t"111 j ."..am.. nor- TI'IOIS Or THE AMERICA!'." 1IENKY B. MA88ER, 5 Pu BLlaHKSS AMU JOSEPH EISEI.Y. SP . .IM.V.VF-'ft, lUUtor. Office in Centre Alley, in the rear of II. U. Mat- icr t Slure. THE A M E W IC A iN " to publiliod every Sal ur day al TWO OOLLAKS per milium to lie paid half yearly in advance. No papur discontin ued till all arrearages are paid. No suliHciijition received for a lost period than is momths. All communication or letters on (mainea reJaling In the oilier, to insure attention, must he POST PAID. - . 'I.-Ji .l j VI"'. Ji s UNBTOY AMERICAN. AND SIIAMOKIN JOURNAL. i- Absoluts acquiescence in the decisions of ihe majoify, ihe vilal principle of Republic, from which (here i no app. al hut lo force, the thai piiu.iple nd innnediaie parent ol despotism. Jbi thso. Simbiiry, JVorlliumbcihuid Co. la. Nutunluy, .llunli -I, ls i:J. Vol. J--.o. u:iVliolo Xo, 12?. I.OVC Unit TiORiCa T raise SAnnKST osifonn. The pods one duv ecnt Reason i'H', To look for I .m e. their luisnl hoy ! They hide her seek him sll uliout, Anil lure him home with lempiini; toy ! She found him Hi a roeebuJ r.fkrd, She horned him tolieVi irk in Reason ; lhit still ihe hoy 1he maiden 'rocked ; Tor "T.mv will never linl lo Htasoil .'" The coddes held a jewel up. With brightest clory flashing thru' it ; "Nav ! fee my Hope's hlu'hiefl rnp!" Said Love., "Your pern is nothing to it '." bFoc i-hanie; f.ile1oy ! must ybrrc ho iriid t 11 thus yon W'ntethi precious a-non ! "Take caie ! d'ye know thialioiv," he cied ! Ah ! Iaivc ton "ft lias conquered rensui ' "I see your sim ! your rhetoric speeds On proud Olympus i'l without me; Hut happy .ore no rcnton needs! J5. gone 1 and when they a.-k about me, 5nl tell them, in my Rose's heart. I've found w dear, ao pure a treasure, 1 pnidge them not Minrivii's art, Or I nching Hi he's cup of pleasutc!" The ninid hnrl not a word 0 siy. She knew the eocue was talking treason ; Hut ha. k to Ma Wm tier wvy ; For -Jj.rt cm kthr plaid than reason. l'HSXY WKDIMXCiS IX st:OT.AXI. It may be right tomcntion, tor the inforirm "tion of A met tea n Trillion--, timt penny weddings used tobe quite common in the Highland dis 1 riots of the north of Scothml, though latter ly tlny have been gradually becoming less fre quent. Thry n-e called penny weddings, be ttiuse the parties- present pay frr -the pleasures of the evening. The Lride nil hridegnotn per sonally invite their own respective acquaint ances to the wedding sever.! duys U'fore the lime appointed tor the perfortnHiice of the mar riage ceremony ; hut any person who ishei it, and is willing to pay t'rrri stipulated Koni, is ahvayn a welcome guest. That stun is usual ly recru'ateil by the current price of vhi:4ey whi.-key being the wly spirits drunk -on the oceanion and varies from three (shillings and fixpense to fniir hhilhngs lor earh person. On Kiinu (K:cHShiis us Utility us IH) pir.-ons have teen present at me of lhe.se penny wejdiugs ; ami the profits to the bride and bridegroom, lifter paying all expense, have in sumo cases amounted from twenty Ui thirty pounds. Willi the profits of their wedding the atitbor baa known several in.-ttmoee in wlik-ti the "tiewly tusrried couple," us the newspaper advertise ments say, have made a beginning in the world, and afterwards become opnleiit iktsoos. It may he known lo ninny of our reader., t tint in Start larwl all marriages take plac at ll.e tiotise of the parents of the bride, or of tlrose rtlutioiis with whnin t-he tuny chance at the timv to be flaying. If in the humbler ranks of life, nnd tdie has been a faithful and obliging servant, it isipiitp common for Uie bride to be married in the house of Iit niistrera. In nny case, a marriage in n church or chapel is ns the clergyman is concerned, is performed at the house of the hnde's parents, if nlie has any; nnd if not, at the house of some relative or friend. Hut the festive part of the occasion is reser ved until ho is brought home to the house of her husband. Marriage in Scotland usually take place about five in the afternoon; and, when '-be wedding is a penny one, only a few ttcisons, and these, for the tnot part, neur re lations, are present at the clerical part of the ceremony. The party after wards sit down to tea, which is followed by a g's uf genuine whiskey, and a few