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BY S. B. GRAFTON.
SANDERSYILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1852.
VOL. VI—NO;
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POETRY.
[for THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.]
FARB-WEiL.
How sweet thy face, how bright thine eves.
When first I gazed on thee,
My heart how sad, it heaved with sighs,
If e’er by chance they turned on me.
Thv voice is sweet, thy form ,s fair,
With rosy cheeks and silken hair;
Those sparkling eyes with fringes deep
The depth of purest love would speak.
Farewell C , fare thee well,
Indeed I’ve loved thee long too well.
Ah, why forget the tender vow ?
The vow you made to be,
Or why coil back with proud disdain,
That neck of spotless snow from me.
Too much for me, thou hast forgot,
The promise made ’neath yon oak tree,
That we should live in a lovely cot
Where strays the lone sweet Oconee.
Farewell C fare thee well,
Indeed I’ve loved thee long too well.
As shines the moon on the hoary oak,
Where oft our love and fears we spoke,
I look for the star that I likened to thee,
But it vanished, alas ! like thou from me,
As nestle the leaves to the sighing breeze,
I kneel where we pray’d with words like these
«We ask for a lowly, an humble lot
That we both may live in a lovely cot-”
Pa cwell C , fare thee well,
Indeed I’ve loved thee long too well.
J. L. H.
A Song for the I.adies.
The glorious day is dawning, girls,
When women shall be free;
When gowns and bonnets, capes & shawls,
No longer we shall see !
Miss Webber, bless her heart, sweet girls!
Has putj$l& scheme on foot;
She leads iptrump of male attire,
Ad we must follow suit.
We’ll dress in real “bifucate,” girls,
With glossy beaver hats,
And don the most bewitching coats,
And Brummel tied cravats;
We’ll wear superb gilt buttons, girls,
Upon our vests of buff,
Bright extra, rich, plain, treble gilt,
Flat surface !—that’s enough!
Oh! won’t we iook bewitching, girls,
When we’re so trimly drest ?
Nor mortal man can brave our charms,
Though he may strive his best,
Be-whiskered folks may envy, girls,
Our many garbs and airs;
But let them fret until they tire—
- Poor fellows ! no one cares.
Perhaps a few may “cut” us, girls,
And lay us ou the shelves ;
But what of that ? .we’ll crook our arms
And act the Beaux ourselves!
And if they wont say marry, girls,
We’ll call them no gallants ?
But.come what will—float, sink or swim;
We’ll never yield our pants.
POLITICAL.
A REMARKABLE PROPHESY.
We notice in a speech delivered, by the
Hon. Wm. H. Seward, in the U. S. Senate
in favor of an appropriation for the Collins’
Line'of Steamers, the following remarkable
prophesy, by Mr. Burke, then a member of
the British Parliament. It is so singularly
accurate that we extract it.
Such predictions, made some 75 or 80
years since, do seem incredible to those of
us who have witnessed their fulfillment, but
they are vouched for by this speaker, and
we have no deubt of the correctness of the
extract.
Mr. S. is speaking of the necessity of
maintaining this line of steamers, and if
they are abandoned, it must be for the fol-
If this enterprise must be abandoned, it
must be for one of two reasons namely :
either because— »
1. It was erroneously conceived ; or be
cause, 2. It has been rendered unnecessary,
unwise, or^ impracticable, by subseyuent e-
vents and circumstances.
1. Was it erroneously conceived ? To
determine this question, we need to aseena
some high eminence of time, from which
we can look back along the past, and pierce
as far as allowed to human vision, through
the clouds and darkness that rest upon the
future. Come, then, Senators, and sup
pose that you stand with me in the galler
ies of St. Stephen’s Chappel, on a day so
long gone by as the 22d of March, 1775.
