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; fOLUME III. ATHENS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 24. 1866. r -SKA* iWmm NUMBER 4 PUBLISHED WEEKLY, by JOHN H. CHRISTY, EDITOR mo F*OF*l*TO». Terms ofSnbudptlon. TWO DOLLARS perannum, if paid utrietly in ad bit. olberwiae.THREE DOLLARS will be charted Kr'ln order that the price olthe papet may nntbein iJwjvofa l»r|te circulation, Club* will be supplied • I he follewint low rate*. -^SIX COPIES for - - - -TRW for - - - $15. •3Z?0 aftlJU(«l*w rat**,the Cask mutt accompany tie order. Rates of Adrcrtlihig. Tran«i*»t advertisement* will be inserted at One ellarPFrnjoarefortbeflret.andFifiyCentipersqtiare reach •nbesquent insertion. Legal and yearly adrertieement* at the usual rates Candidates will be charged $5 for announcements, 4 obituary noticeaaxeeening •ox liuea in length will ,charged as advertiseuienl*. When the number of insertion* ianot marhedon and i»*rti«*meirt, ,** w*ll be published till forbid, and i,rj.d* ccordi " ,, J- $Mint5S anil -profEssiannl Cnrlis. C. B. LOMBARD, DENTIST, ATHENS, GEORGIA. j^sorsr the Store of *■ VmI * Jtn3 PITNER & ENGL Am), Wholesale St Retail Dealers’! n Spoccries, Dry Goods, HARD*ARK, SHOES AND BOOTS, ipril 6 Amess, Qa. DORSEY & CARTER, DEALERS IN family Groceries & Provisions. Corner of Brnvl and Jackson streets, Athens. Ga. MOORE & CARLTON, DEALERS IN SILK, FANCY AND STAPLE GOODS, HARDWARE AND CROCKERY. April No. 3, Granite Row, Athens, Ga. LUCAS & BILLUPS, ITIIOI.ESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, Ac. Ac. No. 2, DroaJ Street, Athens. BEAUTY EVERYWHERE. There is a beauty in the skes, When noonday suns are bright, It glances with ten thousand eyea Thro’ shudors of the nigit; When moon with rosy bltnh is Been To wake— there’s beauty there,— clJuls proclaim JOHN H. CHRISTY, PLAIN AND FANCY Hook anti Job Printer, •'Franklin Job Office," Athens, Ga. *• All work entrusted to his carelaithlully, correctly and punctually executed, at pricescnrrespnnd- Janld in; with thebarJneasof the times. WILLIAM N. WHITE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER, .IndXeir.papcrand Magazine Agent. DEALER IN MUSIC and MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS LAMPS, FINE CUTLERY, FANTT GOODS, *C. It*. S, College Avenue, Newton House. Athens, Ga aignof " Wliite’* University Hook Store.” Orders promptly filled at Augusta rates And evening's golden We, too, of beauty share Old ocean’s ever swelling trie, The placid lake and still* _ The rivers rolling in their i*ide, The ever sparkling rill; The mountain top, the verdant plain, The desert rude and bare, . ■ [ Attest by every varied sceue,- ’ • v That beauty dwelletb there. The opening buds of jqycus spring, Its choral hymnsgf praise, The velvet bloom oti summer’s wing, Us bright and cloudy days; The autumn pfad in russet shroud, With treasures rich and rare, Old hoary winter shouts aloud, There’s dazrling beauty here. Toei'o’- beaii'j'in the hut ball. Where sweet contcniimcu* dwells. Should science move or knowledge call, The voice of beauty swells. With childhood’s silken cords ’tis blent, With manhood’s prond career; While age mature in virtue spent, * Both heavenly beauty share. HOME. There is a spot on earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest; Where man, Creation’s tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride; While in his softeued look, benignly blend The sire, the son,the husband .father, friend, Here woman reigns; the mother, daughter, wife, Strews with fresh flowers the narrow way of life. In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel guard of loves and graces lie; Around her knees domestic duties meet. And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that laud, that spot of earth be found) Art thou a tnan, a patriot* look around ; ^Oh ! thou shalt find, where’er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home * [Montgomery. REFINEMENTS OF LANGUAGE. Among all the improvements of the Rge, none, perhaps, are more striking than those which have recently been made, and indeed are at present raak- ,n the language of .ordinary life. w ho, in these days, ever read of board ing-schools ? Nobody—They are trans formed into academies for boys, and seminaries for girls;.the higher classes are “establishments.” A coachmaker’s shop is a repository for carriages;” a Milliner’s shop, a “ depot;” a thread- seller s, an “emporium.” One buys drugs at a “medical hailwines of a “companyand shoes at a “mart.” Blacking is dispensed from an “institu tion ;” and meat from a " purveyor.” One would jtnagine that the word shop had become not only