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Suiibury, KorlliiimbciJaml o. Pa. Saturday, May 2i, IS II.
Vol. I'-Xu. XV.
Frtm lite Knickerbocker fur May.
The Cypress Tree of Cyloii
BY JOHST O. WHITTir.R,
Ibn Balula, the celebrated Musslemnn traveller
of the fourteenth century, speaks of a Cyprus tree
in Ceylon, universally held sacred by the inhabi
tants, the leaves of which were bhuI to fall only at
long and uncertain periods; and he who had the
happiness to find and eat one of them, was restored
at once to youth and vigor. The traveller saw se
veral venerable Jogees, or saints, sitting silent and
motionless under the tree, patiently awaiting the
falling of a leaf.
They set in silent watchfulness
The sacred cypress tree about,
And from the wrinkled brows of Age,
Their failing eyes looked out.
C?My Age and Sickness wailing (hero,
Through weary night and lingering day J
Grim as the idols at their side,
And motionless as tbey.
Unheeded in the boughs above
The son); of Ceylon's birds was sweet,
Unseen of them, the island flowers '
liloo.nod brightly at their feet.
O'er them the tropic night-storm swept,
The thunder crashed on rock anil bill;
The lightning wrapped them like a shroud,
Yet there tbey waited still!
What was the world without to them !
The Moslem's sunset call the dnuco
Of Ceylon's maids the passing gleam
Of battle flag and lance !
They waited for that falling leaf
Of which the wandering Jogees sing;
Which lends once more to wintry Age
The greenness of its Spring.
Oh! if these poor and blinded ones
In trustful patience wait to feel
O'er torpid puUo and failing limb
A youthful freshness steal :
Shall we who set beneath (hut Tree
Whose healing loaves of life are shed,
In answer to the breath of prayer,
Upon the waiting head :
Not to restore our failing forms,
Nor build the spirit's broken shrine,
Dut, on the fainting sol i, to shed
A light of life divine J
Shall we grow weary at our watch,
And murmur at the long delay !
Impatient of oui Father's time,
And His appointed way'l
Or shall the -stir nf outward thing
Allure and claim the' Christian's eye,
When on the heathen watcher's car
Their powerless murmurs die !
Alas ! a deeper test of faith
Than piison-cell or martyr's stake,
The self-abasing watchfulness
Of silent piayer may make.
Wo gird us bravely to rebnko
Our eiring biotheriu the wrong;
And in the ear of PiiJc and Power
Our warning voice is stiong.
Easier to smite with Peter's sword,
Than "watch one hour" in humbling pi ay or,
Lite s "greater things, like the Syrian lord,
Our souls can do and dare.
Cut oh ! we shrink from Jordan's side,
Prom waters w hieh alone can save ;
And murmur for Abaua's bunks,
And Pharphar' brighter wave.
Oh ! Thou w ho in the garden's shade
Didst wsko Thy weary ones again,
Who slumbered at that fearful hour,
i'orgctful of Thy pain:
Bend o'er us now, as over them,
And set our tlceji-bourid spirits free,
Nor leave us slumbering in the watch
Our souls should keep with Thee!
ruu Till AMSUICA-T.
Extracts of Fuiiuings.
Is the year 1785, Kicn Long libcra
21I by a public edict, twelve missiona
ics out of prison, w ho, being detected
i privately seducing the Chinese from
tie religion and customs of the country,
ad been condemned to perpetual im
risonment. This edict, ot which I
rocured a copy in I'okin, docs great
onor to the humane and benevolent
lind of tho emperor. After stating
icir crime, apprehension, and trial, he
bserves, "IIad they made known their
rrival to the officers of the govern
lent, they might have proceeded to the
apital and found protection. Hut, as
arisgressors of tho law, which forbids
le entrance of strangers, they have
tolen into the country, and secrelly
ndoavored to multiply converts to their
wn way of thinking, it became my du
Y to oppose a conduct go deceitful, and
) put a stop to tho progress oi seuuc-.
or) Justly as they w ere found to de
rvo tiu punishment to which they
ive bfccn condemned, touched, never.
lClc6srvUU compassion for their io
prudence, it was not without injury to
my feelings that I ratified the sentence.
liut rcllccting altcrwarus that they
were strangers strangers, perhaps ig
norant of the laws of my empire, my
compassion increased lor litem, and
humanity sutlers on account of their
long confinement. I will, therefore,
and command that these twelve stran
gers be set at liberty." Barrow's Tra
vcls in China.
