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COMPOUND S rREN FITH ENING TO
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effects it remedy
DYSPEPSA OR I.NDIGES7 lON,
and all Stomach Complaints; pain in the
SIDE, LIVER COMPLAINTS, Loss of
4fipetite, Platuenry, Pal/illation of the
He irt, General I.) , sility, Nervous Irritabi
lity, SICK HEADACHE, Female Disea
sea, Sfiaamodic RH EU 3.t.vrisNt
Asthmas ' CO NSUMP PION &c. The
GERMAN APERIENT PILLS are to
cleanse the stomacn and purify the BLOOD
The Tonic or S.TRENGTHENING PILLS
are to STRENGTHEN and invigorate the
nerves and digestive organs and give tone to
the Stomach, as all diseases originate from
aMpurities of the BLOOD and disordered
Stomach. This made of treating diseases is
pursued by all practical PHYSICIANS,
which experience has taught them to be the
only remedy to effect a cure. They are nat
only recomnik tided and prescribed 1,3 , the
most experienced Physicians in their daily
practice, nut also taken by those gentlemen
themselves Whenever they feet the symp
toms of those diSeases, in which they know
them to he efficacious. 'l'.e is the case in
all large rides in which they have an ex
ensive sale. It is not to be understood that
these medicines will cure all diseases mere
by purifying the .blond—this they will not
do; but they certainly will, and sufficient •
authority of daily prod; asserting that those
medicines, taken as recommended by the di
tections which accompany them; will cure a
great majority of diseases of the stomach,
lungs and liver, by which impurities of the
blood are occasioned.
v. Ask for DR. tIARLICH'S COMPOUND
STRENCTREARG TONIC, AND L ERMAN
APERIENT PILLS.
Principal o . ,o'et for the side of this
Medicine, is at Ni). 19 Nora EIGHTH
Street, Philadelphia.
Also—For sale at the Store of lame) Nitti-
LER, in the Borough 14 Huntingdon, Pa.,
who is agent for Huntingdon county.
RIIEUMATIS4If.
Entirely cured by the use of Dr. 0. P.
Harlicl 's Comp,undStrengthening and Ger
man Arerient Pills.
Mr. Solomon Wilson, of CliesteV co. Pa.,
afflicted for two years with the above din
treating disease, of which he had to use his
crutches for 18 mor.ths. his symptoms were
excruciating pain in all his Joints, especially
n his hip, Shoulders and ancles, pain inereas
ng al ways towards eyeing Ramified with
heat. Mr. Wilson, was ..t oLe time not able
to move Ids limbs on account of the pain be
ing
sn great; he being advised by a friend of
his to procure Dr. Harlich's pill of which he
sent to the agent in West Chester and pro
cored sera ; on using the medicine the third
day the pain disappeared and his strength
increasing fast, and in three weeks was able
to attend to his business, which ha had not
done for 18 months; for the benefit of others
afflicted, he wishes those lines published
that they may be relieved, and again en
joy_ the pleasures of a healthy life.
Principle °Mae, 19th North Bth Street,
Philadelphia.
at.so—For sale at the Store of Jacob .Mil
ler, Huntingdon, iPa.
RICUES NOT HEAL 771.
Those who enjoy Health, must certainly
feel blessed when they compare themselves
to those sufferers that have been afflicted for
years with various diseases which the human
family are all subject to he troubled with.—
Diseases present themselves in various forms
and from various circumstances, which, in
the commencement. may all be checked by
the use of Dr. 0. P. Harlich's Compound
§trengthening and German Aperient Pills,
such vs Dyspepsia, Liver Complaints, •
Pain in the Side. Rheumatism, General De
bility, Female Diseases, and all Diseases to
whicl) human nature is subject, where th
Stomach is affected. Directions for using
these Medicines always accompany them.
These Medicines can be taken with perfect
safety by the most delicate Female, as they
are mildtq their operation and pleasant in
their effects.
Principal Office for the United bitates. No.
. ;9 North Eighth Stret , Philadelphia.
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SYMPTOMS.
