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.-thel Station,
Carrolltovvn,
Chess Spring?,
Crosson,
KU-n-lturp.
Fallen Timber,
C.iUit.in,
Post Masters.
Joseph Graham,
Joseph SuMardis,
Iistrictt.
Yoder.
Blackluk.
benjamin Wirtner,
Daul. Lit.inger,
Carroll.
Chest.
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Mrs. II. M'Cague,
Isaac Thompson,
J. M. Christy,
Joseph Gill,
Win. M'Gough,
H. A. Iioggs,
Win. Gwinn,
K. Wissinger,
A. Durbin,
Francis Clement,
Andrew J. Ferra!
G. W. Bowman,
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Win. Murray,
Miss M. Gillespie
Andrew Beck,
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White.
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Chest.
Washt'n.
Johnst'wn.
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Conem'gh.
Munster.
Conem'gh.
Susq'ban.
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Clearfield.
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Periling,
ri.ittiville,
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Siniuan,
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(Ill KCIICS, 3IIX1STCUS, &.C.
l'rr.-htiteriai lie v. 1). Hakbisox, Pastor.
rp.'.ii'hing every Sabbath morning ut loj
jdu. k. and in the evening at 2 o'clock. Sab
ii.itli S..-iinol at 1 o'clock, 1'. M. Prayer meet-evi-ry
Thursday evening at 0 o'clock.
' '.' iV f-'phcpal Church Rev. J. Shank.
IVi.iu-r in charge. Rev J. M. Smith, As-;;-i:it.
Preaching every Sabbath, alternately
a; 1 lM-k in the morning, or 7 in the
Sabbath School at o'clock, A. M.
i'r.uvr meeting every Thursday evening at 7
H" .'.-A Independent Rev. Li.. R. Powell.
!'.t-:-r. Preaching every Sabbath morning at
i ' u'rlnck, and in the evening at 0 o'clock.
M1 i.uH School at 1 o'clock, P. M. Prayer
aviiicr on the lirst Monday evening of each
i;: :iMi: and on every Tuesday, Thursday
as I Friday evening, e.cejtiug the first week
.:i fai h nmuth.
C'h-n,;.i'ir J. tlfHt Rev. Jiiix Williams.
P,.;'.,r. Preaching every Sabbiith evening at
: !i.l li o'clock. Sabbath School at 1 0 o'clock.
A. M. Prayer meeting every Friday evening
T o'clock. Society every Tuesday evening
ut 7 o clock.
1 1 .",.. Ukv. Wm. Lloyd. Pastor Prc.ich-h-'
fVi n Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock.
V:r'i-:ilir R-iptists IIev. Davik JkSKIXS.
r.isior. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
3u1mV. Sabbath School at I o'clock, P.M.
(,',, Ukv. M. J. Mitchell, Pa.-tor
.Vr.1i i-s every Sabbath morning at loj o'clock
a:ij Vc.-pers at 4 o'clock in the evening.
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t'Ol'XTY OFFICERS.
J i lj'i of the Court. President, lion. Geo
Tvlr. Huntingdon ; Associates, GeorgeW
Eualey. Richard Jones, Jr.
l'rithnotary. Joseph M' Don aid.
t'lrrk to I'rothonotury. Robert A. M'Coy.
ll'j'iter and Recorder. Michael Ilas.-or..
Li-put'j Register and Recorder. Johu Scan
lan.
ShfrifT. Uobert P. Linton.
lpvtj Sheriff. George C. K. Zahm.
J'ufnrt Attorney. Philil S. Xoon.
V'luntu C.mtnixm'riners. John Bearer. Abel
Llnvil ll ii-;.! T trt
I'l'rk to Cummusioners. George C. K. Zahm
t-'jumrl to Commissioners. John S. Kucy
Trtusiirrr. lolni A. Blair.
l'oor ll.,Hr. Dirfrtor. William Palmer
D-ivid O'lbirni Mii li w l M'Gnire.
Ptr Ilue Treasurer. George C. K. Zahm
i-tijr H;Hir Stricard. James J. Kaylor.
M-n-nnhle Appraiser. Thomas M'Connell.
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1, "."Jt
i;r.v Hawk.
