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THE SHOEMAKEU,
nt ii. r. nocirt.
"Act well ynur part, there all the honor Hex"
The shnemukrr sat amid wax and leather,
With lapstone over his knee,
Where anno; In his shop he defied all weather,
Drawing hia quarter and le together;
A happy old man wag he !
This happy old man was so wie and knowing,
The worth of hia lime he know,
He bristled his ends, and he kept them a going,
And felt to each moment a s'ieh was owing,
Until he got round the shoe.
Of every deed that his wax wn sealing,
The closing waa firm and fast.
The prick of hia awl never caused a feeling .
Of pain to the toe ; and his skill in heeling
Was perfect and true !0 the lust.
Whenever you gave him a foot to mensurc,
With gentle and skilful hand
He took its proportions, wiih looks of pleasure,
As if you were giving htm costliest treasure,
Oi dubbing him lord of tho land.
And many a one did he save from getting
A fever, or cold or cough ;
For many n foe t d d he save from wetting,
When, whether in watit or snow 'twas celling,
His shoeing would koep them off.
When he had done with his m. king and mending, i
With hope and a peaceful breast, j
Resigning I is awl and his thread wa ending,
lle pnasul from his bench, to the grave descendin
As high as a king to m sU
The following brautiful line from a literary
periodical, published, we believe, by the talented
students of Vale College, in Connecticut, reminds
us of the poli-hed sp.irkling gems of Ha!bck's ge
nius in his poems on Fanny. Augusta Chron.
Fanny Wlllongtiliy.
"I loe tine Funny Willoughby,
And that's the why, ye see,
I woo thee, Fanny Willoughby,
And cannot let thee be;
I tine for thee, I sigh for thee,
And, oh, you may depend on't,
I'll weep for thee, I'll die for thee,
And that will be the end ou'l.
I love thy form, so ta'l and straight ;
To me it always seems
A if it were the counterfeit
Of some I've seen in dreams ;
It makes me feel as if I had
An angel by my siile,
And, then, I think I am so bad,
Voir will not be my bride.
I love thy clear and hazel eye,
They say the blue is fairer,
And I confess lh.it formerly,
I thought the blue Hie rarer ;
Bui when I saw thine eye so clear,
Though perfectly at ret,
I did kneel down, nn I did swear
The h.izcl was the best,
I love thy hand, so p ilc and soft,
The which, in days ling syne,
You, innocent as trusting ott,
Would softly clap in mine;
I thought it sure was chiact'd out c '
Of marble, by the geniusts,
The which the poet" rant about
The virgins and the VuoUses.
I love the hound that Irom thy lip
litioh holilv ami free,
1 As nils thai fiom their caernt slip
And prattle to the tea ;
The melody that aye doth teal
To hearts by sorrow riven.
And then I think, and then I feet,
'I' hat music comes fiom Heaven.
Now, liMcn, Fanny Willoughby,
To what I cannot keep, .
My days ye rob of happiness,
My n gills ye rob of sleep;
And ifyou don't relent, why I
believe you wilt ma kill,
For passion must have vent, and I ,
Will kill my, elf, I will."
Thus love did truly drive tne mad,
For Fanny Willouglihy,
1 told my tale, half gay, half sad,
To Fanny Willoughby;
Anil Fanny look'd a maiden would,
When love, her heart did burn;
And Fanny sigh'd as maiden thuulJ,
And murmur'd a return.
And so I woo'd Fan Willoughby
A maiden like a dove ;
And so I W'n Fan Willojghby
The maiden of my love,
Though many years have pass'd since that,
And she is in the sky,
I never, never can forget,
Sweet Fanny Willoughby,
How to kw a Village Cow. Transplant
sugar beet fillcen inches aprt, like cabbages,
but with more care, in every spot or space you
can spare in your lot or garden. If the laud is
worked well and early, they will tend them
selves after two or three light hocings, and
grow large enough to make a mess each with
the addition of a quart of sltortu, seasoned with
ground oil cake. Here is sugar, gluten, starch,
and oleaginous matter to boot. With such
lops, a cow needs nothing but a littlo straw.