Dyspepsia may be described from a wan
of appetite or an unnatural and voracious one
nausea, some times bilious vomiting, sudden
and transient distensions of the stomach af
ter eating, acid and prutrescent eructations,
water brash, pains in the legion of the stain
ach, c tstiveness palpitation at the heart, Giz
ziness and , inthess of sight, disturbed rest,
tremors, mental despondency, flatulency,
spasms, nervous irritability, chillness, sal
lowness of complexion, oppressing after eat
ing, general,langour and debility; this disease
will also very often produce the sick head
ache. as proved by the experience of these
who have suffered of it.
DYSPEPSIA! DYSPEPSIA!!
More proofs of the efficacy of Dr. Harlich's
Me - dicinia.
Mr Jonas Hartman, of Sumneytown, Pa.
entirely cured of the abcvc disease, which
he was afflicted with for six years. Ilia
spmptoms were a sense of distension and op
pression after eating, distressing pain in ti.e
pit of the stomach, nausea, loss of appetit?,
giddiness and dimness of sight, extreme de•
flatulency, acrid eructations, some
times vomiting, and pain in the right side,
depression of spirits. disturbed rest, faint
ness, and not able to pursue his business
without causing immediate exhaustion and
weariness.
HArtman is happy to state to the pub
tic and is willing to give any information to
the afflicted, respecting the wonderful ben
efit he received from the use of Dr. Harltchs
Compound Strengthening and German ape
rient pills. Principal office No. 19 North
Eighth street Philadelphia. Also for sale
at the store of Jacob Miller, IlUntingdon.
TREAl'illEN7'.
The principal objects to be kept In tiew
are Ist. to free the stomach and intestines
from offending materials. 2d. to improve
the tone of the digestive organs and energy
of the system in removing noxious mattbrs
from the stomach, and obviating costiveness.
Violent drastic purgatives should he avoided
and those aperients should be used which
act gently, and rather by soliciting the per
istalic motions of the intestines to their regu
:deity of health, than by irritating them to a
laborious excitement. there is no medicine
better adapted to the dompletion of this than
DM'. 0. I'. HAItLICH's GF.IOI[AN APERIENT
I'ILLs. TO improve the functions of the de
bilitated organs and invigorate toe system
generally, no medicine has ever been so
prominently efficacious as I)n. Harlich's
Compound Tbnie Strengthening Pills, whose
salutary influence in restoring the digestive
nrgans to a healthy action. and re-establish
ing health and vigor• in enferbliAl Mut dys
petin constitutions; have gained the implicit
confidence of the most eminent physicians,
and nnpree.idented public t,stimcny. Re
member Dr. Harlieh's Comp, and
Strengthening Pills. thay are put up in small
packets wills full directions.
•Principal office for the United States, is
No. 19 North Eighth street Phihrielphia
where all communications must be addres,
sed.
Also for sale at the store of Jacob Miller,
who is agent for Huntingdon County.
CA USE OF DYSPBPSM,
This disease often originates from a habi
of overloading nr distending the stomach by
excessive eating or drinking, or very protrac
ted periods of fasting, an indolent or
seden
tary life, in which nn etsercise is afForded to
the musemlar fibres M. mental faculties, feat ,
grief. and deep anxu ty, taken too frequent
ly str ng pnrginFr,medicines, dysentery, mis
catliagta, intehmittent and spasmodic affec
tiens of the stomach and bowels; the moo
coni Mon of the latter (Mises are late lioul s
and the too frequent use of spirituds liquors
LIVER COMPL'.' .
Ctired by the use of Dr Ha-Holes Compound
Strengthening and German A, atient Pills
Mr. Wm. Richar.l, Pittsburg, Pa. entirely
cured of the above distressing disease: His
somptems were, pain and weight in the left
side, loss of ;10pr:the, vomiting, acrid eructs
tions, a distention of the stornacli, sick
headache, furred tongue, cohntenance chang
ed to a eitran color, (Unica': y of breathing,
disturbed rest, attended with a cough, great
debility, with other symtnms indicating great
derangement of the tunctiens of the liver.
Mr. Richard hid the advice of several phy
• sicians, but received no relief, until Using Dr
Harlich's medicine, which terminated in ef
fecting a pertect cure.
Principal offica, 19 North Eight street
Philadelphia. [don Pa.
For sale at Jacob Miller's store Hunting.
LIVER COMPLAINT.
