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THIS WOULD OP Ot'ltSi
y w. a. j. mark..
Thin worll of ours, if free from sin,
Oh ! would it not he fair !
Sunshine above, and flowers beneath.
Anil beauty everywhere f
The sir, the earth, the waters teem
With livinfl things at pliv :
Glail Nature from .in hundred throats
Tours her rejoicing lay.
Esrh halmy hreexe that wanders hy,
Whispers soma onRel tone ;
And the rle.r f.mntiin have a voice
Of mu'ie all their own ;
Even the leaves of the fniest trees,
Moved by the Zephyr's wing,
Mike a low murmur of content
To lit lo birds that sing.
The busy bees, o'er garden flowers,
A holy song attune,
Joining wiih nevertirin) mirh,
The minstrelsy of June;
And the greil waves upon the deep,
Leaping like g ants free,
Add. in their hollow monotone,
The chorus of the sea.
There's beauty in the summer sky,
W hen from the ocean bej.
Like a strong mm refreshed by sleep,
The Sun uplifts hi head ;
And when behind the western rocks
At eventide be goc, I
I low autumn are the crimson clouds i
That iiirtain his repose !
Are not the a. assy valleys f.iir,
Deck'd in ibeir spring array 1
And th ii high hdls with lorcst did,
How beautiful are they !
Look on the -e.-i, that ttirille vat.
Wherewith the ear h i bound !
Even in fancy's wil.'el dreanH
Can aught more glad le found
Oh ! 'twere indeed a radiant world,
A paradise coinple.e
So radolent of lovely things.
So filled with voices sweet
If Sin bad not in evil hour
Entered this leusaut clime,
Yiehli"g ihem over unto Death
Sad consequence of ciiine !
Hence it it that the choicest flowcra
Full by a swift decay.
And hop to which we fondly cling
Pas suddenly aw .y ;
Yit, 'mid idl Iritis of our life,
Tbn ble-ed tliouglit is give.i,
Einh i- n.'t i ur abiding place
M ill's na'ive clime i Heaven !
Juihji.ism. The 1 union Spectator thus speaks
of the tricks performed by a cok-brated juggler
luivv in that metropolis.
Among other iiic.om,re!n;nsili!c doings, lie
boils four plucked pigeons in a kettle of water
mspended nvcr n lire, and perfectly isolated,
mi l nut fly four living bird. Ini'ii tin empty ves
sel ; In; returns to their owners a score ol hand
kerchiefs w ashed and ironed, that a moment be
fore lay os kin"; wet in a pail ; and lie produ
ced no end of hnqucts out of nil old lint that lie
stamps upon and turns inside nut, each pressure
or squeer.e of the linud Siring followed by n
fresh supply of bunches of sweet-smelling flow
ers from the old buttered lint. A young lady
near us 'ent her straw bonnet, and was horrifi
ed at seeing it crushed up into a ball ; but to
her great relief it appeared hanging at the top
of the proscenium, ami being brought down by
pistol shot, she found quite undamaged. A
handful of gold watches is (lung to the kick of
the stage, and presently re-appear hanging from
the branches of a plant that had just ben wa- j
tered, and placed under a heated cover for pro
curing this sort of golden fruit. Bunches of
keys tb&t seem not to be out of 6ight, are found
attached to the roots of a plant in a flower pot :
and a head with goggle eyes, at the summons
of a pistol shot, thrustd out a bunch of rings at
the tip of his tongue, aud ttares with two gold
watches for eyeballs, though one could huve
sworn both rings and watches were under cer
tain covers.
Mikriacc. Marriage is a mystery . Mar
riage is a lottery. Marriage is "very like a
whale," and very likely to introduce you among
a "pea of troubles' A respected contempora
ry ohservej that marriage "is like a silk purse
most ajTce&ble to bear when there is plenty in
it." Marriage is like a mousetrap once get
in, and you are caught, without the least pro6
ix'ct of recovering your liberty. Marriage is
like a Totfc troe in full bearing" how attrac
tive are its flowers ! but the bright leave tall
after a season, aud the thorns alone remain.
