Reuben Guekenbaelt, North Whitehall, FEED MILL REFERENCE Charles Soagreaves, Allentown. Allentown, April 2. LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD RUNNING in connection with the Central Rail Road of Now Jersey to New York and the Bel videre Delaware Rail Road to Philadelphia. Also with the Beaver Meadow Rail Road to Weatherly and Deaver Meadows and the Summit Rill Rail Road to Summit Hill. SUMMER ARRANGEMENTS. Commencing Monday, July 7, 1856: Two daily passenger Trains (Sundays excepted,) will be run between Mauch Chunk and Euston as follows DOWN TRAINS. Leave Mauch Chunk at 4.00 A. M., and 12.50 P. M Lehighton 4.13 " " 1.00 " Parryvillo 4.20 " - " LO6 " Lehigh (lap 4.36 " " 1.10 Slatington 4.41 " " 1.23 Rockdale 4.50 " " 1.35 " Lmay's 5.08 " " 1.45 " Whitehall 5.15 " " 1.51 " Ilockendaqua 5.25 " " 1.58 " Catasaugna . 5.20 " " 2.02 " Allentown 5.41 " " 2.12 " Bethlehem ' 6.00 " ." 2.28 Freemansburg, 6.10 " " 2.35 " ArrivoEaston 6.40 " " 3.50 " UP TRAINS. Leave Easton 7.00 A. M., and 11.40 P.M. Frreemansburg 7.28 " " .12.08 " Bethlehem 7.38 " " 12.18 " Allentown 12.34 " Catasauqua 8.06 " " 12.45 " Hoekendauqua 8.12 -" " 12.50 " ll'hilikun 8.20 " " 12.57 " Laurri. 8.27 " " LOS " Nd 4,15 ...,,RlSolidalo 8.37 " " 1.15 " V.tfatington 8.47 " " 1.25 " Lehigh Gap 8.5-1 " " L 32 " Parryvillo • 9.08 " " 1.44 " Lehighton 9.14 " " 1.50 Arrive Mauch Chunk 0.24 " " 2.00 " Tho morning train up will connect at Allentown (by stage to Hamburg) with the Dauphin and Susque hanna trains to Harrisburg. ALSO-with the Sum mit Hill Rail Road at Mandl Chunk, which will elm - ble travelers to visit the celebrated Coal Mines, in clined planes, ke., &e., of that region. The afternoon train up will connect at Allentown with stage, 35 miles to Reading, nod at Mauch Chunk with the Beaver Meadow Rail Road to Weatherly thence by stage, 11 miles to White haven, Also with the Summit Hill Rail Road to Summit Hill thence by stage, 5 miles to Tamaqua, in time to take the Day Express going South or the Night Express going North. Passengers leaving New York or Philadelphia for any point en the Lehigh Valley or Beaver Meadow Rail Roads will take the morning train up. ROBERT 11. SAYRE, Supt. and Eng'r. July n. -tf FURS! FURS! FURS! ellArc' all the go now-adays, and we arc determined not to bo behind the times.— Consequently we have procured a very largo assortment, direct from the best manufacturers in New York city—where Pure arc got up in the most fashionable style, and at the lowest rates. Our no aortment is composed of all the styles now in use— such as Sable Victorines, Tippets and Capes, Steno, Martin, " 41 Fitch, a a Imitation do. a a Rock Martin, a a Siberian Squirrel, " I, Brown Coney, it Black do: 11 11 do. Lynx, 1( 11 ChiWon's Furs of various styles. Gent's Fur Collars, Caps and Cloves. We have enlarged our stock of Boots and Shoes and Hats and. Caps, suita ble for the season. Our stock of Over 8 oes is particularly large, comprising all the, arious makes in tho market, such as India Rubber, Buf falo, Calf-Skin, Felt, Web, &c., .tc. Ladies and Gen -Heaton in want of any of the above artieloS, will do w w o h l eti. l r to examine our stock before purchasing else . - All the above goods sold at Wholesale at a liberal discount to merchants in the country. " YOUIsTG A; LET!, No. 45 East Hamilton Street. Allentown, December 10, 1656. ....„, 11.11SZCIPTEL13 NOTICE. WHEREAS; WILLOVOUDY R. ARTHAN, of tho township of Upper Milford, Lehigh county, on the 15th day 6f Decomber,lBs6, made u voluntary assignment to tho undersigned, of all his property, for the benefit of his creditors, notice is hereby given to all such indebted to the said Willoughby It. Art man, to make payment within 6 weeks from data hereof, and all. such who may have legal claims against said Artman, are also requested to present thorn well authenticated to HARRISON MILLER, Assignee. —6t Dee IT, PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY HAINES & DIEFENDERFER AT ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS PER ANNUM. A Thrilling Incident. The first settlers in Maine found, besides its red-faced owners, other and abundant sources of annoyance and danger. The majestic