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TERMS OF TUB) "AMK1UCAK."
IT. B. MA8SER, ? Pvsusataa akd
JOSEPH EI8EI.Y. S Po""toi.
It. It. JIJISSEH, editor.
From the Southern Literary Mes senger.
LOVE A ST 1 c a n K .
Love sat in his bower one summer day
And Cure, with his train, tame to drive him a way
'I will not depart,' said Love !
And, seizing his Into, with silvery words,
lie ran his bright finders along the chords,
And played so sweet, so entrancing an air,
That a grim smile lit up the face of Cure.
'Away away V said Love !
'Nay nay ! I have friends !' grim Care replied ;
'Behold, here is one and his name is Pride T'
'I care not for Pride,' said Love !
Then touching the strings of hislight guitar,
Tilde soon forgot his lofty air;
Anil seizing the hand ol a rustic queen,
Laugh'd, gutnboU'd and tripp'd it o'er the green,
Aha. aha !' said Love!
'Away with your jeers!' cried Care, 'if you please;
Here's another lank, haggurd, and pale Disease!'
'I care not for him,' said Love !
Then touched a strain so plaintive and weak,
That a flush pass'd over his pallid cheek ;
And Disease leap'd up from his couch of twin,
Andsmil'd, and re-echoed the healing strain
'Well done for Disease !' said Love !
Tshaw ! pshaw!' cried Care 'this squalid one
see !
How lik'st thou the gaunt look of Poverty V
1 care not lor him,' said Love!
Then struck such a sound from his viol's string,
That Poverty shouted aloud, 'I am Kino!
The jewfll'd wreaths round my temples shall
twine,
For the sparkling gems of Golconda are mine !'
'Ay, ay ! very true !' said Love ;
""Nay, boast not,' said Care ""there is fretful Old
Age,
Beware of his crutches, and tempt not his rage!'
'I care not lor AgeV said Love!
riien swept the strines of his magic lyre.
Till the glaz'd eye sparkled with youthful fire ;
And Age droppd his cratches, and, light as a fay,
I.tfugri'd.wper'd, and danc'd,likeachildat play !
'"Bravo.'Srr F.ld!' said Love!
"A truce,' fried wrinkled Care, 'with thy glee!
Now look on this last one 'tis Jfalocsy !
'Ah me"! all me!' said Love !
IIer green eye "burns with a quenchless fire
1 die1! 1 die '." Then droppinghis lyre,
Love flew far away from Vis cherish'd boweT,
And never leturncd from that fatal hour 1
'Alas, for thee, blighted Love !
t my IToot.
"Stanzas to my Lute,'' in one of the Annuals.
Boot ! thou art silent now'!
Thy nails which ou the pavement rang
In thy ynsng days with echoing clang,
No longer nia"kt- a row ;
Thy beauties sunk into decay,
The nails and heels have worn away,
fioot ' thon art silent now '
Boot ! thou hast lost thy sole!
Thy trusty wells no longer meet ;
1 feel the wet against my feet
Sad witness of a hole ;
No more thou'lt press the rushes plat,
Or sweep the cords which form the mat,
. Boot! thou hast lost thy sole.
ThS Great VrTKii.i Iron Works, the
Pittsburg American says, including about tAKIO
ncret, of land, was sold on Monday last, at Kit
tanning, by the Slieritl' of Armstrong county, for
$171,000, which covered a mortgage of i&l'Jft,
000, the judgment creditors and mine other
claims in the Viands of attorney a. The purcha
ser was Mr. Pray, of Boston. An application
has already been made in tho District Court of
the U. S to have the sabs set aside, probably
upon the ground of insufficient notice to the
tockholder of the intended sale, and possibly
otlier causes.
Millerism, The last nuinber of the 'M id
night Cry" thus coolly notices the failure of
their last prediction.
Our ftofiiiuu at to Time. We have no new
light on the prophetic period. Our lime ends
with this Jewieh year. If time be continued
beyond that, we have no other definite period
to fix upon , but, henceforward, shall look for
the event every hour till the Lord shall come.
