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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, 14,1871.
tjp.y.s.stra>.
No. 10.
Tiie Ainrricaa Mather.
IiV CAROLINE MAYNARD.
and
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How "lad I’il be when Summer’s done end
holidays are past!
I think, sometimes, they’ll wear me out, and
drive me inad at. last.
A mother has an anxious life—perplexed and
full of care:
My love, you’re hurting baby now; you niusn’t
pull his hair.
I asked you not to w ake him up—he’s just be*
gun liis nap.
Oh; dear! he’s wide awake again! Pll take
him in my lap.
I never see a child come in but I begin to
quake;
Now go and play, and you shall have a great
big piece of cake.
I can’t—
, Ex,
t,e 1
•ii -
ii'ii the
the af-
: Which
1st. be
You wont unless I give 3 r ou two?
they'll make you sick.
Well, if I must, I s’pose I must. There! take
it, and be quick!
Here's Tommy now, wet through and through
from playing in the street.
The gardener warned him oft' the walk, but
Tommy's hard to beat;
given in a p
lay of sale.
laud, m
Yd
An
The
An
when I told hi m to come in and let alone
the hose,
s too absurd to see him put his thumb
against his no-1. 1
precious lamb! be threw a stone and broke
the old man's head.
ie it didut tiie him; he's weak, the doctor
ICELAND.
THE LAND OF FIRE AND ICE
BY PROF. WILLARD FISliE
Was there ever such
as the island of Iceland ? Geograpb
ically it belongs to the Western Con
tinent, and yet, histotically and po
litically, it is a member of ilie East
ern. It lies close under the arctic
circle, where winter prevails during
three-quarters of the year, and is
stock, Pope, and portions of Siiaks
pea re, Byron and Burns, very little
of the liteiature of other nations has
been translated into Icelandic. The
I 1 iierary story of the marvelous isl-
au anomaly j and opens gradually with the two
Eddas. The older or poetic Edda
was written down from oral tradi
tion by Stemund Sigfusson, a learn
ed priesL of the eleventh century,
who h id traveled in various coun
tries ol Europe; it is, however, at
least as old as the eighth century. It
surrounded by seas filled w.th ice consists of a series of alliterative po-
hergs; and yet boiling gpysers and | ems involving the mythology and
fountains of heated steam burst eve-j legendary lote of the North, riarrat-
ry where from its surface, whilegreat 1 mg the deeds of Odin, Thor, Tyr,
volcanoes pour down into its valleys i .md the other divinities, who, in
and upon its plains streams ol moil- j spite ol the o/erthrow of their tem-
en lava, i he nearest neighbors o!, pies and hah,loins, still influence our
;he Icelanders are the Esquimaux of j daily lives, as we tell off our Tues-
Gieenland ; yet while the Esqui- clays and Wednesdays and Tliurs-
maux are sunk to the nether level of j days and Fridays, which hear their
ignorance, the Icelanders have rais-: names. Sremund’s Edda, loo, like
ed themselves to an elevated plane the early mythological works of all
of enlightenment. And so the won- races, is filled with moral maxims
derfui island lies there, a link he- so that an ethical code might easily
a site be compiled from it. The other
meets, |
tween the two hemispheres
where the most opposite of eh
heat and cold, are constantly con-1
tending for sovereignty ; the seat of
a race of the highest civilization in!
close contact with a race of the low-j
est barbarism. Nor does this end j
in it a display m nature’s powers j How Glass Paper Weights are
under forms which -hey nowhere ■ Made—Everyone knows these p :-
else assume; the hater sees in it it ; per wcijjhtsof solid colorless glass
nation, weak in numbers, maintain
ing unchanged for almost a thousand
years,against obstacles never before
surmounted by man, its language,
its literature, and its customs.
[Cor/nil Era.
Origin of the Gama of Clioss.
Looking over an antique volume
recently, full of the quaint and
queer, we noticed this story which
we transcribe with a few slight chan
ges. It may be new and interes-
'ing to some of the many lovers ol
this popular game.
About the commencement of the
fifth century of the Christian era,
the sovereignty of a large kingdom, i of crvsial, to which the tub's soon
Edda, Known as ltie prose or young-
ei Edda, was compiled in the twelfth
century by Snorri Sturluson, and it,
also, chiefly busies itself with the do
iugs ol the gods. In it occurs that
angular episode of Thor’s visit to
the chapter of contradictions. Ey- Joiu iheim, which of late years has
ing almost beyond theiangeofi ilher neen made familiar to English read-
animal or vegetable production, the ers by more than one translation
island still yields commodities whwli Snorri Sturluson, the man to whose
localities can
a!y clothes lie s inking-
rain, mamma must
\ i ii
U-CLT-.
RITE,
T say I
"i ui
I fear
I dou
, she wants you here!
year noise!”
rude by playing with the
cut a
; gown,
hole
EVILLK. CA.
ad E
baby
broth
Oh!
c
XUS.
