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To the Unsatisfied.
EV MISS HARRIET WINSLOW, OF PORTLAND, ME.
Why thus longing, thus forever sighing,
For the far ofT, unattained and dim:
While the beautiful, all round thee lying,
Offers up its low perpetual hymn ?
Would'st thou listen to its gentle teaching,
All thy restless yearnings it would still;
Leaf and flower and laden bee are preaching,
Thine own sphere, though humble, first to fill.
Poor indeed thou must be, if around thee
Thou no ray of light and joy canst throw;
if no silken cord of love hath bound thee
To some little world through weal and woe.
If no dear eyes ihy fond love can brighten
Io fond voices answer to thine own;
f no brother's sorrow thou canst lighten.
By daily sympathy and gentle tone.
'oi by deeds that win the crowd's applauses,
Aor by words that give the world renown,
'ui by martyrdom, or vaunted crosses,
Canst thou win and wear the immortal crown.
Daily struepline. thounh unloved and lnrw-lv
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Every day a rich reward will give;
hou wilt find, bv heartv striving onlv.
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And truly loving, thou canst truly live.
Dost thou revel in the rosy morning,
When all nature hails the lord of light.
And his smile the mountain tops adorning,
Robes yon fragrant fields in radiance bright?
O'her hands may grasp the field and forest
Proud proprietors in pomp may shine
But with fervent love if thou adorest,
Thou art wealthier all the world is thine!
et if through earth's wide domains thou rovest,
Sighing that they are not thine alone,
tal those faif fields, hut llivsnlf thnn lnvKt.
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And their beauty and thy worth are gone.
a,ure Wears the colors of th snirit;
Sweetly to her worshippers she singn;
Ml the glow, the grace she doth inherit,
Round her trusting child she fondly flings.
A Jfetv Step in Horticulture.
The Parisian scientific correspondent of the
ew-York Courier des Etats Unis, mentions a
w.wijr u CL nay IU JlVUUbD blltlllVd
'"hout stones. Early in tho Spring, before
UIKrflV'arfr ft . n . s nviniliia h U c
"6 Sat! U in full (In.., l, -Ir,,. !. to
r " iti tun iikj vw , a jruuiif ucauiig uri; i o
"'idetl in two down to the branching off of the
0,,s, thepith carefully removed with a wood-
n 'paiula, the parts again united, the air being
eluded by an appl ication of potter's clay the
twill 1 . . t
,c Kiigin ot tne opening, and bound togein
fl'y woolen cord. The sap soon re-unites
3e covered parts, and in two years the tree
VH produce cherries of the best kind, and hav
n?ltl their centre, instead of the tissual kernal.
llin soft pellicle; -
tbacco Fans.
-They are ma'king fans of
'Wco leaves in
Virginia. Pretty opes, loo,
flfi
atihiunable, so it is said.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1845.
IT fiat E3oIe in tSie Pocket.
In this lies ihe true secret or economy the
care-of sixpences. Many people throw them
away without remorse or consideration not
retiecting tbat a penny a day is moie than three
dollars a year. We would complain loudly if
a tax ol that amount were laid upon us ; but
when we come to add all that we uselessly tax
ourselves for our penny expenses, we shall find
that we waste in this way annually quite enough
to supply a family with winter fuel.
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it is now about a year since my wife said to
me one day, " Pray, Mr. Slack water, have you
that half dollar about you that I gave you this
morning?" 1 felt in my waistcoat pocket, and
I felt in my breeches pocket, and 1 turned my
purseinside out, but ii was all empty space
wlilcti is very different from specie; so I said4
to Mrs. Slackwater, " I've lost it, my dear; pos
itively, there must be a hole in my pocket!"
" I'll sew it up," said she.
An hour or two after, I met Tom Stebbins
" How did that ice-cream set?" said Tom. "It
set," said I, " like the sun, gloriously." And,
as 1 spoke, it flashed upon mo that my missing
half dollar had paid for those ice-creams ; how
ever, I held my peace, for Mrs. Slackwater
sometimes makes remarks ; and, even when she
assured me at breakfast next morning that there
was no hole in my pocket, what could I do but
lift my brow and say,' Ah ! isn't there ! really !"
Before a week had gone by, my wife, who
like a dutiful helpmate as she is, always gave
me her loose change to keep, called for a twenty-five
cent piece that had been deposited in
my sub-treasury for safe keeping ; 44 there was
a poor woman at the door," she said, "that she'd
promised it to for certain." 44 Well, wait a mo
ment," I cried ; so I pushed inquiries first in
this direction, then in that, and then in the
other ; but vacancy returned a horrid groan.
41 On my soul," said I, thinking it best to show
a bold front, " you must keep my pockets in
belter repair, Mrs. Slackwater; this piece, with
1 know not how many more is lost, because
some corner or seam in my plaguey pockets is
left open."