Marriage among fooU is like a boiled calf head
without the accompaniment of brains. Mar
riage is like a roast leg of mutton on Sunday,
served up cold on Mondiiy, ditto w ith pickles 011
Tuesday, and hashed upon Wednesday. In
short, marriage is a mixture, and you can hard
ly taste the sweeu without imbibing some por
tion of the sour.
The editor of the Lowell Courier has hit up
on a new and pleasant way of dissolving the Li
nton, lie says that by simply transposing two
letters in the word United States, we become
Vntied States at ence.
Absolute acquiescence in the docisiona of the
Hy itlusHrr Si. r.lscly.
UARTIiai'AKR.
Wo noticed yesterday the fact of the arrival
at the Astor House, of Professor Risley and
his tittle son of six years old, and wo also al
luded to their having made one of the most as
tonishing escapes from the Guadaloupe earth
quake that ever was recorded in verso or prose.
Mr Risely has a most remarkable and original
genius for elastic gymna.-tics, and his little son
is a perfect prodigy. They will soon appear
at the Park. Wcshall now give some remark
able particulars of that great earthquake, as
nearly as possible in his own words :
I and my little boy had been at Point a Tctre,
Gatidnlotipe, four days previous to the earth
quake, which occurred on the morning of Wed
nesday, the eighth of February, I was there
on a short professional engagement. I was
taking my lodgings at the American Coffee
House, and my meals at the French Coffee
House, in different plnces, according to the cus
tom of that country. 'Wednesday morning the
eighth, was one of the most beautiful that could
be imagined the sun shone out in all its splen
dor a soft find pleasant breeze came in from
the sen and everything seemed in a state of
natural pence and quiet.
There were estimated to be about seventy
fivc persons in the French Coffee House where
I was taking my meals. We had all sat down
to breakfast on that morning as usual, and were
quietly taking our morning meal, chatting and
talking freely on the thousand trivial subjects
that come up on such occasions; indeed, we
had nil nearly finished breakfast. For myself
I had finished my breakfast, and was sitting
partly sideways at the table, as ono would
naturally sit alter eating conversing with the
gentleman who sat opposite tome; I hnd the
towel ring in my hand, turning it about, and
carelessly playing with it.
Thetirtt thing which attracted my attention
was a sudden jar, accompanied by a rumbling
sound like distant thunder. I had some two
weeks before this been at Fort Royal, in the
Island of .Martinique, and seen the effects of a
similar visitation, and I instantly knew what
it meant. So sudden 'vas the shock, that with
in two seconds from the instant I first felt the
jar, I looked up and saw the whole building,
commencing at the farther end, falline upon
the people the joits opened, and all began to
come down with an awful crash. I instantly
uttered the word "jump!" the gentleman who
sat opposite to me, turned his head, and looked
up sideway-, but never rose from his seat
and at precisely the same moment, and with
out waiting to turn myself about, I started from
my sent, and actually jumped sideways out of
the window, through glass sash and all, land
in? r-onicten or twelve feet in the yard below.
I think it could not have been over three to
j five seconds from the instant I first felt the
I jar, to the instant my feet struck tho pavement.
! My impression on touching the ground was
, its indescribably rapid motion I can compare
! it to imtliing unless it might be the stive of a
thrashing mill 111 its most rapiJ motion. I
should judge from the distance I was thrown,
first one way and then the other, that the late
ral motion of the earth must have been from
eleven to fourteen feet I succeeded, notwith
standing, in retaining my feet for some eieht
or ten seconds, till I got away from the build
ing to the distance of 30 or 40 yards into an
open lot of grinmd
While I was walking this distance of thirty
r 1 "w buildings of the whole
city tumbling into one mass of ruins and also
the earth opening in too lower part of the
town and spouting up immense volumns of wa
ter, to the height of an hundred or an hundred
and fifty feet The multitudeof thoughts which
passed through my mind during these few sec
onds is utterly inconceivable and incredible.
