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Vol. 4 Xo. 3T Whole No, 193.
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Religion IVhiU Is It.
by bishop m:m:R.
Is it to go to church to day,
To look devout and seem to pray,
And ere to-morrow's sun goes down
Re dealing slander through the town ?
Does every sanctimonious fucc
Denote the certain reign of grace ?
Does not a phiz that scowls at sin
Oft viel hypocrisy within ?
Is it to make our daily walk,
And of our own good deeds to talk,
Yet often practice secret crime,
And thus mis-spend our precious time
Is it for sect and creed to fipht,
To call our zeal the rule of right,
When what we wish is, at the beet,
To see our church excel the rest ?
Is it to wear the christian dress.
And love to all mankind profess,
To treat with scorn the humble poor,
And bar against them every door ?
Oh, no, religion means not this :
Its fruits more sweet and fairer is
Its precept this : to others do
As you would have them do to you.
It grieves to hear an ill report
And scorns with human woes to sport
Of others' deeds it speaks no ill,
Rut tells of good or else keeps still.
And does Religion this impart?
Then may its influence fill my heart;
O! haste the blissful, joyful day,
When all the earth may own its sway.
Miiiunl Assistance,
A man very lame
Was a little to blame
To stray from his humble abode ,'
Hot, thiisty, bemired,
And hertily tired,
lie laid himself down in the road.
While thus he reclined,
A man w ho was blind
Came by and entreated his aid ;
"Deprived of my sight,
Unassisted to-night,
I shall not reach home, I'm afraid."
' Intelligence give
Of the place where you live,"
Said the cripple. ' Perhaps 1 may know it
In my road it may be,
And if you'll carry me.
It will give me much pleasure to show it.
"Great strength you have gut.
AVhirh, alas! I have not,
In rny legs so fatigued every nerve is ;
For the use of your back,
For the eyes which you lack,
My pair shall be much at your kervice "
Said the other poor man.
"What an excellent plan !
Tray, get on my shoulders, good brother ;
I see all mankind,
If they are but inclined.
May constantly help one another."
Tli Chinese
Once almost Christians. A remarkable
circumbtance is mentioned by 6ome of the an
cient authors, which if true, is a fuct which has
escaped tr.any of the antiquarians of the present
day, and shows that the Chinese were almost
Christians 1 H.IO years ago.
It is related to us by Mr. T.Carter, a gentle
man of the New York Bar, who has bestowed
a considerable degree ot study upon tho sub
ject, and who delivers a lecture upon the an
cient religions of the Chinese, Egyptians, and
Romans, and their mythological tables, on Mon-
day evening next.
The celebrated Confucius, 500 years before
the Christian era, predicted that at some future
time a great and Holy Being should arise in
the west. Little attention, however, was paid
to this prediction until about the time of our
Saviour, when one of the Chinese emperors re
solved to act upon the prophecy and search for
a new religion.
He appointed C3inmisjioners for that purpose
who like the magi of the Scriptures went in
search of the expected God and travelled to
wards Judea, which lies directly westward of
China, whila their countrymen awaited their
return. The commissioners on their way short
ly arrived at Hindustan and India, and meeting
there with a system of worbhip new to them
they supposed they hud found the objectof their
search and went no further.
After a sufficient degree of study to instruct
their countrymen in the newly found religion,
they returned with the strange doctrine of tho
metempeychoisis and transmigration of souls.
Had the Delegates of the Emperor gone a
little further, it is possible that now the whole
empire of' China might have bten one vtnt
Christian nation. yew ark Daily Adierhter.
The Obl-men and Women In th West
Indies.
Obi, and gambling, are the only instances I
have been able to discover, among the natives
of the negro land in Africa, in which any effort
at combining ideas has ever been demonstrated.
The science of obi is very extensive. Oil, for
the purpose of bewitching people, or consum
ing them by lingering illness, is made of grave
dirt, hair, teeth of sharks, and other creatures,
blood, feathers, egg shells, images in wax, the
hearts of birds, and some potent roots, weeds
and bushes, of which Europeans at this time
are ignorant ; but which were known, for the
same purposes, to the ancients. Certain mix
tures of these ingredients are burnt, or buried
very deep in the ground ; or hung up a chim
ney ; or laid under the threshold of the door of
the party to suffer ; with incantation songs or
curses, performed at midnight, regarding the
aspects of the moon. A negro who thinks him
self bewitched by obi, will apply to an Obi
man or Obi-troman, for cure laws have been
made in the West Indios to punish this obian
practice with death ; but they have no effect.
