Carlisle herald. (Carlisle, Pa.) 1845-1881, June 04, 1856, Image 2
' ":- btlErt gatt. , • • • • • rattam's .Mlsgaipi b. . 21 111 E 'EVENTS' OF 'A - . Aj.aliot the Passions. _. ..• . • BY ,TA LPO.T . ORME.' ME It was a,' _dark, .black night. , The. windst 'came and went , fitful' gutits, and the•—rain begitn•bespattering the hillside, the precureei , of : the Storm that wate't,x .flut, darker far was my.aching heart,. More piercing and __Lchilling far -than the peach ing rain, or.the chilling blast.' Sc, , giving my steed the nedlys' on,: lighted_ only , by an occasional , flash of-lightnitig, or the . • gleam of some - will o' the wisp,,or swamp_ball, as' it would, shoot past, me, or follow whizzing in: my woke. But a moment's retrospectiom; . Like the ginerality of my kind, 1< once, , 'arid stilljavea• weakness, .and-entrs k uoto, Lope by : the 'Vice of Gad, Ltetiy, tlov:ed • , lov*liMdly : The object_ot my admiration - , 'wait atbautiful being. Mollie.pringle lied but few 'equals and no superiors in point of doyen • ness, grace and amiability. She . had a soft,' ' • melting eye;.o rich, pouting lip , 'a bl ,- ;iniiig, -healthful cheek, dark, flowing i'inglets, a Well rounded instep;4l pretty foot, ad "a—oh; -my - mouth ! Mercy; 3follie,-pray behave, SMITH . • , •go no' farther with the'deSCriPtion, thOulli at the risk of displensing Mr. Cgaltstnifor:,l pro mised tb furnish a good tale, and whoever heard of a perfect tale without adeseription of the kerpine. And je ne'sais quoit but to story... • , . .. _. . . , " She had many suitors—had Miry Pringle,. and - some of them distinguished, wm.lthy and accomplished ',4entlemen. But, nevertheless, I -was successful. I outstripped (hem 'all. I' . n'eier told her verbally that I •loved her, - :nor asked her if Mu/loved me iu return. It IV IV3 -• . • Useless. I knew it by the trembling, faltering voice,•the soft presauteof . the hand, t'ae_nielt-, log; languishing glance of the eye„thTtretnu ions' heaving-of Ilie- breast,---titc-sateWendear 7 - , ,ing-smile. nate were. mine null mine alone. - To - others her bearing •Vvas differentobough courteous and kind. -- • •- _ . :Her father's. elegant mansion stood a mile from the Village ofHalifax, :vi.. so thither —with buoyant hopes, - and a heart filled Up with sweet'and tender emotions, I set out eneeve ning to declare verbally my love,,and to . pro pose for her hand. Already was, I treated as • one of the family, end, taking my acoustomed privilege, I walked into the• tense without - ringing, Seeing no_one, I passed through the' _parlor and was about entering-the comtbon . sittinglroom, when, through an adjacent clodr; -that stood- a little ajar, 1 saw—oh 1 horror of: horrors! I saw that which pierced, my heart l with a keener pang than the deadly sting of a . : poisonous cerpent . I saw, mir loved one—het ; 1 scarcely dared to kiss, or dream oven of tbe quick, nervous, pleasurable anffeckatio flail. at the pressure, reclining, aI ! in L k locked : embrace, upon the knee of some mustached, foreign looking gentleman, with her lips sealm. to his, and tears strearnMg from her eyes.—,,. Ohl"God, - "the anguish Of - that moment l• - One ,-- taament'was I tempted to tear out his heart, ', - but refloating, I turned upon my heel and stole out unseen. I wended my way back to the '.• villiige, 7and;TtLiiiiglf lialts - distrycted; - "yer - 1 - wound_up my lithe affairs, for I was,but a stu dent, Mounted my faithful, steed,.and by dark I was on the highway, and on'my way - , I knew nor cared not whither, WO that I made good my, . escalie from the ,detested village and my,faith less mistress. - 1 bad Poi, gone • five.thiles , (te-J • foro• it - was daik as blaciOess--my hand 11 could net distinguish• befdre me; The winti and rain came sweeping over the baii` fielde with biting unction, and howled, and biased, and roared as'if all the devils in hell were - let loose, and were rioting and revelingin mock erY at my sufferings. . -.