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THERE'S a good time coming, boys,
A good time coming,
t When Printers shall be paid their dues,
t Their children have new frocks and shoes,
, k Jn the good time coming : ,
The devil's pittance shall be paid, ! -,.. u
His pantaloons sowed stronger, .
And a bran new hat to crown his head ' . "'
Wait a little longer.- irtht, z
kv There's a good lime coming, boys,
" A good time coming,
"v . SQbscription lists shall swell in size,
Proportioned to the enterprize ;
l. In the good lime coining ; '
I Aud every farmer in the land, ., - .
Shall feel his mind grow stronger ; .
Patronizing county trusts.
Wait a little longer. .
, v 'The re's a good time coming, boys,
A good lime coming, f" :
When an editor can pay his debts,
(Which now too often he forgets,)
He'll settle off his old accounts
To make his credit stronger,
With half dimes in his fob for change,
r. ? Wait a little longer.
A Good Joke.
i The following joke is too good for us to take the
responsibility of it, particularly as we were sworn
never lo mention it but editors' oaths, lovers prom
ises, and pastry cooks' piecrust, are about of a
muchness ; so here goes : Young mammas are
proverbially fond of displaying the precious intellect
of their "buds of beauty." A friend of ours, dropping
in at the dinner hour of a youthful pair, not two
hundred miles from this city, was treated to a gra
tuitous entertaiment on the score of maternal soli
citude by the charming hostess. " You've not
seen our Willie for an age, Mr. 1 he's quite a
little man, I can assure you ! Willie, shake hands
with ihe gentleman." Of course Willie obeyed
directions, and of course our friend, as in duty
bound, was filled with admiration from the crown
of his head to the sole of his feet. " He's so po
lite, too," urged the mother ; " says yes sir, and
no ma'am, and cati use his knife and fork like a
gentteman."
Now, Willie," said she, placing him at the ta
ble, the better to give a practical proof of her as
sersions: "now, Willie, what will you have V
Our friend was all ears for the reply, and.prepared
to go into immediate ecstasies, but no reply came.
Will you have some beans ?"
" No-o !" roared out the precious.
"No ,? is that the way to speak to your mother!
.No-whatl"
""No beans !" shouted the little curiosity, fling
ing the plate at the mother's head and upsetting
the soup tureen Into our friend's lap. " Deliver
me from smart children hereafter," exclaimed our
friend as he related to us the mishap, at the same
time threatening to pull our very inoffensive nose If
we should ever make a capital of it. We did not
relish the threat, through we did the story, and so
told it, in conseqence of which, we beg to assure
our readers, that from this time hanceforth we con
sider our nose pulled in several places.
A Scolding Wife, or a Smoky Chimney.--At
a young man's debating socieiy, the ques
tion for discussion was " Which is the great
est evil, a scolding wife, or a smoky chimney?"
After ihe appointed disputants had concluded,
a spectator aaid.
I've been almost mad a listening to the de-
bate of these 'ere youngsters. They don't'
know nothing at all about the subject. Wait till
they have had a wife 'for twenty years and
been jammed, and alammed all the while and
wait till they have been scolded because the ba
by cried, because ihe fire wouldn't burn, because
the oven was too hot, because the cow kicked
over the milk, because it rained, because the
sun shined, because ihe hens did'nt lay, because
the butter wouldn't come, because the old cat
tiad kittens, because visiters came to soon after
dinner, because they were one minuie too late,
because they sung, because a young lady was
invited to call again ; why Mr. Chairman, I'd
rather hear the clatter of hammers and stones,
and twenty brass kettles, than the din,. din, din,
of the tongue of a scolding wife. Yes, air, I
would. To ray mind, Ml Chairman, a smoky
chimney is no more lo be compared to a scold
ing wife, than a little negro is to a dark night.
Mrs. Parti u glow's liast.