If there could have been any first thoughts
amid such an instatancous flood, my first thought
was tor my little boy. In relation to him he
was not w ith me on that morning. At aUmt
half past tight o'clock, Mr. Montague, a friend
of mine, had by previous arrangement, called
tor him, and taken him away to breakfast with
some friend of his where or who it was 1
know not, and neither does tho boy know. Rut
knowing tho reputation of .Mr. Montague, I of
courts felt that Master John was safe, and gave
mysvlf no uneasiness about h'm.
Muster John tells history thus Mr. Mon
tague took me to the distance of soino six or
eight blocks from the Coffee House where I left
my father, to the house of some friend of Mr.
M's, whose name I do not know. There was
a store kept under the house, and I was taken
up to the second floor. There was one young
lady who was playing upon the piano, and
several others were also present, who had been
invited there that morning. The whole party
were waltzing I was also waluing with one
of the ladies. Breakfast was nearly ready, and
we were just going to sit down to it. A mi
mute or two before this, a little boy belonging
to the lady of the house, w ent up stairs w ith his
grandmother, where lie had before this been
playing with little wagon.
mi:yr. x! '.rj
UMBURY AMERICAN
AND SHAMOKIN JOURNAL; '
majority, the vital principle of Republic, from which
Sunbury, IVortliuinberluiid Co.
The first thing which called my attention
from the wait, was hearing a noise, a sort of
rumbling, which I tank to be the littlo boy up
stairs drawing his wagon over the floor, which
had no carpet on it At tho same moment I
saw n very large looking-glass which hung up
against the wall in the room where I was, fall
upon the floor it was broken all to pieces the
sofa was upset, and the table tooand every
thing in the room was all shaken and upset to
gether. All the family, young ladies and all,
fell upon their knees, or were thrown flat upon
the flcor. I instantly made for the stairs. And
as I was going to the stairs, I caught sight of
a large church through the window part of it
falling one way, and part the other the 6tce
plo was the first thing that fell. I thought of
my father, but don't remember any thing more
till I found myselfin my father's arms. 1 had
no senses at all after that I don't know how
( got down stairs, nor whether I got down
stairs at all nor do I know where I went af
ter 1 got out of doors, nor how long it was be
fore I was in the arms of my father. I had no
hat on ; the buttons were torn from my clothes,
and my clothes too were badly torn. 1 was
not otherwise hurt.
Mr. Risley says When I recovered my con
sciousness, 1 found the towel ring crushed in my
hand, and my boy in my arms, how he came
there I know not, nor does he know, nor are we
ever likely to know what brought us together
forat that time there was no living being in sight.
We seemed to have been saved purely by the
miraculous preservation of the Almighty. As
to my own clothes, my coat was laterally torn
ofl of me ; my watch was mashed in my pock
et, both sides of it being broken in, my vest it
pen and torn, and my pantaloons badly injured.
I was obliged to borrow clothes to get out of
the place. My hair was completely filled w ith
lime, and 1 was altogether covered with dust
and dirt I received however no visible wound,
but for two weeks was very sore, and hardly a-
blc to use my limbs. By the time I had esca
ped to the distance of the thirty yards which I
spoke of, the violence of the first 6hock had
seemed to abate a very little, but was almost
instantaneously renewed again, with far grea
ter violence than before ; and then it was that
I lost all consciousness, until I found my boy
in my arms. When I thus partially recovered
my senses, I first began to feel the arms and
limbs of my child, to see if any of thctn were
broken, and finding that we were both of us
safe and sound, I got up and begnn to look about
me. I was still so entirely bewildered that I
scarcely knew what had happened, or whether
it were not all a dream. I then began to look
about me, and saw varicus individuals, men, wo
men and children, of all classes and ages, wan
dering about half frnntic like myself. Some
w ere in search of a son or o daughter others
of a father or a mother some brothers and sis
ters others of friends and relatives all weep
ing or in the utmost conceivable ugonj pitch'
ing and falling about the ruins and dead bodies.