biscuits. If the bridegoom's house be not fur oil, the newly married pair, with their friends, at once adjourn to it, where the evening is spent in feasting and hi'arity. l'ut in rural districts and in these only are penny weddings beard of the bride, in the great majority of cuses, either reside, or is in t-ervicu, at u distance of some miles. In these rases, the common practice is, to be married at her locality on a Thursday the guests being till invited to the latter place. IVrsons residing in populous towns can have tioidea of the sensation created in a particular dtMrict in Scotland, for six or seven miles a round, w hen it becomes known that a wedding is in contemplation. The bride and bridegroom are in everybody's mouth. For weeks before x,e I'tn'i romes (!. notli d lk,,d of in the whole eonntry side. Kvury liute inci dent in the history of either party is raked up tron. oblivion, snd di--used a:d con.iuentcd on with freeiloin and bolilnew wincn wouiu batisfy the mot dcvoUd friend L liberty of rpeech. The intertitt in the roming Marnajio con tinues to grow us the pemsUt which it ap pointed to lako place approaches, t'ormerly the cuUi ul to be a cufctutu then required ! latt--tUt tbf bscrs fhould be published, or, as they Fay in Scotland, ihn parties bo "cried," two Sundays before the ceremony took place. After the parties had been thus asked in church, neither of (hem ventured out oftener than necessity required, because of the bondinngc to which they were sure to be sub jected by all the tmninrried portion of the com munity. In the pat t of Scot land where penny w eddings were wont to be more freipient, there used to be a suprrst lions belief that, ifan un married person only rubbed shoulder with ci ther a bride or bridegroom which the parties nrc considered to be from the time of their be ing risked or "cried" in church the individu al lbrtunate enough to get mitlieiently near for the gentle collision, was sure to be married soon afterwards. Hence all the young women in the place literally persecuted the bride, in their anxiety to rub shoulders with her. This was a source of annoyance, nnd still is, in some ca ses, ton "published" bride. Then there is tlint feeling of mndesly which prevails to so great on extent among young women in the rurnl dis tricts of Scotland, when allusion is made to their approaching nuptials a feeling which al most makes them blush to bo seen by their for mer acquaintances. The extent to which this feeling is carried in the north of Scotland. would appear incredible to Hie Hugli.sh reader. Tims between one circumstance or other, the period which intervenes between the first a n nouncemei't in the church of an intended mar riage, Rnd the period nt which it takes place, is. to the bride, one of a trying nature, apart from all private considerations connected with ihe new relationship into which t'hc is about to enter. Earnestly does she pint for thenrrival of her wedding-day, in order that her embarrasing sit uation mny approach its end. It conies in due course, though she deems the interval from the first publication of the banns until the wedding ts over, a little age. To both bride and bride groom the wedding-day is, in more senses than one, an important day. Most arduous nrc the duties of both; hut those of the bride are peculi arly so. She is expected to talk perpetually to all iirouml lrer.during the eating and drinking part of the business. Great things are expec ted from her in the way of pressing her friends to prtrtake of the good cheer provided for the occasion. And then, when the dancing begins. which it docs about seven or eight in the e venin:', she is expected to dance with everylxi- dy who eUves to nsk her. On the floor she must toil away, though scarcely able perhaps to move a limb. But by far the most singu lar duty of tlio bride at a penny wedding is that of advancing to all the male persons pre sent, and kissing them iu succession. Where this has to lie done in loOor lfiilcases without so much asn moment's breathing time between the salutes, it will readily lie believed that the bride has rather a arduous tnk to perform. Tin! accuracy of this statement may be ques tioned by thoee unncqnainted with the usunges which prevail in some mote remote parts of Scotland. It is nevertheless, strictly