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CHOICE POETRY.
TUB HOUSE OF CLOUDS.
Mrs. Browning, formerly Miss Barrett, is re
markable for the powerful flights, and bold origi
nality, which distinguish her poetry, bno is
more masculine in her cast of thought than any
other British poetess, Sirs. Hermans perhaps ex
cepted. Here is a characteristic specimen of her
peculiar manner, and strange turn of fancy :
I would build a cloudy houso
For my thoughts to live in,
"When for health to fancy -loose,
And too low for heaven,
I sleep, and talk my dream aloud,
I build it fair to see
I build it on the moonlit?cloud;
To which I look'd with thee.
Cloud walla of the morning's grey
Faced with amber column,
Crown'd with crimson cupalo
From a sunset solemn
For casements, from the valley fetch
May-mists glimmering,
"With a sunbeam hid in each,
And a smell of spring.
Build the entrance high and proud,
Darkening and eke brightening.
Of arriven thunder-cloud
Veined with the lightning.
Use one within an iris stain,
For the door within,
Turning to a sound like rain,
Aa we enter in.
Fer the fair hall reach 'd thereby
Walled with cloudy whiteness
Take the blue place in the sky,
Wind-work 'd into brightness
Whence corridors and long degrees
Of cloud-staira wind away
Till children wish upon their knees,
They walked where they pray.
Be my chamber tapcrstriod
With the showers of summer,
Closo and silent, glorified
When the sunbeams come there
Sudden harpers hanging on
Every drop aslsuch,
Drawing colors like a tune,
Measured to the touch.
Bring a shadow green and still
From the chestnut forest
Bring a purple from the hill
When the heat is sorest ;
Spread them out from wall to wall,
Carpet wore around :
And thereupon the foot shall fall
In light mstead of 6ound.
Bring a grey cloud from the East
Where the lark was singing
Something of the song at least
Loso not in the bringing,
And that shall be a morningchair
For poet dreams, when with them
No verse constraint the floating air
Their only, lovely rhythm.
Bring the red cloud from the sun
While ho sinketh, catch it,
Bring it for a couch, with one
Side-long star to watch it,
Fit lor a poet's finest thought,
At curfew time to lean;
When things invisible are brought
More nearer him than the seen.
roct's thought, not poet's sigh !
Alas! they come together!
Cloudy walls divide and fly
As if in April weather.
Hall, corridor, and column proud
My chaimber fair to see
All pass except that moonlight cloud
To which I look'd with thee.
Let them! Wipe such visionings
From the tancy's cartel;
Love secures some frailest tilings,
Dowev'd with his immortal,
guns, moons may darken heaven bo bow'd,
But here unchanged shall be,
Here in my soul that moonlit cloud,
To which I look'd with thee.
3
C7"A father, whose son was addicted to some
vicious propensities, bade the boy drive a nail
Into a certain; post whenever he .committed a
fault and agreed that a nail should be drawn
out whenever he corrected an error. In process
of time the post was completely filled with nails.
The youth became alarmed at the extent of his
indiscretion, and eet about reforming himself.
On by one the nails wera drawn out; the dc
lijLted father commended him for his noble,
eli denying heroism, in freeing himself from his
faults.
Absence diminishes moderate passions and
arguments great ones, as the wind extinguishes
candUgs and kiadles the fire.
Sabs anb Shttrjjcs.
A Practical Blue-Stocking.
"Have you called on your old friend, James
Lee, since your return ?" said Mr. Seldon to his
nephew.
"No, sir; I understand ho has the misfortune
to have a blue-stocking (or a wife, and whenever
I have thought of going there, a vision with inky
fingers, frowzeled hair, rumpled dress, and slik
shod heels has come between me and my old
friend, not to mention thoughts of a disorderly
house, smoky puddings, and dirty-faced children
Defend me from a wife who spends her time dab
bling in ink, and writing for the papers. IH
lay a wager James hasn't a shirt with a button
on it, or a pair of stockings that is not full of
holes. Such a glorious fellow as he used to be
too : said Harry, sohloquizmgly, "so dependent
upon somebody to love him. By Jove, it's
hard case."
