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When the blossom's on the peach tree, And the fields are rich and gay: When the bosom throbs with gratitude, And sorrow's far away. I would not die in Winter, When all the world is chill; When the storm king's icy fingers Lock up the purling rill. When the tress are stripp'd of foliage, And all their glories gone, When dreariness and sorrow Prevade the scene alone. I would not die in Autumn. With the falling withered lent When the earth is clothed in sadness, And the heart attun'd to grief. I'd stretch me 'neath the umber tree, The emblem of decay— And full of faith, dear Lord, in Thee, There, breathe my soul away. The Angel of Patience. To weary hearts, to mourning homes ? God's meekest angel gently comes; No power has he to banish pain, Or give us back our lost again; And yet, in tenderest love, our dear And heavenly Father sends him here. There's quiet in that angel's glance. There's rest in his still countenance; He mocks no grief with idle cheer, Nor wen nds with words the mourner's ear; But ills and woes he may not cure, He kindly helps us to endure. Angel of patipicel sent to calm. Our feverish brow with cooling balm; To lay the storms of hope and fear, And reconcile life's smile and tear: And throbs of wounded pride to still, And make our own our Father's will ! 0 ! thou who znournest on thy way, With longings for the close of day. He walks with thee, that angel kind. And gently whispers, "Be resigned I" Bear up. bear on; the end shall tell, The good Lord ordereth all things well I 1EM(g211251200. History of the Bible. DT TIM REV. MARCER Mint The first writings of which we have an ac count, were performed with a stylus or steel pen, by which letters were engraved on hard sub stances. Writing was first made on the bark of trees, leaven and parchment and thin plates of brass and iron. Even the original meaning of paper, papyrus, is n shrub of whose leaves were made clothes, mats, ropes, sails and pa per. The 'Bible was Written on parchment.— The parchment. was written on one side, and rolled up in'the form of n scroll. This scroll was kept as a most choice deposit, and one por tion after another was added by the sanction of the Jewish Sanhedrin, who cautiously examin ed thettuth.ority and truth of every pretended prophet. This accounts for the want of order in the arrangement of hooks in the Hebrew text; Chronicles, not Malachi, is the last book in the Hebrew Bible. The inspired Ezra die covered that there was an important period in the history of the Jews left out, and he supplied it. But he must add it to the scroll, without respect to the order of time. The translators discovered this, and wisely put it back in its proper place. The fathers called Chronicles the Book of Books, the Book of things left out. This form of the Jewish manuscripts shows us the reason of their writing from the right hand to the left, or as we should nay of beginning it back where it should end, and ending a book where it should begin. It was more convenient tq unroll the parchment as you read. The sn ored writings used in the synagogue, and these used in private' families, were not always in the same form. Families often used them in the form of sheets. _ _ _ The Samaritans, who separated from the Jews in the reign of Rehoboam, in A. M. 3029, had only the Pentateuch—the five books of Moses. _As they were separated from Israel, they were deprived of the writing of the prophets. The Saviour probably alluded to tins limited or de. fective volume of theirs, when He said to the woman of Samaria, Ye worship, ye know not what; we know what we worship, for Salvation is of the Jews—or salvation is more clearly re vealed to the Jews, in those books which have been written since you separated from the Jews. The Samaritan Pentateuch, though written in different characters, is the same as that of the Hebrews. The mode and materials of the an. dent writings made them very scarce and very tOt poll Cyr . Ake bcgcags whirl (VI gave .s , 3Aut in - ':,t ittuntino'on " I SEE NO STAR ABOVE TILE NORIZON, PROMISING LIGHT TO 017IDE HS, NUT THE INTELLIGENT, PATRIOTIC, UNITED WHIG PARTY OP TJIE UNITED STATES."-EWEENTE; the garden was undoubtedly Hebrew., Though the word Hebrew was derivettfrom the word Heber, meaning "to pass over," and was applied to Abraham, because he passed over the Euphrates to enter into Canaan, yet it is probable that this is the language God used with our first parents in the garden, for this is the most ancient of languages; it is incorpora ted into almost all languages, and from it many of them are formed. Many of the Eastern lan guages are descendants from the Hebrew, and are therefore called kindred languages, or lan guages which are a corruption of the Hebrew. From the age of Moses to that of David, has hems considered the golden age of the Hebrew language. The reign of Hesekiah, which ad. mitted some foreign words, was the silver age. 13st the