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The following exquisite lines are from the
New York Knickerbocker. They are replete
with the most beautiful philosophy, and breathe
the very soul of melody :
A PSLAM OF LIFE.
“Life that shall send
A challenge to its end.
And when itcomes, say,Welcome friend.
yvhat the heart oe the young man said to
• ■ THE PSALMIST.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream !
For the soul is dead that slumbers.
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real—life is earnest—
And the grave is not its goal :
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destin'd end or way ;
Ilut to act, that each to-morrow
Finds us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and time is fleeing.
And our hearts, though stout and brave, j
Still, like muffled drums are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle !
Bea hero in the strife !
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead !
Act—act in the glorious Present!
Heart within, and God o'er head I
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make oar lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footsteps on the sands of time.
Footsteps, that perhaps another,
Sailing o’er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwreck’d brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us tlien be up and doing.
With a heart for any' fate ;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
.13 & * C K !j L .1 Y V .
TIIE PROFESSOR OF SIGNS,
Or. tiro ways of telling o story.
11l the days ol King Janies the first, the
“Solomon” of England, the Embassador
from the Kingdom of Spain, in conversa
tion with James, spoke of the difficulties
he met with in his intercourse with stran
gers, and lamented that there were not
in the colleges Professors to tench the
language of Signs, which should be a
universal language among the people of
nil countries. His Majesty, as much giv
en to the sin of boasting as any man need
be, declared that at his college of Aber
deen there was an officer, a Professor,
who taught the language of signs. O,
said the Embassador, 1 will go and con
verse with him. But, said the King, it is
a great way olf, many hundred miles. It
it were ten thousand leagues 1 will see
him. I w ill start off to-morrow. Saving
which, he bowed" and left the King.
James, finding in w hat a dilemma lie had
placed himself, immediately wrote to the
heads of the college, stating what he had
done, and ordering them to prepare im
mediately for the Embassador’s visit, and
to get off' as well as they could. The pro
i lessors were bothered at first to guess
| what to do; but the King’s command they
dared not disobey at last they thought of
one Geordy, a droll fellow living in the
town, who had hut one eye, whom they
believed would bring them off if any one
could. Geordy was accordingly procur
ed, and was duly tutored, tvigged and
gowned to prepare for the Empassador.
In due time the Embassador arriving
made known bis business, and was usher
ed with due ceremony into the room where
i Geordy was, the professors remaining
trembling in an adjoining one.
The Embassador, after a brief conver
sation with Geordy, returned to the room
j where the college officers were, and de
clared himself highly gratified with his
intercourse with the Professor of Signs.
They wished him to give particulars.
“When I entered the room, I held uponr
finger, signifying there is one God. He
replied by holding up two, meaning that
there were two, the Father and the Son.
I held up thrrr, signifying the Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit. He answered by
j clenching It is hand, signifying that the
three were one.” (For the Embassador
was a “good Catholic,” and of course
believed in the sublime mystery.) “I
then took from my pocket an orange, sig
mtying that God was good in giving us
the luxuries of life. He answered by hold
ing up a piece of bread, signifying that
God gives not only the luxuries, hut the
■necessaries of life.” The Embassador
! then left the place, and Gcordy was called
in to give his.’version of what took place.
, “The rascal,” said he, “dont you think
the first provoking thing he did was to
| hold up one finger, as much as to say you
have got but one rye. I held up two fin
-1 gers to let him know that I thought my
one eye as good as his two. lie then
held up three fingers, to say there were
j hut three between us. I clenched my
! first, shook it in his face, and had a mind
to knock him down, and would have done
iit hut for displeasing your worships,
i Well, then, to provoke me still further,
he held up an orange as much as to say,
| ‘see here—your poor, beggarly, cold coun
try can t produce the like of this.’ I held
up a piece of barley bannock, to tell him
I didn t care a d— n for his orange so
long as I could get this. But I’m sorry
after all, I didn’t knock the rascal down,
and will do it if he provokes me again.” ,
Trust to Yourself. —“ Trust to your
self,” is a glorious principle for the indus
trious and trading classes of the commu
nity—and yet the philosophy of it is not;
perhaps understood so well as it ought to
he.