Others can give their views on the termination,
of the periods, on their own responsibility. If
it be necessary, We shall give ours in full on
the point. Let us all be ready "having our
loins girt about, and our light burning that when
the Master cometh we may open to him imme
diately." . J. V. Dimes.
New York, March, 1844.
Looking into a beautiful woman's eyes by
moonlight, is taking a lunar observation, and
by sunlight, a ou(-ar observation.
The ants are so large in the State of Mai-
that they climb trees snd bark.
RXTRACTKD FOR THK AMRRICAX,
ELOCUTION,
No branch of education can be more success
fully and advantageously applied to the great
and practical purposes of life, than Elocution.
It is in the most frequent use of any other fac
ulty with which our nature is endowed. When
ever we exerche the organs of speech, whether
in conversation, reading, or public speaking,
we employ some of our powers of elocution.
Throughout all the diversities of rank and sex,
including kings and beggars, all individuals be
gin to practice it, the second, if not the first
year of their existence. It is but another word
for the faculty of Fpeech, a faculty which ele
vates man above the brute creation, and which
should not be permitted to
"rust out unused,"
and unimproved. That the reading or speaking
voice, as well as the singing voice, is suscepti
ble ofalmost on unlimited degree of cultivation,
is a truth, with a conviction of which, men have
been deeply impressed, in nil ages ofthe world.
Especially is this true of the citizens of Greece
and Rome. They paid great attention to the
art of eloquence, as it was called in ancient
times ; now, (locution ; which is "the rose by
another name;" and we learn from history, thit
their labors were rewarded with beneficial re
sults. Passing over in silence, other great and im
mortal names, let us direct our attention for a
moment, to Demosthenes, Cicero, and Pericles.
Nature did not very liberally provide Domos
tlienrs with power of speech. lie, however,
possessed genius in an eminent degree. And
yet, without industry, his name would have
"mouldered in oblivion." Ry undying perse
vernnce in the pursuit of oratory, and by unre
mitting attention to the principles upon which
grod speaking is founded ; he acquired an elo
quence which "nstonished all Greece." We
may say of him without any poetical license,
he spoke,
'Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar stood
ruled."
Cicero, by close application, reading, and de
claiming, rendered his voice so melodious, pow
erful, and thrilling, that it hushed the Roman
Senate into silence, and made "great Cmsor"
himself tremble on his seat, Pericles so suc
cessfully cultixated the noble ait of elocution,
that with him, manner was almost matter. An
incident is related in history, which may serve
to give us an idea of the power ol his eloquence.
Thucidiiles, although an enemy to Pericles,
when asked which was the best wrestler an
swered: "Whenever I have given him a fall,
he affirms the contrary, in such strong and for
cible terms, that he pursuadesall the specta
tors that I did not throw him, though they them
selves saw him on the ground." Those three
renowned oTators adopted in early life, the ex
celled motto, that "nothing is given to mortals
without indefatigable labor." Discarding tho
absurd notion, that the Gods tnndo orators, or
that they were born so, they acted upon the
true principle, that however much or little na
ture had done for them, they would rely exclu
sively and entirely upon their own exertions.
The docility of Dc.uosthenes, Cicero, and Peri
cles, through life, and the care and success with
which they cultivated the science of speaking
well, afford examples worthy of universal imi
tation, from the President of the United States,
members of congress, and of State legislatures,
lawyers, clergymen, conductors of literary in
stitutions, and other gentlemen of public con
sideration, down to the humblest citizen of our
republic. Those peerless orators immortalized
their names by "patient labor, anu patient labor
only." If they excelled Americans, or any o
thcr men that the world ever produced, it is be
cause they devoted time, money, and labor to
tho improvement of their manner of speaking.