Reading the newspaper praises of Jenny Lindas
benevolent disposition, Mrs. Partington came to
.the.complitnentary expression in regard to the "IeU
-JeelinE in her bosom," which the Swedish
jJNightingale cherished .towards the unfortunate .and
eedy. Involuntarily raising her spectacles, and
looking the very personification of amazement, the
good old lady repeated A feller feelings in her
bosom'! la me, if that aint just the way the fellers
used ito do when. I .was a girl,!V And themshe re
adjusted her spectacles and kept on readipg. ,
From. Chamber's Miscellany.
How Coal was Made.
Geology lias proved that, at one period, there
existed an enormously abundant. land vegetations,
the ruins or rubbish of Which, carried into seas,
and there sunk to the bottom, and afterward, cov
ered over by sand and mud beds, became the sub
stance which we now recognize as coal. This
was a natural transaction of vast consequence to
us, seeing how much utility we find in coal, both
for warming our dwellings and for various manu
factures, as well as the production of steam, by
which so great a mechanical power is generated.
It may naturally excite surprise that the vegeta
ble remains should have so completely changed
their apparent character, and become black. But
this can be explained by chemistry ; and part of
the marvel becomes clear to the simplest under
standing when we recall the familiar fact, that
damp hay, thrown closely into a heap, gives put
heat, and becomes of a dark color. When a veg
etable mass is excluded from the air, and subjected
id great pressure, a bituminous fermentation is
produced, and the result is the mineral coal, which
is of various characters, according as the mass
has been originally intermingled with sand, clay
or other earthy impurities. On account of the
change effected by mineralization, it is difficult to
delect in coal the traces of a vegetable structure ;
but these can be made clear in all except the high
ly bituminous caking coal, by cutting or polishing
it down into thin transparent slices, when the mi
crocopo shows the fibres and cells very plainlyj
From distinct isolated specimens found in the
sandstones amidst the coal beds, we discover the
nature of the plants of this era. They are almost
all of a simple cellular structure, and such, as ex
ist with us in small forms, (horse tails, club mosses,
and ferns), but advanced to a enormous magnitude.
The species are all along since extinct. The
vegetation generally is such as now grows in clus
ters of tropical islands ; but it must have been the
result of a high temperature obtained otherwise
than that of the tropical regions now is, for the
coal strata are found in the temperate, and even
the polar regions. "The conclusion, therefore, to
which most geologists have arrived is, that the
earth, otiginally an incandecent or highly-heated
mass, was gradually cooled down until in the Car
boniferous period it fostered a growth of terrestri
al vegetation all over its surface, to which the ex
isting jungles of the tropics are mere barrenness
in comparison. This high and uniform tempera
ture, combined with a greater proportion of car
bonic acid gas in the manufacture, would not on
ly sustain a gigantic and prolific vegetation, but
would also create denser vapors, showers and
rains ; and these again gigantic rivers, periodical
inundations, and deltas. Thus, all the conditions
for extensive deposits of wood in estuaries would
arise from this high temperature ; and every cir
cumstance connected with the coal measures
points to such conditions.
Good Actions.
It is the custom among the Arabs for each pil
grim in passing by a memorable spot to cast a
stone thereon. In this way a pile is reared. It is
a common excuse among men when urged to con
tribute their might to the general good, that their
individual efforts would be of no avail. No per
son is so obscure in our opinion, who has not in
his power, by good actions and upright conduct,
to aid his fellow beings and elevate the standards
of morality, truth and justice. No good action is
ever lost.
A pebble seems but a small and insignificant
portion or the world's surface, yet cast it into the
water and an infinite succession of circles sur
round it, -widening far beyond the reach of vision.
So with a good action, it is a trifling thing at the
time; it may have impressed but one human heart.