Pfteh the Great was so much affect-
ed with the death of his son Peter by
Catherine I. that he shut himself up at
PetersholT, intending to starve himself
to death ; and forbid every person, of
whatever description, under pain of
death, to disturb his retirement. The
senate assembled on this desperate re
solution of the prince, and Uolgoroulu
undertook to drive him lrom it. lie
went and knocked at the door of the
room where Peter was shut up. 'Who
ever you be,' cried the czar with a ter
rible voice, 'fly oil, or I will open the
door and knock out your brains.' 'Open,
I say,' replied Dolgorouki in a firm
tone, 'it is a deputy from the senate
come to ask you whom you wish to
have named as emperor in your room,
since you have resigned.' Peter, struck
with coragcous zeal of Dolgorouki, o
pened, embraced this faithful courtier,
yielded to his councils, and resumed tlic
reins ot govcrnmcnt.--CJianlrcau s 1 ra
vels in llussia.
Tasso's first poem llinaldo, published
in his eighteenth year, extended his re
putation through all Italy, but his father
was so displeased with his deserting the
law for tho society of the muses, that
lie went to Padua on purpose to repri
mand him. Though he spoke with
great vehemence, and made use of se
veral harsh expressions, 1 orquato hoard
him without interrupting him, aud his
composure contributed not a little to in
crease Jus fathers displeasure, 'lull
me, said Uernardo, 'ot what use is that
vain philosophy, upon which you pride
yourself so much V 'It has enabled
me, said lasso modestly, 'to endure
the harshness ot your reproofs.'
Uoole's Life of Tasso.
Ki.va William III. was passionately
fond of hunting ; and he made it a point
of honor never to bo outdone in any
leap, however perilous. A certain Mr.
Cherry, who was devoted to the exiled
family, took occasion of this, to form
perhaps the most pardonable design
winch was ever laid against a lung's
lite, lie regularly joined the kings
hounds, put himsclt formost, and took
the most desperate leaps, in the hope
that William might break his neck in
following him. One day, however, ho
accomplished one so imminently dan
gcrous, that the king, when he came to
the spot, shook his head and drew back
Universal Magazine.
Whex Philip of Macedon vanquish'
cd the Athenians, in a pitched battle,
they sent next morning to demand their
baggage; the king laughed, and order
cd it to be returned, saving, 'I do be
lieve the Athenians think we did not
fight in earnest,'--Memoirs de Gram
laont.
There is a singular ami affecting
trait in tho character of tho butlalo,
when a calf; and my feelings have sc
vercly lelt it. V hencver a cow bulla
lo falls before the murdering lead of the
hunters, and happens to have a calf, the
helpless young one, far from atlemnlm
to escape, sti-ys by its fallen dam, with
signs expressive ot strong and natura
all'ection. The dam thus secured, the
hunter makes no attempt on the calf
(knowing it to bo unnecessary,) but
proceeds to cut up tho carcase : then
laying it on his horse, ho returns to
ward home, followed by the poor calf,
thus instinctively attending tho remains
of its dam. I have seen a single hun
ter ride into the town of Cincinnati, be
tween the Miamis, followed in thi
manner, and, at the same time, by three
calves, who had lost their dams by this
cruel hunter. Turner's account of the
Buffalo of America.
Woxa. Woman, aaya Matthew Henry, was
made of the rib out of the side of Adam not made
out of his bend, to top him; not out of his feet,
to l trampled upon by him; but out of his side,
to be equal with him ( under his arm, to be protec
ted anJ near to his heart, lo be beloved by him.
