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Within the last few years a change has
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Jan. 5, 1841.
A MALAraoto.—Aliishionable lady being
asked how she, liked the dinner given et a
distinguished poet's, her reply was- , --"The
dinner wns explendid, but . my seat was so
promote from the nick.nncks, that I could
not ratify my appetite, and the pickled cher
ies had such deject on my head that I had
a motion to leave the table; but Mr.
give me some hertshorn resolved in water,
which bei . eaed me."
REWARD OF INGENUITY. -.Mr. Burden,
of Troy Iron Works, invented last fall,• an
ingenious and valuable piece of machinery
for conipressing,andfiving form to the ball
iron, ns it comes ',glowing from the furnace.
It is intended as a substitute for trip ham
mers, and does its work instantly. It pos.
senses immense value, both as a labor say
int,. machine, and becattso it accomplishes
its work with neatness and rapidity. As
yet only ono of these machines has been
erected in this country. Contracts aro now
making by Mr. Burden, to supply other iron
establichments. But the best of it is, last
week the inventor sold the patent right for
Scotland alone, for $25,000! That's doing
the thing handsomely.— Troy Mail.
G. wAsznroslorr now =m, EDITOR & rnoppzr.,Ton.
gg The liberty to know, to utter, and to argue, freely, is above all other liberties.9l—Mumis
painpuizenay.zae. p oo t. -- evaamgaw s aQax.i4vail3zr ag9 mula.
Sparkling and bright in liquid light
Does the wino our goblets gleam in,
With hue as red as the rosy bed
Which a beo would wish to dream in.
Then fill to-night with hearts as light,
To loves as gay and fleeting
As bubbles that swim on the beaker's brim,
And break on the lips while meeting.
Oh! if Mirth might arrest the flight
Of Time, through Life's dominions, .
We hero awhile would now beguile
The Gray-heard of his pinions
To drink to-night with hearts as light,
To loves as gay and fleeting
As bubbles that swim on the beaker's brim,
And break on the lips while meeting.
But since delight can't icmpt the melt,
Nor fond regret delai him,
Nor Love himself can hold the elf,
Nor sober Friendship stay him,
We'll drink to night with hearts as light,
To loves as gay and fleeting
As bubbles that swim on the beaker's brim,
And break on the lips while meeting.
A WORD TO THE SLUGGISH—Br GOTITTIE.
Lose this day loitering—'t will he the same story
To-morrow, and the next mare dilatory;
The indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting over days.
Are you in earnest seize this very minute—
What you can do, or think you can, begin it:'
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Only engage, and then the mine grows heated—
Begin it, and the work will be completed.
As snon as the Harrisburg Convention
nominated the .Id Hero of Tippecanoe as a
suitable person to preside over our beloved
country, Frank Smith looked around among
his female friends to'select a suitable '0:
vidusl to preside over h:s affections. Frank
woe a whole souled Whig, and reposed the
utmost confidence in the success of the •no
mtneo of the convention. He was enga
ged in business, and declined taking a wife
only on account of the uncertainty of the
times. He kept' an old bachelor's hall,
which was genteelly furnished with every
thing 'requisite for house keeping. All
that was wanting to complete his happiness
was a beautiful companion with a heart like
his own. Frank was as fine a young fel
low as ever rallied round the Tippecanoe
flag, and might have cut quite n conspicu
ous figure in the world if he had been gift
ed with less diffidenoe.
Frank soon came to a decision. He si
lently nominated to the highest office in the
gift of his affections, a young lady who was
in every particular, worthy of his noble
eart. She was n distant family connec-
tion—a charming, cherry checked, cheer
-lul,•capricious creature of a cousin—about
as old as himself, and endowed with a prop
er share of that good common sense for
which our fair country women are so emi
nently distinguished all over Ihe world.
Frank Smith embarked enthusiastically
in the double care of love and politics. He
carried both with him, hand in hand; but it
might have been observed that he conduc;
ted one cause with eloquent looks. He of
ten told his fair cousin Tilly that General
Harrison was his choice for the highest of
fice in the gilt of the people, bnt never once
did he tell her that she was his only choice
for the highest post in his own g ift. But
Why should he have told her so? She knew
it as well as he did. His eyes had many a
time told her the story too plainly t be
misunderstood.