Yet the lesson will never be lost. Wider and wi
der grow the circles till they lose themselves in
the sea of eternity. Do not neglect the day of
small things. Trifles make up the sum of human
existance. There is some grandeur and magna
nimity in doing a great action or making a great
sacrifice, but true charity and true greatness is
content to labor unseen, save by the one unsleep
ing eye that seeth and rewardeth all things. Do
not fancy youself useless; Nothing in the wide
world is so. But one thing is certain, we cannot
be quiescent, and unless our influence is for good
it must be for evil. Though our contribution to
the general good be but the widow's mite, let it
be given cheerfully and unrepiningly and it may
yield an abundant harvest. There is an able
monument, or rather mound of earth, which now
stands on the borders of the Vistula, raised to the
memory of the illustrious Kosciusko, by his coun
trymen, and, during its erection, no one passed
without carrying their portion of earth towards its
completion. Men, woman and children, each aud
all, labored together for this one grand object; the
rich and the poor, for the love of the patriot dwelt
strong in the hearts of .all, and each hastened to
do. honor to their illustiious countrymen. Let
none despair or be idle, for they know not what
destiny is before them. Minersyille Bulletin.
' Ceasar, what am become of de darkey what
stole de tallow f
1 He ha$ been taken up on an. affidawt, and
carried up to de S'preme Court,' to have it
fried.'
On an affidavit, Ceaser V
Yes, J seed de handle myself I did
. .A p.le.rgymgn, said tpthe boys.in.jhe gallery,
V Donimakeu.ch a noise, for you , will wake,
up youriparsntB belo,w:." L ;; k, 4? lm
Pumping a Iakc Dry.
Dr. J. V. C. Smith, the editor of the Boston
Medical Surgical Journal, who is now on a visit
to Europe, gives ail interesting description, in his
editorial correspondences from Holland, of the
manner in which the lake of Haarlem is being
drained by steam engines and its water sent to the
sea :
" Six miles from Amsterdam is the inland lake
of Haarlem, 24 mile long by 11 in width, which,
three hundred years ago was found to be percep
tibly increasing by shooting its. waters further and
further, and covering up the land threatening the
first commercial port of the realm with destruction
by flowing in upon its bank. Various schemes,
at that remote epoch, were devised by able coun
sellors to stay the threatening danger. Three
Dutch Engineers, of acknowledged ability, propos
ed draining off the water, first raising it by wind
mills. They are entitled to remembrance, from
having suggested the plan adopted in 1849, for a
verting an impending calamity. Seven years since,
delay being no longer safe, a canal was dug a
round the whole circumference of the lake, aver
aging 200 feet in width by 19 deep.
These monster steam engines are housed on the
sides of the lake, some six or eight miles apart,
each moving eight monstrous pumps. All the pis
tons are raised at once, at every revolution of the
machinery, raising 15,000 gallons of water, which
is emptied into the canal, whence it is hastened
on by a fourth engine faster than it would othor
wise move to the Zuvder Zee, and thus it reaches
the sea 15 miles distant. In April, 1849, the
pumps worked by three of the mightiest steam en
gines perhaps ever constructed were set in motion;
aud up lo this date, July 25th 1850 have lowered
the contents of the lake seven feet By next April,
it is anticipated that the bottom will be fairly ex
posed, and. all the water conveyed away from its
ancient basin. All that is executed at. the ex
pense of government.
The Spider.
The intelligence and power evinced by the spi
der in securing its prey has often attracted atten
tion; but we have seldom have of so remarkable a
display of these faculties as we witnessed a short
time since. A small-seized spider had made his
web on the under side of a table. Early one
morning, a cockroach was noticed on the floor, di
rectly under the web, and on approaching to take
it away, it was discovered that the spider had
thrown a line around one of its legs, and while the
observer was looking at it, the spider came down
and lassoed the opposite leg of the cockroach. The
spider then went up to his web, but instantly came
down and fastened a line to another leg, and con
tinued for several minutes darting and fastening
lines to different parts of the bodies of his victim.
The struggles of the cockroach though a full
grown one were unavailing to effect his escape
he could not break his bonds, and his efforts
seemed only to entangle him the more. As his
struggles became more and more feeble, the spi
der threw his lines more thickly around him ; and
when he had become nearly exhausted, the spider
proceeded to raise him from the floor. This he
did by raising one end at a time. He at first
raised the head and forward part of the body, near
ly half an inch ; then raised the other end; and so
continued to work, till the cockroach was elevated
five or six inches from the floor. Thus " hung in
chains," the victim was left to die. The spider
was not more than a tenth the, weight of his prey.