"Are you sure?" said Mrs. Slackwater.
" Sure ! ay, thai I am, its gone !' My wife
dismissed her promise, and then, in her quiet
way, asked me to change my pantaloons before
I went out, and to bar all argument, laid
ano-
ther pair on my knees.
That evening, allow me to 'remark, gentle
men of the species " husband," I was very loath
to go home to tea ; I had half a mind to bore
some bachelor friend, and when hutt"er and
habit, in their unassuming manner, one on each
side, walked me up to my own door, the touch
made my blood run cold. But do not think
Mrs. Slackwater is a Tartar, my good friends,
because I thus shrunk from home ; the fact was
that I had, while abroad, called to mind the fate
of her twenty-five cent piece, which I had in
vested in smoke, that is to say, cigars, and I
feared to think of her comments on my panta
loon pockets.
These things went on for some months ; we
were poor to begin with, and grew poorer, or at
any rate no richer, fast. Times grew worse
and worse ; my pocket leaked worse and worse,
even my pocket book was no longer to bo trust
ed, the rags slipped from it in a manner most
incredible to relate; as an Irish song sa3's.
44 And such was the fate of Poor Paddy O'More,
That his purse had the more rents as he had the fewer."
At length one day my wife came in w ith a
subscription paper for the Orphan's Asylum. I
looked at it, and sighod, and picked my tee:h,
and shook my head, and handed it back to her.
4Ned Bowen," said she, " has put down ten
dollars."
" The more shame to him," I replied. " He
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can t alioru it : tie can but nisi scrape aloitt! anv
how, and in lhsc limes it uint right for htm to
do it." My wife smiled in her sad way, and
look the paper back to him that brought it.
The next evening she aked me if I would
jjo with her and see the Bowetis, and, as 1 had
no objection, wo started.
1 knew tbat Nod Bowen did a Jitnall bv
ot-
ness that would give him abPVa-cfjOQ
and 1 thought it would -,e q;,n while
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to see
what that sum wo1 ,j J
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keeping. V'
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Were admitted bv Ned, and wel-
coru f
bv
fd's wife, a very neat littlo body.
f w ..am Mrs.
Sbir.k water had told, me a sreai
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have at home but always want elsewhere, and
I returned to our own establishment with min
gled pleasure and chagrin.
" What a pity," said I to my wife, " that
Bowen don't keep within his income."
" He does," he replied.
" But how can he on $600 ?" was my an
swer; 44 if he gives ten dollars to this charity
atrd five dollars to that, and ljve so snug and
comfortable too ?"
"Shall I tell you?" asked Mrs. Slackwater.
"Certainly, if you can."
u His wife," said my wife, ' finds it just as
easy to do without twenty or thirty dollars
worth ol ribbons and laces as to buy them. j
I hey have no fruit but what they raise and
have given them by country friends, whom they
repay by a thousand littlo acts of kindness.
They use no beer, which is not essential to his
health as it is to yours ; and then he buys no
cigars, or ice creams, or apples at one hundred
per cent, on market price, or oranges at twelve
cents a piece, or candy ; or new novels, or rare
works sul I more rarely used ; in short, my dear
Mr. Slackwater he has no hole in his pocket."
It was the first word of suspicion my wife
had uttered on the subject, and it cut me to the
quick ! Cut me ? I- should rather say it sew
ed me up, me and my pockets, too ; they never
have been in holes since that evening.
.TEsmkIc Wcs:dcrs of Katsire and Art.
Lewiienhoeck, the great microscopic obser
ver, calculates that a thousand millions of ani
malculaj which are discovered in common wa
ter, are not altogether so large as a grain of
sand,
more
In the milt of a single codfish there are
animals than there are upon the whole
earth; for a grain of sand is bigger than four
ueal, as they Had been school-mates. All was
as nice as wax, and yet as substantial as iron ;
comfort was written all over the room. Tho
evening passed, somehow or other, though we
had no refreshment, an article which we never
millions of them. I he white matter that sticks knack which he possessed of appropriating the
to tho teeth also aboundo with aninncula) figures, ! ihoughis and language of other great divines
to which vinegar is fatal, and it is known that; who had gone before him, to his own use, and
tWgar contains animaculae in the shape of eels. by a skillful splicing and dovetailing of passa
A mite was anciently through the limit of little- ges, so as to make a whole. Fortunately for
ness; but we arefiow surpisod to be told of an-, him, those who composed his audience were
imals tv.eniy-seveu millions of times smaller f not deeply skilled in pulpit lore, and with such
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computation of the velocity of a lutlo creature!
scarce usioie ty its smaliness, which he found
lo run t.tree inches in half a second; supposing a grave old gentlemen f-eated himself close to
now its feet to bo the fifteenth part of a line, it the pulpit, and listened with profound attention,
must make five hundred steps in the space oTi The doctor had scarcely finished his third sen
three inches, that is, ti must shift its legs five . tence before the old eentleman said loud enough
hundred times in a second, or in the ordinary
pulsation of an anery.