Frank had made at least a dozen attempts
to disclose his leelinos to his cousin, but his
lips invariably refused to obey the prompt•
ings of his team
One evening, just before the Presidential
election, the two were together engaged as
every, body else was, in talking over politi
cal matters—for Tiliy, like all other pretty
girls, was a thorough-going, Hurrisonian.
'Cousin 'Filly,' said Frank, 'it is now cer
tain that Old Tip will be our next Presi
dent. The People will then once more Fie
prosperous—business will revive, and thoan
young men who have all along hesitated
about changing their condition, may now
just as' well look out for helpmate's. What
say you to their
certainly think,' sold she, 'that our cox
should now, that this long contest is About
to close, receive n share of their attentions.'
'Yes, cousin Tilly, Harrison is good (or
the next four years—that's certain! • .You
must have noticed, cousin Tilly, that j am
heartily tired of this confounded bachelor
life; and from the attentions I have paid to
you, the object of my effec--4hat is—the
—the—that you are the—l was about to—
oh! listen to the glorious Tippecanoe song
in the stieet6!
"For all the world seems turning round,
For Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"
Frank's incoherent love•speeches were
cut short, fortunately for him, by a crowd
M the street e , inging lustily the faMOUS song
of rippecanee.and Tyler too.'
THE GARLAND.
t3t
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—"With sweetest flowers enrich'd
From various gardens cull'd with care."
SP.ARICLING AND BRIGHT.
DT C. P. 1101101iN
MlOOOU.3l4,n`iOTC3O
From the Wheeling Gazette.
cousnq 'SILL i'3 PTT.
'Really cousin Frank,' said Tilly 'you
are not fit for any thing but to talk .poli
tics.'
nm nfrnid there is to much truth in
what you say,' replied Frank, 'but still, I
must insist that I tried my best 'to tell you
my thoughts upon a different subject.'
'And why did you not finish telling tlteml'
said his cousin archey.
'Becsuse I was too much of a blockhead
or a coward.'
• 'A bold Tippecanoe soldier you are truly
You need not fear me, cousin Frank; I an
only a woman.'
'So you are cousin; but I must contliss
that 1 am the greatest coward on earth when
1 attempt to open my heart to you.'
•
'Most astonishing,' said Tilly.
'All very true, my cousin. You kdow
full well—l know you do—that I have
long entertained a deep—what was I going
to sayl—l don't believe Van will get more
than six states at the outside.'
'Cousin Frank, 1 shall have to put 'vou
in charge of old Tip's keepers. You are
going crazy.'
believe so myself: lamin a bad box,
L assure you, Cousin Tilly: Tell me how to
get out of this confounded quandary. You
know what I want to tell you. How shall
gay it?'
'Don't know,' said Tilly.
'Cousin?' said Frank, imploringly.
'Well.'
'Do tell me.'
bet you that Harrison will be oleo
ed,' said
'Oh! hut I would bot that way myself,'
replied Frank.
'You wished me to help you out 'of your
quandary, cousin Frank. You must there.
tore take tho bet.'
'What do you w•atit to bet requireti
Frank.
'Myself.'
'Agatast what?'
'Yourself.'
'But let me see,' said Frank, who was
somewhat puzzled to understand the' operi
tion of the wager, should lose, as I sure
ly will, how will it then be?
'H . you lose,' said she, 'I will win YOU;
and if/lose, you will win ME. Either way
will suit you, I suppose.'
see through it,' exclaimed Frank, in an
ecstacy of joy. 'Done, done, done.—Give
me your hand.—Hurrah for-Tip, Ty and
Till Cousin, you have done the business
gloriously; I am happy.' •
The election came, and Harrison won
the day. Of course, cousin Tilly won the
bet, and cheerfully was it paid, and grace
fully was it accepted.
They celebrated Old Tip's election a few
evenings ago, by a merry wedding.—Joy be
with them. RORY.
A.m.. • ........
ONE WHO HAS DIED WITHOUT LIVING.