commercial and civil intercourse of the Jews, their foreign colonies and their captivi ties, corrupted their language, and created nu merous idioms. it is probable that the forms of the Hebrew letters have changed in different periods. • The Old Testament, then, was written in He brew; the New Testament was written in Greek, the pure and popular language of the first cen turies of the Christian era. But if the writers were Jews, they retained the Hebrew style, and in some instances used the Hebrew words. it is therefore sometimes called Hebrew Greek, and sometimes called Hellenistic Greek, and it was the Greek language used by the Jews and with Hebrew idiots]. The Greek manuscripts, like the 17ebrew, were written in different forms of letters--some uncial and some cursive—some in entire capi tals. and others in ordinary letters. They had no chapters, verses, stops, or marks, rand no di. visions to works. I ought here to remark that though writers of manuscripts were very cauti ous and very correct in copying, yet there are occasional mistakes in orthography. And yet they passed down century after century without any essential perversion—while the works of the learned Greeks, after two or three copied editions, were pronounced unworthy of their authors, and consigned to oblivion. As was natural and almost inevitable, some mann. scripts were deemed more correct than others, and were therefore regarded as standard man uscripts. This gave rise to three great fami lies, or as they called them, revisions. The number of Greek manuscripts is about 500. In looking over these manuscripts, we find some of them have an affinity to each other.— In the third century there were considered to be two families, and subsequently there was another added. These recensions are called the Alexandrine or Egyptian the Occidental or western recension—or the one adopted by Italy, Spain, &c.; the Byzantine or Oriental, because it was generally used at the East. or at Constantinople. There has been the Eden sene, or Syriac fatally, added. Where all these witnesses unite, the testimony is of the highest Lind; where a majority agree it is good, and where they differ, respect must be had to the character of the witnesses, and to preferences which one may claim over another.—N. York Evangelist. . God's Tenderness. How soothing in the hour of sorrow. .or be. reavernent, or death, to have the countenance and the sympathy of a tender earthly friend 1 My soul! there is one nearer, dearer, tenderer still—the friend that never fails, a tender God. By how many endearing epistles does Jesus exhibit the tenderness of His affection to His people I Does a shepherd watch tenderly over his flock? "The Lord is my shepherd!" Does a father exercise fondest solicitude toward his children ? "I will be a father unto you!"— Does a mother's love exceed nil earthly types of affectionate tenderness? "As one whom his mother comforted), so will I comfort you!" Is the apple of the eye the most susceptible part. of the most delicate bodily organ? "He keeps them as the apple of the eye!" "He will not break the bruised reed !" "When the shepherd and bishop of souls" finds a sinner like a lost sheep stumbling on the dark mountains, how tenderly he deals with him 1 There is no look of wrath, no word of upbraiding; in silent love "He lays him on his shoulder, rejoicing I" When Peter falls, he does not unnecessarily wound hint. He might have repeated often and again the piercing look which brought the flood of penitential sorrow. But he gave that look only once; and if he reminds again of this three. fold denial, it is by thrice repeating the gen tlest of questions, "Lovest thou me?" The gentlest earthly parent may speak a harsh word betimes; it may be needlessly harsh, but not so with God. "He may seem, like Joseph to his brethren, to speak roughly; but all the while there is love in his heart!" The furnace will not burn more fiercely than is absolutely re• quired. A tender God is seated by it, temper. ing the fury of the flames.—Religions Herald. One Happy Heart. Have you made one happy heart to-day?— Envied privilege. How calmly can you seek your pillow! how sweetly sleep I In all this world there is nothing so sweet as giving com fort to the distressed, as getting a sun ray into a gloomy heart. Children of sorrow meet us wherever we turn; there is no moment that tears are not shed, and sighs uttered. Yet how many of those tears, those sighs, are caused by our own thoughtlessness! How many a daugh ter wrings the very soul of a fond mother by acts of unkindness and ingratitude! How ma ny husbands, by one little word, make a whole day of sad hours and unkind thoughts! How many wives, by angry recriminations, estrange and embitter their loving hearts! How many brothers and sisters meet but to vex and injure each other, making wounds that no human heart can heal! 