Iaws constiucted in the West Indies can never
suppress the effect of ideas, the origin of which
is in the centre of Africa.
I saw the obi of the famous nogro robber,
Three fingered Jack, the terror of Jamaica in
170 and 171. The Maroons who slew him
brought it to me. His obi consisted of the end
of a goat's horn, filled with a compound of grave
dirt, ashes, the blood of a black cat, and human
tkt ; all mixed into a kind of paste. A black
cat's foot, a dried toad, a pig's tail, n flip of
parchment of kid's skin, with characters mark
ed in blood on it, were also in his obian bag.
These, with a keen sabre, and two guns, like
Robinson Crusoe, were all his obi ; with which,
and his courage in descending into the plans,
and plundering to supply his wants, and his
skill in retreating into difficult fastnesses, com
manding the only access to them where none
dared to follow him, he terrified the inhabitants,
and set the civil power and the neighboring
militia of that island, at defiance for '.wo years.
j He made neither accomplices nor associate.
There were a few runaway negroes in the
woods near Mount Licanus, the place of his
retreat ; but he had crossed their foreheads with
some of the mngic in his horn, and they could
not betray him. But he trusted no one. lie
i scorned assistance. He ascended above Spnr-
1 taeus. lie robbed alone ; fought all his bat
; ties alone, and always killed his pursuers.
; By his mogic he was not only the dread of
the negroes, but there were many white peo-
pie who believed he was possessed of some su
pernatural power. In hot climates females
marry very young, and often with great dispari
' ty of age. Hern Jack was tho author ot mn-
ny troubles ; for several matches proved unhap
py. ''Give a dog an ill name, and hing him.
I Clamors rose on clamors ogninst the cruel sor
j ceror ; and every conjugal mishap was laid at
' the door of Jack's spell on the wedding day.
Clod knows poor Jack had sins enough of his
own to carry, without loading him with the sins
' of others. He would sooner have made a Me
' dean, cualdron for the whole island, than dis
turb one lady's happiness. He had many op
: portunitirs ; and, though he had a mortal ha
. tred to white men, he was never known to
hurt a child or abase a woman.
But even Jack himself was born to die.
Allured by the rewards offered by governor
Dalling, in proclamation, dated the 10th of
December of 17S0. and by a resolution which
followed it, of the house of assembly, two ne
groes, named Quasher, and Sam both of Scots
Hall, Maroon town, with party of their towns
men went in 6earch of him.
Quasher, before he set out on the exhibition,
got himself christened, and changed his name
lo James Tteeder The PTneitit inn ennimeneed '
; and the whole party had been creeping about
in the woods tor three weeks, and blockading,
as it were, the deepet recesses of the most in
accessible part of the island, were Jack, fur re
mote from aU human society, resided but in
vain.
Ueeder and Sam, tired with this mode of war
resolved on proceeding in search of hit retreat,
and taking him by storming it, or perishing in
the attempt. They look with them a little
boy, a proper spirit, and a good shot, and left
the rest of the party. These three, whom 1
well knew, had not been long separated, before
their cunning eyes discovered, by impressions
among the weeds and bushes, that 6ome person
mubt have lately been that way. They softly
followed these impressions, making not the
least noise. Presently they discovered a smoke.
They prepared for war. They came upon
Jack before he perceived them. He was roast
ing jdantaini, by a little fire on the ground, at
the mouth ot a cave. This was a scene ; not
where ordinary actora had a common part to
play.
Jack's looks were fierce and terrible. He
told them he would kill them. Reeder, iiibtead
of shooting Jaek, replied, that his obi had no
power to hurt him ; for he was christened ; and
that his name was no longer Quasher. Jack
knew Reeder ; and, as if paralyzed, ho let his
two guns remain on the ground and took up on
ly his cutlass.
These two had a desperate engagement sev
eral years before, in the woods ; in which con
flict Jack lost the two fingers, which was the
origin of his present name ; but Jack then beat
Reeder, and almost killed him, with several o
thers who assisted him, and they fled from Jack.
To do Three Fingered Jack justice, he would
now have killed both Reeder and Sam ; for, at
first, they were frightened at the sight of him,
and the dreadful tone of voice ; and well they
might ; they had beside no retreat, and were
to grapple with the bravest and strongest man
in the world. But Jack was cowed ; for he had
prophesied tchitt obi would get tho better of
him ; and from experience, he knew the charm
would lose none of its strength in the hands of
Reeder.
