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BY WILLIAM D. BAILEY;
V0L.44".-XO. 31.
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nY CE ARLES 7tIACKAY.
A traveler through a dusty,road
Strewed acorns on the lea,
And one took root, and spriiuted up,
And grew into a tree.: l .
tove.sought its shade arevening time,
To breathe its early vows,
And Age was pleased, in heats of noon,
To bask beneath its boughs,
The dormeuse loved its dangling, twigs, '
The birds sweet music bore,
It stood a glory in its place,.
A blessing, evermore !
A little spring had lost its way
Amid the grass and fern;
A passing stranger scoop'd a well,
Where weary men might turn,,
HeNvall'd it in, and hung with care
A ladle at the brink— • ,
He thought not of the deed he did,
But judg'd that toil might drink.
He pass'd again—and lo! the well,
By summers never dried,
Had cooled ten thgpsand parching tongues,
And saved a life eside !
A dreamer dropp'd a random thought;
'Twas-old, and yet was new—
A simple fancy of the brain,
But strong in being true ;. :
It shone upon a genial mind,
And lo ! its light became , '
A lamp of life, a beacon ray,
A monitory flame.
The thought was small—its issue great,
A watch-fire on the
It sheds its radiance far adown;
And cheers the valley still! ;
A nameless man, amid a crowd
That throng'd the daily mart,
Let fall a word of hope and Love,
Unstudied from the heart
A whisper on the tumult; throwit
A transitory breath—
It raised a brother from the dust,
I saved a soul from death.
0 germ ! 0 fount! 0 word of love!
0 thought at random cast
Ye were but little at the firs;
nt the bpi!,
Stettb.
The Heroine of INheeling.
Though we may sing of, and tell abciut,
the hardy men who fought so _bra - I - rely and
suffered so greatly to eilablish the principles
of that government under' which we, now
exist, w,c must not forget those heroic wo
men who, as mothers and wives, set forth
with eager hearts and cheering words, their
sons and husbands, to the bitter field of
strife, or as sisters, aiding to clothe and
equip their brothers. Their aching hearts
were silent, their burning tears were brush
ed away, as with smiles they 'embraced
them at parting, and with ,high - words, of
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trustful faith, , like the women of Sparta,
bade them to turn 'not the baclt upon the
conquering foe.
The words of-all ages bear no slight tes
timony to the devoted courage of woman;
and were our own history more perfectly
known, instances of female courage would
be found to parallel the most tvondertul of
ancient chronicles. We have ,now to 're
cord an act performed by h young woman
during our revolutionary struggle which,
for nerve and desperateness, is scarcely•to
be matched.
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In the year 1778, Wheeling, Virginia,
was besieged by a large. force of British
and Indians. At thii time, the, Fort, With
an insufficient force, was under the com
mand of Col. Silas Zane, a brave alid meri
torious officer. Distant from this; about
eighty yards, and outside the r: wall,ri o is
situated a block house, in which was I.
Ebenezer Zane, a brother of Silas, and; the
senior officer, with a few men. There were
several women in the Fort, and riming them
at the tithe, was Elizabeth Zane; a sister of.
the Colonel. She, was a young woman of
extraordinary beauty, having a tall and
finely formed figure, with a head like Juno ;
a black eye, mild and firmin its expression ;
a voice soft and melodiouS as rte lute ; 'and
with an expression of countenane' e as bland
as Italian skies, though beneath if might
,slumber , passions as warm as the fires of
":Vesuvius. It may be supposed:that many
a soldier's eye followed her wistfully, a's in
days of quiet she roamed ‘ about the Fort, or
strolled fora walk in company with orie of
her brothers. Many a proposal had been
made in vain. Officers of high rank had
sued, for her, and many ,a gallant empire
was undertaken in her name, but all te no
effect, so far as winning her afibetions went.
She was not one - of those light-witted, wo
men, to be caught by fine show and ;fine
professions. As far -as the heart, went, she
placed no difference:between high l nodding
plumes and the last man in th&ranks-.the
last man, not the least. She :Was above
that age. when young women •are • ragstaPt
to be caught by fine cornplimenss,,ordash•
mg appearances; but, plain and;
,direct ; in
her manner, it' was her study tp
,giver-m)
encouragenient-to her numerous suitor.