"Harry, will you oblige me dy calling there ?'
said Mr. Seldon with a peculiar smile.
"Well, yes, if you desire it; but these married
men get so metamorphored by their wives, that
it's a chance if I recognize the melancholy re
mains of my old friend. A literary wife ."' and
he shrugged his shoulders contemptuously.
At one o'clock the next afternoon, Harry might
have been seen rirging the bell of James Lee's
dcor. He had a very ungracious look upon his
face, as much as to say, "My mind is made
up for the worst, and I must bear it for Jem
my's sake."
Ihe servant ushered lnm into a pretty little
sitting-room, not expensively furnished, but neat
and tasteful.
At the further end of the room were some Cow
ering plants, among which a sweet-voiced canary
was singing. Harry glanced round the room ; a
little light stand or Chinese table stood in the
corner, with pen, ink and papers scattered over
it.
"I knew it," said Harry; there's the sign !
horror of horrors ! an untidy, slaternly blue
stocking ! how I shall be disgusted with her !
Jemmy's to be pitied."
Ho took up a book that lay upon tho table, and
a little manuscript copy of verses fell from be
tween the leaves. He dropped the book as if he
had been poisoned; then picking up the fallen
manuscript with his thumb and forefinger, he
replaced it with an impatient pshaw ! Then he
glanced round the room again, no ! there was
not a particle of dust to bo seen, even by his pre
judiced eyes ; the windows were transparcnilv
clean ; the hearth-rug was longitudinally and
mathematically laid down ; the pictures hung
'plumb," upou the wall ; the curtains were fru-sh
gracefully looped; and, what was a greater mar
vel, there was a child's dress half finished in a
dainty little work-basket, and a thimble of fairy
dimensions in the immediate neighborhood there
of. Harry felt a perverse inclination to examine
the stiches, but at the sound of approaching
footsteps he braced himself up to undergo his
mental shower-bath.
A little lady tripped lightly iirto the room, and
stood smilingly before him, her glossy black hair
was combed smoothly behind her cars, and knot
ted upon the back of a remarkably well shaped
head; her eyes were black and sparkling, and
full of myrth ; her dress fitted charmingly to a
well as art, and backed by his collegiate educa
tion, his views expanded by travel, himself made
practical by the vicissitudes of a miscellaious
and peregrinating life, he is often a living won
der, and almost always a whole history of human
nature under a hat.
Harry felt very much like a culprit, and great
ly inclined to drop on one knee, and make a clean
breast of a confession, but Lis evil bachelor spir
it whispered in his ear, "Wait a bit, she's fixed
up for company ; cloven foot will peep out by
and by !"
Well, they sat down ! The lady knew enough,
he heard that before he came ; he only pray
ed that he might not bo boared with her book
learning, or blue-stockingism. It ia hardly eti
quette to report, private conversation for tho pa
pers, so I will only say that when James Lee
came home, two hours after, he found his old
friend Harry in the finest possible spirits, tete-a-tete
with his "blue" wife. An invitation to din
ner followed. Harry demurred, he had begun
to look at the little lady through a very bewitch
ing pair of spectacles, and he hated to be disen
chanted and a blue-stocking dinner !
However, his objections, silent though they
were, were over-ruled. There was no fault to be
found with that table-cloth, or those snowy nap
kins ; the glasses were clean, the silver blight as
my lady's eyes ; the meats cooked to a turn, the
gravies and sauces perfect, and tho desert well
got up and delicious. Mrs. Lee presided with
case and elegance ; the custards and preserves
were of her own manufacture, and the little prat
tler, who was introduced with them, fresh from
her nursery bath, with moist ringlets, snowy
robe, and dimpled shoulders, looked charmingly
well cared for,
As soon as the two gentlemen were alone, Har
ry seized his friend's hand, saying with a half
smile, "James I fell like an unmitigated scoun
drel ! I have heard your wife spoken of as a
'blue-stocking,' and I came here prepared to pity
you as the victim of an unshared heart, slattern
ly house, and indigestible cooking ; but may I
die an old bachelor if I don't wish that woman,
who has just gone out, was my wife."