Without further parley, Jack, with his cut
lass in his hand, threw himself down a preci
pice at the back of the cave. Reader's gun
missed fire. Sam shot him in the shoulder.
Reeder, like an English bull-dog, never looked,
but, with his cutlass m his hand, plunged head-
long down alter Jack. X he descent was ahout
tinny yarns, aim aimosi pcrpenuicuiar. i.m l
of them had preserved their cutlasses in the j
fall. Here was the stage on which two of the
stoutest hearts that were ever hooped with ribs
began their bloody struggle. I he little bov .
who was ordered to keep back, out of harm a .
way, now reached the top of the precipice, and,
during the fight, shot Jack in the stomach.
Sam was crsfty, and coolly took a round a
bout way to get to tho field of action. When
arrived at the spot where it began, Jack and
Reeder had closed, and tumbled together down ;
another precipice, on the Bide of the mountain, j
in which fall they both lost their weapons,
Sam descended after them, who also lost his i
cutlass, among the trees and bushes in getting
down. When he come up to them, though ;
without weapons, they were not idle ; and luck-
i!y for Reeder, Jack's wounds were deep and
desperate, nnd he was in great agony. !
Sam came up in just time enough to save !
Reeder: for Jack had caught him bv the throat
and with his giant's grasp. Reeder then was
with his right hand almost cut off, and Jack :
streaming with blood from his shoulder and
stomach; both covered with gore and gashes.
In this state Sam was umpire; and decided
the lute ot the battle. He knocked Jack down
with a piece of a rock. Whun the lion fell; tho
two tigers got npon him and beat his brains out
with stones. The little biy soon after found
his way to them. He hnd a cutlass, with which
they cut off Jack's head and three fingeied
hand, and took them in triumph to Morant Bay;
There they put their trophies into a pail of ruin.
n . i . I C.il..i'A.t li.r . , Mmmki.vcn ' - C nnrvmna I
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row no longer alraid of Jack s obi, they carried
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them to Kingston nnd Spanish town ; and
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rlHtmerl Hit. reuMttl nfflie kmirij nrnrlhrnutinn
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and the house of assembly.
Protectio.n Against Corn
sure protection against the wire and grub ,
worms, communicated to the Philadelphia So- ,
ciev for Promoting Agriculture, bv Mr. Isaac
Newton of Delaware eoun'y, is to apply to the , k'"1 tel"Por- ""'J "rntuted. inenp.hle f con
corn, at the usual period for plastering, say ,ro1' pl.m herself had treated Cot.nl Ken-
when the sprout is three or four incl
lies out of
the ground, a preparation formed of three parts
common plaster and one part salt or in other
words, with three quarts of plaster mix one
quart of fine salt, and apply it in the usual
wa v. care heinrr taken la nut it round the snront.
, ... a,. . . ,. ,
and not upon the leaves. This has been lound
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to be a sure remedy against trie operation of
the insects which generally prove so destruc
tive to young corn. It has been tried over and
over again.and never known to fail when pro-
perly applied.
.
To make Water Cold for Simmer.
The following is a si.nnle mode of remlerinir
water almost ns cold as ice: let ttie jar,
... ...
pitcher or vessel used tor water be surrounded
with one or more folds of coarse cotton, lobe
constantly wet. The evaporation of the water
will carry off the heat from the inside nnd re
duce it t) a freezing point. In India and o-
Iher tropical regions were ice cannot be pro
cured, this is common. Let every inechunic or
laborer havu at his place unj employment two
pitchers thus provided, and with lids or covers;
the one to contain the water for drinking, the
other for evaporation, and he can always have
a supply of cold water for warm weather. Any
person can test this by dipping a finger in wa
ter, and hidding it in the air of a warm day ;
after doing this three or four times, he will find
his finger uncomfortably cold.
In consequence of the recent attempt at re
volt at Matai.zas and Havana, the authorities
contemplate introducing free labor by degrees,
until the slaves btcome too impotent for mischief.
neorffathe First anil Hophla of Zell. 1
Historians have generally passed over, as of
very little moment, tho story of tho consort of
George the Frist. The following authentic par
ticulars will interest many readers:
"Sophia, at the time of their marriage, was
only sixteen years of age, and was a princess
of great personal charms and menal endow
ments, yet her attractions did not retain the
affections of her husband. After she hnd brought
him a son and a daughter, he neglected his o
miable consort, and attached himself to a favor
ite mistress.
