TERMS OF Tier " AMKItlCAN."
II. B. MAssnn,
JOSEPH EISEJ.V.
? Pcsuasisi a so
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ECHO AND THE LOVER.
Lovkr. Of what you're made, mid what yi nre -
Echo ! mystrriou? nymph, declare,
Ellin. . ' Air!
Lovcn. 'Mid nirv cliff and pl.trcs high,
Sweet rein) ! listening, love, von lie
Echo, You Lie. .'
Lover. Tlou dust re.-iisr-itsite dead sounds
Ilaik how my voire revive, resound!
Echo. Zounds .'
T.ovEit. I'll qurp'ion thee before I pa
Come, an-wer me more apropos!
Echo. l'h ! rk .'
Lovkr. Tell me, f.iir nymph, if e'er you im
So sweet a girl j.-i Phie'.ic Shaw J
Echo. l'thtiw !
Lovin. Hiy what will turn lint frisking coney
'Into the toils of Matrimony ?
Echo. Monty I
l.uTF.n, Hi Pbu he not a heavenly brow 1
Is il not while es pearl as mow t
Echo. j ,s no i
l.orr.R. Her eves ! Was ever surh a pah ?
Are the Mitrs brighter than Ihei tire .?
1 hri; are '
Echo.
LllVKIt.
J'cuo.
Lovi n.
I'ciio.
Echo, limit licit, but can't d. ceivu me ;
Iir c.cs iclijxe the siars, believe me.
Jimvc me .'
I'm r 'lne. t'-n viurv pert rnmnnrer,
V ho i es fair ns PI:tt-'i ? ,mwi r.
Ann, sir !
11 I .V T S, S. c.
Young mm put nut of your beds at sunrise,
rind walk or ride n unit? or so before breakfast,
ifyt.ii would ( -nj.iy iiii'i;!k1 and bodily health.
Take IhisjfyrVice to add to your yrms and en
jiyinents. Eit p;s nnd read more, nnd thus
become Setter citizens. Leave off the habits
of tohirco cliewni,' ;i -1 peg'ir smoking, nnd in
vest the rpnrv u i.v ti. -t-d tints in T lie purchase
ti!' boriks. or in aiding li 'iv -t olj'-e's. E'e.
v it'i your iioti.inn l the f?it-wt(." in female
f-ociety, by acting less of the mm. key and nmr
'jf ihc m:in. I."isr:i tn think les.sofa ni?w emit,
and more of new ides. And we pr.iy the lew
of yru suiibdicwr1, to abando'.i the prictice of
ft:riiij at I:: .Mo? on tho !!. -t crn- ri, or m
thrv piR to -r lr.''ni church. Don't tha.k of mar
rjtrv, i:niil curt l ive th mparts pr -vided
tor t!. Mlv:l' f'n : Xrvt-r i.'.wr ynur.
M'lvi e t:i..t on art h:ii''i! nr n ur;d repotted,
lxc.-iii.-o y.r-:i l.tivc h s.i I. .:,..!:! :.,!:;, und are
calltd pi'pi itsby n'Hny who think you sre to.
Taio th'-.c -..i.i.ii-U i,i v..ut;.-v. i.s such ct
V')!l u (Sc.-tirv;; t!t i;l.
Vourt I .'. '.ft y nr pirdir), but nn-
vrr facral.'n u. ili'i t b'M'i'y u'" f'.'nn or neat
fec-t. DiMu.cd lu:ir's, Cum rc.-.u! of pretty
wnifta t ud kid i-''!"is worn out d bi'uson,)
e.jri hurry fc-!i w ;i'.-i-i ami foot t tho grave.
