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TURNS Of THE " AMERICAX."
HENRY B. MAS8ER, PuausHKaa ard
JOSEPH E1SEI.Y. 5 PnoranTOKg.
It. B. n.taSEU, Editor.
8TOBMI
lore t O Love I
lit JAXKS MACK.
I.ove ! O I.ove ! to every heart
What a blessed thing thou art,
When beauty is levelling
Thy soft and ardent feeling !
II rows blushing,
t'hwks flushing,
Ey s shining,
Arms twining.
Hands pressing,
I.ips raresing,
lliisoms meeting,
Hearts beating ;
Love! O Live! lo every heart
What a blessed thing thou an !
Ere six months pass over,
Happy bride and hnppy lover
Hoteliers, linkers,
Mantumnker,
Doctor solemn
With a column
Of excuses
Shock the senses !
Quite undoing
Turtle cooing,
Love ! O Love ! to every henit
What a bUsed thing thou art !
By the time that two years
Have brought their 'happy new years'
Wife and mother,
In a pother ;
Husband surly,
Huily-lmrly,
Cherubs squalling,
Rawling, brawling,
Kicking, fit'hlinp,
Screaming, biting ;
I.ove ! O Love ! to every heart
What a blessed thing thou art !
From the N. Y. American.
The Count.
Young Kitty fell tn love one day,
With one whose jetty curls
Soft as the head wherein they lay,
Had caught a score of girls.
He wore a curl'd moustache two chain-
On one of w hich were hung
A gist's, as useletw as his I'tuiiis,
And idle as his tongue.
An ebon stick of monstrous size,
And glo ry as his hair,
He lugg'd about for exercise
When e'ei he took the air :
Its rich and massy golden head,
Although no br.uns it hid,
Contain'd more seme, mo rumor said,
Than its vain ownei's did.
Tho' in the Mream of love, elite
Fair Kify lay, and liult'd,
She only nibh'.eil at the bait
Nhe was not fiirly nirk'il.
And soon another prize appeai'd,
Leva handotne and more cold.
But yet for that the trill r sieeiM,
Fur there she taw some gold.
And Kit was caught at last, and told
Her "swell" that he might e"
'You've spoken of, he's thou-n me gold,"
Said she taid he "just so,
But what's his money ! dirty trash!
Why. cus his small amount !
(Irtiriuu ! look at my moustache !
Why, demme, I'm a Count .'"
From the Brooklyn Daily Scwi.
Pnlggs lo Moll-,
0 Molly you ate w. riy good,
Yen you ae wcrry clever,
But ven a feller wexes you
By jingn you gay I nuer
Scid sich a wi'lrnl indiwid
Ual as you do grow,
And then I 'spose you don't look like
A wixen, Moll, oh, no !
Though toiliei night you snub' J me ull,
And trod upon my corn,
And though you tried to git a ox
To hook me vith his horn,
1 love je, Moll; I'd kits ye, Moll,
Though you should hold a pin
Bitween your lech, you cruel gal,
And stick it in my chin.
I like you werry much I does,
UccdU-c your cheeks is red,
Anl eyes as vicked vons as cv
F.r vos sol in a bead,
And 'cause you've got the puttiel lit
tle nose as could be tlow'd,
And warious other causes vii h
I would'nt tell if I kuow'd,
The reason y I writes you, Moll,
In this 'ere Daily AVw-a,
Is Vauau a nont I'm thinkin' on
When you d. es me abuse;
60 if you vill go foi to go.
To cut ud them Vre rigs.
Vy then perhaps, you'll st-e cut down,
Hniogs.
sour iisiivi u
The IiOtidoD Patriot, a religious paper, states
the case of a widow who has three children,
whom short time ago she used to send
to school. Distress however became so
pressing that she could no longer afford this,
and took the two eldest away to assist in earn
ing their living. Soon afterwards she took a
wuv the remaining one, for the same purpose,
Hnd when remonstrated with by her friend on the
cruelty of fending a child two and twenty
..L. .1.1 f l.luir ronliml thllt the Ctltlll W8S
lituuin viu lu iu.", ..r--
..bin in a wi tk to earn a loaf , and that if they
had not that loaf they must starve, A cimu 01
two and tmenty months old vnt to lutx.r to
earn a loafof bread, and hundreds of thousands of
dollars spent on the, christening ofa baby prince.
From the Charleston Courier.