forest which then waved where now is heard the hum of business, and where ! a thousand villages stand, were the homes of! innumerable wild and savage animals. Often at night was the farmer's family arous ed from sleep by the noise without, which told that bruin was storming the sheep pen or the pig sly, or was laying violent paws on some un lucky calf—and often on a cold winter evening did they roll a larger log against the door, and with beating hearts draw closer around the fire, as the dismal howl of the hungry wolf echoed through the woods. The wolf was the most ferocious and blood thirsty, but cowardly of all—rarely attacking a man unless driven by severe hunger, and seeking his victim with the utmost pertinacity. The incident which I am about to relate, oc curred in the early history of Biddeford: A man who then lived on the farm now occupied by Mr. ll—, was one autumn engaged in peel ing trees, at some distance from the house.— llis little son, eight years old, was in the habit, while his mother was busy with household cares, of running out into the fields, and woods around the house, and often going where the father was at work. One day, after the frost had robbed the trees of their foliage, the father left his work sooner than usual, and started for home. Just by the edge of the forest he saw a curious pile of leaves. _Without stopping to think what had made it, he cautiously removed the leaves, when what was his astonishment to find his own daring boy lying there sound asleep. "Tams but the work of a moment to take up the little sleeper, put' in his place a small log, carefully replace the leaves, an 1 con ceal himself among the nearest bushes, there to await the result. CM After waiting a short time, he heard a wolf's distant howl, quickly followed by another, till the whole woods seemed alive with a fearful sound The howls came nearer, and in a few minutes . a very large, savage-looking wolf leaped into I the opening, closely followed by the whole pack. The leader sprang directly upon the pile of leaves, and an instant scattered them in every direction Soon as he saw the deceptions his look of fierceness and confidence changed to' the most abject fear. He shrank back, cower ed down to the ground, and passively awaited his fate : for the rest, enraged by the supposed cheat, fell upon him, tore him in pieces, and de voured him on the.spot. When they had finished their comrade, they wheeled around, plunged into the forest, and I disappeared ; within five minutes from their first appearance, not a wolf was in sight. The excited father pressed his child to his bosom, and thanked the kind Providence that had led him there to save his dear boy. The boy, after playing till he *as weary, had lain down and fallen asleep, and in that situa tion the wolf had found him, and covered him with leaves until ho could bring his comrades to the feast ; but himself furnished the re past.-13iddeford Journal. ORIGIN OF ANIMALS' NAMES,--Almost all animals were originally named from their quali ties. The name of the ass comes from a root, i meaning " walk slowly; ;" the serpent, to " glide quickly ;" the rabbit to " burrow in the ground." Prof. Haldeman said reindeer; means " running animal :" fox is from the Greek phuros " sharp ;" serpent from the Latin sepot to creep ;" and tiger from the Persian, "an arrow." Indian tribes call a lion by a name meaning " having a long tail ;" a horse ' by a name meaning " like a deer ;" a mole, having " his right hand on the left shoulder ;" a squirrel by a name meaning " he can stick fast in a tree." The Indians have also a name for a horse meaning " having only one toe."— Apropos of names, it was remarked that the potato is called in German the " ground-pear." LOCAL PEctmlikarrucs.