-, ' '' - The 'storm - inereased- apace, •-so- that- I -was ' forced Seek - shelter, in mercy to my poor horse, in an old' church-house - that stood on the roadside, and at which my horskinstinet iiely halted. . ., I pushed, 'open • the'door and rode in f it was tio dark I could, almost feelit, but it accorded with my ,feeliog,s , ,weil„ so. I made myself content. • The storm without ttMti ' still raging, and the'oldihouse at intervals would ' writhe-and'. tremble like a thing' of life._ All,at once my horselave - a loud snort, and _ • • jumped back agaitist :the benches that lined. 'either side•,of the ; house." I looked ur but i•oduild see 'nothing,: - MO ,heard-fl)stindtly 'a shuffling, 'rustling poise pear, the p Ipit., A; owing flash of lightning Juit then lighted tt he scene, 1 1 and I saw, with, fearful distinctue , a,,figure • standing•oa thlieltar, :With Mpg owitig, gat . ments, 'and;arms extended widm • Oh f .hei;venctlribet a fearful moment!. 11,1,5 hair steed on end, my bleed froXelti toy. Veins, ` --4 and—but this. Was: no time forthought---an other prilonged flash oflightning"agpin light i'd Vio" the Plikein';'4'stivir ilie — fignim agaiit," fly tog over the,benches,tatittu•ds me, _1 hoped it was but an' image," ecinjured. , uVlty" an' over heated imagined* , tii.if:iii. - ', A 01.,,' 'rise:with a witifittinearthli_neigh,* 4ttoi *ream, o s t_ . with a fearfyl-bound, sprttog-olttofibe . house, /and wi th — e - ottho — witid - 4 - carried me- It • , • II MI OMNI ; over hill told or, ~ te, „ tt , p,„ way, , en il wood, iltiteWl not - went.. Tiiti sweat, itikd.fo4o.l:ll.e tute from pantipg sititio;• 60001 -le rolazed 4tat.itt)ittv i irdiy7toTtliiiiall - 067.• and, let him go where he lieted. • • After an hour's ride arid 'such aside as no s other mortal ever took; my; horse/ wheeled a shortanglein the - road,} which we had at last gained, and'. halted . abruptly beft;re _house.from_whose._xvindo wi_streameti_a lights. welcome sight was that. thtoir tlie'ridna over dm horse's Iti;ad .:mounted.' - 1 knew not in . the glotinralat ": 1 5 1 444-0 0 .. uillkty4lid - , - 0/a4 - 4 01 -t-elimit " " 1 -Y mind,'"whose house it was, or where toy post ;_w .in ttonhethei' 'Virginia - , - Carolina, or ;the Western' Continent at large: t run up the into a large "Plitize, - andas lg - roped My way aloog'the side °Elbe hotise, for' the door, . Lpasseqn Window from , whielt 'streamed a light. - : ) looked eagerly. nd ih, a saw a , young ley,seated of a.table close by the Windatv, and but- a---few :feet. front - :Where rI stood. 1 raised on tip toe and:took neareilook. But who can Portray. my astooishment °alluding it:to he my, ft , ti.tblesS mi - Oress. Thinking it was but another being conjurea,up . by the de vil, I Was.about to II) the spot, when she raised miniature to her.dips, and as she . 'ilid . so f iscoverea it to be a likeness ormyself, oliel a-presented ta.her. a few week's pre vious. .Olt~hia tee much,er was it still the notchinatio:ns. of, the devil ? , -.1 resolved to solve - the mystery,, though all the devils in ,hell were' leagued against me. f rat 'tied at the 'do'or - , and- waited with strange Mixture of'teelings ; with joy, .with.fear, with tremblii.l 7 ; • • • A servant; after a moment, ushered.rne into the hou e, nhich I fotiad, to my protbit4 as sionislinient; to be that of My trietid, colonel the father of her l. " - • TIM Colonel gi'Tete . d.me; and. after 'express lug much serprisel at seeing-Me at such a Into - hour, and in such a plight - as - I was-in;--led-torz ,..ward his IVthe , :person•of thO ntuatath - fil; -- 16 - relgri - te - Q,king -- gentlemanriwholmd -- beeii - .1113 - : sent at.sea two years,_and whotn I never saw. -„The mysteryiwas expliiined; and,l) h, how.aa tisfaetorily I • . 