Yet from this description ihe reader Must
• not infer that she was eat susceptible 10 the
softer passion of lave. Far from it, for her
WIELLSBOROIUME, TIOGAL COIJNTY, PA., THIIRSDAY HORNUNG, HARCR 6, 185.1.
troth was at that time plighted ; nor could
the 'mot ambitious thought in the world
have tempted her to swerve from the sanc
,
My- of yaws made to the - lover of her
choice—Made, as all lovers' oaths are, in
the quiet! evening hour, and xvitnessed by
the moon; that lovers' planet, and " all the
'starry host of heaven."
Among the soldiers in the fort at this
time none was a greater favorite with offi
cers and men than Ashley Harper. Bold,
adventurous, and generous almost to a fault,
no hazardous expedition was projected in
which he was n t always ready to volun
teer; and many desperate adventure and
many a forlorn h pe had seen him face the
savage -foe withdds against _ him ; and
while powder flashed, and bayonets gleam
ed, he was sure to be found in the hottest
of the fi'ay. On two occasions had he
saved the' life of his superior officer, when
the tomahawk glittered with the fearful ex
pectation ,of its. victim's blood. lie. had
enlisted in the service a year previous as a
private ; and although promotion to the
rank of a non-commissioned officer had
been offered him on account of his good
qualities as a soldier, and his intelligence
as a man, he had refused its acceptance,
declaring that, as his only desire was to
serve his country, he-was willing to serve
through the war: as a private, leaving all
conditions above'that to soldiers more com
petent or more ambitious.
He was the son of a respectable farmer,
whose industry had 'enabled him to raise
up, and respectably educate a large family
—a man of severe discipline, whose watch
ful eye detected youthful faults in time to
prevent their ,maturing to crimes. He had
been intimate with the family of the Zanes,
and when Asbley expressed a desire to en
list, the old man easily prevailed upon Col.
Silas to enroll him among his own men.
Now we will not pretend to say that there
had been any particular understanding be
tween Ass Elizabeth and the young gentle
man above spoken of, previous to his be
coming a soldier, though such a thine= ° might
possibly have been in a mute way. Verbal
declarations certainly had not been made ;
for an owl told how ; one moonlight evening,
while ho was sitting in the shady branches
of a chestnut,.that stood but a few yards
from the Fort,
" Considering, as well he might,
Ways and means tbr a supper that night,
e looked about with a solemn scowl, and
a lover and hi . ; mistress—he knew it was a
lover and his mistress, they spoke to one
another so tenderly.
They came out from the Lott stealthily,
and stole softly over the greensward, to the
foot of the chestnut, and sitting down upon
one of the knarled roots, said kind things,
uttered sacred vows, and breathed fervent
sighs one to the other. They sat there an
hour—a good hour by the march,of Saturn
—talking and sighing all the while; when,
calling upon all the stars to witness their
oaths, and sealing their vows with a kiss,
they retired:
It was but a short time after this occur
rence that the seige of Wheeling was com
menced by
. the British and Indians; and
although the place was defended with zeal
and an unlimited amount of courage, the
hopes of the besieged grew somewhat dim
as they looked 'forth upon the masses that
surrounded them. A scarcity of provision
was not what alarmed them, for of those at
present they had a sufficient supply ; but
alarm became almost consternation when it
was announced, on - the second ilay of the
seige, that their powder was short. Seve
ral desperate assaults had been made by
the enemy to break into the fort, but Col.