true. For its truth the writer, indeed, pledges lino jielf; ns he speaks on the point from what he has w itnessed with his own ej es. As no ordinary-sized house would contain the half of the guests w ho are present at a penny wedding, they usually sit down to dinner in the largest baru,ol other out-houe, in the neigh borhood. Tables or chairs in sullicient numbers are out of the i,ueFtion ; but an apology for ta bles it made by means of a certain number of deals of timber, adjusted nsthey best may ; and forms are found to answer for chairs. With re gard, again, to knives and lurks, as these are articles rarely used in those localities where penny weddings are most frequent, every guest is expected to take disown knife and fork with him ; if not, there is no alternative for him but to use his fingers. And 'vhen a guest, unpro vided w ith knife and fork, is reduced to necessi ty, you generally see hint trying to keep hini ei'lfiu countenance, and to silcnco those who, being themselves letter provided, muy betray a disposition to be witty at Ins expense, by say ing "Ah never mind ! Fingers were made hetbro knives and forks." The pisitiou is one of undoubted orthodoxy ; no one ventures to dispute it, because nobody can. Candlesticks and snuffers tire equally scarce commodities at these penny weddings For the former, as we had once occasion to remark in a previous work, large turnips with a hole cut out by a knife, are found to be very passa ble substitutes ; w hile the fingers of the near est guest arc expected to be available for the work which, in our more refined regions, is u- fcually assigned to u pair of snuffers. Dinner over dancing begins ; and at penny weddings people ifo dunce, iou see nono ol tluise inbipid, formal, sleepy movements which are called dancing at ball-rooms in this country, There they danio with a fpiril and Cliy are uttered, no idea can lie given bv descrip-1 dresses tor the occasion ; and, when the day lion. And with thee indisctibahle vocl sounds, ' arrives, they nut only put on iheir best apparel, are mingled the loud snapping of fingers, the j but l their l.'..t looks. Ttcy Kyard a pen- which how thul they sra in carno t. They cheer cch other on hy cries peculiar to the rural districts ol Scotland, and of wmch, as all depends on lite ti.1'j'hr murine r in which thty clappings of hands, and the bentino of feet. I And then to see the countenances nf tho-e v. ho are the occupunts of the fliior ! There is a lan guage in their looks which cannot be mistaken. They have for the most unreservedly resigned themselves tothe pleasure of the occasion and ' their enjoyment is ns visible in their counte-i nance ns the sun is iu the firmament. As the evening advances, the company, aided by the hisprrn troii of copious draughts of "mountain dew," increase in the vivacity of their spiiils, and iu the energy with w hich they perforin the physical evolutions characteristic of Scottish dancing. The four or five fiddles struck up in some corner ol'the place, nnd made more musi cal by the agency of whiskey, participate in the merriment of those whose feet n re responding to their soul-inspired strains By and by the hilarity becomes so uncontrollable, and withal so general, that all regard for regularity, either in the music of the tiddlers, or the movements of the dancers, vanishes entirely. The A polios continue to produce sounds, hut they have cea sed to discourse music. The parties occupy ing the lloor continue to move about, but Ihey no longer dance. All is now confusion : the placo has the appearance of a mob without any define object in view. The sound of the violin has died away '. the fiddlers are asleep. The more orderly of the company begin to take their departure for their respective homes ; o- thers follow without knowing why. It is now throe or four, or it may be five in the morning; nnd the only reninins of the late company are a young man who lias sprained his ancle in the dance, laying in a corner, until a friend brings a horse, from a house at some distance, to take him home ; and a fiddler in the opposite corner, who, having resolutely declined to be awaken ed by either the shaking or pricking of friends, has been left to sleep away to his heart's con tent. Judging from the desperate energy with which