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"WE GO WHERE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES POINT THE WAY ; WHEN THEY CEASE TO LEAD, WE CEASE TO FOLLOW."
VOLUME IX.
EBENSBIM, THURSDAY, PCEMBER 2, 1852.
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A HOME PICTUBE.
One autumn night, when tbe wind was high,
And tbe rain fell in heavy plashes,
A little boy sat by the kitchen fire,
A popping corn in the ashes ;
And his sister, a curly-haired child of three,
Sat looking on just close by his knee.
Tbe blast went howling round the house,
As if to get in 'twas trying ;
It rattled the latch of the outer door,
Then seemed it a baby crying ;
Sow and then a drop down the chimney came.
And spluttered and hissed in the bright red
flame.
Top, pop and the kernels one by one,
Came out of the embers flying ;
The boy held a long pine stick in his hand,
And kept it busily plying;
He stirred the corn and it snapped the more,
And faster jumped to the clean-swept floor.
A part of the kernels hopped out one way,
And a part hopped out the other ;
Some fiew plump into the sister's lap,
Some under the stool of the brother ;
The little girl gathered them into a heap,
And called them a flock of milk-white sheep.
All at once the boy sat still as a mouse,
And into the fire kept gazing ;
lie quite forgot he was popping corn,
For he looked where the wood was blazing.
He looked, and fancied that he could see
A house and a barn, a bird and a tree.
Still steadily gazed the boy at these,
And pussy's grey bnck kept stroking,
Till his little sister cried out, "why, Dub,
Only see how the corn is smoking !"
And sure enough, when the boy looked back,
The corn in the ashes was burnt quite black.
"Never mind," said he, "we shall have enough,
So now, let's sit back and eat it ;
111 carry the stools and you the corn;
'Tis nice nobody can beat it."
She took up the corn in bet" pinafore,
And they ate it all, nor wished for more.
American Usion.
A Yankee Enterprise.
We learn from the Boston Transcript, that by
the schooner Lamartine, which 'cleared at that
port on Thursday for Cumana, Venzuela, a par
ty of adventurers went out furnished with a
compliment of machinery, for the purpose of
raising treasure from the wreck of the Spanish J
vessel San Pedro, which was lost off Venzncla
wore than a century ago. It is supposed the
vessel had about 9,000,000 on board, which
was sent by the home government to pay o'i"
troops in her dominions in the new world. Some
two years since, a portion of the present party
discovered the wreck, and with the aid of the
little apparatus for the purpose, succeeded in
raising about $23,000, and cleared th wreck,
60 that they now anticipate operations will be
comparatively easy. A steam engine will be
carried out, and also a diving machine of inge
nious construction, newly invented by Mr. James
A. Whipple, together with a sub-marine armor,
?md all other apparatus deemed necessary for
the most scientific fathoming of the boundless
deep. Should this enterprising company secure
the whole of their supposed vastly rich prize,
they -will not only suddenly become millionarcs
in wealth, but inillionares literally 0f the first
water."
Tehsimons and Cold Winters. "We have
heard of gander and goose-bone signs, bear
signs, and Indian signs, of cold winter, but nev
er of the Persimmon sign, till we met with the
following from the Richmond (Va,) Republican.
We pray the editor may be no prophet:
A Hard Winter Coming. We were laughed
at last winter because we said the uncommonly
large crop of persimmons indicated an "uncom
monly cold winter. Well, there is a Large crop
growing now, and we prognosticate another hard
"inter. Remember, this is November 4th, and
the weather has been remarkably fine all this
Fall.
J&SjfA handsome young Yankee pedlar made
love to a rich widow in the State of Ohio, but
accompanied his declaration with two impedi
ments to their union.
''Name them," said the widow.
"The want of means to set up a retail store,
is the first,' replied the pedlar.
They parted and she sent the pedlar a check
lor ample means. When they again met, the
pedlar had hired and stocked his store, and the
fair one desired to know the other impediment
".Well ave another wife," eaid the dealer
notions.
Woman's Way to Fix a Tale Bearer.
From the Annals of Frogtown.
"I dunno where I hear'd it, but I know its
true, I expected it long ago. I tole Jones it'd
come out so."
"Why, uncle Josh, you don't pretend to say
that Miller's wife has run off with Bob Tape,
Yardstick's clerk, do you."
"Yes I do, too, haint it been the talk of the
neighborhood for a year past, that Miller's wife
and that feller Bob Tape were a lettle too
thick ?"