James Lee's eyes moistened with gratified
pride. "You don't know half," said he. "Lis
ten ; some four years since I became involved
n business ; at the same time my health failed
me, my spirits were broken, and I was getting a
discouraged man. Emma, unknown to me, made
application as a writer to several papers and ma
aaines. She soon became very popular ; and not
long alter placed in my hands sum of three
hundred dollars, the product of tor labor. Du
ring this time, no parental or lousehold duty
was neglected; and her cheerful avl steady af
fection raised my drooping spirits.Vud gave Joe
fresh courage to commence the wrld anew?
She still continues to write, although, as you
see, my head is above water. Thanfe to her as
my guardian angel, for she says, We must W,
up sometmng lor a ramy day. God bless h
sunshiny lace !" f
er
The entrance of Emma put a stop to aay far
ther eulogy, and Harry took his leave in i ver jr
indiscribablc and penitential frame of mind, do
ing ample penance for his former unbeliefm?
scruples, by being very uncomfortably in Ioie
with a" Blue-Stocking." Fanny Fern.
What are Printers Made of ?
More than once we have been occasioned to re
gard printers as strange and more than ordinary
men. An experience of some fifttcen years witb
the craft, has offered numerable opportunities to
find them out, and study in a measure their
"natural history." Printers are, to a greater
extent than any other class of professional men,
migratory. The printing office, of itself, being
a literary institute, few can a side or labor long
in it uiiuui geung somewuai enugntened upon
the historical, scientific and general inteligence
of the day, and about as soon as the apprentice
gets into his freedom suit, or hishead crammed
withjtho knowledge of the craft, his ambition
tends to go out into thewide world and see the
works of art and nature he has read, and enabled
others to read about. Few seem bent on sittini?
down to make a fortune, and the exrcnse of pro
fessional outfit being a mere song, or rather a
peice of brass rule , which serves as a sort of ca
balistic sign to the brotherhood scattered over
creation, a clean dicky' light heart, and equally
hefted pocketbook, the printer goes on his way
of exploration and adventure. Posted un in
price currents," he can talk business with the
merchant or the planter, versed in general sta
tistics of nations ho can hold his own w ith your
country politician, and for whom, if he takes a
notion, ho can set down in a flourishing settle
ment start a paper, replenish his purso and war
drobe, writoand set up patriotic leaders and ir-
resistablo pufFs, which send his patrons to Con
gress or the Legislature- He has long been ac
customed to "tattle," "squibs," "poetic gems,"
'the ladies department," &c, and proves quite
at home in conversational circles, where he can
illuminate old ladies, the girls and children, e-
qual to a pedagogue, Hoods Works. Baron Maa
ceausen or Robinson Crusoe.
He can talk horse or horned eattlo, all over the
lelds of agriculture. He has had many cases,
ia his time to attend to, such as the law reports,
and wonderful cures, and hence, if something
eiscd in law and pl-sic. Having set up and
proved astronomical tables, he knows something,
also, about the starry heavens, waters and
winds. And indeed, not to be too prolix, the
rinter, if a thorough one, is a man of science as
and backed by his collegiate education, his views
expanded by travel, himself made practical by
ihe vicissitudes of a miscellaneous and peregrin
ating life, ho is often a living wonder, and almost
always a whole history of human nature under
a hat.
In this oiTL'c aro some twenty printers enga
ged ; only look at thorn ! In ages ranging from
tweiity to forty in size and complexion, from the
ordinary stout (we never knew a fat printer,) to
some that might crawl through a greesed Cute ;
some as while as Circassions, and others brown
or rosy as your'-Georgia brackcr, or Pennsyl
vania publican. Some bearded like the Pard,
others smooth-faced as the Greek Slave. One
Las travelled all over the North Awe rican con
tinent, hunted bears in Arkansas, and wild
horses in the pampas of Sooth Americr ; another
been put on the broad ocean and seen ."life be
fore the mast ;" another graduated at West
Point, served in the army, and accompained
Col. Doniphan in his Xenophonic grand ca m
paign all over New Mexice. What a book he
can write ! Another has kept tavern sold goods
at auction, travelled over the United States sever
al times, been well off and been broken often.
