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XTAN Z V S .
RY ROBERT EMM ETT HOOE.
|| My !tf« is like tlio scattered wreck,
H Cast by the waves upon the shore ;
|I Tho broken mas s, the rifted deck,
[ Tell of the shipwreck that is o'er :
11 Vel from tho reties of the storm,
I The mariner his raft will form.
I MA;miu to tempt the faithless sea—
I A But hope rebuilds no bark for tnc.
|9,1y life i* like tho blighted oak,
t'flial lifts its soar and withered form ;
citlw'J by the lightning's hidden stroko
Sternly to meet the hidden storm ••
i t round that shapeless trunk will twine,
p j Tim curling tendrils of the vine,
rind iife and freshness there imparl, —
_ Xot so ilie Tutssior..biighicu heart.
|1
■■llv life >s like, n desert rock,
H \u tho mid ocean, alone and drear ,
■taWnrii hy the wild waves’ ceaseless slicek,
Tiip.t round ita base their surges rear j
■Bl >t, there the sea moss still will cling
■B Pome flower will find a cleft to spring,
I »V"1 brent ho e’en there a rich perfume —
KM V , me life's (lowers no more will bloom.
-Match Mistaken for a Du
lei..— I lie civilians and military of Blarney
•"««liuor) livaliug each other in pigeon
■wii'iuing. '['he military claimed the paint,
■MtLLiiasted of their superior steady fire.
HBTk physician, resolving to take tins
Btiitt* out of the red coats, challenged one
captains to a pigeon-match. 'I he
was ncceptod, and the doctor
to inform his brother-in law of
■ Meeting him in the count
: lie said, in presence of one of
1 tilts, ‘ Captain has accepted
i Come and see how 1 1!
1 Goodbye, I can’t stay any
* The clerk, whose imagination
Bar ted all tho bloody deeds of a dual,
16 Br •.'! off to a magistrate, and made the
m depositions respecting the san
e Mry intentions of" the captain and and c
*’ A constable, in colored clothes was
-r
'* armed with a warrant, and ands
t» ‘ tins cl cor’s rosidenco to arrest
xo MB.' !"•' reaching there, the servant
[in , ’ 1 diat ht>r master was out, but
Sl>J n return Wlu >n the m ister j
lily the servant informed him t tit
«■ lp mau had called, and was rrm-t
tor to see him. ‘Dear mo. that’s
|C *’ luishatid,’replied hemau
jj H tt::d no idea that I should he wan
tkrt and, so saying he harried out
uvD ' U3o,am ' commenced running to
ttistnV indent’s residence, when the
® wM'u, s J7' n = '“in, and supposing that
I s " tul, f n ; ’ ;i d”g his escape, gavo chase,
icifJ tioyjp . '"j captured him escorted his
ls . n ' c . ofv re , f l ? station-house, and thence
'S' ' ' vh ° la,1 S ,,c ' l heartily.
fc ct j[ ' doctor, the constables and
ncn"* ta! fl, ’ " : ° n tho denouncement of the
lp eri * ibicld.c Uaa ® x plaittod, tho mistake into
td tjj, Pacific disposition of the clerk
,!ji it-~ d'nt one Mr. Henry Broken
pt. ? r,led i( ' Baltimore, a Miss Bank.
I o,lc more bank now broken !
THE SOUTHERN MUSEUM.
VOLUME IE
Ths ilniileu es l!»e Moon.
A CHIFPEWAY LEGEND,
Thcfollowing legend was obtained from
the lips of a Chippetvay woman, named
Penaqua, or the Female Pheasant, and I
hardly know which to admire most—the
simple beauly of the plot, or the graphic
and unique manner of the narrative, of
which, 1 regret to say, l can hardly give a
faithful translation :
Among the rivers of the North, none
can boast of more numerous charms than
the St. Louis; and the fairest spot of the
earth which it waters, is that where now
stands the trading post of Fund du Lac.
Upon this spot, many summers ago, here
lived a Chippoway chief and his wife,
who were tho paten sos an only daughter.