THi:aYKBErMs.---i) hot vnap kuivei InJ
orltsin wo.tlenr Wrap them, in good stiojig pa
per, fcu.i'1 i injured by I) ins in wuolcu.
From the A'ctu World,
A TluHIIng Story.
'The impoilatit question is, not that we die,
But how we die.
The Hospital at New Orleans, during
the prevalence of an epidemic, presents
a sight beyond the power of descrip
tion, and of w hich our Northern friends
can form but an imperfect idea. Tho
invalids are chiefly strangers, far from
lome, kindred and inends. L non their
entrance through its massive walls, and
into its sombre cells, their names arc
recorded upon the books of the institu
tion, with the place of birth, time of
arrival, &,c, ami their departure from
thence as scrupulously noted. The fa
tal word dead opposite many of the
names meets the eye of the visiter, ami
calls up feelings in no wise calculated
to render his sojourn there one of mcio
ilcasurc or amusement ; it is, in fact, a
visit to a charncl house, where death
revels in his majesty of strength, and
makes the human frame the scene of
lis "banquet song," the music of which
is
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier."
Death becomes familiar amid such
scenes, and the heart callous to his pow
er; they look upon it as one of the pri
vileges of human nature, and as "if life
without it were not worth taking." It
is indeed here
"The -poor, the prisoner, and the moorner
Fly for relief, und lay their burden dutrn."
The writer of this has frequently
ooked over the books of entry, and a-
mong the recorded names he has recog
nised many who have left their peace
ful homes and "ain lire sides to satis
fy either a roving disposition, or to a-
void man s inhumanity to man, which
in northern cities pursues the poor and
necessitous even to the prison walls, so
as to glut the tender mercies of credi
tors with the knowledge of their vie
tim's incarceration ; and for what 1 Av,
for what? Simply because the poor
wretch cannot pay him a lew dollars-
debt incurred under an accumulation
of miseries, and for the payment of
which he had asked time lor trie regain
ing of health and a prospect of employ
mem. uu a prison in me pcrspec.
tivc, a Christian landlord in the front,
threatening him with instant seizure,
the heart-broken creature flies from his
home, his family and his friends, and
finds a resting place in the "City of the
dead. 1 lie widow s son here breathed
his last, while she mourned his absence
not his death ; her letters remained at
the post ofllce, and she censures him in
her silent hours of grief for his netrlect
But she excuses him on the ground of
youth, and smiles in her widowhood on
the hope little dreaming it is but hope
ueierred, "melting even in the ray in
which it slitters.
The lover, too, sleeps in death, cm
the maiden, in her far oil home, dreams
of joy and hope which can never be
her s. Une name among tnose is writ
ten on memory's tablet, and will only
uisiippcar wiicn me mirrored sunace is
j: I ii r
broken, and recorded tlnnirs washc
out by the stream of time, leading, as it
Joes, down the ocean ol oblivion. 1 he
name of High Ukixac.le is cagrave.
on a piece of marble in the American
btirying-grouud, New Orleans erected
to Ins memory by one who loved hurt
living, and mourns him dead. Peace
to his ashes! '
Many a blooming chcclv has faded
many a bright eye grown dim and lus
treless, many a joyous heart has fallen
beneath the I pas breath ol the bend o
the South.
What a contrast there is between the
summer and winter of tho South ! the
first, which in all other climes is all sun
shine and joy to the young heart, is
there all gloom and sorrow ! There
winters are the sunshine and spring of
tho year.