4- • It waa the.long-absent brother, Nihon] they • - • . . --- thonght dead,'greeting the dear-Sister. Ana * I had . ocular proof 'that :night that I,viaS toyed nut duly by the.seene at the window,.of the miniature, but ficini Ver own limiting lips. I sat - Own, and. the t ugh the hour was.htte, gave en account of my/ adventures through the. :night And. many and loud Were the peals..ot :.laught6r that' broke forth from the 'happy ' throng ut the recital. The adventure iu the —, ~ church was explained. There was a 'crazy woman in the neighborhood of the . church, who, whenever she could 'escape 'from her fiiendg, would go. to' the chUrch 'and stay ! , sometimes for days, Thus was!the inysterii eiplaitted.'"Buetho bikby has just, waked up, so I uniskteen Ittc &mu' the pen.' . . . , .*. .A Phylaical-Cuilosity. -: -..— .. - ._.. St. Martin, the, m . .n who . has an opening ... . .. Into: his stomach; . produced by a - guashot .: watil, is in New, York, nail a number of the ' physicians of that pity have/been experimen ting with the view to ascertain' the time re --CaTivrtfiffigeSClO=OlT-Xthermonieterltitrii--. dfieed into his stomach, through the opening, rose to one hundro and one Fahrenheit. carrot, Dr. Bunting days, consumed in five to six hours - - Litany roast-beef wili - thoronghly digest in an hour and a half. ;Melted , butter -will 'not digest at all, but float about in, tlm stomach. Lobste'r is_ comparatively easy 'of :digestion. Upon the 4pplioution oft he gastric juice to a piece of purple tissue paper, the color at once faded. In relation to the. pa tient's health, Dr. Bunting observed that it is uniformly excellent, having, since his recovery from the first effects of the wound,- •supported aflprge, family_ by_ his daily . lahor. These ex ' perimentsrd o not, differ' Materially froai those inade'by Dr. Beaumont twenty years ago.— :Mr. St. Martin is at present a little upwards of fifty years age,' ofa 'spare frame,.'but ap plrentlY capable of considerable endurance.— Jfe is in excelleptbed , ily l health, 'and it has iibt,pTeyeiited him from pursuing active and 'severe labors. :If ho doeX not keep a, compress to the" apartbra in water, or sWallo . vvt ing anything. else,` the whole contents of his stomach will pass 'out through : thitt opening.— •Threugh ; this Openieg,l:omes out a small part of the stomach, i. e. tho ,_ inner..!mai, which shows its' different nppearancei—thick swollen when under the w ork of digestion, and thinner when the digestion is 'over St. Pdar i Unit!' on•his way. to Europe.,' Ctutainis A mother .and' _ daughter,. who . resided in tbea;satne house in A.lbanY,, New . 3(ctli, were, confined ion ths , eaiwe duY, last week, each . having aeon.The,. ba, --. bislirere - botb - putin"'tlie same cradle, taut hy ampp means .the nurses becatae,confueed, and neither; thepuor tbe.mothers could distinguish between the babies, nor toll which Wan the • motber's;'not.,which tae:, daughter's• •Tbalamiliei aro to great4A - roe - a: ati — oulthe Ltnatfir, • „„. • ..,.„ ; , atltsle i) j cralb. , -, , 0r • • - • A l'iiVtolirtir'gkrtrfr WALDEVSES.' cmitintEN'm pßiv,l9.]- • Have I eirei-told-YeWitbout the-Waldenees?- •If not', Ihere is beauPfnl, .yetlnournful story Co tell you. Itle beatttifal, - ,beenese s itshoves wtint•e(ai::ftg . e and patience, Gad can give to - Iliose wile, !otter for hitt'saltel - and it-is trioure ful ,beearise:iO4,lo,tale of blOod.. ,Us 'go:to -Europe, awl plant s ourselves 'on that 'high' mountain range celled: the Alps., Tlie, Alps cast of F ran the southt pide of this , rnai l tatain range, in a _country called Piedmont; , 'llee a small 'tract Of - land'where the , 4 nien of the valleys' live, or the roartyr people ;' , or,• as they are better, known on this side of the . water, thill'ald. eases.. I dare July you • hdie heitril-the name before, although yon' may not haYe had very dislinet views as, to Whorn it, meant. , Their eci e ttiitri twenty-t - wo - riiileg long, and 'nearly sixteen broad, etietching .up the Alps, and down into the..plain below, dotted by little hamlets and villages. Thorne by the plain are very.pleaoant, ,:witit meadows, orchards and vineyardS„ e n*cat and rye fields, and man i de• liaions fruits. - Mulberry trees:fringe the,road . 