ed childhood fancies
desires, loves and p issions,
AU are buried—base and pure.
in tho valley el the heart,
Where remembrance fondly lingers,
Till the burning tear-drops start,
And when life is all a ruin ,
And the heart is in decay,
And the trailing ivy twining,
O'er each column finds its way.
Then Reflection loves to wander,
In this grave yard of the past,
And there rest among the shadows,
From the marble columns cast.
_= . II , IifS3O3CJI.NA.INT"It
The Number Seven
This number is frequently used in the wri
tings of the" Bible.
On the 7th day God ended his
In the 7th month Noah's ark touched the
ground.
In 7 days a dove was sent out.
Abraham pleaded 7 times for Sodom.
Jacob served 7 times for Rachel.
Jacob mourned 7 days for Joseph.
Jacob was pursued a 7 day's journey, by
Laban.
A plenty of 7 years and famine of 7 years
were foretold in Pharoah's draws), by 7 fat
and 7 lean beasts, 7 ears of full and 7 ears of
blasted corn.
Every 7th year the bondwomen were set
free.
Every 7th year the law was read to the
people.
In the destruction of. Jericho, 7 priests
bore 7 trumpets 7 days; on the 7th day they
surrounded'the walls 7 times; and at the end
of the 7th round, the walls fell.
Solomon was 7 years building the temple,
and fasted 7 iLlys at its dedication
In the tabernacle were 7 lamps.
The golden candlestick had 7 branches.
Naaman was 7 times in Jordon. •
Job's• friends sat with him 7 days and 7
nights, and oflcred 7 bullocks and 7 rams as
an atonement •
Our Saviour spoke 7 times from the cross,
on which he hung 7 hours, and after his res
urrection appeared 7 times. '
In the Lord's prayer are 7 petitions, con
taining 7 times 7 words.
In the Revelations we read of 7 churches,
7 candlesticks, 7 stars, 7 trumpets, 7 'plagues,
7 thunders, 7 vials, 7 angels, and a 7 headed
monster.
Lessons of Wisdom
Frederica Bremer, the charming moralist,
speaks tenderly and truthfully to those occu
pying the several family relations:
"Many a marriage has commenced like the
morning, red, and perished like a mushroom.
Wherefore? Because the married pair neg
lected to be as agreeable to each other after
their union as they were before it. Seek al
ways to please each other, my children, but
in doing go keep heaven in mind. Lavish
not your love to-day, remembering that mar
riage has a morrow and avain a morrow.—
Bethink ye my daug e hters, what a word house
wife expresses. The married woman is bet
husband's domestic trust. On her he ought
to be able to place his reliance in Louse and
family: to her he should ennfide the key of
his heart and the lock of his store room. Ms
honor and hia home aro under her protection
—his welfare in her hand. Ponder this!—
And you, my eons, be true men of honor and
good fathers of your families Act in such
wise that your wives respect and love you.—
And what mote shall I say to you my chil
dren? Peruse diligently the word of God?
that will guide you out of storm and dead
calm,and bring you safe into port. A.nd as for
the rest do your best!'
If you saw a man digging for ores in a
snowdzift. you would say at once he was cra
zy. But in what respect does this man dif
fer from you while you sow .the seed of idle
ness and dissippation in your youth. and ex
pect elevated affections and good principles
in advancing years,
THE HEART.
lIOKE.
ont. grave-yari,
'_pulseless dons),
to blorks of marble
per's head.
and dear mementos,
ones resting there,
that last were spoken—
of a dying praye r,
the white forms sten ling,
ntries round the dead,
Lnight-broods in silence
with phantoms dread.
's lone cemetery,
Cished hopes are laid,
of Parian marble
that never fade.
of youth-time--
here a joy,
brigitest future,
pure an 3 stainless,
ilp on the snow,
ings for some fair one,
;ht eyes like diamonds flow.
,es-matur
WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1867.