This disease is iiscovered by a fixed ob
tuse pain anti weight in the fight- side tinder
the short ribs; attended with heat, uneasi
ness about the pit of the stomach;—there is
in the right side also a distension—the patient
loses his appetite and becomes sick and trou•
Ide with vomiting. The tongue becomes
rotr,la and bl counttnance changes to n
pule or citron color or yellow, like those (af
flicted with jaudice—difficulty of breathing,
disturbed rest, attended with dry caugh, dif
ficulty of laying on the left side—the oody
becomes weak. And finally the'disease termi
nates into soother of a more serious nature,
which In all probability is far beyond the
power of human skill. Dr. Harlich's com.
pound tonic strengthening and German ape
tient pills, taken at the commencement of
this disease, will check it, and by continu
ing the use of the medicine a few weeks, a
perfect cure cure will be performed. Thou
sands can testify to this fact.
Certificates of many persons may daily be
seen of the efficacy of this invalnahle medi
cine, by applying at the Medical Office, No
19 North Eight street, Philadelphia.
nt the Fore of Jacob Millet, who
siagent for Huntingdon eounty.
"ONE COUNTRY, OAE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY."
A. W. BENEDICT PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR.
HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1840.
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POET ItY.
From the Rural Repoajtory.
LAMENT FOR SPRING
Haste, haste, oh lagging Tillie! and bring
Those sweet and happy hours
Of Spring—the e - fer-welcome Spring!
With all its birds and flowers.
Now, gi ay and lurid clouds obscure
The daygod's kindly ray,
And rushing winds; once soft and pure e
Howl on the livelong day.
I long to hail in joy again
The clear and amber sky,
And see the greens on hill and plain,
Where now the snow flakes lie;
To list again the blne-bird's song
From out the forest trees;
And hear its music float along
Upon the gentle breeze.
The robin, too, that built her nest
Last year within the brake,
Would greet her home here in the west,
And woods with echoes wake.
Though she may have another home,
Upon a distant shore,
She longs with Spring to hither roam,
And leave her haunts no more.
The brooklet once so blithe and free,
Would lesp again to light;
And with its gushing melody
Make swett the starry night:
And I would sit beside it too,
And muse on human ills)
And, as I muse, within it view
The shade of crowning hills.
The trees would shake their foilage out,
And round their blossoms shower;
The rose would fling its balm about,
The vine creep o'er the bower,
Along the am would steal the hum
Of insects on the wing;
The bee from cut his cell would come,
And sweets unnumbered bring.
Avaunt the thought! that I must lay
My form within the tomb,
When clouds obscure the sun's fur ray,
And at rood the world in gloom.
Not let it be in silence laid
Within the green Earth's breast,
Beneath some "spreading yew tree's shade' ,
There let me take my rest,
Then warble: s from the woodland near,
Would pour their strains of glee:.
And reft ones drop the pearly tear
TO keep my memory,
And flowers as frail as him who sleeps
Below the swelling mound,
Would ,drink the dew-drop while it weeps,
And breathe their incense tound.
Oh, give the boon—'tis all I ask;
Should early death be mine;
Let Winter rest from his dread task,
And Slit ing in 1;h - try shine.
She light% the heat ts of sorrow's load -
Long hums of pain beguiles,
Makes cheerful every kite abode;
And greets all with her smiles.
A PRAYER.
to, when the morning shined'.
• Go, when the moon is bright:
Go, when the eve decltneth,
Go, in the hush of night;
Go, with pure mind and feeling,
Fling earthly thoughts away,
And in thy chamber kneeling,
Do thou in secret pray.
Remember those who love thee,
All who arc Lived by thee;
And pray for those who lt,.te thee,
If any such thLre be;
Then for thyself in weakness,
A blessing humbly claim,
And link with each petition,
Thy great Redeemer's mane,
Or if 'tis e're denied thee
In solitude to pray,
Should holy thoughts come o'er thee,
When friends arc round thy way,
E'en then the silent breathing
01 thy spirit raised above,
Will reach his throne of glory,
Who's Mercy, Truth and Love.
Oh! not a joy or biassing.
With this can we compare,
The power that he bath given us
To pour our souls in prayer.
'Whene'er thou pinest in sadness.
Beton: His footstool fall,
And remember in thy gladness.