Gen, Hamilton In Itrply to Santa Anna.-
Charleston, S, C, March 21.
To his Excellency
Don Antonio Lopez ie Santa Anxa,
President of the Republic of Mexico
Sir : Although I have not had the honor to
receive, in manuscript, the letter which you
addressed tnc, through the gazettes of Mexico,
under date of the 18th of February, I feel too
sensibly this distinction not to make my ac
knowledgments through a similar medium-
However gross the violation of confidence,
of which your Excellency has been guilty, in
publishing a letter marked confidential, (which
teal you yourself have recognised,) I shall take
no exception to your employing the occasion of
vaunting your own honesty, and catering fir a
popularity of which you may stand greatly in
need"
When I offered you nn indemnity of five
millions of dollars, for a pacificat ion and boun
dary, between the Republics of Texaa and
Mexico, 1 acted under a commission, w hich was
unrevoked by the Government of the former,
and under which 1 had negotiated a treaty of
mediation with tho Government of her Britan
nic Majesty, providing for the payment of this
sum, for the same objects.
The supplementary offer of two hundred
thousand dollars for contingencies and secret
service, were todefray the cost of running the
boundary line, the expense of the rehptctive le
gations, and for srerrt neriirc.
You arc too disciplined a veteran in the poli
tics of your own country, nut to know the ne
cessity and vulue of tins last item. Vet you
have thought proper, it appears, to pay yourself
the compliment of supposing that I designed
this money should be insinuated as a bribe to
yourself. I assure your Excellency that I am
too well aware of the spotless integrity tf Don
Antonio lipcz de Santa Anna, President of
the Republic of Mexico, to have hazarded such
nn experiment on the virgin purity of your
Excellency's honor.
If your Excellency can perceive 'impudence
and audacity' in a friendly oiler of peace, and a
pledge of my exertions to induce a gallant eo
ple to pay five millions of dollars for a realm
which they hud already won, by every title a
just revolution and a victorious sword could
confer, I am quite content to sutler tinder the
reproach of having less modesty than yourscfl.
After thus discourteously disposing of my
self, your Excellency is pleased to lavish upon
the people, to w hose mercy and magnanimity
you owe your life, the grossest abuse. In the
course of which, you say that there never was
'a more scandalous robbery' than the forcible
possession of the tcrritmy of Texas, by its pre
sent settlers.
Had you forgotten, Sir, the charters and
guarantees, under the faith of which Stephen
Ai ktin brought this colony into Texas, which
life, liberty and property were so rcandalously
violated by your own government ! And this
too, towards a man, who rcscmbh:d in the pu
rity of his own life and in the wisdom and
moderation of his character, the venerated
founder of the State of Pennsyluanio. The
colonies of the Anglo American race were in
troduced to protect you 1 own Mexican settle
ments from the hordes of the Camanchee Indi
ans, from whom in spite of their vaunted brav
ry, your troops had so ingloriousdy fled.
Are you not aware that one of the cau.-es of
the revolution of Texas, was your own usurpa
tion ? Your tyrannical overthrow of the Con
stitution oflVJH, ond with it the federative
system, of which as an integral portion of the
State of'Cohulia, Texas was a member 1 Have
you forgotten that by the establishment of a
central despotism on the ruins of this system
furnished the ctt'zer.s of Texas a sltongcr jus
tification for revolution than is to be found in
the causes which led to the resistance of the
thirteen North American colonics to the injus
tice of their parent State! After inviting tho
young Hercules into your country, you attempt
ed, perfidiously, to stifle him in his cradle, and
you have reaped the full harvest of the conse
quences.
You say, sir, that when you commenced your
memo'able campaign, in ISMi, it was illustrat
ed by a seriesof victories, until theuccourrence
of what you are pleased to call the unfortunate
'accident' of San Jacinto
lour victories, sir, il history is not a greater
novelist than the most authentic of your bul
lelins, consisted in your beleagtiriug, with 1
well appointed corps of three thousand men, a
post defended by some one hundred, who kept
your whole force for several days at bay, the
capture of which found every man gloriously
slaughtered at his post in the still more re
markable gallantry of miudering in cold blood
five hundred brave men, under the unfortunate
Fannin, who had laid down their arms to a
force ofs x times their number, under the faith
of a capitulation which even a horJo of Culuiuc
Tarter would have ropectr-d.
