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No subscriptions taken for a period, lesa than. six months ; no discontinuance permit Med until all arrearages are paid unless at the option of the editor. k RATES OF ADVERTISING : One square, eight lines, onetime, $100 Every subsequent insertion, ...... ; 25 One square, three months, ....... 4 50 One year, 10 00 HARRY AND I. We stood where the saalte-like ivy Climbed over the meadow bare, And watched as the young night sprinkl'd The sky with her cream white stars. The clover was red beneath us The air had a smell of June The criket chirped in the grasses, . And the soft rays of the moon, Drew our shadows oa the meadow, Distorted and lank and tall ; (. . His shadow was kissing my shadow . That was the best, of all. My heart leaped up as he whispered, " "I love you, Margaret Lee ' -For then one'arm of his shadow Went around the shadow of me. "I love you, Margery', darling, ' Because you are'young and fair ; ; For your eyes' bewildering bloenecs, , , And the gold of yoai early hair. No queen has bands that are whiter, No lark has a voice so sweet, And your ripe young lips are redder Than the cloer at your feet. "My heart will break with its fullness, ' Like a cloud o'er charged with rain ; 0 tell me Margery, darling, , How long mast I love in vain V With bloshes and smiles. I answered (I will not tell what) just then : , 1 saw that his saucy shadow - Was kissing my own again.'- - ' He promised to love me only I promised tolove but him Till the moon fell out of the heavens v ' And the stars wit) sge grew dim. 1 0 the strenjtb ol man's devotion ! O the vows a woman speaks ! " 'Tie years since that blusb'of rapture Broke. redly over my cheeks. He found a gold that was brighter . Than- that of my floating curls, And married a cross eyed widow, With a dozen grown up girls. "And I--did I pine and languish 1. Did. I weep my bjue eyes sore ? -Or break my-heart do yoo fancy, For love that was mine no more ? 1 sland to night in the meadow Where Harry and I 6lood then, And the moon has drawn two shadows Out over .Ihe grass again. ' ' " And a low voice keeps repeating So cloce to my startled ear . That the shadews met together "I love you, Margery, dear." "'Tis not for your cheeks' rich crimson, And not for your eyes' soft blue, , But because your heart U lender, And r.oble and pure and true." The voice is dearer than Harry's ; And so 1 am glad, you see, " '- . He married the cross eyed widow Instead of Margery Lee ! ,hj The "Dcath Waich." The " death s watch" ( Anobiumstrialun) is " a very com mon inmate of our house. Among those who are unacquainted with the habits of insects) there is a common sopersHtion that the strange ticking sound often beard in old houses is a 6ig1i of approaching death. -j Yha noisa. however. is caused bv a small I beetle, which, during it. boring operations, I rubs the neck and thorax - (chest) together, j by which mean's this (id some persons) ter rible omen is orodnced a fact which, lfi more foerally known,-would -save a world of useless anxiety and uneasiness. In the larva state these insects do great injury te our furniture and the wood-work of old bouses, . which they gnaw continually. I When captured, this beetle feigns death, and wjlb the. strangest 'pertinacity, . prefer ring, it said, certain 'death, onder a slow fire, rather than to betray the' least sign of vitality! The "death watch," on account of its retired habits," minute size, and dark color, is very seldom seen ; and, aas there are often several individuals working at the same time at their boring-operations, the souud seems to proceeds simultaneously from opposite directions, thus adding to the superstition terror . 