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THE WORTH OP WOMAN!
ar wHn.f.Kri.
Honored I woman ! she beams on the sight,
Graceful and fnir, like a being of liuht ;
Scatters arnund her, wherever she strays,
Roses of bliss on our thorn covered ways ;
Hoses of Paradise, sent from above,
To be gathered and twined in a garland of love.
Man. on pnssinn's stormy ocean.
Tossed tv surges mountain hich,
Courts the hurricane' commotion,
Spurns at reason's feeble cry.
Loud the tempest roars around him,
Louder still it roars wiihin,
Plashing light of hope confound him.
Stuns with life's incessant din.
Woman invites him with bliss in her smile,
To cer.se from his ti.il and be hippy awhile ;
Whispering wooincly come to my bower
fo n it in search if the phantom of power
Honor and wealth are il'tis-ry come !
Happiness dwells in the temples of home.
Man with fury Mem and savage,
Persecutes h's brother m:in,
Reckless if he bless or rav.ige,
Action, action ."till his plan.
Now creatine now destroying ;
Cejscle-s wishes tear his breast ;
Ever seekinn, never j yini; ;
Si ill to he, but never blest.
Woman, content d in silent repose,
Enj.ys in its beauty, life's (Wcr a it blows.
And waters and tends it with innocent heart j
Far richer than man with bis tn asurrs of art ;
And wiser by fur in the circles confined.
Than he w ith his science and light of the mind.
Coldly to himself sufficing,
Man disdain the gentler arts,
Knowe h not tli.- l-li k aiising.
From the enterch.mge of hearts.
Slowly from his h.'Som stealing,
Flows the gcni.it current on,
Till by ace's frot conce ding,
It is hardened into stone.
She, like the harp, that instlnclive'y rinos,
As the night breathing zephyr soft fcihs on the
strings,
Responds tj each imr ulse with steady reply,
Whether sorrow or pleasure her sympathy try ;
A nd tear drops and smiles on her countenance play,
Like sun shine and showers of a morning in May.
Through 'ha race of man's dominion
Terror is the rutins word
And the stand ird of opinion
Is the temper of the snord.
Strife exults, and pity blushing,
For the scene departing flies,
Where to battlo madly rushing,
Urothir upon brother dies.
Woman c mmands with a milder control
She rules, by ei chantmeiit, the realms of the soul,
A she glinr-s mound in the lig'it of the smile,
The w r of the passions is hushed for awhile ;
A ml discord, content finm bis fury to cease,
Repose - I'litrmiced on the pillow of peace,
FLOWERS,
BT MIIS. SKUA SMITH.
Ern leaflet is a tiny scroll
limciivd wth ho'y truth,
A lesson thut arouod the heart
SlioiiM k'ep the dew of vollth ;
Bright w'mij from angelic llirungt
In rrn by-way lift.
How were tlie earth of gl 'ry shorn
Were it of flowers beieft !
They tremble on the Alpine bights,
The fi sine. I lock thev pr se.
Toe desert mil 1, with heat and sand,
Soar s io their hi ssedness ;
And whereso'ir the weary heart
Tunis in its ilim despair.
The meek-eyed blossom upward looks,
In vi ing it to prayer !
THE ItATTLESNAKK HINTKH.
BV I, a. WllirriKK.
"I'n'il my ghastly tale ia tnld,
Tl is heart within me burna."
During a dreadful excursion in the vicinity
of the Green Mountains, a few yearn since, I
had the pood fortune to meet with a singular
character, known in many pirts of Vermont as picture
me luiMiesnase iiumcr, n was a warm, cieir
tennncc a softness a delicacy, and a sweet
ness of smile which I hnvo seldom seen in the
features of those who have tasted, even slight
ly the bitter waters of existence. The old man
watched my countenance intently, as I survey
ed the image ol his early love. "She must
have been very beautiful," 1 said as I returned
lay of sunshine, in the middle of June, that 1
saw him for the first time, while engaged in a
mincralngic.il ramble among the hills. His
head was bald, and his forehead was deeply
marked with the strong lines of care and age.