Zane and his men repulsed and drove them
back as vigorously as they assaulted. The
Indians on two or three occasions attempted
the destruction of the Fort, and block-house
by fire, but in each instance they were shot
down ere the faggot and the burning, brand
could be applied. But ultimately those in
the Fort began to fail in their hopes of a
successful defence, when the word was pas
sed around that they were in possession of
a few charges of powder only. There was
an abundant supply in the block-house,
which they had been prevented from remo
ving by the suddenness of the assault; but
how was it to be gotten now 1 Surrounded
by the most inveterate ,foes, what possible
method could be adopted to procure them a
supply, of ammunition Their' condition
must be known to the enemy the Moment
their fire slackened, and they could easily
.be destroyed without the least show of de.
fence,
,TheAecood day of the seige had we
nigh worn away—it was in the middle of
the afternolm. The last shot had been
fired—the last grain of powder was exhaust•
ed. Now, •what was to be done ? Make
terms of capitulation, or, despairing, submit
to their fate : They theblocli.house 011
held out bravely, and a little longer concert
of action might save ,them, for the enemy
already began to show symptoms of waver•
ing. At this crisis, Col, Zane called bis
men; .around him, Dad after describing to
them the situation in which they were
placed, he. desired to know if there -was
- any ane,among them desperate enough to
attempt, a 'passage through_ thti enemy‘ to _the
104-house. He added that it-was indeed
a-forlorn ,hope, , but at the worst could not
be:Anor,e disastrous than to remain in their
present condition.. No answerfollowed the
appeal. The men gazed at their comman
der and into , the. , eYeS :of each other with
the most complete despair, and with faces
[SELF-DEPENDENCE AND SELF-DIPROVEMENT-THE FIRST RiGIIT, .4ND THE FIRST DUTY OF. EVERY NATION.]
blank without one ray of hope. Elizabeth
stood beside her brother, silent ; but that
silence was more eloquent than the words
of the Colonel. Perhaps, though, a slight
pang might have fluttered her pulg`e to hear
no one speak. Was there not one brave
enough to peril his life - for the whole ? Am
munition was . all that was wanted. One
keg of powder, and they were free ! At
that moment a young man stepped modest
ly forward and said':
" Colonel, r will attempt the passage.
If I fall remember -me-; if I succeed—"
His eye caught the expression of Eliza
beth's feature,s as They glowed upon him
With unutterable fondness and pride, and
fell to the ground. Col. Zane stepped for
ward, and taking the young soldier's hand,
said— •
" You are the man I expected would vol
unteer for this service. Go, and, God pro,
tect you! If they see you from the block
house, they will try to cover you with their
fire. Self-possession is your only hope:
Now away, while the enemy are partially
withdrawn."
But here 'Elizabeth stepped forward; and,
addressing her brother, said—
" Silas, let me undertake this enterprise !"
" You !" replied her brother, viewing her
with astonishment. " Impossible ! Do you
know the danger of the attempt'!"
" Perfectly," she answered. " You have
no men to spare. Every one is needed in
the defence of
,the Fort ; and this is the
only service I can render."
" But a man would be more fleet, Eliza
beth and more certain of success," said
her brother.
" Still you have no man to spare; and a
woman would not run the same danger in
passing through the enemy. Besides if I
full, I shall not bo so much missed, nor
your forces weakened."
The Colonel was ;affected to tears, and
embracing his sister, exclaimed—
" Then go ! God's midi be done, and may
he protect you!"
A dozen men now sprang forward,
prompted by - the devotion of this heroic
woman ; and Ashley Harper, more urgent
than the rest, insisted that it was his right,
as he was the first io propose. But Eliza
beth would hear no objections, and at once
began to make preparations for the enter
prise. Partially divesting herself of her
clothing, so that her speed might be the
less_imo,eded_ she u: r ac_liat r aL4
ings of all within ; while froth one of the
embrasures the anxious eyes of Ashley
Harper followed hes as she fled like a
young roe through {he lines of the enemy.
Now she falls! Twenty muskets are
raised by the savages to stop the progress ;
but a cry of " Squaw, squaw," saved her.
She approaches the block-house in safety,
and is admitted !
A period of awful suspense awaited them
it the fort. The men were anxious for m
idi, the Colonel was regretting that he
'emitted his sister to go, and AShly Harper
vas breathing prayers for her safety.
In the block-house, the excitement was
equally as great, and astonishment was ex
pressed by every one at the intrepidity of
the maiden. Her brotherthere persuaded
her to stay with him, offering to send one
of his own men to the Fort with the pow
der. But she overruled his arguments
with the same logib she had used witii her
brother Silas, and was at teat permitted to
return. A keg of powder was poured
into a table cloth, and she again sallied
forth to run the desperate gauntlet.