'AI,. if each one worked upon this maxim day by day—"strive to make some heart happy"—jealousy, revenge,madness, hate, with their kindred evil associates, would forever leave the earth. Our minds would be so occu pied in tire contemplation of adding to the pleasures of others, that there would be no more room for the ugly fiends of discord. Try it, ye discontented, forever-grumbling devotees of sorrow, self-caused; it will make that little part of the world in which you move as f a i r as Eden. tar You may persuade a man that ho is a wit or a sage—a philosopher or a philanthro- pist; but you might as well undertake to cross the Atlantic in a tea-cup as to make him be. lieve he is a fool. Skeptics are advised to ex periment upon the stupidest friend they have. ma- Choose your assoriates from among the wile sod good. If you eon not do this it is snttor to !,are HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMIIER 7, 1853. Dew. Q. What dew? A. Dew is the vapor of the air condensed by coming in contact with bodies colder than it• self. Q. Why is the ground sometimes covered with dew? A. Because the surface of the earth (nt sun• set) is made so very cold by radiation, that the warm vapor of the air is chilled by contact and condensed into dew. Q. What is the difference between dew and rain — A. In dew, the condensation is made near the earth's surfare. In rain, the drops fall from a considerable heieht. Q. What is the cause of both dew and rain? A. Cold condensing the vapor of the air whet near the point of saturation. Q. Why do mist and fog vanish at sunrise? A. Because the condensed particles arc again changed into invisible vapor by the heat of the sun. Q. Why is the earth made colder than the air after the sun has set? A. Because the earth radiates heat very free. ly, but the air does not; in consequence of which, the earth is often five or ten degrees colder than the air, (after sun•set;) although it was much warmer than the air during the whole day. Q. Why is the earth warmer than the air dux , ing the day ? A. Because the earth absorbs solar heat very freely, but the air does not; in consequence of which, it is often many degrees warmer than the air, during the day. _ Q. Why is the surface of the ground colder in a fine clear night than a cloudy day? A. Because, on a fine, clear star-light night, heat radiates from the earth fieely, and is lost in open space; but on a dull night, the clouds arrest the process of radiation. Q. Why is dew deposited only on a fine, clear night ? A. Because the surface of the ground radi ates heat most freely on a fine night; and (be ing cooled down by this loss of heat) chills the vapor of the air into dew. Q. Why does abundance of dew in the morn ing, indicate that the day will be fine? A. Because dew is never deposited in dull, cloudy weather, hut only in very clear, calm nights; when the cold currents of air aro not mixed with those of a warmer temperature. Q. Why is there no dew on a dull, cloudy night? . . . . A. Becanse the clouds arrest the radiation of heat from the earth; and (as the heat cannot freely escape) the surface is not sufficiently cooled down to chill the vapor of the air into dew. Q. Why is a cloudy night warmer than a fine ono? A. Because the clouds prevent the radiation of heat from the earth; in consequence of which the surface of the earth remains warmer.— From "Familiar Science," edited by R. E. Pe. Jerson. A Touching Incident A little irish girl, say; the Willimantic Me dium, perhaps twelve years old, was in the De pot of our village last Tuesday afternoon, just atter the arrival of the trains, all alone and cry ing. The poor child was forlorn-looking enough. Some ladies noticed her, and kindly inquired into her trouble. The little girl said that she did not know where to find her father. He was in Willimantic, but the poor simple child had not the slightest notion how to proceed to find him. She held an open letter in her hand, dated at this village, from her father, disclos ing his name, and remitted money to defray her expenses. The child had come all the way from Ire land alone, ns we afterwards learned from her father, and she had just then arrived in our village by the cars. One of our citizens was on the point of taking her with him to some of our country people, to inquire her father out, when a woman put her head in at the door, and with body half bent, looked slowly and search. ingly around. Her eye fell upon the little stranger. She darted like an arrow, and clasp. her in her arms as if she 'would squeeze the child's breath out of her, she burst out in a loud cry of the most passionate joy. No ono needs to be told that she was the child's mother. We had supposed that there was no mother in the case, as we understood that the poor lit tle creature spoke only of her father; but we did not ask if that woman were the mother, af ter witnessing such a meeting. We have seen acting on the stage aril off, but never so effee. ting a stroke of pathos was produced by nrt, as the simple outburst of this mother's affection