Tho declining ron.-imipi ivc is but poorly con -tolcd,
us !ifi f ides .i ivny, with the memory of
silly Ciiiiiji'iuirnts p:iid to htr person. If you
would improve lh" character of your beaux ele
vate them to your own mora! t-tandard, and the
4-omnninity will bh? the ret'irniation you will
biinj aboil?. Teach tic youti gentlemen that
go-tip and to'dy are not acceptable to you as
conversation, es healthful mallets of literature
or ecience. Never be aha-ned of not having
read the last new novel thin kind of ignorance
Fpeaks well of your judgment. Never suffer
buoyancy o! t-pirils l tompiomit your digni'y,
in male society especially. Remriiiber that
the grave is often midway between a ball room
or party ; and the residence of a young lady
who will altend tho one or the other while in-dii-posed
by "a t'.i'.'ht co'd." Court the appro
bation of men of murals and judgment, tuther
than the empty adulation of empty puppies.
Ilsclicw modern I't. lno i. Ahitnloii ill-founded
notions about mechanics and reputable trades
men. Respect ability nnd worth isre not con
fined to the prolbssiiiiib. To bo the wifo of a
brawling unsiirccssiul politician, or patientless
doctor, or briefllen lawyer, is not the nios-t en
iuble situation in the world. Neither is a
chare in the decl.ning fortunes of aa exploded
merchc.'jt the most ccnifortuble tiling in the u
river6e. Better unJerMai.d how to cook and
do hemewerk, H ut-, being ign jrant of f' ...
or- .wf-t. j
t vn thin (th finu v rr il i-. I,..
l. t, ,. - ; r . .
a husband. I,k to the - ..
,,,, , "ln r.ner than to
, title, profession -ffau)l!y.(
"live in .. ;u - . ., ., .
rears r-
a son oi romance mai
...any ha';;.c..ui lul.fed, and hdf educa-
ted chddrd, 8rn to appreciate your infiu
p..iee in every pood cause moral, religious, li
temry and srientific. Cheri.-h an amiable and
uniform temper, for a scolding female is a ter
rible matter. Enconrafe the address of none by
by an Msoriniion with whom yon be made to
suffer ii pnhlie estimation. The prudence and
intellect of females are often judged by thii
standard. I 'i-card sfT-'Ctutinn ; it mars the fai
rest snd most gifted. Be above petty pride and
alive to the true dignity of your sex. Discour
age expensive parties and ridiculous distinc
tions i society Parden eir familiarity.
UNIMEX
Abolm0 acquicicfnce in the decision of the
lly Zinsser & KIsely.
J'Vowi Ihe yew York Minor.
Ilrcollt'ctloii of Joint nandoliili,
OF ROANOKE.
1 observed, one morning, that Mr. Handolph
waa examining a very large boxofbool;?, con
taining enough to keep him busy reading during
n voyage round the world. I asked him why
he had brought so many with him .'
'I waul to have them bound in Lugland, sir,'
replied he. -
'Hound in England!' exclaimed J, laughing,
'why did you not .'did them to New York or
Boston, where you can get them done cheap
er ?'
'What, fir,' replied he t-hnrply, 'patronize
some of our Vankee ta.-ktnas-tcrs; thoso patri
otic gentry who have caused such n heavy du
ty to be imposed upon foreign books Never,
air ; never ! I will neither wear what they
make, nor eat what they nine, so long a my
tobacco rrop wiil einble nio to get supplies
from old England; and I chilli employ John
Hull to bind my bonk tint:! the time arrives
when they can be properly done jtohM of Ma.
son and Di.rim'x line ."
The next day being Friday, wc had codfish
for dinner nfterthe soup.
'Mr. Randolph,' said the captain, 'let ir.c help
yon to fish.'
'No, sT ; it comes from New England !' was
the reply.
I was very much amused with the extent of
his sectional prejudices. Sometimes 'ho would
condemn nil the northern people rti masse; hut
at other times, forgetting his antipathies, ho
would unconsciously prnise soir. northern man
whom he had know n and esteemed. Heu'cd
on i-nch occasions, how ever, to wind up his cu
legiiim thus ;
Mr. , in the cleverest niBn I know
norrTi of lh rWmac !' This was always the
savinff clause, and his conieneo seemed re
lieved when hp uttered it. The siiiremney of
Virginia being thus retained, he could then
frfnrdtobo generuua to thegreat men of the
nor,';.