1 where with, by some persons, U is regarded. . The greatest evil, however,'to ba drejded from il is the injury it does through its excavations in the wood work of our houses. It is not larger than a good sized flea.' r , ",Mt friend' said a seedy individual to a waggish acquaintance at a ferry; "I wish yoo would loan matwe quarters lo cross the ferryv l hav't got a dollar in tne world." "Wall, I would like to- know,'f was" lbs reply, ."what difference ii makes to a man wbo basn't ft a do!!?r iri world wbirh A DAY IN PETTICOATS. BT A MODEST YOUNG MAN. I couldn't think ol 6uch a thing.' "But you must. My happiness depends on it. Here, put on the thingumbobs, and the what's his name." , . . Anrl m v frion rt Rnh Slvlns held no hefnra i J " ' . J r : my hesitant gaze a whole suit of feminine apparel. .. . . . . ... ; His idea was that I shoold personate his lady-love for one day, to prevent anybody from suspecting the truth namely, that she had joined him in a runaway marriage party until it should be too late for inter ference ; that is until, the minister should have tied a knot between ihera that nothing but a special grant of the Legislature could untie, . . ,. i The scheme was not actually so absurd as it appeared at first sight.- Maggie Lee was a tall,' queenly woman, with an almost masculine air, and, at that time . I had a very slight form almost effeminate, bo that, in fact, there was really but little diff erence ' on that peint.. Then I had light hair parted in the middle, and put a bonnet on my head and lew persons will suspect that I was not of the softer sex. These accessories 'aUo gave me qui'.e a decided resembJance to Maggie Lee, especially when as this case the disguise was her own. Then the day chose for the runaway match. was an auspicious one. Maggie's I pa was (o drive her to D j a small vil lage near where she lived, and there she was to join a sailing party down D riv er, to the grove three miles b.elow ; from which the party was to return in the eve ning in carriages. 1 Our plan was, that I should be waiting in the village, and should go on the beat - wilh the sailing party, while Maggie, after leav ing her" father should slip off with Bob Styles across the country. At last I got dressed, and presented my self before Maggie, blushing a great deal, I bojieve, feeling very muce pinched about the waist, and with an uncomfortable con sciousness that my shirt sleeves were too 6bort ; or. wanting altogether. Everything finished, in the way of toilet, Bob Styles took me into his light wagon and drove me over to D , by a secluded route, and left me at. the hotel, where the sailing party was to assemble. Several of the pic-nicers were already there, and they greeted my cavalier wilh cordiality (every body knew Bob Siyles,) asking if he was going with them. He told them he was not Pressing business engagements you know, and all that sort of thing. Deuced 6orry I can't go, '(hough. I just had time to bring Miss Lee over, and now I'm off. Mr. Bimby, this is "Miss Lee. 4MifeS Withergall, Miss Lee and he rattled off a long string of brief introductions, which convinced me that but few of the company were acquainted with the young lady whom J 1 was tbus personating a very fortunate thin for the preservation of my disguise i Mr. Bimby, a tall, legal-looting man, with a book none, and eye glas and puffy hair, seemed 10 be pleased with my per- sonelle, and I overheard him whisper to ' Bob Styles, as be went out : i '"Nice looking girl that Miss Lee." -j "Yes," answered Bob, with a mis hiev-: ous glance al me, "she is a nice girl, though a little go ahead sometimes. Keep a little look out on her, wilf you ?" then lower- ing his voice said "not a bad match for you, old fellow, she is rich." "Is she V said Bimby, His interest deep ening. ... -..'. "On my honor," replied Bob. "Forty thousand dollars in her own right." "Day, day !" and he was gone. Maggie Lee artful creature as she was, bad told her father that the sailing party was to assemble at another hotel and thither he had taken her. . Having business in D , he left her, there, merely 6aying he would send the carriage for her at eleven o'clock. She like a dutiful daughter, kiss ed biro and bid him good bye, and before a go " . be bad got a hundred rods, got into Bob wagon, which bad driven up ,he bck door " Mr' Lee 'drove.from the front,' and the old story of headstrong love i anu p rejuuiceu age, was enacieu over As for us ol the pic nic excursion, we had a delightful sail down to the Grove, but somehow, I couluT Lot enjoy it as I ought to Lave done. When I walked on board the boat, I fell awkward, as if everybody was looking at me. I found Mr. Bimby, as I bad suspected, a 'young and rising lawyer, mighty in Blackslone and. his own opinion. He insisted en paying my fare (the boat was a regular excursion packet) and pur chasing enough oranges, pears, and can dies, to set up a street stand. Four or five times I was on the point ef swearing at his imprudent officiousness, but bit my toague just in time to prevent my exposure! But it was not with him that I found my role hardest to play. 