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VOLUME XL
FARMERS LOOK THIS WAY.
TuE°PPosition say that in a short lime the ground
will ho ready to sow Oats, Barley, ,te. How
they know this we are not able to any, but this much
we will say, that whenever it gets ready, you had
better give us a call for one of the best Grain Drills,
and warranted at that, (no largo talk about refunding
money,) but if the article is not as represented, it can
be returned, and all matters satisfactorily arranged.
Likewise, in due time the grass will be in order for
Lay making, and then we are prepared to furnish you
with Allan's Mower, a splendid machine for cutting
grass of any kind. And in addition, when desired,
we have also the combined Mower and Reaper, of
Manny's Patent,. which is nudiufactured upon a dif
ferent principle from those Towle heretofore, and war
ranted to cut grass and grain as fast as one team of
horses can draw it. And'further, wo have the Pre
mium Corn Sheller of Lehigh county, and as there
has boon sold a very large number in a short time
that have rendered universal satisfaction, we arc con
fident in saying, that it has no superior here or else
where. We likewise have a mill for chopping feed.
which has been testod thoroughly in different set•tions,
and all who have witnessed its operations, testify to
the good qualities of the mill, and recommend'it to
tanners as an article to save thno, and likewise grain
in the amount which is yearly given to millers in the
shape of " toll." In short we have almost any article
which farmers require for agricultural purposes, such
as Ploughs of almost any pattern, Corn Cultivaters,
Revolving Hay Rakes, Bay Forks, Corn Ploughs,
Corn Planters, Limo Spreaders, Threshing Machines
and Horse Powers of different kinds, and all warrant
ed to give satisfaction. Repairing dune in all the
different branches, on reasonable terms and at short
notiel. Any person residing at a distance, in want
of any of the above articles, can obtain them by ad
dressing the subscribers at No. PO West •
Allentown, Pa. SW El 1 . 7, ER 4, srk-ec,r.
0 11, A IN_DR•IIb ENt'ES.
- Iteuben Helfrich, NortliWhitehall: Charles Hen
ninger, do; David Beary, do; David Ruins, Macula
gy ; George Beisel, Allentown.
CORN SHELLER REFERENCES.
David Bortz, Wescoesville: John Ilortz, Cclnr
Creek; Jacob Wenner, Lower 3ineungy ; C. h W.
Edelman, Allentown ; Reuben Gackenbuch, North
Whitehall.
FEED JITI.I. 1:1 7
.17.1IENCE
Charles Seagreaves,.Alloutuwu.
Allentown, April 2.
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they have just taken possession, bC - ing the largest,
most commodious, and best arranged building for the
business in Allentown.
The proprietors of this New and Magnificent Cloth
lug Establishment, take pleasure in further a:nioune
lug that they have also increased their tremendous
\Vintdr Stock of Ready-Made
CLOTHI
and are daily adding thereto all kinds of articles ap
pertaining to Men and Boys' wear, which mill he
sold at extraordinary low rates, as they go olio , ' the
principle that a "nimble sixpenee is bettor than a
slow shilling." They have no trash of year:4 , o 0:04
shelves, which they try to pelts off for • n e w 0..111''
goods. bit nn t h e contrary. are mperior in qoality,
make and style, to any establislrnent in the plave.—
Give them a trial nll4l you will find the I'AI..VI IAI
CLOTHING HOUSE is the plitee for everybody.--
Their minter purchases comprise entirely new 0041 i.
sirable styles, such as can not he found at coy .414(.1
Merchant tailoring est:0)11.'110mM in Allentown. 'f Iwo
goods were sele.le I with the greatest. care, and will
be made up in the latest style and fashion, end war
ranted to prove the same 113 repruented at the time of
purchase. Observe, that every article of Clothing
sold by the proprietors of this establishment is of
their own make, and may be relied upon as being
good durable work. Among their extensive assort
moot may be found, fine Block and Blue new styli
Dress and Frock Coats, made in the latest f a shion nl
French and English Cloths. new style Busioess Cents,
of Black, Brown, Blue, Olive and Ii corn Cloths, nod
plain and figured Cussiineres ; Over Coats, of nll
qualities, styles and prices. pantaloons. vests, and it;
fact everything in the REsIDT ADE CLOTHING
LINE, from an over-coot down to an undershirt, The
three great features of Dreioig. Neligh
Store are, that they buy for and consegnently
can sell Cheaper thllll nay of the others; their goods
nro made up under their own supervision, 311111
though not least, they sell thou for what they Erofty
dire.