His grace who gave thec all.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Broken Beall,
I never heard
Of any true affection, but 'twasnipt
With care, that, like the caterpiilar, eats
The leaves of the spring's sweetest book,
the rose.
MIDDLETON.
It is a common practice with those who
have outlived the susceptibility of early
feeling, or have been brought up in the
gay heartlessness of dissipated life, to
laugh at all love stories, and to treat the
tales of romantic passion as mere fictions
of novelists and poets. My observations
on human nature have induced me to think
otherwise. They have convinced me, that
however the surface of the character may
be chilled and frozen by the cares or the
world, or cultivated into mere smiles by
the arts of society, still there are dormant
fires lurking in the depths of the coldest
boson', which, when once enkindled, be.
come impetuous, and are sometimes des
slating in their effects. Indeed, lam a
true believer in the blind deity, and go to
the full extent of his doctrines. Shall 1
confess it?—l believe in broken hearts,
and the possibility of dying of disappointed
love: I do not, however, consider it a
malady often fatal to my own sex ; but I
firmly believe that it withers down many
a lovely woman into an early grave.
Man is the creature of interest and am
bition. His nature leads him forth into
the struggle and bustle of the world. Love
is but the embellishment of his early life,
or a song pipell in the intervals of the acts.
Ele seeks fir tame, for fortune, for space
in the world's thought, and dominion over
his fellow-men. But a woman's whole
life is a history of the affections. The
heart is her world ; it is there her ambi
tion strives for empire—it is there her
avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She
sends forth her sympathies on adventure;
she embarks her whole soul in the traffic
of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case
is hopeless—for it is a bankruptcy of. the
heart.
To a man, the disappointment of love
may occasion some bitter pangs: it wounds
some feelings of tenderness—it blasts
some proEpects of felicity; but he is an
attiti•e being; he may dissipate his thoughts
in the whirl of varied occupation, or may
plunge into the tide of pleasure; or, if the
scene of disappointment be to full of pan
ful associations, he can shift his abode at
wall, and taking, as it were, t h e wings of
the morning, can "fly to the uttermost
parts of the earth, and he at rest."
But woman's is comparatively a fixed,
a secluded, and a meditative life. She is
more the companion of her own thouughts
and feelings; and if they are turned to
ministers of sorrow, where shall she look
for consolation? Her lot is to be wooed
an•t won; and if unhappy in her love, her
heart is like some fortress that has been
captured, and sacked, and abandoned, atul
left desolate.
How ninny bright, eyei grow dim—how
many soft cheeks grow pale-41:9w many
lovely forms fade away into the tomb, and
none can tell the cause that blighted their
loveliness! As the drove will clasp its
wings to its side, and cover and conceal
the arrow that is preying on :ts vitals—so
is it the nature of woman, to hide from
the world the pangs of wounded affection,
The love of a delicate female is always
shy and silent. Even when fortunate, she,
!scarcely breathes it to herself; but when
otherwise, she buries it in the recesses of
her bosom, and there lets it cower and
brood among the roins of her peace. With
the desire of her heart has failed—
the great charm of existence is at an end.
She neglects all the cheerful exercises
which gladdens tire spirits, quicken the
pulses, and send the tide of life in health
ful currents through the veins. tier rest
is broken---the sweet refreshment of sleep
is poisoned by melancholy dreamsdry
sorrow drinks her blood," until her en
feebled frame sinks under the slightest
external 'Riney. Look for her, after a
little while, and you find friendship weep
ing over her untimely grave, and wonder
lug that one, who but I ateiy glowed with
all the radiance of health and beauty,
should so speedily be brought down to
“darkness and the worm." loa will be
told of some wintry chill, some casual in
disposition, that laid her low—but no one I
knows the mental malady that previously I
sapped her strength, and made her so easy
a prey to the spoiler.
She is like some !.order tree, the pride
and beauty of the grove : graceful in its
form, bright in be foliage, but with the
worm preying at its heart. We find it
suddenly withering, when it should be
most fresh and luxuriant. We see it
drooping its branches to the earth, and
shedding leaf by leaf; until, wasted and
perished-away, it falls even in the still
ness of the forest; and as we muse over
the beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to re
collect the blast or thunderbolt that could
have smitten it with decay.