SPEECH OF MR. COLFAX
On Saturday evening after the adjourn
ment of Congress Speaker Colfax, among
others, was serenaded, at the conclusion of
which he delivered the followingaddress:—
Fellow Citizens:—There are two kinds of.
serenades in Washington; the first, when
members arrive, to enter on the discharge of
'their duty, and the last when, afte - r - tTie - Close -
Of their labors, they are about to return to
their homes. As Holy Writ' declares that
he who taketh off his armor has more right
10 - be - prou - d - th - a - u - ire - who putteth it on, I
value this mark of your regard more highly
because, our work being completed, you
ul and faith 1-F
ny it "well done gom_„ATM—ter
vants ” [Applause.] Congress sincerely de
sired to avoid this .midsunitrier session.—
They passed the military Reconstruction bills
last March. The President vetoed them on
the explicit ground that whey made the mil
itary commanders supremo and absolute
o
ver the people of the lato_re_b_eilio_u_s Skates
p.
Congress accepted his construction of them,
and repassed them over his veto. They
were cordially endorsed by the loyal people
of the North, and Acquiesced in more readi
ly than had een supposed by the people of
the South. Soon
.it became apparent that
under them loyalty would tziumph in most
of the Southern States, and then the Presi
dent vetoed his own veto, and promulgated a
decision of his Attorney General that, under
'".
these laws, the military commanders were
mere policemen, subordinate to the Provi•
Governments - over wbia—tbey—h-a-d
been placed; the army but a posse cowm
to enforce. the decrees of the Rebel Govern
ors and Mayors, and that every Rebel was
to be his own register: The people, surpri :
se, a M‘s - d - e - cisions -- , appealed to the Con-
gress in which they placed such deserved
-confidencerto reassemble, and from Maine to
California they came hither to resume their
lecrislative autherit and to so declare the
- .
meaning of their ,legis ation t tat no era
sophistries of any Attorney general could
mystify it. Vetoed again, they repassed it
-by-a-vote-of-four 0-one,-mod—it,has-gone-on
the-statue-book-as one-of -the-laws, which the-i
President, by his constitutional oath, must
"take care to have faithfully executed '—
Some, I know, condemn Congress for having
done too much in its past legislation, and
some for having done too little, but I think
it has struck the golden mean—firm and yet
prudent, courageous without undue excite
ment, inflexible and yet wise. The Presi
dent, in his last veto, denounces thii "mili
tary despotism" as he calls it, and declares
that Congress has subjected the South to a
tyranny most intolerable. -
We have heard these charges of military
despotiem before during the war from the
party which so terly opposed his election
three years ago. Every Or tending- t o
strengthen the Government, such as the sus
pension of the habeas corpus, trials by court
martial, &c., was denounced as a military de
spotism. But the people rendered their ver
dict, and it cannot be reversed. Instead of
tyranny, the key note of the Congressional
policy is protection to all, and the vindication
and triumph of loyalty, and, God keeping
us, we shall stand by it until it is crowned
with triumph. [Applause.] I will use no
word of disrespect toward the President, for,
although differing with him in polioy as wide
as the poles, I respect the office which he
fills, and prefer argument to invective.—
When I listened yesterday to Mr. 'McPher
son, the Clerk of the House, as he read the
bold and defiant rneisage of the President, I
could not but feel that, in the whole of it, he
arraigned himself far more than the Con
gress which he addressed. All pat ties agree
that he spoke correctly in his North Caroli•
nu proclamation of :slay, 1865, he declared
that all the civil governments of the South
had been destroyed by the rebellion. Ire
then, without calling Congress together,
went nn with the wirk of reconstruction, in
the absence of all law upon the schject.--
Has Congress made State Governments r-uh•
ordinate to military power? So did the
President. Ilas Congress provided for the
creliing of State ConventiOns? So did the
President. Ilas Congress authorized their
ratification? So did the President. But he
ordered Conventions by his Executive fiat
and recognized their Constitutions without
their being submitted to the people. Con
gress reluired the people—the registered
voters—to call the Convention, themselves
and then to approve or reject their work by
popular vote. [Applause.]
Ilas Congress required the ratification of
the Constitutional Amendmeot? So did the
President Has Congress established a test
oath? So did the President. Our crime is,
I suppose, that we provided that those whom
the nation had made free should have the
.freeman's ballot for their protection, while
the President did not. But the res u lts o f
his policy strikingly contrast with the results
of ours. The nation looked on to see what
fruits would result from his action, and hat
were they? . In nearly every State the Reb
el power resumed its authority, and became
dominant in their executive, legislative and
judicial departments. The vagrant and la•
.bor laws, virtually re-enslaving the emanci
pated, followed, and murders, outrages,
ota and massacres crowned the whole. Loy
al men were under foot. and the revivified
spirit of rebellion was triumphant,
With our duty to our country and on our
oath, we could not affirm and legalize this
policy, and hence the legislative .action we
have since taken. Approved in the past as
we have bean, I cannot doubt even a more
triumphant endorsement hereafter. [t..
plJuse.]