coutemptible, but had been discoverednot to belong to the English language. •low-a-days, all the shops are “ warehouses,” or “ places of business;” and you will hardly find a tradesmen having the honest hardi- "Brief Stems. hood to caii himself a shepke^er, There is now also no such word as that litTlb was prosecuted as rapidly, but as THE BROKEN LEG. A city physician was one night called up in great haste by a watchman, who informed him that he bad just picked up in the gutter a miserable drunkard, who appeareutly been run over by a passing carriage and had one leg awfully shattered, and he feared might otherwise by injured. The doc tor made quick despatch wite his toilet, and followen the agitated watchman to the watch-house, where he found a man beastly drunk, with his leg literally smashed to pieces. The slightest move ment of the poor man caused the bro ken fragments to grate together in such a way as to disturbs most sensibly, the nerves of all in the room, and~to send some of the hardy watchmen suddenly to the open air to save themselve from fainting. It was, of course, impossible to do anything with such a limb without strip ping it. But the moment an attempt was made to do this, tee drunkard in- isted that this leg was well enough, and bidding his tormentors to let him alone. This of course was out of the question; and the work of baring the shattered JAMES M. ROYAL, HARNESS MAKER; H AS removed his shop to Mitchell’s old Tavern, oue door east of Grady <& Nich- •laoii’s—where he keeps always on hand a general assortment of articles inhisline, and I laalwavsready to fillordersinthe best style Jfct 26 tf COLT & COLBERT, DEALERS IN STAPLE DRY GOODS.GROCERIES , AND HARDWARE. No. 9 Granite Row Athens, Ga. JAMES I. COLT. | WM. C. COLBERT. August 6,1855. Here, said a dandy to an Irish laborer come tell me the biggest lie you ever told in your life, and I’ll treat you to a whisky punch. An* by my soul, quickly retorted Pai, yer honor is a gentleman. “ It is a point nut of doubt with me,” said Shenstone, “ that the ladies are most properly the judges of the men’s dress, and the men that of the ladies.” It is rather hard for oue to find him self, like ihe distressed hero of a novel, left to his own resources when he has no resources left, T. BISHOP & SON, Wholesale and Retail Groce s, April 6 No. 1, Broad street, Athens. W. W. LUMPKIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Athens, Ga. W ILL Practice in all the counties of the Western Circuit. Particular attention given to collecting. 0See on Broad street, over White & Moss’ •tore. Jan 31 A pleasant wife is a rainbow in the sky, when her husband’s mind is tossed with storms and tempests. A youth without enthusiasm of some kind would be as unnatural a thing as spring-time without wild flowers. W. L. MARLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Jefferson, Jackson County, Ga. References.—Messrs. McLester a Hunter Bad W. S, Thompson. Erqs., Jefferson; D. ▼. Spence r nd w. J. Peeples, Esqs. Law- ttnceville; J. H. Newton, C. Peeples, E«n. MJ. H. Cbristv, Athens; Law & Clarke »w k|.Graham, Esqs. Gainesville- Jen 17—ly A Warm House.—“Is your bouse a warm one?” asked a person in search of a tenement. ** It ought to be—the painter gave it two coats recently,” was the reply. The man who was bent on matrimony has been straightened up. Father,” said a cobbler’s lad, as he was pegging away at an old shoe. “ they say that trout bite good now.” “Well, well,” replied the old gentle man, “ you stick to your work, and they won’t bite you.” * John is my coffee hot ?’ ‘Not yet, tnassa ; me spit in him and he no sizzle.' What animal has the greatest quanti ty of brains? The hog, of course, for he has a hogshead full. W. G. BELONY, tVTTORIVEY AT LAW, |PlLL givo liisspecial attention in collcct- ’ > ing, and to the claims of all persons en- Jjlleti to Land Wah*arts, under the late P*Wy Land Bill of the lest Congress. Office on Broad Street over the store I.M. Kenney. Msrch 15—1865—tf. 0. W. & H. R. J. LONG, - holesale and Retail Druggists, ATHENS, Ga. f SLOAN & OATMAN, DEALERS IN Italian, Egyptian it American ANJ) BAST TENNESSEE MARBLE. Monnmeats,Tom.bs.Urns and Vases; Marble ^Mantels and Furnishing Marble* All ordore promptly filled. «.» . _ ATLANTA, GA. Hoicrte Mr. Boss Crane. junel4 In Paris ladies wear daggers at their girdles. In America they wear them in their eyes. A Prophecu for 1856.—There is a popular and very ancient saying that every year that ends with ’56 is one of plenty, and this has been confirmed by a statement to the effect that this has invariably been the case,ever since 1056, in many parts of En rope. Smart old Lady.