At San Jacinto you were defeated by the
'accident' ofyour having more than to men
to one of the band, who were led by the bene
factor to whom you owe your life, and by the
still more marvellous 'accident of his having
killed in yonr ranka more than his whole force,
and captured an amount of prisoners who out
numbered the victors. These your Excellency
must admit arc such remarkable 'accident in
the history of war, that neither Marshal Saxe
in his reveries, or the great Conde in his strat
egy, lias made the sural lest provision for their
occurrence.
Your Excellency, not content with affording
me the instructive history of your campaign,
has been pleased to touch a chord, which you
well knew would vibrate most sensitively
throughout the civilized world, when you
are pleased to announce, that one of the objects
of your meditated crusade against Texa9, isto
extirpate domestic slavery. Before you com
mence your march for this purpose, had you
not better emancipate the miserable victims of
compulsory labor in your own country, who
arc slaves in every thing but the terms nomi
nal bondage, and who would be in a condition
of qualified freedom, if they had half tho tempo
ral comforts of the blacks of Texas. Do yon
suppose, when, debauched by power, you are
riding roiighshxl over the miserable victims of
your own ambition and cupidity, you can hood
wink and deceive any other thun those victims
of fanatscism who frequent Exeter Hall; to be
plucked by tax-gatherers more cormorant than
your own exciseman at home ! This flimsy ex
pedient to gain popular favour, is really un
worthy the good sense of one of your disciplined
knowledge of the world, and comes with a
truly scasonablclgrace from a man of your known
regard lor the value of human lite and liberty.
If your letter, sir, is commenced in the pur
pic light of the aurora boreal is, it. concludes in
thunder, darkness and defiance. Texas, with
I iiui fimt 1 1'. . n 1 1
tier .11,11 iiinaoiianis, u trie nas ever so
many, is tlirnateitedwith the very extremity of
the vengeance of eight millions of the most
gallant people under the sun !
I take no exception to your arrogating for
your subjects even the title of the vanquishers
of the conquerors of the world, or your disput
ing with the inhabitants of I lie celestial empire
the largest possible manufacture of liombatt.
All that I have to say is, that you had belter
make another experimental campaign and
perhaps the 'accident may, this time, turn the
other way, 1 can nssure yon, that allium
'I exus begins in her successliil industry to
blossom like a rose, you will find that you have
a more stumpy road to travel, than even du
ring your last visit, however much tint visit
may have been illustrated by a series ofbril
liant victories.
Rut all badinage aside, let me, in conclusion,
say one word to your Excellency, in sober earn
est. You are pleased to say that 'Texas will
find great advantage in covering herself with
the Mexican flag,' and that I, 'who possess the
talents of a Statesman, must think seriously of
this stco.' I 'thank you for the compliment
If I could lay any claim to the forecast of
prophets, who arc so likely, nevertheless, to be
at fault, I would in reply venture to give you
counsel and that is to make peace with Tex
as with the least possible delay. The policy
which I have recommended hitherto towards
your country, has been pacific, as every public
man in Texas very well knows. For three
years I have strenuously opposed an invasion oT
your territory. My treaties in Europe have
looked to a guarantee of the integrity of your
soil, under the faith of a public compact ; by
w hich the respective poundaries between the
two countries might be clearly ascertained
deemed this most consistent with the interests
of the country I represented, and the cause of
humanity. I dcsireH that your people might be
left free to cultivate the arts of peace, and you
to make every imaginable experiment in the
amelioration of their moral condition. I am
sure the people of Texas would have been con
tent that you should ha vo taken a Constitution
out of every 'pigeon hole' in the Cabinet of tho
'Abbe Sieyes,' from the 'dry acidulous meta
physics' of the German theorists, down to the
self regulating political ethics of Rodea Owen.
For I knew that to establish her own institu
tions, and develope her own resources, all that
Texas wanted was a little breathing time elbow-room
ahe has, enough.
Rut you seem to have willed it differently,
and to have tlecided that your young neighbor
shall fulfil her destiny some fifty years sooner
than she otherwise would have done. In re
sponse to this determination on your part, 1 be
lieve there is but one sentiment in the country
which I have so rwently left, and that is em
bodied in the brief declaration, 'if it ' I
moreover believe, that the only feeling of ap
prehension that is felt at your resolve, (and I
mention this to you as a secret, in ti e most
friendly confidence,) in hst you may not tome
yourself at the head if ymir tin incMt. Al
though theTexinns, like the Presbyterian Par
son, have no 'courage to hool of,' yet I am sure
they will give you cordial reception, in con
sideration of those unrequited claims to their
gratitude which you have left so largely in ar
rear since jour last visit.
