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Simbiiry, Xorlliumbcrlana Co. ra. Saturday, May 1, is 1 1.
oU lXo. 32 Whole Xo, iss.
From the Phil. Daily Sun.
All Old Reminisce nse. Mwlllemill.
Tor sale at Auction go'ing. gone'!!!
On this day mouth at halt past one.
A splendid '-Lot of Multieaulis''
Early in the rnmini; Full, is
Expected to arrive by Steam
("Great Western."' or the "llritish Queen,")
Also five thousand munds of "Ejiss,"
Put up" in white Mulberry kegs;
Tire assortment will he complete.,
From fifteen inches, to eight feet :
Selected by a connoisseur
AVlio for a trifle will '-insure"'
Soon utter landin;, they'll be sold
For the best otters made "in cold ;"'
Cannot negotiate for "paper."
Fnless secured by "Iiond an! Mortgage"
fftiriding as firm as Unssian cordage :
Or "St-'rlinj; Hills'' at 'Current rates'"
Drawn by "the Tank T'nitcd Stares-,''
Or firs rate honsrs. which we know;
For inrtaiire, Prime. Ward Kiiia Sc Co.
In this selection will be found
Some specimens the most rcnnw"3:.
TitW-'d tram the seed, direct froir, China
Imported in "(lie Ajjripinu"
Ti"rub. "on these here leaves" what feed.
Will spin their cocoons -with vast speed;
There's no mi-take vmi'll find 'ein, Peelers.
'AN ell wort'mhe 4u.ti-,- i. all deuleis
'J'ltK COMMON SCI H))LS. :
aiv .IUS1UU' JVOANE. j
"W-efTilerly tepndiate, as unwortliy, not o1
tfreemon only, but of awn, ttie narrow notion
tthat there is i Ms an eiliicalion for the po;r, as
such. Has God provided lor lUeiunr a coarser
earth, a thinner air e. 'pa"ler sky ! Xt?f it :
the glorious sun pour down las golden flood ,
s-clroerTly upon the jvv.ir man's hoviV., as upon
.the rich man's iV.ac.e .' lls'.e iKt the ctta-!
ger's children as keen tu-mse f all tle ln.'sfi-
nesa, -verdure, fragrance, melody, m.i beauty of j
luxuriant nature h.s the pa!e kms of Kings! :
Or is .it -911 the inindV.iiit ljol has stamped the )
imprint of a baser birth, so that the ;( iiinnV :
:hild knows, with hti in'xiTn certainly, that his :
lot is tocimvL, not to climb ? j
It if not so. Cuvl Iir i.r. 4one it. Man
cannot do it. Mind is immortal. Mind is im
perial. It bears no mark of high or low, o! rich
or poor. It -no bound of time er place, 1
of rank or circumstance. It asks but freedom.
It requires but light. It ishraicu boru,unt! it :
aspires to heaven. Weakness does not enteeWe ,
it. l'overty cannot repress it. OitTicullics do ;
Vut stimulate its rigsw. And the p'tor tallow- i
chandler's son that sets vpallthe night to reiki)
the book .hwb an apprentice lends him lest
tljf maler"s eye should miss it it the morning,
s-ball sland and treat jib k'mgs, shall arkl new .
provinceo to the bmnin of science, shall hind i
the 1ig.tning with a lieinpen cnrrl, and bring it
harmless from the skies. The Common School
"is eninmoii, not as infi-rior, not as the srhixd for '
poor men's chi1drin, but as the light and air aro ,
coiuiuon. It ought to be the best school, be.
cajsc it is the first school; and in all works
the beginning is one hnlf. Who dors iot know j
the vaU; to a community of a plentiful supply !