over her darling child. The ladies present in stantly acknowledged its power with their tears. The mother and daughter had been separated about three years. When we left the Depot the overjoyed mother had her child on her lap, kissing her and folding her to her bosom by turns, and pouring out with her tears the most tender expressions of love and joy. It was a beautiful and surpassingly touching sight. Sodom and Gomorrah. We see it stated that a certain Monsieur de Sauley, n member of the French Institute, ac companied by several other intelligent gentle. men, succeeded, in 1850—'51, in finding the ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah—"not under the troubled and infected waters of the salt in. land lake, so erroneously set down ns being at once their shroud and sepulchre, but on the shores and in the valleys where they originally stood, and where he and his companions look• ed upon, and rode amongst their widely.exten ded remains, lying, as they were overthrown, blasted by the fire of Heaven and scattered in awful desolation." Who knows anything as to the truth of the above statement? To us it seems a little of a piece with the story of the sailor who fished up from the fled Sea, a wheel of Pharaoh's chari• ot. if such ruins are there, of course they are the remains of Sodom and Gomorrah—but we never remember tohave rind of their being there bcfore.. itanling Down an'Enemy's Colors. Admiral Hopson entered the English Navy in 1680, as a common boy, and thus first dia• tinguished himself; The ship and fleet in Which ho was embark ed, then on the point of sailing, soon fell in with a French squadron, and in a few hours of ter the boy's entry into the service, a warm Fic tion was commenced, which was maintained on both aides with equal bravery. During this time, young Hopson obeyed his orders with great alacrity; but, after fighting some hours, he became impatient for the result, and inquir ed when it would be over. On being told the action would continue until the white flag at the enemy's mast head was struck, he exclaim• ed, "Oh, if that's all, I'll see what I can do."-- At this moment the ships were engaged yard arm and yard-arm, and obscured in the smoke of the guns. Our hero,.taking advantage of this circumstance, determined to haul down the enemy's colors. He accordingly mounted the shrouds, and from the main-yard gained that of the French ship, unperceived by any of the crew; and, ascending with agility to the main topgallant masthead, he struck and carried off the French flag, with which he retreated to his own ship. Before lie had regained the deck the British shouted victory, without any other cause than that the enemy's flag had disap peared. The crew of the French ship, thrown into confusion by the same circumstance, and believing that her colors had been struck by order, ran from their guns; and, although the French Admiral and officers, who were equal ly surprised at tho event, endeavored to rally them, it was a vain attempt, for the British tars seized their opportnity, boarded the vessel, and took her. At this juncture, Hopson de scended the shrouds with the French flag round his arm, and displayed it triumphantly to the the sailors, who received the prize with the ta ll most astonishment. nibs heroic action reach ing the quarter-deck, Hopson was ordered to attend there, and the Admiral, praising his gallantry, ordered him to he rated as a mid shipman, telling him that upon his future con duct depended his patronage and protection. Where "Good Society" May be Found. N. P. Willis, in reply to a lady correspondent who asks about society in his vicinity, says: Without seeing you, and knowing something of your stage of womanhood, and your experi ence of life, I can scarcely choose with safety between describing our "society" as profoundly stupid, or most varied and agreeable. There are those to whom it might be either. I, my. self, find it the latter, but then I have got through with my crust-experience of life, and like people neither more nor less for the house they live in or the clothes they wear Charm ing women are everywhere—some smothered under their husbands' good dinners, or shelved away in bank stock and splendid carriages; sonic unthought-of in dairies or forgotten be hind wash-tubs and single blessedness. Na• titre's noblemen are everywhere,—in town and out of town, gloved and rough handed, rich qed poor. Prejudice against a lord because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fel. low, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman. Are you ready, dear Mrs. "Harriet," to take a second look, af ter reading the outside label upon a man or a woman, and to confirm it, or not, according to God's mark, whirls will show itself somewhere? If so, the society of Highland Terrace will be delightful to you.