As to the humble individual who addresses
you, although entitled to the honors of Citizen
ship in Texas, it is not necessary that I should
peak of my position. Would to God you had
accepted the olive branch, which, as her bub!ic
minister; I offered you in both the spirit of peace
and ftiendship, and that you had humanely at
tempted to staunch the wounds of your own
country, bleeding at every porr. You have.
however, disdained this offer in terms of the
highest personal indignity to myself, and pub
lic affront to the country. You accuse me of
the impudence of having offered you tilver, 1
will not be guilty of the gasconade of offering
you steel ; but whr-n you do come, I hope I
may hear the neighing of your warsteed on the
Ranks of the Rio Bravo.
1 have the honor lo subscribe myself,
With dun consideration,
Your Excellency ,s most obedient servent,
J. HAMILTON'.
HAST A.A.
This personage, says the New Orleans
Cresent City, is procuring a hirgc space in the
eye of the public at present, and, as we hap
pen to have an intimate knowledge of the "Na
poleon of the South," we will endeavor to give
our reuders a brief account of the impression
received on a first introduction:
We attended a ball given in the city of Mex
ico, in ISt1", and during the evening, w ere for
mally introduced to the '-conqueror of San
Juan de Ulloa !" as he was then familiarly de
nominated. He is a man about five feet ten
inches in height, with an intelligent co'intc
nance, and has, doubtless, suent his leisure
hours in deep study. He sioke with great flu
ency, the French, Spanish, and English languag
es, during the evening, frequently expressed
to us the pleasure he felt in meeting an Ameri
can, 'lour country saved me. said he.
from the grasp ofa desperate gang of Texatis,
and the favors I then received, will be remcai-
bered while life exists."
He spent the evening with Mr. L. , a
clerk in a mercantile house in the city, and an
American of the fust water. To this young
man, he expressed his admiration of the Amer
icans, and said they were the only people on
the earth, who could successfully resist the
encroachment of Great Britain.
"You arc a people who fear nothing," said
he, "and you can do any thing you desire You
have only to say you will do a thing, and it is
accomplished !"
In the course of conversation, he alluded to
his defeat in Texas, and said.
"I have fought men all my life, but I never
came in contact with devils before! They
completely annihilated me, and had I been in
command of ten thousand men, I believe I
would have been conquered !
'You are the only nation," said he, "that
cun bid defiance to the world.. You do not
value your lives, and I am satisfied you can
accomplish any thing you attempt,'
The above is a faithiul account of an even
ing spent in the company of a man who has
triumphed over every obstacle in his path to
grettucss, and wrote his name on the imperish
able alter ot fame. ,
That he is "a cold-blooded tyrant is most
true," but he has a thorough knowledge of
Mexican character, and his movements arn
tinged more by policy than justice. He stands
on a precipice, and knows full well that any
deviation from the barbaioua customs of his
countrymen, will be visited vyith summary in
dignation. He consider it hie duty, therefore,
to conciliate till parti'nnd so far he has suc
ceeded admirably. I,8 future fate is entirely
problematical, and we shall leave him for the
present, with promise to "seive up" by and j
hyo, a number of incidents connected with his j
History.
The following a peech credited i the dollar
Democrat is a perfect specimen in itself:
'Fel-lah Cit-ah-zens!
Oim foil lee kwee dating lhoe Ilotu ! I
om Jeni-tnc ! The On-ah the (Jlorah ! ond
the Digni-lah ! of Misis-see-puh ! all re Mi
ah ! thot their Pce-pal pay those ilmz! Kit !
they do split (Mere I'd luh ! fetch me soie
wal-ah ! in a clean tnin blah ! O1111 liir put
ting the Missis-sipah I'nioii Hank in lee-kwah-datum
! 1 am dem me ! Onah among thrives!
is my mot-tah ! Felluh cttalueus, Oim flat
tah'd by your attention I am split inoi whis
kalis! t live no more to say to the awjenee !
I .el's lik-whar ! (Hero some half a dozen bank
foM Net up a devil ofa clatter with their canes
and high- her I'd boots.