"Such was the situation of Sophia when
Count Konigsniark, a Swedish nobleman, arri
ved at Hanover. He was a man of good figure,
and professional gallantry ; had been formerly
enamoured of Sophia at Zell, and was supposed
to have made some impression on her heart. On
the sight of her his passion, which had been di
minished by absence, broke out with increasing
violence; he had the impudence publicly tore
new his attentions ; and as George was absent
at the army, he made his solicitations with re
doubled ardour. Information of his attachment,
and of his success, was conveyed to Ernest Au
gustus ; and one evening, as the Count came
out of her apartment, and wns crossing a pas
Mpp, ,e was pul to ,i,,an by persons placed ta
,l)t(.rcept him, in the presence of the Elector ;
nnn- trndition still marks the spot where this
m,,r,Pr wg committed. Sophia was immedi-
ntf,)y pt Jer arrest ; and though she solemn
ly protested her innocence, yet circumstances
Fp,,j(0 strongly against her.
"George, who never loved his wife, gave im
plicit credit to the account of her infidelity, as
related by his futher ; consented to her impris
onment, and obtained from the ecclesiastical
consistory a divorce, which was passed on the
2Slh of December, 1G91. Ami even her father,
the Duke of Zell, who doated on his only (laugh
ter, does not 6cem to have entertained any
doubts of fur guilt, for always continued up-
on the strictest terms of friendship with Ernest
Augustus, and his son-in-law.
"The unfortunate Sophia was coni.ned in the
castle of Alden, situated 01: the small river Al
ler, in the duchy of Zel!. She terminated her
miserable existence, after a long captivity of
thirty-two years, on the
13th of November,
1720, in the sixty-first year of her age, or seven
months before the death of George the First
and she was announced in the 'Gazette' under
the title ot the Elect ress Dowager of I lanover.
"During her whole confinement she behaved
wild doless mildness than dignity ; and on re
ceiving the sacrament once cveiy week, ne
ver omitted, on that awful occusion, making
the most solemn uKsricrutions that the bh not
guilty of the crime laid to her charge. Subse
quent circumstances have come to light, which
appear to justify her memory; and repoitenre
current in Hanover that herchsracier wasbsse
ly defamed, and that she fell a sacrifice to the
! jcbIoukIv and perfidy ot the Countess ol I latin,
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1 favourite mistress of Lrnest Augustus. Being
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enamoured of C ount Konigsni'irk, w ho slighted
I her overtures, iealoti-y took possesion of her
1 breast; she determined to sacrifice both the lo
Worms A vcr an( l',e Pr'"C('ss ' ',er vengeance, and cir
cumstances favoied her design.
"The prince was absent at the army ; Ernest
Augustus waaman of warm passions and vio-
't "mrK w"" regaru ano aueniion, bihi me io-
vit was hot-headed, seli-snfiic ent, pnd;ng him-
telfunhis personal H(Voniplii.!,ti:ents, and ac
customed to succeed in affair ofgnllaritry.
"Those who exculpate Sophia assert either
that a common visit was construed into an act
! ot criminality, or that the Counters of Platen, at
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late hour, Eumuuiud Count KonigDmurk in
I l,,e nbWe of ,t,e P'il,c'''s. w",")Ut
! c"'va'"-e i bl''fc' ''Produced &.pln
! w" ""rpnsed t his mtrus.on, that on quitting
",e 8Par,,"e"t be was discovered by EriK st An-
I gustus, whom the couiitt'sd had placed in the
g -tilery , and was instantly assassinated by per-
601,8 who,n K,,e hlld "itHirned P"rle.
"Many persons of credit at Hanover have
, not scrupled, s.nce the death of Krnest Aligns
! tus nnd George the I'rt, to express their belief
'; that the imputation cast mi Sophia was false
, and unjii.-l. It is also reported that her liiib
! b ind having made an utler of reconciliation, she
1 gave this noble and disdainful answer of haugh
! ty virtue iiueoucioiis of slsin : 'It what I 11 111 uc
j cused of is true, I am unworthy of his bed; and
if my acciisHtmn is hilse, he is unworthy of me.
I will lift accept Ins offers.' "
Old NtwspAFEua. Many people take
newspapers, but few preserve them ; yet the
most interesting reading imaginable is a tile of
old news-papers. It brings up the very age,
with all Us bustle and every day affairs, and
marks its genius and its spirit more than the
most labored description of the historian. Who
can take a paper dsted half a-ccutnry ago, with
out the thought that almost every name there
printed is now cut upon a tombstone at the
head of an epitaph ?