1 1 is form was wasted and mengre; and but for
the fiery vigor of his eye, he might have been
supposed incapacitated by age and infirmities
for even a slight exertion. Vet he hurried over
the huge ledges of rock with a quick and al
most youthful tread ; and seemed earnestly
searching among the crevices and loose crags
and stinted bushes around him. All at once,
he started suddenly drew himself back with
sort of shuddering recoil and then smote
fiercely with his staff upon the rock before him.
Another and another blow and lie lifted the
lithe and crushed form of a large rattlesnake
upon the end of his rod.
The old man's eye glistened, but his lip trem
bled as he looked steadfastly upon his yet writh
ing victim. "Another of the accursed race !"
he muttered between his clenched teeth, ap
parently unconscious of my presence.
I was now satisfied that the person before
me was none other than the famous Rattle
snake Hunter. lie was known throughout the
neighborhood as an outcast and a wanderer,
obtaining a miserable subsistence from the casu
al charities of the people around him. His
time was mostly spent among the rocks and
"Beautiful!" he repeated, "you may well
sny so. But this avails nothing. I have a
fearful story to tell : would to God I had not
attempted it ; hut I will go on. My heart bus
been stretched too often on the rack of memo
ry to suffer any new pang."
"We had resided in the new country nearly
a year. Our settlements had increased rapid
ly, and the comforts and delicacies of life were
beginning to be felt, after the weary privations
and severe trials to which we had been sub
jected. The red men were few and feeble, and
did not molest us. The beast of the forest and
mountain were ferocious, but we suffered little
from them. The only immediate dancer to
which we were exposed resulted from the rat
tlesnakes which infested our neighborhood.
Three or four of our settlers were bitten by
them, and died in terrible agonies. The In
dians often told us frightful stories of this snake
and its powers of fascination, and although
they were generally believed, yet for myself,
I confess, I was rather amused than convinced
by their marvellous legends.
"In one of my hunting excursions abroad, on
a fine morning it was just at this time of the
year, I was accompanied by my wife. 'Twas
a beautiful morning. The sunshine was warm
but the atmosphere was perfectly clear ; and
a fino breeze from the north-west shook the
bright, green leaves which clothed to profusion
Keep out of the Kitchen.
"Where ignorance is bliss
'Tis folly to be wi-e."
In our college days we once strolled into the
kitchen of the great hnll, being "naturally cu
rious" to learn now cooking was managed on a
scale so extensive as to meet the wants of some
WW) students. It was a quarter of nn hour be
fore breakfast, and an enormous ki ttle, filled
with coffee, (as it was denominated) hung gloo
mily over the fire. As its contents boiled and
bubbled, we observed ever and anon some dark
substance, evidently too large to bo a grain of
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a j 1. I I Lthll TI I 17111 LU lllLOUIIUVil I UU IIIOIU.IIVI T UUVSl- I .... a ft - a ....
my bosom. Hour alter hour passea away, anu political contemporary did not publish a
lllll uuwu, ua ii lis iiuuim evil, " uui. aa
The groans of my wife now recalled mo to her
side, and to the horrible reality of her situation.
There was a dark, livid spot on her hand, and
it deepened into blackness as I led her away.
We were at a considerable distance from any
dwelling, and after wandering for a short time,
the pain of her wound liccamo insupportable
to my wife, and she swooned away in my arms.
Weak and exhausted as I was, I yet had
strength enough remaining to carry her to the
nearest rivulet, and liathe her brow in the cool
water. She partially recovered, and sat down
upon the bank, while I supported her head upon
tilde hills, where hisonlv object seemed to be tn0 wreathing branches above ns- I had
the hunting out and destroying of the Crotaltit (1 mV companion for a short time, in the pur
horiJus, or rattlesnake. I immediately deter
mined to satisfy my curiosity, which had been
strangely excited by the remarkable oppear
anceof the stranger; and for this purpose I
approached him.