Also, n large stock of Handkerchiefs, Shirts, Col
lars, Winter Hosiery. Under Shirts and. Drawers of
all kinds, and everything in fact that is usually kept
In stores of the kind.' CAlland see before you pur
chase elsewhere, es they willingly show What they
have. They are satisfied that all their gouda bear a
close examination.
December 10.
FURS! FURS! FURS!
Are all the go now-a-days, and we are
.1.T,5641 determined not to be behind the times.—
. " 7" Cowequently we hove procured a very
largo assortment, direct from the hest Illalllifacth!rer,
in New York city—whore Furs are got up in the most
fashionable style, and at the lowest rotes. Our as
sortment is composed of all the styles now in ttse
such as
Sable Victorines, Tippets and Capes, '
StonO 111artin, ..
Fitch, If "
Imitation do. • o ~
. . • Rook Martin, II II
Siberian Squirrel, "
Brown Coney, II it
Black do. " • "'
do. Lynx, " II
Children's Furs of various styles.
Gont's Fur Collars, Caps and Gloves. • .
We have enlarged our stock of Boots
12% bw
and SiII)OS and Hats and Caps, suita
ble for the seinion. Our stock of Over
Shoes•is particularly large, comprising all the various
makes in• the market, such as India litiliber. Bul.
falo, Calf-Skin, Felt, Web; .@e., S:e. Ladies and t len-
Homan in want of any of the above articles,• will .1.
Well to examine our stock before purchasing sise
whore.
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All the above goods sohbat Wholesale at a liberal
discount to merchants in the country.
•YOUNG & LEIL
No. 45 East Hamilton Street.
Allentown,,Docembor 10; 1836.
Amos Steckel,
attornen nt taw. •
OFFICE WITH JAMES S. REESE,
A LLENTOWN , PA.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY HAINES & DIEFENDERFER AT ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS PER ANNUM.
TELE DISCARDED m 417 LITER,
OR, TIM REVERSE Ole' FORTUNE.
CIIAPTER L—TJIE SdPPLICANT
It was the evening of the last day of Decem
ber, and the keen north wind that swept in
chilling blasts through the almost deserted
streets of New York, sending the fine, icy par•
tiles into the faces of the pedestrains, seemed
to pierce to the very marrow. It was bitter
cold ; and the pont., destitute children of mis
ery—homeless outcasts of society—crept moan
ing and shivering along the walks, seeking of
the passers by a pittance to obtain a mouthful
of food, or a lodging for the night. The proud
man of wealth, wrapped in. his thick, warm
cloak, would draw it more closely about his
form, and walk.more hurriedly on, as in an
ticipation he saw the comfortable and luxuri
ous room, with glowing grate, that would
greet his arrival. And as some unfortunate
creature, with upturned face and pleading eyes,
would stretch forth a thin, attenuated hand,'
and with feeble voice supplicate for a few pence
to keep the flame of lit: still flickering on, he
would notice the appeal by a silent shake of
the head, or else pass unheeding by, vexed at
'the thought of being for a moment delayed.—
God help the needy on such a night ! Man is
..sto regardless of the sufferings of his fellow
beings
The evening was far advanced when, from
one of the narrow streets above the City Ilall,
there turned into BioadWay a young and deli•
cately formed woman, whose appearance des•
pile the habiliments of poverty which covered
her, plainly indicated that she had not long
been familiar with the scenes which, apparent
ly, she now frequented. Pau,ing, beneath the
light of a lamp, she cast her eyes in either di
rection of the great thoroughfare, seemingly
vacillating which way to turn. Drawing her
thin shawl more closely over her shoulders, she
length turned her steps up the street, facing
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to biting night air with many a yisible shud
r. Reaching Canal street, I:he paused upon
le corner, and with a faltering voice and a
atural reluctance of manner solicited alms of
le first person who passed her ; but the quick,
ort tone ot yoke with which a denial was Sc-
ompanied called to her pallid checks a faint
inge of blood, which a moment after gave way
to such a deep look of anguish as would make
a cold heart melt with pity.