'No; the young ladies were the difficult ones te deceive. For instance there w'as one among them, a beautiful girl of seven teen, just returned frpm boarding school, who bad not seen Maggie Lee . for three years. -Of coarse she was delighted to' see me, when she iouod I was Maggie Lee ; which by ihe way, did not occur until after we had started, f She threw herself into my arms, pulled my veil aside, and kissed roe half a dozen times; in a manner taatamade my finger ends tingle for an hour. It was was, 1 felt as if I was obtaining goods un der false pretenses,, and . lawyer Bimby misht issue a warrant for my arrest on that ground at any moment." "A whole lot of crinbtihe'ih'en surrounded , me, on the" upper deck of .the .boat, to the ; utter disgust of-Mr.-Bimby, and all the oth er gentlemen. I " kept very, quiet, only ! speaking in mono'sjlables, in a falsetto voice, but the others Lord bless yon ! how they gabbled ! Under a strict promise of iecresy the boarding school maiden who had ki?ed me so 'affectionately, revealed all her love affairs and. also became un pleasantly confidential about other matters innocent enough in - themselve.s, but not customarily talked . of-between ladies ' and gentlemen. I was terribly embarassed, but it would not do to give up then. As soon as icy trick should become known, Bob Styles' trick would come out, and news of that kind travels fast in the country, he and his ladylove would be telegraphed, und fol lowed, before they could reach Philadel phia, where Styles Jived and where the knot was to be tied. The river breeze wa9 very fresti where we sat, and I noticed that several of the ladies were glancing uneasily at .. me. 1 couldn't divine the reason, until Jennie, my little Iriead from the boarding school, laid her face dangerously close to mine, and whispered : "My dear Maggie, your dress is blowing, up terribly high your anklas will be the town talk xith the gentlemen !" Now 1 was conscious of having a very -small foot for a man, and had donned a pair of open worked stockings which came nn nearlv to mv Waist, with a Dair of ai- ters Borrowed from a servant tirl, in all of which toggery my "running gear" looked quite feminine and respectable but the idea of the gentlemen talking about, my ankles, and of being thus told by a young lady who would have been frightened to j death if 1 had told her the same thing yes- terday, was too much for me, I burst into a j sort of strangled laugh, whioh I could only ', check by swallowing half of my filagree lace edged handkerchief. The younp ladies all ; looked al me in apparent astonishment at j such a voice, and I wanted to faugh all the more.. Fortunately Mr Burnby came to my rescue at the moment and eded himself in among the crinoline. , . . - "May I sit here ?" he a-ked, pointing to a low stool near me. "Certainly,' I simpered in myjjigh fal setto.. "Ab, lhank you," said Bimby with a lackadaisical air, which nauseated me, as coming from one man to another; you are as kind as you are fascinating !" "You flatter me I" .; -j- "I ? No. iudeed : praise of you cannot be flattery, Miss Lee. "Oh, sir, really, you area very naughty man'' I said in the most feminine tone I could command. He cast a languishing' glance at me through (he black lace veil and I fairly be gan to lear for bis feelings. We soon arrived at the grove, and found our band, engaged before hand, awaiting us. - Ol course dancing was the first amuse ment and lawyer Binby led me out for a schottiscbe It was hard at first to take a laify's pari in the dance, but 1 soon got ac customed to it A waltz was proposed, and I resolved to have a little amusement at the expense ot the unfortunate Mr. Bimby. I had first made him purposely jealous by dancing with two other young fellows, one of whom I knew in