of the pure clement of water. And infinitely'
wore thai) this is the inrtructioii of the Cum-1
moil School, for it is the fountain at w hirh the
mind drmks, and is retreshed and strengthened i U'e w,sal1 ' "I'-nff-Uwold woman was
fur its career of usefulness and glory." ' talkl" 'l)",)t I'ergar.iin and the fro-t, and I was
; jes: raisin my colTee cup to my mouth when I
Snow ki Si.i:n;niNo. The Portland, Me..) heerd Kesiah scream out 'Oh my Ird ! the
Bulletin f.S nun-day, says: 'During the past baby! the baby!' and whap it come rite down
winter we have had rigilmi snow storms, and stairs unto the floor. Lightuin couldn't knock
something like five feet of snow has fallen on a ed me oft my seat quicker down went the cof
level. And for the space of about four months fee, and over went the table with oil the vit
we have had excellent sleighing. The last ties Mary screamed, and old Miss Stallins
snow, we have hud, fell on the 3tllh of March, . fainted rite away in her cheer I was so blind
yet the streets are now dry and dusty. We ' couldn't hardly see, but I never breathed a
never knew a more steady winter we never j breath til I grabbed it up in my arms and run
knew a mure sudden cbange from winter to round the house two or three times. Yore I had
summer. ! the heart to look at the noor little thini' tu see
Tub Kino or Swum: v. Appropos de ta
touage, it is aflirmed that the King of Sweden's
physicians were greatly astonished the other
day, on bleeding 1 1 Majesty, to find the word
"l.ioerte : r.iraute : ou la Mori " verv leiriblv I
ctaincd on his arm,
J hey could not recover
from their amazement. Charles John has been
so long a King that it is forgotton that he began
by being a mere hero, and he iu so good a King
that one cannot persuade oneself that he was
formerly eo good a Republican. But how
strange a King tattooed with liberty! Our
whole age is exhibited in I hat approachment :
liberty, equality, or death ! Yet it ii with such
mottoes that one reaches a throne in our days.
Madame M. Girarden.
"If you were to have your choice, John, what
death should you rather die!"
"Well, I don't know I should like to try
five or six before deciding."
From the New York Spirit of the Times.
OmuiXAL. LKTTKK FROM TIIK GEOIW
Ki MA.TOK.
How Mtsrs K esi aii, Arnii.-Fooi.Er) tiim !
Pinevii.le, April 5, l!?4!
To Mr. Porter Dear Sir Ever sense
I redd that piece in your pnper, wliar you fed
you would walk a hundred miles, just to shake
Lands with we, I've been monstrous anxious to
pit a qnainted with you. Hut its sich a terri
ble long ways to New York, and Cotton's down
so low, ! don't much think Til ever Imvo tho
pleasure of sccin you in the world. Hut there's
one consolation we literary men's got over
. common people, and Ihnt is, weenn lormnain
lances and friendships by our writens without
i ever seeing one another, ami bein as some of us
' flint no great beauties, perhaps it's as good a
j way as enny. I'm told yowr a monstrous grate
long gander-longed feller, and you may bebo-
ruination ngly for all I know ; but thisonc thing
J I'm certair. of you must be a smart man, ami
a man of First-rale taste, r you would' like
i my ritens so much. I would rit yon a letter
i before, but the fact ic, sense last February, I
j hnint hud much time for nothing. The baby's
i hern cross as the mischief with the hives, and
; .Mary, site's been nilin a good deal, and then con
; know this time of yeaT we planters is all busy
; fi'ini for the crop..
; Nothing uncommon haini io'k place drri
here lately, only totherday fl catasterfy hap
pened in our family that come monstrous nigh
puttin an rend to the whole generation of us.
! I never was so near sheered out of my senses
r.'y-ity1 in my born days, and I -dau'l 'blicve old
M iss Slallins ever will git over it, if she v.-is
! to live a thousand years:. But I'll tell yon nil
' about it.
i
last Monday morning ll of .is got up well
' mid hearty as could be, and 1 sot in our Toom
w ith Mary, and played with the baby till lrrcak
fast time, little thinkin what was gwiuc to hap-'-.
-pr-n so soon. The little feller was jiimpin and
crrrwrn so, I could hardly hold him in my arms,
ai d sprainin his Ikt'Ie month and laughin just
J bke he knnw'd everything we sod to him.
; Ilinieby out Prissy come to tell ustneakfart was
rrddy, and we all went intotother rom to eat,
cept sister Kesiah, who fed she would stay and
take-cure ol little iknry Clay, till we was done.
Mary's so cntvf.il she won't trust tire baby with
none of the niggers a single minit, and she's al
ways dreadful oneasy wlssn Kesiah's go it,
olio's so wild and so caTc-less.
Wei!, we a-M sot down to breakfast, and Ke
si'iiIl, slw scampered up stairs to her rom with
the buliy, jump. si it up. and l.issin it, and tulkin
to it as lottd as she could.
'Now sis, do be careful of my precious little
dariin,' ses Mary, loud as shecould to her, whoa
she was gwine up stairs.