In the fort every heart was beating with
the utmost anxiety; and as the dusky foe
was seen gathering around scarce a vestige
of hope was left for the safety of the heroic
maiden. Still watched her lover from the
embrasure, and still prayed her brother
silently.
.Forward she sped on her return
with her precious burden,' as though her
_feet were winged, while the enemy at length
suspicious of her errand, pouring lead after
her. Yet onward she came unharmed—
apparently unalarmed—preserved by an
Omnipotent power and at length reached
the gate of the Fort tvhich was thrown
open with eagerness to admit her. . As it
closed with safety upon the little band
within, it was assaulted with a hundred bul
lets, while the savages around mode the air
peal with their demoniac yells of disap
pointment and
_rage. The brother wel
comed her with tears. All pressed around
her to thank her for her braveryall but
Ashley Harper ; his heart was too full for
expression.
The result of adventure was the sum. s-
lut defence of ilte' Fort against the be " le-.
hers. But ere the war of the revolution
was ended, Ashley Harper slept with the
dead heroes of .our country, having fallen
at the battle of Saunders' Creek, in North
Carolina, August 16,4780.
Tun AuTnon.of they following was last
seen with a piece of gingerbread in one
hand, and a , stick of molasses candy in the
other, looking fora elergymaim--
. When afeller fats in• lusr
He dus ware a white kid gluv,
and puts on lots of splendid close,
and wears tite boots'ulsm .
and smell josilike a sprawling rose
all newly sprung in Joon."
WIFr.!" said, a *her ,a few ilay
since, "do you over think, I,shall, be worth
fitly thousuud'ilollars:i" Aim I norththat, to , you r, said the .confiding spouse.
Y. 704 !" • hesitatingly.. replied .the other
hall, " but I cant put you out at interest."
The Lord's Prayer.
BY JAS. A. BENNETT, L.L.D.
Our Father dear, who art in heav'n,
To whom all glory should be given,
- Hallowed be thy Name !
0! let thy glorious Kingdom comc;
And may thy gracious will be done,
In earth and heav'n the same.
Give us this day our daily bread,
That we may in thy statutes tread,
And be our debts forgiv'n;
As we forgive our follow men
The debts that we, might claim of them ;
And guide us safe to heav'n.
Let not temptation set a snare
That we can't overcome by pray'r,
From evil make us free—
The Kingdom, Power, and Glory, then,
Are thine—for which we say, Amen,
And give our souls to Thee:
Select Mificetiang.
Bridal Quarrels.
A trifling disagreement about a trifling
matter may destroy a life of enjoyment.
And it usually happens that when the
married pair do quarrel, the occasion is so
despicable, they are ashamed to think of it.
Yet that silly circumstance, like a drop of
ink discoloring a whole vessel of water,
often spreads its influence over the whole
life. Just as
" A pebble in the streamlet scant,
Has turned the course of many a ricer ;
A dew-drop on the baby plant,
Has warped tho giant oak forever."
I find an exceedingly painful illustration
of these ideas in an English publication,
for the truth of which its author pledges
his word.
A young couple had passed the first weeks
of their marriage at the house of a friend.
Having at length occupied their new home,
they were taking their first breakfast, when
the following scene occurred :
The young husband was innocently open
ing a boiled egg in an eg.g-cup. The bride observed that he was breaking the "shell at
what she thought was the wrong end.
" How strange it looks," she said, " to
see you break your egg at the small end,
my dear ! No one else does so, and it looks
so odd."
" Oh, I think it's quite as good, in fact
better than breaking it at the large end, my
loYe; for when you break •the large end,
the egg runs over the top," replied the hug
-I,nuna 'CI y arc - LA Vszas
else does so," rejoined the wife.
" Well, now, 1 really do think it is not a
nice way that you have got of eating an
egg. That dipping strips of bread and
butter into an egg, certainly is not tidy.
But I do not object to your doinn b as you
please, if you will let me break rfiy egg at
the small end," retorted the husband.