The proboscis of a butterfly, which winds
round in a t-iiiral form, like the spring of a
watch, serves both for mouth and tongue, by
entering into the hollows of flowers and ex
tracting their dews and juices." The seeds of
strawberries rise out of the pulp of the fruit,
and appear themselves like strawberries when
viewed by ihc microscope. The farina of the
sun-flower seems composed of flat circular mi
nute bodies, sharp-pointed round the edges; the
middle of them appears transparent, and exhib
its some resemblance to tho flower it proceeds
from. The powder seeds of cucumbers and
melons. The farina of the popy appears like
pearl barley. That of the lily is a great deal like
the tulip. The hairs of the head are long tu
bular firiires through which the blood circulates.
The sting of a beo is a horny sheath or scab
bard that includes two bearded darts: the sting
of a wasp has eight beards on the side of each
dart, somewhat like ihe beards of fish hooks.
The eye of gnatd arn pearled, or composed of
many rows of linle semi circular protuberances
ranged with the utmost exactness. The wan
dering or hunting spider, who spins no wcK, hj,
two lufis of feat her lrAcd to its fore pa.:s cj-exquisite
beamy atia coloring. A urr.iii of sand
will cover ivo hundred scales oC il,a bkin, and
also. cq,,'er twenty thousand, "places where per
foration may issue forth,. ir. Baker has just
ly observed with respetl tq the Deity, that with
him "an atom is a world, and a world but as an
atom."
Mr. Power says he saw a golden chain at
Tredeseant'a Museum, of three hundred links,
not more than an inch in length, fastened to aiid
pulled away by a ilea. And I myself tays Ba-
ker, in his Essay on the Microscope have seen
very lately, and have examined with my micro
scope, chaise made by one Mr. Boverick, a
watchmaker having four wheels with all the
proper apparatus belonging to them, turning
readily on their axles; together with a man sit
ting in the chaise, all formed of ivory, and drawn
along by a flea without any seeming difficulty.
I weighed it with the greatest care 1 was able,
and found the chase, man and flea, were barely
equal to a single grain. I weighed, also at the
same time and place, a brass chain made by the
&ame hand, about two inches long containing
two hundred links with a hook at one end, and
a padlock and key at the other, and found it less
than the third patt of a grain. I likewise have
seen at quadrills table, with a drawer in it, an
eating table, a sideboard table, a looking glass,
twelve chairs with skeleton backs, two dozen
plates, six dozen knives, and as many forks,
twelve spoons, two salts, a frame and castors,
together with a gentleman, lady, and footman,
all contained in a cherry stone, and not filling
much more than half of it. At the present
day are to be purchased cherry stones highly
polished with ivory screws which contain each
one hundred and twenty perfect silver spoons,
an ingenious bauble worty the patronage of the
juvenile part of tho community. We are told
one Oswald Merlinger made a cup of pepper
corn which held twelve hundred other little
cups, ail turned it) ivory, each of them being
Hilt upon the edges, and standing upon a foot;.
and that so far from being crowded, or wanting
room, the pepper-corn would have held four
hundred more. One pennyworth of crude iron
can by art be manufactured into watch-springs,
so as to produce some thousand pounds.
Sears' Magazine.
A DovC'taiicr of Sermons.
The Rev. Mr. , was what is com
monly termed a popular preacher;' not, how-
over, by drawing on his own stores, but by the
ne pusseu lor a wonder oi eruuiuun. n nap-
pened, however, that the Rev. Doctor was de-
.tected in his literary larcenies. One Sunday,
to be heard by those near him, 'that's Sherlock.'
The doctor frowned but went on. He had not
proceeded much farther, when his grave audit
or broke out with 'that's Tillotson.' The doc
tor bit his lip and paused, but again went on.
At a third exclamation of 'that's Blair,' the doc
tor lost all patience, and leaning over the side
of the pulpit, 'fellow,' he cried, 4if you do not
hold vour loneue. vou shall bo turned out.'
Without altering a muscle, the old cynic, look
ing the doctor full in the face, said, 'that's Yjs
own.'
A Prescription..
The editor of the Knickerbocker ludicrously
illustrates the necessity of a reform in medical
nomenclature. Very nu.;n confounded, he
says, was our friend, jr Doane, a few years
since, by a remark, -of. one of his patients. The
day previous, tb'j Doctor had prescribed that
safe and palat ualjle remedy the syrup of buck
thorn, and eft. his prescription duly written in
the usup'i cabalistic character, 'Syr. Ram. Cath.'