What sort of a winter we are to have. The
Alexandria Gazette says:
'We have heard, through a scientific friend, that
he has recently examined a record of the wheath
er, which has been uninterruptedly kept through
several generations, for the past three hundred
years, and that he finds that as are the first three
days prior to the autumnal equinoxes, so are the
autumn and winter which follow; that if these days
be mild and pleasant, so will the winter : if, on
the other hand, the three days preceding be cold
and blustering, so will the autumn and winter that
succeed. Our attention has been more particu
laly drawn to this theory from the remarkably fine
weather succeeding the hail-storm which recent
ly passed over thjs section of country, which is so
different from the. wheather generally succeeding
a hail storm.-'
National Currency- We find in a New Eng
land paper the following ingenious table of ac
tional currency :
10 Loafers make one Grog Shop.
1 Grog Shop makes 50 Drunkards.
50 Drunkards ruin 50 Families:
50 Ruined Families fill one Poor-house and
Jail.
1 Poor-Hbuse 'and Jail make 1 Great ' Bill of
Cost.
1 Great Bill of cost3 make 1 Poor Town.
1 Poor town drains the County Treasury.
1 Bankrupt County is a Great State Tax.
1 Great State Tax drains the National Funds.
An old Nurse's cure for the Summer
Complaint. Take three nutmegs, grated; to
whjch add the yolka of three fresh eggs, and
three tableapoonfulla of French brandy, or best
Port wine. Dose a table spoonful three times
a day. It is one of the simplest and most ef
fective remedies overused for cholera infantum.
For thirty years an old nurse used this, and du
ring all that time lost not a dozen caaes. With
ordinary care, good nursing, proper aitention
to clpihirigi.&c, no child need die of summer
c.ornjpLajnt, ifypu;will but.uae the above assist;
ant.
The American aud Swedish Nightin
gales, The following, From the New York Mirror,
is-a very good hit at the extravagances which
fill the papers about Miss Lind's singing :
Another triumph. Shortly after the ar
rival of Jenny Lind at Boston a very painful
event occurred there, which has very seriously
affected her. It appears that in the house
where apartments were provided for her there
was a very suberior mocking bird, whose pow
ers of mimicry and song were such that he had
silenced both the feather and feline circles
there, canary birds and cats giving up all at
tempts to outmatch him in their respective notes.
He was moved into the same room with Jenny
who was charmed with him. After finishing
one of her simple songs, "Bob" tuned his pipes
and gave out a very fair imitation. The ad
miration of Jenny was unbounded ; she tried
him in a snatch from the celebrated "cavatina"
in "II Punfani." "Bob," after one or two
leaps from perch to perch, his tail in ec
atacy, filled his chest again, and run over all
those beautiful notes as accurately as if they
were the mere echo of the thrilling notes of Jen
ny. Mr. Barnum, who stood by, became a
larmed. He knew the owner of the bird had
too long a pocket to admit of a possiblo hope
of his willingness to part with him, or even en
ter into "an engagement" on any terms, and
here was a bird equal to Jenny. Jenny, how
ever, seeing the consternation of her friend,
sprang to the piano struck off, in her best style,
hor celebrated " Swedish Echo Song,"
" Schielmeert vax undei hell vlarling
Weigheugh ! ha ! weigheugh !"
" Bob" listened, sprang to his water jar, and
took a sip ; listened again, shook his feathers,
and began. For a note or two he succeeded
admirably; but when he came to that point where
the voice of Jenny leaves the earth and turns a
a somerset in the clouds, poor " Bob" faltered;
he was seen to struggle hard ; reeled, and fell
dead from his perch in a lock jaw.
cale for Weighing Grain.