I have mentioned t'"tt Mr. Randolph did not
admire tno much familiarity, where lie had
tnken no fancy to the person ffering it. In
fac, he wns very fasitdinus in this respect ; he
had all t'le feelinoa which we generally aitii
bute tn the E-igtibh aristocracy on this point ;
but where he did tbke a finey, the rank of
the person never seemed to we gh with him
for a moment. He ndmiied especially those
who never pretended to more knowledge than
they actually p;-)fc$srd, but 'a ho undeittoud
Ihoruugly what they did know.
Onuof our Yorkshire passengers was a plin
rnatter-of-fdct man, a cloth manufacturer, who
was thoroughly ver;ed m all the mysteries of
his calling, but who tared neither for litera
ture, metaphysics, nor politics, savt and c.ecp'.
that he was a good lory by inheritance. His
manners were so unpretending, Mr. Randolph
sought occasion to eoiivetso with him, and he
entered into all the mimttae of his bttdiicss, just
ns if he h'xd Purw inkling himself after the
Woolen Uade. Oee day I was pretending to
read, but was actually listening to the conver
sation which was passing between these two
and I was quite amused by the animation with
which Randolph carried on the conversation. I
should mention here, that Randolph's English '
ancestors were fioni Yorkshire, and he was '
giving this piece ol information to Mr. 1)., lor
the first time. He then exclaimed, in a fimili-
ar, oraticul style J
'Well, sir, say the 'West Riding' fur ever ! i
bring Yorkshire-on one tide. 1 go the York
shire weavers rgainst the world. To be sure,
sir, your poor operatives are not half so well off
as our Virginia shuts; but thry ore u7tir,
sir, and hence your philanthropists do not feel
bound in conscience to look into their misery ;
but that's their affair, not mine, sir. So long
as John Bull is willing to work for us, and tak
our cotton and tobacco in payment, V n or
giving iimi a monopoiy of uH the
nils of the
system, j never want to
.t?e our boys and
girls, much lessoo.; nie
'.i, turned into 'spinning..
jennies p. ere f.,Hchinrs, sir, mero machines.
'' ' pvrry nation to its tatte. England
C boas'- ,i .... -I., i . a :.. : . . - -
r .. e , . . , '..
vr tlip rincn tie rta find npriromiriil ntirsnitrf.
i
and there should be no jealousy about the more
question of exchange. This 'modern balance
cf trade,' sir, is puzzling the brains of our would-
be statesmen. When I was a boy, sir, the de
parture of a 'London trader' (ae we used to rail
the ship) from Virginia was an aflairofno small
consequence to the community equal to a
presidential election now-a-days. In my fa
ther's fumily, sir, the whole house-hold was
culled together; firrt my mother (God bless
her !) put down a list of the articles she want
ed from Ismdon ; next, the children, according
to their ages; then the oven-err, snd fimlly
the domestic slaves, our ntmmy at the head
of them, down to the younone who lived a
bout the house not a single individual was i
milled, sir. Then after the ship w one, the
weeks and duys, end finally tho hours were
CDunttd until the returntd, and a joyful signal
AND SHAMOKIN JOURNAL.
msjori - y, (he Vital principle of Republics, from which
Stmbury, Kortliuinbcrland Co.
of her arrival in James rivet was celebrated as
a jubilee, sir. Iti those days, how often ha e
called England 'my country? when the rumors
of war and sepcrntion moved me not. But now,
sir, ourEgyptnin taukmualeroonly wish to leave
us the recollections of past times, and they in
sist upon our purchasing their vile domestic
stuffs ; but it won't do, oir j no 'wooden nut
megs' for old Virginia. No, sir ice Virgini
ans hold fust to the 'West Hiding,' sir, and
will still trust to your loons for our domestic
supplies, sir.'