On ''liquoring if the patient had taken the medi
c'iue, -a thunder cloud darkened her face, light
ning flashed from her eyes, and she roared out,
'No! I can read your Dorior writing, and I
aim a-goin' to lake the Syrup of Ram Cats for
any body under heaven.'
In 1 G69, the constables of the colony of Ply
mouth, Mass., were ordered to look after alh
persons who slept in church, and report their
names to the General Court. If such a law
were in force in these days, constables would
have their bands full of business, and be pre
cluded from many a comfortable nap themselves.
Large. A cotemporary says that he knows
a lady whose heel is near a foot.
No. .51
JBody and Mi as a.
BY CARLYLK.
Two men I honor, and no third. Fir-u, the
toil-worn craftsman, that with eanh-made im
plements, laborious conquers the earth, and
makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard
hand, crooked, coarse; wherein, nniwjthsiaiid
ing, lies a cunning virtue, indefeasibly royal, a.s
of the sceptre of this planet. Vcner ible, uu
is the rugged face, all weather tanned besoileil.
with its rude intelligence ; for it is ihe face of
a man living man-like. Olr, but the more, ven
erable for thy rudeness, even because we must
pity as well as love thee! Hardly entreated
brother! For us was thy back so bent, for u
were thy straight limbs and fingers, so deform
ed; thou wert our conscript, on whom the lor
fell, and fighting our battle wert so marred.
For in thee, too, lay a God created form, bus
it was not to ho unfolded, intrusted mus it
stand with the thick adhesions and deface'.nent
of labor ; and thy body like thy soul, was roi
to know freedom. Yet toil on, thou act in th
duty, be out of it who may ; thou toilest for the
altogether indispensable, for daily broad.
A second'man IJiouor, and still more highly r
him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indis
pensable not daily bread, but the bread oftife.
Is not he, too, in his duty, endeavoring towards
inward harmony revealing this by act and by
word, through all his outward endeavors, ba
they high or low. Highest of all when hits out
ward and inward endeavors are one ; when wo
can name him artist not earthly crafts men
only, but inspired thinker, that with heaven
made implements conquers heaven for us. If
the poor and humble toil that we may havo
food, must not ihe high and glorious toil for him
in return, that he may have light, guidance,
freedom, immortality ! These two in all their
degrees, I honor, all else is chaff and dust,
which let the wind blow whether it listeth.
Unspeakably touching is it, however, when
I find both dignities united; and he that must
toil outwardly for the lowest of man's wants, i
also toiling inwardly for the highest. Sublimer..
in this world, know I nothing than a peasant
saint, could such anywhere now be met with
Such a one will take thee back to Nazareth it
self; thou wilt see the splendor of heaveu
spring from the humblest depths of earth, like
a light shining in great darkness.
And again; it is not because of Im toil that
I lament foi the poor; we must all toil, or steal,
(however we name our stealing,) which i
worse, no faithful workman, find his t3sk a pas
time. The poor man is hungry and athirst, but
for him also there h food and drink; is heavy
laden and weary but for him also ihe heavens
sends sleep, and the deepest; in his smoky
crib a clear dewy heaven of rest envelops him,
and fitful glimmerings of cloud-skirted dreams.
But what I do mourn over is, that the lamp of
his soul should go out ; that no heavenly or
eveiu earthly, knowledge should visit him ; but
oily in the haggard darkness, like two spec
res, fear and indignation. Alas! while the
body stands so broad and brawny must tne soul
lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihU
lated ! Alas ! was this, too a breath of GodV
bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to. be
unfolded ! That there should one man die ig
norant, who had capacity for knowledge, this
I call a tragedy, were it too bappea more than
twenty times in a minute, as by some competU
lion it does.
An Iiifjcnieis Advertisement.
Class in Natural Histop.y. Schoohnas
ter. 'James, what is a Salamander?
'An amphibious animal what eats fire
Schoolmaster. 'Pshaw! Robert, what's a Sal
amander? Describe it, and stale where it is
found.'
'1 know! It's a big iron box, with doors to ir,
as laid in the fire at tho Tribute oflice for thirty-six
hours, without gelling hot enough insido
to scorch a bank bill; and it's found at Mr. HerT
ring's, 139 Waier-Bireet, N.York. I'aeo it
there myself, and more of the samo genus..'
Schoolmaster. 'You're a smart boy, R.obert,
go lo the head,'
Just so. "A'woman who loves, lores for
lifo, unless a well-founded jealousy compels her
to relinquish the object of her affections." So
says somebody.
44 A man who loves, loves for life, unless ha
alters his mind." So says somebody else.
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