Another form was seen advancing, and as it
approached the woman, as if inwardly impell
ed, again stretched forth her delicate hand.
' A few pennies, for the love of Heaven !' she
Uttered ; my husband and child are perishing
fur food—only a few pennies, and God will re
ward you for the deed r
The inly response to the appeal was an angry
summons for Ler to step aside : and the poor
woman, the large tears almost freezing, in their
course down her pale face, shrank quickly , back,
while a sob, which seen; d to rend her very
heart, burst from her lips:
Bitter reit etion! but four short years before
the man who had passed her scornfully by hail
knelt at her feet a suppliant for •her love—and
now he knew her not.
A moment nfier the heavy bell of the City
Hall boomed firth the hour of ten. To the
wretched creature who sued fir aid it seemed
the death-.knell of every hope. She had for a
moment retired as much as possible from the
piercing wind into the protection of a doorway ;
but as the sound fell upon her startled ear she
started forward again, and murmered to her
self :
' Ten o'clock, and nothing *yet to alleviate ,
the starving ones at home. What shall I do ?
I cannot return as I came forth. 0, God ! how
have I deseiyed this bitter fate !' l
She clasped her hands in her agony, while i
the warm tears, forced up from the depths ofd
her soul, rolled down her cheeks and fell upon
the frozen ground.
• There is but one recourse left,' shentinn
ed. ' I will go to him--my father—anorg
for food to maintain the life lie gave. True, he
has once refused to hear me ; but when he sees
me thus-,when he knows the extent of my
misery; surely he cannot turn me away.'
T.:rged on by the slight. hope that inspired
her, and impelled by the desire to save those
whom she loved more than life, she once more
turned her face up the street, and hurried along
as fast as her strength would permit. Reach
ing one of those spacious and handsome streets
in the vicinity of Grace Church, she entered it.
On either side arose the stately mansions of
those on whom fortune had lavished her richest
gifts, from the windows of which the brilliant
light streamed forth falling gently upon the
white a d frozen ground, while ever and anon
a tnerr peal of laughter would fall mockingly
c
upon li ears, making more miserable her own
condition t e contrast.
She soon paus before an elegant and costly
building, and bent er eyes upon the parlor
windows, whose gliste ing panes reflected the
light from within.
' This is the place,' she exclaimed aloud :
' ah, low well'rememlered. " I might now have
been an inmate within its walls, with every
luxury at my command. But no—l will not
repine, bitter though bo my lot. But must
hasten ;' saying which she ascended the marble
steps, and with a fluttering heart rang the bell.
MB
Allentown, Pa., January 28, 1857.
An instant after a servant appeared--a tall,
stout, liveried servant, who exhibited great sur
prise at the audacity of such an appearing per
son as the one before him. •
' We have nothing for you,' ho said, in an
angry tone, as he attempted to close the door.
I do not ask alms of you,' she said with an
air of haughtiness which she irresistibly assum
ed, and pushing against the door as she spoke ;
• I wish to see Mr. Alton.'
' What can you want with him ?' was the
reply of the menial. He cannot be distur:: :d
by every beggar that applies—especially at co
late an hour.'
I come not as n beggar,' exclaimed the
young woman, a sense of her father's injustice
rising within her. ' I wish to see Mr. Alton—
him only,' and she advanced within the en
ancc.
The servant, plainly against his own inclina
tion, turned and passed toward the door of his
master's apartment.
CHAPTER 'WEALTHY FATTIER AND THE
BEGGAR DAUGHTER.
Before a blazing fire, which diffused a genial
heat throughout the apartment, there reclined,
in a richly cushioned arm-chair, a man some
what past the prime of life, who was, apparent
ly, in the enjoyment of every comfort that the
heart could crave. This was Mr. Alton. As
the servant entered the door he laid asidira dai
ly paper which he had been perusing, and turn
ed his head.
There is a woman at the door, sir—a beg
gar,' said the man, bowing, who wishes to see
you.'