Speaking of this worthy Yoikshireman (who
is now in his grave) Mr. Randolph often said to
tnc
'I esteem him much, sir, because what lie
rVs know, ho knows thoroughly and what he
don't know he leaves to others! .Sir, he is
worth a dozen of your modern dendtes, who re
peat I.ntin mid fircek quotations and live by ci
ther men's w its ! and who eat with a 'i.itei
prong'd fork.' If I should visit his native
tow n, sir, I i-hall call and cat a Yorkshire pud
ding with him, and I am sure ho will give me
a welcome !'
11. .C.-,. . : '.1. , n i , t t , i
I ui-iuiu iiicviing w iui nir. Jianuoipii, i nail
some way or other imbibed the idea that he
wa3 a latitudinarian in religious matters; but
he very soon undeceived me. The first Sun
day alter our departure, he inquired whether
we would have any objection to his reading a
chapter in tho Bible and part of the church
ser ice, and he Fcemed pleased when we an
swered in the negative. He read both with
great solemnity and opparenl devotion, nnd con
tinued to do so, euch succeeding Sunday when
not prevented by bad weather of ill health.
Once, he made an extemporaneous prayer, and
on 'Good Friday,' whilst we were siltinj on
drck, he wrote some relicioiM remarks suita
ble to the day, winch were admirably expressed
in the purest English.
In the course, of conversation, h toM me that
in early life he had been influenced by the in
fidelity which prevailed iimong many of the
leading politician in Washington, and his seep,
tieism continued, with orca"innal doubting",
up to 1S16. In that year, he said duripp a se
vere fit of sickness, he had a remarkable vision,
which completely dispelled the delusion under
which he had previously surrendered hia faith,
and ever since he had been a firm believer in
the truths (if Christianity.
I questioned him aa to the vision, and asked
if it was not some imaginary working of the
brsin. He said 'nn, it w n a rualiiy,' and to
prove this, he showed tne a lciter which he
had written from his sick chamber, cdJressed
to a bosom friend in Virginia, in w hich la gave
a cireumi.tantial dtU.l of his 'conversion.' In
tl.lo letter he gave the very norm which were
tittered in his tar by his invisible monitor !
'This letter,' continued he, 'contains nothing
but tiic truth, strange as it may appear to you;
and il would make mo tniserablo to doubt il !'
He uttered this hul sentence with such Fervor,
1 did tic', by cither word or look, give him rea
son to suppoic that I doubted the narrative;
tor I hold, that a little superstition u vaitly bet
ter than an inkling of infidelity !
At Mr. Jefferson's table, unfit) tunutoly, ho
did not hear much to strengthen his I'hrixttun
faith and being a young man, he felt ashamed
01 l'ing thought tingulsr so that whatever
early impressions of piety lie possessed, were
juitkly dispelled by the wit and sarcasm of tho
chosen few w ho used to delight in calling in
(question 'the orthodox faith.'
In those days, he said, he had not. the mors'
courage to contend against men who ore old
enough to be his father, and, h'- degreci, he
sucked in the pois-u' if a Wlre J tyJUVi
food. Hunir.1, rea?..,r) was held up to him s
the un.'.rring ruet hl6 valli,v was fl .sd red
by occus-jl)ll(,j nppeals to his opinion, in the pre
8Cr.co of these 'great men' of their day, until at
length ho made a complete 'shipwreck of his
faith,' and re.r.ainej in mental darkness (us be
fore related) for many years.
Shortly after hia recovery from sickness in
lfelt, he was dining at the houso of a distin
guished politician, with a lurged and mixed
company. Amongst them, to use hi own
words, 'wus a hoary-headed debauchee, whoso
vices had completely rhattered his constitution,
w hose days seemed to be numbered, and yet,
sir, he bad the audacity to call in quest ion the
existence of tho Deity, presuming, I suppwe,
that there were many kindred spirits present.