Her name was Weesh—Ko-da-e-mire, or
the Sweet Strawberry—and she was ac
lutuwh-deed to he the m>>st beautiful mai
den of her nation. Her voice was like
that of the tuitle-d ve, and the red deer
was not more graceful in its form.—Tho
young men of every nation had s riven to
win her heart, hut she smiled upon none.
Curious presents were sent to her from
the four quarters of the world, hut she re
ceived them not. Seldom did she deign
to reply to the many warriors who entered
her father's lodge; and when she did, it
was only to assure in m lha : , w hile upon
earth, she would never change her enndi
tion. Her strange conduct astonished
them, but did not subdue their affection.
Many and noble were the deeds they per
formed, not only in winning the white
plumes of the eag’e, hut in hunting the
elk and the black hear. Hut all their ex
ploi's availed them nothing, for the heart
of the beautiful girl was still untouched.
The snows of winter were all gone, and
the pleasant winds of spring were blow
ing over the land. The time for making
sugar had arrived, though the men had not
yet returned from the remote hunting
grounds, and in the maple forests bright
fires were burning, and the fragrance of
the sweet sap filled all the air. Tho ring
ing laugh of childho and and the mature
song of women were heard in the valley;
hut in no part of the wilderness could be
found, more happiness than on the hanks
of the St. Louis. But tho Sweet Straw
berry mingled with the young men and
maidens of her tribe in a thoughtful mood,
and with and wncast eyes. Site was evident
ly bowed down with some mysterious
grief, but she neglec ed not her duties; p.nj
though she spent much of her time a’.one,
her buchere-hucket was as frequently filled
with the juice as any of her companions.
Such was the condition of aJTajrt-s when
a party of young warriors fi.,m the far
North came upon a fr die to tile St. Louis
river. Having seen thy many handsome
maidens of this region, *«’oe strangers be
came enamoured of their charms, and
each one succeedcx! in obtaining the love
of a maiden, who was to become his bride
during the marrying season of summer.
'i’lte warriors had heard of the Sweet
Strawberry, 'out, neglected by all of them,
she was still doomed to remain alone. She
wit nested the happiness of her old play
mate.-;, and, wondering at her own strange
feMv, spent much of her time in solitude.
She even became so unhappy and bewil
dered tl.a she heeded not the tender words
of her mother, and from that time the
music of her voice was nevei heard.
Thu sugar-making season was now ra
pidly passing away, hit the brow of the
Sweet Strawberry was still overshadowed
with grief. Everything was done to re
store her to her wonted cheerfulness, but
she remained unchanged. Wild ducks in
innumerable numbers arrived with every
southern wind, and settled upon the sur
rounding waters, and proceeded to build
their nests in pairs, and tho Indian maiden
s ghed over her mysterious doom. On
one occasion she espied a cluster of early
spring flowers peering above the dry
leaves of ihe forest, and, strange to say,
even these were separated into pairs, and
seemed to be wooing each other in love
' All icings whispered t > her of love, the
j happiness <>f her companions, the birds of
! the air, and the flowers. She looked into
her heart, and, inwardly praying for a com
panion whom she might love, the Master
of Life took pity upon her lot and answer
ed her prayer.
It was now the twilight hour, and in he
maple woods tho Indian hoys were watch
ii.g t oir fires, and tho women were bring
ing in the sap from the surrounding trees.
The time for making sugar was almost
gone, and the well-filled mokueks, which
might be seen in all the vigwams, testified
that tho yield had been abundant. Tin*
hearts of tho old women heat in thankful
, ness, and tho young men and maidens
were already beginning to anticipate the
pleasures of wedded life and those associ
ated with the sweet summer time. But
tho brow of the Sweet Strawberry con
tinued to droop, and her friends looked
upon tier as tho victim of a settled melan
clioly. Her duties, however, were per
formed without a murmur, and so contin
ued to he performed until the trees re
fused to fill her buchero-bucket with sap,
when she stole away from tho sugar camp
and wandered to a retired place to tnuse
upon her sorrows. Her unaccountable
grief was very hitter, but did not long en
dure, for, ns slio stood gazing upon the
sky, tho moon ns ended above the hills
and filled her soul with a joy she had never
felt before. The 1 tiger she looked upon
the brilliant object, the more dcei ly in
love did gho become with its celestial
MACON, (#A..) SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1849.
charms, and she bur t forth into a song—a
, loud, wild, and joyous song. Her musical
voice echoed through the woods, and her
friends hastened to ascertain tho cause.