Who does not know that inattention to a sub
ject, is tantamount fo ignorance of it ! Know
ledge is not intuitive. The infant grasps alike
the near flame, which would burn him, and the
bright orb of day, which he cannot reach. It is
a truism, but, nevertheless, one u Inch is too
often practicilly disregarded, that we know lit
tle or nothing, except what we learn. Why,
then, talk so much of "nature's orutors!" Ci
cero says, that the "poet is boin, but the orator
is made." Nature, doubtless, makes a great
difference in the capacities with which she en
dows her children ( but art makes a still great
er difference. In an excellent letter addressed
to a young manengnged in the study of law, the
late Hon. William Wirt, truly observes, that "it
is a fiat of fate, from which no genius can ab
solve youth, that there is no excellence without
great labor."
Vocal music is more gratifying than instru
mental, because the human voice, whether its
notes are heard in song or speech, is the noblest
and sweetest Instrument of music in existence,
tt, however, differs from a musical instrument
in thit respect, among others I it is capable of
producing an infinite variety of sounds. By the
tones of the voice. acd, no, 0nly
sll the operations of the mind, but every emo
tion implsnted by the hand nature, in the heart
of man; The best readers and speakers aro not
governed by particular rules. They rend and
speak "right on." They do not stop to give n
rising inflection of voice, here ; a fuilling, there;
and a circumflex, elsewhere. Dr. Goldsmith
ways, thnt "to feel our subject thoroughly, and
to speak without fear are the only rules of elo
quence." It is certain, that in order to be elo
quent, we must surrender ourselves to the spi
rit which stirs within us, and the "mouth" must
speak ''from tlie abundance of the heart." Being
perfectly satisfied with nature's system of elo
cution, the nuthnr has not presumed to lay down
a series of artificial rules in tho shape, cither
of marks of inflection or rhetorical notation, in
the vain hope of attempting to make a better.
Those extraordinary endowments of intellect,
of imagination, and of sensibility, which arede
rived from nature, and without which, pre-eminence
in oratory is unattaiainablo, are possessed
by few men in any age or country. Rut all
may learn to read and speak correctly snd im
pressively, by becoming familiar with the cle
mency sonnds of onr langnige, and the other
important principles of elocution, and by en
gaging in practical elocutionary exercises.
It is gratifying to know, that elocution is be
ginning to secure a portion of attention, corres
ponding, in some degree, with its importance.
But still it is too much neglected, not only by
community generally, but even by public speak
ers and teachers of youth. There are, as yet,
few or no distinct professorships of elocution in
our literary institutions. The bishop of Cloyne
says, "thnt probably half the learning of these
kingdoms is lost, for want of having a proper
delivery taught in the schools and colleges." Is
not half the learning of these United States,
"lost tor want of having" elocution properly and
thoroughly taught in our "schools and colleges!"
Does not religion suffer in the hands of those
who, owing to their ignorance of elocution, and
their want of those fei lings of love to God and
love to man with which the gospel inspires all
who believe and practice its precepts, present
that solemn and surpassingly important subject
to the world, in a cold, lifeless, and bungling
manner! It is, as Dr. Blair observes, "a poor
compliment, that one is an accurate reasoner, if
he be not a persuasive speaker." Why may
not the peopleof the United States, become as
much distinguisheJ for their eloquence, as for
their free and glorious institutions! Is not
eloquence as valuable now as it was in ancient
times! Is not freedom's soil adapted to its
growth ! Ami would it not hi "glorious to ex
eel" other nations, as well as other individuals,
"in that article in which men excel the brute!"
The Supreme Being has kindly allotted o
us our portion of human existence, inn country,
the Constitutions and laws of which recognize
in every citizen, the right to Torm, to cherish
! Bm' ,0 express his opinions on all subjects in-
leresttng to oor common welfare, a country
where the opinion of a majority prevails, end
where eloquence criales public opinion. Here
as in the free States of antiquity, "every man's
opinion should be written on his forehead."