' Tell her to be gone !' was the stern reply ;
' why do you disturb me for so slight a cause ?'
' I told her you could not see her, but she
would not go away.'
' Indeed !'
• Yes, sir, and she is very urgent to see you.'
Then close the door upon her ; I will not
be disturbed in this manner.'
The man turned to execute the order he had
received ; but as he was closing the parlor door
the woman, who had heard their dialogue, ad
vanced and brushed past him, and entered the
richly furnished room. Approaching the fire,
the warmth of which was most grateful to her
benumbed limbs, she paused opposite her fath
er and looked within his face. The old man,
hearing her footsteps, turned his eyes in the di
rection where she stood, and as ho beheld her
standing there, her pale face looking down upon
him, he st•trted from his scat with a look of
'wild astonishment.
• Alice !' he uttered.
' Ay, Alice, your daughter,' she replied.
Why are you here ?'
' Is it singular that a daughter should stand
beneath her father's roof ?' she replied, a cold
smile resting upon her features.
• But why do you appear before me at this
hour. and in such a garb ?'
• Fallit r, I mu starving ; for thirty hours I
have not tasted feud.'
t Ycil have at last come to me for aid ?'
• Yes,' she replied, her features gradually
softening, • I have conic to you for aid ; I have
come once more, and for the last time, to, beg
of you, for the love you once professed to bear !
me, to 'give me bread. lam famishing !'
' I loved you once,' said the old man, his fee-'
tures for an instant relaxing in sternness.
• It was a selfish love—not that which a true
father bears towards his child, or you ! would
nit see me perishing thus.'
' Nay, I loved you well, until, disregarding
my advice and strict injunctions, you heedlessly
rushed upon your own . doom : '
I pursued the course that my heart dictated
—I could not do less.'
• There you aro wrong ; you should have fol
lowed in the path of duty in preference to that
which your own heart, or rather passions,
pointed out.'
His voice assumed a tone of harshnes7 as he
spoke, and his words' fell heavily upon his
daughter's heart.
' You now sec,' he continued, ' to what your
villainous husband has brought you.'
• Say rather your own course of conduct,'
she replied, indignantly, at hearing ono whom
she so ardently loved, despite their poverty,
traduced ; ' for did you not, after turning him
from your employ, villify his character so that
he was unable to obtain employment
'No more th an he deserved,' was the vehe
ment reply ; ' or ho whO betrays the confldenc
reposed in him to such an extent as to steal the
alDction of his employer's daughter is no better
than a thief ; and as such I branded him.'
' Tn so doing you have brought misery and
degradation upon your own flesh and blood.'
That is not my fault.'
And yet you might alleviate my deep dis
tress.'
And thereby aid the villain whose name
you bear !'
•' 0, you cannot apply that term to him. He
has done all that lies in his power, leaven
knows, to earn a subsistence; and now ho lies
sick, even unto death—starving, literally start
ing—do you hear,lather, while you are rolling
in wealth. For two hours have I wandered
through I .the streets of this city, begging for
bread to sustain life for myself and helpless
ones at home. Have you a heart I If so you
cannot see us perish fur want of food !'
Her power of self-endurance relaxed with the
over exertions she had manifedted, and she fell
upon her knees and buried her face in her hands,
while the hot tears trickled like falling rain
through her long and almost fleshless fingers.
For one moment that proud man seemed mov
ed by her eloquent appeal—but, alas ! only for
a moment. The next, and his features assum
ed their wonted appearance of hardness, almost
intli Terence.
' A just punishment for one who, regardless
alike of her own welfare and her father's wishes,
descended from her high station to wed a for
tuneless adventurer,' he replied, in a vcice of
the most cruel coldness. ' When that act was
accomplished I drove you from my presence,
and disowned you. From that moment you
were no longer a daughter of mine. With
your ownL hands you planted the thorn--what
wonder that it now pierces you.'
Ilis daughter uttered a groan of anguish.
• Why reproach me thus ?' she cried : 'it
cannot now be helped. Give me but enough to
save us from immediate starvation and I leave
you, never to return.'
No, I will not—l will not aid hini. Listen !