Two hae been on the stage, a profession printers
are much addicted to ; for about half the actors
on the American boards were printers. Oue we
believe, has preached sermons, another has lec
tured to crowded houses. Another has served
in Mexico with General Scott. A sixth has been
stump orator, member of the Legislator "out
west," and fought a duel we believe. Three
have practised medicine, kept store, dealt in hor
ses, cotton and negroes. Two have held muni
cipal offices. Four or five were officers and pri
vates in various military companies. One ser
ved with Gen. Houston in the Texas Revolution,
one in the Canadian rebellion. Six or eight h ave
edited and published newspapers in various parts
the United States. One has been first officers
of a packet on the "raging canawh" One was
wounded logoff at the storming of Monterey.
One has clerked on a Mississippi steamer, was
blown up and slightly killed. Some are or have
been married : some are bachelors. All have
seen more or less of life, and its changeable
scenes. They are live men, good practical prin
ters, epeak various languages, and form a news
paper corps hard to surpass or equal.
Cincinnati Unionist.
UCTSince Mayor Gilpin's instalation, last Oc
tober, as mayor of Philadelphia, up to the pres
ent time, 26905 prisoners have dcen brought
before him. Of these 2,070 have been returned
to court. For larcenies 703 were arrested; 150
for counterfeiting; and 74 for burglary. There
were 22,000 cases of drunk cness anddisordcrly
conduct, attributable to the the of alcoholic com
dounda.
JAC2 AND THE BEARSKIN.
Samuel Lover's 17ew Bong for the Fleet
A BALTIC STAVE.
The author of Rory O'More, with his usual
aptitude in seizing upon the salient point of every
topic of the day, has attuned his lyre to a sea
strain in the following effusion, it has the genuine
racy old Dibden smack about it, and we doubt
not will become a general favorite :
A sailor and his lass
Sat o'er their parting glass,
For the jolly tar had volunteer'd to go to sea;
At the sailing-signal flying
The lovely lass was sighing.
And said. "I fear you never will come back to
me:
My heart is cold with fear,
That you, my sailor dear.
In the perils of the battle and tho deep should
be." .
"Oh," says Jack, "you'll not be
cold
When your own sailor bold
Will bring you back a bearskin from tho Bal
tic Sea!"
With glory soon did Jack
From the Baltic Sea come back.
With such a lot of bearskins, that the proud
city
With a gold box did present him,
And likewise did compliment him
With the freedom of the ancient Skinners Com
pany, Then he west the girl to find
That he had left behind:
"Won't she be glad to see mc, bles3 her heart,"
says he,
"When she proves'her Failor blade
Kept the promise that he made,
To bring her back a dearskiafroin the Baltic
Sea!"
When Jack' to her appear 'd,
A most enormous beard,
And head of hair transmogrified him so,
see.
That his sweetheart never knew
Till at her feet he threw him ,
All rolling on a bearskin from the Baltic
Says Jack " I sec-my eyes !
The cause of your surprise;
you
him
St-:
ca!
You wondcrkat your sailor tkould so hairy
be;
But my hair did thus increase
With usine cf bears grease.
Such a quantity we slaughter 'd in the Baltic
Sea !"
Then Jack gave her a smack
Andjthe gill hhe cried "Good lack!
You're rougher than a sweeping brush I vow,"
says she,
"Oh," says Jack, " 'twas rather rougher
How we made the bears to suffer
When we were sweeping of tho Baltic Sea,"
Says she, "what will they do
For that bears grease that you
Have cxhausted,"4so much!" "Oh," says Jack
to she.
With hair they won't want rigging,
For we gave them such a wigging
As v. ill last them fur some time in the Baltic
Sea !"