The President appeals to the ballot box,
and so do we, and by its decision vre are wil
ling to stand or fall. In 1862, in the dark
est hour of the war, amid disaster and roc
verse, the ballot box- sustained us, and re
turned a Republican m ijority in Congre,—
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too. wit' t ew oe power au patronage
of the Government thrown in the scale of
our enemies, we appea!ed again to the ballot
box, winning the most magnificent victory
ever known in our political • history. [Ap
plause.] But this will be eclipsed by the
coming victory in 1868, when we shall place
. a
the offices of the Government those who
will be faithful to liberty, justice and loyal
ty. We ask no more, and will accept no
less. And this victory will be swelled by
the votes o 1 the reconstructeSouth.—
When they return, as they wid, in cordance
cl (p
with the terms prescribed in our legislation,
they will return with magnificent majorities
for the right. [Applause.] 'They will come
back, led as they must be, by those who
have been faithful to the Union in its dark
est lours. sey wi join wit us o t e
North, under the inspiring influence of free
or power,
prosperity and progress, afd — Wre - will joinwith them in so legislating that hereafter, in
this noble land, there shall be
no man so poor,
so humble, or so obscure that he cannot look
up_to_the_American_itag_asAds_unfailiag_pro
tection, and with the ballot, which shall vin ,
dicate his rights, in his own right hand,—
[Applause ] And all the loyal people shall
say amen and amen. [Loud applause.] '
The following epistle was taken by Napole
on, from the public re:,ord. of Rome, when_ ho
deprived that city of so many, valuable, man
uscripts. It was written at the time and on
the spot where Jesus Christ commenced• his
ministry, by I'ublius Lentullus, the Governor
of Judea, to the Senate of .Lome—Cttsar,
Emperor. It was the custom in those days
for the Governor to write home any event of
importance which transpired while he hold
office:
Conscript Fathers.—There appeared in
these days a man named Jesus Christ,
,who
is yet living among us, and-of the Gentiles
is accepted as a prophet of great truth; but
His own deseiples call Him the Son of
• God.
He bath raised the dead, cured all manner of
diseases. Ho is a-man of stature somewhat
tall and comely, with a very ruddy counte
nance, such as the beholder may both love
and fear. Ibis hair is of the color of the fl.
bert when fully ripe, plain to His ears,
whence downward it is mere orient of color,
curling and waving about his shoulders; to
the middle of His head is a seam or partition
of loam ° hair after the manner of the Nazar
rtes. His forehead is plain and delicate.
His face without a spot or wrinkle, beautiful
with a comely red. His nose and mouth are
exactly formed; His beard is the color of his,
hair, and thick, not of any great length, but
forked. In reproving he is terrible; in ad
monishing, corteous; in speaking, very mod•
est and wise, in proportion of body, well sha•
pcd. None have seen him laug'r, but many
have seen him weep. A man, for his sur
passing beauty, excelling the children of
men"
WHAT IS A CORNSTALK?—'What is this
God, about whom you have been saying so
much?' said an uobeliver to a preacher, af
ter hearing a discourse about God.
'God is a spirit, replica the preacher.
'What is a spirit,'
asked the skeptic, fiercely.
'What is a'corubtalkr rejoined the preach,
er.
'Why—why—why—a cornstalk is a corn
stalk.' •
'Yes r sir,' said the preacher, 'a spirit is a
spirit; and if you cannot tell inc what a corn
stalk is, which you have seen a thousand
times. anci know has an existence, why do
you ask me to ta you:wht kat , Infinite Spir
lit is, or why do you doubt His existence?'
The skeptic was dumb, as all sceptics will
be when they stand to l)e judged by that
God whose name they blaspheme, end whose
word they despise.
