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LIFE A EIVER.
At first, a sl.aduW of the sbade,
A f-g ascending to the mount;
A i..!sty vapor frm the glade
Distils and then becomes a fount;
A fuur.t di-i tilled from ether dews,
Troui mother mountain winds its way;
At first it creeps, and then renews
Its :-.trength with every passing iay !
T.:j ou'et, placid, silver stream,
la J e.u e and purity had flown,
Au 1 in its own idsal dream,
Its hid.k-n depths had cover known;
But wind the wi.id its bosuin shook,
An I n.ove 1 the deeply settled lea,
It'ort ;i.e b.-auty of the brook,
And mingled with tire roaring sea!
And thus ur u-..-tic life appears
A bii.ide, a Taper, then a rill,
A cri 'i':;:-: d-ju-rt the vale of tears,
U7.:'ie :;I snares the passions thrill.
Sleeping, dreaming, leaping, foaming,
A. d ever tending to th sea;
Onward, ceaseless, evcr-moauing,
Until it llnds eternity.
"MCXD ! "sensible. l lie
following
lsJuige Ijongstrcet s opinion ot a newspa-
Der.
llead it, all vou "snivelling sku.hu.ts
that "cant
affvrd to take
a pnper,
while you
and silver
opiniou of
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live an stocKini' iuh oi y.-ia
stowed away soiuewherf; read the
thii "sciisiide man. lie says :
' Snail is the tum that is required to pat
ronize a newspaper, and nicst amply remu
nerated is the u'Uroa I care not how Lum
tle aud uoj rtteudiug the paper which he
tikes, it. is impossible to fill it fifty times a
year without putting in it something worth
the subscription price, livery parent whose
s j-a is at school, should supply him with a
paper. I still remember what a difference
ih-re v,as between those cf my schoolmates
who had. aud those who had not, access to a
tew.-raper. Other things being equal, the
first were decidedly superior to the lasi iu de
bate anl composition, at least. The reason
is plain : they have command of more facts.
Voutlis will peruse newspapers with delight,
wLca they will read Dothiug else.'' Tact.
Reaction of Expenditure: The Secretary
of the Treasury has prepared and submitted
to Congress a bill for the reorganization of
the collection districts, aud to reduce the
ports of entry from 110 to 75. and to discon
ii'.,., olt.-xrpther 21 of the SG corts of delivery
Bv this measure he estimates that the saving
m'tho polleciiau of the revenue will be about ;
400,000 per ar.cum. It is not proposed
to reduce the salaries cf the officer?, asunder
the new arrangements, they would have ad
V.Uonal dutte?r lie suggests that steam-tugs
fo:rcvenu'! purpotft Lc use-1 at the larger
ports. a- 1 whether smuggling could not the
Letup hi prevented and relief to distressed
vessels furnished by employing vessels of the
navy.
It is resornmendfcd that the revenua cut
ters be ultimately dispeused with, and that
Krvi.-e he perforcaed by the navy. The
difficulty stauding in the way seems to bo the
disposition of the revenue marine officers.
But, they cou'.J not be continued as an ajunct
of the navy until their pYcsent commissions
expire, and those who have rendered impor
tant and worthy service hold an assimilated
xank in the Davy.
Thr Anicricann Minister and the Empe
Xapohon. The coraespondent of the
New York Times says that the diplomatic
reception on New Year's day, t the Palace
the Emperor conversed an unusually long
time with the American minister, and showed
towards him the greatest courtesy. The
President's message was referred toand-rtrrr
gave Mr. Mason the opportunity of rciterate
iag to Napoleon that it w3 the settled policy
of the United States to act in the acquisition
f territory exactly upon ttTe" principles which
tad guided them heretofore that is to say,
that no territory should ho acquired other
wise than honorably, by purchase or cession.
Eniperor on his part reassured the Amer
ican uiiinster of his kindly feeliogs towards
the LVited Sates, and of his constant de
tirc fur (he preservation of amicahlc rcla-
. It is a somewhat remarkable fact
that the culture of tobacco begun as an ex
JreririifcLt in Connecticut a few years since,
13 getting to be a great and growing iuter-
IVLiscdimuoixs.
' From the Home Journal.