There is hardly anything more com
mon in the country than to hear men ■
spoken of who originally, or at some peri
od of their lives, were rich, but were ruin
ed by 'security, that is, hy becoming
hound to too great an extent for the en
gagements of their neighbors. This I
must arise in a great measure from nil im
perfect understanding of the question;
and it therefore seems necessary that some
thing should be said in explanation of it. I
I would be far from desiring to see men
shut up their hearts against each other, 1
and each stand, in the panoply of his own j
resolutions, determined against every |
friendly appeal whatsoever. It is possi
ble, however, to be not altogether a churl,
and yet to take care lest we he tempted ,
into an exertion of benevolence dangerous
to ourselves, while it is of little advantage'
to our friends.
Notwithstanding the many ties which
connect a man with society, he neverthe
less hears largely imprinted on his fore
head the original doom, that he must
chiefly be dependent on kis own labor for
subsistence. It is found by all men of ex
perience, that, in so far as one trust to his
own exertions solely, he will ho apt to
flourish; and m so far as lie leans, and de
pends on,others, lie will be the reverse.—
Nothing can give as good a general assur
ance of well doing as the personal activi
ty of the individual, dav by dav, exerted
for his own interest. If a man, on the
contrary, suddenly finds, in the midst of
such a career, a prospect of some patron
age which seems likely to enrich him at
once, or if hr: falls into the heritage of
some antiquated claims to property or ti-|
tie, that he thinks it necessary to prose
cute, it is ten to one that he declines from
that moment, and is finally ruined. The j
only true way to make a hnppv progress j
through this world is to goon in a dogged,
persevering pursuit of one good object, I
neither turning to the right or to the left, 1
making our business as much as possible I
our pleasure, and not permitting ourselves
to awake from our dream of [activity —not
permitting ourselves to think that ire hare
hem active —till we suddenly find our
selves at the goal of our wishes, with for-:
tune almost unconsciously within our
gra-p.—[Chambers.
Man’s Unhappiness, ns I construe,
comes of his greatness, it is because
there is an Infinite in him, which, with
all his cunning, he cannot quite bury
under the Finite. Will the whole finance
ministers and upholsterers of modern Eu
rope, in joint stock company, undertake
to make one shoe-black happy? They
cannot accomplish it above an hour or
two; for the shoe-black also has a soul
quite other than his stomach, and would
require, if you consider it, for his per
manent satisfaction and saturation, sim
ply this allotment —no more, and no less:
Cod's infinite universe allogtther to hint
self, therein to enjoy infinitely, and fill
every wish as fast as it rose. Oceans of
Ilochheimer, a throat like that of <Vi tiu
chus ! —speak not of them; to the infinite
shoe-black they are ns nothing. No soon
er is your ocean filled, than he grumbles
that it might have been of better vintage.
Try him w ith half of an universe—-of an
omnipotence; he sets to quarreling with
the proprietor of the other half, and de
clares himself the most maltreated of
men.
But the whim we have of happiness is
somewhat thus :—Bv certain valuations
and averages of otir own striking, we
come upon some sort of average terres
trial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by
nature, and of indefeasible right. It is
simple payment of our wages —of our
deserts; requires neither thanks ~nor com
plaint: only such overplus as there may
be do we account happiness; and deficit,
again, is misery. Now consider that we
have the valuation of our own deserts
ourselves, and what a fund of self-conceit
there is in each of us ! Do you wonder
.that the balance should so often dip the
wrong way, and many a blockhead cry—
“ See there, what a payment! was ever
, worthy gentlemen so used ?” I tell thee,
j blockhead, it all comes of thy vanity—of
j what tliou fanciest those same deserts of
thine to he. Fancy that tliou deserves!
to he hanged, (as is most likely,) thou
.wilt feel it happiness to be only shot;
fancy that thou deservest to be hanged
111 a hair halter, it will be a luxury to die
in hemp. Carlyle.
“Lot’s \V iff..— Mr. Colinan, in his Ag
ricultural Address last week, illustrated
the folly of modern fashionable female
Education, by an anecdote. A yopng
1 man who had fbr a long while remained
111 that useless state, designated hy “a
i half pair of scissors,” at last seriously de
termined he would procure him a wife.