I happened to sit directly opposite to him, snd
felt so disgusted at his impiety, 1 could not a
void saying, '1 think, sir.you might better have
been silent on that subject, for judgmir from
nppiornncfS, you will have in a rery short
tune, occulur protf of the jioicer of that (Jod,
whose txislr nee you now so bold'y question !
You can sff rd to wait, sir, for the few rert lin
ing days of your lih, nnd, in Common Courtesy
should not she.ck tlie feelings of other by the
exh'bitir.n of your blusphemy !' Hj turned
ps.le with anger, and even trembled, but made
no rejoinder, and th company soon after sepa
rated. We met more than once subsequently,
but I never renewed cur acquaintances ; whe-
AMERICAN.
there i tin pp- al hut to force, the vital principle
Pa. Saturday, Oct. IS13.
ther l;i:i courage 'braved death,' I cannot in
form you !'
He always spoke of his mother in the most
glowing teims of tiiiitl affection ; he said to
tne, 'whatever mental culture 1 posnvn, I owe
to her ajsiduoiu tare. She taught my intlmt
lips to pray, and never, even when I was lust
in the baircn wildsof unbelief, could 1 entirely
iiilence that 'small, still voice' of memory, which
recalled to me the days of yore, when she used
to make tne kneel besido her and repent 'Our
Father who art in heaven.' My mother, God
bless her ! she towed the seeds which the tares
of the enemy never entirely destroyed."
.11 r. Roi row.
In a if colli number of t lie Revue des Deux
Mondes, we find the following nccotmt of the
life of Mr. Borrow, the author of the Bih'e in
Spain, and the Zinenli. lioston .Jv.
'Mr. Borrow,' says the writer, M. Philarctc
Chnsles, 'was originally, I believe, a horse
jocliey or something f that kind ; since then, a
puritunical devotion having siezed him, he has
travelled over the world to spread gospel light
among the Greeks, Papists, Ci' tomans, Barbari
ans, and Ziucali. To gain souls for Culvin, to
conquer horses and infidels, and to wander over
plains, mar.-hes mal forests, are his favorite
pleasures. A Don Quixote of the lOih centu
ry, and an English Don Quixote, he traveled
as a colporteur among the Alpujarras, at Cintra,
Centra, Meric'a, np.in the hanks of the Gundal.
quiver, nnd the Dc urn, with a cargo of Bibles ;
some iu Arabic, other" in the Bohemian tongue,
not that of Bohemia, but tint ot Hindustan
(Zinrali.) Can you think tf any oddity more
strange than this !
'With a vigorous nature, a well tempered
soul, an uncommon coutapo, and a burning cu
riosity mingled with a lively tuste for udven
turesand even for dangers, a polyglot mind with
the gift of tongues, Mr. Borrow understands
Persian, Arabic! German, Dn'ch, Russian. Po
lish, Spanish, Portngo-e, Swedish, Irish, Nor
wegian, and the old Scandinavian, not to men
tion Gaelic, Kymri, or Welsh, Sanscrit, and
Zmcali, the language of the European gypsies
He is an athletic rr.in thirty-five or six years
old, with a bright black eye, his brow slready
covered with a forest of premature white hair,
and an olive complexion, as if he belonged ori
ginally to that Indian race of whom ho isehron
cler snd friend.
'He was born at Norfolk, and found himsplf"
no one knows how, an I he does not tell, in the
midst of gypsies, blacksmiths, fortune tellers,
rope-dancer?, horse j.ikcys, old-clothes mer.