They would go from one dead body to another,
overhauling them te see if they could fmd the
person sought for and if not successful, pass on
to another.
At this time the whole city was one vast pile
of ruins, the awful appearance of which it is ut
tcrly impossible to give even the faintest
idea. Even the place and direction of the
streets were in many cases wholly obliterated,
and could not be found.
Subterranean fires now began to burst forth
iu different parts of the city, consuming every
thing combustible, and a'6o destroying a great
number of pcraont who might otherwise have
been saved.
At this time also the earth opened along the
line of the wharves, as I aflerwsrds learned
from other persons, throwing up volumes of wa
ter, and then gradually closing again and sup
posed to have swallowed up a great number of
individuals.
Everybody immediately went to work,
negroes, sailors, and all, to dig out the dead and
the dying from the ruins, wherever they heard
cries of distress. In one instance we succeeded
in very neirly extracting a man from the ruins
having gotten him all out except his legs and
the lower part of his body, when tho fire broke
out and burnt him to death before our eyes. At
the same time and place we could distinctly
hear the cries of eight or ten others, who had
been overwhelmed in the same ruins, end who
were all consumed in the subterranean fire. I
call it a subterranean fire because it is well
known that few of these houses in that country
were like to huve any fire in them at thaltime.
From the place where I first recovered my
consciousness, I suppose 1 could have thrown a
stone over at least HK)deud aud dyiiiL'. As to
the w hole number of persons who ultimately
perished by that earthquake, I should judge
there must have been from ten to fifteen thou
sand 1 have uo doubt fifteen thousand. The
population of the town was said to be about 'J,V
000, and I could never see over S or 3 thousand
persons of the whole population, who were out
end about, looking for their friend.
there U no appial but to force, the vital priuciplo
Pa. Saturday, June 3, IS 13.
On tho morning of Friday, tho 10th, I was
forwarded by the Mayor of Point a I'etre, who
was fortunately saved, in a man-of-war, to St.
Pierre, of Martinique, where I was very kindly
received by P. A. Do Crany, the American
Consul of that tortn. Ho had, the day before I
arrived, fitted out a vessel loaded w ith provis
ions and other necessaries at his own expense,
and de.potched it to the relief of tho sufferers
at Toint a I'etre. A'. 1'. Herald.
tVltnllns;ofv Mew Zrnlnn4.
Tho whale-boats are admirably adapted for
the purpose for which they are intended. They
are of various constructions, and are des;gnoted
as English, French, or American ; each has
some peculiarity to recommend it. They arc
capable of resisting the rough sea of Cook's
Straits, but are at the same time swift and buo
yant, vv hen startmgon a whaling expedition,
the boats leave Te-awe-ili before the dawn of
the morning. Each has cither five or six oars,
and a crew accordingly. The boat-stearer and
the headman are the principal men in the boat,
and are generally Europeans ; tho rest are na
tives. They pull to tho entrance of Tory Chan
nel, where a view opens over Cook'B Straits and
Cloudy Bay fmm the southern headland, where
they keep a 'look-out' for the spouting of a
whale. The boat which kills the calf claims
tho cow, even though it should have been kil
led by another boat's crew. If a whale has
been killed, the different boats assist in tow ing
it toTe-awa-iti. I once saw ten or twelve bouts
towing a whale. Each boat bad a little find,
and the scene way gay and animated. One
day a calf had been killed, and the cow, having
been fastened upon but not despatched, was
towed inside the channel. Gaspinir in the ago
ny of death, the tortured animal, when close lo
our ship, threw up jets of blood, which dyed the
sea all round ; and, beating about his tail, it
broke a boat right in the middle, and threw the
crew into the water; but at length died, ex
hausted from the many wounds which the irons
and harpoons had inflicted. The calf was sta
ted by the sailors to be six weeks old, (on what
grounds I do not know,) and was about thirty-
four feet long. It was cut up in a few minutes,
ana gave several turrets ot oil. t he process
was so rapid, that when I came asfioro I found
only the head. I cut out the brains, the weight
of which, amounting to five pounds and one
ounce, astonished me greatly. The whalebone
wassolt, and therefore useless. There were two
hundred plates of it on each side of the roof of
the tipper jaw.