But let us return to the Hospital
The reader must imagine to himself a
long room, on each side of w Inch, ex
.a til
tending the whole length, is a range ot
single beds ; on each one, (which is fre
quently tho case during an epidemic,
let him picture a victim lying in all the
agony of mental and physical sullering
let him also imagine the cllect ot tl
disease upon the inmates, which, accor
ding to their different constitutions, or
the nature of the attack, act in different
ways. One in the last gasp of death
vomits up the dark particles, formed by
mort iication, and which is termed
"black Vomit" hist vf nri fivpil cnn.
fca gone, his limbs writ hint?. Another 1
rave- -u frcnZy, wild, tho bcJ
Clonics to pieces, r(lJ rujin;: olp on to
tho floor, dies Cy9 tljC attcuUants can
replace, him.
Let the reader picture such a scene,
and he w ill form a tolerable idea of the
lace which words are inadequate to
escribe. In no city, however, are the
poor more carefully attended, dut ing
the severe scource, thati thev are in
IS'cw Oi lcans ; but my reader must take
into consideration the number misfor
tune renders amenable to the cause of
death.
On one of the beds near the centre of
the room lays a sick man in the last sta
ges of the disease. The officiating phy
sician had just informed him there was
no hope death was doing its work.
lhc man resigned himselt calmly to his
ate. On the bed w hich stood immedi
ately opposite to that of the dying man's
w as one w ho had just been brought in
from his boarding house ; his case was
o considered desperate.
In a sick room and who has not cx-
jcriunccd the agonizing feelings and
sulferings of one? there are objects
upon which the eve rests in those mo
ments when pain permits the reason to
roam m its nvenlal wanderings, and ga
zes upon some object, calling up as it
were the dreams of the past, when
icalih und strength went hand in hand
with hope, und tho bright sutnlunc of
lappv future clcamed beloicus; there
is a dreamy luxury in this, which can
only be realized by those who have ex
perienced this exercise of mind in the
moment of danger, and who love lo
dwell upon it.
1 he writer oi this, m lS-iv, during the
prevalence of as severe an epidemic as
ever prevailed in New Orleans', suffered
an attack cf yellow fevcv, nnd believes
that his life was saved by his strength
of mind overcoming the alarm created
by the idea of dying among strangers,
and of a disease considered by many
incurable. The imagination docs more
harm in cases of sickness than the dis
ease itself.
One of those men to whom I particu
larly allude, the nature of the disease
permitted to indulge in this 'fitful dream'
between life and death: mortification
had already taken place, and his pains
were lulled. The light of life was going
out, and the shadowy outline ot the
grave was before him. His eyes wan
dered around the vast room. At this
moment lhc man opposite him turned
their eyes met lustreless as they were:
dimmed by the waters of oblivion which
were rushing from them, to close up the
fountain forever. 1 he recognition was
mutual a half uttered exclamation of
surprise, the outstretched arms, w hich
fell again powerless at their side
"William, is that you ?"
An agonizing groan was the answer.
Years had passed away since they last
parted, and now where did they meet ?
in the house of death ! "Oh, Cod! my
brother, is not this awful to meet thus
reach your hand, one grasp, one pres
sure I I" Uttering this he fell
back. Tho other could not speak, he
had not yet tutored himself to die ; it had
not been told him, that his hours were
numbered. The shock was too much
for him; he strcched his hand, as it
were, mechanically: the other witnes
sed tho motion. Desperate even in
death, fie raised himself up, and, by a
superhuman effort lie rose from his bed,
tottered across the room, caught the
extended feveri.-h hand of his brother,
(for they were brothers,) kissed his qui
vering lips, which were now closing
forever, attempting to speak, but voice
and strength failed, lie turned round
for the purpose of regaining his own
bed. One look, one step-he laid down,
and in a few moments the two brothers
were dead !
nnilto at Ion of tUe vU.
The Swiss journals statu- thut a grrA number of
the inhabitants of Chamaunix, although in the en
joyment of a certain degree of wealth, are disposing
of tl.eir proiicity with the intention of emigrating
with their families to New Yolk, others to I.uu-iana,
where many of their country men have made suc
cessful settlements.