Oh, cat your breakfast, child, and don't be so
tarditied 'Uit the baby,' sesold Miss Stallius
'you don't low yourself a minil's peace w hen it's
outo" yo'.u sight.'
'That's a fact,' ses sister Callins, She won't
let nobody do iiutlim for little Henry but her
sell". 1 know I wouJii'ul be so cmiy 'tiuut ho
child ofiniiic.
'Well, but you know sister K'u is so careless,
I'm always so Ira id she'll let it swalier soinc-
! thing, or git a fall some way.'
I 'Tut, tut, ses the old woman, 'they aint no
sense iu being all the time scared to drill 'bout
j nothin. People's got enough to do in this wot Id
i to bear the trouble when it comes, 'thout stud-
i.ym it up. I akc some of them good hot corn
muffins,' 6csshe, 'tbry's mighty nice.'
if it was (led.
I Jly this time the galls was holt of me holler
i ing 'April Fool ! April Fool !' is hard as they
could, and when I come to look, I hud nothing
in my arms but a bundle of rags with htilu Hen
ry Clay's clolhes on.
I shuck all over like I had the ager, and felt
a monstrous sight more like cuss'u thin laugh,
in. 'April Fool, dignotion !' ses I 'fun's fun ;
Fin dud blamed if there's any fun in sich do
ins;' and I was jest gwine to blow out a little,
when I heard Mury scrcamia for me to come to
her mother.
When we got in the dinin room, thor the old
woman was keeled over in her cheer, with
her eyes sot in her head and a corn muffin
stickin in her mouth. Mary was takin on at a
terrible rate, and all she could do was jest to
clap her hands and holler Oil mother's dying!
mother's dying? whar'a the baby! Oh, my
poor mother ! Oh, my dariin baby '.'
I luck Mary and 'sph.incd it all o her atwl
tried to qtiiet tire poor gall, and the galls got at
the old woman ; but it took all sort of rubbin,
and ever so much nssatcdrty and camfire and
bartson and burnt lien's leathers, lo bring her
too, and then she wouldn't stay bring to morc'n
a minit 'she'd keel over again, and I do 'blive
if they hrj-diiXtrrmg little Henry Clay down so
she could see and leel him and he.vr him sipialt,
she never would get hersensesagin. She aint
more'ii hnlf ot herself yit. All the galls kin
do they can't tnake her understand the April
FikiI Jr-isine., and she won't let nobody else but
herself nurse the habyecer sense.
As soon as 1 had time to think a little, I was
so monstrous glad that it warn't no worse, I
could'ntstay mad with the galls, lbit I tell
yon what 1 w&s terrible rathy for a few minits.
Imn't believe in this April fool in. Last year
the galls devil'd mc nltnostr-o deth with their
nonsense, sowin np'.he legs of my trowsers,
burin holes in the water gourd, so I wet wy
shirt all over when I went to drink, and lit ml in
the handle of (he tongs, and cuttin the cow
hide buttons of the cheers ks?so I fell through
rm wnrn i went to set nown, aim an sicu oevii- i
ment. I knew the Hible srs thers a tunc j
all things; but I think the least a body has tn
no witn i.xii iiusmess nt any tune the better lor
em. I in monstrous tired of such doins mys.-lt,
and i I didn't think the galls had got ther fill of
April fool i n this time. I'd try to it it a tilinyiKvek,
next year what tiidn"t1iae no first tiny of A
pril in ii.
No more from your friend, till death,
Jo. Jo.m:.
P. S. I seed in yoarpper 'totl er (lay that
some of tli everlastin eternal John Smiths had
been castin some insinuations on my wile's
character. I red it to Mary and sIkj's been be tried the human subject. The process is
poutin bout it ever sense. She ses he's a nas- not entirely I ml before ihe public as yet, hot I
y mean wrvtch, to be pr.stcrn himself 'bout j had the honor, iu t-ompuiy with a friend, of i
what 5.m't consarn him, and castin slurs on de- ' sit ng the pro!'ess.r.