I got the w hole roof cut off, and, intended to
dry and preserve it, I placed it on the roof of a
neighboring house, but on the following morn
ing I bad the mortification to find that the rats
and native dogs had found their way to it in the
night and had eaten all tho softer parts so that
the rest fell to pieces. A portion of the heart
of this calf was roasted and sent to our table.
In taste I found it very like beef, but it is dark
er in color. The cow was sixty feet long, and
measured between the fins on the bell v eighty
two inches. Her skin was velvet-like black,
with the exception of n milkwhite Fpot round
the navel. As regards the color of the whale
I have rw-en assured that it issometiines speck
led ; nnd that even perfect albinos, or cream
colored onps are seen, which must indeed ho
beautiful animals. The fit or blubber of this
whale was nine inches thick, and yielded eight
tons and a ha'fofoil. Whales have been known
to yield twelve or thirteen tons ; but I have
been told, that so large a quantity is now rare
ly obtained, from the great tlecreaso of the
whales. A whale which yields nine tons is at
present regarded as a very good one. The
tongue was of a white or ash color, and black
ish toward tho roots. This organ gave several
barrels of oil, and is a monopoly of the 'tonguei,'
or 'cutter-in.' Tho latter operation is porionn
cd ut Te-wa-iti, near the shores, where, by
means of a windlass, the whale is raised to the
surface of tho water under a scaffold called a
'shears.' The blubber is cut ortin square pieces
by means of a sharp spade ; it is then carried
to the shore, and immediately put into tho try
ing pots. The 'cutting-tip' of a whale, sccun
dan artrm, is a process which requires great
proficiency, like that of the skilful dissector,
who separates the cutis, and with it ot once
all fut and cellular tissue, from the subjacent
uiue!es. In the whale the blubber is to be re
garded as the cutis, in the cellular structure of
which the oily matter has been deposited.
Shortly otter the death of the full the epider
mis come off in large pieces, looking like oi
led and dried satin. Dicfjeuhath't Traveli
in .Veto Zeuland.
Xtravaowza XTMAouniRT. Charles X.,
x King of France, was xtravagan'ly xtolled,
but is xceedingly xeerated. He xhtbited xtra
ordinary xcellence in ligency ; ho was xem
plury iu xlernals, but xtriiisic on xamination ;
he was xatic under xhnrtation, xtreme in xcite
inent, and xtraordiunry in xtcinpore xpre-sions.
Ho was xpotriated for his xcesses, and, to xpa
tiate bis xtravagance, xiled and xpired in x-
I i!e.
at" '1 m "iw .gi.f3RJLlf jijx. Jt-msujMUs?;
and immediate parent of despotism. Jrrnsso.
Vol. 3 'o. 3Wliolc So, 110.
Cl.EVINOF.n, THE SfVI TTOn AN III WlFE
A foreign correspondent of the Ohio State Jour
nal gives the following :
"I never in my life became acquainted with
a more interesting family than that of Mr. Cle-
vinger, Sculptor. Clevingcr nnd his wifo are
both natives of Ohio. He was, I believe, for
several vnsrs a common stone-cutter l and nor-
haps if he had not been placed to that very bu-
1 I
siness, the fire of his genius would never have
born LindiP.1. .nd th- nohl, .rt of ..,nt,,ri.
would have been deorivfid of the briThtest lus-
r
tre which that genius is shedding tinon it It
r 1
is said that there is no native artist living who
models Nature wi'h more accuracy and spirit
than he, and I believe there can be noonemore
detcrnvned to build up a name and reputation
that shall liveafler him. His wife is as am
bitious and enthusias ir ss he, and is in all res
pects just such a wife as such on artist should
have. She is pretty, kind-hearted and i'ltelli
gcnt.und so industrious that she takes tho man
agement of the household business and the
education ol her two cl.il.lrenentirely upon her-
sell relieving her husband trom all responsi-
Mimes and anxieties nut ot his studio. I hey
arc both great tavontes with all Americans
who go to r lorence ; and I hope that they will
remain there till you and I can pay them a vi
sit together."