chants and beggarj from Egypt, who inhabited
this city and its environs. From these honora
ble instructors, lie received at an early age his
first knowledge ef gibberish, the rudiments of
the Zmcali lanouaje, and the hereditury re
ceipts relative to the rearing and supjiurt of
horses. As he grew up, he went to Edinburg,
went through the university course, studied
diligently Hebrew, Greek and Latin, and made
frequent excursions into tho highlands to loam
Gaelic thorough'. What became of him after
wards! Noone knows. His fiiciuls say he
sow ed his wild oats, or as the French say, il
jvtiiit aa giiunnr. Sumc pretend that the lurf
and the occupations, . a jockey never had a
more r.ealotis servant. He bought nnd sold
horses, bet, won, lost, n-.o probably ran at New
castle or Derby. portion of hii life lie in
the sha.de -f nn n'teruard-i re-appeared, and we
'""d ',,im suddenly converted and engaged in
(lie service, of tho Bible Society, a company or
gani.ed for tho iiropngation of the Bible. He
travels ovc too world, and leaves cm his route
Bibles bv thousands. When he had seen Asia
and Africa, it uppeurs to him that Spain s.nd
Portugal, those two old ramparts of Catholicism,
are countries new and curious to isit ; he
p junees upon them, Calvauistio Bible in hand,
is imprisoned, beaten, pursued; he persists,
lives in the woc.ls with banditii, in Caverns
w ith gypsies, in garrets with picaros, braves the
Alcaldes, shows his contempt for curatep, mocks
at ministers, leagues himself Willi the Jews,
OOUIS 1119 11UI1U lO llil .lltll'?, ItlOlir-l I'tritl ll
to death nor hung, which is a miracle, ond
a!er haing lived through the most curious n'
iiijnie of advcntuies whith could be iuuigined,
Ihi.f Don (i'ii.ote wilhotit a sjiiiir, this propa
..I I.!.. I II., t t... ..n.ll.n i ..
gandist vviout Idiiaticisii), comes hick to I,
Jill-
don all while, wrinkled, old and brouz'-d,''
Statistic-SOS I.icuir M'.rtnr.s. One of
the witnesses before the Children's Employ
ment Cominission, :,n Englatld, stated that hn is
a mVftir of Vne boxes for containing lucifer
nihtehes and for the American pine wool, of
which he makes thrm, he is in the habiluf pay
ing the large sum of 1,100 a year. The week
ly roniitmntimi of Inciter matehe amounts to
0?,20n.000 or 5.035.0(,0(V yearly.
O Ci mim A pa.r of twins, eighty. three
vears of ag , residing in Charlesiown, visited
thetojiot B inher Hill Monument on Saturday.
The Tc-ner.ihle hi.lies claimed to be the revolu
tionary soldier", and consequently ateeuded in
the sU''f car prstiii Votttm Pott.
and immediate parent of dospotism. JrrriiRso.
Vol. 4 iu. a Whole Xo, 138.
l..l1...IL, llll,l
Cinnbrrrles.
We copy the follow ing remarks on the culti
vation of the eraiibcriy from the Dover (N. H.)
Gazette. No doubt they might be cultivated
to profit in many places in this Statu :
The species of cranberry most commonly
found in the United States, has been described
as nn indigenious low trailing vine, growing
wild in bogs and meadows, and bearing a beau
tiful red berry ol an exceedingly sour though a
greeable taste, w hich is much used in domestic
economy for tarts and sweetmeats. Mr. Ken-
drick, of Boston, says the cranberry is a plant
of easy culture, and not a doubt exists that
meadows which are now barren wastes or yield
nothing but eoar.se herbage, might he converted
into profitable cranberry fields, with but very
lutle exp' iise Ace.-.r.ung to Loudon, an Eng
lish writer Sr Jn- ph :'i'is, introduced tho
cranberry into that country 'to n America, and
ii H31, raised Winchesier bushels on a
square 19 leet each way ; w hich i rather more
than equal to 400 bushels to the acre. Any
meadow, it is said, will answer to their growth.
They grow well on sandy bogs after draining.
If tho bogs are covered with bushes they should
be removed ; but it is not necessary to remove
bushes as the strong roots of the cranberry soon
overpower them. It would be well, however,
if the land could be ploughed previous to plant
ing with cranberries, dipt. Henry Hull, of
Barnstable, who has cultivated the cranberry
mere than CO years, usually spread beach sand
en his bogs and digs holes four feet distant each
way, the same as for corn, though somewhat
deeper. In the holes he plants sods of cranber
ry roots, and in the space of three years the
whole ground is covered with the vines. The
planting is usually performed in Autumn, when
the bogs are drier snd can be better dug or
ploughed than at any other seasons of the year.