--The young ladies of Boston, before going to a party, rub their eyes with cxtrait d'ognon to make them sparkle and give a brilliant expression. The Allentown ladies eat persimmons to draw their mouths up to a point, and give their lips a" do kiss me" look, • The Cincinnati ladies !' qo'up their curls" with hogs tails, and when asked to marry, an- saver " oui, The Providence beauties put a small clam shell under the hollow of each foot to lift the in step and confer a well made arch to the pedals. The New York belles don India rubber stock ings to contract the feet and make: them look small. (7llere is, a brief but pointed " essay on man :" At ton, a child; at twenty, wild ; • 'At thirty, tame, if ever ; • At forty, wise; at fifty, rich; At sixty, 'good, or never. ' Here is a brief' essay on woman :" At ten, bud ; at twenty, in bloom; '. At thirty, married, if ever; At forty, mother; at fifty, uunt ; ' At siwty--• The probability is that the old lady is a lit tle the worse for wear. Allentown, Pa., January 14, 1857. The Prayer of a llcart. Father, to Thee I how lluinhly at this holy vesper time And to thy gracious eye my heart Unveil. Thou see 't its inmost part, Pity and forgive, oh ! Saviour mine; And if its erring thoughts' have strayed From thy just paths, I call Theta hake, and make them ill Thine own. And if I've made, Clay idols and have given My warmest love to one of mortal birth— And fixed the thoughts on eartl.— That should be Thine and Heaven's— Oh! call the wanderers home to thee. Pity this heart, sinful though it be, Give me, my Father, strengh to bear My load of grief and wild distress, Support me with Thy kindest care Through this world's trying wilderness, So that when Life's wild dream is o'er, My spirit from its cell of care shall soar To thee, kind Father, to thy bosom dear, And Thy blest hand will wipe away each tear [From the Genessee Farmer.] Do:alN . llc RECIPES. Two of our Stir corropondents send us the following recipes, which we will guarantee are reliable and good : Sponge Coke.—Take 4 eggs—the white'and yolks beaten separately ;' 1 cup of pulverized sugar, 1 cup of flour, t teaspoonful of cream tartar, J, of soda. Flavor to the taste. Soda Cali,-3 eggs, 2 cups pulverized sugar, cup of butter, 1 cup of sweet milk, 1 teaspoon ful of soda, 2 of cream tartar. Flavor with lemon. Lemon Pim—Beat with the yolks of 4 eggs 2 tablespoonsful of melted butter, 4 of white sugar, the juice and grated rind of two lemons. Put into a rich paste and bake. Then beat the whites to a froth, adding two tablespoons ful of sugar. Spread it or. the pies when done, and put them in the oven again for about three minutes. The above is for two pies. Fru't Jellies may be preserved from mouldi ness by covering the surface of an inch deep with fine pulvetized loaf sugar. Thus protect ed they will keep 5 years. To Cure Mc Quinsy.—Make a poultice of common white Lima beans, and apply it to the throat hot. To Clean Kid Gloves.—Wash them in a mix ture of equal quantities of ammonia and alcohol. 'then rub theN dry. The above solution will also remove stains and grease from silk and cloth. Frail Cake. —Take 4 cups of flour, 3 of su gar, 3 eggs, I lb of butter, 1 cup of milk, 1 teaspoonful of salaratus, 2 nutmegs, 2 lbs rais ins, 1 lb Zarite currants. For this, bakod in one cake, bake two and a half hours. To Make Potato Yeast.—Take 2 qts. of hops, boil until the strength is out, leaving water sufficient to scald one quart bowl of grated po tatoes. Strain it upon the potatoes and while cooking stir it, adding a handful of salt and two cups of molasses. When cooked sufficient it will be a thick paste. Cool it in a stone jar, and when cool enough add your yeast for rising. Freezing to Death That to be frozen to death must be a frightful torture, many would consider certain, from their', own experience of the effects of cold. But here we fall into the usual error of supposing that the suffering will increase with the energy of, the agent, which could only be the case if sen sibility remained the same. Intense cold brings on speedy sleep, which fascinates the senses, and fairly beguiles men out of their lives. The most curious example of the seductive powers of cold, is to be found in the adventur ers of the botanical party, who, in Cook's first' voyage, were caught in a snow storm on Terra del Fuego. Br. Solander, by birth a Swede, and well acquainted with the destructive de ceits of a rigorous climate, admonished the corn ! pang, in defiance of lassitude, to keep moving lon. " WhoeVer," said he, " sits down will sleep—and whoever sleeps will perish." The doctor spoke as a sage, but he felt as a man. In spite of the remonstrances of those whom h e had instructed and alarmed, he was the first to lie down and die. The same warning was re pealed a thousand times in the retreat from MoScow. Allison, the historian, to try the ex periment, sat down in his garden at night, when the thermometer had fallen four degrees below zero; and so quickly did the drowsiness come stealing on, that he wondered how a soul 1 of Napoleon's unhappy band had been able to resist the treacherous influence.