At ite present session the Connecticut Logi&
laturo has found time to attend to the petition,
presented regularly for fifteen years, of Hen
ry M. Manasseh, who has been confined in
the State prison since ISSI, on a charge of
murdering Barney White,at Colebrook, and
has granted him pardon. The real mur
derer of White died many years ago, and on
his death-bed confessed that he had testi
fied falsely against Manasseh to save his
own neck, but for some reason Manasseh's
petition has always beforo been rejected, and
only now, when an old, broken down man,
is he permitted again to enter the world.
CALIFORNIA STYLE.- Not long since' a
German was riding along Sampson street,near
Sacramento, when he heard the whizzing of
a ball near him, and felt his hat shake. Ile
turned and saw a man with a revolver in his
hand, and took off his het and found a fresh
bullet-hole Wit,
'!Did you shoot at me?' asked the German.
'Ycs,' replied the other party; 'that's my
horse; it was stolen from me recently.'
•You must be mistaken,' said the German
have owned the horse fur due° years.'
'Weil,' said the other, 'when I come to
look at him I believe I am mistaken. Eszu , o
me, shf won't youLkc a drink?'
Xitactespeaa.cloark.t • = - 13:01}3 7- NeVvstpape r.
In 1864 we'were compelled to accept al) the
odium of conscription, the'heavy burdens of
taxation necessary for our national credit,
and to keep our flag flying in the field, the
charges of our enemies that men were being
drafted horn their . homes to free negroes,
and the denunciations against the war as a
failure; but with the simple motto of "our
country,'' under the lead of our noble Presi
dent, (would to God he was living to-day!)
we won a magni&Teut-triumpli: [Applaus - 6T
In 1866, when President- Johnson turned!
his back on the party which cleated him, tra•
versed the country making speeches, to
.be
read by millions, denouncing us—with his
whole Cabinet against us, with but one hon
ored exception: applause, and cries of •iStan-
Description of Jesus
10 !mare
crept stealthily to Osborne's door, opened it
a little way, tossed it in, and ran away as
though-Satan-were after-him. On reaching
home he retired to rest, and reposed sweetly
till morning . When he-rose he cast a glance
toward his meadow ; and to his satisfaction
discovered that every stump in his meadow
had been dug up during the night and pill
ed out b • the roots. After breakfast he
went coolly to work and rolled • them togeth
er in a pile in order to burn them. And
imagine Osborne's bitterness of heart as he
passed by on his way to the village that morn
ing,—saw Wood thus engaged, and knew
bow he had been duped by him.
` The Old Man's Dead Stranger."
A recent author tells of a Virginian tray
elinc, in Arkansas, who, on testing the whis
ky of his hosti-fnund it rather raw and un
palatable, and mixed it in the shape of a rn:nt
julep, which was a novel idea to the Arkan
elan. The latter, however, was delighted
with•the new style of drink; indulged in it
quite liberally, and learned the moth,ni of
concocting it. The mornful result is told
thus:
The Virginian continued on his journey
toward Texas, and in the due course of time'
set out to return, On_arriving at the house
before mentioned, ha concluded that be would
call and renew his acquaintance with his
friendly host. Accordingly, ho rode up to
the gate, and seeing one of the boys of the
family standing near, aqked him:
'flow is the old gentleman, your fatbet,
my son?' ,
The boy, with an air of the utmost indif
ference, replied:
'Why, the old man's dead. stranger.'
'ls it possible.? flow long since?'
'About two weeks, stranger.'
'Ah inched! Pray what was the matter
with the poor old gentleman, my son?'
'Waal. now, stranger,, I'll-tell you what it
war. Thar wer an old feller from Virginny,
he com'd along this way last summer,
and
he jist up and learns the old man to drink
greens in his licker. and you can bet your
life on it, it knocked him higher-- nor a
kite.'
Upon the Virginian's suggestion to the
boy that it might have been possible the bad
quality of whisky exercised a more Meter',
ous influence upon his father's health than,
the mint, replied:
'No, stranger, it war not the whisky, for
we've altars used liker in our family, and
though it made old mom powerful weak,
yet it never phazed old pop ary time no, as
sure as, yer born, it air the greens.'
•
-440 O.
It a surprising fact that sweet corn is not
abundantly grown among farmers. Every
farmer thinks he must raise .five or ten acres
of Indian corn every year, in order to have
something to fatten his pork, and to furnish
fodder for his stock, etc. Now, if every far
mer would grow three or five acres of sweet
ebrn,his crop would prove of much more val
ue in proportion to the number of acres than
Indian corn for feeding purposes. Last
spring I planted Rix acres of sweet corn, for
the purpose of taking it into market green.