They gathered around her in crowds, hut
she heeded them not. They wondered at
the wildness of her words, ar.d the airy
like appearance of her form. They were
spell hound by the scene before them, hut
their astonishment knew no limits when
they saw her gradually ascend from the
earth into the air, where she di-appeared,
as if borne upward by the evening wind
And then it was that they discovered her
c a sped in the embraces of the moon, for
they knew that the spots which they saw
w ithin the circle of that planet were those
of her robe, which she had made from the
skins of die spotted fawn.
Many summer* ha\ -» pns'c-? awry Mftre
the Sweet Strawberry became the Maiden
of he Moon, yet among all the people of
her nation is she remembered for her beau
ty and the mystery of her being.
Self-made Mf.n. —■ If you are to he an
exception, ’ said \lr. Crabhe to his young
friend, ’you will be the first in all my ob
servation and xperience. You may take
tho whole population of Ms yland, and
se e t from it fifty men who are the most
distinguished for talentsorany description
of public usefulness, am! 1 will answer for
it, they aro all, every one of them, men
wh > began the world without a dollar.
Look into the public councils of the na
tion, and who are they that take the lead
there? -They are men who made their
own fortune—self made men, who
with nothing. The rule is universal. It
pervades our Courts, State and Federal,
flora the highest to the lowest. Ilistruo
of al! professions, it is so tiow; it has
been s > at any time since l have known
the public men of the State uv Hie nation ;
and it will be so while our present i list it u -
tions continue. \oo must throw a man
upon his own resources to bring him out.
1 lie struggle which is to result in eminence
is too arduous, nn.d must be continued too
long, to be encountered and maintained
voluntarily, or unless as a matter of life
nml death. Ho who has fortune to fall
hack Upon will soon slacken from his es
h'rto, anil finally retire from the compett
tt«m. With me it is a question whether it
is desirable that a parent should lenvo his
sou any property all. You will have a
1 argo fortune, and I am sorry for it, as it
will be the snoiling of good lawyer. These
are my deliberate sentiments, and l shall
be rejoiced to find, in your instance, 1
shall he mistaken.’
Hard to Please. —-One of our Pearl
i street exquisites recently went up to Ips
i wich on a collecting expedition, says a
j Boston paper, and hearing the dinner bell
ting at one o’clock in Mie hotel where lie
put up. said to the landlord:
‘ Why, ith that deenah l ’Tis too hor
wid early, pon honor! I neevah dwine
so early m the Twcmont city.’
• Ye don’t, then,’ was Boniface’s reply.
* Waal, we sets u second table later here,
for the help.’
The young gentleman palled up his
shirt collar, staved in, and sat down at the
tuble, looking daggers.
Ax 000 Prescription. —An apotheca
ry’s boy was lately sent to leave at one
house a box of pills, and at another six
live fowls. Confused on the way, lie left
the pills whet o the fowls should have gone,
and the fowls at the pill place. The folks
who received the fowls were astonished
at reading the accompanying direc ions—
’Swallow one every two hours.’
The Verdant Groomsman. —On no
| occasion do people seem more prone to
J commit blunders and plunge themselves
into embarrassing predicaments than at
! weddings. Tho following actually oc
j eurred in a neighboring town. In the
: midst of a crowd of witnesses, the c orgy
! man had just c mulcted that important
ceremony which hinds in the silver bonds
o’ wed ock, two willing hearts, and stretch
ed forth his hands to implore the blessings
of lie < ven on the union At this point, the
groomsman, seeing the open hands reached
out, supposed it was the signal for him to
surrender the wedding fee which was
burning in his pocket. Accordingly, just
as the clergyman c used his eyes in prayer,
lie felt tho pressure of two sweaty half
dollars on his open palms. The good man
hesitated a moment, a pulled at the ludic
rousness of his situation, bu at as! coolly
deposit, and the money in Ids picket, and
pro ceded with his devnti. ns
An h recruit was asked by his
officer, what is your height I’ to which
I’at replied. The man that measures told
me it was five sot en or ten foot five ;
I’m not exactly sure which—but it wus
oitherono or the other.’