he is Fnoring, and the rapidity with which the nasal sounds succeed each other, you tire justified in concluding that there is no prospect of on immediate termination to his slumbers. If the weather be fine, the guests at penny wedding usually adjourn when they liecotne litile excited, from the barn or other outhouse in which the dancing commenced, in the open air. There, on the green sward, with no other revering than the skv, do they "trip the light ".uM-tie toe," until the moon and stars have ii':k i'lto im Nihility before the splendors of the rising sun. The penny wedding at which the writer of this article was present, afforded an i i U ore of this It was mi a fine summer's eve that he proceeded to the spot at which the wedding was to take place ; and as beautiful a summer's morn as ever dawned on our meridian, succeeded that beautiful eve. The dnnciug on the occasion was kept up till a later hour than had ever been knoivn. Probably the reason was that, having taken the green sward and the open air earlier than usual, and there ls'ini' con sequently fewer facilities for quaffing filiations of whiskey, the guests were better able to pro tract the merriment on the occasion. But whatever may have been the cause, the danc ing was continued until half-past five in the morning the lovely warblings of the lark min gling with, and almost drowning, the taint nnd feeble sounds send forth by the exhausted fiddlers. It ought to be mentioned, that a penny wed ding requires the most active preparation for it. during the previous tight days. Nor do the duties of the occasion cease with the wedding day which, as before slated, is almost invari able on a Thursday. On the two following days the happy pair aro expected too keep open house for such of their friends as may tie plea sed to call on them. The fragments thai re mained alter the marriage-feast, constitute ex cellent materials for treating their friends who honor the married couple w ith a cull. Then comes Sunday, and wit'i it the churching which is a very diflerent matter in the rural districts of Scotland, from what it is elsewhere As in thinly peopled districts, all persons are known to each other, the circumstance, espe cially in the case of the bride, of being exposed for nearly two hours to tho gaze of every one in tho church, just as if the married people wereapuirof wild beasts is one of a very trying kind. Perhaps it is to her the etir)tt try ing ordeal she has to go through ;,) eonn''x;,)M with her marriage. What, however, cheers t 1 tier upuurmgtne immen-;,.I)PV( ,,,,, col)sj(er. ation that it is the & infcident 0f the scene; and lhatafter it iso'.er.she w,i settle down in her new relaU'.n 0f , married woman. F"niiy weddiugR are looked forward to with the deepest interest by all the unmarried young women in the distiict. They are usually pro ductive of attachments which terminate in mar riage. At these wedding "the lasses appear tothe best advantage. For weeks beforo the wcilding-duy, all ia tulle ia preparing their iiv v..- Mir' i i one n ei'-.-l tji.itbie oiiiinr- tiltl tesulil. il e i ll ieilf ol IIIUMilJ- cciiiqu.-sts Hence .Mid surely no one will he so ungal!a:,t as to hi line tliem ihey do ail they can, by tho smartness cft!irir dr-s-s and the fascination of their nimuier, to entangle some of the swa in who nre present, in the mes'iesofa love suffi ciently nrdeut to justify the expectation tint it will ripen, in due time, iuti a niilriuioiiiiil pro-posul. It must, however, be mentioned in conclu sion, that penny weddings promise, ere long, to become matters of history. They are, as we have already remarked, rapidly going out of use. 1 wetitv. or twentv-hve years oro. near ly nil weddings among the humbler classes in certnin district of tho north of Scot hnd, were penny wed. lings. No.v it may be doubted whe ther there he one penny wedding for twenty weddings of the ordinary kind. Fa f F.si b I a MS M in Mexico. Kendall relntps that while he and his comrades were on their march in Mexico, ns prisoners of war, they one morning met a female, driving a little, half starved jackass. Upon the back of this don key, he adds, "with his head turned towards the utiiintil's tail, a large and extremely fat Mve. hot was riding the first o' t'ie swinish rsco I had ever seen mounted li