—Home Journal. How Much Sugar do we Eat. Last year there was consumed in this country; about 705,000,000 pounds of cane sugar, and 27,000,000 pounds of maple sugar. Thil gives more than twenty-four pounds of cane sugar, and one pound of maple sugar to every man, woman, and child. This does not include mo lasses or honey. If• this sugar was put into barrels holding two hundred pounds, and each barrel occupied a space of three feet square on ly, it would require 336 acres of land for it to stand upon. The barrels, if placed in a row, would reach two hundred and twenty miles.— if this sugar was put up in paper packages of five pounds each, it would require 116,400,000 sheets of wrapping paper; and if only a yard of string was used to each package, there would be required 439,200,000 feet or 85,000 miles of string—three times enough to go round the earth. If every retail clerk sold one hundred pounds of sugar each day, it would require nearly 25,000 clerks to sell it all in a year. If the dealers, wholesail and retail together, made a profit of only two cents a pound on this su gar, these profits alone would amount to near ly 515,000,000. Can some of our young school friends tell us how much tea this would sweet en T—American Agriculturist. Sweet Potato Vines. A correspondent of the "Georgia Telegraph," states that the vines of the sweet potato tatty be saved during the winter and used in the spring for propagating a new crop. In the fall any time before frost takes place, the vines may be cut in any convenient length, and placed, in layers on the surface of the earth, to the depths of twelve or eighteen inches, co ver the vines, whilst damp; with partially rot ten straw; (either pine or wheat will answer,) to the depth of six in sites, and cover the whole with a light soil about four inches deep. In this way, the vines will keep during the winter and in the spring they will put forth sprouts as abundantly as the potato itself when bedded.— The draws or sprouts can be planted first, and the vine itself can be subsequently used as we generally plant slips. SINGULAR FACT.—Sir Edward Parry, the celebrated Arctic navigator, recently said, apoaking of the Polar seas: Yon cannot imagine the changes that take place in the ice there. I hare been myself sometimes beset for two or three days together by the ice, its such a war that froM the mast• head I could not see sufficient writer to float a bottle in; and iii twentyfour hours, there we 4 not a bit of ice to be soon—nobody could tell why—l cannot tell why; and you might have sailed .about as you may in rur o—rt rivcr, as ice I, cotm^crnc9. ;WTII The Poor Voter on Election Day. BY Jonx G. ITTIITTUR. The proudest now is but my peer, The highest not more high; To-day, of all the weary year, A king of men am I. Today, alike are great and small, The nameless and the known; My palace is the people's hall, The ballot box my throne Who serves to day upon the list Beside the served shall stand, Alike the brown and wrinkled fist, The gloved and dainty hand I The rich is level with the poor, The weak is strong to-day; And sleekest broadcloth counts no more Than homespun frock of gray. Today let pomp and vain pretence bly stubborn right abide; I set a plain man's common sense Against the pedant's pride. Today shall simple manhood try The strength of gold and land; The wide world has not wealth to buy The power in my right hand. While there's a grief to seek redress, Or balance to adjust, While weighs our living manhood loss Than Mammon's vilest dust,— While there's a right to need my vote, A wrong to sweep away,— Up I clouted knee and ragged coat I A man's a man to-day l Our Navy. A question which has bees repeatedly asked by almost every journal in the United States is, "what shall be done with the surplus revenue," which is at present overflowing the Treasury, and many suggestions have been made as to the best manner for its depletion. Some wish it to be applied to the building of a railroad to the Pacific. Some that it should be expended in establishing lines to Australia, China and other important points where there is a likeli hood of increasing our commerce advantage ously. Some think that as Uncle Sam is so "flush' he should take advantage of this state of things to pay off some of his debts, and take I off, or reduce, the tax upon certain articles of trade; others say that it should be distributed among the states for internal improvements.