my own character, but who never suspected me as Maggie Lee. The young man was a great woman killer ; a sort of easy devil-may-care ras cal, who made the ladies run alter him, by his alternate wrath of action and coolness of protestation I selected him to play off against my legal admirer I allowed him to bold on me very closely, and'occasion-j ally looked at him with a hall fascinating j expression. vvnen we stopped dancing, he led me to my seat, keeping his arm about my waist and I permitted it. Having thus stirred Bimby up to wrath' ful feats of valor, I a?ked one of the gen tlemen to direct the musicians to play a waltz. Bimby came immediately. ' Ahem a Miss Lee, shall I have the honor of a trying a waltz with yon ?" I smiled a gracious acquiescence, and we commenced. Now, I am an old stager at wal zing. I can keep up longer than any non-profes- sional dancer, male or female, whom I ever met. As long as tne lacnuca. or t-cnoun-brunncm rings in my ears, 1 can go on if it is a year. Not so Bimby. .He plead want of prac tice, and said that he soon got dizzy. "Aha, old boy," thought I, "1 II give you J a iuru men . But I only smiled, and said thai I should probably gel tired first. "Ob, yes!" he exclaimed. "Of course, I can waltz as long as any one lady, but not more For the first three minutes my cavalier did well. He went smoothly and evenly, but at the expiration of thai time began to grow warm ' Five minutes elapsed, and Bimby's breath came harder and harder. On be went, however, and I scorned to no tice his slacking op at every round, when we passed my seat. After some ten or twelve minutes, the wretched man gashed out between his steps : ' : ' "rt ''Ah,' a are yon not get getting "very tired ?' !i ' -: - ': '1 . " '. . "Ob.Jio, I burst f on b, as cooly as if, we were riding around., the room ; 1 "Ob, no I ta rrible to see. . 1 was bound to see him through, and we kept at it. Bimby staggered and made wild steps in all directions. ' His shirt'col iar wilted, eyes protruded, his jaw hung down ; and altogether, I saw he could not hold out much longer.' "Thi's is delightful," said I, "and you, Mr .Bimby, waltz so easily' "Puff puff ah puff yes oh puff very, puff delightful," he gasped. "Don't )ou think it 'ought to go a little faster 1" ' lie rolled his eyes heavenward in agony. "Ah, puff pull 1 don't ah puff -dou't know." ' So when we- reared the mnsicians, I sail!, "Faster, if you please faster, and they played a fa whirlwind. Poor Dimby threw his feei about like a fast pacer, and revolved alter the manner of a teetotum which was nearly run down. At last he staggered a step backwards, and spinning - eccentrically away Irom me, pitched headlong in the midst of a bevy of young ladies in a corner. I turned round . cooty, young walked to my woman-killer seat, and sent the ifier a glasi of ice water. I cot some idea from this of the fun young ladies have in tormenting us poor devils of ihe o hr nex. At this juncture' and befora Mr. Bimby had time to apologize for his accident, lit tle Jennie came running inio the pavilion which served for a ball-room. As the came pear, I perceived her hands wete clutched tightly in her dress, and 1 positively shud dered as she whispered to me ""Oh. Maggie, came and help me fix my ; kirl9 iney Ere com'n down " What should I do? I was in agonv. A cold perspiration broke out over my fore head, (.wished myself a thousand miles away, anathematized Bob Styles' masque rading project inwardly, with fearful male dictions. 1 said I was tired out could not Some body else go ? No, no'hing would do but lmust accom- pany her to ihe house of a gentleman who owned the grove, and assist her to arrange her cjothing. I So I went. . j n hat if it should 5e necessary to re- j jmove the greater part or her raiment? j What if she would tell me to do some sew- ing t What if iuahe midst of all the em- I barrassmeni of being closeted with a bean- ' tifut girl of seventeen, in a state ol com parative freedom from drapery, my real sex ' would be discovered. i I felt as if an appoplectic fit would be a fori un ate occurrence for me just then. However, I nerved myself for the tak, and accompanied Jennie to the house des- ' i ignated. An old lady showed us into her ! chamber, and Jennie, heaving a sigh of re lief, let go, her dress. As she did so, a pardon my blushes a petticoat fell to the floor. She was about lo proceed, but I 1 alarmed her by a sudden and vehement gesture. ' "Stop !'' 