A.n Anuv or Cnn.DRE!. As children natu
rally imitate the actions and manners of adults
about them, when the crusades were the theme
of every tongue they often wished to become
pilgrims and knights errant In the year 1C12
many thousands of boys and girls abindoued
their homes, not only in France, but in Genua
ny and Italy, giving out that they were bent up
on delivering the Holy Land. The eldest were
not more than eighteen. It was in vain that
their parents attempted to restrain them. They
watched opportunities of escape, and got away
by making holes in the walls ; and sallied forth
from the paternal mansion with as much joy as
if they had been going to a festival. The fate
of these unhappy children, as may be supposed
was unfortunate; they were entrapped in num-
bers by merchants of Venice, Genoa, and Mar-
seilles, who were at that time engaged in the
infamous traffic of supplying the seraglios of
the East with children. A great many were
shipped in the Mediterranean ports, and many
died of hunger and fatigue in the long journics
to which they had voluntarily devoted them
selves, but for which their strength was utterly
inadequate.
Throw away the last new novel, (says a
writer in a late number of the Quarterly Re
view.) Go with me through these dark lanes,
blind court", into the damp cellars and fa
mished garrets, where poverty, vice, and crime
are crowded together, layer upon layer, where
breeds the corruption that pollutes our moril
atmosphere. Here, my friend, is a volume that
may excite you here is a work which you
may read. Forget your luxury ; forget your
luxurious ease; blush for your repinings, your
sentimental whimperings, your vapours and in
digestion, and remember that you are men and
women, and that it is our business to make this
earth a paradise, and every human heart a meet
temple for tho living God.
To the Ladies The following article to
raise flowers in a peculiar manner, is inserted
for yonr special benefit, with a hope that you
will try it.
Ami'kfmft for Votxo Ladics. To ob
tain different flowers from the same stem.
Split a small twig of elder bush l-rngthwise,
and having scoped out the p ft. fill each of the
compartments with seeds of flowers efditf lent
sorts, but tth ch blo-ioi i' m:' jioic f:ne,
surround ih'-m with in uld ; iui: t'.cu ly.iitT to
gether the two halves of th ! a 1 ; ' e.t the
whole in a pot fi led with e nt i ri ;.erly prepared
The stems of the d tTercnt fl w rs will tin n b
so incorporated us to exhibit to too i ye only the
stem throwing out branches covered wiih
flower analsgous to tho seed which produced
them.
Tnr Difffki:m f. The difference between
a repitMic and a monarchy : Pile all the people
into a pyramid, with tho President for an
apex, and you have tho symbol of a republic.
You can shako the President, but yu can't
move the united force of the people. Invert
that pyramid, with a King for its base, and you
have the symbol of a monarchy Trp up that
King, end the who'e structure falls iu confu
sion." A Mati-kiai. PiFFFRFNt k. A clergyman of
a country vdl'.e desired his clerk to give no
lice that there would be no service in tho after
noon, as he was 'going to officiate for another
clergyman." The clerk, as soon as the service
was ended, called out, "I am desired to give
notice that there will be noserttce this after
noon, as Mr. I. is going a fishing with another
clergyman !" Mr. I.., of course, corrected the
acswar.l yt amusing blunder.
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leniith of limn they are to be published, will t
continued until ordered out, and charged accord
inRly.
(jrixtcen lines make a square.
H ands Ort. A young damsel was going to
a party, when her mother charged her to keep
the beaux at a respectable distance. You may
let them convcrso with you as much as you
please, but make them keep theTr "hands off."
Miss went to the party, and was highly de
"?r,lcu WU1 ono rTBllanI wm WM "!. w
Pul "is arms around her neck. She repulsed
t i . Its
",8 vances, "tea -nana, on, sir . i.o
Ewa numol7 Ior wo P"vego minS
vrT on one cheek. 'Oh yes, you may
, . , , ... . .... .