I liJL p 11 o 11,
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> i - i; a .-e - of the
ST OK THROAT
K\\ \ i i - composed excli
• ''A. \ Mnv.ia^iiious product
itter which
many more lavorrd
not furnish. It rivals semi-tmpi. ai
Italy in the value of its sulphur
mines, temperate Geimanv in the
I variety of its mineral waters, Scmi-
in the rain to I land and Norway in the fertility ol
its salmon fisheries, and annually
j produces, in proportion to its popu
lation. three limes the number of
horses and sheep raised in our own
Stale of New York. It exports sev
eral articles which are e.tlier found
nowhere else, or, if found, are of
h , greatly inferior quality, such as the
down of tin; eider-duck—which
j makes iis way to evciy palate and
)«".! my best, hut in the lire; mamma upon which ilie heads of all the kings
uld almost frown. j of ihe earth easily or uneasily Ii,—
rike your nurse, and bite her too, and , (| le feldspar so largely used III opli-
ck withal! your might, ^ j cal experiments, and that semi-cur
ten because she tied your shoe? riiat j fo on j zet | wood, known as surlilhrand
! ur, wliieh, as a material for the man-
jufactureof (urnilure, equals the f,i-
I mous ebony of the tropics. A land
j of glaciers, and suffei iug keenly Iron:
the chid winds that blow off ihe ic\
■ baby’s arm: I know it shores of Greenland, Iceland’s chief
| harbors are open all the year round,
icreatrs that way- when While those of the Baltic, bir to the
by- | south, are closed. A treeless coun
try, its inhabitants often burn the
costliest of woods—mahogany and
rosewood and Brazd wood—which
has b> cn borne to them from the
tropics, at no expense for freight, bv
thecuirentof the Gulf Stream. A
land where wheat will not ripen, ils
people possesses in abundance a ve-
>d
f;iu”s. one can’t
most—but what is
Hun 1 h
X 1
Why Alary’s pushed Eli-
life so
, r Ned i
ill shrie
wn the stairs!
o would bo a mother, with
: care.- ?
music.
BY C. DAY NOBLE.
She dwells by the red beating heart of things,
Hie bioods the deeps of joy and pain,
And ever seem her passionate inurinurings
Breaking thetinite chain.
To mount and eddv in the infinite,
And, full released, exultant tell
la in r divinely clear, melodious might
The sweet unutterable.
The other arts have reached
b, O o 111
Iu I’hiuias’ marble, and the glow
Of Kapha l’s Marys, in tiie grace and gloom
Of stern browed-Angelo;
In grand cathedrals domed, or forest-afsled
’Neath soaring arch and fretted spire,
All carved saints and golden pinnacled
To catch the sunset fire.
g-tahle growth, the lichen islan
(1/eu.s,
id uatnr;
the blour
tiiiliif !1(T
Color hath I
bound,
Iu frozen i
Only aeiial,
Willi pant
which, in far richer countries, is ac-
eounted a luxury. A nation almost
destitute of schools, till ot its sons
and daughters ate taught to read
and write from their earliest years.
The history and philology of the
island present features equally
sirangeand striking. It is ihe small
est of all Teutonic communities,
tiieir perfect w [,;| e jts speech is the most ancient
and, grammatically, the richest ol
all the Teutonic dialects. In it are
preserved the oldest poems, the old
est political orations, and the oldest
religious ideas of out race. It is, as
has been said, the feeblest of all
Teutonic communities, yet it was
the first to develop a republican sys
tem of government the first lo es- I
tablish trial by jury, the first lo com-!
antiquarian zeal we owe the collec
tion of the younger Edda, is one ol
the greatest characters in Icelandic
hi-tory as well as in Icelandic liler-
a'u o. Waller Scoit puis him beside
Cicero, who bore so mething of the
same relation to his time, for the
Homan lived in the last days of the
Homan republic as Snorri did in the
last days of the Icelandic republic.
Statesman, or ilor, historian, archre-
olngist, Snorri ii>11 -t long remain the
rip's! prominent figure in ihe annals
of the i.-Iuti.l. His histories of the
Kings of Norway, which Laing has
admirably translated, lorm a volu- I iht
uaiioiis work, written in a clear and J iln
w cil-.-u-t. mu'd style, and arc of great
l.'isbU’lcal value. Thev are among
the b-si of the Sagas. This word
‘‘Sag i,” literally a saying or tilling,
is applied lo all kinds of prose r ar-
r.iiive, whether it be historical, le
gendary, or entirely m\ thical. Tnere
are hundreds id Sagas, many of
lliem still unpublished. In fact, ihe
Saga ol almost every valley in Ice
land has been written, and some of j from the
these local histories are of great in
terest as well as models of good
-iyle. Such is especially the cass
with the Ey rhyggia Saga and the
Nijals Saga, of the former of which
A alter Scott has given an abstract.
In addition to the two Eddas and
ihe multitude of Sagas, the old lil-
er.iture has iis poems, mostly reli
gious, its c#des of law, its annals,
and even ils scientific treatises. The
modern literature, especially of this
century, is rich in poetry and polili-
c ,1 works.
near the mouth of the Ganges, de
volved upon a very young mon
arch.