A Mr. Haydcn, of Lincoln, Mass., is said to
raise 400 bushels of cranberries yearly, which
bring him $100, in the Boston Market some
times more. An acre of cranberries in full
bearing, will often produce 200 bu-hels ; al
though a moist soil is best suited to the plant,
yet w ith suitable mixtures of bog earth or mud,
it will flourish, producing abundant crops, even
in a comparatively dry soil."
PRoriiseoR Liebio, The popular writer upon
Agricultural Chemistry, when in Yorkshire,
attending agricultural meetings, is said to have
displayed every disposition to communicate in
formation to all who asked. He is quite a
young man, 32, and has done more than any o-
ther person now living, to "make two blades of
crass grow where only one grew before." Sir
Humphrey Davy, before Liebig was born, lec
tired nn Agricultural Chemistry. ButtheGer
man had been reduce I to a practical system,
what was not much more than a theory with
Davy. At Edinburg and Aberdeen, there are
now established university professorships of
agriculture, as w ell as at Oxford and Cambridge
This shows how completely the public are a
ware ot the importance of cultivating agricul-
ure asa science. Barclay has made a fortune
by attending to tho changes ot crops and breed
ing of stock. Let ethers take tho hint and do
likewise. Vat meet Cabinet.
Mam facti're of Steel Pens. In the first
place, fljt sections of steel are cut out, of the
shape required, by a stamping press ; they are
then placed under snother press-, w hich pierces
the holes and cuts tho slits : and they are then
struck into their convex shape by a third press
They hive then to be polished and tempered
which is managed in a peculiar aparatus, called
emphatically, "The Devil," consisting of a fly
wheel nnd e box. in which the pens are placed
I and t.- v'rch a motion is given resembling that
I exirh ' I in shaking materials together in a
l ag. This motion is continued for eight hours,
when the pens are found to he completely de
prived, by their friction against each other, of
anv asperities which might hvo existed on
their edge, nd which, Ihocgb invisible to the
linked eye, would havo obstructed the free pas
stge of tlie r en. Aferthis process, they are
tempered iu a box, shaken and brought to a blue
color, being cnre'ndly watched, and the heat les
sened whenever a shade of fellow is observed
on their surface.
Tli split is then completed by touching the
sides with a pir of pincers. Some idea may
ln given of tho greater rapidity With which
steel pens r.re made than the quill, when we
Mite, that of the latter an expert pen-cutter can
only make six huiuhed a day ; w hilst with the
recent steel pen machines, as many may be
ms.de in a single hour with the greatest rase.
The steel of which these pens are made is fie
Cjtiently alloyed with some other metal, in order
to improve the elni tioity, and in some rases to
prevent rust, but tho 6tecl alone employed in
this country for making pens, amounts to one
hundred and twenty five tons annually, which
is equivalent to about three hundred millions
of pens! a numbrr emp'oying such an immense
amount of labour and ingenuity, as to be
scarceiy credible, did not the Parliamentary
returns attest the fiact. Aditrton'i Treatise
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ingly.
C-ifxtesn lines make a square.
Working tow. k Livin. Wo find the fol
lowing excellent article in the "Offering," edi
trd by the fuctory girls in Lowell :
"From whenco originated the idea that it
was dercgr.tory to a lady's dignity, or a blot up
on female character, to labor, and who was ther
first to say, cneering'y, 'Oh ! she works for a
living'.' Surely Ruch ideas end expressions
ought not to grow on republican soil. The
time has been when ladies of the first rank
wero accustomed to busy themselves in domes
tic employment. Homer tells us of princesses
who used to draw water from the springs, and
wash with their own hands the finest of the li
nen of their respective families. The famous
Lircretia used to spin in the tnidet of her at
tendants: and tho wifo of Ulysses, after the
siege of Troy, employed herself in weaving un
til her husband returned from Ilhica."