The emigration from Great Britain is expected
(o be very great this season. Tho owners of the
old lino of Liverpool packets made arrangements t'
insure lot) sleeruge passengers in each of their 1.,ij,t
bound to New Yoik, from the 1st of M ir-'a
the 31st Octubcr next, which is 23 r cent. ,ore
than the avcrago emigration to N'.w York ',n jsto.
In connection herewith wi mUy g.ld ( tlist ,!,ee.n.
igrants whoanived at tbd j.orl of rfv york etoue,
in 1810, was ov l.y , 1Vom lhe Ul
January Jkl uf M uo j, ,liaj,
ten 0"jUsanj engrn.tj c,, ia this port, 'i bis
year to May Ut, tho number u hs Ibaa four
ihou-wnJ. Humors of war, und lit state of inuiio
tary altVir have hud thtir influence upon thd timid.
A'. V. iSuii.
DlHorrirr lit Irt lnnri.
The disorders in iiel uid, which ut various times,
have broken f.irth with such fierceness, nre not yet,
it would nppejr, romplete'y pacified. The London
Times of tho tllih ult. contains an account of an
outbrenk ii. tho noithern part of the county of Tip
pcrury, so ixiei.sive auto border on insurrection.
Tho information is contained in a letter, a portion
of which we copy i
"The town of Xcnah has the appearance of a
place preparing Tor a seie, the streets being crowd
ed with troops despatched Ihither from the ga-iUon
of Limerick, comprining a troop of the 17t!i Lancerf,
two companies of tho 20th Foot, nnd two or three
pieces of ord mince wero expected to arrivo ihcro in
the course of Fiiday evening. Tho orders of the
military are to sc.iur the disturbed districts day and
nit-lit in bodice of twerty-fivc and thirty, und to be
in contant readinefs for aciive duty in (We minute
warning. In the mean time, the work of hloudfhed
and oulrao progresses with fc.uful mpidily. Two
mere mu'ilcrs were committed in ll:e liroau iluy
light yc-tcrd.iy, on the lanJs of Curraghuiurc, in
the pntkdi of Killarron. The names uf these un
happy victims to niban.lUni, wro Tiirney and
(ileefon, Major General iNr l'arkcr Cuirol, the
commanding officer, of the district has been served
with a Kockite noliee, warning him to be prepared
for the fate which momentarily imends over him
in conwqnenco cf ejecting a woniui from some
land, tho san.c being in direct contiavcnlion of the
Kihnnd cixlo. The lit if outrage, in the shape of
similar notices, together withassuults on the person
&.C, would occupy too much of your space. I hb.a!l,
therefore, mtrely obridgo some of the particulars c
licited at the in.ue,t on the body of the wretched
Hayes a brief notice of whose murder appe.ucd
in the Times of Fiiday. Thw barbarous deed was
committed within about t-ix. miles of Ncnagh, on
tho borders of the mighty hanuoii, and in one of
tho wildct-t districts ol Ireland. Coiit guous lo tho
houc of tho unhappy man are a half a dozen lone
ly dwelling-, which urc chiefly occupied by fisher
men, and are situated between mountains, whiih
command a picturesque view of that magnificent
river. There is no direct passage to the place, and
the coroner and his party were obliged after leaving
tho high road, to travcreo for upwards of a mile an
almoft inaccessible tract of country, ere they reached
the fatal spot."
Alt Importnnt lilt trillion.
The I.ccxburg, Va. Genius of Liberty states that
Messrs, Phillips & Jaikson have invented and pa
tented a machine for cleaning wheat, which will
separate garlick, cockle, cheat aud all imparities
from the grain. It is said that the machine can be
furnished at a price within the reach of any one
who may require tho use of it. This invention, if
it answer the purpose stated, will bs of essential uso
to farmers, as the great difficulty, and indeed im
possibility, of scaruting garlick, etc, from wheat an 1
rye, has deducted largely from the value of their
crop. We have no doubt the machine will be in
troduced iiito general u-c.
Appeal to tile Wiinini of Kiiglaml to le
foiue look,.