"Well uncle Josh," says neighbor Brown, "I
don't recollect anybody saying anything about
it but you, and for my part I don't believe a
word of it."
"Why, haint Miller's wife gone" says uncle
Josh.
"I don't know is she" says Brown.
"Because she is ; I went over to the store this
morning, the first thing, to see if Bob Tape was
about he wasn't 4thar they said he'd gone to
Boston on business f?r old Yardstick. O, ho !
says I, and then I started off for Heeltap's shop;
we allers said how things would turn out. He
was out, seein' me go to shop, he came runnin'
and says he : 'Uncle Josh, they're gone, sure
enough ! I've been over to old Mammy Gabbles,
and she sent her Suke over to Miller's on pre
tence of borrowin' some lard, but told Suke to
look around and see if Miller's wife wur about :
by Nebbynezer, Miller's wife wur gone. Mann
Gabbles couldn't rest, so she sent back Suke,
and told her to ask the children where there
Marm was ; Miller hearing Suke, ordered her
to scoot, so Suke left without hearin' the facts
of the case, as Squire Black says.' But Heel
tap swears, and I know Miller's wife and Bob
Tape have sloped, as they say in the papers."
"Well," says Brown, "I'm sorry if it's true
I don't believe a word of it though, and as it's
none of my business, I shall have nothing to say
about it.
Uncle Josh was one of those inordinate pests
which almost every village, town and hamlet in
the country is more or less accursed with. He
was a great tall, bony, sharp-nosed, grinning ge
nius, who, being in possession of a large farm,
with plenty of boys and girls to work it did not
do anything but eat, sleep, and lounge around;
a gatherer of scan mag., a news and scandal
monger, a great guesser and a strong suspicion
er of everybody's motives and intentions, and of
course, never imputed a good motive or move
ment to anybody.
You've seen those wretches, male and female,
haven't you, dear reader ? Such people are
great nuisances half the discomforts of life
are bred by them ; they contaminate and poison
the air they breathe with their noisome breath,
like the odor of the Upas tree. Uncle Josh had
annoyed many he was the dread and disgust
of seven-eights of the town he lived in, lie
caused more quarrels, smutted more characters,
and created more ill-feeling between friends,
neighbors and acquaintances than all else be
sides in the community of Frogtown. Uncle
Josh was voted a great bore by the men, and a
sneaking, meddling old granny by the women.
So at last the young vromen of the town did a
gree that the very next time Uncle Josh carried,
concocted, or circulated any slanderous or other
wise mischievous stories, that they would duck
him in the mill race.
Now, Brown- -old Mr. Brown was the very
antipode of Uncle Josh ; he was always for ta
king matters and things by the smoothest handle.
Mr. Brown never told tales, backbited, or slander
ed anybody ; everybody had a good word to say
about Mr. Brown, and Mr. Brown had a good
word to say aboateverybody. The gals thought
it prudent to giveold Mister Brown an inkling of
their plans in regard to the disposition they
intended to make of Uncle Josh ; the old man
laughed and told them to go ahead, and to duck
old Josh, and perhaps they would reform him.
"Now, gals," said old Mr. Brown, "Uncle
Josh has just this very day been at his dirty
work ; by this time he has spread the news all
over the town, that Miller's wife had gone off
with Yardstick's clerk. I don't believe a single
word of his tale, and if Miller's wife ain't real
ly gone off Uncle Josh ought to be soused in
the mill race."
Next morning Miller's wife came home ; she
had been down to a sister a few miles off, to see
a sick child ; her husband had been away at
tending to a law suit, in a neighboring town ;
and so Miller nor his wife knew nothing of the
report of her elopement with Bob Tape until
their return
Miller was in a rage, but could'nt find out the
author of the report. Miller's wife was deeply
mortified that such a suspicion should arise of
her; she had been making Bob Tape some
new clothes to go to Boston in, and here was
the gist of Bob and Miller's wife's intimacy !
There was a great time about it ; Miller swore
like a trooper, and his wife nearly cried her eyes
out.
A few evenings afterwards, it being clear cold
weather in October, Polly Higgins and Sally
Smith called to see Miller's wife, and asked her
to join them in a little party that some of the
neighboring women had got up that evening, for
a particular purpose. Miller's wife not having
i much to do that evening, her husband said she
might go out a spell if she chose, and she went
and learned the purport of the call old Uncle
Josh was to be ducked in the mill race ! and Mil
ler's wife, disguised as the rest, was to do it.