Are there many of these reptiles in this
vicinity !" I inquired, pointing to the crushed
serpent
suit of game ; and in climbing a rugged ledge
of rocks, interspersed with shrubs and dwarfish
trees, I was startled by a quick, grating rattle.
I looked forward. On the edge of a loosened
rock lay a large rattlesnake, coiling himself as
if for the deadly spring. He was within a few
feet of me ; and I paused for an instant to sur
vey him. I know not why, but I stood still,
"They are getting to be scarce," said the au l00Kcu at tlie ucauiy serpent wiin a strange
old man, lifting his slouched had and wiping leeiing ot curiosity. suddenly lie unwound
his bald brow: "have known the time when m8 co". "8 reieriung irom ins purpose ot nos-
yoti could hardly stir ten rods from your door and raising his head, ho fixed his bright
in this part of the state without hearing their "cry eyeu.recuy upon my own. .a emmng
low, quick rattle at your side, or seeing their imlcscribablo sensation, totally dim-rent
many colored bodies coiling up in your path. lrom nnv l'"S 1 ",,u ev,:r u, ,oro "l"-""-".
But, as I said before, they are getting to be billowed tins movement ol me serpent ; nui i
scarce the infernal race will be extinct in a oi g4 sienuny ana carnc-uy,
few years and thank God I have myself been for at that moment there was a visible change
none came near us and there alone, in the
great wilderness, I watched over her, and pray
ed with her and she died !"
The old man groaned audibly as he uttered
these words, and, as he clasped his long, bony
hands over his eyes, I could see the tears full
ing thickly through his gaunt fingers. After a
momentary struggle with his feelings, he lift
ed his head once more, and there was a ficrc?
light in his eyes s he ppoke
"But I have my revenge. From that fatal
moment I have felt myself fitted and set apart,
by the terrible ordeal ol affliction, to rid the
placcof my alxxle of its foulest curse. And 1
have well nigh succeeded. The fascinating
demons arc already few and powerless. Do
not imagine," said he earnestly regarding the
somewhat equivocal expression of my counte
nance, "that I consider these creotnresas ser
pcnU only creeping serpents, they arc ser
pents of the fallen angel the immediate mini
tcrsofthe infernal gulf."
4
Years have passed since my interview with
the Rattlesnake llunler : the place of his a
bode has changed a beautiful village rises near
the spot of our conference and the grass of the
church-yard is green over the grave of the old
hunter. But his story is fixed upon my mind,
and Time, like enutnol, only burns deeper the 1 cys salc.'
first imnression. It comes ud before mo like I Here the whole
a vividly remembered dream, whose features
are too horrible for reality
it 1 Oftiiat very same liquid in fifteen mm.
utcs wo were to partake ; we were to persuade
our palute that it was not bona fide coffee, dca
pitc all insinuations that it was made of poplar
leaves and damaged rye. What could that
mysterious black substance be ! Was it a
sturgeon, or a negro's head, or a stove pipe !
rhe tpiestion was one of great personal interest
curiosity took the alarm our evil Btar had
provided a cane we plunged it into the boiling
ocean before us, and raised to tho ta'ir light of
th laughing morn, an old hat. Heavens ! what
a discovery even now we tremble at the hor
rid recollection.
In a few minutes we were in the bseakfust
hall, carrying Ihe hat on the cane s point,
There were our classmates masticating, with
all their might, the toughest bread in Christen.
dom, and pouring down their devoted throats,
cun after enn of that infernal beverage, t took
my place next to my old friend, Frink Stan
ley.
'Frank, what are you drinking !'
CfTec.'
'Will you take an oath of that '
'What '.he deuce do you mean V
l have been in the kitchen I have made a
terrible discovery put down that cup for mcr-
table canght tlie alarm.