CjiihIi Surreior. Henry Scanlan.
f 'iriinrr l'..t..i- I.ii.rli.rti-
S'lprrintendent of Common Schools. S. B
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tiu:snrur; nou. officers
J'l'iirtt of the Peace. David II. Roberts,
A n d re w Le w is .
'fxi-n Connril. William Kitt 11, William
"l"r, (diaries Owens, J. C. -Nuuu, r.dw
kard
'-""einaker.
rJ'rk to Council. T. D. Litzinger.
Jlor.jii.jft Treasurer. George Gurley.
H'"7'- Master. William Davis.
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"ais. I!....a s! Tl 1 fJ... I I l..vil M.Trii
. KV!ir Tl.
tr'as.urr of School Hoard Kr&n Mor
""''le. George Gurley.
' ix Collector. George Gurley.
Mor. Ui. hard T. Davis.
Jji lje f t:Uction.iAAc Evan?.
ran
l-v" rs.Jilv S. Hliey, John J Evans
A Wile.
A. wife sat, thoughtfully turning over
A. book inscribed w ith the school-girl's name :
A tear one tear fell hot on the cover,
She quickly closed when her husband came.
He came, and he went away it was nothing,
ith cold calm words upon either 6ide ;
But, just at the sound of the room-door shut
ting
A dreadful door in her soul stood wide.
Love she had read of in SM'eet romances
Love that could sorrow, but never fail,
Built her own palace of noble fancies,
All the wide world" a fairy tale.
Bleak and bitter, and utterly doleful,
Spreads to this woman her map of life ;
Hour after hour she looks to her.soul, full
Of deep dismay and turbulent strife.
Face in both hands, she knelt on the carpet ;
The black cloud loosened, the rain-storm
fell :
Oh! life has so much to wilder and warp it
One poor heart's day what poet could tell !
V Few .Sliort Years and Tlien.
A few short years and then
The dream of life will be
Like shadows of a moruing cloud,
1 a its reality !
A few short j-ears and then
The idols loved the best
Wi'.l pass in all their pride away,
As sinks the sun to rest!
A few short years and then
Our young hearts may be reft
Of cv'ry hope, and find no gleam
Of childhood' sunshine left!
A few short years and then,
Impatient of its bliss,
The weary soul shall seek on high
A better home than this !
From the North American & L". S. Gazette.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
OF
IZon. Andrew Greg? Curlln.
Andrew O. Curtin, the can lidate of the
lVotile's party fur Governor of l'cnn.svl-
vania, was born the 22J of April, 1817, in
JJellcl'ontc, a beautilul village in Centre
county, so called because it lies in the very
heart ot the Commonwealth. Has county
is away from the rieat routes between the
north and the south, the east and the
west, and thus it is not as well known as
it ouirht to be, beniir as it is exceedingly
rich and lovely, and abounding in iron
ores, fertile valleys, and line strcams.-
T he rare facilities of this region attracted
to it, at an early day, the energies and the
residence of Kolaud Cut tin, who for forty
years was a leading iron manufacturer in
Centre count v, accumulated a competent
estate, and has left three sons, brothers of
Andrew, engaged in the great staple bus
iness of Pennsylvania. Andrew lr. Curtin
comes of first-rate Pennsylvaniastock. His
father married a daughter oi Andrew
Greirir. who was one of the great men of
Pennsylvania, in the early part of the
century. He was a representative from
the interior of the State in the first Con
gress under the Constitution, and sat in
the House of lleprcsentatives 18 succes
sive years. Then he was traufcrrcd to the
Uuitcd States Senate, and served a term
of six years. Andrew Gregg was a steady
supporter of the Administration of the
earlier 1 'residents, especially oi dcncrson
and Madison. He offered in Congress the
famous war resolutions which preceded
our last conflict with Great JJritain, and
which elicited the eloquence of Henry
Clay and John Randolph. After his re
tirement from Congress, he acted as Sec
retary of the Commonwealth during the
administration of Gov. Joseph Heister.
Every Pennsylvanian ot middle age wil
remember the fierce and decisive State
canvass of 182i, when the old Fedcra
party, under the lead of Andrew Gregg as
their candidate for Governor, made a last
stand for victory and existence, and were
defeated by the old Pennsylvania ucmoc
racy, under the lead of John Andrew
Shultze. There can be no doubt that the
grandson, Andrew Gregg Curtin, standard-bearer
as he is of the real democracy
of the Slate of this day, will fare better
than his trrandfathcr.