A mighty debate has been going on here
in this august Legislature of the British
Empire. Insurrection against commercial
restriction has broken out in the distant
American colonies; a seditious assembly
in Philadelphia has organized it; and a
brave, patient, unimpassioned, and not un-
trier, soldier of Virginia, lies, with hastily-
gathered and irregular levies, on the
heights of Dorchester, waiting the coming
out of the British army from Boston. The
question whether Great Britain shall strike
or concede and conciliate, has just been de
bated and decided. Concession has been
denied. A silence, brief but intense, is bro
ken by the often fierce and violent, but now
measured and solemn, utterance of Burke :
“My counsel has been rejected. You have
determined to trample upon and extin
guish a people who have, in the course of a
single life, added to England as much as
she had acquired by a progressive increase
of improvement, brought on, by varieties of
civilizing conquests and civilizing settle
ments, in a series of seventeen hundred
years. A vision has passed before my eyes;
the spirit of prophecy is upon me. Listen,
now, to a revelation of the consequences
which shall follow your maddened decision
Hencefo rth there shall be division, separ
ation and eternal conflict in alternating war
and peace between you aud the child you
have oppressed, which has inherited all
your indomitable love of liberty and ail
your insatiable passion for power. Though
still in the gristle, and not yet hardened in
to the bone of manhood, America will with
in the short period of sixteen months, cast
off your domition and defy your utmost
persecution. Perfecting the institutions
you have not yet suffered to ripen, she will
establish a republic, the first confederate
representative commonwealth, which shall
in time become the admiration and envy of
the world. France, the hereditary rival
whom, only twenty years ago, with the aid
of your own colonies, you despoiled of her
North American possessions, though they
had been strentheued by the genius of Rich
elieu, will take sweet revenge in aiding the
emancipation of those very colonies, and
thus dismembering your empire. You will
strike her in vain with one hand, while
you stretch forth the other to reduce your
colonies* with equal discomfiture. And
you, even you, most infatuated yet most
Joyal Prince, will within eight years sign a
treaty of peace with the royal Bourbon, and
of independence with republican America !
With fraud, corruption, fire and sword, you
will compensate England with conquests in
the East, and within half a century they
will surround the world, and the British
flag shall wave over provinces covering five
millions of square miles, and containing one-
sixth of the inhabitants of the globe. Nor
shall you lose your retaliation upon your
ancient enemy; for she, in the mean time,
imbibing and intoxicated by the spirit of
revolution in her American affiliation shall
overthrow all authority, human and divine,
and exhausting herself by twenty-five
years of carnage and disolation throughout
continental Europe, shall at last succumb
to your victorious arms, and relapse, after
ineffectual struggles, into the embraces of
an inglorious military despotism. Yet
and fleet packet-ships, departing and arri
ving with exact punctuality; but the Am
ericans quickly, borrowing the device, and
improving on your skill, will reconquer
their commerce. You will then rouse all
the enterprise of your merchants, and all
the spirit of your Government, and wrest
ing the new and mighty power of steam
from the hands of your inveterate rival,
will apply it to ocean navigation, and lay
ing hold of the commercial and social cor
respoudence between the two continents, in
creasing as the nations rise to higher civili
zation and come into more close and inti
mate relations, as the basis of postal reve
nue, you will thus restore your lost monop
oly on the Atlantic, and enjoy it unmoles
ted through a period of ten years. During
that season of triumph, you will mature
and perfect all the arrangements for exten
ding this mighty device of power and reve
nue, so as to connect every island of the
seas and every part of every continent, jyith
your capital. But just at that moment
your emulous rival will appear with steam
ships still more capacious, buoyant, and
fleet, than your] own, in your harbors, and
at once subverting your atlantic monopoly,
will give earnest of her vigorous renewal of
the endless contest for supremacy of all the
seas. When you think her expelled from*
the ocean, her flag will be seen in your ports
covering her charities contributed to relieve
your population, stricken by famine; and
while you stand hesitating whether to de
clare between republicanism and absolute
power in continental Europe, her ambassa
dors will be seen waiting on every battle
field to salute the triumphs of liberty ; and
when that cause shall be overthrown, the
same constant flag shall be seen even in the
Straits of the Dardanelles, receiving with
ovations due to conquerors the temporarily
overthrown champions of freedom. Look
towards Africa, there you see American col
onies lifting her up from her long night of
barbarism into the broad light of liberty
and civilization. Look to the East you see
American missionaries bringing the people
of the Sandwich Islands into the family of
nations, and American armament peaceful
ly seeking yet firmly demanding the rights
of humanity in Japan. Look to the Equa
tor, there are American engineers opening
passages by canals and railroads across the
isthmus which divides the two oceans.
And last of all, look Northward, and you
behold American sailors penetrating the
continent of ice in search of your own dar
ing and lost navigators.”
MISCELLANEO US.
notwithstanding all these unsurpassed con
quests and triumphs, shall you enjoy no
certain or complete dominion. For on the
other hand, wild beasts and savage men
and uncouth manners shall all disappear
on the American continent; and thefthree
millions whom you now despise, gathering
to themselves increase from every European
Tiie Great Methodist Church
Case, North vs. South.