Speak out, speak out, resounded on all sides.
Fellow Juniors, you fondly imagine that
you have been drinking coffee no such thing
you have been drinking HAT-SOUP here
is the hat itself holding up the still reeking
Anecdote oftSmeral Putnam.
"And brave old Israel Putnam, too, be must
needs be assailed by you envious burghers ! anil humble mass, which had been boiled to a
Now have nothing to do with the long process I polygon 'five minutes ago I fished this out of
of augmentation which goes to make him a I the coffee-kettle t
cow ard ; but I have a fact to relate wich is J The same Junior Class was composed of as
sufficient flr my belief, that Putnam was a brave many reckless dare devils ns were ever con
soldier and a true friend to his country. Io o;re"iited under one root thev cared nothing
you remember to Ikivc met with tlie name of I for thunder claps, or stages in the proccssof'hc
General Pomeroy 1 old Seth Pomeroy, the ing capsized they had once set at defnnce all
Von liver.
Did you ever see a newspaper correspondent
who did not write to the editor of a highly in
teresting paper !
Did you ever see a man who challenged a-
notlicr to mortal combat who did not subscribe
himself 'your very obedient servant V
Did you ever see a candidate for office who
in the course of his canvass could detect any
personal deformity in Ihe voters' children or
who saw any thing else than 'interesting babies
in his travels 1
Did you ever see an editor whose opposing
con
temptible sheet I'
Did you ever see a retail trader who did'not
tell his goods 'fifty per tent cheaper than a-
ny other house in the town ;' or a man dispo
sing of his stock who was not 'selling off at
first cost !'
Did you ever see a vender of patent medi
cines who was not patronized by the President
and several distinguished members of Con
gress:
Did you ever see a pretender, whatever might
be his peculiar tailing, who was not willing
o submit his clnims to a discerning public 1
Did you ever see a steamboat blow up for
which blame could attach to the captain or
engineers !
Did you ever see a lawyer address any
other than a highly intelligent and respecta
ble jury !
Did you ever see a voter who had not unde
niable claims on the Government or office ?
Did you ever see a man removed from office
who was not "proscribed for his independence
and persecuted for his politics V
Did you ever see a player who had not just
fulfilled a 'brilliant engagement' somewhere ;
or a dcbtitsnte who did not make a 'decided
hit V
Did yon ever see a speech reported by ita
author which was not filled with parenthetical
'bursts of applause,' 'hear, hear,' and 'trcmen-
cheerinp-s !'
Did you ever see any man who would not,
when he could, come tho 'giraffe' over the pub
lic. -V. O. Tropir.
hero of Iyiui.-burg !"
When the news of the gathering of Boston
militia of -
country : hut this iHsen-
a considerable cause of their extermination."
"You murt, of course, know the nature ot
these creatures perfectly well," said I. "Do
you believe in their power of fascination or
charming !"
in the reptile. His form seemed to grow larg- calne to lhia Djj nan o( ,-,ve anj BCventy venrs,
er, and his colors brighter. His body moved
with a slow, almost imperceptib'c motion to
wards me, and a low hum of music came from
him or at least it sounded in my car a strange,
The old man's countenance fell. There was wcet melody, tuint as thai wlncli melts trom
a visible struggle of feeling within him', for the throat of the humming-bird. Then the
his lip quivered, and he dashed his brown hand tintaofhis body deepened, and changed and
suddenly across his eyes, as if to conceal a glowed, like the changes of a beautiful kalied-
tcar ; but quickly r ccovering himself, he an- scope green, purple and gold, until I lost sight
swered in the low, deep voice of one that was of the serpent entirely, ami saw only wild and
lvKMVDY FOB. iMMtiKSTION. A ftiPUll llBS
handed to us for publication the annexed rcme
Iy for indigestion, a complaint which is so ge
nerally prevalent in this country. It was com
nvunic.ited to him by a gentleman in Great
Britain, who says, in his letter on the subject :
"Having suffered much from indigestion, I
send you the remedy to relieve you. It arises
by rejecting too large a portion of the phos
phates of lime ami magnesia contained in the
bran in making our bread ; being quite 6ure
that an allwise Creator, in giving us wheat
.for our food to support our frames, placed in it
every necessary constituent for the health of
them, and made this known to us through the
progressive knowledge which he is pleased to
grant us. When therefore, you derive benefit
from it, please to make it known to our brethren
in America !"