'I say, Dill, what makes that fellow so bald
headed!' 'Why don't yoti hi hair all turned the
other wuy, and cornea out of his chin !
'Oh ! my sins ! so it hi hut 1 say I wqr
dcr if it had hard work petting through?'
Iliriilarn ofa Woman nndrr an Insult.
It would seem by the following extract
from a letter by Miss Clifton, the actress, that
the story of her receiving an insult from
nameless libertine is true. The encounter in
which that magnificent looking woman tri
umphed, must have been quite superior to any
of the mimic scenes in which she is said to
make n figure on the stage. The poor fellow
has been taught a wholesome lesson :
"A few nights since," s'ie says, "after I had
retired to my room, and my servant had loft my
room about an hour, I heard a knock at the
door. Supposing that the girl had returned, I
opened the door, when one of the bloods about
town presented himself, and said he wanted to
speak to me, which request you may suppose I
did not grant, but was preiaring to slam the
door in his face, w hen hesiezed me by the arm
and endeavored lo drag me along the corridor
to his room, which was a few doors off. My
spirit did not quail, and in the struggle which
ensued the getit'eman (!) dropped his cane,
which I seized, and used it over his luck and
shoulders in the most handsome manner. Of
course, he beat a retreat, and I returned to my
quarters, with his cane as a trophy of my vic
tory. I he atTair got wind the next day, and
has mode quite a sensation. Of courso he apo
logized attributed the intrusion to liquor,
which is the root of all evil and wanted to
hush the mutter up. A" rumor, with her thou
sand tongues, may give different vcrsionsof the
story, I send the facts to you, lo use if necessa
ry." The memorial of the Huston shoe dealers and
manufactures, to Congress, asking for protec
tion, thus alludes to its effect upon the industry
of the gentler sex. Itsayf
There is one class, however, on which the
weight of this calamity will fall with peculiar
severity. That class is the women of our
country, who get their living, as many hundreds
of thousands now do, with great comfort and
respectability, by the work of their own hands.
This large and interesting class, heretofore not
overpaid for their service.--, must not only ex
perience a great falling off in price, but in
many instances, an alisolute annihilation of de
mand for their labor. They cannot subsist, if
compelled lo work in competition with the la
boring classes of Europe, who receive from four
to six cents per day for their services.
Men, when driven from one employment,
may seek it in another ; and if work cannot lie
had at home, they may go abroad.
If it cannot
be obtained on the land, it may be found osi the
sea. But it is not so with women. They arc far
more dependent und helpless; and when throw 11
out of employ, are involved in inevitable distress
1 ' r :.. .1.:.,
and suflerinrr. There are in this Common
wealth, as ollicially ascertained, about 40,000
women employed in different manufctures ;
15 000 of whom are engaged in the manufac
ture of shoes. How gteat then must be the
whole number employed in the United States;
and what an amount of privation and uuflerinj;
must be involved in the turning out of employ,
or in employing at halt price, this immense
number of industrious women ! Humanity re
coils at the contemplation of such scenes, and
yet come they must, and come they will, un
less Congress, ip, t.,e spirit of wisdom and jus
tice, shall discriminate in favor of their indus
try in the duties laid for tho support ofCJovern
tn"at Were there no other motive than that
arising from this view of the eibject, it would
alone be sufficient to justify the most vigorous
exertions.
The liondon Correspondent of the New
York Commercial thus alludes to one of the
viMtsof the King of Prussia among the public
institutions of the Metropolis
On Monday he visited Newgate in company
with Mrs. Fry and others. The party was
conducted by the Coveiior to the female ward,
where the prisoners were assembled. The
I King made many inquiries concerning the
j stati' of tin; prison, vh.-lher the inmates recei
! ved religious instruction, and on beiug answer
ed in tho atlirmat.ve, ho expressed himself
much gratified. After Mrs. Fry had conversed
with muny of the prisoner, she read thceighth
j ehap'et of Horn 11, end then offered an extem
poraneous prayer. She krr It an example
j which tho King iiimndilely followed. Af
1 ter this interview, tsking Mis. Fry by the arm,
ihe King left tor the residence of Mm Fry.
tiii.i.mi TohW. The giils who remain
torpid 111 their girlhood, cold as the reflection of
a moon in well, are prel'y sure to repay them
selves for such illlmied sobriety by a glowing
meridian, ten years aftar date. I detest even
virtues that are unnatural. I hate a matronly
miss. The cat should begin by being a kitten.