The subject of our tkcteh was educated
at the academy ot the licv. J. lvirKpac-
riek. in Milton. Northumberland county
Mr. Kirkpatrick, still living in Allegheny
county, was one of the old style ot instruc
tors. He "turned out" his boys thor
oughly impregnated with the classics and
mathematics. It is quite a coincidence
that Governor Pollock. President of the
late State Convention which nominate!
Mr. Curtin, and Messrs. Samuel CaUiu
and David Tacnart. both candidates for
the nomination, were educated by th
same instructor. These three gentlemen,
in their ppeeches to the convention, en
dorsing its nominee, referred, in most
touching terms, to the happy memories of
the sunny days when they were boys to
gether in the good old Milton Academy.
After getting well imbued with as much
atin, Greek and mathematics as any one
of our colleges afford, the young Curtin
was placed in the law office aud law school
of Judge Heed, of Carlisle. This school
was one of the departments of Dickinson
College, aud as long as its professors lived
it flourished and sent forth some of the
best lawyers aud public men of Pennsyl
vania, o uure lieeu was well known lor
lis "Pennsylvania lilackstoue," one of the
first attempts ever made to adopt the im
mortal "Commentaries" to our modern
aw. lie was a first-rate lawyer, and an
adept in teaching legal principles.
Andrew u. Curtin was admitted to the
bar in 1830, and began the practice of
aw in lr.s native town. He immediately
entered upon u large and varied practice,
and has ever since been constantly and
etively employed in the courts ot the
counties of Centre, Clearfield, Mifflin and
Clinton. His great information, his vig
orous mind, and candor, recommended
him to the courts ; his winning style made
him powerful with juries. He rapidly
became one of the best known and most
rising young man in central Pennsylvania.
A man with the gut aud temperament
of Andrew G. Curtin could not fail to be
largely interested and concerned in public
affairs. Strikimrly amiable, genial, and
warm-hearted, of luminous, quick and ex
tensive intelligence, of the most engaging
address, endowed with i fluent, facetious
aud captivating eloquence, and instruct
with old Pennsylvania traditions of policy
and patriotism, he threw himself at once
into those political controversies, which,
as JJurko tells us, are the noblest employ
ments of the cultivated man.
He was an ardent and thorough-going
whig, and in 1840, he took an active part
in the campaign which made General
Harrison President of the United States.
In 1844, he was a fervent adherent of the
illustrious candidate of the wings, and he
stumped all central Pennsylvania for
Henry Clay and protection to American
industry. In that struggle, Mr. Curtin
first acquired his wide-spread reputation
for effective and resistless popular elo
quence, lliere is not a county liom tne
Susquehanna to the Alleghemes, in which
the name of Andrew (r. Curtin ever fails
to attract the largest crowds, who eagerly
gather to enjoy the feasts of wisdom, aud
wit, and humor and pathos, of poetry, sta
tistics, story, argument and imagery,
which spread out in his glowing and me
lodious periods.
In 1848, he was placed on the win
electoral ticket, and again traversed many
sections of the State in behalf of General
Zachary Taylor. He Mas an original
supporter of the nomination of General
u infield Scott, and in 18o2, he was again
placed on the electoral ticket, and worked
with his usual zeal to carry the State for
the hero of the valley of Mexico. Indeed
Mr. Curtin was at all times a thorough
and inbred Pennsylvania Whig, devoted
to all those conservative and humane ideas
which distinguished that party which now
sleeps in the graves of Clay and Yv ebster
He is, by training and mature conviction,
a believer in systematic and efficient pro
tection, in liberal internal improvements,
in the policy of encouraging well-paid and
widc-difl'used free American labor. Such
a whig could not fail to be a leader and a
counsellor of the party, and accordiugly
Mr. Curtin was an influential member of
nearly every whig State Convention which
met during the last ten years of the whig
party's existence.