Destructive Fihe in Ohio. A telegraphic
dispatch from Cleveland, dated April 3rd. t-:ajs,
a fire occurred in that citj- on Saturday night,
in t-ngiue house No- 2, which was destroyed-
The wind carred the sparks down Seneca street,
communicating with Sturtevant's large planing
mill, which was also quickly consumed. The
flames next caught three buildings adjoining
which were soon reduced to'.ashes. There were
likewise two more fires in diiferenl directions,
one consuming three dwellings and the other four
The entire loss is over $25,000. The wind was
blowing a severe gale, at the time.
A Robbers Remorse. Somebody "once robber
the poet, Montgomery, of an inkstand, presented
to him by the ladies of Sheffield. The pnblic ex.
cration was so loud that the thief restored the
booty with the following note :
"Bikmixgham, March, 1812.
'.Honored Sir : When we robbed your house
we did not know that yon wrote such beautiful
verses as you do. I .remember my mother told
some of them to me, when, I was a boy. I found
what house we robbed, by the writing on the
inkstand. Honored sir, I send it back. It was
my share cf the booty, and I hope you and God
will forgive me."
A Novel Condensed. Moonlight night
shady grove two lovers eternal fidelity young
lady rich young man poor great obstacle
young man proud very handsome very smart
sure to make a fortune young lady's father
very angry wontt consent mother intercedes
no go rich rival very ugly very hare-hearted
lovers in a bad fix won't part die first
moonlight again garret window opens rope
ladder flight pursuit too late marriage old
man in a rage won't forgive them disowns
them old man gets sick sends for his daugh
ter all forgiven all made up old man dies
young couple get all the money live in the old
mansion quite comfortable have little chil
dren much happincs Finis.
DC7A few mornings ago, just after the steamer
Telegraph had arrived at Cincinati from Louisville
with $500,000 in SDecie. belonrinz to the
Government, on board, a daring attempt wasmade
to set her oa fire by igniting a bundle of rags
above the boilers. The blaze was just working its
way through the flooring into the cabin, when it
was fortunately discovered and extinguished.
Advertising.
With the sharp competition prevailing among
those engaged in business a competition which
brings into operation all the energies a man pos
esses which keeps him constantly upon the run
during the day, and allows him little repose at
night it is especially important that persons
advertise, and do it upon a comprehensive and
liberal scale. It is not sufficient that an individ
ual has been a long while in business, that his
house is known to the older part of creation, and
his reputation established in that circle ; it is not
sufficient that "drummers" are employed to hunt
up or run down customers : it is not sufficient
that eligible situations for mercantile transac
tions are secured, and handsome stores 0Ued up .
these contrivances were all very well, and an
swered every purpose at an earlier period ; but
in these days of multiplied population and uni
versal demand, of railroads and steamers cf
lightning and newspapers, they will not suffice.
Times have changed ; the road to wealth and
competency has changed. People do not trave 1
by post coaches now, they take conveyances
which are propelled by steam. When the New
York daily papers were printed upon hand-presses,
the enterprising merchant advertised in them
and thus accumulated his regular customers.
But a great revolution has taken place : both
the city and country have changed, as well as the
manner of doing business. Men -have adopted
the go-ahead principle. The American people
have become a. fast people.
Everything goes with a rush. People make
or loose money with a rush ; they are not per
mitted to do business in a quiet way, if they
would. They must throw themselves into tho
great current, and move onward with the crowd:
it is idle for them to demur, or attempt to break
the force of the tide; the moment they do so,
they go down, and their places are filled by some
Young America.
Now, the times are such that men in business
are obliged to advertise; they are obliged to do it
to keep pace with the crowd ; they cannot Lope
to be successful without it. It ia required by
the spirit of the age. It is as indispcnsible to
tho merchant and dealer as the power-press is to
newspaper manufacturer. A very limited a
mount of printing may bo done upon a hand
press, and a limited mercantile trade may be car
ried on without advertising ; but whoever ex
pects to be successful either in the printing or the
mercantile business, must adopt all the modern
improvements, among which, in .the latter line,
we consider that of advertising the chief and
the greatest.