The arguments in this important case for
several days past has been tried before the
U. S. Court in Columbus, Ohio, closed on
Friday last, and the decision of the Court
has been reserved until the October term
Mr. Corwin, Judge LaDe, Mr. Ewing, Mr.
Stansbury, aud J udge Brien of Tennessee,
were engaged in the case. A great num
ber of the leading members of the Metho
dist Church were aiso there.
The testimony was very voluminous.
The following are the points which were re
lied upon by the complainants in behalf of
the Church south;
“1. Prior to 1844, the Methodist Epis
copal Church in the United States was one
church in organization as well as doctrine.
“2. At the present time there is no such
Church, de facto, as to unity of organization
as existed in 1844.
“3. This dissolution, as to the unity of
organization, not only exists de facto but de
jure, by a valid division of the original
body into two parts, authorized by compe
tent authority iu the plan of 1844.
“4. The Book Concern is a charitable
! fund the capital being devoted to the spread
of religious books, and the piofits to sup
port of travelling preachers and their fami
lies.
“5. This fund founded by travelling
preachers never belonged to the church in
absolute right, but was simply intrusted to
its management.
“6. Before the^di vision beneficiares of this
fund were scattered over the territory, and
were legally entitled to its dividends.
“7. The lawful division of the church did
not destroy this charity, or affect the right
A Villainous Affair.
The following extract from a gentleman
in Laurens county, will show bow negroes
are enticed away frpm their masters, and
taught viliany, by white men residing a-
mong us. We think such men should be
exposed:—Federal Union.
Dear Sir: I am pained to inform you that
it is unnecessary to continue the advertise
ment of my man Bob any longer. He made
his way to Oglethorpe bv the direction of
one of my good neighbors, to a friend of his
to get a pass to Ohio, but the gentleman
there to whom he was sent, suspected him
of being runaway and took him up. The
boy pretended to want to see a man on the
opposite side of the river, and in crossing
over he jumped out of the flat and drown
ed himself in shallow water. He had some
papers in his pocket that showed him to be
from my neighborhood. I went to see him
aud found him to be my boy. The scar on
his neck I spoke of was made by himself
about three months ago ,in attempting to
cut his throat. The crime for which I in
tended to flog him was, for stealing money
from my drawer, to the amount of §120.
He was a smart negro a very fine smith,
has been raised in the family, and was put
up to act the rascal by one or two unprin
cipled scoundrels, and sent to Oglethorpe,
according to his own statement, by one of
my neighbors to get a pass to Ohio. If such
men were in the Penitentiary it would be
better for black and white, for their influ
ence among negroes is corrupting and dan
gerous.
Stroke of the Sun.—Tersons whose avo
cations necessarily expose them to the sun
cannot be too carefu$ of themselves. It is
very evident that all men cannot carry um
brellas, and perhaps there may be some val
ue in a suggestion which has been commu
nicated to the editor of the Alexander (Va.)
Gazette’ The writer says ;—“In conversa
tion with the lady of one of our Commo
dores who has lately been stationed at Pen
sacola, where the officers and men were
much exposed to the heat of a tropical sun,
she told me that they adopted a very sim
ple mode of protection by wearing high
crown hats in the inside cf which they
placed a quantity of raw wet cotton, which
completely warded off the intense heat. At
this season, when we hear daily of deaths
caused by coup-de soleil—would it not be
well to recommend our omnibus drivers,
and all mechanics and laborers, who are so
much exposed, to try the experiment ?”
nation
lseives increase giu cvciv , * «• . , - e
and island, will, within seventy-five I of beneficiares, but only required a change of
years, spread themselves over
field and
forest, prairie and mountain, until, in your
way to your provinces in the Bahamas,
they shall meet you on the shores of the
Gulf of Mexico, and on your return from
the Eastern Indies they will salute you from
the Eastern coast of the Pacific ocean. In
the meantime with genius developed by
the influence of freedom, and with vigor
called forth and disciplined in the subjuga
tion of the forest and trained afid perfected
in the mysteries of ship-building and navi
gation, by the hardy exercise of the whale
fisheries under either pole, they will, in all j
European conflicts, with keen sagacity, as
sume the relation of neutrals, and thus
the prize of Atlantic commerce dropped in
to their hands by fierce belligerents. In
the midst of your studies and experiments
iu hydraulics, steam, and electricity, they
will seize the unpracticed and even incom
plete inventions, and cover their rivers with
steamboats, and connect and bind together
management.