cent people ; and if she only know'd who he I shnl! (juc a slight Je.-eriplion of oiie of the
was, she'd scald It in 'bominable ugly eyes out nf (niter rooms containing some of Ins prepara
tion. I told Iter it wasn't no use to try to do j tions. Previous to entering, we were furnish
that, for the Mfssissippy wraild'nt begin to ! ed w ith an Ind a rubber bag, to w hieli w as at
drown all the mean scamps that go by that i Inched a mask with class ryes. This was put
name. I wish you would jest tell your Pitts- j on to prevent the temperature of the room from
burg correspondent that we're decent christain ! being varied the slightest degree by our breath
while people out here in tJonrgia, and he musn't i ing. It was an nirrular room, lighted from the
wonder if we t a little smarter than his people, top (,v the urn's ravs, from which the het was
who live way up thar in the fork whar they ! rntirelv disengaged by its passage through it
swaller more coal smoke in a year than would ; glass, ic, colored by theoxid id' copper, (a late
busta balloon, and whur they're so black and dirrovrry, and very valuable to the proli sor.)
dirty that would take six months bleachin to , Tim room is shelved all around, and contains
make 'tin pa?s for white folks. J.J. j nearly one thousand specimens of animals, &c.
One was a Swedish girl, aned, from appearince,
WostDKRTrL HrAR Sixmv. Cen. Gilliam alxi.it nineteen years ; she was consigned to the
and his Oregon Emigrating Company ore en- professor by onlerol the Government to experi
cuutpod mi the s-iuth sle of the Missouri J liver : ment upon, having been found guilty of murder-oppn-ite
lo Cb pie's lauding. A capital stury of ing her child. With the exception of slight
this Gen. Gilliam is told ;
It was in the winter time, some years ago;
the snow was upon llie ground, and the wea
ther was excessively cold, and freezing very
hard. Gen. Gilliam's bogs were in a pasture
near by his cahin where he slept. lie was
woke up one night by the squealing of his hogs
and the barking of his dogs. Ilehastily sprung
from his lusl iu his shirt tail snatched up his
rifle, and without stopping to put on shoe, boot,
or storking, vest, coat, or trowsers, the I leneral
ran out to rutch a shot at the bear. The dogs
were chasing tho varmint, and would occasion
ally seir.e him and pull him down, and haven
little fight. The General, in the excitement
of the moment, thoughtlessly followed on, hop
ing every moment to get a ihol at the bear.
As the bear passed on through Ihe neighbor
hood, every house was aiouse.l by the barking
of the doi's, and the shouting of the pursuing
,,rf t,,i( nuil all the dogs far and wide gather- j 1V-' u ,irrl u,"t outs.de
ed in and joined in the chase. Ou went the liuduw of u toot, of the great Oregon ! There
bear on went the dogs and on went the chi- ,'nt osuch indu idiif.l. Talk about treaty or
valric General Gilliam, with nothing upon his i 'Mipation to a country over which the great A
nakedness hut his shift. Daylight at length ; m-rican eagie lias llown ! I scorn treaty . ecu
broke, and the bear took to a tree, upon which pal ion ! bang treaty occupation. Who wants
the General finally shot him. This ended llie J a parcel of low flung', 'outside barbarians' to go
sHrt, and when the General coolly reckoned in cahoot w nh us, and share alike a piece of
up his latitude and longitude, he found that he ' land thalnlwajs was and always will be ours !
WKtffttrn mile from the log cabin where he
left his warm and comlortuble bed some two or
three hours hetore. 1 le found that the skin of
his legs all below his shirt was frost-bitten, and
eventually peeled oil" and his feel were very
badly frozen, lie was laid up for the balance
of the winter but he ultimately recovered, al
though it was many mouths afterward. Such
is the leader of this company tu Oregon. He
was one among the few officers of Missouri vol
unteers in the Fiord ia w ar, of whom (Jen. Tay
lor made a fav orable report in his account of the
battle of Ochechobo.
Mt siOAi.. 'Smith,' said a New York Judge,
when about to rentence a culprit but jot arri
ved iu the country, 'Smith, I shall have to send
you to Sing Sing.' 'Don't, Judge,' said Smith,
'I have a very bad cold just at this particular
time, and I would rather be excused froiu sing
ing until I get over my hoarseness, if ii' all
the same lo you,'
Eitbaormnary Discovery. The follow
ing is an extract of a letter from n young Ame
rican now travelling in Europe, which vc ropy
from the Baton Hogvm (Ii) (nz-tte. We
l-now nothing n the range of science to ruwal
tiie discovery mentioned, except indeed some of
the wonderful discoveries in Mesmerism.