Zy The senses of smelling, tasting, and even
of fc-eling or touch, are liable to innumerable cau
ses of deception. It is mentioned in the Museum
of Science that if two fingers of the samo hand,
being crossed, be placed upon a table, and a
marble or pea is rolled between them, the impres
sion will be, if the eyes are clossed, that two
marbles or peas are touched. If the ioso be i
pinched, and cinnamon be tasted, it will tast like
a common stick cf deal. Many substances lose
their flavor when the nostrils ore stopped.
Nurses, therefore, upon right aud scientific
principles, stop the noses of children when they
give them'doscs of disagreeable medicine. If tho
cj-es are blindfolded, and puttermilk and claret be
alternately tasted, tho person tasting tbem, after
a few repetitions of tho process, will be unab'o to
distinguish one from the ether.
Pleasure. BlvtMrd bo tho hand that prepares
a pleasure li-r a child ! for there is no saving
when and where it may again bloom forth. Docs
not almost everybody remember some kind
hearted man v ho showed him a kindness in the
quiet days of his childhood ? The writer cf this
recollects himself at this moment as a bare-footed
lad, standing at tho wooden fi nce of a poor
little garden in his native village ; with longing
eyes he gazed on tho flowers which were bloom
ing there quietly in the brightness of a Sunday
morning, ihe possessor came lortu licm his
little cottage he was a wood-cutter by trade
and spent the whole wt-ek at his work in the
woods. He was como into his garden to gather
flowers to stick in his coat when he went to
church. He saw the boy, and breaking off tho
most beautiful of his carnations it was streak
ed with red and white gave it to him. Neither
the giver nor tho receiver spoke a word ; and
now, here at a vast distance from that home,
after so many events of so many years, the feel
ings of gratitude which agitated the breast of the
boy, expresses itself on paper. The carnation
has long since withered, but now it blooms
afresh. Douglas Jerrold.
Tee Bkard. Each hair composiug the hu
man beard i3 furnished with a distinct gland,
elaborately and beautifully complete. Under
neath are innumerable nerves, immediately con
nected with the various organs of the senses
ramifying in every direction, and performing im
portant functions. In shaving tho upper lip
with a dull razor every one has noticed that the
eyes water, showing a connection between the
nerves of the beard and those of the eyes. Many
cases of weak eyes, according to good medical
authority, may be traced to tho removal of the
beard. This hair when in full growth, forms a
natural protection to the nerves, and also holds,
as it were in suspension, a quantity of warm air,
through which the cold air in breathing passes,
and then becomes rariGed and attempered, and
tit to come in contact with the lungs.
Cr"Iu a late Abolition speech, Miss Lucy
Stone said :," But I know so well there is cotton
in the cars of men, let us look for hope in tho bo
soms of women."
Won't you find cotton there too, Miss Lucy. !
" There wai something in Jular,
So wcrry pecular !"
A Curious Case.
A novel case of adultery was before our police
court a short time since, in which the wife of
John Bennett, fonnerlv of Exeter. N. II.. resort
ed to the same course in unveiling her huabaud'
falsity that was used upon one of old the plough
ed, with his heifer. John had yielded to the
weakness of his nature, and became enamored of
a Miss , whom ho took to Haverhill, to spend
the Sabbath with the "old folks," at home,
passing as their son-in-law, showing a forged
certificate of marriage. His watchful wife, un
derstanding the matter fully, took occasion
while walking in the street to inform Lim that
she was knowing to the facts, when he knockei
Kr down, anJ tapon complaint wls locked ia
jail for thirty days. While he was in prison the
shrewdness of the wife manifested itself. Dress
ing heasclf in male attire, she visited his para
mour, as an attendant at the jail sent by Mr.