Fatuso Hess Paine Wingate, in the
Maine Farmer, says his experience tells him
that the following process is the best mode of
fattening hens. Phut them up where they can
get no gravel. Keep corn by them all the
time, and also give them dough once a day.
For drink give them skim milk. With this
feed they will fatten in ton days. If kept over
ten days, they should have tome gravel, or they
will fall away.
nnsslnn Pickpocket. . i
The French .Ambassador was on a day talk
ing to a prince of the imperial bouse of Russia
about the extraordinary dexterity of the Pari
sian thieves, and relating a variety of ancc
does concerning their feats. The grand-duke
expressed his opinion that the Petersburg!!
pickpockets were quite as clever ; and to re
move all doubt on that point from the mind of
the ambassador, he offered to lay him a wager
that, if ho would dine with him on the follow
ing dny, before the removal of the desert, 1 1 is
watch, ring, and everything else belonging to
his toilet that wag not firmly fastened to his
clothes, should be stolen. 1 J is excellency ac
cepted the wager, and the grand-duke immedi-
i ately despatched a messenger to the director
! ofthe police, with a request that he would
j send him the cleverest and adroitcst pickpock
I ct then in custody. lie was put into a foot
j man's livery, furnished with the necessary in
j slructions, and promised .exemption from pmv
i ishmcnt and his liberty if ho performed his bu
siness well. The ambassador mentioned bis
' watch as the article to which the principal at
( tention both of himself and the thief would na
j turally be directed, and the now servant was
j ordered t-j give the grand-dukc a sign as soon
! as he had secured it. .The dinner commenced;
the first course came and was removed ; the
reck, Spanish, and Trench wines, red and
white, glistened in turn in the glasses. The
ambassadur was narticular careful of his watch:
I 1 7 , '
j and the grand-duke, observing his caution, smi
I led stmctimcs kindly, sometimes half sarcasli-
cally. The new fuotmin was always bustling
ubout, mingling among the o'.hcr servants chan
ging platos and handing wine. The dinner
; was drawing towards a conclusion, and the
! grand-dukc was still waiting impatiently for
I the preconcerted 6ign Irom the thief, who, liow-
ever, seemed to be completely taken up in
j waiting upon the company. AH at once the
I grand-duke's countenance brightened up, and
turning to the ambassador, who was absorbed
in conversation with his neighbors, he asked
him what o'clock it was. The ambassador
clapped his hand triumphantly to his pocket,
where a few minutes before he had felt that
his watch was sufe, and to the amusement ol
the whole company, but especially of the impe
rial entertainer, he drew from it a neatly-trimmed
turnip. Universal laughter ensued, and
the ambassador was somewhat disconcerted,
lie would hive taken a pinch to compose him
self, hut having felt in all his pockets, he dis
covered with horror that his gold snuff'-liox was
gone too. The laughter was redoubled. In
his embarrassment and mortification he clapped
his hand as he was in the hubit of doing, to
his finger to turn tho beautiful gold seal-ring
which be wore upon it but that also was gone.
lnhort, he found that ho was completely plun
dered of every thing that was not firmly at
tached to his dress ring, snuff-box, handker
chief, gloves, toothpick, keya The performer
of this sleight of hand was then brought for
ward. The graml-duko ordered him to restore'
the stolen articles, anil was not a little surpri
sed to sec htm produce two watches, and hand
one to himself, and the other to the ambassador;
two rings, one of which he gave in like manner
to the grand-duke, and one to the ambassador ;
and twosuud-bqxes, one for the grand duke,
and the other for the ambassador. The priucc
now felt in amazement in his pockcLs, as ihe
ambassador had done before, and found that he
had been plundered in the very same inunuer
as the latter, lie assured hid excellency that
he was toWlly tinconcinus of the matter, and
was going to chide the rogue Eoundly, but be
thought himself, and thanked, him for having
enabled him in so signal a manner to win his
wager. He made him a handsome present,
and procured his immediate liberation, aduton
idling him for the future to apply his talents
to more useful purposes. KohF$ Russia and
the Russians.