To your casscrels, then, women of Udtain.
Would you, "with a falconer's voice, "lure your
faithless tassels back again, apply to tho practical
remedy of your wrongs; proceed to tho reform of
your domestic govcrnmmt, and turn your thoughts
to that art which, coming into action every day in
the year during the longest life, includes w ilhiu its
circle tho whole philosophy of economy and order,
tho preservative of good health, and of tho tout) of
good society, all peculiarly within your province!
The greatest women of all ages from a Sarah to a
ttevignc have not disdained its study and its prac
tice. Ouequurler of the time which you now give to
'nicknaming God's creatures' upon canvass, if duvos
ted to tho philosophy of your larders and jour pan
tiics.orto the doctrines of a pure culinary literature,
would furnit.li your hu: ban J's tables with elegance
and science, fiom which tdovcnly inotauce uo.v
diivcs them to other and belter dinners. Open thvu
forthwith seminaries, not merely for catechisms and
spiritual metaphysics, so difficult to infant diges
tion, but fr culiuaiy iutttuelion and physical ame
lioration, f-cilo to the comprehension uf all. C
talh.di model schools, and found chairs for the dis
simulation of that eminently Useful knowledge, tho
know ledge by which we may eat to live, with safety
and satisfaction. Provide for tho sufficient educa
tion of a convenient number of able-bodied young
women, and for sending tbem foilh as missionaries
through the benighted province of the empire; vherj
through tho phiktophuul rest-arches of these fe
male stuiinari' u, maxims shall le attained to form
a volume of reports, some female Uetilbaitt may yet
arise lo complete tho good wort, by an encyclope
dic rode, that w iiliupcrsedo forever the faUe guides
anJ triing prophet, of tha old Knglisb. kitchen, and
l"ove 'iiut one ex;uiiie little dinner, (the table a
ro und, the eue.s few) if drv.cd with scUuce and il
lumined with wit, is worth idl the great feasts and
fattidious banquet lli-l ever weio give n, if conoid
eicd a means to the great end of bunging those,
together w hom God ha joiucd, and family dinners
have put Bunder. l.udj JUmyun, ' the Umk
without a Af''Ct
A Lii(.uiiL Uli juiih. l a church aouie
where fn the country, tho choir, aUud by lha con
gregation, divided a lino in one of the h runs thus:
Life i. like a W Life i ha a ow (oh !)
how It fliaa t Oil 1 how it iUs !"
initi:sojim kktui.vu.
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Hi Oolkiliign.
The follow ing picture of the picsent condition of
the once beaut'ful and (hjuiieh'ng Island of St,
Domingo, is furnished in a teller from a Ficncli
naval ollicer:
MVe embarked on board tho frixatc NYrcidc, an
tho 21lh December. On the 28th wo were at foit
Royal, lo receive orders from the Adniial w ho di-
patched us tho 21'th lo !St. Douiiligo, where wn
were to luke on board the five mitbsns of francs
which the Consul General had informed us wera
ready. We h ivo been three days at anchor in thi
famous republic, and all that I can i.iy to you of
the misery of tho people, will scarce sutlicc to givu
you anv idea of it.
I have been every where and every where have
seen nothing but degradation nnd coirtiption.
Men in rngs composo the army and exhibit a most
ludicrous mili'ary masquerade. Cavalry on foot,
mnnouvrc like hon s at the word of command, trot,
ga'fi'p, iVc. IJolh olficers and sod:ers ara without
shoes ; one his spurs lied I y a cord to hi-i nukr-d
leel, another has mane liiinse I spun wim a piece
of iron drove into a woolen sale lied to his foot,
and one. w hole company which I inspected minu'e
ly, had not a single musket which would go off.
Tho ollieers in rags ask eh iri'y.