'sides, Ivheie multitudes - of little silk-worms theAten - plo% to:trade' up the way winds among kugefrovinittg:Cliffs, on the brinks of •precipices and deep'dashing torrents. Hero' and therUPre.little etinshiny valleys, edged by the Alplimlorests, warm and green, where a cluster of cottages lie - nestled' el so together, surrounded:4y patches of omit and potatoes, while 'herds of cattle-ntal : llU4s of go•itA are grniing:On!the grassy spots : of the : mountain side Still higher,up, and the trees are-dwindled to dwarfs ; July snows cover the toys and .crags avalanches ; are frequent, 1 tumbling down . frofh the.heights into the vales•' ludo - w,_siestroying,every thing .Ip . thsir way"; herk , : everything `10u1c.4.. 'wild and dreary,_,and .you...siondiir how . any...one ean, live" there: In this diversified region of snow rind sunshine, )f - pelili'andthollow; - live-the martyr people the. Waidenseit—numbering now 'pt‘i'imps tvyen-, tbousnn(l7peoplei or ow : atitl,lo6y_ have-..they be.611.a martyr p e oplit,?, : yoa.Nvili ask, _and. rlv •In t9ia;res'ipartyl.iirlye,, neon after - the apes• ties cariiiid - Taftli the ,glad noses of Salvation, the : religion of Jesus Christ was faithfully preached herb, and it look ; det4) root3in the lie'arts of thettemen of the valleys. Some say that Paul himself ..came hither and gathered churches. It is not by attintetinUertain that he did ; hut, it id certain that God's . truth' was taught with,savinritt•er ; it meta gind . wel: come; it was embraced, believed'utid loved; it fortified the strength and acollence of t o .In the course of-time, errors and supersti tions crept into the ChritZtian chUrch ; pegple began to - turn from the pure light. of God's Word to the doctrines of men f .it was no longer wtiat God commanded, and what Christ taught, but what bishops, said,' and what councils•do creed-4-- then.the.people-went astray_Our_feet are apt to stumble and lose the•waytotheaven and holiness without- - -the light of God's word.; without his word all But people did turn-from---his.- and .they went astray; images were pue . in churches; relics began to he hunted up ; the 'wooden Cross Upon which Christ died was more thought of. then--the atonement ho made for the sins of men ; trnei:_Chrietihnity—died - out, and .Popery began to ,reign. :The Pope took the place JitUod. • • • But the Waldenses,..away , up in their moun tain retreats, never fell into, the ,corrupt wuy of thinking with the rest of Europe. Ji:O,,,thef f held-fiat _to_ the pare word of God. They said ' non ought not to go to Itornii for the pardon of their sins, nor,have.recourse to saints and" qiie.chiirch,.' they declared; Is not fontided on. St. Peter, much less on . the Pippo, but upon Christand his dtictrLnee as taught is 64 4 '1161e , Images, they persisted;, it' was wickedidllatry ,Worship, ,or - so, touch as to have them urthe churches. Behold how:they: proteotid against Popery d They ,Tere real Protestants long before Enther's!raormation, - ryr before the name Protestant' was given to' Ptir many centuries nobody thought Of harm ing these poor follow ra t. Christ 4wol ing in 'the mountain , - valleys; the'; Pope had some thing else to'cio, managing his political power; no 'theY . greW atrotiOn the, trite knowledge o Gad' etirl Ilis Son, Jesus Christ propatt-Lou as they loved and s honored the Savior, _they I- Wanted inhere to know hint also, and to enjoy the light and.cOinfOrt- Which henan . give 'to the' soul ; so what did these , poor little. Alpine churches do ? Whys,tin seat miasionartoa out ; two by two ! to Fiance, to - tiernitini, to Piedmont and all about. Oh L its,So , beauti ful-to see how the,lova heart! 