New Rail Pumd IxvE.vrio.N. A patent has
been taken out at Paris by M. T. Wroughton,
a private gentleman in London, for various im
portant improvements in railway travelling.
In the fubt place, he has a coach so construct
ed and suspendod in iU proportions that it can
not overturn, and ruia with such smoothness
as to occasion no unpleasantness to the tra
veller, and comparatively little friction to tho
rails. Secondly, ha has a new break of such
easy construction that a child can work it, and
which can be gradually or immediately brought
into action. Thirdly, the conductor, by moans
ofa spring at his foot, can in a moment when
there isdanger, detach all the train from the
locomotive ; and last, but not least, lie has in
vented a beautiful piece of machinery, by
which the conductor ofthe first carriage can at
any part of the road ascertain the precise rate
of speed at which the train is travelling, and
so prepare himself for the action oftho break
or spring as to avoid all dangrr to the pas
sengers from the negligence or imprudence ol
the engineer of the locomotive, or any other
- ...
cause.
Accuracy of the Itlltl. , , , I
' An astonishing feature of the word of fiod
is, that, notwithstanding the time ot wli'eh itt
Compositions were written, end tho multitude
ofthe topics to which it alludes,' there is. not
one physical error, not one assertion or allu
sion disproved by the progress of modern sci
ence. None of those mistakes which the sci
ence of each succeeding age discovers in the
books of the proceeding ; above nil, ti'Mic of
those absurdities which modern astronomy in
dicates in such great numbers, in the writin?
ol the ancients in their sacred codes, in their
philosophers, nnd even in the fine it 'pages of
the Dithers ofthe church, not one of these er
rors is to be found in any of our sacred boiks.
Nothing there will ever contradict that which
after to many ages, the investigations ofthe
learned world have been able to reveal to us
on the state of our globe, or on that of the
heavens. Peruse witli crtte our scriptures
from one end to the- other, to find there such
spots. Ami whilst you apply yoursolves to this
examination, remember that it is a book which
speaks of everything, which descrilrs nature,
w Inch recounts to creation, which tells us of
the formation of the heavens, of the light, of
the woter, or the otmosphere, of the mountains,
of the animals nnd of tho plants. ' It is a book
which teaches us the first revolutions of the
world, and which also forctels its last : it re
counts them in the circumstantial language of
history ; it extols them in thcsublimest strains
of poctiy, and it chants them in tho charms of
clowine sono;. It is a book which is full of
oriental rapture, elevation, variety, and bold
ness. It is a !ook which speaks ofthe heaven
ly Itnd invisible world, whilst it also speaks of
the earth and things visible. It is a book which
nearly fifty writers, of every degree of cultiva
tion, of every state, of every condition, and liv
ing through the course of fifteen hundred years,
have concurred to make. It is a book which
was written in the centre of Asia, in the sands
of Arabia, and in the deserts of Judah, in the
courts of the temple of the Jews, in tho music
schools of the prophets of Uethel and of Jericho
in the sumptuous palaces of liubylon, and on
the idolatrous banks of Chebar ; and finally
in the centre of the western civilization, in the
midst ofthe Jews and of their ignorance, in the
midst of polytheism and its idols, as aim in the
bosom of pantheism and of its sad philosophy
It is a book whoso first writer had been forty
years a pupil of the magicians ofF.gypt, in
whose opinion, the sun, the stars, and the elC'
tnents, were endowed with intelligence, re-act
cd on tho clement, and governed the world
bv a perpetual eflhiviiim. Itisaltook whose
firet writer proceeded, by more than nine linn
dred years, the most ancient philosophers of
ancient lircece and Asia, the Thalesen, and
the Pytliagoruscs, the Zalucuses, tho Xeno-
phous, and the Confuciuses, It is a book which
carries its narrations even to the hiearchics of
angels, even to the nut distant epoch of the
future, and the glorious scenes ot the 4ust day,
Well, search among its 50 authors, search a.-
inong its (ili books, its 111) chapters, and its
31,173 verses, search for only tine of those thou
sand errors which the ancients and tho moderns
commit when they speak ot the heavens or ot
the earth, of their revolutions, or of their elc
merits ; search but you will find none. From
the (Scrman of (Saussvn.