When she heard that old Josh had circulated
the report of her elopement, Miller's wife did
not require much coaxing to join the watering
committee.
It was so planned that all the women, some
ten or twelve in number, were to put on men's
clothes and lay in wait for Uncle Josh at his
lane gate, about a quarter of a mile from the
mill race. Old Josh always hung around the
tavern, Heeltap's shoe store, or the grocery, un
til 9 P. M., before he started home, and the
girls determined to rush out of a small thicket
that stood close by Old Josh's lane gate and
throwing a large, stout sheet over his head,
neck, and heels, hurry him off to the mill race,
and duck him well. Mind you, your country
gals and women are not paint and powder, corset-laced
and fragile creatures, like your deli
cate and more ornamented young ladies of the
city ; no, no, the gals of Frogtown were real
flesh and blood ; Venuses and Dianas of solidity
and substance ; and it would have taken several
better men than Uncle Josh to have got away
from them. It was a cool moonshiny night, but
to better favor the women, just as Old Josh got
near his gate, a large black cloud obscured the j
moon and all was as dark as a stack of black
cats in a coal cellar. Miller's wife acted as cap
tain ; dressed in Bob Tape's old clothes he had
left at her house to be repaired, she gave the
word and out they rushed.
"Seize him boys !" said she in a very loud
whisper.
Over went the sheet, down came old Josh Cob.
Jin ! Before he could say "lor a massy" he was
dragged to the mill race, tied hand and foot,
blindfolded, his coat taken off, and he was ca.
soused into the cold water. Fury how the old
fellow begged for his life.
"O, lor a massy don't drown me boys I a I
" casouce he went.
"Give him another duck,"says one ; and he'd
go again.
"Now we'll learn you to carry tales," says
another.
"And tell tales on me and Miller's wife, says
Bob Tape casouce he went.
"O, lor a mas mas e, do don't drown
me, Bob, I'll promise never to do " in they
put him again, and the water was cold as ice.
"Will you promise never to take or carry a
story again ?"
. "I d-d do promise, if ye ye ye ye you
don't due " and in he went again.
"Do you promise to mind your own business,
and let others alone, Uncle Josh."
"Ye ye yes I d do, I I'll promise any
thing b bo boys, only let me go," says Uncle
Josh.
"Well, boys," says Polly Higgins, a rousing
jolly critter she was too ; "I owe Uncle Josh one
more dip ; he lied about my gal Polly Higgins,
and"
"0, ho, Seth Jones, that's you, ain't it ?"well
we well, I said nothing about Polly, it was
Heeltap said it 'deed it was."
Then they let old Josh off, vowing they'd give
Heeltap his gruel next night and the moment
Josh got clear of his sousers he cut for home.
Uncle Josh soon found out that he had been
ducked by womCn, and for his own peace he
moved to Iowa, and Frogtown has been a happy
place ever since.
A llrlde's Hevenge.
The other day (says the Liverpool Times) as a
wedding party was ascending the steps which
approach one of our churches, the intended
bride, owing to some obstruction, or inadvertant
step, missed her footing and fell. The swain,
even at that joyful crisis of his existence, una"
ble to conceal the vexation at this little contre
tempts, exclaimed, pettishly, "Dear me, how
very clumsy !" The lady said nothing, but
was observed to bite her lip, and a far darker
and gloomier look than beseemed the court of
Hymen, was seen to gather on her fair brow.
She walked deliberately, however, into the
church ; the ceremony commenced, and every
thing proceeded in orthodox fashion, until the
important question was put "Wilt thou have
this man ?" &c. Here, instead of whispering
blushingly a soft affirmative to the communion
cushions, the fair lady drew herseli up, cast a
withering glance upon her betrothed, and mut
tering the words, "Dear me, how very clumsy!"
saild down the aisle, and out of the church,
with the port of an offended goddess. We have
not heard the sequel.
Cuban Movement.
The X. Y. Courier and Enquirer learns from
an undoubted source that another Cuban expe
dition is in a forward state of preparation. The
utmost vigilance is required and care taken that
the neutrality laws of the United States shall
not be violated. All arms and amunition requi
red have been procured and are now deposited
beyond the bounds of the United States, in a
depot known only to a few leading spirits. No
arras have been procured in the United States.
The men are to leave the country as emigrants,
unarmed, and will sail from different ports. It
is calculated that suspicion will be excited asto
the actual destinat ion.
TIfe Cholera in Barbadoes Sad Scenes.