Professor Von (irusselbach, ."if.Stockhnlm, hxs
very lately brought to a state of perfection the
art of producing a torpor nf the whole system,
by the application of co'.-d of different degrees
of intensity, proceeding from a lesser to a great
er, so as to cause the buniaii body to become
perfectly torpid witlsiut permanent injury t.iany
organ or tissue of the frame. In tfus state they
may remain for n great numbered years, ami
aaiii, after a s'-eep of ngrs, be awakened to
existence, as fresh Rnd blooming as they were
when they first sunk into their Ingorific slum
ber. The attention of Vrre learned professor was
first led lo the subject by finding a toad t'liclos
ed in a M fragment of calcareous rock ten
Icet in diameter, uiieh, when taken out, show
ed mieuuivocal siiis of'life : but it was sunnoH
C( ,lllt ,1C con,.ll!lsion nnSed by (!a-ting the
Tork orra!ij(rl,.j i, lntl, j fcw hmus a'er.
The npiiiin-1 ol Rir.ci tlmithizen, who is grobs
to ,. Kjnp f Swedi-n, was, rhat it mtt
(... i,(.rl. ;.. ,i,..t ;.,, f, a, i,.ns, ,,,.,
llllM,salI v,,)r. aMl,is calculations were
drawn fr-i different layers of strata by which
it was surrounded. From this bin, the prol'es
sr procenh-cl to make rxperimeii-s ; and, alter
a painful and laborious rotirsv of experiments
j for the last twi'iilv-iiine venrs nfhis lite, he l.s
! lit last sneeei ded in peifrrting his girat diseo-
very. No less (hsn sixty t'iis:iiid Teti'es,
'shell fish, Ac, wire xprrininiied on bet! re
paleness, she appeared as if asleep, although
she has been in a state of eoiiiph to torpor tor
two vears. lie intends, beavs, to ro.-u-riato
: her in live more years, and convince the world
, ol the soundness o! Ins Wonderful disCoVeiv.
I The professor, to gratify us, look n small snake
I out of his cabinet into another room, hud al
! though il appeared lo ut to be perfectly dead
: and rigid hs marble, by application ol a mixture
i of cayenne pepper and brandy, it showed mime
; dm to signs of life, and was apparently as urtive
j as ever it was in u lew minutes, although lie-
protessor tisNtircd us il hud been in a state of
I torpor fur six years.
! Tut: Qi'estuin Si;tii.ii. The editors of
llie Picayune give us the follow ing extracts
; from an Oregon war speech, recently delivered
; III the "Fur West."
' "Whar, I say wmii, is the individual who
j .utiody
Some people talk ns though lliey
were a fleered of Lngli.ud. Wiiu'm hlli-ered .'
Ihivn't we lu li'd her tw ice, and can't we lick
her again ! Lick her ! yes ! je.-l as easy as a
bar can rhp ilou n a fresh peeled sapling'. Some
skerry folks talk about the navy of the English,
but w ho cares tor the navy ! Others say that
she is the mistrkss ol the ocean. Suppose she
is aint we the masters of il ! Can't w e cut
canal from the Mississippi to the Mammoth
Cave of Kentucky, turn nil the water into it,
ami dry up the ocean in three weeks! Whar,
then, would lie the navy ? Il would be mi
w iiak ! There never would be any Atlantic
Ocean if it hadn't to been tor the Mississippi,
nor never w ill bo alter we've turned the waters
of that big drink into tho Mammoth Cave !
When that's dune, jou'll see all their steam
ships and their sail ships they spluge so much
about lying high and dry, flounderiu' like so
many turtles left ashore at low tide. That's
tho way we'll fix 'cm. Who' alYtxrtd."
Twrlrt Renanns for Pitying your Debts.
77ic Christian's Reasons.
1. The Christian member of society pays his
debts, first, because ho is ordered to bi so in
the Bible, where we trc told to 'Render unto
Cre.ar the thwgs that are Cesar's and fo God
the tvmgs that are God's,' and to '0ec no mm
anything.'
2. The Christian nearethe Eighth Command
ment every Snnday, 'Thrni Bliatt not steal,' and
tlelranding a man of his dtie is stealing ; for tlie
tradesman lends upon faith and honor, and dorc
wot give.
IV The Christian pays regularly all he owes,
because Ik is a friend to justice and merry; he
wishes horn to love and succour his neigblior,
tind will not have tho ruin of others on his
conscience. I
77? Patriot's Reasons.