" I am quite sure my way is not so bad
as eating fruit-pie with a knife, as you do,
instead of using the fork ; and you always
east the syrup as if you were not accus
tomed to have such things. You really do
not see how very bad it looks * , or I am sure
you would not do so," added the wife.
" The syrup is made to be eaten with the
pie, and why should I send it away in the
plate 1" asked the husband.
"No well bred persons clear up their
plates as if they were starved," said the
bride with a contemptuous toss of her little
head. .
LS 7 II, then, I am not a well-bred per
son," replied the husband, angrily.
" But you must be, if we are to be com
fortable together," was the sharp answer of
the fastidious lady. '
Well, I must break my egg at the small
end, so it does not signify ; and I mnst also
eat the syrup."
"Then I will not have,either fruit pies or
eggs at the table."
" But I will have them," petulantly ex
claimed the husband.
"Then I wish I had not been married to
you," cried the young wife, bursting into
tears.
" And so do I," added the now incensed
husband, as he arose and walked out of the
room.
This domestic quarrel was followed by
others equally trifling in their origin, and
disgraceful in their character, until the silly
couple made themselves so disagreeable to
each other, that their home became unen.
durable, and they separated I
Now, I doubt not, the reader is ready to
pronounce this quarrel about opening an
egg, a foolish affair. It was so ; and yet I
seriously question if the -first quarrel be.
tween a newly married pair ever has a
much more elevated beginning. Little
things do great mischief, and are to be
watched with suspicious care.
Beidal Greet.
THE Pairrran.—Many Men, who Dave
acquired great fame and - celebrity in the
world, .began their . careeras printers. Sir
Wm. Blackstone, the !wiled commentator
on laws, was printer by. trade. King
George 111. learned the, art, and frequently
set type oiler he ..ascended the. throne of
England. Wescarcely need mention-Frank•
lin, for,it is well , known to all who are fa
miliar, with his name, that he, was a printer;
Alexander Campbell, the greatest:.theolo!
gian that, ever lived, is a printer,: .GentleT
men of the: craft," these aro gratifying
facts; but let us not be,content.that they
alone be held up to the 'credit 'Of the pro•
fession—let,as honor.. ourselves, and do
alt
we canto keep up, and'eleiate still:higher,
the character of our beautiful art.
Temperance.
Mothers, in summing •up the thousand
responsibilities which ,attach to your high
calling, think for a moment and ask your.
selves if you sufficiently press upon the
minds of your children the importance of
this particular virtue, temperance. Perhaps
I should do better to use the words " total
abstinence,"' for a child cannot too early
imbibe a deadly hatred towards all kinds of
alcoholic stimulants, and a dislike even to
behold them. Too much care cannot be
exercised in this important particular; many
mothers totally abstain from the beverage,
never allowing it in their presence as one of
the household things, yet the subject is
rarely mentioned in 'the presence of the
-little ones, and they grow up in ignorance
of the miseries caused by this monster
fiend, and therefore, unsuspecting and inex
perienced,4fall an easy prey to those wretches
whose delight is in the ruin of the good.
Talk to your children about the horrors
of intemperance ; let not a day pass, if
possible, without some familiar illustration,
some wholesome advice, or gentle warning.
Carry them where the drunkard bides, for
unless familiar with sin by knowledge of
its existence, we may be by sore and bitter
experience. Never allow them to despise
the children of the sot, or laugh at the wild
antics of the poor inebriate. Go without
sweetmeats, rather than by using brandy
in small quantities for flavoring, give them
license to quote your example in after
years.
Better to appear singular and unfashiona
ble in not offering your friends wine, than
weep, broken-hearted, over the bloated form
which you onaccalled your fair and beau
tiful boy, and from which the now ruined
soul has shriekingly fled, forever. These
may seem little things to be careful abmit,
but if it had not been for the little leaks,
caused-in many instances by apparently in
significant worms, the many noble ships
with all their goodly crews that Were long
ago destroyed, Would to-day have _kept their
course upon the ocean paths, and thou Sands
of noble hearts, now silent in the tomb of
water, have yet responded to the sweet volt
ces and welcomes of those they loved.