But after the market became 'glutted,' I con
eluded to save the balance. 6f my corn, and
cure it to feed. f cut and fed .to my hogs
oorn (in the stalks) every day, and they would
eat stalks and all as clean as they would green
clover. Through the month of October and
until the last of November, I fed husked corn
I can say I never• killed so fat pork before.
They seemed to be completely filled up with
lard. 1 prefer the sweet corn stalks to any
thing else in the shape of fodder for stock,
and especially for cows giving milk there is
nothing crinal to it. The sioeles, busks and
leaves, are much more juicy and sweeter than
any other corn fodder. I would recommend
those that sow corn for fodder, to sow the
sweet corn in preference to any other.
Be careful to trace up your seed in the
fall, and then you will cot fail to have good
seed when you come to plant or sow.
It is a very sate rule to wet your wrist
before drinkiug colt] water if you are at a'
heated. The effect is immediate and grate 1
tut and the demzer of fatal results rn•ty ba
r11..2ki or by this simple preeAution.
A Stump Story
About forty years ago, there lived in Penn
sylvania two farmers named Wood• and °Os
borne, respectively. They were near neigh
hors hut. inveterate enemies, and it is said
they lived almost within-sight--of each other.
for fourteen years without speaking to each
other. Wood one day went out with a mat
tock to dig up a half a dozen stumps that
had never yet been remove?. from his mead
ow,•but finding it pretty hard work, and,
moreover, not being very fond of work, he
gave it up and returned to the house, on the
way it occurred to him that by a cunning de
vice he might induce his ualriendly neigh
bor to uproot the little annoyances. Act
in_ on a bright idea that occured to him, he
entered his house, got his writing materta s,
and in a disguised hand wrote:
MR. WOOD;—.I. am an old man, fast ap
proaching my end, I 'cannot go to my grave
without revealing to you a secret. When I
was a young mar. I helped to rob yourgrand
father of a large amount of money. I, and
my partner in crime buried $5,000 of it un.
der the roots of a tree in the meadow that
now belongs to you. No doubt those trees
have been cut down by this time, but the
stumps may still remain. He was soon at.
ter hanged fora murder he committed; and
I=watr=se t_t o_p rison_for_high_way_r_obbery.
I was but lately released; and I wish to do
all I ean to_stlon_e_for_past misdeeds. I send
this letter by a person who says he knows
where ou live and he will throw it into
your house. .
Mr. Wood sealed this 1) it of fiction. ad-
dressed it to himself an
Sweet Corn.
[From the Rural New Yorker]
Boys and girls, we have often thought do
not realize half so much enjoyment from
their sports as they might if they would on
ly keep cool. They are violent, noisy and
excited; and thus they damage the pleasures
of the hour. Boys yell, ana girls 'squeal,'
in their games, and all talk at once, so that
it is almost impossible to-hear what any one
says, to say nothing of the bad feeling which
such conduct creates. If young gentlemen
and young ladies would respect each other's
right's there would be no occasion for dis
putes.
Wo have often been amused to see a squad
of boys at marbles, for instance; nearly every
oint and movement is the occasion for a
controversy. arp worse an. .tsagreea• e
epithets following, and a fight seems to be
imminent.. Certainly there can be no 'fun in
such a game. On the other hand, observe
a party of young men at base ball or cricket,
or of ladies and gentlemen at croquet. They
use no barsk_words_amLito I . • '= II Z 11.