s tour large logs were confined, two on either s'de nfthe animal which was bearing li m along; Mid the hog was ever and anon changing the position of head from one side to the other, in order to take the greatest possible com'ort under the circumstances. I cannot say that this eques trian performance was altogether as graceful as some I hr.ve seen, nor that he had that daunt' less bearing which gives to feats of horseman ship their greatest charm, hut he certainly manifested a resignation nnd stoical indifference which could hardly have been expected, and we laughing outright at the scrubby-looking animal, with his singular rider as he trotted past ns. I have often heard of a 'bog in armor,' but never expected to sco a hog on hor8eback.,, I'uicns of Anrr,RTMisa. I square I Insertion, . . . JO IK? 1 do 1 do . . . . 0 76 t do 3 do . . ml KvaTV subsequent inseriien, 0 Yearly AdterHsemeiilRj on column, 36 t fcslf eoloinn, f IH, three aqnares, f 12 J two square, ft one s.juire, f S. llalf-yrlf s eie eoUmn, ! 1 half column, $H t three squares, ; tfro square, $": one tqnare, fJ 60. Advertisement left witheut directum as Iu tf fenuth of lime they are lo be published, will!.. continued until ordered oat, and charged aocurj- itiftty. Cj'ixtecn hire make a square. i - 1 1 i . 1 i. , .. j li I ai A Vi:snruN Man. They raise some pretty large men, as well as pign, in Ohio, as will be seen by the following piragraph from the Cin cinnati Gazette. Our nttention was arrested at II. S. Finland's Pork House, by one of the largest specimens of Western men that we have seen for many a day. He was unhiding a splendid lot of hogs. and we thought nt once of the jocose remark of Ur. Johnson. "Who slays fjt oxen should himself he fat." lie said his name was Crispin, from Highland County, and that "none of his fumily were asha med to have the world know their ages or weigbt " He w eighed 3!)0 pounds, his sister fl7tl, and his "our bovs I'i'i nounds, making an aoMi-rer'te of IT-'? I pounds for the six, avera ging 'JTi :vmds each. We did not stop to tke the i .H t et hii bog. O'd Julio Fines, the f.iiivti.- I2:::rl;sh miser, used t.i tc ,c-i :;i-v and ii.iii-.e.-t c pht'ophy as f,i'!,,ws : "l"v.-o w Hit vnur work well done. keep one servai.t : it niiddlin'.', keep two; but by all means, il you wish to do il yourself hire a third." Poetry of Motion. Miss Mary Ann I-ee is kicking up her bee's to the immense satis faction of the people of New Orler.ns and "Turns fop's beads while turning pirouettes," One "Spasma" howls his tender sorrows in the New Orleans l'icayune, as melodiously as a monkey practising on the Herman flute. He has found out with S.iwney that l.ove, love, love Is a kind of dir.'mess And wiuna let 1'iiir bodie (lane st'Out his hu7J.ine-s He thus addresses, the "detnnitiiip." little black-eyed charmer who bis enslaved him ; Meirv Miss Mary! you mirhi v.h', f(ri i Willi vour "twinkling feet." and voir ? , ,,, , rv . Think ss one please, or do hm u r jM You keep one Iroi.i lee,,i- ,v,.u. j,, Mjiy Ann ! Tom Moore'. .ngs h .,. (l,.0, ,,rodied of tenet than Vim prodo . ,.. almost any other poet a jjood pro. ;,'( i.:r excellence and m:hi ttl'.ty. But v,',,,,, w-ou'd the treat "Little" Mis ire, say i,,l,,. in inj', i.ti "Tilth wuild is ml r4 it,i . : j he ; uin s le till a tlei til K tliow K r iii iii's i lutio'i u U'i ; The higi "1 lo,i:i. t'te k.rks "f '". Are woiti u null ih i ni'le It. HU I II. y'm ll sell ut I'V Ileum ! A paper down east has this motto over the head of tho editorial columns: We'll u.tily rhs-e dull eareawiy, An.f lianish ev ry mihiw, fci asi ui bi b y V0"r debts lodny, And wo tl pay our lo-uiotruw. 'Mr. Swipes I've just kicked your William out of I lie store " "Well, Swingle, it's the frit Bill you'o focteJ this many a duy." IMI'OItT.HT tV TUVK. Anotiiwi Mammoth Cavk Discovkrii). The tidlowing is the vm Mints account fur nished by n correspondent uf the Hai'erstown Md. .News, of an immense, cave lately discover ed near that, place by a parly of Foxhunters sh le pur-tiing their sports (Ikvi -i.i:mfn : Perhaps yon have not beard a luo-t ilnr'.ng set, which happened in our count y a few iIum tartee, and wlncli resulted in the dtscovi rv ',' one ol'the most stupendous caves now known. lio not De furprisen to hear, that not only IIagertown, but