Jirmrdyfor Indifretthm. Boil half pint
of white wheat three hours in a quart of water,
or a little more if necessary. Drink half a pint
of the liquid twice or thrice in a week.
To make wholrtame Bread. Six ounces of
(ran boiled one hour and a half in five pints of
water ; strain the liquid from the bran, and di
lute it with water sufficient to make the bread.
Two ounces of salt.
Two table-spoonsful of yeast.
In baking a largo quantity, each article must
be proportionally increased. Bait, Amtr.
Cobns. Mr. Erastus Dudley, of North Guil
ford having observed in our weekly paper the
notice in reference to corn doctoring, called in
to our office this morning to say that the common
bean leaf, bruised and applied upon corns every
night on going to bed, for about a week, was a
certain remedy for these troublesome ecre
licences. He and other have tried it with cn
tira succesa. -V. Palladium,
about to reveal some horrible secret
"I believe in the rattlesnake's pOwer-of fa
scination as firmly as 1 believe in my own ex
istence "
"Surely," said I, "you do not believe that
they have power over human beings 1"
"I do I know it to be so!" and the old man
trembled as he spoke. "You are a stranger to
me," he said slowly, after scrutinizing my fea
tures for a moment "but if you go down with
me to the foot of this rock, in the shade there"
curiously woven circles of strange colors, qui
vering around me, like an atmosphere of rain
bows. I seemed in the centre of a great prism
a world of mysterious colors and tints va
ried and darkened and lighted up again around
me; and the low music went on without ceas
ing until my brain reeled ; and fear, for the
first time, came like a shadow over me. The
new sensation gained upon tne rapidly, and I
could feel the cold sweat gushing from my brow.
I had no certainty of danger in my mind no
he was reposing from his laurels (well earned
in the hard contests of lke George and Nova
Scotia) in the bosom of a family of Connecti
cut. Mounting his horse, with his gun and
powder born, he immediately started for the
rendezvous ; and although ho was ninety miles
distant, he arrived, by the aid of another horse
borrowed on the way, when his own failed him,
in less than twenty four hours, upon the bank
of the Charles river, on the morning of the bat
tle of Bttnkei's Hill.
very was too nvirh for them every one was
appalled, and they all lcl the. room nvitWing
execrations. That nijjht the Cook was tarred
and feathered, and rode on a rail, and the kee
per of the hall wa) burnt in effigy. I never
took another cup of college coffee.
The story has its moral. Curiosity, which
kicked Eve out of Eden, and sent Dr. Fatitus
to old Nicholas (familiarly called old Nick) is
fatal to the physical as it is to the intellectual
appetite. The tree of knowledge is not the
tree of life and if we gather the fruit of the
former, we loose our relih-h for that of the latter.