—“Grandma,” said a little urchin, “ your specks are upside down, Do you wear them thus to see to sow ?” " No my dear,” was the reply, wear them so to see.” of tailor, that is to say aiming speakers polite. “ Clothier” has been discover ed to to be more elegant, although, for our part, the term tailor is every bit as respectable. This new mode of para phrasing the language of ordinary life, however ridiculous it may in some in stances be, is not half so absurd as the newspaper fashion of using high-flown terms in speaking most extravagantly of very common-place occutrences. For instance, instead of reading that, after a ball the company did not go away till daylight, we are’told that the joyous groups continued tripping on the light fantastic toe until Sol gave them warning to depart If one of the com pany happened on his way* to tumble into a ditch, we should be informed that his foot slipped, and he was im mersed in the liquid element” A good supper is described as making the ‘'ta bles groan .with every delicacy of the season.” A crowd of briefless lawyers, unbeneficed clergymen, and half-pay officers, are enumerated as a “ host of fashion” at a watering-place, where we aiC also informed that ladies, instead of taking a dip before breakfast, “ plun g themselves fearlessly inio the o??om of Neptune.” A sheep killed by lightning is a thing unheard of; the animal may be destroy ed bj the electric fluid, but, even then, we should not be told it was dead; we should be informed that, “ the vital spark had fled forever.” If the carcass were picked up by a carpenter or shoemaker, we never should hear that a journeyman tradesman had found it; we should be told that the remains had been discov ered by an “ operative artisan.” All little girls, be their faces ever so plain, pitted or pitiable, if they appear at a public office to complain of robbery or ill-treatment, are invariably ‘‘intelligent and interesting." If they have pro ceeded very far in crime, they are called unfortunate females.” Cl ild murder iselegantly termed” irfanticideand v hen it is puuished capitally, we hear, not that the unnatural mother was hanged, but that “ the unfortunate cul* >rit underwent the last sentence of (he aw, and was launched into eternity.” No person reads iir -the newspapers that a house bad been burned down; he perhaps will find *‘ that the house fell a sacrifice to the flames.” In an account of the launch, not that the ship went off- the slips without any accident, Cut that “ she glided securely and majestically into her native element ;” the said ua- tive element being one in which the said ship never was before. To send for a surgeon, if one’s leg is broken, is out of the question; a man indeed may be “despatched for medical aid.” There are now no public singers at tavern dinners; they are the “ profes sional gentlemen;” and actors are all professors of the histrionic art.” Wid ows are scarce, they are *6 “ interest- gently, as possible by the trembling hands of the half-fainting men, CP whose ears the grating of the broken bones fell with sickening effect With much ado the pantaloons of the prior cripple THE FIELD «F CORN. BY MBS. ST. SIMON. A Peasant named Robert, said one day to his neighbor Godfrey, “ I have for many years observed thy life and conduct, and one thing appears to me particularly strange and singular. Al though thou hast often experienced great vicissitudes, and many trials and afflic tions have befallen thee and thy house, still thou art always cheerful, and thy looks bespeak content in adversity as in prosperity. Tell me how it is that thou art able to preserve such serenity of temper T’ Godfrey smiled and said, “ That I can tell thee in a few words. I am tauglit this by my own calling, and my daily occupation. I consider myself and my life as a field of corn.” At these words Robert looked at him as though he understood him not, and Godfrey proceeded/‘Behold my brother, when misfortune cometh, I think of the plough and the harrow, which break up the ground, that the weeds may be des troyed, and the seeds strike root. I seek, therefore, for the waste spots in my heart, and for the weeds that grow therein. The former must be tilled, NOTES OF A TALK WITH A FARMER. Mr. Hewlett, of Baltimore county, whose suggestions we always receive with pleasure as the result of intelligent observation in connection with highly successful practice, tells us that he is in the habit ofsowing orchard grass, timothy and clover seeds togethfr, for hay ami pasture, and never fails with these to get a good turf. He has a very high opin ion of the value of orchard grass in con