' PREMONITION. .. : ; , (
In tbs year 1820, ' when tho present State
of Alabama was a comparative wilderness, a
gentleman by the Dame of Saunders came
from, a neighboring State into one of its
eastern counties in quest of a placo of settle
ment. : lie was well-dressed and well-mounted,
and traveled alone
' At th close of a fatiguing day's lido, he
stopped at a house of entertainment, which
was the nucleus or central point of a ktrug
gling back'voods iilagr, toutainicg sojae fif
teen or twenty inhabitants. The host was a
grim, sour-visaged man, with small, sinister
looking eyes, which twinkled like burning
points beneath" the heavy fringe of the prcni
ineut eyebrows. The tavern buildings seemed
to have been left in an unfinished couditioa by
the workmen, and looked ruinous aud old,
for want of paint and repairs
On entering the bar-room, which was a
dingy, half-lightel apartment, 31 r Saunders
found a few men. very ordinary in both dress
and appearance, engaged ia retailing to each
other the cossip and news of the neighbor
hood. He seated himself in their midst; and
awaited in silence the announcement of sup
per.' After eating a hearty meal, feeling both
fatigued and drowsy, h- rcuested to be con-
ucl;d to his room. Lke landlord, taking
a lamp in on-e hand and the saddlebags of the
traveler in the other, went out of the bar
room into the yard, requesting Mr. Saunders
to follow him.
At the extreme end of the tavern buildings
they ascended a flight of rude steps to an
upper story. Entering a uarrovv dark passage
Mr. Saunders was shown iLtoa small uncom
fortable room, furnished with a bed, one
chair, and a small table, bade his guest good
night, and retired.
As the door of the room was without a lock
or fastening of any sort, Mr. Saunders placod
the table and chair against it, blew out the
light and lay down. Overcome with fatigue
and drowsiness he soon fell asleep, ut almost
immediately awoke, quivering iu every limb,
and iu a state of extreme mental pciturbatiou.
lie had dreamed a vivid and most frightful
dream.
In his vision, he saw a man, grim and
dark, ascending the outer steps to the passage
whih led to lis room. He bore a long, glit
teriug kuife iu his hand, aud came up the
steps with a slow and sileut tread. At the
sight of him a feeling of appreheusioa a
presentment tbat danger was ni"h came
j over the dreamer. lie sprang out of bed,
opened his door, and stepped out into the pas-
! sage. Opposite to his room he saw another
door, through which he felt impelled to seek
au escape. Opening it, he saw a hole in the
middle of the tloor, over which the timbers
of a bedstead were extended, the cord hang
iug down to the floor beneath. As he was
in the act of seizing this to let himself down,
he awoke and found that it was all a dream
He was still iu bed, and the chair ud table
remained in the position be had placed them
against the door.
After revolving the dream in his mind a
few moments, his nerves became quiet, and
he again fell asleep, dreamed the identical
dream over, and awoke, as before, trembliDg
and affrighted.
He got oat of bed, removed the chair and
table from his door, aud opening it, saw.what
he had failed to observe before, that there was
another door, close shut, opposite his room.
The full moou had risen, aud lit up the pas
sage and upper rooms cf the. inn, which were
without shutters, with the radiance almost of
day Curiosity and the excitement of his
dream pr- mptiug, he stepped across the pas
sage and gave the opposite door a gentle push
wit'i his baud. It flew wide open, and dis-
phy-u ly
tiic eyes of the now startled traveler
ol jccts and arrangement be had
''J
I seen ia uis ureaui iu me muuue oi me room
there .'.is a large hole, made by the removal
j of slit'i t pieces of plank; across it lay the un
! corded tiiulters of a beJstcaJ, f.om which de
pen
the
1. d a stout rope that reached almost to
iioor
of the room below.
Thoroughly alarmed by this literal and ut
terly unex retainable verificatiorj-of his dream,
Mr ... .Saunders returned to bis own room,
dressed himself in great haste, and, with his
saduie-bags thrown over his arm, stepped out
upon the platform at the head of the stair
steps. His iutcntiou was to leave the tavern
and, if possible, get lodgir.gs for the night at
a respectable looking houso he had passed on
the outskirts of the village. The next morn
ing be could send for his horse and pay his
bill by a messenger, and thus avoid explana
tions which might prove unpleasant both to
the landlord and himself.
The shadow of a largo tree which stood a
few yards distant from the end of the build
ing, fell upon the platform and nearly half of
the stair steps. A brilliant moonlight rested
on the yard and all other objects ou that side
of the tavern.