No man was ever more popular at home
He is endowed with much of that rare
magnetism which neutralizes social and
political differences, aud makes the man
stronger than his party. As an illustra
tion of this, in the year 1S4'J, Centre
county composed part ot the Senatorial
district in which Gen. Wm. F. Packer,
now Governor, was the democratic candi
date for State Senator. The whig candi
date withdrew from the canvass ou th
Fridav before the election. At the ear
nest and jreneral solicitation of the party
Colonel Curtin took the field. There re
mained only three days to canvass a very
large district. Yet, while Centre county
gave a majority of eleven huudred for the
rest of the democratic ticket, she gave
Gen. Packer a majority of only three hun
dred. Three days sulliced Curtin, against
as strong a candidate as Packer, to scatter
two-thirds of the Democratic majority.
In the year 1S54, Col. Curtiu wasstron
lv uriicd by the counties of central Penu
tsylvaniafor the Governorship; and when
Hon. James Pollock, of Northumberland,
received the nomination, Curtin was made
chairman of the State Central Committee
Upon the election of Gov. Pollock, he ap
pointed Col. Curtin, Secretary of the Com
monwealth, lie discharged the varied
duties of that office with signal ability and
discretion. Gov. Pollock's administration
was singularly pure, moderate and conser
vative. It Avas not distinguished by any
startling measures, or any exciting innova
tions, lhe agitations and fluctuations
caused by the breaking up of the Whig
party, the pro-slavery democratic outrages
in Kansas, the rise ot the American and
lepublican organizations, and the tremcu-
dous political contest of 185G, withdrew
the general attention from mere State af
fairs to those of national concern. liut.
in the midst of all, the Pollock administra
tion held its even way, maintaining the
interests and the honor of Pennsylvania,
and condemning the barbarities which op-
ressed the people of Kansas, and the
faithless servilities of the Pierce and Uu-
chanan administrations uttering its voice
for protection to the industries of Pennsyl
vania, and exhibiting, on every occasion,
that dignified moderation Avhichis so pecul
iar to the Pennsylvania character, lhat
administration steadily won the confidence
of the people as it proceeded, and retired
from power attended by the respect of ev
ery citizen in the Commonwealth, and
above even the suspicion ot corruption or
partiality. Kx-fiecretary Curtin, as the
intimate friend and constitutional adviser
of the Governor, is fairly entitled to a full
hare of the credit, which attaches to the
lonest, wise and benign administration of
James Pollock.
During that strenuous contest for the
United States Senatorship, which distin
guished the legislative session of 18i5,
Col. Curtin was strongly and persistently
urged by a large body of friends for that
ugh position.
His department of the administration
connected him closely with our common
school system as its superintendent. He
avc laborious attention to it, aud took
particular pleasure in perfecting the details
aud increasing its efficiency, lhe Com
monwealth is greatly indebted to him for
the legislation concerning Normal schools,
which aflords the method and means of
systematically training a body of intelligent
and highly competent teachers, and thus
supplying the most pressing need of our
free schools. Under the working of that
law, one State Normal School is in efficient
operation, end others are springing up in
various parts ot the Commonwealth.
Secretary Curtm was an original and
active supporter of that great measure of
the Pollock administration the sale of the
Main Line of Public Improvements. This
measure was vigorously opposed before its
consummation, but now it is agreed on all
hands that it was timely and wise, and
that the Commonwealth was thereby re
lieved of an incubus which annually deple
ted its treasury aud corrUded its politics.
Since his retirement from the Secreta
ryship of the Commonwealth, Col. Curtin
has devoted himself again to the practice
of the law, and to the material and indus
trial interests of his region ot the Com
mouwealth. He has been very active in
promoting those lines of railroad which
are to bringCentre, Clinton, Clearfield and
the adjoining counties into connection
with the Pennsylvania Central, and the
Sunburv and L.ne railroads, lie lsajren-
tlemau of unusual public spirit, aud his
whole soul is bound up in the development
of the immense mineral and agricultural
resources of his native State. By birth,
education, aud lifelong habit and associa
tion, he is a protectionist, aud a tradition
ary believer in free labor, and in that
policy which purposely encourages, diver
sifies and perfects all the arts, industries
and refinements of a iree aud a civilized
community.
Since that auspicious union of the Op
position in Pennsylvania, which has resul
ted in the formation and the continued
ascendancy of the People's Party, Col. Cur
tin has beeu, for at least two years
regarded from many quarters of the State
as a particularly worthy and suitable can
didate lor Governor, l or that liign po
sition he is peculiarly well iualified. lie
unites an even temper and a solid judge
ment, to great knowledge not only ol books
but of men and ahairs.