Neglect not this thing as you value the
undying souls of thoseprecious ones. We
(bal. God will hold many a thoughtless
mother accountable for the terrible crimes
Govern Tour Temper.
A difficult thing it is for hot-headed peo
ple to govern their tempers at all times, and
under severe provocStions. But no man
can be truly great 'who doesn't keep his
combativeness fenced in. An excellent re
cipe for coolness and equanimity, is to pre-
serve an uniformly subdued voice and an
easy deportment—to exclude, entirely, fret.
ful thoughts, frowning brows and ferocious
gratings of the teeth, though the fountains
of wrath within be ever so much "riled."
A navy regulation forbids any seaman
from entering a ship's power magazine with
a knife, key, or similar article in his pocket,
or about his person, or with nails in his
shoes, or metal buttons on his clothes.—
Bolt the door of your heart with half this
care against wolfishness, in its varied dis
guises of sheep's clothing, and you need
cherish no fears of getting into a " blow up."
" He that ruleth his spirit is better than he
that Xtketh a city," says the wise than.
And there is certainly a " heap" of comfort
in keeping down one's indignation, even at
those times when indignation may be per
fectly righteous:- Why stop to cane every
dog that snaps at your heels ? The strength
wasted on his miserable carcass would serve
you to do a considerablejob of work ; and,
besides, it is an indisputable filet, that, just
so long as you resort to caning, instead of
_contempt, to rid yourself of dogs, just so
long will dogs come around to be caned.
In plainer phrase, if you show quickness
to anger, there will never be wanting mis
chievous loafers, ready to use the long poles
of insult and injury to " stir pp the ani
mals."
A Young Japhet.
"My son, can you take a trunk for me
up to the hotel?" said a passenger stepping
from a boat on to -the levee, to a raged
lookingyoungster, who sat balancing liar
self, on the tail of a dray.
" Your son ?",cried the boy, eyeing him
from head to - foot. " Well, I'll be dod
drabbid if I ain't in luck. Here I've been
trying to find'out my daddy for three years;
and nil of a sudden up comes the. old boss
himself, and knows me right off. How•are
you 1-" stretching a muddy-looking paw.
l'he•traveler was non-plussed. • Between
a smile and n.froWn, he inquired,
What is your name, sir'!''
"My name ? So you don't know ?=
Well; IN netting for people in these parts
to have so many children that they don't
know • theif 'names. My name's 'Bill but
- sonie -, folks call me Willianf for short.—
Whap the Other part is, I reckon you knoW,
if you don'l, you nuns' ax the - ole Onitin."
And'shoulderirig the trunk, be marched
off•rewards tho'hotelcmumbling to birnself;
Welfthis is a go: :Tiler old tgemman
come, home bt last. -Gtxitl'clOthes, big
trunk; meat have the ''tin. Well, I ant,in
ltidlt:'--N O Delta,-' - •'', '
Pr is Sopirtred.,tliat , the Lord inade we.
smaller than men to epable the latter
to lift them over the gutters when it rained.
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children are born in January, Pebruar - 4r tend ii li
March.
Serpents annually shed their skins, which 111.11
remarkable as it may at first appear, eitend tat: ?
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over their eyes. _ • ii,
The natural smallpox usually'earrtis off 11 , !
eight in every hundred attacked : , wit h .it ; f , i
but of three hundred inoculated only! one 1 , ,1' i
dies.
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Of one thousand infants fed by, the, ,',.!
mother's milk, not above thee hundred die, i: 11
but of the same number reared by wet ci, t
nurses, fi ve hundred die. • -,-?' ' • 9 . '11
China, properly so called, contains nbOut
three hundred and fifty millions of ends, ~4
and extends over 20 degrees of latitude; and '
20 of longitude or •400 square degrees; - I - f,
The flea, locust and grass hopper jump
two hundred times their own length; equal
to a quarter of a mile for a man.