A Bad Loo t. —“ s that the piisoner !”
said one spectator to another, during a tri
al for manslaughter.
‘•Yes,’ was the reply.
•Ah ! indeed ! What a dreadful bad look
he lias, especially about the eyes! Hut
who is that respectable looking young man
at his side in the green vest V
•In the green vest ? Why that is the
prisoner himself. The other man is his
lawyer.’
‘Well, now I do begin to see that the
fellow in the green vest"don’t 1 ok so res
portable after nil. Indeed, be has just the
uir of an old offender.’
A Sucker’s Visit to the Theatre.
‘Well, I’ve been thar, Jim,’said a sucker
: to his cr ny.
•Wbar,down to Sent Louis? inquired
Jim.
‘Well, no whar else,’ was the answer,
j ‘And Ive seed some on the hardest things
you’d ever lieerd on in the hull animal
I creation.’
‘What wur they like/’ inquired Jim.
‘Oh all sorts of Joins, mixed up sorter
every way ; hut the thing that just tuck me
straight warseein’ a Jlyin' woman / After
tbe 11 a!-boat wur hitched, 1 sot to lookin
round, and pooty soon 1 seed, on big, boss
bills, stuck again houses, that a feller
named Dan Sons, war goin’ to cut up some
of the tallest kind of shindy’s 1 war nat’
rally hound c > find out what it war like, so
1 a xot i a feller, read in’ it and ho laughed—
lie said it war ony the tke-ater. bays I,
“that ar a show, aint it ?’ and said he,'it
ar ; but it aint no circus show, nur a ani
mal show, nur a slight-o hand show, nuth
er, but all sorts of a handsom show, held
in a place big as our country seat couft,
house.’ Ijestmadoup my mind I’d go
ten cents straight. 1 round out vvbnrthey
kept it, and up 1 goes ; but they told me
.he 1 ivvest notch war aeon! quarter. That
staggered mu, hut i giu it. ‘Root or die,
wlie i you’re in fur it,’ sez I ; so up I goes
the alfirctdcst lot of stubs— 1 thought artev
a spell I’d come out s urnewhar near the
moon, but, by travellin’ awhile, I got up
whar a lot of folks wur. It looked to me
like a meetin’-h -use, with three galleries,
and lit up like all out of-dours, in day-light.
A t t of fellers fiddled away a spell by thur
selves, but cubs mo if l could see whar
that feller, D»n Sous, wur; and jest as 1
wur, goin’ to ask a chap whar the show
wur, up rolled the hull side of the houso,
right before me, and out slid a gal on her
tiptoes, whirlin about,like as if she could'nt
keep down to the yearth—The way she
handled her yitis jest sot roe rearin’—it
beat Mary Sellers all hollow,and aint slow.
1 asked u feller next to me who she wur,
and I’ll swar if he didn't say it wur ‘l)in
soos !’ —which instead < f bein’ a man's
name, wur French for a dancin’ woman.
1 didn’t notice »i furs', but arter a spell 1
see tho reason sic couldn’t keep fiom jum
pin’— it made ny har kind o’ rise—she
wur not only a angel-lookin’ creature;
but, Jim—you kin beleive is or not, hoss
fly—l’ll declar she had wings !
‘Here,’ says Jim, ‘you kin jest take my
hat,’
‘l know'd no body would believe me,’
said the Sucker ; 1 jest know’d it ; but I’ll
swar I seed her take hold on the tip of a
wing, spread it out, and fly, jest like a
bird, clean across the hull side of the house.
A feller wur chasin’ her, but ho couldn’t
shine. She shuck her toe at him and slid
right out of sight.’
‘Thar,’ says Jim,‘that'll do; —I know’d
you could do pooty well at lyin’, but that
last effort kin take ihe cakes 1’
‘I aint goin’ to tell it any more, but I’ll
swar I seed it.’