nexion with clover, for hay aud for its abundant after-math. The timothy, cut with these, does not attain its full per fection,. but this is compensated in a measure by iis larger growth. -, He sows in the. foil a peck of timothy and. a bushel of orchard grass seeds, and ’ in spring another bushel of orchard grass and a peck of clover seed. This is very heavy seeding, but is thought to be just ified by the great importance of ensur ing a thorough “setting” of the ground. Mr. H. cuts his hay when about two- thirds of the clover blossoms have turned brown. He bears emphatic testimony to the statement of the President of our State Society as to the economy of corn and £ a J! -grow and flourish. Often times too, 1 regard my afflictions as a tempest, which rises dark and threatening, but which brings with it the rain that cools were retrieved j and the boot got off, and th* »>r; and then 1 think: ‘When it the discovery was made that the iimb ‘ was indeed broken to pieces,—literally smashed up! bat it was a wooden leg! The peals of laughter which followed this curious discovery shook the house, and are renewed by the parties concean- ed. every time the scene is recalled, to this day, though nearly twenty years have elapsed since the eventful night. So much for the laughable experienced of a city physician’s, lite.—Traveller. THE TIME TO CHOOSE. Mrs. Swishelm says the best time to choose a wife is early in the morning. If a young lady is at all ipclined to sulk$ and slatterness, it is just before break fast. As a general thing a weman don’t get on her temper, till ten A. M. Men never look slovenly before break fast—no indeed! Never run round vestless in their stocking feet, with dressing-gown inside out; soiled hand kerchief hanging by one corner odt of his pocket J minus dicky: minus neck tie ; pantaloon straps flying at their heels; suspenders streaming from their waistband ; chin shaved on one side, lathered on the other; last night’s coat and pants on the floor just where they hopped out of them; face snarled op in forty wrinkles, because the fire won’t burn; and because it snows ; and be. cause the office boyjhasn’t been for the keys, and because the newspaper hasn’t come; and because they smoked too many cigars by one dozen, the night before; and because there’s an omelet instead of a chicken leg for breakfast; and because they are out of shaving soap; and out of cigars and credit; and can’t any how “ get their tempers on,” till they get some money and a mint julep! An amusing colloquy camo off recent ly at (ho sapper table on board of one of our Eastern steamboats, betw. en a Boston exqu : site, reeking with hair oil and Cologne, who was “demming” the waiters, and otherwise assuming very consequential airs, and a raw ■♦Jona than, who sat by his side dressed in homespun. Taming to his “ vulgah friend, the former pointedJm jeweled finger, and said: “Butter, sah!” •“I see it is, ” coolly replied Jona than. “Butter, sah, I say 1" fiercely repeated the dandy. “I know it—very good—a first rate article,” provokingly reiterated home- spun. “Butteh. I tell you!” thundered the exquisite in still louder tones, pointing elms. nnmnviniF finoor like scorn’s. is past, the sun will shine again.’ Its this manner I consider myself and my life as a field of corn. Has the field a right to. say to the husbandman who ploughs it: * What doest thou V “ And who is the master and tiller of thy field!” asked Robert Who,” replied Godfrey, “ but He who sendeth frost and snow, and dew and rain upon oar fields! Whomso ever he loveth, he chastenetb.”—New York Organ. relicts;” and as' for nursery-maids, with slow unmoving finger like scorn they are now-a-days universally trans-1 and scowling upon his neighbor as if he formed into “ young persons who su- ( would annihilate him. perintend the junior branches of the family.” ___ Give Him All.—An Indian, Kerri •tail Fish! Fish!I o. 1 Mackere large No. 8 do' etl Halibci nuil iveil and for sale low Y.WSRO? 4 SON. I who heard u sermon in a Christian settle ment, was much moved by the claim that he should give “up all to God.” The duty pressed upon his heart; he returned to his wigwam; he meditated much upon it, and at length solemnly resolved to do what God required. First, he took his rifle, set it apart for the Lord ; then his fishing apparatus^; then his scanty furniture; then his blanket, repeating as he set apart each article, “Here Lord, take that.” Finding himself utterly destitute, having given up all, he yet felt that be was forsaken of God and was in great distress. I he darkness of despair enrae over him. In this, his last extremity, he laid himself upon the altar, saying, “ Here, Lord, take a poor Indian.” The offering was accepted; and, there, alone, bereft of human help or hope, this poor, despised savage was delivered from the power of sin and made an heir of glory. He soon learned to read, and was supplied with a Bible, which he made his daily com panion;’he was ; happy in solitude,or with Christian friends, to whom he often remarked that when be g .vc hint- “ Well, gosh-all- Jerusalem. What of it ?’ now yelled the downeaster, getting his dandriff up in turn—“Yer didn’t think I took it for lard?" That was a very fair retort of a pretty girl, annoyed by the impertinences of a conceited beau at a wedding party— “ Do you know what I was thinking of all the time during the ceremony 1" he asked. “No, sir, how should I.” “ Why, I was blessing my stars that 1 was not the bridegroom. “ And I have no doubt the bride was doing the seme thing," said the girl, and left him id think it over again. A Yankee has invented a plague which kills off all who do not pay the _ 1,- printer. It is more destructive than the l self up to the Lord the Loiu gn\e him consumption, ~ ■* all thincs.”—Ztons lleia.d- On the banks of the Niger, in Africa they have a tree called the Shea, from which excellent butter is obtained. The tree is like our oak, and the frnit some what resembles the Spanish olive. The kernel of the fruit is dried in the sun and then boiled, and the butter thus obtained is whiter, firmer, aud of richer flavor than can be obtained from the cow, besides keeping sweet a year without salt. The growth and prepara tion of this article is one of the leading articles of African industry, and con stiiutes the main article of their inland commerce. If the present supply con tinues we recommend our dealers to iin poit a supply of the vegetable butler from Africa. Or :t may be that the tree can be acclimated, and every man have a butter tree in his yard. What will then become of .cows'? “ This is really the smallest horse ever saw.” said a countryman, on view- ing-a Shetland pony. 1 j " Indade, now,” replied his Irish oom- nnuion, “ but I’ve seen- one ss small as two of him.” PUBLIC PRINTER. Among the laws passed by the last Legislature, we find, says the Southern Recorder of April 8, one requiring the State Printer to employ suitable assis tance to report the daily proceedings of both branches of the Legislature and to furnish each member, a copy, daily, of its proceedings. We know not who originated this measure or the sustainers of it. Rut of one thing we are certain. The Legis lature knew not what it did when it pass ed it,_or the Governor, when he signed it As practical printers we venture the assertion, if the law be enforced, it will make a draff upon the treasury that will make the people of Georgia stare. Very few have an adequate idea of the ex pense of reporting A competent steno grapher cannot be obtained under less than from five to ten dollars a day. One would be required for each house and several copies, &c, steam presses, &c &c. Then to give in detail all business matters and the many speeches for Bun comb, &c., would make a volume equal to v the Congressional Globe. We would like to see the Printer that would dare undertake this herculean task, with its risks, without first seeing the appropria tion bill to meet it. For ourselves, we should require stronger guarantees, than such a loose law. If i~t was the idea of the originator of the bill to have a printed copy of each Journal which is daily read by the Clerk printed and given to the members on the succeeding day, that is practicable; for then immediately on the adjournment of the Legislature, their journals would be ready for delivery, and such a law would have been as judicious as the one passed is. inexpedient and to us imprac ticable. The law ns passed requires, besides their Journals, this extra print ing from the reporters, the expense of which would triple the present appro priation fund for printing. Kidnappers Abroad.