A Whlpper to tho Wife.
Study your husband's temper and character ;
and be it your pride and pleasure to conform to
his wishos. Check at once the first advancos
to contradiction, even of the most trival nature.
Bewaro of the first dispute.
Whatever might have been concealed as a
defect from the lover, must with greater dili
gence, be concealed from the husband. The
most intimate nnd tender familiarity cannot
surely be supposed to exclude decorum.
Let your husband be dearer and of more con
sequence to you thnn any other human being;
and have no hesitation in confessing those
feelings to him.
Endeavor to msko your husband's habitation
alluring and delightful to him. Eet it he a
sanctuary to which his heart may al vaysturn
from the ills and anxieties of lite.
I know no two femole attractions so capti
vating to mon as delicacy and modesty.
If possible, let your husband supposo you
think him a good busband, and it will bo a
strong stimulous to his being so.
No attractions renders a woman at all times
so agreeable to her husband as cheerfulness and
good humor.
In the article of dress, study your husband's
taste, endeavor to wear what he thinks becomes
you best.
Make yourself as useful to him as you can,
nnd let him see you employed as much as pos
sible in economical pursuits.
Endeavor to feel pleased with your husband's
friends.
Encourage in your husband a desire of read
ing out at his leisure hours.
On the day of her marriage a woman's tour
of gnyety should bo ended.
How indecorous anil offensive it is to see a
woman exercising authority over her husband
and saying "I will have iteo." "It shall be
done as I like,"&.c.
Never join in a jest or laugh ogainst your
husband.
Assiduously conceal his faults nnd speak only
of his merits.
In married life confidants are by no means
desiroble.
Conceal from others any little discord or dis
union that occurs between you and your husband.
Never receive the particular attention of any
other men.
Be you ever so conscious of a superiority of
judgement or talent, never let it appear to your
husband.
Hint for HrsB.isrs and tvrs Deceive
not one another in small things or in great One
little single lie has before now di-tuibed a whole
married life A small cause has often great
consequences. Fold not the hands togethi r and
sit iilli; "Laziness is the devil's cushion." Do
not run much from home. "One's own hearth is
gold worth."
Many a marriage, my friends, begins like the
rosy morning, and then falls away like a snow
wreath. And why, my friends? Because the
married pair neglect to be as well pleasing to
each other alter marriage as before. Endeavor
always, my children, to please one another; but,
at the same time, keep God in your thoughts
Lavivh not all your love on to-day, for remem
ber that marriage has it's to-morrow likewise,
and its day alter to-morrow, too. "Sparc as one
may spare fuel for the winter."
Consider, my daughters, what the word house
wife expresses. The married woman is her
husband's domestic faith ; in her hands he rau't
he able to confide bouse and family be able to
entrust her the key of his heart as well as the
key of his eating room. His honor and his home
are under her keeping his well-being is in her
hand. Think of this
And you, my sons, be faithful husbands and
pood fathers of families. Act so that your wives
shall esteem and love you Fredrica Brttntr
J
Great Ehoestrian Show. Mr. Emedy, j
the master of the Horse in Mr. Astley's fumotu j
Amphitheatre, London, has been "taking the ;
town" by driving through the principal streets
of the "Great Metropolis" twenty highly train- '
ed horses a fet never before attempted at-
tached to a four wheel carriage containing!
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twenty persons at full spepd, without the slight-
est apparent difficulty, and without a single nc-
,! a J .i t aailtri mnDl - itrit:).
a HM1IV 11 1. Ill I I H ? n irnt n H.VII line nv viHiDi- 1
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dered extraordinary from the crowded state of
the streets with vehicles of all descriptions. I
Mr. Emedy was accompanied by six beautiful j
dwarf ponies, drawings four wheeled carriage. I
driven by Mr Mason; two extraordinary white j
inulea, driven by Mr. Stickney ; two perambii-
lating Vans and a nu.uber of outriders, consisting
in all of forty horses, forming Mr. Butty's stud
of trained horses.
The following from one of the old British Po
ets is exquisite. It i the very essence of the
aroma of fancy. It is addressed to a lady upon
whose bosom a Hike of snow fell and melted :
The envious snow comes down in haste
To prove thy breast less fair.
But grieves to see itself sur pasted,
And melt into a tear.