— These are a few of the numerous puggestions daily made through the Press of the country; and we are willing to concede that possibly the adoption of any of the suggested plans might effect good results. But there is yet another which has been made that we think of an great, if not greater importance than any other, especially at the present time. It is the increase of our naval strength. We think that no wiser or better disposition of a portion, at least, of the surplus revenue could be made than to obtain a naval force strong enough to pro- tect our commerce at all times, more especially nt the present when a general war is apprehen• ded inEurope, and which event could not occur without greatly endangering our commerce. ' Even in times of profoundest tranquility, the demand for an armed naval force is great in proportion to the extent of commerce carried on by a country as a prevention of any thing like aggression upon it. Great complaint has been made of the insignificancy of our naval strength, and of its inadequacy to the protee. tion of our rapidly growing commerce. In case of a general war in Europe, unless it is protected by a powerful and efficient force, the result may be most disastrous. It then becomes our duty and our best interest to be prepared fur such a contingency, by increasing the strength of our navys to such an extent that it will be able to afford sure protection to our commerce and bid defiance to all foreign ag• gression.—Kashrille Gazette. Henry Clay's Advice to Young Lawyers On Mr. Clay's last visit to the East, in an address which he made to the students of the State and National Law School, now removed from Ballston Spa to Poughkeepsie, after lie. tatting to their speaking powers in the trial of a fictitious case, ho said; among other things:— " When I commenced my profession in Lex• ington, as there was then no institution like this, I was in the habit of daily exercising my speaking powers alone in any secluded place I could find. In the winter, often in a barn; in the summer, in a corn-field, converting some tall stalk into a judge, and the shorter ones be side it into jurors. To this practice, in which I had none of the facilities of instruction and criticism which you enjoy, more than to any other cause, do I attribute whatever success I attained at the bar. It gave me a fluency of speech, a power and rapidity of thought, and a degree of self-confidence, Without which, like multitudes in the profession; I might have lacked courage at the outset, and by postpone. ing the dreaded first efforts, have abandoned in the end all hope of distinction. I seldom offer my poor self as a pattern, but in this you will do well to remember and imitate my exam ple. Here you enjoy many superior facilities for practice and improvement. If you improve them well, the result will be seen and felt with the force of destiny on your future course and standing. My advice to every legal student is to make an extempore speech every day, and when he is admitted, he will have gained a fast hold upon the great element of success at the bar." VALUE or MA:trim—The manure applied to the soil of England amounts to $300;000,000, being more than the value of its whole foreign commerce, and yet the grateful soil yields back with intecest all that is thus lavished upon it. And so it would he here if we would only Must the soil with tiny portion of our capital. But this we rarely do. A farmer who has made any money spends it not in his business, but in some other oteuptition.. Ire buys more land when he ought to buy more manure, or he puts out his money in some joint stock company, to convert sunshine into moonshine. ftely upon it, our richest mine is the barnyard—and what. ever temptation shares or stocks may offer, the beet investment for a farmer is live ttvch and vlengh AristoiritCY. Casimer Perier, on being called an aristo crat, replied, "My only aristocracy is the supe riority which industry, frugality, perseverance and intelligence will always insure to every man in a free state of society; and I belong to those privileged classes, to which you all toy belong in your turn. They are not privileges created for us, but by us. Our wealth is our own—we have made it; our ease is our own— we have gained it by the sweat of our brows, or by the labor of our minds. Our position in society is not conferred upon us, but purchased by ourselves—with our own intellect, applica tion, zeal, patience and industry. If you re main inferior to us, it is because you have not the talent, the industry, the zeal, or the sobrie ty, the patience or the application necessary to your advancement. You wish to become rich, as some do to become wise; but there is no royal road to wealth any more than there is to knowledge. The husbandman who will not till his ground, shall reap nothing but thistles and briers. What right have you who do noth ing for yourselves, your families, or your coun try, or mankind, to imagine that you will be selected by your fellow citizens for their favor, their confidence, their rewards ? If, by aristo crat, you mean one who has earned his promo tion by his industry, then indeed I am an aris tocrat; and please God, I may always remain as. You are too idle to labor, and too proud to beg. I throw back then with indignation and resentment the charge which is made." Kicking Horne, It occurred to me that a recipe published in your paper for the cure of kicking horses, might be of much service to persons afflicted with such dangerous animals. The operation for cure to be commenced as follows, to wit : Put on a hendstall or bridle, with