‘Seed thunder !’ Bhoutes Jim. ‘You seed
what tho doctor’s call n'ofactery collusion !'
Ennui. —Nine-tenths of the miseries
and vices <>f mankind proceed from indo
lence and idleness. Persons who have
naturally active minds, —whose ‘quick
thoughts like lightning are alive,’ —are
most perniciously effected l>y ihe evils of
sloth. The favored sons ofgenius, en
dowed with great original powers, weie
not made for repose ; indolence will quick
ly ’fi euzo ihe genial current of the soul,’
and if left idle long they perish from inac
tion, like a scimitar cot roded and destroy
ed by rust. But the active occupation of
our faculties is a safeguard against three
great evils, vice, penury, and desponding
gloom. Says Colton, ‘Ennui has made
m >re gamblers than avarice, more drunk
ards than thiist, and more suicides than
despair.’ If we would ho both useful and
happy, we must keep ourselves industri
ously and virtuously employed. Old
Dutnbiedikes was wise in charging his son
to ‘be aye sticking in a tree when he had
naething else to do.’ Count do Cayius, a
French nobleman, being horn to woa’th
and princely idleness, turned his attention
to engraving and mademany fine copies of
antique gems. (>uo of tho nobility deman
ded from him a reason for his procedure,
and wav told by tho industiious Count,‘i j
engrave, that I tnaynot hang my self.’
Taking i r Coolv. —A gentleman resi
ding Wi a village not many miles from Ex
eter. in this Stale, finding that the diminu
tion of his woodpile continued after his
fires were out, lay awake one night in or
der to obtain, if possih'e, some clow to the
mystery. At an h ur when “all honest
folks should ho in bed,” hearing an opera
tor at work in the yard, he cautiously
raised his chamber window, and saw a la
zv brothot endeavoring to get a large log
on his wheelbarrow.
“You'r a pretty fellow,” said the owner,
"In come here and steal my wood while
l sleep.”
“Yes replied tho thief, ” and I suppose
you would stay tip there and see mo break
my hack before you’d offer to comedown
and help me.”
* »r~ r* Esteem is the mother of love, but
the daughter i* often < filer than the moth
er.
A man thatstudieth revenge, keeps
bis own wounds green, which would other
wise heal tind do well.
A Prodigy < f Prof anenkss.—A mong
the outre characters of Ayr, fifty years
ago, there was none so remarkable as
an oldish little m in, who was ordinarily
called The Devil Almighty. Ho had ac
quired this terrific subriquet from an in
j voterate habit of swearing, or rather from
| that phrase being his favorite oath. He
iwas n > ordinary swearer, no mincer of
dreadful words, no clipper of the king’s
curses. Being a man of vehement pass
ions, he had a habit, when provoked, of
' shutting his eyes and launching headlong
j into a torrent of blasphemy, such as might,
if properly divided, have set up a whole
troop of modern swearers. The custom
of shutting his eyes seems to have been
adopted by him as a sort of su!vo to his con
science. He ficonicd to think that provi
ded ho did not ‘sin with his eyes open,' he
did not sin at all; or it was, peihaps, noth
ing but a habir. Whatever might be tho
cause or purpose of the practice, it was
once made the means of playing off upon
him a most admirable hoax. Being one
evening in a tavern along with two neigh
boring county gentlemen, he was, accor
ding to a concerted scheme, played upon
anii irritated ; of course, ho soon shut his
eyes, and commenced his usual tirade of j
execration and blasphemy. As soon as ho 1
was fairly afloat, and his eyes were obser
ved tp he hard shut, his companions put
out the candles so as to involve the room
in utter darkness. In the course of a quarter j
of at) hour, which was the common dura- j
tion of his paroxyms, he ceased to speak, j
and opened his eyes, when, what was his
amazement, to find himself in the dark.
‘How now ?’ lie cried, with ono of his most
tremendous oaths, 'urn 1 blind ?’
‘Blind !’ exclaimed one of the company,
whasshould make you blind ?'