Itovr to make Coo I M'lfr t nhappy.
. .Sou her as seldom as possible. lftho is
warm hearted and checiful ,m temper, and if
after days' or weeks' abscenqe, she meets you
with a smiling face and in an itfleclionate man
ner, be sure to look Coldly u,xn her, answer
her with dry inonosy tables. Ir she force back
her tears, and is resolved to look cheerful, sit
down and gape in her presence u.itil she is ful
ly convinced of your indiUerent'cv Never
gree with her opinion, or consult Ji ;r in any of
your afl'uirs, for that would give her .in idea of
her consequence. Never think you have any
thing to do to make her huppy ; but that all her
happiness is to flow from gratifying your -apri
ccs, and when she has done all that a woi'tun
can do, be sure you do not appear grutilied.--Ncver
take an interest in any other pursuits;
and if the ask your advice inuke her feel thut
she is troublesome and impertinent. If rhc
attempt to rally you gixid humoredly, on any of
your peculiarities, never join in the laugh, but
frown her into silence. If the has faults, (which,
without doubt, she will have, and perh:ip may
be ignorant of,) never attempt with kindness to
correct them ; but continually obtrude upon her
ears, "What a good wife Mr. Hmilh has."
That any man would bo ha pyy with such a
wife." In company never seem to know you
have a wife, treat all her remarks with indiffer
ence, and be very afinblc end complaisant to e
very other lady. If you have married a woman
of principle, and will follow these directions,
you may be certain of an obedient and a heart
broken wife. ,
'I'm a victim lo an artificial Mute of society,"
us the Monkey said when thry put trowsers uu
bun. ' ' ' '
Cniintrrpitrt of Xaotron.
Any traveller who may liavubccn in Italy in
the spring of Hl!, must have heard of the
eclobrated Major of the Koyat Sardinian Life
5'iard, who bore so strong a resemblance to the
groat Napoleon, ns to excite tho wonder of oil
those who had seen the emperor. At that
time I was on a visit lo the city of Genoa. I
recollect that one cveninjj I 'vas nt the Cafe tin
rand Cairo with a party of friends, when we
olworvcd an officer in the costume ofthe guards
reading at n table. Wo were struck with the
resemblance which ho bore to all the busts and
portraits of the rmpernr which we had seen.
In the midst of our conjectures on the subject,
an old French officer, decora ted with the or
der ol the Legion of Honor, observing the sur
prise depicted in our countenances, very polite
ly joined our party, r.nd said, ! can easily
imagine, gentlemen, the subject of your present
aslonii-hiiit'iit. That officer is one oftho "reat-
cst wonders in Kurope, and as much like Napo
leon as if he were his twin brother. Indoed,
some persons hero go so far as to repeat, that
both the emperor and his prototype are from
the eanie parent stock, which may be the cuse,
as the Major is a nutic of Corsica, and ubout
Napoleon's age. . I assure you," continued the
r rcncli ollicer, "that I was near the emperor
on the n in lit previous to the bloody and disas
Irons battle of l.iepsir. 1 olv-crved him pe
rusing the bulletins ot the army ; his all lude,
thoughtful mood, and general demeanor, were
a perfect Counterpart to the person before us
Seo ! hois about taking n pinch of snuff!