—London Quar ! ierly. OLD Fism—A gentleman sent his black ser vant to buy a fresh fish. He went to a stall and taking up a fish, began to smell it. The fishmonger observing him, and fearing that bystanders might catch the scent, exclaimed : " Ha ! you black rascal what do you smell my fish for 3" " Mo no smell your fish, massa." " What are you doing then 3" " Mo talk to 'cm, massa." " And what do you say to the fish my friend?" " Me ask him what do news at sea, dat's all, massa." " And what does ho say to you ?" " Ile says he don't know ; he has'nt beep doro dese tree weeks. ' The Joys of Maternity. The Ocean Submarine Telegraph. The Man that don't take a Paper. Grace Greenwood, (Mrs. Lippincott,) in an i As the ocean telegraph line is now almost a ! Thiscobweb individual was in town yesterday. address to mothers in the last number of The ! fixed fact, a few details as to its working ar- ; He brought his whole family in a two horso. Little Pilgrim, thus writes : " Since I last ad- I rangements may not come amiss. There are ; wagon. He still believed that General Taylor dressed you, another year has passed over us; still many people so unthinking as to inquire was President, and wanted to know if the —a peaceful and fortunate year to most of you, '• what is the practical use of a telegraph across ', Kamschatkid" had taken Cuba, and, if so, I trust, yet doubtless bringing to the happiest i the Atlantic ocean ; and others of a practical where they had taken it. He sold his corn for hearts and homes something of change and sor- turn of mind, ask how much will it cost us for 1 twenty-five cents—the price being thirty-one— row. To me it has brought the most profound' messages ? In the first place, the revolution in i but on going to deposit his money, they told and sweet, the most solemn and sc3red happi-1 the newspaper world will be something astound- ! him it was mostly counterfeit. The only hard ness of womanhood—for within this year I have j ing. When the English Parliament. is in ses- ! money he', had was some cent pieces, and been joined to ' the great and noble army of sion, morning daily papers of the American ! those sonic sharper had run on him for halt mother;.' lam now one of you. Oh, if there cities will be able to print in their editiors of ;dimes. His old lady was smoking a " cob is a time when woman may feel that she, like the next day as much of the proceedings of the I pipe," and would not lsolize any thing else Mary of Old, is ' blessed among women,' it is British Legislature as may be interesting to the ! could be used. One of the ys went to a \ trl when she folds in her arms her first-born child • American public. Parliament n-ually gets up blacksmith-shop for a pair of sh s, and anotlt -feels the touch of its tender little bands thrill !at two o'clock in the morning, but as the dif- !er mistook the market-house f a church.. t,,n l on heart strings—feels upon her cheek the first : ference in time is about five hours in our favor, ; After hanging his hat on a meat-boo pious soft breath of a life immortal—secs ' faintly ;we shall receive the doings of the sages of West- Ily took a seat on a butcher's stall, and tened. twinkling in the misty depths of sleepy little minister at about ten or eleven o'clock in the !to an auctioneer, whom ho took, to e the eyes a love that shall yet brighten the world, evening, New York time—that being several : preacher. He left before " mcetin was out," for her. This joy unspeakab'e, this holy tri- ! hours before adjournment, and quite as early„, and had no great opiniowof the " sarmint."