I have seen many instances of women completely won the heart of a brave offi
running to waste and self-neglect, andk
zer, who paid his addresses to her, and
disappearing gradually from the earth, al- thought that one so true to the dead,
most as if they hod been exhaled to heav- could not but prove atrectionate to the
en; and have repeatedly fancied, that I living. She declined his attentions, for
.cuuld trace their deaths through the earl- her thoughts were irrecoverably engrossed
.ous declensions of consumption, cold, de- by the memory of her former lover. He,
bility, langour, melancholy, until I reach. however, persisted in his suit. lie Bond
ed the first symptom of disappointed love, ted not her tenderness, but her esteem.
But an instance of the kind was lately He was assisted by her conviction of his
told to me; the circumstances are well worth, and her sense of her own destitute
known in the country where they hap- and dependent situation, for she was ex
pened, and I shall but give them in the isting on the kindness of friends. In a
manner in which they were related. word, he at length succeeded in gaining
Every one must recollect the tragical her hand, though with the solemn assu
story of young H—, the Irish patriot: ranee, that her heart was unalterably
it was too touching to be soon forgotten. another's.
During the troubles in Ireland he was fie took her with him to Sicily, hoping
tried, condemned, and executed, on a that a change of scene might wear out
charge of treason. His fate made a deep the remembrance of early we :s. She was
impression on public sympathy. He was an amiable and exemplary wife, and made
so young—so intelligent—so generous— an effort to be a happy one; but nothing
so brave—so every thing that we are apt could cure the silent and devouring mel
to like in a young man. His conduct en- ancholy that had entered into her very
der trial, too, was so lofty and intrepid. soul. She wasted away in a slow, but
The noble indignation with which he re- hopeless decline, and at length sunk into
polled the charge .of treason against his the grave, the victim of a broken heart.
country—the eloquent vindication of his It was on her that Moore, the distin•
name— and his rtthetic appeal to posteri- guished Irish poet, composed the follow
ty, in the hopeless hour of condemnation ing finest
—all these entered deeply into every She is far from the land where her young
generous bosom, and even his enemies la- hero sleeps,
rented the stern policy that dictated his And lovers at cund her are sighing;
execution. But coldly she turns from their gaze g and
But there was one heart, whose anguish For v h i Cr e he t art in his grave is lying.
it would be impossible to describe. In
haypier days and fairer fortunes, he had
won the affections of a beautiful and inter
esting girl, the daughter of a late celebra
ted Irish barrister. She loved him with
the disinterested fervour of a woman's
first and early love. When every world
ly maxim arrayed itself oeainst him; when
blasted in fortune, and disgrace and dan
ger darkened around his name, she loved
him the mere ardently for his very suffer
ings. If, then, his fate could awaken the
sympathy even of his foes, what must have
been the agony of her, whose whole soul'
was occupied with his image? Let those
tell who have had the portals of the tomb
suddenly closed between them and the
being they most loved on earth--who have
sat at its threshold, as one shut out in a
cold and lonely world, from whence all
that was most lovely and loving had de
parted.
But then the horrors of such a grave!
—so frightful, so dishonored! There was
nothing for memory to dwell on that could
soothe the pang of separation—none of
those tender, lough melancholy circum
stances, that endear the parting scene—
nothing to melt sorrow into those blessed
tears, sent, like the dews of heaven, to re
vive the heart in the parting hour of an •
guish.
To render her widowed situation more
desolate, she had incurred her father's
displeasure by her unfortunate attachment
and was an exile from the paternal rpof.
But could the sympathies and kind offi
ces of friends have reached a spirit so,
schocked and driven in by horror, for,the
Irish.ore a people of quick and generous
sensibilities. The most delicate and
cherished attentions were paid her, by
families of wealth and distinction. She
was led into society,' and they tried by
all kinds of occupation and amusement to
dissipate her grief, and wean her from the
tragical story of her loves: But it was
ail in vain. There are some strokes Of
calamity that scathe and scorch the soul
—that penetrate to the vital seat of hap
,piness—and blast it, nebcr again to put
forth bud or blossom. She never oojected
to frequent the haunts of pleasure, but
she was as much alone there, as in the
depths of solitude. She walked about in
a sad reverie, unconscious of the world
around het. She • arried with her an in.
ward wo that mocked at all the blandish
ments of friendship, and .. heeded not the
song of the charmer, charm he never so
wisely."