Al. Paul .Legrand died a few weeke-ago
nt Dijon, in Burgundy, at the age of 71,
leaving tho following memoir, whereby he
proves that he had not lived: •
All that is suffering, sorrow, ennui, do
pair, desire, regret, should be deducted from
life, because we 'should ourselves have de.
ducted it had heaven permitted. When
three years old 1 was weaned, nt six I could
speak but badly--:at seven I split my skull;
at nine I was cured. I must, therefore, ex
tract nine years from my existence; for
surely to drink a nurse's sour milk, not to
speak, or speak badly, and to split one's
skull, is not , living. At the age of nine I
began my studies. Owing to my cracked
skull, my head was a hard 'one, and I pro
ved .tubborn to tuition. I. required two
year's labor to spell the alphabet. I was
indebted to letter 'l alone for about four
score hundred lashes; the other twenty
three letters made a complete martyr of
me. At the age of twelve I could read, but
my body Was mangled with the alphabet
scars. An attempt was made to teach me
Latin, and I Inst my French in the expert.
meet. At fifteen I knew nothing at all,
and a. forced diet of bread and water had re.
duced me to the condition of a skelleton.
Six years knore are therefore to be deduct.
ed. At sixteen my father made me a nata
-Iry's clerk. There commenced a new spe.
cies of martyrdom. I got 'up at six, swept
the office, lighted the stove, was drubbed by
I the taller clerks, and my father, overwhelm-
I
i ed with complaints about me, deprived me
of my dinner. This sort of life I led for five
years, and from my life I will positively de
duct them. At twenty my father, quite dis
gusted with his son, put me on board a ship
at Cherbourg. ftwashed the deck, crept
up the topmast, mended the sails, and re
ceived thirty lashes a day upon my back.
This was endured four years.
At ' twenty-four my father made Me
haber-dasher. I married Mademoiselle
Ursule Desvosins, a turner's daughter; her
portion consisted of 30,000 livers mortaged
upon a sugar estate at St. Domingo. The
day after" the wedding I found out that my
wife had a. wooden leg, made by my father
the turner. The poor woman made
a thousand apologies for her infirmity, and
I pardoned her out of regard to her mar
riage portion. The St. Domingo blacks
rose against the whites, burnt the marriage
portion, and the wooden leg .was all; that
was left to me. At thirty I lost my wife,
in consequence of a scrofula disease in her
real leg. I spent six years of marriage,
repenting every minute. What folly 1
committed in taking that leg 1 therefore I
deduct those six years from my life. flay:
ns every body else, slept a third part ,'
of my life, 1 deduct 24 years of sleep, and
I am below the right reckoning, for I was a
great sleeper. A year lost, adding minute
to minute, in searching for the keys of my
desk, which I was continually mislaying.
Does ono live when one looks for a key?
Three years lost in having myself shaved,
powdered, ttc. Five years lost in suffering
the toothache, two inflammations of the
chest, with relapses and convaleseenco.
Three years lost in saying 'What's o'clock?'
We have had bad weather to-day." "How
do you doo?" ..How is your lads?" "I have
had a bad cold." "Marlbtough s'en val-en
guerre—what mud in the streets—what n
winter flits year!" Six months lost in hav
ing the mud brushed off one, and six in
brushing one's hat. One year ofenduratice
of the entr'actes at the theatre. One year
lost in listening to the modern dramas, the
chefa uvre of genius not understood.
One year lost in complaining of salt and
tasteless Soups,of cuilests too much' or un
derdone, of indigestion or hard eggs. To.
tal 71 years. I beg leave to declare that
in giving up the ghost I do not give up any
thing worth keeping.
DICTIONARY FOR VIE PEOPLE.--Tho
fol
lowing are extriCis from a popular new
work now publishing under this title:—
Accomplish►ncnts—(in a lady)—To be
able to thump a piano, yawn over a novel,
and turn up their nose at any thing approach
ing to Usefulness: (In a gent.) to be able to
whitra segar, use an eye-glass, and say.
"demmit" with a grace.
Apology.—An amusing ceremony, which
consists in repeating certain offensive ex-.
pressions in different language.
illuilt.—Thn mind's telegraph.
Cabbage.—Toilorti? provender.
Cash.—The true Magician's wand.
College.—A place:for licensing fools.
Compliment.-- A palpable lie.
Death.—The I3itiliff General.
Ileiny;—An unknown work in an old
maid's vocabulary.
Pconomy.—Buding a camel hair_ brush
to paint a house.