B., saying he was afraid the presents he had
given her might bo used against him if he should
be tried for adultery, and requested that Lo
6hould let his friend, the bearer, take charge of
them, which was accordingly done, and they
were handed over. Before leaving, and after
some very severe remarks about the jealous wife,
this assumed jail-waiter said Mr. B. requested
him to bring one kiss from her, which she con
sented to give, and wished to 6cnd a thousand
by the same bearer ! Tho visit was repeated sev
eral times, and the girl complotely blinded till
the facts were obtained, nor till then did she dis
cover that fcho had been completely sold. .Veuw
burvport Herald.
Bloney ! Iilonoy ! !
"Dimes and dollars, dollars and dimes,
An empty pocket is tho worst of crimes."
Yes; and don you presume to show youro!f
any where until you get it filled. "Not among
good people ?" No, my dtar Simplicity, not a
mong "good people." They will receive you
with a galvanic ghost of aci:le, scared up by
an indistinct recollection of the '-ten command
ments," but it will be as short-lived as their
stay with you. You aro welcome, that's the a
mount of it.
They are all in a perspiration least you should
be delivered of a request for this asssistance, be
fore they can get rid of j-ou. They're "very
busy," and what's more, they always will ha
busy when you call, until you get to the top of
fortune's ladder.
Climb, man ! climb ! get to the top of the lad
der, though adverse circumstances and false
filcuda break every round in it ! and sec what a
glorious and extensive prospect of human nature
you'll got when you arrive at the summit !
Your gloves will be worn out shaking hands with
the very people who didn't recognize your ex
istence two months ago. "You must come and
make a long visit; you must stop in at any
time;" " you H always be welcome ;" it is such
a long timo since they had the pleasure of a vis
it from you, that they begin to fear you never
intended to come; and they'll cap the climar,
by inquiring, with aa injured air, "If you are
near-sighted, or why you have so often passed
them iu the street without speaking?"
Of course you will feel very much like laugh
ing in their faces ; and so you can. You can't
do anything wrong, now thatr "your pocket is
full." At tho most, it will only be an eccentri
city. You can use anybody's head for a foot
stool, bridle anybody's mouth with a silver bit,
and have as many " golden oiini"n':" r
like. You won't see a frown arain, between
tl-is and yovr Intnbstouo !
FANNY FERN.
The Mek chant's IIeaht. Matthis, the Lev
antine merchant, had spent his whole life, from
his boy-time upwards, in travelling' for the island
of the South Seas. He had returned to his native
place Texas, Tarsus.in the full vigor of mauhoood,
and was reported to have amassed great wealth
His first stop was to make a purse and a governor
and to present him with a purse and a string of
pearls, in order to bespeak his good-will. Then
he built himself a spacious place in the midst of
a garden on the borders of a stream, and began
to lead a quiet life, resting after the fatigues of
his many voyages. Most persons considered him
to be the happiest of merchants; but thoso who
were introduced to his intimacy, knew that his
constant companions were thought and sadness.
When he had departed in youth, he had left his
father, and his brothers, and his sisters, in health
although poor; but, wheu he returned in hopes to
gild the remainder of their days, he found that
tho hand of death had fallen upon them every on
and that their was no one to share his prosperity
and a blight came over his heart.
Wearing the Cross. The holy ensign of
tho Cross was often used in dress in order to com
mand a homage the wearer would not otherwise
Lave received. In 13C3, the father of the Doge
of Venice preferred always going bareheaded to
pulling off his cap to his eon, until the Doge
thought of placing a cross in front of his cap
The father then rcassunicd his cap, and when he
met his son pulling it eff, saying, " It is not
him I salute, but the cress; " and from that time
the cross became an ornament of the ducal cap.
CC7A traveler asked Bob Tipple if he bad ever
been round the horn. No, sir replied the in
nocent Bob. " I never goes ronnd the horn. I
ain't ashamed to take it, no matter who is by."
Q3?Tbo Connecticut Legislature has voted
$4000 annually for four years to sustain the
Normal School at New Britian, near Hartford.
Pretty girl's face generally f.l'.s a man 'a
rits and empties his pockets. For partiilars
inquire at the rwn!r place.