twisted W, or twisted straight bitts in the mouth of the horse to be cured; then put on a common baclosad dle, with thill lugs, or any strap or girth, with loops on either side of the horse, is equally good; then buckle a pair of long reins, open in the middle, into the hilts. and pass them through the thill lugs or loops; one to each hind leg, above the fetlock joint, there make each rein fast to the leg, allowing sufficient length of rein for your horse to walk or trot, as the operator may think proper. Everything complete, you you will have the animal commence the oper ation of kicking; the first will be a smart kick, the second lighter, and so on till your horse cannot be made to kick any more. By the above method many now worthless horses may be made valuable.—. Paine Farmer. The Dutch Blacksmith. Colonel F , a very irritable and impa tient man, had occasion once, whilo passing on horseback through a small town In the West, to patronize a Mitch blacksmith. "Are you the smith?'' he askod of a stout, black-bearded, smoking, dirty man, who came out of the shop to look at the horse's defective shoes. "Yees, I been der shin idt," replied Meiulmer, steadying his long pipe with his left hand, while be lifted one of the horse's feet with his right. "You wish him to have de new Mmes." . - - "No sir," said the Colonel, in his quick way. "Set the shoes on his lbre feet;—that's all." "Set de shoe on his fore feet—yah, I condor. stan. I will have him in von hour shoed." The Colonel went away, and returning at the appointed time, found the Dutch smith still at work on his horse. Ile was very wroth when he saw the state of affairs ; but he went away again with the promise that in "vun half hour" longer the shoes would be set. After dinner, in no very mild humor, he made his ap• pearance again at the shop, and asked "what was to pay." "Four shilling, - ens the reply. "Four shillings! It is an unposition I" ex claimed the fiery Colonel. "I never paid over a shilling for setting a shoo in my life." "W cry veil," nodded Meittheer. "Von shil ling for de vim shoe—l set de four shoes—dal ish four shilling—niclas I "Nick! the Old Nick !" roared the e*elted traveller. "Who told you to set more than two shoes?" uty doonder l" said the smith, "you tell me yourself." "I? It's a falsehood—a "Mine Cott You say set de shoes on de four foot—" "So I did 1 the two shoes on the /we feet 1" "Cott in liimmelli ish de mann crazy ? Two shoes on .four feet! \run hat on dice head as mootch 1" 'You eternal f-f•fool 17 exclaimed the .Col., who stuttered when much excited, "I said set the fore shoes on these two feet, you b•b•blun• dering Dutchman." "Set four shoes on two feet.? Ha, ha, ha l" lautrbed the smith scornfully and angrily.— "Hundert touzand blitzes! you tam Yankee!" "Yon w-w-w•wooden headed Dutchman!" 'Yon Yankee geese! monkey vun tam jack , ass—fool !" The Colonel replied, stuttering worse than ever; the smith struck his fists and jabbered Dutch, his knowledge of English being ex hausted; and thus they had it, "back and forth," until a mutual acquintance cattle . up and ex plained the matter. The Col. pnt the charge, laughing at the mistake; while 3leinheer smo ked on fiercely, cursing copiously the language which made tbnr feet two feet, or two feet four feet, "any way but.der right way—doonder and blitzen I"—True Flag: SulphitFoons. A verdant Irish girl , just arrived, was sent to tin Intelligence office by the Commissioner of Emigration, to find a place at service. She was sent to a restaurant, where a "stout help" was wanted, and while in conversation with the proprietor, he took occasion to light his cigar by igniting a locofoco match on the sole of his boot. As soon as the girl saw this, she ran away half frightened to deathi and when she reached the Intelligence office, she was almost breathless: "Why, what is the matter with you 9 " said the proprietor, swing her rush in, in such con. fusion. "Och f sure sur, but ye's tint me to the ould divil himself, in human form." "What do you mean—has he dared to insult "a help" from my office?" inquired the man. "Yin sur," returned the girl—"he's the divil." "What, did ho do to you—tell me, and fix hint for it," said he, quite exasperated. "Why aur, whilst I was talkie' to him about the wages, ho turned np the bottom of his fut, and wid a splinter in his fingers, stir, ho gis gavo one strike, and the fire flew out of bit fat, and burned the stick, and he lighted his sem wid it, right afore eon own face. the din. 11 Lure. I', NO. 49. Noneniting a CrecUtah there was a certain lawyer on the Cape, a long time ago, the only one in those "diggins" then, and for aught I know, at present. He was a man well to do in the world, and what was somewhat surprising in a limb of the law, averse to encouraging litigation. One day a llent came to him in a moat ter• rible raget "Look here, Squire," said he, "that 'ere bias• ted shoemaker down to Pigeon Cove, bas gone and sued me, for