harmony of be o3casion. They do nit all
talk at once, and when one speaks she can be
heard. They derive real enjoyment from
the game, and we wish the boys and girls
would begin earlier to imitate their example
in this respect
Boy
s and_ irls should_havo_confidence_in
each Other, and not be so willing to believe
that their companions will cheat or 'play
foul.' Be honest and square yourself, and
you will set a good example .to others.—
Speak gently an• p easant y .. vc en you Iva
occasion to say anything, especially if your
t came
get excited over sma 1 matters: r you are
certain that any one cheats, expose it ie. a
calm and dignified manner; then your words
will have some weight,
A STAIRLESS HOUSE.- Thera is now
building in a busy quarter of Paris an exper
imental house, which, if successful—and
there seems no reason wh it should not be
so—will serve as a model 'for similar struct
ures in this and oiher great cities, where the
value of land is very high, and - the economy
of space a tnatter of vital importance. The
chief' novelty in this house is the absence of
any staircase, the place of that hitherto ne
o a ary means of access being supplied by hy
draulie elevator. ascending and descending
noiselessly every minute. By moans of this
the_lodgers will reach their respective floor,
speedily and without effort, at any given
minute of day or night Another advantage
of this arrangement is that it enables houses
to be built to a much greater height, the tip
per floors being as easily accessible as the
lower, and fur that matter preferable, on ac
count of better air, light and freedom from
intrusion or the noises of the' street. Tne
tenement house building in Paris will be e
leven stories high from the stree t level.
How NEAR 18 NEA.vEn?.-c brist fans some
times look far away to heaven, but that rest
is not far off. The clouds that hide their
shining worlds are thin, they are transient,
and soon will obscure no More; the journey
may end this hour; one short step may place
the Christian in a world of light; one dark
hour may hang upon him; but the morning
comes and no shade behind it: Day, bright,
peaceful and eternal, succeeds it. A pang
may be felt for a moment, and • then flies
away forever. A conflict, sharp and pain•
fnl, may continue for a night, but victory,
eternal victory, ensues. How soon, oh! how
soon the Christian's cares aro over, his eyes
suffused no more with tears. Near at hand
is the land of his pursuit. Hope cheers.
How glorious the object that Hope em
bracts! How holy its spirit! Who can con
template the home that our heavenly Father
is fitting for his children, and not Teel in his
soul a thirst for its enjoyments?--Well, those
delights, the happy clime,thoee ever verdant
plains, arc not far distant.
A DAY.---It has risen upon us from the
groat deep of eternity,'girt round with won
der; emerging from the womb of darkness;
a new creation of life and tight spoken into
being by the word of God. in itself one
entire and perfect sphere of space and time,
Mid and emptied of the sun. Every past
generation is represented in it, it is the flow
ering of all history, and in so much it is rich
er nod better than all other days which have
preceded it : And we have been recreated
to new opportunities., with new powers—call
ed to this utmost promontory of actual times
this centre of all coming life. And it is for
to day's -work we have been endowed; it is
for this we are pressed and surrounded with
these facilities. The stun of our entire being
is o rnecutrated here; and to day is all the
time we absolutely have.— Chapin.
A COUPIJI or lIINTS.—Those who are
fond of green corn luring the winter do not
all know that it.mey be preserved by packing
it in casks or barrels and covering it• with
brine strong enough to keep cucumbers.
The corn should be taken with the husks on.
Corn thus prepared, it kept •covered • with
brine, will keep in order for a year or more.
and will be sufficiently f resit for the table
when boiled
If you are troubled with rats, put some tar
in the entrance ,of their dwellings, bu that
they cannot get in or out. without corning in
contact with it and my word for it they will
not. trouble you long.
I have fo►tud that stumps covered with
subsoil will decay much sooner than those
left exposed.—Germantown Telegraph.
A qtaker gentleman, riding in a carriage
with a fashionable lady decked with a profu
sion of jewelry, hoard her complain of the
°old, Shivering in her lace bonnet and
shawl as as cobweb, she exclaimed:
"What shall 1 do to get warm?"
"L really cl.iu't know," replied the
. gtaker
solemnly," unit -4i thou should put et: au
other bret,t-pits,"'
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SECTIONAL OXEN IN TEXAS,-A minis
ter traveling along a Texas road met a stran
ger driving his wagon, vvhielr was pulled by
four oxen. As the minister approached he
heard the driver say:
"Ge, up, Presbyterian! Gee, Campbellite!
flaw, Baptist! What are you doing Metho
dist?"
The minister,' struck with the singularity
of such names being given to the oxen, .re
marked:
"Stranger, you have strange names for
your oxen, and I wish to know why they
have such names given to them."
The driver replied, "I call that lead ox in
front Presbyterian, because he is true blue,
and never fails; he believes •in pulling thro'
iu every tliftwult place, ,per - 11 - 10 are
venti , Y
end, and then be knows more than all the
rest. The one by his side I call Catupbellite;
he does very well when you let him go his
own way, until he sees water, and then all
the world could not keep him out of it, and
there he stands as if his journey was ended.