. Our Bridgetown correspondent has, from time
to time, given us some particulars of the rava
gesf the cholera at Barbadoes, but the follow
ing accounts from the "Globe" there, of its rav
agesj will be perused with Bad interest.
The most painful and alarming feature does
notVconsist in the numbers, relatively to our
popu iition, that have fallen victims to the mala
dy, but rather in the indiscriminate manner in
which it has attacked its victims sparing the
creole and acclimated European no more than
the recently arrived in the suddenness of its
appearance almost simultaneously in various
quarters, rural as well as urban, and the tenaci
ty with which, in some instances, it has main
tained its hold "upon one or two families and
households, among whom it has established it
selfto say nothing of the fatality that has fol
lowed in its course in most cases. Of these,
perhaps, the most melancholy is that of Assis
tant Commissary General Neil and his family
or rather his entire household.
The whole of them were struck down within
a very few hours of each other, and everything
that the most eminent medical skill could de
vise was tried, but without avail, and between
the 25th and 27th ult, 2 of Mr. Neil's children,
one a girl of lOears, and the other a promis
ing little boy of 8, died of the epidemic. On
the Bight of the 2Gth Mrs. Neil followed ; the
body of this amiable lady had but barely been
consigned to the earth, when another victim was
proclaimed in the person 'of an only surviving
daughter ; she, in a few hours was followed by
her father, who was interred alongside the rest i
of his beloved domestic circle in the grave yard
of St. Paul's Chapel, with all the customary
military honors ; ond the body of this excellent
man and much respected officer had scarcely
been laid in the tomb before public grief was
again forced into he same chanel by the an
nouncement of the death of the only surviving
son ! Nor did the inexorable scourge relax its
grasp until the maid servant, the only remaining
member of the household, was also numbered
with the slain !
'The case of the Fosters, a respectable fami
ly residing in the Black Rock district, yields on
ly in painful interest to that mentinned above.
Of an entire family of six or seven, only two,
we believe, are left, and even the physician who
attended on them has fallen.
"We have heard of no new cases within the
last 3 or 4 days, and we trust that the disease
is now on the decline."
Cincinnati.
The following brief sketch of the early histo
ry of Cincinnati, we clip from the Nonpareil
"This city is now about sixty-four years old.
Some time between October 1787 and January
1788, John Cloves Symmes, of New Jersey,
made a contract with the Treasury Board of the
United States, on behalf of himself and associ
ates, for the lands lying between the two Miami
rivers, bounded on the south by the Ohio river,
and runninc north so far as to include one mil
lion acres. Of this purchase Symmes sold to
Matthias Dcnman six hundred and forty acres,
lying opposite Licking river, on which Cincinna
ti is now principally built, fer forty-nine dol
lars. About the tenth of September, 1788, a
party met on the site of the city, and made a
plat of the incipient town. On the 2Cth of De
cember, 1788, the first landing of the immi
grants for the settlement was made, and in Jan
uary 1789, the streets were surveyed and named
in that part of the town lying between Broad
way and Western Row. During this year seve
ral log houses and one frame house were built,
and some of the out lots, all of which were north
of Seventh street, "were cleared." The legal
title to the grounds on which the town was built
being still in Symmes, the patentee, all the
deeds for the original in and out lots were made
by him. In 1790, the lots on fractional sections
number 12 were laid out by the patentee ; and
on the 2d of March, 1808, the reservation a
round Fort Washington was sold in lots by the
surveyor general of the Northwestern territory
under the direction of the Secretary of the Trea
sury. Between the first and tenth of January,
1780, the name was changed from Losantiville
(which it had been at first christened) to Cincin
nati. Such is a brief sketch of the early histo
ry of the Queen City of the "West. What a con
trast she now presents to the straggling log built
village of 6ixty years ago !
gf We take the following racy of item from
the Local column of the Cleveland Herald:
A friend recently returned from the East, says
that in the same car with himself, were a newly
married couple, who had evidently seen little of
the world. They were happy but they coud nt
keep it to themselves, and were constantly
clasping hands, whispering and 6nugging up to
each other like a kitten to a hot brick. They
were the "observed of all observers." At length
the train went thundering through the long,
dark tunnel, and our friend kissed his hand,
with a smack which was heard throughout the
car. Of course, as the train emerged into the
light, all eyes were turned upon the loving
couple, who, though innocent of the ki3S, were
rosy with the consciousness of being suspected.
The thing was more than they could bear, and
at the next station they left the train.