the money for a pair of boots I owed him." "Did the boots suit you / 9 Oh I pea—l re got thins on now—fuat late boots." "Fair price 7 0 i'Oh, yes." "Then you owe him the money hotmetly r "Conrse." "Well, why don't you pay him 9" "Why, 'cause the blasted snob went and sod me, and I want to keep him out of the money if I kin." lit will cost you something." "I don't hoer a cuss for that. How much money do you want to begin with?" "Oh I ten dollars will do." "Is that all ? Well here's an X, so go ahead, and the client went out, very well satisfied with the beginning. Our lawyer next called on the shoemaker and fished him what he meant by commencing legal proceedings against M. - “lVlty,' said he, "I kept on sendin to him tilt I got tired. I knoved he was able to pay—and I was 'termined, to make him. That's the long and short of it." ''Well," said the lawyer. "he's always been a good customer to you, and I think you acted too hastily. There's a trifle to pay on account of your proceeding—but I think you'd better take this five dollars and call it square." "Certain Squire, if you say so, and darned glad to get it," was the answer. So the lawyer forked over one V, and kept the other. In a few days his client came along and asked how he got along with his case. "Rapidly I" said the lawyer—"we've nnnsui• fed him I—and he will never trouble you." ..Terusalem ! that's great!" cried the client; "I'd rather agin fifty dollars than have him got the melte!, for them lilints." IN. 1' Spirit of the Times. Wasu't lynch in Figures. An old crone. keeping a en•rolled "cookey stand." was one day accosted by a wag with— " How do you sell oranges?" "Two cents." "Well," said he, taking up one, and turning it over is his hand, "How do you sell this cake ?" "The same price." "Supposing I gibe you back the orange, and take the cake ?" Wen. well I" taic pielwo mu?" "Yes" "Well, I think I'll take this pie after all, in• stead of the cake; what do yon ask for cider?" "Two cents a glass." "Take the pie back and give me a drink of A glass was filled, and banded to the cus tomer. who after swallowing the same, and smacking his lips with great gusto, was delib erately walking off when he was arrested with-- "Please Nir. you hayn't paid for the cider!" "Our friend cooly observed, "what should pay for?" "The cider, to be sure." "Didn't I give you a pie for it 2" i•Yes, but von didn't pay for the pie." "Very well, I exchanged the cake for it," "Yes, but you haint paid for that." "I gave you the orange for it." "The orange is two cents." "Well. Why should I pay for it, I didn't eat it, did I'1" "No matter, exclaimec: the dame, "no mat• ter, there's a mistake somewhar. but I can't see it; /never was much un jiggures; you need. n't call again." • Vote for Him Lewis, the fun.loving editor of the "N. IL Union," says an exchange, is a candidate for the Legislature. In the last number of his pa per, he published a circular to his fellow-citi zens of eiglal columns. Whereupon he says : It may be asked why I write so long a circu lar. An anecdote will illustrate my answer.— Once upon a time an old lady sent her grand. son out to set a turkey. On his return the fol lowing dialogue took place: "Sammy, have you set her "Yes, grandma." "Fixed the nest all up niedy?" "Mighty fine, grandma." "How many eggs did you put under her?" "Ono hundred and twenty, grandma." " Why Sammy, what did you put so many under her for?" "Grandma, I wanted to see her spread her• self," iffy opponents will pitch into this circular— hope they will have a good time in making a large per tentage off of it: A short one %Mind be ns much as they could get over, but I want to see them spread themselves! CorLDN'T Do Iv.—Recently; upon the cars running out of Cleveland; a lady was peddling tracts, playing female colporteur. The tract which engrossed her special attention was enti• fled, "Give me thy heart," and was undoubtely an orthodox and valuable production. With. out a word, she presented it to a quiet looking gentleman, who read its title, and replied— "No, madam, I can't give it, this woman is my wife." The heart-seeker vamoscd, and the passe& gem roared. As EPITAPII.-The kritzszym says that the following inscription is copied from a church yard in Essex: Hero lies the man Richard, 4nd Mary his wife; Their surnames was Pitchard; They lived without strife; And the reason ivas plain— They abounded in riches, They had no care or pain, And the 'loge ;tore the breeches, ar A lawyer went into a barber's shop to procure a wig. In taking the dimensions of the lawyer's head, the boy exclaimed, 'Why, bow long your head is, sir." "Yes," replied our worthy friend, "we law yers must have long heads." The boy procee ded with his vocation, and exclaimed, "it le as thick as it is long." Blackstone misled. "I have a good ear, a wonderful ear,' raid a c ,, ncAitud musician, in a conversation. jesl!atc." replia , l a I.7,:tatrieln•
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