— umph of maternity, is Heaven's abundant corn- ! as we generally receive the proceedings of Con- ! One of tile girls took a lot of " seed okra" !sensation for all that is suffered by woman— ; gress. All the money and commercial news of to the post-office to trade them for a letter. for all that is denied to her. With existence'! Paris and London will be published the 'same She had a baby, which she carried in a " sugar renewed and freshened by the iaflowing of this, as if they were American cities. What will a I trough," stopping at times to rock it on the pure rill from the divine fountain of life—with message cost ? is a very important question.— ! sidewalk. When it cried, she stuffed its mouth• my heart made more tender and loving by the The British government, guaranteeing the !with an old sto3king„ and sang " Barbara sweet, mysterious influences by which baby. ! company their patronage to the amount of I Allen." The oldest boy sold two " coon skins," hood, mighty in helplessness, and, without 1 seventy thousand dollars per annum, has fixed : and was on a " bust." When last seen, he had speech, most eloquent, comes to us:—:l feel like 1 the highest rate at four shillings sterling per ; called for a glass of " soda and water," and consecrating myself anew to the service of such ! word, or one dollar of our money. This will stood soaking gingerbread and making wry fa as Jesus took in his arms and blessed—and of ! be divided between the stations as follows :—lces. The shop-keeper, mistaking his meaning, you, whom maternity makes kin to her once ! From London to Cork, sixpence sterling: across had given him a mixture of salt soda and water, elected to the highest joy and deepest anguish , the ocean two shilling and sixpence : from New- . and it tasted strongly of 'soap. But he had of mortality—her whom he most loved and ! fonts Band to New York, one shilling—four I heard of soda and water, and was bound to give most tenderl remembered in his last hoUr." , shillings in all. The difference in these rates lit a fair trial. Some " town fellow" came in y I and those of our inland lines may be readi- , and called for a lemonade with a " fly in it,'" Number of the Stars. ly perceived, when we state that a column : whereupon• our " soaped" friend turned his . Of the stars thousands are visible to the 1 of the Brother Jonathan telegraphed from back and quietly wiped se oral flies into his naked eye and millions are discovered by the Washington to New York, costs about s7s 1 drink. We appioached the gentleman and telescope. Sir Joists Herschell calculates that' • and the same amount telegraphed from London ' tried to get him to " subscribe," but he would about five and a half millions of stars are cis!- , ' at the proposed rates, would cost two thousand . not listen to it. He was opposed to infernal hie enough to be distinctly counted in a twenty : dollars. A despatch whiCh costs forty cents ' improvements, and he thought " larnin" was feet reflector in both hemispheres, and , thinks I from Boston to New York will cost ten dollars I a wicked invention, and cultivation nothin' that the actual number is much greater. llis : from London to New York. The newspapers I bnt wanity and vexation: None of his family illustrious father estimated on one occasion' will of course combine together to meet the ! ever learned to read but one boy, and ho that one hundred and twenty five thousand ' enormous increased expenses. The starting of i 4, teached" school a while, and then went to, stars passed through the field of his forty-foot , a daily paper will thereafter be an enterprise of , " study diwinity."—Southern Paper. reflector in a quarter of an hour. This would much rarer occurrence, owing to the necessity __ give twelve millions for the entire circuit of the of a greater cash outlay. Such are a few of the heavens in a single telescopic zone ; and this i facts in relation to this, the greatest undertak estimate was made under assumption that the I t ing of the century. We have but little doubt nebulas were masses of luminous matter, not , as to the result. In less than a year from the yet condensed suns. But with the increase of I present writing we expect to send messages to instrumental power, especially under the mighty i our friends in London and receive answers from grasp of Lord Itosse's gigantic reflector and the ! them on the same day. And we also expect to great reflector at Pulkovo and Cambridge, the ! chronicle before many years the fact, that all most irresolvable of these nebulre have beets ' ! the nations of the earth speak to each other given away ; and the better opinion now is that through the electric wires. As a further im every one of them is a galaxy, like our own ! provement upon the system of submarine tele milky way, composed of millions of suns. ! graphs, all the lines on land will shortly be sub- Legal Tender. . 