Renounce your husband—leave him to his fate
drid I will once more take you to my heart and
home, and the past; shall be forgiven and for
giotten.'
[To be conc?ttled in our ;vat paper.]
A PR EVlll' j.YRIC.
We 11 part no more, Oh, never
Let gladness dech thy brow,
Our hearts arejoined forever
By each, religions vow.
MisfortunO's clouds havo vanished,
That caused our bosoms rain
And every care is banished,
No inure to come again.
Hope's star is brightly burning
Within its brilliant dome,
And tells of joy returning
To cheer our rural honio.
It shines through gloom to gladden,
Dispelling grief and core,
For sorrow ne'cr can sadden
\Yidlo it remnineth there.
'Mid flow'ry vales we'll vender,
And by the laughing stream,
Our bosoms growing fonder
'Neath Love's enchanting beam
In yonder cot reposing
In plenty, side by side,
Each morn fresh joys disclaiming,
Through life we'll gently glide.
Uncle Sam's Farm
Two centuries ago Uncle Sam was an infant,
and his present farm was the red man's wild.
The Indian was no farmer. He left the soil
unturned, the trees to grow as they choose, the
creeks and rivers to flow as they pleased, the
nsrful metals undisturbed in their bed. His
house was of poles, covered with the skins of
beasts. He made no roads, no vehicles, no boat
but a hollow log. Ho stole his clothes from the
animals, or went unclad. The plumes of birds,
beads of - beach shells, the schoolboy's paint
stone, were his ornaments: The cane and flint
fdrnished him arrows. Ibis pipe was a stone
with a hole in it ; his knife a stone sharpened ;
his grist mill two stones, the rudest thing that
can be called a mortar.
Uncle Sam's first crops were enriched with
his own and Indian and British blood. Then
he began to tear down his old log barns and
build hater, to open roads, cut canals, improve
harbors, rake snags from the rivers and cover
the States over with a network of railroads.
Uncle Sam snaps his thumb and finger, and
cities spring up like the creations of magic ; he
blocks out a State, and sees a building more
glorious than the full blossoming of an ancient
empire. With bis two iron rails, his Herculean
steam horse, and his great train of wagons, he
outstrips the swift winds and makes the oaks
pr;cic up their ears or move off with fright.
The streams are beset with noisy mill gear;
the rivers Riled with proud steamers; ships,
whose tonnage is - greater than that of old John
Bull, love to hover with their white wings
about the seaports and lay their huge bulks
along the wharves of Uncle Sam. There are
thick-walled wealth in the cities, happiness in
the country, industry and enterprise every
where.
IVhilst !nom than three thousand church
spires speak of Uncle Sam's Sabbath propensi
ties, two hundred and thirty-four colleges, with
academies and common schools sown broadcast,
tell of his wishes and expectations in respect to
the rising generation.
Toss up your head, Uncle Sam, and let us
see the moist of your eye, while we tell you.
that you, have tll.l best and largest farm on this
earth ! There it lies, " on the top of the globe,"
cradled between two great oceans, with nearly
thirty thousand miles of sea coast, beautiful
with great harbors and proud headlands.
Surely it is an ill trade-wind that can.blow you
no commercial good. Hither shall come the
ends of the earth to exchange commodities.
Your Fairs shall concentrate more interest than.
did the games of ancient Greece. The produce
of your farm shall add a hundred million to the
goes away to the land of gold, and, after many
months of hard toil comes home to commence
again at - the hill for a more weary and less suc
cessful climbing up again.
There is an himest farmer who has toiled a
few years, pit his farm paid for, but does not
grow rich very rapidly, as much for lack of
content mingled with ittlustry as anything,
though ho is not awaro of it—he hears the
wonderful stories. of California, and how for
tunes may he ha.] for the trouble of packing
them up ; mortgages his farm to raise money,
population of the globe. Last year you raised
more than two thousand dollars' worth of ag
ricultural products, and yet the farm is not
half cleared ; besides, you did over fifteen hun
dred million dollars' worth of other work.
Then think of your ono hundred and thirty
thousand squire miles of corn field, your hills
and deep down mountains, fall of the useful
metals, and your California.