—The Calhoun (Ga.) Statesman says:—On Tuesday the 1st inst., a boy belonging to Mr. Wm. Mobley, near this place, while at work gathering wood, was accosted by two strangers, and commanded to follow them, and they would carry him to free State: He was not'so easily gulled and consequently refused to go. His life was then threatened, and forced away into the woods, where they tied and gagged him, and leff him bound telling him that there, were other negroes which they would bring there before they left. In their absence the boy effected his escape and returned to his master with his hands tied and a gag in his mouth. per cent, as compared with corn un- ground. He feeds the meal dry. Mr. H. is an earnest advocate of early seeding of wheat—sows in Sep tember without fear of fly. He has failed to make a full crop but once in a number of years, and that owing to late seeding made necessary by drought ,* that year he averaged only twenty-eight bushels to the acre. Thirty-five is his usual crop. While we of course have perfect reliance upon the accuracy of this and other statements of the sort we some times publish, we-give them to some of our brethern with a good deal of the feeling of the Irishman who wrote to his friends in the old country, that ho got meat to eat three times a week, fearing if be told them the whole truth, that he had it every day, the wouldn’t belave it. We are not disposed to stir up our friends of weak faith to “doubtful disputations,” but the truth must be told. Thirty bushels of wheat can be made with as much certainty as fifteen are now ordin arily made on the sartfe surface. Mr. Hewlett is perhaps the only far- mer'in Maryland who has for years made the cultivation of the field pea a* a fer tilizer a part of his rotation. He sows two bushels of peas per acre, on the previous year’s cornfield about the 10th of May, and plows the vines down about the 15th of August, sowing his wheat upon the pea fallow. It is this pea-fallow from which he gels the crops mentioned above. We have no doubt from the interest excited by our remarks on the subject of the field pea in previous numbers, aud from other indications, that this valuable plant is coming into favor with. Maryland far mers, and we hare such a conviction of its value that we shall not fail by every means to encourage its adoption, especially upen all light lands, and those not highly improved. An intelligent friend from the lower section of Anne Arundel county tells us that .te sowed peas last summer on his corn field when he laid his corn by, and that his wheat upon that land is now better than his clover fallow. His experience with peas for several seasons convinced him that a good crop of vines turned down is a better dressing for wheat than the usual quantity of guano, We received from our Baltimore county friend, likewise, some sugges tions on Strawberry culture. One waa DON’T STAY LONG. “Don’t stay long, husband,” said a young wife tenderly in my presence one evening as her husband was preparing, to go out.—The words themselves were: insignificant, but the look of melting fondness with which they were accom panied spoke volumes. It told all the vast depths of a woman’s love—-of her grief when the light of his smile, tlid' source of all her joy t beamed not bright^ ly upon her. “Don’t stay long, husband!” and I fancied I saw the gentle wife, sitting alone anxiously counting the moments* of her husband's- absence, every feW moments running to the door to see if he were in sight and finding that he was not. I thought I could hear her exclaim ing in, disappointed tones “not yet—nbt yet.” “Don’t slay long, husband.” And I again thought|I couldseethe yoang wife, 'rocking nervously in the great arm chair and weeping as though her heart would break, as her thoughtless “lord and rafcs* ter” prolonged his stay to a wearisome length of time. O, you that have wives to) fi : j—“Dt stay long,” when you go forth think of them kindly when you are mingling in*' ihe bn?y hive of life, and try, just a little, to make their homes and hearts happy, for they are gems too seldom-re- placed. You cannot find mid the plea**' sures of the world the peace and joy,that quiet home blessed with sncli a woman’s presencu will afford. “Don’t stay long, husband.!-’ and the joung wife’s look seemed to say—“for 1 ' here in your own sweet home, is a lov- g heart whose music is hushed whftv you are absent—here is a soft breast for you to lay your head upon, and here are pure lips unsoiled by sin, that will pay you with kisses for coming- back- soon.” An Irishman, giving his testimony in one of our courts, a few days since, in a riot case, said, “ Be jabers, the first man I saw coming at me, when I got up, was two brick hats.” A man once came to the Khojah, saying:— ’* “Effendi.I have great need of an a'ss to-day; have the kindness to lend me yours.” “I have not an ass here,” said the Khojah. At the same moment the anim al began to bray in the stable. “Ho!” said the man, “do I not hear your nss braying ?” ‘ VVhat!” exclaimed the Khojah. “would you take the word of an ass in preference to mine ?” that his experience does not sustniu the common opinion that it is necessary every two or three years to make new beds.* He has a bed now in full per fection which has been bearing frnit for eight years.