1 terranean, thus m thing the bottom•of the sea The gold coins of the United States for all' and the bowels of the earth mediums for the sums are legal tender to any amount. i transmission of intelligence from sun to sun and The silver coins Prior to 1853, are also legal , from pole to pole.—New York Brother Jonathan. tender to any extent in the. United States, but ! The Century Plant. , the new silver coins authorized by the act of ! Mr. Van Rensellaer, of Ogdensburg, has a 1853 being of reduced weight, are legal tender ! century plant (Agave Americana) in his conser as follows: Half-dollars, Quarter-dollars, Dimes I vatory near that village, which is about blos and Half-dimes, to the amount of Jive dollars-1 sotning,. The use of it has been tendered to Three Cent pieces coined previous to 1854, to j the Young Men's Association of Ogdensburg, the amount of thirty cents only. Those struck for exhibition, and a committee, has taken since are a tender to the amount of five dollars. charge Ogdens charge of it for that purpose. The copper cent of the United States by the burg Sentinel says the flower stalk " is now 12 sec. of act, Jan. 18, 1837, " shall be con- j nearly thirty feet high, - and is still rapid- sidered of the value of one 200th part of a dol- ! ly growing. Twenty-three blossom-bearing ler." The act of May 8. 1792, ma ke s th e cent ; branches have already been developed from the and half cent current as money ; although no l tall and graceful stalk, and others seem to be egal tender—The value of the copper coinage promised. Upon one of these branches, a few to the end of the year 1855 (from 1792) was ' days since, we counted three hundred and forty $1,572,196 31--say 1075 tons in weight. i buds, giving an aggregate of nearly eight thou __________......_______ • ' sand blossoms : but the number will probably Forgiveness of Injuries. It is the mild and quiet part of the world who greatly exceed this. are generally outraged and borne down by the About forty pails of water per day, are m other half of it ; but in this they have the I 'Piked to slake its thirst, as we were assured advantage, whatever be the sense of their' by the gardener haying it in charge." wrongs, that pride stands not so watchful a I - suntinel over their forgiveness, as it does in the fierce and forward. We should all of us be more ready to forgive than we are, but the evil minded of this transitory world forbid it ; and mankind are too apt to make interpositions with its evil offices in remissions, especially of this kind. The truth is, it has its laws, to which the heart is not always a'pray ; and con sequently it acts so like an unfeeling instru ment in all cases without any distinction, that it requires the most powerful engines, with the firmest and most settled hrbit of humanity, to bear up against it. A Good Character. , A good character is ton young 'man what a firm fou - idationis to the architect who propos es to erect a building on it ; he can build with 1 safety, and as all who behold, it have confidence in its solidity, a helping hand will never fie wanted. But let a single part of this he did c ave, and you go on at hazard, ainiol doubting and distrust, and ten to One it tumbles down ! at last and mingles all that was built on it in ruins. Without a good character poverty is a curse, with it, scarcely an evil. All that is bright in the hope of youth. all that is calm and blissful in the sober scenes of life, all that is . soothing in the Vale of years. centers in, and is derived from a good 'character. Therefore ac quire this, as the first and most valuable good. To Fatten Fowls —......