no doubt the whole country between the north mountain and Blue Ridge, is nothing more than nn im mense bridge or viaduct, supported by thousand of pil'ars Fo-ne nf which exceeds in form and beauty, any thing to be conceived of. I will briefly relate the manner in which it wai dis covered. Some tftT days ago two gentlemen, Mr. Mingeniser, of Funkstown, and Mr. Watson near this place, being at leisure, as the wea ther was fine, determined on a fox hunt. They soon had old Reynard under way. The chase was close an I tight, and old Reynard evident ly began to tail on account of his tail collecting the mud, snd from the unseasonable warmth of the atmosphere and finding it rather danger ous to remain in this upper world when it was so warm thistght to try another a little cooler. Accordingly he entered a small opening in a hill side, sliout one mile wet of Hagerstown which ha never neon regarded as more than a sink or falling in of the earth. The huntsmen losing the cry of the hounds thought that they had made a "baulk." but upon riding to the sjKit where they lid last heard them, were sur prised at not being able to find them. Whilst stni.ditti' in conjecture, a dog, to their astonish ment, came galloping out of the, apparently, sink. Then the idea occurred that the whole pack must have entered this place, and that the one lacked courage ami returned i whereupon one of the gentlemen dismounted, and on applying his car to the opening, could hear the dogs in full cry. There could be no doubt they were in full chase, for the sound gradually died away, justas if they had been on a plain in this upper w orld. After half an hour s anxious waiting they again, for a few minutes heard the tings more distinctly than before, but tins time they seemed to turn a corner, as the sound was hmhed abruptly. Their curiosity induced one of them to commence tearing away the roots and earth which surrounded the entrance, and to their astonishment, found in a few minutes that he had made an opening sufficiently large to admit his person erect. Upon advancing 30 or 40 yards in a straight and descending direc tion, to his amazement, he found himself in a spacious hall, the top of which he, in dull twilight, could not perceive. He then return ed to his companions, when they agreed to fol low the dogs, or at least explore the cavern as far as was practicable. Well, after the neces sary arrangements they actually entered, and when this first hall became lighted, it present ed one of the most gorgeous spectacles that can he imagined. The ceiling is about 40 or 50 lift high, and hung with stalactites the mos glittering find Uautiful. Their was a char.de-1 Iter of exquisite slpendor, glittering v.ith a thousand star-like tupers and there was ano ther set with rubies arid sapphires, and there was a '.until that would have sunk the beau ties of i rcciait architecture into n owning. The trees and shrubbery all glittering, reflected prismatic colors fror thousands of glittering points. Whilst the gentlemen were standing here, wondering at the. prospect before thetn, they ngaiu l.arj tho dogs in a South Eastern dtreclioi', and perceiving a large opening, they proc'eded Cutiously in that direction. When ever they pissed a turn, or any place, which, i" resuming, might bewilder them, they hung Lp a piece of linen, w hich they haJ prepared for the occasion. In this way they proceeded about half a mile, when they came to small hut beautiful stream, rippling .over a gentle ilnHcent, which they thought must Le the Cold Spring near this town for the quantity of wa ter corresponded precisely, and it seemed to flow in the proper direction. They had some difficulty iu crossing this stream without get ting wet feet, as there were no loose stones being fast with uu incr istatiou. They then proceeded on in a little more easterly direc tion, as thev thouehl, and alt r another half mile, they tuine to a steep and dangerous de scent, of about M or 40 feet, which however, did not check them, for they were now ap proaching near to where they thought they heard a roaring noise, the cam of which they were anxious to learn. They passed many j large openings, right and left, and the avenue, w hich Ihey passed, was every where beautilul ly and tastefully bung with drapcry-lika in