Here, too, the noble science and art of elocu
tion should receive, at least attention enough to
elevate tho standard of public speaking, partic
ularly among our representatives snd senators
in congress. Then, when foreigners viit the
city of Washington, as they often d.i, they
Would witness something more than "The flag
ofthe Union flouting over the Capitol," they
would hear within its walls, specimens of elo
quence the power and grandeur of which, they
could not otherwise than admire. They now
animadvert very severely upon the maiiuer in
which our congressional orators are accustomed
to speak. Alter crossing the Atlantic, they vi
sit the seat of Government, in the expectation
of hearing some ofthe imt eloquent speakers
in the United States. In that respect, they
are not disippoiuled. And not only so, but they
hear in the Senate, if not in the House of Re
presentatives, orators, compared with whom,
the best speakers in England or any other
country, are not superior, il equal. The ca
villers undervalue the merits of American spea
kers. In their books, they criticise too severe
ly those who have seats incongtess, as well as
other citizens of the United States. But if we
would entirely escape censure, let us endeavor
to avoid deserving any iiortiou of it. Lt A-
aierican speakers unite elegance of language,
with force of reasoning, so perfectly, that even
the inhabitants of other countries will be con
strained to say, with regard to them, as Milton
did in another case :
"That their words drew audience and attention,
Still as night and summer hoon-lide air."
American young men are, then, called upon
by considerations of national honor, to become
good speakers, tit order to accomplikh so de
sirable an object, that honorable enthusiain for
the ftrt of eloquence, by which the great men
ofantiqii'' were characterised, should pervade
.ueir minds. "The totch of genius," bo it re
membered, "is lighted at the altar of enthusi
asm." In view of the whole subject, it js proper to
remark, in conclusion, thnt whatever may be
the perfection in Which an individual possesses
the faculty of speech from nature, il is suscepti
ble of acquiring much additional power, smooth
ness, and flexibility, by cultivation and practice,
lxird Bacon took "all knowledge to be his pro
vince." Mrs. Stgournry advises us to "take
all goodness for otir province." Let ti take
both. To be wise and good, is the highest ob
ject to which our hope can aspire. Those in
whom wisdom and goodness are combined in
the greatest decree, will pnrt;cipite the most
largely in all social plensiros tf this life, and (
in the unspeakible joys of that which com
mences, never to end, beyond the darkness and
silence ofthe tomb. It is the will of llim whn
built the heavens and the eaith, that man should
he the insttuctor of his fellow man. We are
commanded by llim who "spake as never tnnn
spake," to do all that in our day and generation
may be done, "to teach all nations" and thus
to swell the triumphs of knowledge.
Kit-Rant Kttrartt
The following is an extract from an oration
delivered by Dr. George W. Bethcne, before
the Literary societies of Dickinson's College.
The orator opens with the following fine pas
sage': "There is a story told somewhere, of one who
came Kick nfler a long absence, to the scenes
of his youth. He had gone forth in early ad
venture to distant lands, and the hope of return
had cheered his rnnny years of foreign toil, un
til the noon of life found him drawing near
once more to the only spot thnt he could call
his home. His heart beat more and more
quickly as the mountains around the village a
rose in a distance ; then us he saw the sr ire of
the village church, or the well remembered
trees grown old hut still green ; and then as he
entered the cheerful street, many a dwelling
was familiar t 'lcmrjli touched by time; but a
mong the groups about their threshhotds, ami
those who met him on the walk, 'there was not
a face that he knew or thnt knew him. lie
passed on through the abodes of the living to
the resting place of the dead; and there he
found graven on stones, many names thnt were
written on his soul. All whom he had hoped
to meet again were buried, or had forgotten
him. tie wbs alone, a stranger in his early
home. He paused 'toWk atcur.d him. There
ftood the venerable edifice within which his
young mind had been trained to learning.
There was the green where he had leaped and
shouted with his fellows. There flowed the
little stream from the shaded spring which hud
so often sla ken his summer thirst. lie follow-
Oil it to Hie path deep bfaten in the sod. He
stopped and took one long cool draught his
tears fell on the water's fire he raised his lint
J from his head and breuthed a prayer, and de
parted to return no more.