Just as Mr. Saunders stepped out on the
platform, be saw a roan come round the cor
ner of the house, and walk in the direction of
the 6tcps. He held a Jaige butcher knife in
his right hand, and looked wistfully around
him as he advanced. As soon as he came to
the bottom of the step, he began to ascend
the fctairs with a slow and silent tread. In
appearance, movement, and weapon, ho was
the exact counterpart of the image seen by
Mr. Srunders in his dream.
What was the traveler to do, unarmed as
ho was, to escape the menacing peril ? lie
felt glued to tho spot upon which ha stood by
the very imminence of the danger1 which ap
parently confronted him. To leap from the
platform to the earth would imperil both life
and limb. A face to face encounter with an
armed man could only end in his being des
perately wounded or immediately killed. Nor
was there even . time to escape through, the
room with the hole in ' its floor, for the des
perado had already mounted to the higher il
luminetcd step, and was only a few. feet dis
tant from Mr. Saunders.
Summoning ail the, resolution he could
command, he cried out, 'fVho comes here ?"
Startled by the voice. ; the man threw up'
his face, and Mr. Saunders at once recogni
zed him as the landlord of the inn. ' Without
saying a word be'turned, almost ran down
the steps, and hurried round the .corner of
the house in the direction he had came. . T
Mr, Saunders immediately " descended the
steps himself and walked, with no laggard
steps, to the house on the outskirts of the
village, where after tome entreaty, he i pro
cured lodgings for the night.
Early the next mcrning he sent a messen
ger for his horse, with money to pay the bill.
He made no mention of the occurrences of
the previous night; but, as soon z.s his horse
was brought, mounted and resumed his jour
ney. . '
Some years afterwards he met his former
host, lace to face, upon one of the streets of j
Columbus, Ueorgta. The mutually recogni
zed each other; bat, in a moment, the quon
dam landlord threw down his eyes, seemed
raucu abasncd, aLG Lurried quickly Dy, with
out saying a word ' '
Was the muider really meditated in this
case? and was the dream, which roused the
intended victim, a veritable prernonttion scut
to rescue him from impending death? These
are questions which the writer will not un
dertake to answer. lie can vouch, however,
for the literal truth of the faets herein related
they were communicated to him by the
llev. 11. M. Saunders, of Alabama, a sen of
the gentleman to whom the monitory dream
was vouchsafed. J. vr. t.
Making a Teetotaler,
A short time since, a young maa living in
Ogdensburg N. Y,, whose name we shall call
George, took to dilating-rather more thin
usual, and some of his friends endeavored to
cure him. One day, when he was in rather a
loose condition, they got him in a room, and
comaienced conversing about dtliriam tre
mens, directing all their remarks to him, and
telling him what fearful objects, such as
snakes and rats, were always seen by the
victeins of this horrible disease. When the
conversation had waxed high on this theme,
one of the number stepped out of the room,
and from a trap which was at hand let a large
rat into the room. None of hia friends ap
peared to see it, but the young man who was
to be the victim seized a chair and hurled it
at the rat, completely using up the piece of
furniture iu the operation. Another chair
shared the same fate, wheu his friends seized
him, and with terror depicted on their faces.
demanded to know what was the matter.
"Why, don't you see that cursed big rat?"
aid he; pointing to the animal; which after
the maimer of rats, was making his way a
round the room, close to the wall.
They all saw it, but all replied that- they
didn't see it "(Jure teas no rat."
'But there isl" said he, as another chair
went to pe ices in an ineffectual attempt to
e rush the obnoxious vcrmiu
At this moment, they again seized him, and
after a terrific scuffle threw him down on the
floor and. with terror in their faces, sereamed
"Charley, run for the doctorl"
Charley started for the door, when George
desired to know "what the de'il was up." .......
"Up!" said they, "why you've got the de
lirium tremens!"
Charley opened the door to go out, when
George raised himself on his elbow, and said,
"Charley, where are you going?"
"Going!" replied Charley, "goiug for a
doctor "
"Going for a doctor, "rejoined George,
"For what?" repeated Charley, "why you.
have got the delirium tremens!"
"The delirium tremens have 1?" repeated
George, How do you know I've got tho de
Hium tremens?',
"Easy enough;" says Charley, "you've!
commenced seeing rats.
'Seeing rats!'' said George in a sort of
musing way; "seeing rats. Think you must
be mistaken, Charley.""
"Mi&laken!" said Charley.
Yes. mistken," rejoined George; ' I ain't
the man 1 hain't seen no rats."