cruetulions. About halt a mile from the en trance, they found a plant of the Monotropa liiinily, jun iu bloom. It was not long before ono of them discovered an opening, through which they could ft revive tie light of day, but it was at tins top of a very steep precipice, an. I coHldnotbe got to without some difficulty an I danger. Tho dropping of the water, both from Ihn lop and sides of the cavern, now became very profuse, and the roaring, as if of water atxm them, became very hind. Now fear was first felt in the stout hearts of our adventurers. They felt that they were under a Mream of some kind perhaps nnder one of the falls ol'lho Atttietam, and perhaps that glimmering lijiht was that little cave near Millboroogh. They turned and retraced their steps ns quick as p -sihle. The linen matks answered every our- pose the dogs were no more beard and th. roaring died away in the distance. Now w came to the fivnlct again it was a welcome. mark, nnd added fresh vigor to their wearied frames. They were very soon up in this sun ny world, glad, and in no wiie sorry fot their rash undertaking. They found their hotae) impatient to carry them home, to relate their discovery to their friends. They must havo penetrated this cavern about a mile and a halt. which if certainly, one of the most daring acta ever henrd of. Gentlemen of courage should join, and pro vide themselves with Ihe requ i6ites to exploro this cavern, as it will certainly prove one nf nature's greatest wonders. Those noble ani mals the dogs, I emitted to slate, returned in abuut 4 hours after entrance. THE niDDLCR. CHARADES I. My first is always ; My second durable ; My whole without end. II. My first marks time ; my second spends it : and my whole tells it. ENIGMA. A lady in prison received an animal as a present from her niece, which signified to her "Make your escape in reply she sent back. a fruit which imparted "It is impossible to es- cape." vv nat was tue annual, anu wuai was the fruit 1 CONUNDRUMS. I. Why is a witch riding on a mouse like one and the same thing 1 2. Why is a pair of trowsets, too big every way, like two populous towns in France 1 3. What won! in the English language ex presses the following question, 'Are you a. reserved man 1" 4. Why is a waiter like a race-horse ? 5. Why is a dandy like a haunch of veni son 1 . 0. Tom went out, and his dog with him, he went not before, behind, not on one side of him: then where did he go! Phil. Satur day Museum. During the war between Poland and Rus sia it was not unfrequentto find women in com mand of the: forces. Major Tochman, the Po lish exile says that in one instance a lady was first lie utenant of a troop in which her husbauJ held a second lieutenancy. Women of the present day aro frequently to he acen in arms, and the Button Bee asserts that many a m itt is eeeoud lieutenant to his wife even now. A Matiitmatical Question. The Port land Bulletin asks : "Il a ball flies at the rate of four hundred and forty-eight miles a minute. wheti first discharged from the mouth of a can non, how fast will a middling sized dog run with a tiu kettle, weighing oua pound ten ounces, tied to his tail 1" The Boston Bee says, that a fellow out wctt had a basin of ditch water thrown in his face. tor feeding his cow from his wife's bustle, mistaking it, as the scamp said, for the bran bag. A Good Rskehexce "Do you know Mr. 1" asked one friend to another, refering to an old gentleman, who was famous for his fondness for the extract of hop. "Yes sir, I know him very well !" "What kind of a man is he !" "Why in the morning, when he pets un, he is a beer barrel, and in the evening, when he goes to bed, he is a barrel of beer." "We had an awful storm once when I was out to sea on the Ohio canal captain told us to take in all sail !" "Take in all sail on a canal boat ! 11w did you do that, sir !" "Jumpt ashore, and knocked the hor$e down." Almost every amiable woman ia pretty. If a wife will always look amiable, the will look pretty to her husband. "Measure tor measure," as the two clerks said when they were fighting with yard slicks. "Brass at both ends," said a lady pointing to a Broadway daudy with brass heels o;i liistxv.U. Do you pay for your paper, or do you pi-y . aueak, and lorroia it ?
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