“8. After the division, each church be
came the proper manager of so much of the
funds as belonged to the beneficiary within
its jurisdiction.
“9. The number of traveling preachers
in 1844 is the proper basis upon which to
make a division of this fund.
“10. That the refusal of the Northern
Church to agree to an amicable division of
this fund makes a case for a Court of Equi
ty.
“11. The division of the Church was not
a constitutional act, the beneficiaries of the
Church South have not, therefore, forfeited
their right to this charity.
“12. The bill presents the proper parties
and a proper cause for the interference of
this court, and it can order to the due ad
ministration of this charity, whether the di
vision was constitutional or not.”
“Cry Here.”—A minister of the gospel,
not a thousand miles from Cincinnati, who
is remarkable for. shedding tears in the pa
thetic part of his discurses, accepted an invi-
tiop to occupy the pulpit of a neighboring
pastor on a given Sabbath. As he was on
bis way to fill the appointment, with the
sermon in his pocket, all neatly written out
for the occasion, by some accident he lost
his document ou the highway. A person
passing shortly after found the document,
and of course took it home to peruse.—Ou
reading it, he found on several of the pages
these words, enclosed in brackets [cry here.']
The artificial and artistic character of our
modern sermons has often been the subject
cf criticism and censure, but this is the first
instance we have ever known of a preacher
noting in the body of a discourse (for fear
he might forget it,) when the matter of his
discourse needed to be accompanied with
tears to make it effective. A pretty good
commentary this, on the devotional preach
ing of our day.—Temperance Organ.
The Battle of tbe Bees*
A curious circumstance occurred a few
days back at Cuilleville, Eurenet Loire. A
small farmer had in a field about 25G bee
hives, containing a vast number Qf bees. He
sent a man with a cart, dravTn by five horses,
to remove some earth from the wall near
which the hives were placed. The carter
having occasion to go to the farm-house, tied
the horses to a tree. Almost immediately
after, a multitude 'of l>ees, either iiritated at
the shaking of their hives or by the removal
of the earth from their wall, or excited by
the electricity with which the atmosphere
happened to be charged, issued from their
hives, as if in obedience to a given signal,
and with great fury attacked the horses. In
an instant the poor animals were entirely
covered with bees from bead to foot; even
their nostrils were filled with them. When
tbe carter returned he found one of the hor
ses lying dead on the ground, and the oth
ers rolling about furiously. His cries at
tracted several persons; one of them attemp
ted to drive away the bees, but they attack
ed him, and he had to plunge into the pond,
and even to‘place his head under the wa
ter for a few seconds, in order to escape from
then/. The cure of Guilleville also attemp
ted to approach the horses, but he, too, was
put to flight by the enraged insects. At
length, two fire-engines were sent for, and
by pumping on the bees, a great number
were killed on the horses or put to flight.
The horses, however, were so much injur
ed, that they died in an hour. Tbe value
of the bees destroyed was"15.00f., and of the
horses 2500f. A few days before, bees from
the same hives killed 17 goslings.—Galig-,
nani's Messenger.
Settling a Surgeon.—The following dia
logue takes place betwixt Micky Free and
his master, O’Malley, where the latter first
returned to consciousness after weeks of fe
ver, brought on by a wound in the arm.
“By the rock of Cashel, he’s cured! he’s
cured! the fever’s over! Oh, Master darling!
and you ain’t mad afther all.”
“Mad! no faith; but I shrewdly suspect
you must be.”
“Oh, devil a taste! but spake to me, hon
ey—spake to me, acushly.”
“Where am I? whose house is this? What
do you mean by that disguise—that beard
“Whisht, I’ll tell you all, av you have
patience; but are you cured? tell me that first;
sure they were going to cut the arm off you,
till you got out of bed, and with your pis
tols sent them'flying, one out of the window,
and the other down stairs; and I bate the
little chap with the saw myself till he
couldn't know himself in the glass."
Five Parties in. the Fkld.-—A Washing
ton letter in the New York Times says:--
There are now five ; parties in the field—-
tbe Whig, Democratic,.:Native, Free-Soi!
and abolition parties, are each maturing
their organization, or have already com
pleted it. It is not probable that Mr. Web
ster will accept the Native nomination, but
if lie decline it, another will be made, and
a considerable number of votes may be at
tracted to that ticket. There will, be a se
cession of the Abolitionists from the Free
Soilers, proper. Gerrit Smith, Fred Doug
lass, or Lloyd Garrison, will receive the
nomination of the former. Senator Chase
will be nominated by the Pittsburg Con
vention, and will poll about 100,000 votes,
chiefly Democratic. Mr. Hall has declined
out of personal regard for Gen. Pierce.