As he came in sight of the field, the bolls I Reader, if you are inclined to inquietude if
from the British ship9 were flying thick and I you live in after-dinner bread of apoplexy in
heavy across the way lie had to pass. Ilesita-I three weeks you will be as thin as Cassius
ting a moment, he bethought him of the borrow- without his 'hungry look.' But if you wish to
ed horse, and dismounted, said to a bystander, enjoy the good things of life, seek not to be
'Take this horse to , I'll go over on foot!' wise, but above all things, keep out of the
and be pointed to a group of leaning oaks definite ideas of peril all was vague and cloud
that hung over the declivity "I will tell you ed, like the unaccountable terrors of a dream
a strange and sad story of my own experience." and yet my limbs shook, and I fancied I could
It may be supposed that 1 readily assented feel the blood stiffening with cold as it passed
to this proposal. Bestowing one more blow along my veins. I would have fciven worlds to
upon the rattlesnake, as if to be certain of his have been able to tear myself from the spot I
death, the old man descended the rocks with a even attempted to do so, but the body obeyed
rapidity that would have endangered the neck nt the impulse of the mind noj a muscle stir
of a less practised hunter. After reaching the red ; and 1 stood still, as if my feet had grown
place which he pointed out, the Uuttlesimke to the solid rock, with the infernal music of the
Hunter commenced his fetory in a manner tempter in my ear, and the baleful culormgs
which confirmed what I had previously heard of his enchantment before me
ol his education and intellectual strength. "Suddenly a new sound came to my ear it
"I was among tho earliest settlers in this was a human voice but it seemed strange and
part of tho country. Iliad just finished my awful. Again again bull stirred not, and
education at Harvard, when I was induced by then a w hile fprm plunged before me, and
the flattering representations of some of the grasped my arm. The horrible spell was at
earliest pioneers into the w ild lands beyond once broken. Tlie strange colors passed from
the Connecticut, to seek tny fortune in the new before my viion. The rattlesnake was coiling
settlements. My wife" the old man's eye at my very feet, with glowing eyes and up-
glistencd an instant, and then a tear crossed lifted langs, and my wifo was clinging in tor
his brown check "my wife accompanied me, ror upon me. The next instant the ferient
young and delicate and beautiful as she was, threw himself upon us. My wifo was the vie
to this wild and rude country. I shall never timt The fatal fangs picrcetl deeply into her
forgive myself for bringing her hither never, hand, and ber scream ot agony, as he slugger
Young man," continued he, "you look like one ed backward from ne, told mo the dreadful
who could pity. You shall see the image t.f truth.
the cirl who followed me to the new country." I "Then it was that a feeling ofmadness cauio
And he unbound, as he apoke.a ribbon from his upon me; and when I saw the foul serpent
neck, with a small miniature attached to it. stealing away from his work, reckless of dau
It was that of a beautiful female but there ger, I sprang forward and crushed him under
was an almost childish expression in Ucr coun-1 my feet, grinding him upon the ragged rock
'But, General,' answered the man, 'you'll be
killed if you attempt to walk over the Neck ;
why don't you ride ! With an honesty that al
ways characterized him, the old hero replied :
'The horse is io mine ; I'll go on foot !' And
go he did ; arrived safely upon the hill; took
command of the recruits ; fought stoutly with
his men ; and was the last man of the last
company who retreuted from the ground.
Now old General Pomeroy said, as 1 can
prove by twenty witnesses, that Israel Putnam
fought in h Battle of Bunker's Hill ; and,
Braucroti to the contrary, that it is enough for
me. I am sure lie was not a cowaro. Aim a
kitchen.
Pueventivb of Hvukopiioui. The fol
lowing paragraph, which we cut from an ex-
:hange paper, corroborates remarkably the
views of a physician of Louisiana, which we
published a few days ago, as regards his method
of preventing the dreadful disease of hydropho
hia :
u.ew Remedy for Hydrophobia. Dr. Ibx-
i.kr, member of the Royal Academy of Medi
cine, Paris, lately communicated to his society
that in Greeco it is a practice to observe the
tongues of those person who have been bitten
Curious Scene In Hyde Park.
A Iindon paper relates the following comi
cal incident.
A good deal of amusement was afforded for
some hours in Hyde Park on Wednesday after
noon, in consequence of the fruitless attempts
of the police to dislodge a couple of men from
their elevated situation in one of the trees,
which they had climbed with the view of bi
kini bird nests. One of the di ision first spied
the tresspassers, and finding his summons to de
scend was disregarded, he r.indo !iI- way uw the
tree to bring them down by force-. One of the
di-liiiouetits was a sweep ; and his experience
in making his way up chimneys enve him jreat
ndvant.ige over the constable ; he continued
for hours to elude all attempts to lay hold of
him.