1 cried frantically, and forgetting my falsetto ; ''don't nndress forGod's sake !" She opened her great brown eyes to their i widest extent. ' j "A.-id why not?" "Because I am I am a can yoo keep a secret 1" ' ' j "Why, yes how frightened yon look !" j "Why what is the matter Maggie? you why oh ! on ! oh !" i And she gave three screams. I "Hush, no noise, or I am lot!" I ex claimed, putting my hand over her mouth. "I swear I. mean no harm ; if I bad, I would nol have stopped you. Don't you see ?"' 1 She was all of a tremble, poor little thing, bul 6he saw the force of my argu ment. 1 "Oh, 6ir," she said, "I see you are a man ; but what does it all mean ? Why did you drees so ?" I told ber the story as. briefly as possible after exacting Irom ber a promise of the most sacred secrecy. I then went outside the door, and waited till she bad arranged-her dress, when she called me again. he had often heard el me from Maggie and others and she want ed 10 hear all the particulars ; so I sat down by her and we had a long talk, which ended in mutual feelings ot friendliness and old acquaintanceship, quite wonderful for peo- pie meezing ine nrsi time. Just as we j.BUrlej ,0 go back to the pavillion. I said I must relieve my rnind of just one more burden. "And what is that ?" she said. "Those kisses. You thought I was Mag gie Lee, or you would not have given ihem. were very sweet, but I suppose I must give them back. And I did. She blushed a great deal, but she didn't resist, only when 1 got through, she glanc ed up and said : . "I think you are real naughty anyhow." When we returned, I found lawyer Bim by quite recovered from his dizziness an tr ail hands ready for supper, which was serv ed in the bar room. 1 eat between Bimby and Jennie ; and made love lo both in torn ; to one as Maggie Lee and to the other as myself. After supper at which 1 astonish ed a . great rnany by eating ra'her more heartily than yoaugjadies generally do", we had. more' dancing and 1 hinted pretty strongly to Mr, Bimby that, I should like to -try another waltz. ... ; v , ' - I V.1 QJ-fcJ V-O-t W1m t im, mm.v. I... i .i. i. .11 with my own kind, I soon abandoned the" pleasure and persuaded Jennie to stroll off into the moonlight wilh me. We found the grove a charming place, lull of picturesque little corners and rustic seats; and great rocks leaning out over the river. On one side of these latter a little bench was plac ed in a nook sheltered from the wind and from ike sight; Here we sat, in the full flood of themoon light and having just had dinner, I felt wonderfully in need ol a sogar. Accord ingly I went back to a little stand near the ball room and purchased several of .the wonderful woman who sold refreshment, then returning to the 6eats by the rocks, I gaVe up all cause or fears for my incognito, and revelled in the pleasures of solitude the fragrance of , my segar the moonlight and little Jennie's presence. . , How long we. sat there, heaven knows. We talked and laughed; and sang, and looked into each other's eyes, and told for tunes ; and performed all the nonsensical operations common amongst young' people juai falling in love with each other, and might have remained there till the month of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fif;y-6even, (or aught I know, had not the carriages been e.it lo convoy us home and the rest of the company be gan to wonder where we were. This wonder begat questions, the ques tions fears, and fears search, beaded by the valiant Bimby. They called and looked and listened, but our position down in the sheltered nook among the rocks prevented ihem from hearing us or us them. At length they hit upon our path, and all came along in single file, until they got to the open space above. Then lhay saw a sight. 