A Temperance Anecdote.—Old Mrs. N.
was a very useful and excellent lady, who
had done the village of B——a vast service
in the way of washing, Ac. Many of the
young sparks of the village owed to their
dickies and shirt-collars, as they came from
her tub, much of their success in love affairs.
At the close of a day’s hard service* the la
dy of the house—good hearted woman!—
mixed up a cup of warm toddy for her wash
woman. The latter took a hearty swallow,
and then turned up her nose in evident die-
gust.
“Poor dear woman!” exclaimed the lady;
“you don’t like rum, do you? Well, I hope
you Will excuse me—I didn’t know you was
a temperance woman—most washerwomen
ain’t.”
“Don’t like rum!” ejaculated mother N.;
“I don’t like to drink a well of hot water to
get a thimbleful of it!”
my
A Short Story, but a True One.—A
short time after the California fever broke
out, a young gentleman of this city, of res
pectable connections, started for the laud of
golden promise. Some two years elapsed
after his departure, and nothing was heard
of him. At the expiration of that time he
suddenly returned with a “pocket full of
rocks,” receiving the congratulations of his
friends. A few wee'ks spent here, and he
again left very mysteriously—not even in
timating to his friends his intentions. His
conduct, and other circumstances, excited
suspicion in the minds of many; but the
matter had almost been forgotten, when the
arrival of two brothers from Mississippi—
charging him with robbery and a murder of
a brother—was announced. Our story is
short. The brothers followed him to Cana
da; thence through the Eastern States, and
finally to Texas—where he was arrested,
condemned and hung by an infuriated party.
—Dayton City Item.
A Wife in Trouble.—“Pray tell me,
dear, what is the cause of those tears?”
“Ob, what a disgrace!”
“What disgrace?”
“Why, I have opened one of your letters,
supposing it was addressed to myself. Cer
tainly it looks more like Mrs. than Mr.”
“Is that, all? What harm can there be
in a wife’s opening her husband’s letters?”
“No harm in itself. Contents! Such a
disgrace!”
“What! has any one dared to write me a
letter unfit to be read by my wife?”
“Oh, no. It is couched in the most chaste
language. But the contents.”
Here the wife buried her face in her
handkerchief and commenced sobbing aloud
when the husband eagerly caught up the
letter aud commenced reading the epistle
that had been the means of nearly breaking
the wife’s heart. It was a bill from sprin
ter for nine years' subscription.
£3T Mr. Clay had a favorite dog which
followed his master from his home in Ken
tucky, to Washington. After the deafh of
the lamented patriot, his faithful canine
friend kept close to his body. On Friday,
by some accident, the poor dog was left be
hind, chained up at the American Hotel in
Philadelphia. Daring the night be was
very fretful and uneasy. With the instinct
of his race he seemed conscious that the
body of his beloved master had departed
without him. Some of the friends of the
departed statesman should forward the faith
ful dog to his home.—Albany Register.
The master when alive did not so forget
his faithful dog.
Insensibility to Daily Mercies.—As tbe
Dead Sea drinks in the River Jordan and is
never the sweeter, and the ocean all other
rivers and is never the fresher, so we are
apt to receive daily mercies fiom God arid
still remain insensible of them—unthankful
for them. God’s mercies to us-are like the
dew on the ground; our thanks to Him, like
tbe dew on the fleece. We are greedy to
get mercy, tenacious to hold it, but unthank
ful in the acknowledging or right using of it.
The rain comes down from Heaven in show
ers; it goes up but in mists.—Bishop Rey
nolds.
Few Method of Cooking u Raw Ones."-
“Catch a young gentleman and lady in the
usual way. Let the gentleman be raw, and
the young lady tender. Set the gentleman
at the dinner table, put iu a good quantity
of wine, and while he is soaking, stick in a
word or two, now and then, about Miss
this will help to make him boil.
A poor emaciated Irishman having called
-thca- a physician in a forlorn hope. the . latter
nals, railroads, P and telegraphs. When a spread a large mustard plastered unme-
long interval of peace shall have come, your j diately clapped in on the poor fellow’s lean
long interval 01 Py.. „ „ oof w jh breast. Pat, who, with a tearful eye, looked
allying
trade, by substituting capacious, buoyant, a dale of mustard for so little mate.