The boyslet George up after that, and
from that to this he hasn't touched a glass of
liquor, and "seen no rats" not the first rat.
How to go to Bed. HfII's Journal of
Health, in speaking on this subject, says :
"In freezing Wintertime doit in a hurry,
11 1 0 LfV U1C IU tUC IVUUl, auu lUClU
ought not to be unless you are quite an in
valid. But if a person is not in good health
it is best to undress by a good fire, pull of
your stockings, warm and dry the feet well,
draw oa the stockings again, run into a room
without a fire, jump into bed, bundle up,
with head and ears under cover for a minute
or more, until you feel a little warmth; then
uncover your head, next draw off your stock-
ings. straignten out, turn over on your ngnt
side and go to sleep. If a sense of chillncss
comes over you on getting into bed, it will
always do you an injury; and its repetition
increases the ill effects without having any
tendency to 'harden' you. Nature ever ab
hors violence. We a;e never shocked into
good health. Hard usage makes no garment
last longer."
Lieut Maury, in one of his lectures
on tho 'Highways and Byways of the Ocean'
states that animal matter at the bottom of the
deep sea, owing to the superincumbent pres
sure, the exclusion of light and heat, a.id the
saline properties of water, cannot decompose,
but must remain . precisely in tho stato in
which it is deposited for ages and aces.
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1 MoDey is the root of all eyil.
ADVENT TJJELE3
WITH
BEARS. :
':. Late one afternoon, ju6t after the little par
ty had gone intocaisp. Kit, having lingered
somewhat . behind, suddenly rode into the
camp ground and leaped from his horse, giving
it in caro of one of the men. With his rifle,
he then 'started in pursuit of game for supper,
lie' walked on about a mlie from the camp,
"and there came upon the fresh track of seme
elk. ". Following up the trail, he discovered
the game graxing on the side - of a hill. In
thejoehjhboihrcd of the animals there were
eome":loV jaud--'-eragT'i pioe-tfees." Morir;?
along with care, he finally gained the cover
of tho trees, which brought him in close prox
imity to the elk, and within certain range of
his rifleJ This care was the more necessary
as his party had been without meat diet for
some time and began to be 'greatly in need
thereof. These ever wary animals saw, or
scented him; or, at any rate, became concious
of approaching danger from some caase, be
fore h-e could reach the spot from which he
desired to take his aim. They had commeu-
ced moving; and
m another instant would
have bounded away out of all reach of his
rifle. ' Uis eye aud piece, however, were
too quick for them; for, briDgiug his piece
into position and without dwelling upou his
aim, he sped a bullet after the largest and fat
test of the noble game before him. lie had
wisely allowed for the first leap, for bis shot
caught the noble animal iu mid-air and brouht
him to the earth, writhing in his dcith ago
ny with a fearful wound through the heart
and hangs, from whieh there was no escape.
One quiver rao throug the fiamc of the beau-!
liful auimal. when he breathed his last. The
echoing sound of the rule shot had hardly
died away, to which the true huuter ever list
ens with unfeigned pleasure as the sweetest of
music on his ear, whenever he has seen that
his came is surely within his grasp, the last
faint melody was broken in upon and com
pletely lost in a tcrriific roar from the woods
directly behind him Iustautly turning his
head to note the source of this sound, the
meaning and cause of which he well knew by
his experienced woodman's ear, educated until
its uicity was truly .wpndeiful, he saw two
huge aud terribly angry grizzly bears. As
his eye firtt rested upon these uuwelcome
guests, they were bounding toward, him,
their eyes flashing firery passion, their pearly
teeth glittering with eagerness to mangle his
flesh, and their monstrous fere arms, hung
with sharp, bony claws, ready and anxious to
hug his body in a cloje aud most loving em
brace. There was not much time for Kit to
scratch his head and cogitate. In fact, one
instant speut iu thought then would have pro
ved his death-warrant without hope of a re-
prieve. Messrs. uruin evwentiy considered
their domain most unjustly intruded upon.
The gentle elk aud deer mayhap were their
dancing boys, and like many a pretty king in
savage land, they may have dined late and
were now eujoyieg a scenic treat of their bal
let troupe. At all events. Kit required no
second thought to perceive that the monarchs
of the American forest uuappeasably angry,
and were fast nearing him with mystic sttiie.