A valuable machine for weighing and meas
uring grain is thus described by ihe St. Louis
Republican " One of the most convenient and
accurate machines we have seen to weigh
wheat or any kind of grain has been invented
by Mr. W. H. T. Bramble, of Lafayette, Ind.,
and patented by hitn on the 7th of May, 1850,
A model is now exhibiting by Mr. Insley, at
the Virginia hotel in this city. We have noi
sufficient familiarity with the construction of
the scales to attempt a description at this time,
but may say from what we have seen, that its
construction and the principle upon which it
acts, is perfectly simple. Once seen, the won
der is that it was not before invented. To
warehouse men, millers, and those engaged in
the buying and selling of grain, it seems to us
to be of great value. By a very simple, yet
accurate arrangement, any amount of grain may
be received, weighed, and the account kept
per bushel, and the total added up by dial
plates on one end of ihe scales. In this it dis
penses with the use of tallies and all account
keeping. If a certain quantity of wheat is to
be delivered, the machine is slightly shifted,
the index set at the other end to measure the
quantity required, and when that passes through
it it stops. Bui its greatest value is to millers,
who have to tru3t to other men to attend the
" run." By placing it over the hopper he
may at all times ascertain precisely how much
flour be is making to the bushel. He may de
tect any errors on the pari of his workmen or
machinery. It is of very cheap construction.
Mr. lnaley is here to sell rights to States,
counties, or individuals only. The model will
be exhibited in the Exchange, and we com
mend it to the attention of our grain merchants,
millers, etc.
The Interior of Africa.
Bancroft, an intelligent voyager, has, years
ago, dissipated the delusion, that the interior
of Africa is a " desert waste." He has shown
that it is accessible to navigation and trade;
thai the climate is as healthy as that of the
tropics generally ; that there are regions of
beautiful and fertile country, affording oppor
tunities for legiiimate commerce of indefinite
extension. This adventurous traveller explored
the river Nieer within forty miles of Timbuc-
too. He has thrown light on thousands of
miles oi richly fertile and wooded country, wa
tered by that great stream: and upon the ivory,
vegetable tallow, pepers, indigo, cotton, wool,
palm oil, dye woods, timber woods, skins, and
a great variety of produce, which invito the
trade. To carry on this trade in the vossels
which navigate the river, ii is necessary to
have black crews. The " London Spector"
remarks : " Of course the free blacks, educated
in the West India trade, will become useful
workmen in penetrating the native land of their
race. We must depend, at least for generations,
to come, on the black race to supply the bulk
of the crews." For our own part, we do not
see why our own country should not compete
with Britain for the rich trade of Africa. Nor
do we know any more efficient method of com
petition than the proposed line of steamers.
Rain Cause.
A very simple and excellent instrument or
measuring the. depth of rain that falls, has re
cently been invented. It consists of a copper
funnel, from 5 to 7 inches in diameter. The
rain being collected in a glass bottle it should
be placed in a small stand near the surface of
the ground, to project the bottle from the action
of the sun. The amount of rain fallen in a
given time is measured in a graduated glass
jar, one-tenth the area of the funnel, and so di
vided, that every inch in depth of the tuhe shall
indicate one-tent h qf an inch falling in the funnel.
The amount, of rain falling can be measured by
tiuch an. instrument to 1 -5000th part of an inch,
or oven less.. .. . .
To Fatten Fowls.
Fowls may be fattened in four or five days, by
the following process: Set some rice over the fire
with skimmed milk, as much only as will .serve
one day. Let it boil till the rice is swelled out ;
add a teaspoonful of sugar. Feed them four or
five times a day in pans, and give them as much
each time as will fill them. Great care must be
taken that they have nothing sour given them, as
that prevents their fattening; Give them, clean
water, or the milk from the rice to drink. By this
method the fie3h will have a clear whiteness ; and
as rice goes further than barley-meal, it will be
found more economical.
Cows Holding their Milk.
A correspondent of the American Agriculturist
states, that he had a cow that would not give
down her milk ; and, as he had heard that putting
a weight on the back of a cow would make her
give down her milk, he laid a bushel of grain on
her back, but without effect. He then put his el
bows on the centre of her back, and bore on till
her back became hollowed, and then she gave
down her milk freely.