Napoleon's manlier lo perfection." In a wrrd,
the enthusiasm ol the r rcncli officer rose lo
such o pitch, that all tho visitors of the cafe
wero ttaring at ns. The next evening I went
to the opera to hear the celebrated Madmn
Catalina, and to have a peep at the cx-cmpress
Maria Imisa, and her f.ither, whose visit had
been announced. We hud not long been seat
ed before we discovered tho major in the ad
joining box. He was standing up, his arms
folded in the manner of Napoleon, and like
him he wore a green coat buttoned up close to
the neck, and decorated with two or three or
ders, which he had won in the Italian war., and
ubovc nil, the never to be forgotten little cocked
hut. Soon offer the empress entered, accom
panied by a brilliant suite; but presently the
audience were thrown into amazement by some
confusion in the royal box. Maria Louisa hud
caught a glimpse of the counterfeit present
ment of her deceased husband, and her con
tusion and astonishment were exhibited in the
most palpable manner. The King of Sardinia
was forced to order him on duty, ten leagues
from Genoa, as his person kept the soldiers in
constant excitement, who never failed to pre
sent arms in passing him. I understood pre
vious to my leaving Genoa, that Maria had sent
for thoofficer, and presented him a gold snuff
box, with the emperor's likeness set in bril
liants. Rnmnnre In Rent l.lfr.
Tho Hridoeton N. J. Chronicle saysthat Mrs.
Surah Smith, who died in that place on the V!sth
ult., was a lineal descendant of the Royal
family of Swoden. Her g. g. grandmother
Elizabeth, in the turbuloiis times of that king
dom, was compelled to flee from her native
country, when she was sixteen years old. She
was concealed in a hogshead on board ofa ship
at Stockholm, for some time, before the vessel
sailed for America. She brought many valua
ble troa.-u res with her across the water, which
were also concealed on board the thip; but
aller the vessel had railed over the Atlantic she
wus wrecked on the Jersey shore. This lady,
with a fow of the crew barely saved their lives.
In her destitute condition, on the Bhore ofa vast
wilderness, as N. Jorsey then wos, she fell in
with a hunter by the name of Garrison ; their
acquaintance grow into intimacy and ripened
into love. She married him, and by him hud
ten children. It is said thut her youngest son,
William, wus born when she was in her .Villi
year. She has a grandson now living in ltridge
ton, who was brought up by her until ho wus a
botit !) years of age, to whom she related this
narrative, and in my ot her interesting adven
tures. Th's gentleman Computes his grand
mother's descendants in this country at more
tliMi a thousand souls.
Tho diseuso oftho 'l)luck tongue" has prov
ed very fatal in some parts of Missouri. In the
thinly populated settlement of Point Pleasant,
in New Madrid County, seventy-five persons
had fallen victims to it. A belief is entertained
thut the disease is contagious, being founded
on the fact that it is known in many cases to
run through a family when it hud once seized
any person in it. Haiti more American,
Horses with Roman noses are at to be vi
cious ; thoeo with white noses and feet, un
sound. Hear the old jockey rhyme on the "ob
ject :
One whit foot luy j
Twtf try.
Four white feet and snow on (ho noe, . -Knock
h ui uu the hcaJ, and gi him to the crows.
All thing perish sare Virtue.
na tiiomas row en.
Swict morn co cool,o calm so bright,
The bridal of the rarih and sky.
The dew thall weep thy fall t night,
For thou muft die.
'Sweet rose' whose fragrance now t ciave,
To clad my sense olid joy mine eyes,
'Thy root is ever in its grave.
And thou must die.'
Swi el spring s i full of shine and showers,
It snakes the weary spirit sgh,
To think, with all thy herbs and fl iwers,
That thou must die,
Sweet mo sir e'en the lovely song
Which from my hirp in window high
Is flon'ing on the bieize along,
F.'cn thou must die.
And all the bright and gliteiing train
Ofl:irs thnt stud the deep blue sky
Must they nil perish none remain
To glad the rye 1
Anil vales, and field", and Tilhipg streams,
And mountain that invade the sky,
Are they as baseless a our dreams !
And must they die !