He got the "refusal” of oile, who was
j beautiful and fashionably accomplished,
and took her upon trial to his home.
ISOOII learning that she knew nothing ci
ther how to darn a stocking or boil a po
tatoe or roast a hit of beef, he returned
her to her father’s house, having been
weighed in the balance and found want
ing. A suit was commenced by the good
lady, hut the husband alleged that she
was not “up to the sample,” and of course
the obligation to retain the commodity
was not binding. The jury inflicted a
fine of a few dollars, but he would have
given a fortune rather than not to he lib
erated from such an irksome engagement.
I “As well might the farmer have the orig
inal Venus de Medicis placed in his kitch
en,” said the orator, “as some of the mod
ern fashionable Women. Indeed,” con
tinued he, “it would be much better to
have Lot’s Wife standing there, for she
i might aswer one. useful purpose; she might
suit his baron!" —[Northampton Courier.
RvniF.ll I’f.usonai.. —A witness was
examined before a judge in a case of
slander, who required him to repeat the
precise words spoken. The witness hes
itated until lie rivetted the attention of
the whole court upon him, then, fixing
his eyes earnestly on the judge, he began,
. —“May it please your honor, you lie,
and steal, and get your living by steal
ing!” The face of the judge reddened,
and he immediately exclaimed, “ Turn to
the jury, sir.”
A few days ago a servant, wishing to
destroy several newly born puppies, bu
ried them alive in a hoio in a garden, and
covered them over with earth. Thirty
six hours afterwards a young- medical
student, being curious to ascertain if the
poor animals were dead, proceeded to
their exhumation, when tliev were found
alive and well, with the exception of one
which was almost dead.—“ This exam
ple,” a cotemporary observes, “ added to
the instance of the Hindoo who lived
after an interment of three weeks, and to
the numerous cases of miners who have J
been found alive alter being buried for
eight or ten days, would lead to the sup
position that some unknown agent ex
ists in the bowels of the earth capable of
prolonging the sufferings of the victims I
of precipitate interment.”
John Jacob Astor, of New York, is
said to he worth the trifle of twenty-live
millions of dollars—more than twice the
sum left bv Stephen Girard. This, tit six
per cent, would produce one million five
hundred thousand dollars a year—one
one hundred and twenty-five thousand a
month—four thousand one hundred and :
thirty-three dollars a day—one hundred
and seventy-three dollars an hour—two
dollars eighty-seven and a half cents a
minute—and nearly five cents a second !
lie will be rich by and bye. .
Tiif. Wn.n Pit; eon. Some idea may
he formed of the immense number of pig
eons which, at certain seasons, pass into
Kentucky and Indiana, from a calculation
entered into by Wilson the Ornithologist,
in regard to an immense flock which he
saw while traverseing the woods near
Shelbyville. From the time which it took
to pass the place where he was, he sup
poses the flock to have been at least two
hundred and forty miles in length! and to
have contained something 1ike230,'272,-
000 pigeons. If each bird in such a flock
consumed a pint of food each day, the
whole amount would he about seventeen
millions of bushels daily.
Interesting to Smokers. —An article has
been invented which very much enhances
the enjoyment of a cigar. It consists of
a tube with a bulb in the centre for re
ception of cotton, which absorbs all the
oil of the weed, leaving the smoker the
pure and unalloyed flavor of the cigar.
Precaution. In the ‘Memoirs of
Queen Hortcnsc,’ by Mademoiselle Co
chelct, a very characteristic anecdote is
related of a Frenchman—Parisian me
chanic. In the troublous times just be
fore the capture of Paris by the allies,
when the Grand Duke Constantine had
[TERMS *3 IN ADVANCE.
NUMBER 23.
j given out to his troops that he would
j warm them in the ashes of Paris, there
was a great desire on the part of the Par
; isians to conceal their valuables from the
expected plunderers. One mechanic, who
! was a clock-maker, caused a little isolat
|cd closet To be bricked over, into which
| he placed, among other valuables, several
clocks of most exquisite workmanship.