"lw me mucn you Ple"e' ".""
. i i j a ft
,nm "7 7" mu "CP our mwu ou-
There is now living, near Georgetown
Heights, D. C, a lady, aged near 100, who is
the only person in the District, wo believe, says
the "Capitol," that can and has said, "Arise,
daughter go and see your daughter for Tour
laughter's daughter has a daughter.
I.ro.vt. rr.Rsr-tct'tTV tn a recent booV on
Chancery Practice, vol. 1. p 12-5, is the follow.
ing chi ice spec men of legal perspicuity :
..V,Pn p,.r!,ori j9 bound fo do a thing, and he
,j0C3 wllBl mBy enftolo nim , j0 the tningt n8
j, 9,ippfV,P, j equity to rfo it with a view of
Joing what he is bound to do t
Short but EFrrcrrAt. DiitErrtoXi ton va
mot's Ends. To embitter Jomcrtic life
Maintain your opinion on small matters at tho
point of the bayonet.
TV tcrure yourself against a tandii har
ing Call men hard names before you have
signified them.
Malice, envy, and rev nge, often, like Ua
man erect their own gal'owe.
Lauies of fashion starve their happiness tn
feed their vanity, and their love to feed their
pride and pinch their stomachs to prevent
waist t
PaLMahos. "Pray, eir," said the Judge to
a bankrupt brought up to be discharged on his
petition "Pray, sir, how could you wilfully,
and with your eyes open, contract such a num.
ber of debts without any visible means of pay.
ing them 1" "Why, Judge," said the petition
er, "you labr under a great mistake I have)
never in my life ronlrae.ltd a debt ; on the con.
trary, I have invariably done every thing to
I enlarge them "
A butcher about to kill a cow, employed
Patrick to hold her. Tho butcher squinted,
and when looking at the cow, appeared to loolt
at the man. Pat, fearing he should get knock,
cd down instead of tho cow, said in much of a
hurry, "Shtire, man, do you strike were yon
luck! " "To be sure I do ; w here do you think
I'd strike 1" "Then you may how Id tho cow
yourself till I get out of the way, jist."
F am JonNstNO. I'm 'stonished, Pete, at da
want of taste in the conundrum committee,
mine was dejected.
Pete 'Jeeted ! What was it?
Sam Why is Sam Johnsing's flame Dinah,
like a kind ob cloth dey make in Lowell 1
Pete Darker, no guess dat.
Sam Coz she'san unblearhed shce-ting.
Pete Well, you'll get her, and instead ot
one cup, you'll be a couple.
"I expect," said a young physician just enter
ing on the practice of medicine, "to see a good
many death-beds " "No doubt," said his friend,
"if you should have much practice."
A Good Retort. An Athenian who was
lame in one root, on joining the army, being
laughed at by the soldiery on account of his
lameness, said " am here to fight, not to run.
' I low must Jony ha' felt when the wait
swallowed him V
"Sort o' down in the mouth, I Vpose."
Matrimonial Coli-oqut. Husband, 1 don't
know w here that boy got his bad temper not
from me, I'm sure " "No, my dear, for 1 tluti't
perceive that you've lost any."
An Irishman says that some old topers srs)
walking volcanoes, and the carbuncles on theif
noses are erupt ions of the cralur.
Gettixo On. "Sam, how mnny logs have
you sawed, eh !" "Why, Ma'um, when I get
this and three other ones dune, I'll have sawed
four 1"
Why is a pig in a parlor like a house on fl e
Becau-e the sooner it's put out the better
When is a lady like a trout I When she takes
a fly that brings her to the bank. Why is the
sun likes good loaf! Because it's light when
it rises Why is a bird a greedy creature !
Because it never eats less than peck. When
is a fowl's neck like a bell 1 When its rung
for dinner Why is'nt a boy like t prett ben
net 1 Because one becomes a woman and tha
other don't
"Why is a jewsharp like a woman !" Ans j
Because itivnolbicg without the tongue.