Dropping his rifle, the little leaden bullet of
which would now have been worth to him its
weight infold if it could by some magic wand
been transfered from the heart of the elk back
into its breech, he bounded from-his position
in close imitation of tho elk, but with better
success. The trees! he hoped and prayed as
ho flew over the ground with the bears hot in
chase, for one quick grasp at a sturdy sapliug.
By good fortune, or special Providence, his
hope or prayer was answered. Grasping a
lower limb, he swung his body up into the
first tier of branches just as passing Bruin
brushed against one of his legs . Bears climb
trees, and Kit Carson was not ignorant of the
fact. Instantly dt awing his keeu-edged hun
ting knife, he cut away for dear life at a thick
short branch. The knife and his energy con
quered, the cutting just as Messrs Bruin had
gathered themselves up for an ascent, a pre-
ccediDg on their part to which Mr. Carson
would not give assent. Mr. Carson was well
acquainted with tho Messrs. Bruin's pride in
and consideration for, their noses. A few
shai praps made with the .severed branch up-
on tee noses oi tue ascending Dears, wnne j
they fairly made them to howl with pain and !
rage, caused them hastily to beat a retreat.
This sceoe of ascending, getting their noses
tickled, and again descending howling with
pain and rage, now kept Mr. Karson and
Messrs. Bruin actively busy for some time.
The huge monsters and monarchs of the
mountains were determined not to give it up
so. Such a full aud fair chase, and to be
beaten by a simple white man on their own
domain! This evidently galled their sensa
tive natures. It is trae the roaring of the
bears in his rear had stimulated Mr. Carson
in the race, so much so that he undoubtedly
ran at the top of his speed; and being natural
ly, as well as by long practice, very fleet of
foot, he managed to outstrip his pursuers in
the race. It is true ho had made short work
of climbing the tree, and here again had very
innocently beaten the bears at their own
game, and one in which they took great pride.
It is more than probable that the bears were
in too cood a condition to run well. Had it
been early spring-time they would doubtless
have beeu niuch.wer iu flesh. That was
their own fault too; they should have known
that racing time cannot be made on high con
dition. -After leaving their hibernating
quarters they should have been less given to
a sumptuous habit at the table. .
Affairs were, however, by no manner of
means settled. They had the daricg tress
passer on their domain treed, and almost
within their reach; and, indeed, to keep out
of the wav of their uucomelv claws. Kit was
obliged to gather himself up in the smallest
space and cling to the topmost boughs. The
bears now allowed themselves a short respite
for breathing, during which they'gave vent
to their wrath in many shrill screeches.
Then they renewed their ecdcavori to foroe
KXT-KA&SON'S
the hunter from his resting-place.', Mounted
on their hind paws they would reach for him:
but the blows with the stiok, applied to their
noses,, would make them desist. In Tain did
they exhaust every means to force the man to
descend: ho was not ta hft driven or coaled.
The hard knocks they had sustained upon j cr, given to "cussing and Ulnature, will per
their noses had pow'arou?ed them, almost to form in a week.- Songs are like sunshine
madness." Together they made one desperate i-they run to cheerfulness, and so fill your bo
effort to tear Kit from the tree. As in all j som with buoyancy for the time beinp, that
their previous attempts, they were failed, and ! you feel like a yard of June, or a acre lot fill
tneir urdor dampened and cooled by the drum j cd with violets and bobolinks. Try it on and
ming operations on their noses, which this ; aee.
rtima wfis-so. frty cud strongly Wued upon
one of them cs to make him lachrvmate an-f ! . -,rti.'?. '". "V,- . 1 ,
cry out with pain. One at a time they de- i 13 a,laiJ rcsxdia - -m Minetonk., but for
parted; but it was not till they had been out f tu,s cltV' wht0' fr 1 PJ,.stycars
of sight and hearing for some time that Kit i has. lire 1 entirely 'thout eatmg. Her age
considered it safj to venture down from the
tree; when he hastened to regain and immedi
ately to reload his rifle. Life Illustrated.
Dancing.
We copy the following true and humor
ous description of modem danc'iLg from the
pen of a ready writer, who already enjoys au
enviable reputation as an author:
"Look! look! said half a dozen lady voices
one pretty night, as we sat leaning against
the outside of a ball room. We did look
alas! for our poor modesty, we ought not to
have done so. If ut children were among
them, I'd whip, the;n well for it: Yes, if they
were fulll grown. I'd give them the hickor'. :
So said the wife of one of our priuces, as she
turned away in utter disgust.