There are in man five hundred: and
twenty-seven muscles, two hundred and
fifty-seven of which are in pairs, Of These
no less than one hundred are constantly
used in the simple act of breathing. t,i '
The average depth of the . Atleintie•
ocean is set down at 14,400 feet, amd . that,
of the Pacific at 18,000. On the weStern
side of St. Helena soundings . have been
made, it is said, to- the depth of 27,600
feet—five miles and a quarter—without
touching
bottom. '
The first code of written laws possessed
by the Athenians was prepared by DrricO;tt
man of stern and rigid character.
.These
laws punished all crimes with death ; and,
on account of their sanguinary charticter,
are said to have been written in bletid.l
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
racts for the Cartons.
There are 37,000 seeds in the cat)sule ;4
of a tobacco plant ; and Ray, the celebrated' 41
botanist, counted in the - head of a lioppy 1:
32,000 seeds. It has been calculated by f
many naturalists that the elm tree produces
yearly 630,000 seeds. ;. •
If the feathered gills of a small perch '
could be unfolded and spread out, they Would
nearly cover a'square yard. This'; will
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not appear so extraordinary when :t is
recollected that the perve in a dog's n'osa is 4 41 ii
spread in so thin a web, that it is computed
to be equal to four square feet.'
In the human skeleton there are two
hundred and fifty-two separate bbnes.
Hard-working people sometimes haVe, an
Tliey useful — in increa - sing t(tie PitiiArdf
of the muscles wherever they erow .,
The aorta, or principal artery of : the
Whale, measures about a .foot in diameter,-
and the quantity of blood thrown into` it at
each pulsation, has been estimated affrom -
ten to fifteen gallons ; the rush of this fluid
is quite audible to the harpooners ;When
about to strike the animal. 1!
A watch consists of 992 pieces .tind in
making it 23 trades and about , 2 . 00 persons
are employed. A remarkable instance of
the effect of labor in augmenting the italue
of raw material is afforded' by the balance,
spring of this instrument. One farthings
worth of iron will make 7650 balance
springs, the market value of which is about
4924 ; nearly $4400.
Bow to be Miserable.
Sit at the Window and look over thee, way
at your neighbor's excellent mansion,4hich ,
he has recently built and paid for, and:sigh
out," Oh that I were .a rich man."
Got angry with your neighbor' and,t . ink
you have not got a friend in the vr,orld.
Shed a tear or two : take a.walk in . the
burial giound, continually saying to your.'
self, " When shall I be buried here?"
Sign a note for your friend, and : never-
forget your kindness, and every. hour it?, the
day whisper to yourself, "I i wonder 0' K.;:,
will pay the note?" , Think everj , hodY
means to cheat you. Closely ditinini
every bill you take and doubt' it being';
genuine, till you have, put the owner to a. 1, 1
great deal of trouble. Believe everyOime,
passed to you is a sixpence crossed. mid In ;
express your doubts About getting 101 of if ',l'
if you should takb it: '
6, •
Never accommodate if you can pc4sibly,
help.
Never visit the sick end ofilieted'i
never oive`a farthing to the poor. '
Grind the faces and hearts of the pear,
and unfortunate.
Brood over your misfortunes,-.your lack,
of
of talent, and believe at no distant Clay you
will come .to want. 'Let the pooithoilie It
ever be in your mind, with all,the ifeire'rs'
of poverty and distress.' 111-
Then you will be miserable to yourjwarts
content—if I may so speak—sick all heart
and at variance with all the world. 61 • z
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eelehrated'eomdian, John It, epve,,w9 once 11
accosted by an elderly, female ,
of gin in her hand : 64 rray,liir,l'berYeiii
pardon; is this the way ,to.the worktAmsii"
John gave her A. look ,or
and, pointing. to the . .hottle,graveliia.kl - 1
"No, madam, but that.is."
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Uscrui IllicTsCitriy a' ' cheap
la you will diseover . --Why when You
it,. which •yett - t . of .c,ouise;.wdl do ,Iti:isthout .
six weeks. ; . -; •,
I . wnyp . get hold of your ; night-404, cforG
blow' tlio - eandle out.-
-;•Befoie - yOu get measured fOr nuts iboeitiv; ;
.pat on three pair. of thick
Always tell the 'truth; 111
easier than lying. -
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