Il B - s 'I th
.nis off es is a real Baptist, for he is all the
time after water, and will not eat with the
others, bUt is constantly looking on one side
and then on the other, and at everything,
that comes near him. The other, which I
call Methodist, makes a great noise and a
great to do, and. you would think ho was
pu hag all creation, but be don't pull a
pOund."
DAticiNa —An flnglish lady at the Court
o ' tonna, wi sly om an niporia i c, .
c ,
ness' danced tjuse times on the same eve
ning, fl ittered by his attention, frankly ex
pressed her gratification at the comp 'meat.
'I did not intend it as a compliment,' was
the REISWOe.
'Then,' said the lidy, 'your Highness
must be very to_nd of dancing.'
detest dancing,' was the ur.satisfetory
response.
' What, then, may I oak, can be sour
Imperial Highness' motive for dancing.'
a am, Was le exa ec personage scour
reply,' my medical attendant advises ate to
perspire,/
118 who is sore pressed with temptation
need not flatter himself that by and by the
temptation will cease, and be is to - be deliv
ered from sin; for temptation will not cease;
and help must come, not from change in
outward eircurnstmoes, but from strength
given to the inner — inan. lifting the eoul above
all temptation. Thus may help come, if it
comes at all.
An Irishman called on a lady and .gentle
man, in whose employ-he-was, for the
.pur
pose of getting some tea and t , l.acco.
'l.had a drame Itst night, y hotiur,' said
be to the gentleman.
'What is it Pat?'
'Why, I thawed that yer honor made me
a present of a plug of tobacey, and her lady
ship there—Heaven bless her— gave rue
some tay for the good wife,'
'Ah, Pat, dreams go by contraries, you
know,' said the gentleman•.
'Faith, and they may that,' said Pat, 'so
her ladyship is to give th 6 tobacey and his
honor the tay.'
A tunnel under the Atlantic is to be the
nest grand project. ' The Home Journal says
that such a gigantic proposition is even now
OD foot, and that plenty of capitalists are
ready to engage in it as soon as the plans are
arranged It is said that the' most eminent
engineers. both in America and Europe, have
been consulted, and that they have drawn up
a report which is perfectly feasible, and only
requires time and money to carry out. The
capital required, it is estimated, is five hun
dred millions En , zlish ounds.
A lady took her little boy to church for
the first time. Upon hearing the organ he
was on his'feet instanter, 'Sit down,' said
the mother. 'I won't,' he shouted;, want
to see the monkey.'
One charge in a tavy_ey's ill against a z cli> \
ont wan, ^ For waking uriltr he nighr, and
thinking of your business $5 '
At Worchester, a number of lads hung
like squirrels to the sides and windows of
the car, joining in the c 331 Of" Sherman,"
•Shertnan," when the general was passing
through that city. The civilian dressed gea
eral, rising., pointed the boys to a military
gentleman in the oar dressed in‘.4kliform,
whereupon a bright eyed urchin responded,
"Can't fools u. 3 up here. We take the pa
per. We know you;" ark d, convulspd with
er general was coerced to (the plat
form.
" You say, Mrs. S.mitb, that you .have
ived with the defendant for eight years.
Dues the court understand you that you
were married to him?" "In course, it does."
"Have you a marriage certificate?" "Yes,
your honer, three or 'eni—two gals and a
boy."
A gentleman once asked,' What is woman?'
when a happy married man replied: 'She is
an essay on grace, in one volume, elegant
ly bound_ Althc ugh it may he dear, every,
man should have a copy of it.'
To plunge a young lady six f‘zthoms deep.
in happiness, give her two mtunary birds , a
half dozen moonbeams,, fifteen yarchi of silk,
an ice cream, several r.l j se buds, a rquecz of
the hand; and a proini,o of a new bonnet.
II she won't melt,, it will be because she.
When roe. clinaidate3 will salway,
be elected by "hamilsonio‘," and sometimes
by "sweeping' 1113i4lfititIS.
flopo perry the zolden way to bliss, and
cheerfulness is the lamp that tights the beatte
totals (yolk
The pr )u,10 , 4 rnm,
will stove to 0 ktet.K.u.
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