A Good Joke.
The following story of Neil McKinnon, a New
York wag, surpasses in impudence anything
within our recollection. Read and speak for
yourself, gentle reader.
When the celebrated "Copenhagen Jackson"
was British minister in this country, he resided
in New York, and occupied a house in Broadway.
Neil, one night at a late hour, in company with
a bevy of rough riders, while passing the house,
noticed it was brilliantly illuminated, and that
several carriages were waiting at the door.
"Hallo ?" said our wag, "what's going on at
Jackson's!"
One of the party remarked that Jackson hada
party that evening.
"What !" exclaimed Neil, "Jackson have a
party and I not invited ? I must see to that."
So stepping up to the door he gave a ring
which soon brought the servant to the door.
"I want to see the British minister," said
Neil.
"You must call some other time," said the
servant, for he is now engaged at a game of
whist and must not be disturbed."
"Don't talk to me that way," said McKinnon,
"but go directly and tell the British minister
that I must see him immediately on special busi
ness." The servant obeyed, and delivered his mess
age in so impressive a style as to bring Mr.
Jackson to the door forthwith.
"Well," said Mr. Jackson, "what can be your
business with me at this time of night, which
is so very urgent ?"
"Are you Mr. Jackson ?" asked Neil.
"Yes sir, I am Mr. Jackson."
"The British minister?"
"Yes, sir."
"You have a party here tonight, I perceive,
Mr. Jackson?"
"Yes sir, I have a party."
'A large party, I presume ?"
"Yes, sir, a large party."
"Playing cards, I understand ?"
"Yes sir, playing cards."
'0, well," said Neil, "as I was passing, I
merely called to inquire what's trump ?"
A Runaway Match.
On Monday morning last, a pair arrived in
our city, and might have been seen wending
their way to the residence of one of our minis
tersone of the pair a verdant looking youth,
and the other a lady of whom one could well
say, comparing her to the intended groom, what
he did not know she could teach him ; for she
was old enough. After much trouble, the young
man had found the place where to get the "pa
pers to marry by," and the twain were soon
bound in the "silken cords of matrimony."
Soon afterwards they appeared upon the street,
when the bride proceeded to fix thegroom's col
lar, concluded by giving him a "buss," which
highly delighted a number of boys who happen
ed to be present. In the afternoon they were
promenading Baltimore street, when the young
man's father unexpectedly made his appear
ance having just arrived i n the cars and col
larian his son, told him to leave that "gal," and
return home.
"You are too late, father," answered the sou,
"I am married." "Eh ! what ! married are you;
take that," and the youth's cheek received the
open hand of his father. The old fellow pulled
and tugged, finally succeeded in separating his
son from the bride, and the two started down
the street. Arriving at a pump, the old gentle
man took a drink of water, and again collaring
his son, he proceeded on his way, followed by a
large crowd of men and boys. Near the public
square, he lectured his son upon the sin of run
ning off and getting married against his consent,
and concluded by slapping his jaws, when a
crowd interfered, and separated them. The son
started in a full run up the street, when the
bride perceiving him olapped her hands with
joy, and running to meet him, they clasped
bands, and started in a gallop, and the last seen
of them, they were going down the Baltimore I
pike followed by a crowd of little boys. Cumb.
TeUgraph.
The Sandwich Islands.
A Lima correspondent of the Journal of Com
merce says :
"I am again becoming alarmed for the fate of
the Sandwich Islands. The French question has
never been settled, but has remained dormant
for two years. They have now a strong squad
ron coming out, in which are two CO gun ships,
destined, undoubtedly, to act against the Islands
which have no protection but such as may be
granted by the United States and England.
This should be seriously considered by our Gov
ernment. Those Islands, in possession of &
maritime nation, would give it tha control of
California and Oregon, as much, or more, than
the possession of Cuba contiols the commerce of
the Gulf of Mexico. The Sandwich Islands can
furnish more good sailors to man a squadron
than can Cuba; besides, it is not so easy to aff
ord efficient protection, to Oregon and California
as to the States on the Gulf of Mexico. I trust
the importance of preventing the Sandwich Is
lands from falling into the possession of any Eu
ropean power is sufficiently appreciated by our
Government."
AXuptlal Tragedy-.