A Capital Story. A good story is told cf
Judge Tappan, one of the Ohio Senators in
Congress, who is crosj eyed.
"A numoar of years ago, he was judgo of a
newly organized court, in the cas'ern part of
the State. In those dsys of primitive simplici
ty, or perhaps poverty, the bar-room of a tavern
was used as a Court-room, and the stable as ft
jail. One day, during Ihe session of the Courh,
the Judgo had occasion to severely reprimand
two of the lawyers, who were wrangling. An
odd looking old customer, who sat in one cor
ner, listening apparently with great satisfac
tion to the reproof, and, presuming on old ac
quaintance and the judge's well known good
humor, cried out, -Give it to 'em old gimlet
eyes!' 'Who was thatl' inquired tho Judge-.
It was this 'ere old boss," answered the chap
raising himself up. 'Sheriff,' obscri-od tha
Judge, with great gravity, 'take Histoid Loss
and put him in the stable.'
Gibbon. The celebrated Gibbon, notwith
standing his shortness and rotundity, was very
gallant. One day, being tete-a-tete with Mad
ame de Cronzas, Gibbon wished lose 19 the fa
vorable nument, nnd suddenly dropped on hie
knees, he declared hia love in tho most passion
ate terms. Madame de Cronzas replied in ft
tone likely to prevent a repetition of euch a
scene. Gibbon wus thunderstrnck. but still re
mained on his knees, though frequently desi
red to get up and resume his seat. "Sir," said
Madamede Cronzas, "will you have the good
ness to rise!" "Alas, madame !" replied th
onhaypy lover, 't cannot !" his size preven
ted him from rising without assistance. Upon
this, Madame de Conzns rawg the boll, say ing t
the servant, "lift up Mr. Gibbon."
A Sexte.nct. In Flanders, a tiler fell fi?t
the top of a house upon a Spaniard, and kill- 1
him, without injuring himself. Upon the i"
6ue of a trial commenced by the next blood r
the deceased, the judge decided that "the com
plainant should go to the top of the same hon:
and fall on the tiler."
Wit. Councellor Lamb, when the present
Ixsrd Erskine was in the height of his reputa
tion, wus a man of timid manners and netvem
disposition, and usually prefaced his pleading i
w ith an apology to that effect, and on one ccc i
sion when opposed in some cause to Erskinc,
he happened to remark that, "he felt himself
growing more and more timid as he grew c1
der." "N'o wonder," replied the witty but e.
Ientle6s barrister, "every one knows the older
a Lamb grows the more sheepish he becorrcs.''
Mtt. Price. Mrs. Price before her e'ccoii'I
marriage with rii AUI 'rnnn of that name, wai
a widow, of large fortune, by th Mine of Rug.
on beiiig asked a few i'uyB a"-er her seeon I
marriage, how she liked ' O, very w'ell in
deed," said 6he, "for I have schl my old Rug $
for a good Price.
The fellow v.lu speiiej col!'- KaUghphy
beats the whole of them, tor .ie spelled it with
out using a single letter of the word. Times,
But the ferryman who spells Litily Canon
can take t.e cake k N V. Xashville ban.'
ncr.
That is about equal to tho way the Vermont
Justice spelled Jacob Gekcp. AVinrrfc Cat.
No plaster can be made strong enough tu
draw genuine tears from a hypocrit's eyes mo
ney from a miser generosity from Belfishnesj
truth from a slanderer honesty from e thief
or a prize in the lottery.
It iscxld, but only think of making ''real fun1'
out of a "funeral" by simply transforming tha
letter of tho word.
A rugged countenance often conceals tlid
warmest heart as the rich pearl sleeps in the
roughest shell.
To require a few tongues ia a task of a fe vv
rears, but to be eloquent in one is the labor of
a life.
A necessitioua man, who gives costiy din
ners, pays large sums to be laughed at.