A word, Uncle Sam : Do as you have done,
and you shall be the happiest and noblest Un
cle that has ever seen this earth !—St. Louis
Democrat.
Stick to Your Business
There is' nothing which should bo more fre
quently impressed upon the minds of young
men than the importance of steadily pursuing
one businbss., The frequent changing from one i
eniployinent t o
, another is one of the most corn
mon ertoricOmmitted, and to it may be traced
more than half the failures of men in business,
and much of the disc,ontent and disappointment
that rende'r life uncomfortable. It is a very
common thing fora man to be dissatisfied with
his business, and a desire to change it for sortie
other, and Which seems to him will prove a
more lucrative employment ; but in nine cases
out of ten it is a mistake. Look around you,
and you will find among your acquaintances
abundant verification of the assertion. Here is
a young man who commenced life as a mechan
ic, but from some cause imagined he ought to
have been a doctor ; and after a hasty and shal
low preparation, has taken up the saddle-bags
only to find that work is still work, and that
his patients aro no more profitable than his
work-bench, and the occupation not a whit
more agreeable.
Here are two young men, clerks ; ono of them
is content, when his first term of service is over,
to continue a clerk until he shall have saved
enough to commence business on his own ac
count ; the other cannot wait, but starts with
out capital, and with a limited experience, and
brings up, after a few short years, in a court of
insolvency, while his former comrade, by a pa
tient
perseverance, comes out at last with a for
tune. The young lawyer who becanie disheart
ened because briefs and cases did not crowd him
while he was yet redolent of calf-bound vol
umes, and had small use for red tape, who con
cluded he had mistaken his calling, and so
plunged into politics finally settled down into
the character of ameddling pettifogger, scramb
ling for daily bread.
Mark men in every community who arc no- .
torious for never getting ahead, and will usual
ly find them to be those who never stick to any
ono business long, but always for-saking their
occupation just when it begins to be profitable.
Young man stick to your business. It may
be you have your calling. If so, find
it out as nick as possible and change it : but
don't let any uneasy desire to get along fast, or
a dislike of your honest calling lead you to
abandon it. Have some honest calling, add
stick to . it ; if you are sticking type, stick away
at then ; if you are selling oysters, keep on sell
ing them ; if ybu are at law, hold fast to that
profession : pursue the business you have chos
en persistently, industriously and hopefully,
and if there is anything of you, it will appear
and turn to account in that as well or better
than in any other calling ; only if you are a loaf
er, forsake that line of life as quickly as possi
ble, for the longer you stick to it the worse it
will " stick" to pm—limit's Merchant's Mag
A Constant Mirada
The Bible itself is a standing and astonish
ing miracle. Written, fragment by fragment,
throughout the course of fifteen centuries, un
der different states of society and in different
languages, by persons of the most opposite tem
pers, talents, and conditions, learned and un
learned, prince and princess, bond . and free;
cast in every form of instructive composition
and good writing, history, phophecy, poetry,
and allegory, emblematic representation, judi
cious interpretation, liberal statement, precept,
example, proverbs, disquisition, epistle, ser
mon,. prayer, in short, all rational shapes of
human discourse, and treating, moreover, on
subjects not obvious, but most difficult. Its
authors are not found, like other writers; con
tradicting ono another upon the most ordinary
matter of fact and opinion, but arc at harmony
upon the whole of their sublime and momen
tous scheme.
THOSE LITTLE. LABORERS.-It takes 2,000
silk-worms to produce ono pound of silk. In
view of the present size of ladies' skirts, we
advise the silk-worms to " go in" strong, or
the supply will run short before long. We
would like to know how long it would take a
single worm, at the rate of two thousand nine
hundredth of a pound a year, to produce a full
rigged, double breasted silk, promenade dress,
flounces, high-flyers, ana all !
NUMBER 17.
Calculation by Skiaohincry.
The attention of tho learned world is now
engrossed, says the Independence Belga, by a
new invention, which promises to be of univer
sal usefulness. Mr. Thomas, of Co mar, after
thirty years of hard study and assiduous labor,
has at last solved the problem of calculation by
mechanism. His machine, which he has bap
tised " .Arithmometre," is applicable to the me
chanical solution of all aritlimetival operations,
from the simplest to the most complicated ones.