"With some such emotions does your orator
address you now. A score of years has passed
since he left, for the urgencies of mature lif
these academic shades dear from a thousand
memories of happy youth. They were then
populous with his friends, and their classic cx
ercitations were directed by the kind and pa
ternal solicitude of teachers to whose skill and
fidelity gratitude can never make sufficient pay
ment. He has troddi n the collego halls again
to-day, and has seen w thin them many happy
faces in the bloom of youth, hut those whom he
once loved to greet with frank rejrard, are gone.
Some are in the grave ; the rest widely scat
tered through a cold world, never to know a-
gnin the buoyant happiness and careless wealth
of alloc ion that here blessed them and Iiiui.
But thanks be to God ! the fountain of truth at
which they drank, siill pours forth its living wa
ters ; the path to it still beaten by youthful few.
and 1 have corn.-to take one draught of it willi
you ; to send up a prayer tothe Father of lights,
who causes it to flow and to go my Way."
Medical r.very new invention or improve
ment in the science of medicine merits o p.isiu.i
pan.grapli. Dr. Junod, of Paris, has invented
a f.ev method, which he ter,s Hemonptisir,
for the treatment of a Dumber of diseases. This
method consist', in ihq employment of a pneu
mutic apparatus of a peculiar cons'iructtun, in
which l!.e armor leg is so placed astotittrnct
tie., blood to the extremities, without diminish
ing the mass of this liquid.
ParIs. Louis Phillipe isiheohl'y monarch
who has discovered that Paris is France. The
walls areund the city aro completed, and are
garrisoned by 100,(Vio men. Strange that the
6agaciiy of Napoleon should have been wanting
on this important point. No allied army ban
no'V get possession of the city-, nOr can the peo
ple rise snd overturn the government, while
the soldiers control the cannon from the walls.
More BeIriits ron Job Smith. The
steamer Maid of Iowa passed up yesterday, on
her way to Nauvoo, with about 200 paMengcrs
on board, all Mormons, emigrants from Eng
land, per ship Fanny, arrived at New Orleans
a few days since from England. There are taid
to be 1000 wort! coming. .afcftrj Cvur,
A Orent t)nft
Col. Hooper, ofthe "East Alnbamian," has a
dog named "Ponto," whose sagacity and ex
ploits deserve to be handed down to posterity
in "immortal verse," as much as tho exploits
of Achilles or the intrigues of Paris. During
the late hunt, which he describes at length in
the "New York Spirit," they were encamped
on the Oalrehumhatches Creek, where Pontons
sagacity and his new plan of catching wild
ducks were both shown. "About night fall,"
Hooper says, "immense flocks of ducks descend
cd into the little stagnant pools around os, and
excited greatly the admiration end astonish
ment of Ponto, who hns a mortal antipathy for
ducks, growingout of the ill-treatment he gen.
era 11 v receives at home from several individu
nls of that species, who help themselves out of
his dish when at his meals. Here wbb a chance
fur revenge, which the sagacious animal did not
let slip. About midnight he awakened us, and
jjivinir us to understand that he had something
on hand, he siler.tly crept into the nearest la
goon, and with stealthy tread, came upon a fine
flock as they rode at anchor near the shore, like
a fleet of little boats. lie gently touches the
tail of one with his fore paw the dock takes
its head from under its wing in an instant
Ponto seizes the head in his mouth, crushes it
berore the note of alarm could be sounded
Thus he despatches one by one, the whole
flock! In the morning he piled up before us
twenty-seven fat ducks. We instantly voted
him a silver collar."