The person who told tne her story had
seen her at a masquerade. There can be
no exhibition of forgone wretchedness
more striking and painful than to meet it
in such a scene. To find it wandering
like a spectre, lonely and joyless, where
all around is gay—to see it dressed out in
tile trappings of mirth, and looking so wan
and wo-begone, as if had tried in vain to
cheat the poor heart into a momentary
forgetfulness of borrow. After strolling
through the splendid rooms ann giddy
crowd with an air of utter abstraction,
she sat herself down on the steps of an
I orchestra, and looking about for sonic
time with a vacant air, that showed her'
insensibility to the garish scene, she be.
gan, with ale capricitinsness of a sickly
heart, to warble a little plaintive air. She
had an exquisite voice; but on this occa
sion it wss so simpe, so touching-it
breathel forth sueh a soul of wretchedness
—that she drew a crowd, mute and silent,
around her, and melted every one into
tears.
The story of one so true and tender
could not but excite great interest in a
country remarkable for enthusiasm. It
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She sings the wild song of her dear native
Every note which he loved awaking---
Alt! little they think, who delight in her
strains,
How the heart of the minstrel is breaking!
He had lived for his love—for his country he
died,
They were all that to life had cntwin'd him
Nur soon shall the tears of his country be
dried,
Nor long will his love stay behind him!
Oh! make her a grave where the sunbeams
rest,
When they promise a glorious morrow;
(They'll shine o'er_ her sleep, like a smile
from the west,
From her own loved island of sorrow!
§OCIAL BENEFITS OF EDI:CATION:a.
The extreme profligacy, improvidence
and misery which are so prevalent among
the laboring classes in many countries,
are chiefly to be ascribed to the want of
education. In proof of this, we need
only cast our eyes on the condition of the
Irish, compared with that of the peasan
try in Scotland. Among the forincr you
behold nothing but beggary, wretchedness
and sloth; its Scotland, on . the contrary,
under the disadvantages of a worse di ,
teate and more unproductive soil, a de
gree of decency and comfort, the fruit of
sobriety, and industry, is conspicuous a
mong the power classes. And to what
is this disparity in their situation to . be as
cribed, except to the influence of educa
tion? in Ireland very few of the poor cant
read, and they grow up in total ignorance
of what it most befits a rational creature
to understand; while in Scotland, the es
tablishment of free schools in every par. ,
ish, an essential branch of the ecclesias
tical constitution of the couniry, brings
the means of instruction within the reach
of the poorest, who are thus inured to de
cency, tndustry and order.
A pious and honest Welch Curate, who
shad much duty to do and m 7,;- miles to
'travel in the doing of it, wa - ,,stomed
to deposit in the folds of his some
hard round Norfolk dumplim4:, by way
'of refreshers on the road. In t
of his sermon, while uttering wi oprais.
ed arms and peculiar emplwsi , the ex.!
pression, "And great was Or.. fail there !
of," out rolled one of the dumplings, and
dislodged the clerk's spectacles, who wise
ly did not fall into a passion at the tall of
a dumpling, but put up with what he con
sidered as accidental. Another ejacula
tory sentence raised up the Carat's arm.
and brought down a second dumpling;
which rather discomposed both hi., and
the flour of his wig, and now he !, keel
rather inquiringly to find out wti ~ e rd
was to be an amen to this dumpli
A
ping The third and last sent,
up the clerk's patience. As the .•rgte
vociferated, "And he shall be b. , med in
the midst of the congregation," the. thirst
dumpling alighted on his sconce, and ex
tinguished his lamp. "Oh, oh, (says the
clerk) not sit it any longer. I I you're
(or that, why then here's at vett :igaitt!"
and he began to pelt his master in return,.
who begged a parley, and not bein i , con.
scious of the descent at the dumplings, a
poligized fur being so tome a character'
GnitrrutrY.—A fashionable city lady,
while in the country a short time since,
inquired, "what those animals were with.
powder horns growing out of their
woman 7"
as though it was not genteel for's woman
to know a Ct.to.