Doctor, let me describe a little if the
public may look, certainly it may read,
though it run. A group of the splendid ones
is on the floor ami lovingly mated. Tho
gents encircle their partners' waists with one
arm. The ladies and gentlemen stand close
ly face to face. The gents are very erect
aud lean a little back. The-ladies lean a
little forward. Music Now all wheel and
whirljcirclc aud curl. Feet and heels of
gents go rip-rap-, ripTap-tip. Ladies' fjet
go tipity tip, tipity tip-lip. Then all go
rippiry, dlippity: tippity, bippity, skippity,
hoppity, jumpyity. bamppity; thump. Ladies
ny tfi by centrifugal momentum. Uents
pull the ladies hard and close. They irsel,
swing, slide, sling, look tender lxk silly,
look dizzy. Feet fly, tresses fly, hoops fly,
dresses fly; all fly. It looks tuggetty, hu
gely squezity pressity rublity rip. J he men
look like a cross between steelyards and
"limber jacks" beetles and joi itel X's The
maidens tuck down their chins very low. or
rais them exceedingly high. Some smile,
some grin, some giggle, some pout, some
sneer, and all sweat freely. The ladies'
faces are brought against thoae of the meu,
or into their bosoms,
breast against
breast,
nose against Eose,
Now they o again
and toes
against
toes.
making a sound like
Ueorgy, porgy; aerey,
jecry, riuey, piuey,
coachy, poacoy
This dance is not so much, but the extras
are glorious. If the meu were women, there
would be no such dancing, But they are
only men, so the thiug goes on by the ico
man's love of it. When a boy, we Used to
visit these Dutch dances, and trip the whirl
ing beer barrels, as they passed our feet;
then ruu for dear life. We s-tiil feel the
instinct for tripping iu our toes. A secular
writer sayis There is no established s'andard
of propriety about this matter. If I were a
lady, I might object to these dances, but;
being a man I do not. We certainly ought to
be satisfied, if they are.
Giants The bed of Og was 27 feet leug
and 7 feet broad. The height cf Goliah was
11 feet, his coat weighed 150 and his spear
11) pounds.
The body of Orestes, sou of
Agamemuon,
leader of tha Grecian expedi-
tioa agaiust
Troy, was Hi, and a woman 10
feet. Maxuuus, a native of Spain, the IIo
man Emperor, was 8- feet high. His strength
was such that ho could draw a loaded wagon,
break a horse's jaw with his fist, crash the
hardest stones with his fiugers, and cleave
trees with his hands. His voracity was equal
to his strength, eating 42 pounds of licsh
and drinking 19 bottles of wine daily. Byrne
aud O Bricn, Irish
giants.
were eight feet
high, A Tennessee
giant lateiy died, i
feet high, weighiug more than one thousand
pounds The Kentucky giant was 7 feet 10
inches hiih.
The Beaa-catihing-match-making-
less-kissing-more-marrying Association holds
regular semi-weekly meetings. Tickets of
membership for young men, twenty-five cts.,
if good looking. Clearance cards, five dollars
and the clergyman's fees. Wine is adminis
tered to the faint-hearted free of change. A
grand banquet may be expected about the
14th of February, when the matches made
during the season will be publicly proclaimed
and tho parties are expected to pair off in
compliance with the decision of the Associa
tion, under the penalty of quiet submission
to tho gossip of the memoers for the remain
der of the year.
Charcoal aiul Tainted Meat. A Connec
ticut lady says: "Some chickens, during tho
recent warm weather, had btcoaio slightly
tainted. These were stuited wi!h freshly
heated charcoal, and in twelve hours were
as eweet and fresh as could be desired, not
leaving the least disagreeable odor or flavor
Shortly after, on examining some fresh pieces
of perk, and fcariDg that they could not be
preserved until it w-s convenient to cook
them, she placed them in a pau of powdered
charcoal; and thus kept them with complete
success."
,5TAn old lady, on being witnessed be
fore a magistrate as to her place of legal
settlement, was asked what reason she had
for supposing her husband had a legal settle
ment iu that town. The old lady said: "He
was born and married. aud they buried him
there, and if that ain't settling him there, I
don't khow what i?."