A Singvi.arTasTE. An English gentleman
of education, and bo far as we know,ofrrTe
pronchable character, left England some eigh
tren months since, with the intention of spend
ing some years in a solitary cell in one of our
prisons, lie applied at the Eastern Peniten
tiary, but was denied admission, lie insisted
upon a place in the cells, and while he avcred
that he abhored the idea of committing a 'crime,
stated that he wotild do so to ensure the ac
coinplishment of his wishes. He was of course
arrested upon this threat, and required by the
Mayor to eive bail. In default cf bail he was
committed to the Moyamensing prison where
- . . . ah .
he has remained for thirteen months. lhe pri
son doors are, and have long been open to him,
but he refuses to leave his cell : and, as his
daily labor supports him he is permitted to re
main. He is in full possession of his faculties ;
is cheerful and performs all the labor of an or
dinary convict. But though engaged ten hours
tech day at the loom, he pursues his mathema
t ieal and other studies with great perseverance
and energy. He converses with great intelli
gence and is obviously, from education and as
sociation, a gentleman. This is a singular in
stance of voluntary and self-inflicted penance,
if such it be: and the satisfaction, which it
seems to confer upon its subject, proves that
tho discipline of that excellent institution is
tar from cruel.
Am Infernal MArntsE MvsTERiors Af
i-aik. The Richmond (Va.) Star of Friday
says, an extraordinary affair occurred in that
city the day previous. A box, about two feet
long and a foot and a half wide, was left at Mr.
S. S. Dcnoon'u shop, by a drayman, marked
"M. A. Lipscomb, care of S. S. Denoon" and
brought from the schr. David Rogers, trim New
York. Mr. Denoon not being able to find any
such person as it was directed to, opened the
box. Luckily he did so at the bottom. Had
he opened it et the top, his life would probably
have paid the forfeit. Upon opening the box,
he found a brace nf horseman's pistols, one of
which was loaded heavily witj, buckshot, and
cocked, and so placed that any person opening
the box at the top would have been likely to
receive the charge. The triggers of the two
were both tsecured to a string, and the pisto's
were Covered over by cases, Bo that a person ta-ki-.j
hold of them would have caused the wea-
p in to discharge. For whom this infernal con
trivance was intended is not known.
ArciDKNT-. As Mr. Bear, the political ora for,
and J. J.Taylor wero returning from Gochland,
Vs., on Monday, in a buggy, the horse took
fright, ran oft into the woods, and taking tho Ve
hicle between two trees, brought the whole con
cern up "all standing," laying the blacksmith
on his back, and Mr. Taylor, about twenty feet
from him, speechless. Both of them however,
being somewhat ofthe toughest sort, got near
ly whole scain, sud are yet able to do full duty.
Both were considerably bruised.
Immense Gi n. The largest gun ever rrtnde
in England has been landed at the Arsenal, at
Woolwich. It weighs nearly 18 tons. This
gun is made on the Howitzer principle snd is
bout twelve feet long. The dinmeler of the
bore is within about one tenth of sixteen inches.
The weight nf solid shot with which it will be
fired is AM lb., by shells 800 lbs. This gun
was cast and bored for Mehemet Ali, Pacha of
Egypt and two other large guns, 130 pound
ers, were landed at the same time, to be proved
for service in Egypt.
A Philosophical t,olrWHhn1y tH
vtniu
An eveninrr or two since, 84 wil were pas
sing up Broadway, our attention was arrested
by a soliloquising loafer, who stood leaning a
gainst tho railing ofthe Park, and holdingfortlt
to himself in the following rather odd, amualnj
and philosophical manner
"t'veget two whole cents Pd give th"tr
and bnst myself, ifanybodyM tell me where Pin.
going to sleep to night-. Ilere 1 am, With on.
ly two cents, half-past nine, and a severe niphtt
Werrily t am a victim of WiisfirVt'n 1 i &n t
see how tis Pve wesretated so long at I has.
General Jackson says every bodys born fq'iat
except me; t knows I isnHand yet Pm ji-t
as good as any hody what" belter. I don l tun
derstand the philosophy of lmman natur If t
wasother fo'ks, and other folks waa me, l
would'nt let myself stand here fritxing with,
only two cents, and no chance for lodging
Thure goes a couple of dandies -they ain't no
body t wodld'nt be a dandy for two shilling.