And all that's beautiful and fair
On Nature's face b.ve's melo.ty,
That make sweet music of thunir,
All id I must die !
And man, frail form of sense'esi clay.
Tho' now hi' el nro is proud and high,
Terchauce upon this passing day
He too may die !
Cut the bright soul ? that, fhrined nithin-
Tlu quenchless light in mortal form
Tho'diiniu'd by misery and sin,
Defies the Worm,
When all the stars thall fade away.
And sons in their own blaze expire,
And trackli's comets cease to Mray
Wilh wand'iing fire.
The soul shall ever live, nor know
The lapse of time, but dwell on- high,
And khare in endless joy or woe
Elernily."
The Newark Daily Advertiser of Wednes
day evening says
The Comet blazed out conspicuously about
sunset last evening, the long bushy tail stretch
ing from near the south western horizon to
near the zenith. Some fearful exclamations,
filled with the follies of Millerism, were fool
ishly frightened at iU aspects. Some recent
writer says
Of 501 Comets that have entered the solir
system, 21 have passed between Mercury and
the Sun, 17 within Venus, 5S between Venus
and the F.urth, 7:1 between tho Earth and Mars,
and between Mars and the orbit ot Jupi
ter, and no casualty has occurred to primary or
statcllite. The Comet of 1770 passed through
the system of Jupiter without producing the
slightest effect. Still many people are alarm
ed at these erratic bodies, these rail cars of the
stellar regions, the mystery of whose office and
destiny makes their astronomy of intense in
terest With reference to tho danger of a
Comet's striking the Earth, we hero add that
the Comet Encke, whose period is only 1207
days, and nearnst the Earth of all the Comets
known, cannot come in collision short of a pe
riod of 210,000,100 of years, which calculation
is based on astronomical facts.
The present phenomenon more resembles the
zodiacal light, which we should have called it,
if the eastern magi had not pronounced it a Co
met. Some observers here also discovered the
nucleus last evening with glasses soon aPer
sun set, near the South western horizon. The
length oftho tail is from W to 10 degrees, and
is very beautiful.
A Skcono ('homwli.l dissolving a Rump
I'auliamemt. A man entered the House of
Representatives yesterday, and proclaimed in
a loud voice that the Legislature had been in
session long enough, und commanded members
forthwith to adjourn and go home to their
families and constituents, under the pains and
penalties of bis displeasure. No one knew
him, and he was focibly ejected by the Ser
geant-at-Arms. Metribeia said he was crazy,
but we thought not. Detroit Daily Advertiser.
F.lihu Burr itt, called the learned blacksmith,
who is at this time master of more than fi ly
different languuges, says that when he first
formed a determination to become acquainted
with books, being an apprentice at the time to
his trade, he earned one day by extra labor a
quarter of dollar, and with this In his pocket,
he walked fifteen miles at night, liought a La
tin grammar, walked fifteen miles back, and
was at work the next morning at his usual
time.
. Rblicsjop A vriut'iTY. Mrs. Dr. James of
Ulira, New York, boasts that she has in her
possession the identical war etub of King Phi
lip of Mount Hope, the implacable enemy of
New England colonists. Upon reading this
the editor of tho Cincinnati Chronicle says that
he would like to see this curiosity, but that he
has an old aunt, who uses a rolling pin every
day made out of that unfortunate tu6 with
which Cui'i U w Abel.
''Queen Victoria ought to be presented with
a piece of plate for smashing China."
The supposed Camot, not ft Comet
The very peculiar luminous, appcamnco
which has been observed for several evenings
past in the heavens, in a south-westerly direc
tion, about seven o'clock, has been supposed by
many to be tho tail of a comet. That this sup
position is a mistaken one is clearly shown by
the following article, which furnishes a correct
scientific description ofthe phenomenon, which,
it appears, was noticed and described by scien
tific men nearly two hundred year ago:
JVom llie Rational Intdlifrenecr.
ZODIACAL LIGHT. This interesting
phenomena in the heavens was noticed here on
Monday night and also on Tuesday and Wed
nesday nights.