L7pitaph.—A . recital of imaginary vir
tues.
Finis.—The only interesting word in a
dull hook.
Gen'lcman.—A title of courtesy—mean
ing doubtful.
Glory.—Wholesale mutilation and mu:
der.
Grave.—The physician's secretary.
,Hysterics.—A woman's conclusive argu
ment.
Interesting Creature.—A condemned
murderer.
Law.—An uncertain and eccentric ma.
chine, that net [infrequently destroys him'
who sets it in motion.
Lawyer,— Synonymous with witty liar,
and sometimes so written.
Libel.—A disagreeable truth.
Merit. --A disadvantage. to a man , 'in
search of political preferment.
Miser, , —One who lives upon nothing and
lays by the half of it. •
Nonsense.—Any thing you can't' under
stand.
Oracle.—Ono who knows less than his
neighbors, but has more impudence.
Perjury.—An indispensible requisite in
a witness on an electioneering petition.
&Woe/ion —Standing to be shot at.
Shortseihtedness.—An inventive for
cutting duns and poor relatives.
Cnifer.—A walking dust hole.
Tears.—A woman's arguments.
War.—Murder on a grand scule.
SKETCH OF A PRINTING OFFICE.—Not
sound is heard save at times, the slipshod
step of a compositor moving across the floor
to the foreman's desk for more copy, or the
continued click clicking of the types as they
fall in the composing stick. The composi
tors are stationed at their cases, noiseless
and busy as ants. Mark the diversity of
figure and expression, and, believe me,thore
is a great diversity of talent among them.
That thin stooping figure, With sharp face,
high nose, and dull eye, has n genius for set
ting advertisements. That gentlemanly
looking fellow with nn oval border of whis
kers, round face, and form, is the orator,
wit, and gay Lothario of the establishment,
has a genius which the proprietor himself
does not disdain to call to his aid. That
greasy looking individual, with a bald head,
ifyou keep whiskey from him, and him from
whiskey, (no easy task - by the bv,) will set
a whole column of close typetwithout one
typographical error. Marry, sirs, of a
Monday morning, his types are strange va•
garies. Yon thoughtful gentleman, with
his eye stuck in his composing stick, has a
head for scheme work, which technical
phrase designates what the vulgar call ta
bles, Tho paper is up—one by one
the compositors have desisted for want of
copy.
CITE OF DAMASCUS.—There is no city,
with the exception of Jerusalem, so 'inter
esting as this. It is now an object of notice
in the Christian world, on account bf Jew•
ish persecutions, It is the oldest city upon
the earth, and stands a solitary stately mon.
ument, in the midst ofdecay. Babylon and
Thebes were, its contempories, but the ton
mer has passed away without leaving a trace
of its magnificence, and the latter is repre
sented only by its standing ruins. Still
Damascus-remains, and is now, with the
exception of Constantinople, the largest
city of the. East.
Here are the "Abama and Pharpar, riv
ers of Damascus," again calling up the thril.
ling story of the Syrian Leper, and the He
brew Prophet. Hither Saul, with his re.
lentless perseciitings, followed t ha early
Christians; and near its walls, "the voice
from Heaven" and the "light above the
brightness of the sun," arrested his footsteps.
r 49460 e;. - PCOc. Zail•
••• . .r.:,, , :• , ....er•••••••. - T...-•;+:,
The identity of the.spot has . been preser•
ved co this day—tho Christians of the.city
using it as a burial place.,
The traveller . can still Walk through the
"street called Straight," and' is shown by
the credulous monk, the very house occu
pied by Judas, where Saul passed his hours
of blindnes4, and where, at the command of
Ananias, the eicales dropped from his eyes.
So rich is this country in fruits and flow•
ers, that . it has been called in all ages, the
"Pullen of ..the world." ft .is related of
11oSammed, that when, rifler crossing the
desert, lie saw this luxuriant valley, he ex
claimed that ho desired but ONE paradise,
and therefore would not enter here for fear
of forfeiting his interest in the, paradise he
anticipated after death, but turned aside
withouta close inspection of this tempting
scene.