Dignity of Labor. In early life David
kept his father's shorp : his was a life of indus
try ; and though fwlisli men think it degrading
to perform any useful labor, yet in the eyes of
wise men industry is truly honorable, and thn
most useful man is tho happiost. A life of labor
is man's natural condition, nnd most favoruble
to mental health and bodily vigour. Bishop
Hall says, "Sweet is the destiny tif all trade,
whether ef the brow or of the mind. God never
allowed any man to do nothing." From tha
ranks of industry have the world's greatest men
been taken. Rome was more than once saved
by a man who was sent for from the plough.
Moses had been keeping sheep for forty yrari
before he came forth as the deliverer of Israel.
The Apostles were chrnen from amongst tho
hardy and laborious fishermen. From whenco
I infer that, when God has any great work to
perform, he selects as his instruments those who
by their previous occupation, had acquired ha
bits of industry, skill and perseverance ; and
that, in every department of society, they hps
the most honorable who earn their own living1
by their own labor.
DuTcn Butter. The Dutch Buiter is cele
brated for its excellence. The following is said
to be the mode in which it is prepared :
After having milked their cows, tho Dutch
leave their milk to get quite cold before they
put it in the pans. When placed tlierein, they
do not permit it to stand for the cream to rise
more than about four hours. They then et;r
it together more intimately, to combine the
milk and cream, and continue thus to do at least
two or three times a day. If it be agitated in
this manner, as occasionally happens, till th
whole be quite thick, the butter thus obtained
is the more highly esteemed. As soon it
acquires the usual consistency, it is churned
commonly about an hour, till the butter begin
to form ; cold water is then added, proportioned
to the quantity of milk, for the purpose of facili
tating the s-'peration of the buttermilk. Tba
butter being properly come, it is taken from
the churn, and repeatedly washed and kneaded
in fresh water, till the buttermilk is all express
ed, and it no longer retains any tinge of white.
By this simple mode, not on'y far more butter is
obtained from the same quantity of milk than
in any other way, but the butter itselfi firm
er, sweeter, and continues longer fresh than tho
generality of butter, while the buttermilk is in
finitely more agreeable to the palate.
Steaks ako Omrs Meat to he broiTeJ
should bo filing till it is tender ; the inside of a
sirloin of beef, cut into stenks, is greatly prefer
red by most people. But steaks arc generally
cut from the rump (the middle i the bet,) a
botit six inches long, four inches wide.aud half
an inch thick. Do not heat them, it make
them dry and tasteless. Steaks should be don
quickly ; for this purpose, take care to have
very clear brisk fire ; throw a little salt on it,
make the gridiron hot, nnd set it slantinrj to pre
vent tho fat from dropping into the fire, nnd nn
king a smoke, It require more practice nnd
core than is generally supposed to do etuaks to
a nicety.
I.n'Di-lmbi.e Ink. An Exchange paper says :
The milk whiA exudes from the branches of
sumach, is the best indelible ink that can be
used. Break off one of the stems that support
the leaves, and writo what may be wanted with
it. In a short time it becomes a beautiful jet
black, and can never be wa-die-.l out.
An ingen'ous mechanic of Cincinnati, having
invented n new washing lunching, or t ikenoiit
a patent for an old one, which answers the pur
pose equally ns well, headed his advertisement
thus: every man disown washerwoman."
It is said that when Robert Emmett was J-
i-cndinjr tho oc&tK'ld 111 Dublin, 111 the year
iOH, he gave the executioner a guinea, upon
which the latter, in order '.u show his gratitude
for 60 liberal a bequest, touched his hat like a
trut'-bcrn Irishman, and exclaiming, ''lmg life
to your honour !" put the money safely into his
pocket.
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A certain cardinal had been observed, for
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SOI1IIT Jrne), Hi nn a i.'.-iirm-- - i ,
but having been t leeted ope he suddenly
t I 1
covered hut erect posture, upon which lie na
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cong. atul.ted by oe o. the courtiers "I vm
'' for ' k" ' 1VU'r- th"
"ul ecclesinrtic ; "Miaxe now found them, and
niay walk upright.'
Tkii&M. Thoueh dns is uoMh yr-ur at
tention it is not t!.e first thing that sh u!d dt
mand it. Generally speaking, the vulgar p-y
much more regard to dress than imn ot r :tl
breeding and gentility.
HnxNcr: 1'osiiks EtERov. lie knows r.r.t
, how to speak who cannot be aiicut ; still in v
j to act with vigor and decision. Who h.is!.-ii
'o the end is silent ; loudness is impotence.
In the rum bottlo discontent seeks for n.
tort cowardice fur courage and moJisty lor
impudence.