No man in the Commonwealth is more
familiar with its history or with its van
nus local iutercsLs ; with its diversified ea
pacities and requirements ; with its legis
lation, its policy and public opinion ; no
one has such an extensive acquaintance
all over the State. In all his private re
latious, and in all the discharge of his
official duties, lie lias acnievea a nign
character for probity and honor. In head
and heart, in temperament and action, he
i an ingrained Pennsylvanian. Within
our broad limits there is none who cau
and will make a better Governor.
Col. Curtin is not only above all re
proach, but is beloved by his immediate
neighbors ana nis personal acquaintances
A man of dignified presence, of gracioiu
and gentle demeanor, kind-hearted, genial j
and sunny-tempered, remarkably instruct- j
lve and lascinating in conversation : he is,
beyond question, the most popular man of
us age m 1'cnnsylvania. In his native
county, and all through the valleys of cen
tral Pennsylvania, every man, woman and
child cherislLes a feeling of personal at
tachment for "Andy Curtin." lie is noto
rious at home for his open-handed liberal
ity, and for his continual charities.
Although he is not rich, and left office
without a cent more than he had when he
entered it, no man in Centre county has
lven away as much money to relieve the
wants of the poor and aid the struggles of
tne embarrassed.
It was remarked in the late convention
which nominated him so promptly and by
such a decided vote, that no man in the
State had such a body of devoted, enthusi
astic personal friends. There never was a
nomination more joyfully hailed. It gives
equal satisfaction among the farmers and
iron men of Centre, and the merchants
aud manufacturers of Philadelphia. The
commercial metropolis of the State answers
it with a wonderfully general applause.
The solid business men of the city and the
State are delighted with it. From Lake
Erie to the Delaware, the nomination is
regarded as the beginning- of a brilliant
campaign, and harbinger of a decisive
State aud National victory. The People s
party coiud not have placed at the head
of an army a more gallant, admirable and
formidable champion. He will make all
1 ennsvlvania ring with his trenchant, aud
sparkling, and sonorous eloquence. He
will be surrounded by the best mcu of the
People s party the flower and the prom
ise of its future younc, intellectual, well
informed, public-spirited and enthusiastic;
who, lighting by his side, will insure
. 1" i- t
stirring uiscussion oi our glorious lueas
of freedom, progress, aud the rights of
labor. Andrew G. Curtin is in the very
prime of life, aud when he becomes Gov
ernor ot Pennsylvania, his administration
will exhibit all the virtues of a youthful
maturity, solid enterprise, generous liber
ality, enlightened humanity, aud a thor
ough Pennsylvania policy.
lhis sketch conies from the heart, as
well as the head, of a true Pennsylvanian,
who, much as he admires and trusts the
candi late, loves the man. But let no
one therefore, suppose that the warmth of
friendship colors this picture too highly.
Andrew G. I urtin will soon visit every
part of the State himself. When he goes,
the crowds who will meet and know him
will become his charmed and eager per
sonal friends.
In October, the people of Pennsylvania
will attest the justice of this sketch by
their votes, aud the future course of events
will only prove the correctness of their
verdict and turn our anticipation into
facts.
Singular Tkaditiox Among the Rem
inole Indians there is a singular tradition
regarding the white man's origin aud su
periority. They say that when the G reat
Spirit made the earth, he also made three
men, all of whom were ot fair complexion
and that after making them, he led them to
the margin of a small lake and bade them
lean therein. One immediately obeyed
and came from the water purer than be
fore he bathed ; the second did not leap
in until the water had become slightly
muddy and when lie bathed lie came up
copper colored; the third did not leap in
until the water became black with mud
and came out with its own color.
Then the Great Spirit laid before them
three packages of bark and bade them
choose, and out of pity for his misfortunes
in color he crave the black man his first
choice, lie took hold of each of the pack
ages and having felt the weight chose
the heaviest; the copper colored one then
choose the second heaviest, leaving the
white man the lightest. When the pack
ages were opened the first 'was found to
contain spades, hoes, aud all implements
of labor; the second enwrapped hunting,
fishing and warlike apparatus, the third
gave the white man pens, ink and paper
the engine ot the mind the mutual
mental improvement : the social link of
humanity, the foundation of the whit
man's superiority.
What they Uaisk tr Nokth. The
La Crosse Democrat has the following.