Cecil, a Peer.
Nr.u nil h. "Oh, mother! a bee has stung
me '."said a beautiful girl as she came running
in from the garden, "Never mind, child," re
plies tht mother, "it nut-took thtt fwa fluwir."
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ingly.
CjT"!ixteen lines make a square.
Lancaster Coujcrr Silk. We have
seen a lot of reeled silk, raised by Mr.
John Summy of Warwick township,
which js deserving of especial notice,
as a sample of what may I e done by
perseverance and proper management.
There are upwards of one hundred
xunds of silk in this lot, of as line ;i
quality and as neatly prepared, as any
we have ever seen. The day is not
far distant when protection to Arncri'
can industry and the new formation of
home interests and home feelings which
arc now agitating the country, will ren
der the production of silk a profitable
and pleasant occupation. Lancaster
Herald.
Pkaiils. Pearls are the morbid sc
crelionsof an oyster. Several specie
of bivalved shellfish produce tbem; but
the greater number, the finest and the
largest, are procured from the Melea
grina margartitifera Lamarck, a native
of the sea, and of various coasts. The
pearls are situated either in the body of
the oyster, or they lie loose between it
and the shell, or lastly, they are fixed to
the latter by a kind of neck; and it is
said they do not appear until the animal
has reached its fourth year. Ceylon
continues to be, as it was in the time of
the Romans, the most productive oT
these ornaments. In the last century
several of great size were found in the
rivers of the counties of Jyronc and
Donegal, in Ireland.
Coffee in the United States and
Great Britain. It is stated that while
the annual consumption of coflee in
Great Britain, with a population of up
wards of twenty -five millions, is but
twentyfive millions of pounds, the ave
rage annual consumption, for the last
six years, in the United States has beeu
eighty six millions. At the same rate
the consumption in Great Britain should,
have been one hundred and thirty-three
instead of twenty-five millions.
Christiaxitv in China. The insti
tute of missions in Berlin has received
tidings of the celebrated German mis
sionnry, Gufylall", dated from I'ckin, the
20th of November last. At that period
he was aided in his apostolic labors by
seventeen Chinese, (to whom six others
were shortly to be added,) who having
1 learned 1 iiiisuanitv trom tntn, anuem-
vitiate as missionaries; two of hi? pu
pils, of Japan origin, were teaching
I . J . ,.
I the ( liiucsc nt Mucao ; and his two
nieces, resident also in the latter place,
had converted upwards of 140 Chinese
women, all belonging to the higher clas
ses. Here GutzlatT has addressed to
'.he Missionaries' Institute thirty-eight
volumes in the Chinese tongue, contain
ing works relating to the Christian wor
ship, printed at Pekin, Canton, and other
cities of China ; and the Royal Library
ol Berlin has received from him manu
script copies of nine very rare Chinesa
woAs, giving fhc description ofa great
number of monuments anciently exist
ing in the celestial empire, but of w hi:h
few or no traces now remain.
Destriction of Lltheh's Oak.
Letters from Meiningen speak of the de
struction, in a violent tempest, by which
that country had been visited, of one of
its curious monuments, the old oak of
Luther, planted on the Gth May, 1521.
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conducted to the castle of YVartzburgh.
Notwithstanding its great age, the tree
was still vigorous, and spread its leafy
branches over a wide rircumference.
Its relies were carried in solemn pro
cession to thechuich of Steinach, w here
they have been deposited in a vault, and
the Grand duke has given orders for lha
erection, on the spot w here they grew,
ofa Gothic fountain, to be surrounded
by trees, and bear an inscription com'
rriemorating the event which the tree,
itself has ceased to recotd.- Exchange.
Worse-Fly. The eye ol the com
mon house-fly is fixed so as to enable
its prominent organs of vision to view
accurately the objects around in every
direction; it is furnished with 8000
hexagonal faces, all calculated to con
vey perfect images to the optic nerve,
nil slightly convex, all acting as so ma
ny cornea sttOO included within a
space no larger than the head ofa pin !
all hexagonal all of tho lest possible,
form to prevent a waste of space! This
is so wonderful, that it would staggtr
elief, if not vouched for by being the
result of the microscopical researches
of Mich ir en as 1 .bv. u.V.CMjiI', uid Otheif
: equally cuui.i lit.