1 was spread out in a free and easy po sition, my bonnet off, and my hair some what towzled up. One foot rested on the ground, and the other on a rock, about level with my head, (regardless of ankles this time,) and there I sat puffing away in a very nnlady like manner. Jennie was sitting close beside me with ' her head almost on my shoulder, and her imill waist encircled by my arm. Just as the parly came along above I laughed out in a loud muscular voice "Just to think of poor what's his name there, Bimby I Suppose he knew that he had been making love to a man V ' ' "Hush!" cried Jennie. -"Look! there he is and oh' my gracious! there is the whole company !" "Yes we are fairly canght." It was of no use for me to clap on my bonnet and as sume my falsetto again they had all seen too much for that. Besides, by this time, Bob Styles and Maggie Lee were doubtless "one flesh," and my disguise was of no further importance, so I owned up and told ihe siory. Lawyer Bimby was in a ; rage. He vowed lo kill roe, and even squared off, but the rest of the party laughed at him so unmercifully, and suggested that we shoold waltz it oul together, that he finally cooled, end slunk away to take some -private con veyance to D Bob Styles and I are living in a double hou?e together. ' He often says he owes his wife to mj masquerading, but he doesn't feel under any obligations to me, for I owe my wife to the same thing. N. B. My wife's name is Jennie. The Mariposa Star relates lhal, at a pub lic dinner, a man, while relating something to the company about two Chinese women, said : "I declare they were the ugliest women I" have seen anywhere." There happening two maiden ladies present of no remarkable beauty, the speaker who was a little misty, began to think he had made a mess of it, and that they would imagine he was alluding to them ; so to put matters straight, as he thought, be added : ' The present company excepted." Roars of laughter ensued, and in a few moments both speaker and ladies had vanished. A Ntw Name for "Old Bocrbon." A man about town tells us that the recent "elevation" of a distinguished Tennesseean has led to a change in alchoholic nomen clature in this city.' He heard a conversa tion between an anxious enquirer after ' 'Old Bourbon" and a bar tender, which ho re ports : Anxions Enquirer (Approaching bar,) ;'0!d Bourbon ?" . Bar -Under. "Don't live here haven't seen him don't know him." Anx Et,q. "I waul some Old Bourbon whisky!" Bar-tender "Just oat sir got some very fine Andy Jbfoison f! The unlucky customer accepts the sub stitute, :moibo, and becomes so "incohe rent" that he can't remember the name of Gideon Welles. The following composition is paid to have been read in one of the schools of a neigh boring village : 'Twas a calm 6till night ; the moon's pale light shone soft o'er hill and dale. Not a breeze stirred ; not a dog stirred ; not a horse stirred ; not a man stirred ; not an owl stirred ; not a hog sirred , not a cow stirred ; not a cat stirred ; not a hen stirred; not even a goose stirred. . Here the teacher interrupred with the ob servation, that ibe composition appeared to him to. relate more to agriculture than moonlight. , "Ir Gabriel happens to light among the New England Puritans, there'll be ne res-! Lira aau Dkath How briet the distance1 between life and death ! Life Is but 'the vestibule of death, and our pilgrimage on earth is but a. journey to the grave. The pulse thai denotes our., life slay beats oar death march ; the blood which 'Circulates through our bodies, while it flows" with Vhe tide of life, floats them onward to deeps of death. Oh how closely allied is death to life! Trees do but grow thai they maybe felled. Empires rise and flourish but to de cay ; they rise to fall. 1 Death is the black perva&t who rides behind the character of life. Death reachetb throughout this world, and has stamped all terrestial things with the broad arrow ot the grave. Bat blessed be God, there is a place where death is not life's equal following bard its track as eve ning shades the sun's meridian, nor life's companion like a brother sticking fast and cleaving . close. There life reigns alone; there death knells are never tolled, Bless ed land above the skies ! - To reach it -we roust die ; but if after deaih, we' obtain a glorious immortality, then "to die is gain." C. H. Spurgeon. - , i , . WoMAsr. Very