.'--Masic. To keep Spring in-your-heart,
learn to sing. There is a great deal of merit
in melody moie merit than "most people are
awcrc of. A cobbler who smooths his wax
ed ends with Bonnie Doon or Roslin Castle,
will do a? much work in a day as a cordwaic-
,.. ...iT.
is twenty-eigiit. fcue is tne moincr oi mreu
children, and ctij-iys moderate health. Sho
has the use of all her faculties, is not emanci
pated, but apparently robust, and yet she
does Lot take into her stomach a particle of
food of any kind, save a cup of coffee three
titf.es a day; this, her only substance, she sips
slowly, occupying the aceustomed time with
others at the table. Minm-sotian..
JPiT A Boston trader called rt a country
farm house, some time ago, to buy cheese,
but when he came to look at it concluded not
to take, it as it was so full of skippers. As ho
was going c-ff the farmer said to him,
"Look here, mister, how can I get my
cheese down to Bos on the cheapest?"
The trader ttok another lock at ii; seeiDg
more and more evidence cf its being alive
replied:
"Well, let it lay a day or two longer, and I
guess you can drive it down."
J3T The Be v. Daniel Waldo, late Chap
lain to Congress, says: "I am now an old
man. I live seen nearly a century. Do
you wank to know how lo grow old slowly and
happily? Let me tell you: Always eat
slowly masticate well. Go to your food, to
your rest, to your oecupaiioQS sm.iing. iveep
a good nature and a soft temper everywhere.
Never give way to anger. Cultivate a good
memory . and to do this you must always be
communicative; repeat 'what you have read
talk about it."
ILjW to hill Oarls. "If you find an owl
looking at you from a tree " says the doctor,
"ani you wUh to bring him down without
the expense cf powder and shot, you have
only to keep your eye steadily fixed upon him
and mow slowly around tie tree; ia his ea
gerness to watch your movements owls are
wise he forgets to turn his body, ani his
eyes following yours, his n:k is soon tni. tel
od"
8f?fc. A Scotch Duchess was examining the
children of one of her charity schools, when
the teacher put the question "What i3 tho
wife of a king called?" "A queen." The
wife of an emperor?" "Au empress,"
was replied with equd laaeiiness. "Then
what is a wife of a duke called?" "A drake,"
exclaimed several voices, mistaking the title
"duke" for "the duck."
A German clergyman, by way of
giving point to an eulogy of a deal man at a
funeral, declared that his own experience
would prove that the defutsct was the most
generous of men, as he had long ago borrow
ed fjrty dollars of him, of which to his dying
day Le bad never a-ked payment. Of tho
debt thus acknowledged before witnesses,
however, the heirs, the nct day, demanded
the payment, with interest !
I never coniplatnct or my condi
complained
tion, says the 1 ersian poet. Sadi, "but once
when my feet were bare, and I had no money
to buy shoes- but I met a man without feet,
and was contented wi.h mv lot."
tC. The St. Lruis Democrat estimates that
tho census of ISG0 will increase the number
of representatives from the Northern States
to 155, and decrease the "number from the
South to 7S. Quite a difference.
JsT A young man named Wah?, of South
i-ran k un, .uass., on luesaay a-weei,
Miss Whiting, with whom he was ia
He then made his escape to the woods,
committed suicide by shooting himself.
shot
live,
and
dT Some in the nortu say that 'Cotton
is king." A country paper sayj that "To
bacco is kiug." It certainly reigns in a grei-t
many month.. We mrst say, however, that
it seems to have rather foul
kingdoms.
Straighten a post, nail on a beard,
put up a bar, close a gate, hang a door, mend
a stool, attend to the com for t3 of an auimal.
u-htn it is needed, and prosper But it off
and ypu will retrograde.
"Why is it," said a politician to an
opponent, "tbat our party is gensrally up and
vours down?" "I suppose for the same rea
S(D," said the other, "that the empty bucket
is generally at the top of the well."
An old farmer, whose son had died
lately was visited by a neighbor, who began
to console with him on his loss.
"My loss," said the father "no such
tLing it was his own loss he was of ace."
An Alderman haviag grown enor
mously fat while in office, a wag wrote on hij
back, "widened at the expense of the corporation.".
A bill was recently read in plaa o in
tho Pennsylvania House of Reprcsentativces,
giving Justices of the Peace power, with a
jury of six men, to hear and determents
charges of assault and battery and other
petty causes.
Ccj-In tho case of a man ia Providence, E. I.,
who committed suicide a few days Bince, the cor
oner's jury found a verdict that the deceased took
Etr-cbanin with malice aforethought.
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