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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.
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$": 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.
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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 ?