Damascus has a peculiar importance, in
connection with the progress of Christianity
in these parts. It bas always been visited
by the Agents of the Bible and Missionary
Society. Being the great mart where east
ern and western mercliandize is exchanged;
the general rendezvous of Islam caravans
from the north 'and east in their progress to
Mecca; and rendered comparatively a safe
residence by the efficiency of Mehemet Ali,
it opens one of the most important and ex
tensive missionary lam.
Another Paul may yet preach Christ in
Damascue, and the moral aspect ofthis de
lightful country may present as cheering 110
appearance, as the rich display of its craw.
ral scenery.
PRETTERS' Class of
flier:harms, perhaps, suffer more from tho
predatory end beoging habits of individuals
than printers. They work so hard, invest
. .
! so 'much, and furnish their papers so low,
that people really seem to think, they.actu
ally are worth nothing but to, be given away,
or taken without leave. AceordinglY, noth
ing is more common than for people, who
have the curiosity to rend something that
happens to be particularly. interesting,,or
who wish to send. a paper to a friend pun
token of rememberance, to run Into a print
ing Office, and ask for, or take, a paper just
out from the press; and if the printer should
think of taxing him anything for it, the c.us
tomer would think himself quite insulted by
the niggardliness of the stingy, printerl
With what other mechanics or business-men
would people think of takipg the same lib.
erties? Go into a grocery and ask the re•
toiler to give you a fctir-perice,ha-penny's
worth of tea, coffee, or sugor,---end unless
You were . really on of ject of eharity- - -he
Would probably think himself the one impo
sed upon. Or visit bookstore and -make
off with halfa dozen sheets of writ ing.pape"r,
and most likely the proprietor will pursue
his customer with a writ for petit larceny.
Go into, a; joiner's shop and ask bins to. give
you six cents worth of his Wares, and yon
would feel as if you were engaged in a cheap
business. And yet people will entera print:-
ing office, and take six cents worth of a
printer's labor and really think. it ono of that
sort of things which should be given away
—because the paper is printed. . A clean
white sheet he would think too valuable to
abstract without pay, and yet it costs .a
printer twenty•fivo dollars every week to
set up the types that are impressed upon the
sheet that make it worthless.. No-t-no--.
. . .
this is not tho way to do business. If, you
want a paper and will not subscribe for it--
as all honorable men do--just step into the
office and lying down a silver bit say—" Sir,
if you please, let me have ono of your pa.
pars and take that in pay for it.'' You will
be readily accommodated, and then, be seat
ed, (not looking over the shoulders of the
compositor to read his manuscript,) or re
tire and read.your own paper like a man of
good conscience and honorable principl\es.
--Maine Cultivator.
RENINISENCES OF THE LATE WAR.-A
writer in a western paper, who was a staff
officer in a volunteer corps, called out by
the patriotic proclamation ofGeneral Smith,
gives un account of divers causes, other than
the love of country, the love of glory, or,
the love of fight, which induced men to leave
their homes and their friends forthe field
of battle and the chances of war. One of
these heroes discoursed to the following ef
fect:
"If Hannah had not been so snappish,
and made me du all the milkiti and churnin
tew, I should never have been here. She
told me she guessed I'd be sorry I'd listed;
but she druv me to distraction. I'd be rath
er stand the bullets than her etarnal clatter
of tongue, knies and forks and tin things.
If she is a widder it 's all her own folt. .Tell
her I dew dream about her nod the baby
sometimes—l kalkalate all things are fore
ordained mall eternity, and if I die in . fight,
in, I sharit have tho expenses to pny off a
long spell of sieloess; good by, Ephraim;
you Itan't got no more toliaclierthau will
dew you hum, have ye?"
WASTE OF HEAT.--A writer in the N.Y.,
Journal of Commerce states that black or
dark jambs absorb heat, instead of reflecting
t. The use of iron backs to fireplaces it"
`whicti wood is burned, bus the efFect to in.
Crease tho consumption of fuel without soy
advantage. When the. iron becomes hot,
it will buil) up the wood, and when the fire
is extinouished the fire at once loses its heat.
Brickbats ore pit to every thing els°
for tiro placrs; titer do not boat t' such it
degree as to burn the fuel, nod When once
heated retoin the heat I, , rig,r than any oth•
or substavee etrept wood It: irk bal k logs
are preferable to wood. ori e score of both
CCollilfte"
y and comfort.