Them omnibus chaps ain't nobody neither if
they washey'dlet a feller ride for Uo cents.
Nobody don't take no notice of me, becauj
tnpv knows a man in my sitivation despises all
Such mean critters. Why could'nt 1 had the
good luck to he born ahoss! ift had 1'sposo
I'd heen a clam boss, and fed on shavings. If
t was an oystcT, Owould he my misforOn to be
a first-rate plump fat feller the first one to he
peppeted, Batted, anil swaller d. My eyesi
these is scrotinacious times only two cent!
and a '.mey loolt for lodging !"
e gave the unfortunate philoeophryfa six
pence for which he toolt off his hat awl thank
ed is Very politely; but sang out as we left
him "Look ere I say, old hoss, CouWnf ym
maXe )u's a shifting
Lovk Letter ExTRonniNXRY. Yhe foV
lowing very tonching cpistfe, was found in
Woodside, Carefully folded in a piece of dirty
colored blue paper, Ifke fhatnsed hy grocers. Aa
epistle so Cloyingly sweet, 'Can only have eman
ated from the pen of one of the fraternity.
'MrDerrest , I w as Very much struck with
your unearthly beauty the other Sunday in th
place of worship. 7Ime are you a Angiel
from the Realms of Bliss come here to lay waste
soft harts, like mine, so susceptible to LoVe-w
Those bine eyes oT yours, which expresses lovA
so strong, and a'so those sweet lips and 'Cheek
Were made for kissing. You know your charm
would melt a Sampson, and oh if you resist
emp'oyings.T shall devolve away and be nomotev
Excuse this dearest , Love to your sisttv
English Papct.
Wise Savings. When yo?t rise to in!t s
speech, look at any thing hu the auuienees tin
til your steam is up, when you may look wh.-r
you please ; and '"look unuttevablu things."
When yen "pop the q-jestion'' to a lady, Aj
it with a kind of laugh, as IT you were jofc'ti.
1 1 she excepts you, very "well ; if she does not,
you can say "you were only in fun."
Whenever a female friend hearts to back
bite an acquaintance, run your hind behind your
coat collar, and scratch with vehemence.
Guess she will take the hint.
When you wncld hortow a sum of money,
never ask an old friend. Not one in a hundred
"can stand it."
Speak deliberately ; and in a hard case put
your fir.ger on the side of yocr nose, and wink
hut fay nothing.
To Corf, tne Tooth ach. We havo never
tried either of the following recipes, hut Ve
cotempnrary from whom we extract them tMiks
thnt either would prove infallible. For a ra
gitig tcothach, throw a somerset thronti a win
dow and light on a pitchtbrk. Ifthll don't dn,
get somebody "to pound yob on t?ie head till it
drops out,
A boy once complained of his bed fellow for
taking half the led "And why hot," said his
mother, "he's entitled to half, aint he 1" "Vcs
mother," said the boy, "but how should jou like
to have him lake all the 6oft for his hall ! H
will have his half right o' the middle, ar,d 1
have to sleep both sides of him."
A Lady Every female Is a lady now a r!y
applied to the Ahne House yesterday for S
load of wood.
"We can only gUe you half a load," said the
commissioner.
"Haifa load," exclaimed the lady in a l uff,
"it would not took resectable lo have halt'
load of wood dumped down before a house I'
With that, Lticrctia Mac Tab, pride Snd po
verly, bounded off.
Got no om Tic. At New Brunswick, on
lhe Dili insl., 0j American clocks were seize .
for parsing the Custom House without payug
duty.
A Tsavei.ling Mesmerize having said h
wa ready to answer any question that mifcht t
asked him, a Kentuckian desired to know "liow
much it cost per week, to 'paster' Nebuchadnn.
ur during the time he was out on (rats."