'Slothfulnoss, poverty in its most hiderms form
and in the negro, it is mot hideous, alone meet your
eye at tho town of Port au Prince. The fields nro
ovcirun by brambles, lozwood tiecs, and the laps,
cious lichens which obstruct the roads ar.d destroy
the old plantations. Willi tho ei p'ions cf a few
gardens which are here and there cultivated by th'i
negroes, gardens far iufeiior to tho-c of our wort-t
slaves there is no cultivation whatever.
"The only product nf the I.-land U coffee, and that
every year diminishes so materially, that tho time is
not far di-tanl when it will produce none at all.
No more is planted, and tho old coffee plantations
ure not ccu taken care of. The owners gather
tho crop from their own fields, in the midst of bri
ars t-nd weeds no laborerR being lo bo had, the Olio
not being willing to work for the other.
Music.
Attention to music, vocal music, especially,
should always form a part of female education.
The day is gone by, as I trust, when it was custo
mary to say, that none but the giJ'Ud could acquire
this accoinpiishm nt. U is now, I believe, pretty
well understood, that all persons may learn to sing,
as well as to read. .Not, of course, equally well,
in either case ; but all can make a degree of progress-
I have called singing an accomplishment ; but it
seems to me to be much moie. Its bc.irinjj upon the
hetilih, and even upon the inlelKct, is veiy great.
Kven it moral Uudenry U by no means lobe over
looked. The value of muie, to sooth the feelings 'd cast
out the evil spirits which haunt the path of human
life, has never yet received that measure of atten
tion which it deservec. JJven in those putU of cou
tiuental Europe, whero all the pc.v?ar.ts sing, said
are accustomed to fill the air with their cheerful
and harmonious voices they go forth to prose
cute their daily task, no less than in their f.iniiher,
even there, I say, the full power and value of musl.-.
are not understood. They n-.jda it, by far to
much, a sort uf sensual giatilication. Let il be
deemed for a better and noLler purpose. Let it he
come a compuuion of saints and literature, as wea
a of industry and of virtue, aud of religion, w'jj
moie tli an all.
Extract froiu a C ensus Dialogue.
Census-man. IJut who is the head of tho f unity
Mrs. O'l'lynH. Och ! bless ye, honey -u,
all head and no head they're all for themselves.
Pc;t..wr;rvi.-lIow mmy are there in the family
Mrs. U'1'lyiii..ls it that you wuh to knoxr
If you've got a pcico of chalk, I'll tell ye, sir, in tl
twinkling of an eye. Let nio see there' Lul
Laney, and his gang cf wjddlers, thai' fourle-ii
there's Paddy O'Hourke, the well-digger, seven dt
tors w ith their husbands, and 'twixt them, t-.rent
seven as sweet little ones as you wuull wish to I
your ugly eyes upon and there's myself and T
i!y, Btid our five eons, with their wive and tweu
th-co young'ns beside bis. lodger and leu boj
crs, all in this house.
CotnTisa. "Ma, what doc cousin Joha V.
sister Pridge so for !"
"La, Pimon youhsa sueh eye he only .
courting her my child."
Golly iit-'Wa tux doti'l he court k, .
though !"
"La, &iuon, do hush !"
A Did Case. "Will Patrick," nLed the d -r
tor, "how do you do to-diy 1" "O dear, do-im
I enjoy very bad health, inUiely. Tkia rhunuti
i very distressing indade. Wi eii I go to sice,,
lay awake ull niht, and luy too i sweib d a h
u a gooit' lnu' bS when 1 tUnd Up I l
down directly."
Married in Michigan, Henry bill, lo Mis M.,r
Small. Thd issuing of $n.l! Lul u not prohibit,
cd in that biatc,
A Fax's Ofrm. I'ho marriage of Mr. Alum
Fry to M;s Susan I'ytUr, i tueuliouuU HI unit u
ilio Chanibersburj. (Pa.) Papers.
L'ososnnr . Why is a ide-.ldlo like afau
quait uu-jsuie f DeCuuse It hoU.t it gul-an.'
W hy are the timers surh sui eiej.loi-!-lkiLUd
they are aiay miv lo get thvit d:w.
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