A' wealthy American merchant of the city of
New Orleans had married a Creole lady of for
tune, and with the estate and servants there
came into his possession n mulatto seamstress
and lief daughter, a child of seven years. The
gentleman was so much struck with the extra
ordinary beauty of the child, which had pur
Italian features and complexion, that he resolved
to save it from the life of degradation which
was before it, and to free it and to educate it. lie
sent her to a northern school, where she remain
ed until her sixteenth year by all supposed to
be a patrician Creole maiden. She herself
knew not to the contrary so young was she
when she went North. Beloved by her compan
ions, the idol of the institute, and caressed by
every one, she left for the roof of "her uncle."
A young Louisiana gentleman, who had seen her
in Philadelphia, and loved her and was beloved
by her, sought her hand on her return. The
marriage day was fixed, day arrived, when the
mother, who had long been sold away into La
Fourche Interior, in order that she might never
appear as a witness against her child, re-appeared,
and in the bridal hall, in the very hour
after the ceremony had been performed, claim
ed the magnificent and now miserable bride as
her own daughter a bond slave by birth, an
African by blood ! The scene, as described by
one who was present, surpasses the power of a
pen to portray. That night, the bridegoom, af
ter charging ,the adopted father of his bride
with gross deception, fchot him through the bo
dy, and disappeared, carrying, no one knew
whither, his infamy and bitter sorrows. The
next morning the bride was found, a disfigured
corpse, in the 6uperb nuptial chamber which
had been prepared for her reception. She had
taken poison ! Education, a cultivated mind and
taste, w hich made her see and understand how
great was her degration, now armed her hands
with the ready means of death. The unhappy
planter recovered from his wound, has removed
to the North, where he resides, buried in the
deepest seclusion, the residue of his years em
bittered by the keenest regret.
Anecdotes of Daniel AVebster.
The venerable Dr. Nichols, of Kingston, Mass.
communicates to the Plymouth Memorial the
following incident connected with the accident
which befel Mr. Webster in May last :
"While I was dressing the wound on his noble
forehead, which was much contused and some
what lacerated, Mrs. D., the lady of the house
entered the door of the chamber, and passed to
the other side of the room, with seeming awet
as if fearing to approach. Mr. Webster, cas
ting his eyes on the woman as she passed, said
"Madam, how very diversified is the lot of hu
manity in this our world : a certain man pas
sing from Jerusalem to Jericho, fell among
thieves, and was illy treated. A man passing
from Marshfield to Plymouth, fell among a very
hospitable set of people and was taken care
of.' "
Mr. Webster's Personal Appearance, or exte
rior was such, his presence so majestic and
dignified, that probably no one over looked at
him without being (if one may so speak,) im
pressed with the grandeur of his aspect so
remarkably in union with the gigantic intellect
of the man. When he was in England thirteen
years since, the people of all classes, as they
looked upon his majestic form, seemed to regard
him as a man altogether the most God-like, and
wonderful, in his mien, they had ever set their
eyes upon. "Heavens," exclaimed Sidney
Smith "Why, he looks like a small Cathedral."
Another Englishmen who Jboked upon the col
ossal proportions of Mr. Webster with amaze
ment, could compare him with iioth'mg but a
Locomotive. "Daniel 'tlster" said he, "i a
Steam Engine in breeches."
Facta in Physiology-
A man is taller in the morning than at night,
to the extent of half an inch, owing to the relax
ation of the cartilages.
The human brain is the twenty-eight of the
body, but in the horse but a four-hundredth.
Ten days per annum is the average sickness
of human life.
About the age of SG the lean man generally
becomes fatter, and the fat man leaner.
Richer enumerates COO distinct species of dis
ease in tbe eye.
The pulse of children is ICO in a minute ; at
puberty it is 80 ; and at CO it is only G .
Elephants live for two hundred, three hun
dred, and even four hundred years. A healthy
full grown elephant consumes thirty pounds of
grain per day.
The flea, grasshopper and locust jump 200
times their own length, equal to a quarter of a
mile for a man. British Gltcnor.
Sally-ann Sharp's Curiosities.
"Pa, do chimneys make pictures ?"
"No child, why do you ask ?"
"Why I heard Mr. Lampledon say ours draw
well."
"Ma, have steamboat boilers wings?"
"Oh, don't bother me no."
"Why 1 heard a gentleman talking about a
boiler Jlue."
"Pa, can that gold ring of ma's run?"
"No, child, no."
"Well I heard a gentleman say that it wag
chased."
"Ma can steamboat wheels hug ?"
"No, child, what put such a thought in your
head ?"
'Why I heard a man talking about wheel
arms, I did."
to be continued as soon as the creek falls.