Vartetg. GOOD NATURE. — " By Hook or by Crook," Dame Grundy was the most good•natured woman alive. Come what would every thing was right, nothing wrong. One day Farmer Grundy told a neighbor that he believed his wife was the most even-tempered woman in the world, for he never saw her cross in his life—and that for once he should like to see her so. "Well," said his neighbor, "go into the woods, and bring home a load of the crook. ettest wood you can find, and if it doesn't make her cross, nothing will." Accord ingly, to try the experiment, he teamed home a load of wood every way calcula• ted to make a woman fret. For a week or more she used the wood copiously, 'out , not a work of complaint escaped her lips. So one day the husband ventured to in quire of her how she liked the wood.— "Oh, 'tie beautiful wood," said she, "I wish you'd get another loud, fur it lays round the pot complete!" Dr. Franklin, when a child, found the long graces used by his father before and after meals very tedious; one day, after the winter's provision had been salted, "1 think, father," said Benjamin, "if you were to say Grace over the whole cask once for all—it would be a vast saving of time. In the commencement of the American revolution, when one of the British king's thundering proclamations made its ap pearance, the subject was mentioned in a company in Philadelphia; a member of consress who was present, turning to Miss Livingston, said, "Well, Miss, are you greatly terrified at the roaring of the Bri. tish lion?" "Not at all, sir, for I have learned from natural history, that, that beast roars loudest when he is most %right• ened!" It has been said of the good-natured but eccentric Parson Patten, the curate of Whitstable, that such was his love of lunch, that when his sermons were too ong, if au y of his auditors held up a lem on, he would bring his discourse to an ab rupt conclusion, that he might be at liber ty to adjourn to,the public Reuse. In 1738, when penalties were laid on the dealers of spirituous liquors, an inge- nious mode of avoiding informations was adopted. The customer on entering the house, or the entrance to it, cried puss, to which a voice from within replied mew; drawer was then thrust forward, into which the customer put hia money; the drawer being pulled in, was soon after thrust out again, with the quantity of sprits required. A marshall of Yrance, when confined in the Bastile, was one day busily enga bed in turning over the leaves of the Bi • le; and being asked what he was looking for, replied, "A passage that I cannot find--a way to get out of prison." A tradesman wrote to a hard customer, as follows: Sta.—Your bill for dry goods has been standing a long time, by settling it you will much oblige, yours, 4-c. T. S. To which he received the following la conic reply. P Mr. S.—When the hill you speak of is tired of standing, let it sit down. Yours. Love.—Don't start, ladies, we are past the time of proposing; we merely want you to read the following pretty extract, which to our view, is very beautiful and very . true. frith us "love they say is growing oldi"-111incr'a Journal. Love is like a running river—it goes downward and downward, but does not come back to the spring. The poor old granny in the chimney corner is a withe red tree up the stream, and the youngest born is a pretty flower on the bank below. Love leaves the old tree and goes to the flower. A lumina conitEcTun.- orator) holding forth in favor of "woman, dear,' divine woman," concluded thus: "Oh, my dear hearers, depend upon it, nothing beats a good woman." "I beg your par don," replied one of his auditors, "a bad, husband does." A little travelling Frenchman chanced to breakfast at a tavern with a tall, bony Jonathan, who ate voraciorisly. The Frenchman was astonished, and asked, with a flourishing bow, "Sue, vil you be so polite as to tell me, is dat your break fass or your dinnair vat you make'!" The Yanlve at first made no reply, but Mon sieur, not satisfied, repeated the question., "Go to the d -1," says Jonathen, feel ing himself insulted. A challenge ensu ed, and the Kentucky rifle proved too much for the little Frenchman's vitality. While he was writhing in his last agonies, Jonathan's compassion was awakened, and he entreated the little Frenchman, if there was any thing he could do for him, though it should cost him years to per form it, to let him know, and it should be done. "0 monsieur," replied the dying man, "tell me, was dat your dinnair, or your breakfass, you did make, and I will die happy." A bill was brought into the House of Assembly of Jamaica, for regulating whar fingers. Mr. Paul Phipps, a distinguished member, said, "Mr. Speaker, I very much approve the bill. The wharfingers are a , set of knaves. I was one myself for tent years," PROSPECTUS OF THE NEW YORK WEEKLY WHIG. THE Second Annual Volunie of THE NEW YORK WEEKLY WHIG iS this day submitted to its patrons and the public. Durins the brief year of its existence, it has been favor ', ably received, and nuw enjoys a steadily in creasing patronage and sate of 4 to 5,000 copies per week. rhe political character of THE WHIG is ' fully indicated by its title, It will support the cause of Constitutional Liberty, Si chat Order, and the Supremacy of the 1 aws with its whole heart and soul, and expose corrup— tion. peculation, Jacobinism, disci ginatton, and demagoguism in high places, with no mealy-mouthed phraseology or craven spirit. 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