The constable, however, did succeed at on3
time in catching hold of his lpg. The sweep
immediately pulled off his sooty cap and bela
bored the policeman over the eyes and face till
he was completely blinded and almost choked
with the soot. The constable was forced to let
Co, and descended with his face as black as hia
antagonist's, amid laughter of the mob. A re
inforcement of police was sent for; six consta
bles surrounded the tree and kept the mob off.
In this state of seige the defendants wero kept
trom two o'clock in the afternoon until eleven
at night, when one of them having surrender
ed at discretion, the capture of the other was
effected, after considerable resistance.
by docs, because at the end of eight or nine
the old veteran himself said, when they told I (Myg there appear on each side of tho tongue,
him that Washington had capitulated at the an,j n,,ar tl0 upper p'irt, pustules, called lijct
Delaware, "I don't believe it, I can"t llivo it, ,v the Greeks. These pustules contain tho
and what's more I wont believe it "-lincker-bocker
fur June.
Crf.am and Ri'tti:r The Viscount ile Bi-
manet, in treating on the phenomena present
ed in tho transformation of cream into butter,
etates, from microscopie observation, that the
cream consists of the globules of the milk, which
rise to the surface fiom their lightness, and
w hich contain the butter in tho form of pulp,
enveloped in a white, thin and elastic pellicle.
The action of tho churn is, he says, nothing
inoro than the rupture of tho pellicle, and it is
the fragments of this pellicle w hich w hiten the
liquid called buttermilk ; the acidity which
fnanilVsts itself in this liquid, at the instant
when the butter is firmed, is due to the im
mediute contact of the butter with tho acid
principles of the milk. Ai Ji'cul 7"iui.
w hole rabid matter, and immediately they are
cut out and the wounds cauterized hytlrophabia
will be prevented."
Tins Stom ai h. I firmly believe that almost
every malady of the hunmn frame is, either by
highways or by-ways, connected with the sto
mach. The woes oft-very other member are
founded on your belly timber ; and 1 must own,
I never seo a fashionable physician mysterious
ly consultui" the pulse of his patient, but I
. . . . , ii-i . ,n .i
feel a desire to exclaim " ny "ui ku i w,wle loj;elieP
gentlemen al once, "ctr, you nsvw raicn u
much, you've drunk too much, and you have not
taken exercise enough !' The human frame
was created imperfect ; it i we ourselves who
have male it so. There exists no donkey in
creation so overladen as our stomachs.
Exchange paper.
ExTHAonntNARV Max. A man by the name
of Benton T. Batchelder resides in Meredith,
about twenty five years of age, who was born
without legs, and with only one arm ! II3
came up to the door of our office last week in a
wagon, got out and came in as spry as any man.
After finishing his busines he went out, got in
to his wagon, and cracked his whip, and went
olf as smart as some men would do with four
legs. Mr. Batchelder goes up or down stairs
with perfect ease, and can even go up or down
a common ladder with facility. His body is
of about tho midJIo stature, and with that and
the one arm which helms, he goes where ho
pleases, with as much apparent ease as almost
any man. Brlkntp, A'. . Gazette.
WlllTKWAXH THAT W ILL NUrKlBOFF. Mix
half a pail of lime and water reudy to put i n
the wall ; theu tako a gill of w heat tlmr, imsc
up well in a very little cold water, then pour
boiling water over it till it thickens. Pour it
into the white-wash while hot, and tUr the
No Tin. A Quakeress, preaching at Nan
tucket, said, "Every tub must stand on its own
butt i ii." A sailor jumped up and said, "But,
madam, suppose it has no bottom !" "Then
it's no tub," returned she quickly, and went ou
with her sermon.