'The love of Christ not only,Makso us desire to be good, +but 01, do 'good ; it leads.us , Mg° out from' oursitlies, and ieeft to reliet , o the. sine and'sorrows of others; This is' just what Sens did. lIS left his henicaly hekno,to # 1 MI :true folio ' ive r ri:ille ' d4itiii his, l lefi; strive to, i . ts,,t*:ileir I) , rpthreti,'iroin,sin It ' n:t1 : :.11011 .. ',; Not iotlciop',..A'•,relpSiop t irriiis fout t :blit: , l69lpOrieurs iik::, „t;refri, ilia •li'ul d enitei;employe4 ilidiferie ars (1.,.. " ..' - m ' ore'tlnur-form linadtetl - yearsitio - pieutrpe ' -- !ars, Who; with their goods, carried leaves of . the Bible, and, written tracts- 7 -for this was be :fcire flu) invention Of :'priuting—.-rnd left them with 'theee'found 'Willing to' read and receive, diem; InllWays liliep`these, ' Bible piety was kept "alive in many hearts and homes,.and !millets, while the darkreSs. of Popery ., , was' settling down uliim the Christian World,: These dear Missionaries and . ; colportetirs,' in their' ton • _gAttil perilpjejourneys,,ltnewsviareAefin 4- those 'who loved: the,:Lord , deans ;:. then held meetings• at their ItOtises, ordained :deacons; miministered-the-Loidla-Rtipper,-andomfort-- ME ed fainting nod, teuipted.eoultsly the precious truths of God's word. , • • - For many, many years,-.the :Waldenses lived .undisturbed in •their Mountain The Popish ,priests kept saying, there was heresy . In:those galleys. heresy`!-.-it was fl frightful_ word in those days, very frightful. :The corn. imp meaning *Of the' word heresy', is. a denial of sonic of . theeisential dectritteS of . religion but in Papmh countries, hereSy is a- religious opinion or belief different frerri'what the :Ito. niish Church teaches. You see, the Waldenses weriherelica, acuording to,, the visas cff the' priests, because tlieydid hold - , : vietis very dlr; clung to Christ, while the :priests clung , to the Pope: Heresy was a frightful-charge in those days; because heretics wele put to torture. and to cruel deaths. _ • This cry (vas made 119/tinst the ‘Vtildee.ses, heretics! hereties' rho Pope. urged the duke of Savoy, .wiurwas their civik:uler, to tight against them.: he . declared it was a' duty Ito - root out heresy, and not suffer it to_ exist. I The Dakelhinded the pope, Whenever the Walktienses came down on the phiina, no matter 'Tor what purpose; they were seized and -prisoned - - On Christmas - day, in the year 1400, an-armed-force of--ltomin Catholics--fell , stni,- -denlY-uOnt,the peaceable inhitbitents.utone-of the valeysand slew great numbers; others fled to themnovntaina. The ° weather.. w 'vereiy Cold. --Mbiliersi with tiiiil*tdr4 con ' Mining their"babes:ontheir baeltS,and drag• ging their- children-hy, , their 'muds, might have . bein : seen Wading through the deif.mii4ntain snows.- - On reaching theitunmit far out . frein . the reach of their pursuers, there were no means of kindling a fire, or sheltering them selves froin the piercing a dreary, dreadful night!--in the, morning," eighty babes lay dead in their' little cradle*, while -their . poor „thOtherei were stretched .