1. The patriot knows that one act of justice
is wi rth fix of charity that justice helps the
worthy and corrects the unworthy, while char
ity too often succors hit the latter.
TV The patriot considers the evils that ensne
from the more wealthy man leaving his poorer
neighbor unpaid ; that by that means all the
steps of the great ladder f society are broken,
the first ruin beginning w ith the merchant, who
can no longer pay hia workmen, and continuing
to the workman's chiM, who is deprived of
clolhes, food, or instruction ; or to the nged fa
ther and mntliT, left to die on the bed of straw.
0. The patriot pays his debts from a love of
his country ; knowing that the nrglect of so
doing brings on Chartish, and a hatred of the
upner ranks.
7. Tit" patriot also pays, because the system
of rmn-pnymcnt, pursued to a certain extent,
would bring a general bankruptcy on the na
t on.
The Mutt of the World's Reason's for paying
his Dilits.
w. The man of the world pays because he is
convinced that honesty is the best policy.
9. The man of the world pays because he
knows that curses will go with his name, if he
dors not pay, inslead of good will and goo.1
woiks, which last he secures with a certain
class by paying.
10. The man of the worldly calculation is -ware,
that by the immediate payment of his
debt, as fast as they a-e incurred, he purchases
a peace ot minn, anil peromes acquainted witti
Ins income, his means, and resources.
11. The man ot the world w ishes for a com
fortable old age. anil knows that he has but lit
tle chance of it from his surrounding family, un
less he trains up his children iu order and eco
nomy. l'J. The man of the world knows the full
force of the term 'being an honest man' that
it will carry him through political vnlees ami
family disputes, and he cannot make claim to
that name if he is the ruin of others.
Ai.PAriu. Probably few ladies who wear
and admire the beautiful fabric called Alpaeha,
a re a ware of the source of its production. The
A'picha i a wool-hearing animal, indigenious
to South America, and is one nf four, varieties,
which bear general points of resemblances to
each other. The Llama, one ot these varieties,
has been long known, and often described ; but
it is only within a few years that tho Alpaeha
has been considered of sufficient importance to
merit particular notice.
Nine tenths of the wool of the Alpicln is
bla. k, the remainder being partly white, red
and grizzled. It is of a very long staple, often
reaching twelve inches, anil resembles soft
g'ossy ba r which character is not lost by dye
ing. The Indians in the South American
mountains manufiicture nearly ell their cloth
ing from this wool, and are enabled to appear
in black dresses, without tho aid of a dyer.
Moth the Llama and Alpaeha are, perhaps, even
mere valuable to the natives as beasts of bur
den then wool-bearing animals, and the obsti
nacy of them, when irritated, is well known.
The importance of thisanimal lias already been
considered by the Kuglish, in their hat, woollen
and stuff trade, and an essay on the subject has
been published by Dr. Hamilton, of London.
I. in which some of these details are collected.
The wool is so remarkable, being a jet black,
glossy, silk like hair, that it is fitted fur the pro
duction ot texile fabrics difi'ering from all others,
occupying a medium position between wool and
silk. It is now mingled with other materials
in such a singular manner, that while a partic
ular dye will affert those, it will leave the Al
pach wool with its original black color, and thus
give rise to great diversity.
Sum r: i n i mi i on tiik Tyi-oh. ' of my ex
istence, give me two M -braces,' said the prill
ter to his sw eet-heait. She immediately made
a m him and planted her (tt" between hi
li. 'Such an outrage,' said Faust, looking ff
ul her, 'is without a '
The following is not a bad specimen of the
havoc soiiietine a made by those who write
roinpliiuentai v notes in the third person : "Mr. I
A ............. I. IU .,lll....llt Ij. l. II 7I,.IA I
S,-M tun ........ ... ( . w ,.n .
got a lint whioh is not his, if he have got a hat
which is not yours, no doubl they are the tx-
I pecttd out."
New Artict.I! or Foob for Animal.
Mr. E. Rich of Troy, N. II , lias enrnmnnicated
to the Kcene Sentinel, the result of some erpr
ments made by liim on the value of the tops of
tho common Comfrey, f Symytnm officinale, J
as food Tor cattle. Two CHttrngs in June and
September, yielding six ton per acreof pood
fodder, and the root which should be harvested
only eirrce in two years, producing 2,400 bush
els per acre. Experience allowed both top and
root to be very palatable and nutritions. Mr.