intelligent, women : we find by observation are seldom beaatiful. The formation of their features, and partic ularly their forehead, is more or less mas culine. Miss Lander was rather pretty and feminine in the face, but miss-Sedgwick; Miss Pardue, Miss Leslie, and the late Anoa Mariah and Jane Porter, the. cotiraryv One ol the Misses Porter bad a forebead as bigh as that of an intellectual manj We never knew of a very talented man. who was admired lor his personal beauty. Pope was awlul ugly ; Dr. Johnson was no better ; Miradean was the ugliest man in all France, andyelhewas the greatest favorite-wish the ladies. Women more frequently; prize men lor their sterling qualities of the mind, than men do women. Dr. Johnson chose a woman who bad scarcely any idea above an oyster. He thought her the loveliest crea ture in existance, if we may judge by the inscriptions Jbe left on her tomb. - t Bbuise or THt Solk Bruise ot the sole of the foot, is the consequence of the animal treading on a stooe or rail iron ; the result is, extravasation ef blood within, the articd-" latory surface of the' sensitive and insensi tive lamina; ; the accident is almost sure to result in lameness. .!"'. Trentmeid Keep the foot constantly 'wet with cold water; excuse' the animal from duty, and give him a chance to 'breathe pure air, have patience, and the horse 1 will soon get well. " ' ' ' ri . Should the patient appear to suFer ranch pain, give him twenty drops of tinclnre of aconite every four hours, until relief is ob tained ; and feed him on bran mashes, al lowing, at the same time, a small quantity of bay. ; 1 . - : .1 ; Death from Hydrophobia A sad - case of death, from the bite of. a dog, occurred last evening in the city. A little girl named. Mary Bingenham, (we are informed) resid ing in Boas's Row, Herr street, was bitten some weeks since (nine weeks it is said) by a dog, supposed lo be rabid. On Saturday afternonn, or evening, she exhibited unmis takable symptoms of hydroph$ia, which the best medical skill failed to arre-t, and al ter su fie ring the terrible agony of the dis ease until Sunday evening, she died. Is it not time that some expedient should de. re sorted to by the authorities to rid the city ef the hundreds of worthless curs that infest its streets ? " ' ' The New British Ministir Sir Freder ick Broce, who succeeds to the British mis sion at Washington, is known to 'not a few of our older statesmen, from his connection with the Special Mission of Lord Ashberton, twenty odd years ago. He is also known from his family relationship, as the brother of the late Lord Klein, Governor-General of the Canadas, and the late Gen. Broce, Gov. ernor of the Prince of Wales. Alike as to his official training, his experience in vari ous missions both here and in different States of South America, his co-operation with our representatives in the East, a British Minioter to China, and the liberal sympathies of bit family. Sir Frederick Bruce may be expected to bring to his mis sion such requisites of; character aod such antecedents, as will make that mission ac ceptable to the two Governments. Ia per sonal amiability, the new Minister, we be lieve, is not excelled by Lord Lyons. .As he comes here with the assurance of Lord Russell emphasised as that assurance is in the Loudon Times that be will receive from the President of the United States aud from the Secretary of State the -came official courtesy extended to, and freely acknowf. edged by, his predecessors. Pittsburg Post. '" : Various instances bare beeu cited .to prove how lazy a man may be and live ; bul it remains for a Michigander te cap the di nar! One hot day during the heated terms ot last summer one Mr. F , of Jackson County, was observed to throw himself down on the grass nnderthe spread ing branches of a shade-tree,- and to ex claim emphatically to himself, "There ! baeaihe if yon want lo I shan't !" Recrcitivu Dialogci. "John where Is your master to day I" - "Oh 1 he's off recruiting." . . "Recruiting, i he? that's good I where is he recruiting ?" -t I. - "Up in the White Mountains, reern'uir.T r hit health." ' : "Ah ! he's sick, is be 7 Wha the mi-
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