Last week one of our Easteru friends
coming down from St. Paul, stopped at
Winona over night. Being a stranger he
iiKiuired of the landlord "what kind of
land lHe3T Iiau oacn. on uic juamv; .
"D d splendid land sir '1"
"And what kind ot country have you
back on the bluff .'"
"D d splendid country sir?"
"And what do you mostly raise here?"
" lie raise hill!"
ly Subscribe for The Alleghaxian
"SpilliiS lor a Flglit."
The following pugnacious epistle ap
pears in a late number of the New York
Ierald :
To the Editors ot the Herald : I learn
roni a stray number of your great paper
that Saycrs and Ileenan have a match for
pril next, and 1 must therclore postpone
the pleasure of fighting these men till some
months later. That they may be timely
advised, however, that I shall not only con
test the championship of England and
America, but ot the world, 1 must beg the
favor of you to insert in the columns of
your paper the following
propositions:
81, 000 that I will whip the winner.
81.000 that I will whip him before the
10th round.
81,000 that I will whip him on the let
round.
These bets to be taken together, or
8-3,000 that 1 will whip Ileenan aud
Saycrs both.
85,000 that I will whip them before the
10th round.
85,000 that I will whip them on the 1st
round.
The bets to be taken together, and my
mtagoiiists to meet me alternately i. c.
on alternate rounds, or
8-O,000 that Saycrs and Ileenan coming
at me at one and the same time, I will flax
them both in forty seconds by the watch.
lhe tight must come on at some conve
nient place in the United States; visitors
to be admitted at five dollars a head.
Children, ministers of the Gospel, the
I 'resident of the United States, members
of the Cabinet, and Judges ol the Supreme
Court, together with such higher English
officials as may attend, at half-price. Ed
itors giving this challenge one insertion
in their columns, admitted free. If I
whip, the entire proceeds, together with
the winnings, to be appropriated to the
completion of the Washington Monument
and the last payment of the Mount Yernou
fund debt. If I do not whip, the entire
proceeds together with the winnings, to go
to the English government as a security
fund against "French Invasion."
Alter the affair I propose to eat Saycrs.
Wm. Lowndes IIolley.
January 1st, 1800.
Mr. Bknnett : lam a common seaman
on the sharp American schooner "Thun-
Jer, now discharging "l ankee notions
at the Brazilian port of Parahyba, but
will be in the United States in a few weeks,
when I shall be happy to have any propo
sitions from fighting gentlemen. 1 have
a backer in New York who will go a cool
hundred thousand on me. It is my honest
conviction, expressed privately, that I can
whip any ten men that ever lived.
Hints to Mechanics. Next to far
mers, mechanics arc the most numerous
and most important class of the commu
nity. Whatever promotes their interests,
of course promotes the interests of the
public. They, like farmers, have great
facilities and great inducements to become
men of science and of sound knowledge.
Every mechanic, in operation, brings into
use some principle of science; which prin
ciple it is, of course, his interest and his
convenience to understand.
Every apprentice boy, no matter how
assiduous or how rigorous his employment
if he spends a few minutes daily in useful
reading and other modes of improvement,
is certain to be a man of future influence
and respectability. The apprentice who
seeks most assidously the interests of his
own employer, promotes most effectually
his own interests as character is the best
capital a young man can have for the com
mencement of business. Mechanics, like
farmers, make safe and enlightened states
men. They are well educated for legisla
tors and for other offices, because educated
in schools of experience. Who can be
better qualified to make laws for aiding
the operations of business thau those en
gaged in these operations ?
A Description of a Kiss. However
we may enjoy a kiss, it is a very difficult
thing to define what it is to one who has
never experienced the luxury. The best
description we have ever seen of it, is
one found in a German love-letter, written
in 10S0, which we translate for the bene
fit of parties concerned: "A kiss is, as it
were, a seal expressing our sincere attach
ment a pledge of future union a pres
ent which, at the same time that it is
given, is taken from us the impression of
an ivory coral press crimson balsam for
a love-wounded heart a sweet bite of the
lip an affectionate pinching of the heart
a delicious dish eaten with scarlet
spoons a sweetmeat which does not sat
isfy our hunger a fruit which we gather
and plant at the same time the quickest
exchange of questions aud answers between
two lovers the fourth degree of love."
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