Zodiacal light appears in the morning1 before
sunrise, and in the evening after twilight. It
is a pyramid, with the sun for its basis. Tho
sides are not straight, but curved, as those ofa
lens when viewed edgewise. It is generally
seen ubout the period ofthe equinoxes, when
There is the shorloet twilight. This light re
Bemblesthei milky way, a faint twilight, or the
tail of a comet. The intensity of the light, its
shape and tints, may be varied according lo the
condition ofthe atmosphere, which is now re
mark tble tor its clearness.
The zodiacal light was firpt described about
two centuries ago, and the various theories res
pecting it may be seen by referring to works on
astronomy.
The subjoined description of this light, which
we copy from the Encyclopaedia Americana
will, wc dare say, be acceptable to our readers,
and especially to those who have alarmed them
selves with the apprehension that this atmos
pheric phenomenon was a Comet, such as
terror sheds
On gir.ing nations, from his fiery train
Of length enormous.
"Zoi-iAt AL LtoliT ; & triangular beam of
light, rounded a little at the Vertex which is
seen atccrtain 6casons of the year, before tho
rising and after tho setting or the sun. It re
sembles tho faint light of the milky way, and
has its base always turned toward tho sun, and
its axis inclined to the horizon. The length
of this pyramidal light, reckoning from the sun
as its base, is sometimes 4.V, and at others
l."i(W ; and the vertical angle is sometimes 2(1,
and sometimes 10'. It is generally supposed
to arise from an atmosphere, surrounding thj
sun, and appears to have been first observed by
Descartez and by Childrcy in IOTiU ; but it did
not oltract general attention till it was noticed
by Dominique Cassini, (q. v.) who gave it itd
present name. If we suppose the sun to havo
an atmosphere, as there is every reason to be
lieve from the luminous aurora which appeara
to surround his disc in total eclipses, it must bo
very much flattened at its poles, and swelled
out at the equator, by the centrifugal force of
his equatorial parts. When the sun, then, is
below the horizon, a portion of this luminous
atmosphere will appear like a pyramid of light
above the horizon; The obliquity ofthe zodi
acal light will evidently vary with the obiliqtii
ty ofthe sun's equator to tho horizon ; and in
the months of February and March, about tho
time oftho vernal equinox, it will from a very
great angle with the horizon, and ought there
fore, to be seen most distinctly at that season ot
the year. But when the eun is in the summer
solstice, ho is in the part of the ecliptic which
is parallel to the equator, and therefore, his c
quutor, and consequently the zodiacal light is
more oblique to the horizon. Laplace, howe
ver, has made some objections to this theory in
his Mecaniijue Cilctts ; and Regincer is of os
pinion that it is owing merely to the refraction!
of the solar light by the earth's atmosphere."
Wc hate some personw, because we do not
know them ; and we will not know them, be
cause we hate them. The friendships that suc
ceed to such connexions are usually firm, fof
those qualities must be sterling that could not
only gain our hearts, but conquer our prejudices.
Rut the misfortune is, that we carry those pre
judices into things far more serious than out
friendships. There art- truths which some men
despise, because il.cy have not examined ; and
which they will not examine, because they de
spise. There is one single instance on record,
where this kind of prejudice was overcome by
a miracle ; but the age of miracles is past,
while that of prejudice remains. Lacon.
HiNoi t ar Cask or Dpebtio!. We find
the following alarming case of violence record
ed in the St. Louis Ledger t
Pete, what makes you look so awful V
'Juke. I'm agitated, and unless my spirits
grow calmer, I'll do something desperate lil
fusli out and tear a hoard off the pig-pen,
Tho ancients said "there is truth in wine,"
but they must have been mistaken, for we saw a
man the other night who had drank three bot
ties, and was lying under the table.
"Man is an imitative animal," as the monkey
said to the dandy.
"Excuse the length of this article," as tho
woman taiJ of her tongue.
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