The Infallible Cure—Wife—“O! Doctor
if you could only cure my poor dear Augus
tus, I should be so thankful! Two or three
times a <week he is attacked with three hor
rible vertigoes, accompanied by weakness of
the knees, and a slight wandering of the
mind, indicated by calling his poor dear pa
pa—a jolly old brick."
Patient—“Don’t suppose, old Ipicac, that
Pm drunk; a little bricky, that’s ail.
Doctor—“These peculiar cases of vertigo
are very prevalent, ma’am, and very obsti
nate, and a change of climate is the only
remedy; I therefore recommend a remo
val to the slate of Maine, where the salub
rity of the atmosphere will at onee eradicate
the disease.
Gov. Cobb's Financial Talents^—The
Savannah Georgian, on the authority of a
Union Whig, says that Gov. Cobb is the
greatest financier now living; that he dis
posed of the Georgia Bonds at five per cent
premium, and sold the Whig party at par.
—Macon Telegraph. * '
When getting red in the gills, take him in
the drawing room, set him by the lady, and
sup them both with green tea; then set
them at the piano and blow the flame till
the lady sings; when you hear the gentle
roan sigh, it is time to take them off, as they
are warm enough. Put them by them
selves in a corner of the room, or on the
sofa, and there let them simmpr together
the rest of the evening. Repeat this three
or four times, taking care to place them
side by side at the dinner table, and they
will be ready for marriage whenever you
want them. After marriage, great care
must be taken, as they are ap*t to tnrn sour!”
A New York letter in the Philadelphia
Ledger says:
Decidedly the quickest railroad time ever
made in this part of the country was that
accomplished by a train on the Hudson
River. Road on Wednesday. Running
time from the depot, Thirty-Second street,
to Albany, two hours and fifty-eight min
utes—160 miles.
Samuel Weller Married.—It seems that
the paternal injunction of the elder Weller
to ‘Samivel to beware of the vidders,’ has
not been heeded by the latter. The follow
ing marriage notice occurs in a California
paper:
In Sacramento, on the 5th of May, Sam’l
B. Weller to M. E. Lathrop, widow of Capt.
A Lathrop, U. S. A.—-both of Coloma.
A good lotion for weak eyes is said to be
twenty drops of laudanum and five drops
of brandy,a wine-glass of water, appli
ed three timesa day, as warm as the eyes
can bear it.
A young man, who was a great talker,
was sent by his parents to Socrates to learn
oratory. On being presented to Socrates,
the lad spoke so incessantly that he was
out of all patience. JFhen the bargain came
to be struck, Socrates asked .him double
price.
“Why charge me double?” said the young
fellow. .
“Because,” s^d the orator, “I must teach
you two sciences; the one to hold your
tonge‘ aod^the other how to speak.”
W.
New York hatter gave away it is
said, on Monday last 20,000 palm leaf fans
worth some $500. Each fan however, had
announcements of his business pasted oh
it. A novel and ingenious method of ad
vertising certainly, but not half as efficacious
as through the only legitimate channel for
such purposes viz:—the columns of a well
conducted and consequently widely circn
lated newspaper. For far less than $500
his advertisements might have reached sev
eral millions of persons, had he pursued
the latter course.
A Worthless Millionaire.—One of these
devotees to Mammon once received a lessor
from an humble follower, who did not seem
to pay to him, the possessor of the purse,
sufficient homage. He said, “Do you know,
sir, that I am worth a hundred thousand
pounds?” “Yes,” said the irritated, but not
broken spirited respondent, “I. do; and : I
know that it is all you are worth?
Worth Knowing.—-Parch half a pint of
rice until it is brown ; then boil it as rice is
usually done. Eat slowly, and it will-stop
tbe most alarming cases ot Diarrhoea.
[A friend informs us that this remedy
has been tried successfully.] -
fcsT Poetry permits her votaries to in
dulge in many metaphorical ideas, but the
latestest one .we have met is positively the
most original. Hear—
With eyes of fire, majestically he. rose,
And spoke divinely thro’ his double barreled
nose.
A Minister at a camp meeting said
—“If the lady with the blue hat, red hair
and cross eyes, don’t stop talking, she will
be pointed out to the congregation.”
Why is » motherless lamb
est creature in the world? Because
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