‘Why I can see nothing,’ answered the j
sinner. *
‘That is your own fault,’ coolly observed
his friend ; ‘for my part I can see well
enough,; and ho drank a toast, as if noth
ing whatever had hapened.
This convinced the blasphemer that he
had lost his sight; and to add to his horror,
it struck him that Providence had inflic
ted the blow as a punishment for his intol
erable wickedness. Under this impres
sion he began to rave and cry,and he final
ly fell a praying, uttering such expressions
as made his two copanions ready to burst
with restrained laughter. When they
thought they had punished him sufficiently,
and began to fear that his mind might be
affected if they continued the joke any
longer, one of them went to the door,
and admited the light. He was of
course, overwhelmed with shame at the
exhibition lie had been compelled to make,
which had such an effect that from that
time forward, he entirely abandoned his
abominable habit.
A Help to Energy. —To-day I found
myself compelled to do something which
was very disagreeable to me, and which I
had long deferred : 1 was obliged to re
sort to my ‘grand expedient’ in order to
conquer my aversion. Yiw will laugh
when l tell you what this is ; hut I find it
a powerful aid in great things as well as
small. The truth is, there are few men
who are not sometimes capricious, and vet
uftoner vacillating. Finding that lam
not better than others in this respect, I in
vented a remedy of tny own, a sort of nr
tijical resolution, respecting things which
are difficult of performance—a means of
securing that firmness in myself which 1
might otherwise want, and which man is
generally obliged to sustain by some ex
ternal prop. My device, then, is this:—l
give my word of honour most solemnly to
myself to do, or to leave undone, this or
that. I am of course exceedingly cau
tious and discreet in the use of this ex
pedient, and exercise great deliberation
before I resolve upon it; hut when once
it is done, even if l afterwards think I have
been precipitate or mistaken, 1 hold, it to
be perfectly irrevocable, whatever incon
veniences I foresee likely to result. And
I feel great satisfaction and tranquility in
being subject to such an immutable law.
If 1 were capable of breaking in after
such mature consideration, I should lose
all respect for myself; and what man of
sense would not prefer death to such an
alternative 1 — Tout of a German Prince.
A Beautiful Figure. — Life is beauti
fully compared to a fountain fed by a thou
sand streams that perish if ono he dried.
It is a silver cord twisted with a thousand
springs that part asunder if one be broken.
Frail and thoughtless moi tale are surroun
ded by innumerable dangers which make
it much more strange that they escape so
long, than that they almost a’l perish sud
dontly ot last. \Yo are encompasod
with accidents every day to crush the
mouldering tenement that wo inhabit.
The seeds of desaese are planted in our
constitutions by nature. The earth and
the a'mosphere whence we draw tho breth
of life are impregnated with death, health
is ma le to operate its own destruction!
The food that nourishes contains the ele
ments of decay; the soul that animates it by
vivify tig fire intends to wear it out by its
own action ; death lurks in ambush along
our p iths. Notwithstanding this is tho
truth so palpably confirmed by the dai'y
examples before our eyes, how little do
we lay it to heart. Wo see our fiiends
and neighbors perishing among us, but
how seldom and es it occur to our thoughts
that our knell shall perhaps give the next
fruitless warning to t+re wocVi !
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING,
JVi/l he executed in the m/jst approved style
and on the Lest terms,at the Office of the
SCTJTSSSIUT MTJSETnC
—BY—
WM. B. HARRISON.
NUMBER 4.
Farming off Jokf.s. —There are father
Jess jokes as well as deserted children—
the parents of both being, we presume,
ashamed of their offspring. As there is
no Foundling Hospital f«.r jokes, a word
ofadvico tnay not be deemed out of place,to
' those who aro in the habit of abandoning
I their little ones to the mercy oftho world.
Jokes may be very well left at doors of
i the following gentlemen : Sheridan, Rov
erend Sidney Smith, Dr. Johnson, Dean
Swift and the Reverend Rowland Hill.
Care mu3t be taken that a proper selec
tion is rnude, or the track will be di.scov-
I ered, and the perpetrator nabbed but as
a forlorn hope, send them to Ireland ;
you may father any thing on Ireland, from
a good joke down to a had potato. Ire
land, rich in itself, is compelled to have a
sort of “Union” poor-house, open for the
reception of wreched whimsicalities, mis
erable mishaps, and questionable jokes,
for these are fanned upon poor Ireland
every day in the year, and almost every
hour in the day.