-- Fowls may be fattened in four or five days 'A Methodist and a Quaker having stop► by the following process; Set some rice over' ped at a public hoaSe, agreed to sleep in the the fire with some skimmed milk, ns much only same bed. The Methodist knelt down, prayed as will serve one day. Let it boil till the rice : fervently, and confessed a long catalogue of sins, is swelled out ; add a teaspoonful of sugar.-- After he arose the Quaker observed—" Really,. Feed the fowls four or live times a day,i in • friend, if thou art as bad as thou Gayest thoma pans, and give them as much each time ns will art, I think I dare not sleep with thee." fill them. Great care must be taken that they have nothiniNckii• given them, as that prevents their fattening. By this method the flesh will 'have a clear whiteness Poultry needs warm and comfortable quar ters these cold nights, and you will find that there will be a saving of corn or a proportion ate increase of fat, if they, chickens, turkeys and all, are made to come off the apple trees, and roost in the poultry house. " SLANDERS, Sill,"L-WR have heard suggest ell, says a recent writer, a new kind.of tele graph, namely, to Place a line of women at the distance of fifty paces from each other, and then commit to the first the news to be trans• mitted, as a profound scerci. It is "confidently thought that there would be greater despatch, secured by such a plan, than by any telegraph now, in operation, Ca — People are all the summer learning to leave a door open, and all the winter learning to close it. NUMBER 15. Bottlimless The Bottomless Pit, in the Mammoth Cave• of Kentucky, is suspected by many to run through the whole diameter of the earth. The branch terminates in it, and the explorer sud denly finds himself brought upon its brink, standing upon a projecting platform, surround ed on three sides by darkness and terror, a gulf on the right and a. gulf on the left, and before • him what seems an interminable void. Ha looks aloft ; but no eye has yet reached the top of the great over•arching dome ; nothing is there seen but the flashing of the water dropping from above, smiling as it shoots by in the un wonted gleam of the lamp. He looks below.. land nothing there meets his glance save dark ness, as thick as lamp•black, but ho hears a wild, mournful melody of water, the wailing of I the brook for the green and the sunny channel left in the upper world, never more to be re visited. Down goes a rock, tumbled over the cliff by the guide, who is of the (mink:al/that folks come here to see and hear, not Minims l and be melancholy. There it goes—crash !it has reached the bottom. No--hark, it strikes again : once more and again, still Will it never stop ? One's hair begins to bristle. as he heal:; the sound repeated, growing lies and less, until the ear can follow it no longer. Certainly if the pit of Frederick shall be eleven • i thousand feet deep, the Bottomless Pit of the Mammoth Cave must be its equal. 02' An Englishman, who thotight to be " smart" asked an American, who was blow ing Yankee Doodle on a shrill flf.i for his dear life, " Is that, my friend, the tune the old cow died of ? No, darn your picter," said the downeaster, " Its not, but it is the tune the old. Bull died of." CnrAr.--A minister out West, in the hope• of making young people come forward, adver tises that during the cold weather, he will mar ry them fur a " glass of whiskey, a dozen of eggs, the first kiss of the bride, and a quarter of a pig." tr7-.A. gentleman asked a lady the other day the reason why so many tall gentlemen were old bachelors ?--The reply was that they were obliged to lie cornerwiso in bed to keep their. feet in, and that a wire would be in the way. Q 17 - If the girls:would spend as much time)• with encyclopedias as they do with milliners, they would soon and theii heads as attractive as their hats.. A roan being commisseratedwith, on no. count of his wife running away, said, " DMA pity me till she comes back again." ri-A good sermon is like a kiss. It requires but two heads and an application.
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