-tlying by - their sides! ...iltsr.thut an army of twenty-four thotisand men. were sent-agnirist the,men of. the valleys. They marched up through tie mountairrpasses when their principal captain wimkilled..by a stone sent from a !dinghy a brave Waldension, -who stood on the peak:of a high rock above. Ile was like David killing,Czolliath. A band of his brethren then ruSheAeutt upon the blood, thirsty enemy; and drove,. them buck; Molly were driven into the .torrtnt, and many were arushed_by_huge_rocks__falling_upon._ thatiL; every where the dtilie's army' was defeated, and he was soon...glad to stop war' from which he had - got 'nothing but doss.and dtis grace; this duke lired they not again disturbed; but, after his death, the neve ruler was urged by the bishop re carrion another crusade against the valleys.• - - Another army of, fifteen thouannd picked soldierS7Weieliiiiiii their march, committing everywhere the Most . . . . - horrid 'barbarities . upon the - pour Christians Their. houses ;wore destroyed ; their godds• Stolen ;* their widen we injured ; Many ,Iv,ifro put into dungeolo t s; never again .to see tie ligirt.of day, or were taken _out only to be burned dine, at _tho• stake. Higher , up the . mountains; the Wildensimi stingers did great harm to the soldier's, so Much so that the duke fuund the vve - r — ii.ThibSt7uoprotitable , busitiess:; indeed he declared that ‘. the'skin of a Wahl.: tiasinn iilvrayi cost ftfteezi - oriVetkty . of his best Catholics." . :- • • • Fin- sometime after this no armt Vas • sent again t think ) . although their rulers 'treated them with great seseriiy. They _were always liable to be persecuted for. Christ's sake. From time td time_spies wore 'ordered to penetrate into their ,retreats,to - kunt up something to license thain F,ome of these spies were candid Men let us hear their testimony. . a'crael . perieeutor, owns that the Walden* lead religioua lives ; they .never swear ;" they are modestand .prudent; ite saw peasants who could Incite the-book of Job by heart, and;, perfectly repeat whole New Testament. The bishop once obliged 'a - preaoll4 ileg monk to go and hold meetings amongst Oem, in order to convince' them : of their errors and prevent,bloodshed. The poormenk came bi te k, ia,great, confusion, de,olaring . thate he_ hatt. never.knownsin his whole life tfo of the scriptures as he had: learned eNringthe'leir days in which he had held _conferences With the- heretics. The, then t some _young . _doctorajustfrorti t Un reit) , tetry their' skill. One of the only owned that ie - uudbrsto . ocHnore-Of-ltyr-, =la lion frerdtheansvierker thejittle children in ,tlieir catechism than by :all the learned di{► 'pates which he, ever heard. SINGULAR CALCULATION. ,--, F ,lteleorripilethe followingisnlculations from ..„ 'various, aottrees, all-of:which iini: . thipk' , gene.- rally reliable;!- 'They are very curious-. an i l in - siime.instanoes peculiarly -stiggestiye:-; - .. • • flkitarrihe of the'inhahit•ants.or a country , 'or,a city.is airoosi renewettiv,erythirti years; • ani)if we 411 OW three generationa * fir an age,. the humanr ace isrenewed. thiee times aud - 'one-third each century. Suppoking the Work! K '---• - tm.ba - :‘,610 - y ' s old; - there ' would 641 about 1 • 7 . 2 - generations si cii.. the Creation; )25 Since the r e, Delage;:an 56 since • the Cliri ' n PM; and • , a-lherels'hni--a-lamilY-thate u-pro • celts-ori;:--, , gin' even back to - :Charlemagne, it NIL:Ws-that: the.most anciently related . aniong those who .. take pride in seneahigies-are not able to track' -them farther, bacii than - 30.:getierationi7or eTen, so for unless,they adopt-the.'aid of le . get d., or fiction—which is -often the:some. put of 1 . 000 infants nursed by thMr mother!, • 300 die t - and of the -sane,number brc.ughtup by strange nurses, 600 perisb.., infant Ilion tality.increaseS faster than tiny other descrip- , lion, which faCt is accounted for by , thcair:., cunistanbes connected with. age • Convulsions and. dentition -are iVe predomina ting causes of infonl-inortality.. • - Ihe small pox,,in,_,the natural way, - carries . off about 8 out .of 100; and 'by inoculation t" --- - (vaccination) one scarcely dies'out of 300: It . • has been observed that mote girls than...l)9) , s • die of small,poxin 'the natural way. ' . From Comparisons of the bilid of mortality of several: -countries r tlierenre-,11..0ut 313 G who lire to the'tige of 100 years. The proportion 'of-deaths .of.w.onten, compared with . those•of oleo, is 100. to 108. Married women' live longer, on: - rin average, than shigle.Z More •.