But in his haste he forgot to stop the
'clocks, and for a week after, they regu
larly struck the hours all together, crea
ting such a ding-dong as would have led
the plunderers at once (had there been
any) to the hidden treasures, and render
ing them far more unsafe than they would
have been in any Parisian ware-room.
I Pimento or Allspice. —Tins elegant
production grows spontaneously, but in
hilly situations near the sea, forming ex
tensive groves of most delicious fragrance.
It is purely the child of nature, and mocks
every attempt to improve its qualities.
A pimento walk is procured by no other
labor than appropriating a piece of wood
land in the neighborhood of a plantation
already existing, or in a country where
the scattered trees are found in a native
state, the woods of which being fallen,
the trees are suffered to remain on the
ground till they become rotton and perish.
In the course of twelve months after the
first season, abundance of young trees
will be found growing vigorously in all
parts of the land.—There is not in the
vegetable world a more beautiful produc
tion than young pimento. The trunk is
! smooth and glossy, free from bark, and
115 to 20 feet high; its leaves are of a
'dark green, like those of a bay tree, and
form a beautiful contrast to its white ex
uberant flowers, and the leaves .ire equal
ly exuberant with the fruit. As to its
preparations for sale, the berries are al
ways gathered green; for tbe admission
of ripened fruit would considerably di
minish the value of the commodity. They
are gathered by the hand, spread 011 a
terrance and exposed to the sun till they
become of a reddish brown, and w hen dry
arc sent to market. A single tree has
been known to yield 1 cwt of dried spice,
|or 150 pounds of raw fruit; but as good
I crops are only contingent, the value of
the commodity is not so alluring as others,
so that many plantations of pimento[are
now exchanged for sugar in the West In
dies.
“ An organist, not without some ce
lebrity in his day (Jeremiah Clark was
his name,) being hopelessly in love with
a very beautiful lady, far above his sta
tion in life, determined upon suicide, and
walked into the fields to accomplish his
purpose. Coming to a retired spot, where
there whs a convenient pond, surrounded
with equally convenient trees, he hesitat
ed which to prefer, whether to choose a
dry death, or a watery one: perhaps he
had never heard of the old riddle con
cerning /Elia Lidia Crispis, which no
(Edipus has yet solved. But that lie
might not continue like the ass between
two buddies of hay in the sophism, or
Mahomet’s coftin in the fable, he tossed
a halfpenny in the air to decide whether
lie should hang or drown himself, and
the halfpenny stuck edgeways in the dirt.
The most determined infidel would at
such a moment have felt that it was
more than accident. Clark, as rnay well
be supposed, went home again ; but the
salutary impression did not remainjjpon
his poor disordered mind, and he shot
himself soon afterwards.”
The Schoolmaster in the Factories. —Had
Lord Ashley been made acquainted with
the following fact, it might have been
of some service iu the late exposition of
the factory system. Mr. Dorsey, a lectu
rer on education, applied at oue of the
factories on Monday for permission to
see the school; after some hesitation, one
of the partners sent a boy with him to
show the place. After going up several
flights of rickety stairs he was shown into
a garret room in the rooLiri( the corner
of which sat a old
man, with about twenty pale faced chil
dren sleeping on forms around hitn. The
whole of the hooks for this school con
sisted of one tattered Tesfltnent, and
one hornbook for the less advanced scho
lars! Lying near the master was a strap,
the only use of which was U» awaken
the sleeping pupil when his turn of five
minutes’ reading came. Dpraey asked
what the expense of this school might
he, and was answered six shillings a week,
and as good as could be got for the mo
ney. “ Indeed,” said one of the part
ners, “ I pay two shillings a week out
of my own pocket toward it, which I
consider a great hardship.’’
Sorrows.—A small sorrow distracts—
a great one makes us collected, aa a be
loses its tone when slightly craoked, an*’
recovers it if the fissure iicalarged.—
Every heavy burden of sorrow seem <
like a stone hung round our neck, y-i
are they oflen only like the 6tone use !
by pearl divers, which enables them t;>
! reach their prize and to rise enriched.