Robinson, near Portsmouth, hr.s al) tried tlw
plant for this purpose, and finds his stock of all
descriptions to cat the stocks when cut tro-t
greedily. Ilis product, was at the rate tf eight
tons per acre. T his was on moist gT umd,
which seems tlm beet adapted toth rrowth of
the plant. Mr. Il.'s plants were in rows 15
inches apart. This, wc think, in r'rch ground
wouM hie too close planting. Comfrey is easi
ly propagated by "cutting the roots into seta, as
is dono with the potatoe. It may prove ono of
our most valuable plants for animals but fur
ther experiments are necessary. They can ei
sily bo made.
Soaking Corn in Miriate or Ammonia.
I). Samuel Weber gives an account in the N.
E. Farmer, of eeveTal experiments which be
made last season with muriate ammonia. He
dissolved a small piece of the common solam
monic of the druggist, estimated at 4 or 5
grains, in about a half a coffee cup of water,
and threw into the solution a liamKul of corn,
which, after having remiincd 4 to 5 hours, was
planted. He planted this soaked corn in hills.
side by side with that which was not soaked,
lie made four different experiments, which are
reported in considerable detail. In all cases,
the soaked seed produced considerably the best
yield general ly at least one-third more. The
kind was light and dry and for several of the ex
periments he purposely took the poorest spots.
The corn suffered with drouth : but in all ca?ee
that from the soaked seed manifested a decided
superiority ; so much indeed, that it was no
ticed by strangers, who knew of no diflerence
in the seed.
Napoleon ano his Son. Whether seated!
by the chimney on his favorite sofa, he was en
gaged in reading an important document, or
whether he went to his bureau to 6-gn ifc
snatch, his son seated on his knee or pressed
to his bosom, was never a moment from bun.
Sometimes he would lie diwn on tho floor !:
side his beloved son, playing with him like an
other child, attentive to every thing that Could
please or amuse him. The Emperor had a sort
of oppnratus for trying military manoeuvres : it
consisted of pieces nf wood fashionhd to repre
sent battallions, regiments and divisions. When
he wanted to try some new combinationaof troops
he used to arrange these pieces on the carpet.
While ho was occupied with the disposition of
these tmmcrtivres which might ensure the suc
cess of a battle, the child lying by his si lu
would often overthriw his troops nnd put into
confusion his orderof battle, perhaps at soma
critical moment. Pint the Emoeror wo-il I re.
commence arranging his ni'-n with the utmost
good humor. MenttaFs Recclltctwns.
Tiik Fork and the Potatoe Phssm is
one of the most amiable and nccommod .ting
creatures in the world ; but tlien there is a li
nut to amiability it-elt i.s a person foiim!, the
other day, who was one of Phasm's nearest
neightjors at a table of a public house in ll.isei
ty. The individual, for several J ivs, had been
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su iuii.1' .iiii i y oi tuu iiaun oi iiuutiinitf i iirll,
instead ot the waiters, for "tins, that, and the
other" article, ou the t ilde, that the latter le
pan to feel "wolty," not only "ub mt tho head
and shoulders," hut all over, and was ready for
almo-t any kind of a "flare hp" wit!ihi-b.
An opportanity was finally ofTi-red. "I'll trou
ble you," said Phasm's torinenter, at the same
time giving him his fork, "to stick lay fork in
to that potatoe." "No trouble at all, sir," said
Phasin, plunging tho fork into the potatoe, are!
there leaving it "I'll trouble you for my fork
now, if you please." "No trouble at all," re
plied Phasm, pulling the fork out of the potntor
and returning it ! Phasm says that he has no
been troubled by that chap since. Ronton
Ti anscript.
A friend of ours nets upon the same princ
pie in carving, whenever be is hailed with a re
quest to give a very small piece an affronting
insinuation that he does not know how large
si ce of turkey or mutton to put on a lady'.
plate. Ho cuts as small a piece as one pom'
of the fork w ill take up. There is generally
a second call, foroue "somewhat larger." .V
V. Advertiser.
Unm'stimed Dm eition. The editor of th.
L'n it ed States Gazette, after describing the tin
gnlar custom prevailing at Tunis, of falteninj
young women who are about to bo married, five
that, 'theif of the Tunisian bride t'sfat, but
j those w ho hustle up their (laughters for the
niurket, wem to be guilty of a deception a
j great as the butcher who blgwsuy his veal f