-: people live, to iigreot age in elevated situation's • ' tfitin those who reside pn It bas been fOuhrPthat the greatest number of-deaths-occtir_in_the._tnontiref._4llarch..,..T.he inonth; : .aLAugUSLand_SetitetranK.sttkatt.-...n.e.x.t._. to March in this reaped. deaths., take place inNevember',-Debeniber lint! Febru i4ry. Out 41600 (lentils, 249 tnolt place„ in Winter, 288 in Spring, 225 in Sulunter, anti die;.therefure;--in the Spring_ thou in - aniother season-z.onty in large_—'- dities, where the - death - 0 - in Winter preponde• rate over those of other 'seasons, for the very ohviduS reason that.'in Winter the huge cities and towns are more crowded .by.inhabitants than'ai other seasons. The half of all who are born . die,:before they rem% U years of age: -- The number of old pommies who die. in I°6lll weatber is as seven to font; eompared witlcC • the , mortality in Warm or Temperate weather... ' .The first month, andespecially the first day' • afferbirth, are marked b} the greatest num. • her of deaths among infants. ' Of 2735' who die when, very young, 1292 expire on the day of their birth,- and the remainder • during the first latopth. According to good aulhority,.the healthiest 'children are those bo . rn in the months of January, February and .Merch,— Ameng the lower animals tho same will have been-observed-to-hold- good, audt-eitu t- every' farmerwilladmit the fact in .his experience.. The, greatest ,nittaber Of .births are in 'Mai June—according to statistical datOhe num ! " Ter. of twins is-to that of whole ntmbq of sin .gle births-as-1 to 65, 1n rural loettlities- , ,tini - children in a family average, in 'this Country','. • at 111'01 \ 0es-the average only reaches 4. Great the.aterages .are in _the: former case 4, and is the Niter . 2i. The married men, are; to all the males in a country, au 3 . t0 6; and the iiiarriod tromen_l to 3. The number of Widowers is to dna or widows as Ito 3. The ntimber of widOws is to the number of thewholelnlooltents as fi to 61 ; that of widowers, 1 to 15:, • One•fourth of the ;whole inhabitants of old countries live in cities. two-fourths in villagCs, and the•renpining fourth in.retired rural situ ations anTatisea.- - • ,_ • Upon an equ'athpace of ground the number of inhabitonts existing are as ',follows in the specified countries : Ireland, ' 1 ' Germany, Norwny, si) England, Sweden, ' 15 - "Fr.tuce, T lurkey, 87 Italy, Poland, 60 I Nap!es, Griln - , • • • 64 LVeeice,__ Scotland, • 69 I Holland,-- Ireland,' 97 ralalta, Switzerland, .. " 116.. • • • . - 4* 441Jucle Sant's,farml Is so extensive that room to grow is very umply , furnished to his sons, We presume hie , proportion wiiu!d not much exceed the lowest but otte of the num bers-on the above list. • ' - NO Joiki,—The Montpelier "(Vt.) Freeman eays that at a social gathering in that,vicinity. OCeutly, a young gentleman bad the task of • tt getting.a wife" imposed ,upon during' the evening Juriusement, -end with a young lady went through -a mock—ceremony; mi.:they-- both supposed, , of tieing Married • but' aftW, the motions had been gene throu gh ,with, it, . was discovered timt the person who married. them wits-a 'feat jiistiee,, , andthe Anatriruothat knot could not r tionntied I The parties 'are satiefied,witli.their::bargnin,:but are 'consider ably' nettled at_ the_ manner in , which they vrereiminoheso;poirthsr_soa. oriaktrimMY. MI 128 157 169, 171 190 198 -227 1109