In the American Veterinarian, we remark that
the holding up of milk is done by an effort of the
cow, of which she will tire after awhile ; and if
a person will deal gently with a cow, and sit down
and perform the usual operation of milking, per
severing steadily, the milk will flow freely in a
short time. The discovery of this simple and
gentle method was made by a boy only nine years
of age, who could by mild means milk the most
refractory cows, which strong, men had tried in
vain to subdue.
Kicking Horses.
Daniel D. Gitt, of Adams county, in this State,
communicates to the American Farmer his mode
of breaking horses of the vile and dangerous hab
it of kicking. He says :
" I attach one end of a strong line to the hind
pastern of the horse, and take it forward through
the loop, fastened to the trace, at the side of the
horse, and attach the other end of the line to the
bit of the bridle; a line attached thus at each side
of the horse, if left sufficiently long to just enable
him to make a step, will at every kick he may
make, operate so severely upon his mouth as to
cause him very soon to give it up as a bad job."
Singular Discovery of a Toad.
As some shipwrights were engaged in open
ing the brig Brilliant, of Workingham, lying in
the Bute Docks, Cardnff, in Wales, one of them
had occasion to " take a chip off" one of her
quarter timbers, when to his astonishment he
saw a hole in it. After some further examina
tion of the part and probing it, an immense toad
was taken out. The animal, on being handed
ashore and placed in the sun, hopped about,
apparently delighted with its liberation from its
oaken cell, and introduced to light and heat.
The vessel is 22 years old, and the toad must
have been imbedded in the tree whilst growing.
This piece of timber was traversed by bolts and
other fastenings in almont every direction ;
but strange to say, Mons. Crapaud escaped un
hurt, although in such a dangerous locality, af
ter no one knows how long, nor how much
knocking about ashore and tossing about at sea
for more than 20 years, to and from various
parts of the world.
Capital.
Professor Risley, who is now in Itily, says
that when he was in Venice, an American cap
tain and an Englishman met at dinner. "You
are an American, sir V said the- Englishman.
" 1 reckon I am," returned the captain. You
have the name of being great warriors?" "Yes,"
said the Yankee, " we shoot pretty well."
"But how is it you are so anxious to make peace
with Mosico 1 This does not appear much
like spunk." " You are an Englishman V
interrogated 'the Yankee. " Yes," replied the
Englishman. " Well," said the Yankee, " I
don't know what our folks have offered to do
with Mexico ; but, s'ranger, I'll just tell you
one thing I'll be d d if we ever offered
to make peace with you 1" This home thrust
at the Englishman set the whole table in an
uproar of laughter.
An Original Notice to Debtors. A Mr.
Beckwith, of Smethport, Pa., gives notice, af
ter the following fashion, to his old custommers
to square their accouta : " I told you, some
time ago, that I had made up my mind to lake
a nimble sixpence instead of a slow shilling ;
but it has proved too nimble for me, and I fear
I shant even get the slow shHling, ii's so long
in coming round. Those indebted, " me would
do well to make themselves nimble, or I shall
be under the necessity of ascertaining by gree
ting, where that nimble sixpence is. You that
have danced, walk up and pay the fiddler."
How to Destroy Rats.
Professed rat catchers in England use the
following compound, and so affected are rats by
this perfume that they can be taken with im
punity :--Powdered assafcetida one quarter grain;
oil of anniseed, one drachm ; essential oil of
lavender, one scruple ; essential oil of rhodium,
three drachms. Mix this compound, and spread
it on the bail in the trap.
"What are the chief end of man ?" asked' a
school teacher of his pupils. "Head and feet,"
was the prompt reply. The teacher fainted.
It is decidedly in bad taste to attend the
funeral of a colored friend, and then inform
your friends you have been a black berry ing
JET Said qyqung urchin indignantly, to a gen
tleman who had called him a boy. " Dqint-qall
me. boy Pv chew'd tobacco Una Blx yeare,"
Thj.getll6man apologised ! . .