This instrument solves, with infallible correct
ness, not only the fuur rules--addition, subtrac
tion, multiplication and division, but also as
certains the powers of quantities; extracts the
the roots of numbers, resolves triangles, reduc
es ordinary and decimal fractions, and defines
the rules of proportion, etc. Its rapidity of ex
ecution is such as to defy the ablest calculators.
A multiplication of eight numbers, is executed
in eighteen seconds ; a division of sixteen cy
phers through eight cyphers, in twenty-four
seconds. The machinery is so simple, that, af
ter the expiration of five minutes of instructior, ;
the most ignorant head knows enough at calcu
lation to defy with its help all calculators, in
rapidity and correctness. The " Arithmome-
Ire" is placed in a small, light box, which can
be easily carried in a pocket, and is so con-
I structed that its mechanism can scarcely ever
!be deranged. It is already in operation in sev
leral great commercial houses, the house of
Rotlichilds, and in the Mint of France, and it
I soon will be as common as letter presses.
Big Stories.
A lot of young fellows were trying their skill
at telling stories a few days ego. Among the
numerals stories told on the occasion were the
following hard ones :
Bill said—
I know a tree that seven men chopped at for
seven weeks, and then they took a notion to go
round and look at the other side. They travel
ed four days and then camp to a party of forty
who had been chopping at it for four months
and it was not cutlialfthrough yet !
Tom said—
I remember that well. It was an oak, and
five million hogs were fattened yearly on the
acorns that fell from it !
Joe said—
The tree was afterwards cut down and fiver
hundred saw mills have been working on it for
two years, and it is not half cut up yet. Two
new towns, five bridges, and nearly a thousand
barns have been built with the lumber it has
produced. The chips made in cutting it down,
when closely heaped, measured • four million
cords and have supplied two furnaces with
charcoal for the last two years !
Jack said— •
Deacon Brown afterwards dug out the stump•
and turned the place into a'pasture field. Ho
kept so many cows on that he made a million
pounds of butter and nearly as much cheese
every year ! •
Now came Stick-in-the-mud's turn. Draw
ing hitnself up, he said—
Wall, I dunno how many pounds of butter
and cheese Deacon Brown makes yearly. But
I do• know that he runs the five hundred saw
mills, Joe mentioned, by buttermilk power!
The llatitl.
Look at the hand. A little organ, but how
curiously wrought ! How manifold and neces
sary are its functions ! What an agent has it
been for the want and designs of man ! What.
would the mind be without it? Ilow it has
moulded and made palpable the conceptions of
that mind ? It wrought the statue of Mam
mon, and hung the brazen gates of Thebes ; it
fixed the trembling needle upon its axis ; it
heaved the bar of the first printing press ; it
arranged.the tubes of Galileo ; it reefed the top
sails of Columbus ; it held the sword with
which freedom fought her battles ; poised the•
axe of the dauntless woodman ; opened the path
of civilization. It turned the mystic leaves
upon which Milton and Shakspearo inscribed
their burning thoughts, and it signed the eler=
ter of England's liberty. Who would render
honor to the hand ?
Early Translation of tho Bible
The translation of the Bible was begun very
early in this kingdom. Some part of it was
done by King Alfred. Adelmus translated the
Psalms into Saxon in 999. Other parts were
done . by Edfrid, or Egbcrt, 705 ; the whole by
Bede. In 1357 Trevisa published the whole
in English. Tindall's translation appeared in•
1334, was revised and altered in 1538, pub
lished with a preface of Clranmer's in 1549.
and allowed to be read in ehurches. In 1551
another translation was published, which be
ing revised by several Bishops, was printed
with their alteration in 1560. In 1613 o now
translation was published by authority, which
is that in present use. There was not any
translation of it into the Irish language tilL
'4685. The Popo did not give his permission
for the translation of it into any language till
1795.--4enouiny's Notes.
[l3" Keep your dog away from me." said a
dandy to a butcher's boy. " Darn the dog,
he's always after puppies," said the boy.
It7Theres a Quaker in Ohio so tenderheart
ed that heialwaye chloroforms his hogs before
he kills them..