An Innkeeper's Regret, —Joseph IT,
when Emperor of Germany, traveling in
disguise, stopped *>t at! inn isi the Nether
lands, where, it being Fair time, and the
house crowded, he readily slept in an out
house, after a slender repast of bacon and
eggs, for which nud his bed ho paid the
charge of about 3s. 6d. sterling. A few
hours after, some of his Majesty's suite
coming up,the landlord appeared very un
easy at not having known the rank of his
guest. 'Shaw, man,’ said one of tho at
tendants, ‘Joseph is accustomed to such
adventures, and will think nothing of it.’
‘Very likely” replied mine host, 'butlcati
never forgive myself for having an Em
peror in my house and letting him ofl'fo*
three and six pence.’
Very Good. —So you are going out to
East Hitigies, iny darlint Mrs. Marooney?’
said un old Irish crone to a young wife of
a soldier about to embark for Madras,"l’v
been in them parts, meself, well do l re--
member the went through.niglit
and day with the muskatoes. They have
lnngsukers bunging down from their heads,
and they’ll draw the life's blood out of ye
before ye can say peas.” This terrifyng
account lived in the memory of the young
woman; the vessel made Madras roads, the
decks were soon crowded; ull hands deligt
ed at the sight of land Mrs. Marooney a
mong the rest; hut her joy was bf short
duration; for, on the shore she precieved
an elephant. Horror-stricken al the sight
and in breathless agitation, she approach
ed the mote, exclaiming, with uplifted
hands,"Holy mother, is that a muskatoe?”
Fops. —l doubt not that a fop is as ne
cessary a part of the human family as a
philosopher. He may not he useful to as
many, but he is apt to be agreeable to
more ; and who pleases, is quite as dear
as ho who serves us. Nobody quarrels
with the jay, because you cannot devour
him with '.he same satisfaction which a
partrigo gives on the table ; and the silly
tomtit, if not so venerable a bird as the
owl, is less destructive (« the chickens - I
I suppose that fops and dandies hear just
Ith e same relation to the human family as
jays, parrots, and such like, to the feather
ed tribes. Wits and mimics, and satirists,
maybe likened to mucking birds; states
men and philosophers to owls and other
birds that see by night; politicians to bats
and night hawks; and warriors to vul
tures, to eagles and other voracious feed
ers, carrying great beaks and always sharp
ened talons.
Circumstances alter Cases.—“ Is
Mr Bluster within!”
“No, lie is out of town," replied the ser
vant.
“Can I see him!”
“Idontknow. Have you >ny special
business with him!”
“Yes, there is a small bill which I wish
to settle.”
“ Well,” said tho servant, “ I don’t
dnow whether he will return this week
or not.”
“But I wish to pay the bill, as l am go
ing toleave town immediately.”
“Oh, you wish to pay him some money 1 ?
He is up stairs, Tin thinking. I will call
him. Take u seat sir. Mr. Bluster will
be with you in a moment.
ICT ‘ Mister, I say, I don't suppose you
don't know of nobody what don’t want to
kiio nobody to do nothing, don’t you !
The answer was, ‘Yes, I don't know cf
nobody—do you V
{CT’A beautiful Oriental proverb rune
thus;—'With timo and patience the mul
berry leaf becomes satin.” How encour
aging is this lesson to the impatient snd
desponding ! And what difficulty is there
that man should quail at, when a worm
can accomplish so much from the leaf the
mulberry.
IC*" Will you buy James’s lattV said
a vender of small trash to a gentleman in
a railroad car, the other day, price only
25 cents. “Yes,” said the gentleman,“if I
could be satisfied that it was positively
his last I would give three times that price.*
Duties and Events.— Duties are ours
events are God’s. This removes an infi
nite burden from tho shoulders of the mis
erable tempted, dying creature. On thi*
consideration only can he securely lay
1 Jowti his head am! clove bis eye..