—American Farmer. Who Runs may Read.—A British religionsjournal states that a proposal bis been on foot for posting placards all over London, containing passages from the Bible, printed in the largest charac ters. Each placard to contain only one verse, and sometimes only one sentence; and to be renewed as frequently as the funds obtained will permit. A society is to be organized for carrying out this idea. ■ , This is a literal realization of what Solomon prefigured in the first chapter of his proverbs; “Wisdom crieth with out; she uttereth her voice in the streets; she crieth in the chief place of concourse: in the opening of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words.” A loafer got hold of a groen persim mon, which, before they are ripened by the froit, are said to be the most bitter and puckery fruit known. He took the persimmon outside the garden wall, and commenced upon it by seizing a generous monthfnl of the frail which appeared to be in a state to frizzle i his lips and tongue most provokingly. “How do you like it.? ’-enquired the owner of the garden, who had been watching him. The saliva was oozing from the corn ers of the fellow’s mouth, and he was able only to reply. “flow do I look, naber ? Ami wisliu' or tingin'" --;V C ■* A young man being cured of a mar tial predilection by being in a skirmish, it was said of him that he had an itch for military distinction, but the smell ofsuf- ' phur cured it. The Bor with the Bad IIat.— Soon after I was settled in the ministry,, was appointed a member of the School* Committee of the place. In my frequent* visits to one of the schools, I took notice of a boy whose clothing was very coarse,* and showed many patches, but still was - clean and neat throughout. His habits were remarkably quiet and orderly, and 1 his maimers very correct. His disposi tion was evidently generous and kind, and his temper mild and cheerful, as he mingled with his school mates nt play* or joined their company on the road. When I last saw him in New En; Find, .he was on his way to school. Ills ap pearance still bespoke the condition tf his poor and widowed mother; and his lint was but a poor protection against .ithersunor rain. But, as I passed him, he lifted it with an easy but respect*-' ful action, a pleasant smile, and a eheer-' ful “good morning,’’Jwhich.ttnconscious- ly to himself, made the noble boy’ it* Perfect model of genuine good manners, fils bow, his smile, and his words, nil came straight from his true kind ifeart. i When I last saw him, thirty'years,•' had'passed, and I was on a visit to the? WtSt. Theb*y bad becirae a dlstiiT- flushed lawyer and statesman. But his how, and his smile, and hi* kind greeting, .were just the same as those of the hare^-' foot boy with the poor hat. A Pointed Inquiry.*—“Couldn>V you get young pork, ma’am,to bake with' your beans ?tl said old Roger, somewhat cynically, as he sat at the table ona „ Sunday. “They told me it was'young,” said' the landlady. . . “Well, it may be so, but gray hair is ’ •t a juvenile feature,.by any means, iu our latitude, ma’am,” continued’ he, fishing up a hair about a foot and a half long, with his fork:, “He may b&vtf been young, but he must have led a’ very wicked life to be gray so soon.” : V As he spoke he looked along the table, • and a slight emotion was visible among the boarders, and the man who was op posite with his mouth foil of edibles, with which he had been < ndeavoring ta' smother a laugh grew dark with the? effort, and then collapsed, scattering dismay and crumbs amid the' nicely' pTaiterf'foIds of Old 'Roger's shirt- hills A wise man will stay for a convenb-ht season, and will lend a little, 'hither*'' than be torn by the roots. When once infidelity can persuade* men that they die like beasts, they will' be brought to live Uk# bea>ts utioJ- Heaven and immortality are tlu.-mc.-t- for profitable discus-ion, but, . unfortu nately,. many persons think move of new dresses and late fashions than they duf of their future destiny/* . Whatever children hear read or spok ed of in terms of approbation, will givo a strong bias to their minds. Ilcnce' (be necessity of guarding' conversation, in families, as_well as .excludii g books' and companions that have a tendency to-' vitiate the heart. . wit- in a EJP’Dqring the examination of a nissasto the locality of the stairs house, the counsel asked him— .*■'Which way the stairs run ?’ The witness, who, by they way, is s» rioted wag, replied— ‘One way they run up stairs, but tho other way they run down stairs.’ The learned counsel winked loth eyes, and then took a look at the ceil*