Experience had not yet taught
him that he should consider his sub
jects as children, and their love as
the only solid prop of the stale.
It was iu vain that these important
truths were urged upon f im by the
sage bran ins and rajahs. For ex
alted with his power and grandeur,
he swayed the land with unnatural
Severity.
Sissa, tin* son ol Dahur. the rnqyt
venerable of the bramins, on whom
the splendor of philosophy and wis-j should receive no injury
easily
and In r y ung r sister Phoebe, ap
peared iu Philadelphia. In the
same year, we believe, the sisters
removed to this city, where thev
have ever since resided, esteemed
and beloved by a wide circle of
friends and acquaintances. Alice,
in 1S51, published a romantic poem
entitled “Hualco,” which was fol
lowed, the next \eir, by “Lyra, and
other Poems,” and by a new col
lection of poems in 1855. She pub
lished, under the title of “Clover-
nook,” a series of sketches of Wes
tern life arid scenery, and also four
novels, “Hagar,” “Married, not ma
ted,” “Hollywood,” and “The
Bishop’s Son.” She also publish
ed, in 1866, “Lyrics and Hymns;”
in 1S67, “The Lover’s Diary;” and,
still later, “Snow-Berries,” a book
for children. Many of her works
have been reprinted in England, and
have received a cordial welcome.
She was an occasional contributor
tiler between I to this journal, in which her iostarti-
giass thus sol- j cle, “The Great Secret,” appeared
dered together, it become necessary j in the number bearing date February
to <_>ive ibe ball its hemisplu r>- 4th, only eight days before her death,
cal form, which i* done, when the She died on the morning ol lebru-
crysial is again heated, by moans ary 12lh, alter a long and pfinlul
of a concave spatula of moistened j illness, at fifty years ot ag-'.
wood. It then only remains loan- Appleton's Journal.
neal it and to polish it on the wheel. *
That a glass ornament, being cov-
lass,
in hemispherical shape, in the cen
ter ot vvfiich are bouquets, portraits,
and even watches and barometers,
etc , etc., lint few persons know iiow
or by what means these things are
incarcerated in the center of the
giass.
The first thing to he done is to
sort and arrange a certain quantity
ot small glass tubes of different col
ors in the cavities of a thick molten
disc, disposing them according to
the object to be represented. This
done, ihe tubes are inclosed between
two layers ot glass; to do this they
begin bv placing on one side of the
disc which contains the lubes layer
become attached. When this is
done the disc is removed and a sec-
anW layer of crystal is placed on
the opposite side. The object be
ing placed in ihe
these two layers of
dom shone from Ins infancy lo his
sevi nlieih year, saw that there vir
tues in the monarch which required
only the culture of rra-on to biing
into life. Ami, afil cled at ihe
erics of fiis countiy, he undertook
to display to the monarch the cause
of them.
Bui, aware of the disrepute into
which ihe precepts ,,t rnyralitv and
virtue had fallen from the evil exam
ple held im by those who taught
them, Sissa w as b d lo ih-vi.-e a mode
of instruction w hert-hv liis lessons
should appear the icsult of ihe
princes’s own reasoning, raiher than
f another. With
ited the game of
STICK TO O.NE THING.
ered with a layer of hot glass,! “Unstable as water, thou shall not
or change excel,” is the language of the Bible,
ol color, may be eu.-ily understood j Whoever expects to succeed in any
from Us refractory nature; but is not undertaking, must enter into it with
the same with objects in metal, such i a hearty and earnest will to do his
as watches, barometers, etc,, which j hest. When a trade or profession
a far less degree ot heat would ox- I chosen, obstacles, lie they iarge
idize or even entirely destroy. The or small, must not be * 1 lowed to
mode ol manufacture, therefore, of t siancl in the way ot mastering that
these latter objects is quite ilifiereut l rii de or profession,
from that of the first, it is easy to j However much we may de,.re
prove this. cate the oldliine custom ol triden-
li we look at -i paper weight, pro- Turing apprentices, the system in its
videdthe interior be of glass the I l ,ra ' tical r *^ u, k? opnated almost al
upper and under part of the reep-
In
contrived to
mn-t important
ml yi
m >s
l tie cas
difficult,
elended
queiice
ic-
lo
a ml
be-
instruction-
view, he inv»
slunk t>! the king.
Ie this g;t ne
make the king th
of all the p;ei es I
to attack and the
defend; and oniy to he
the next iu rauJ nr eon
the game, in gradation.
This game was first spread abr
among some of ihe leading men
great fame of Si-sa,
came soon in vogue. The prince
heard of it and directed that
inventor should be his instructor.
The sage bramin now attained
his desire; and in the course ol his
instructions took suitable occasions
lo point out the dependence of trie
king on the pawns, with other sea
sonable truths. And the prince,
horn with genius and capable of
virtuous sentiments in spile of the
maxiins of courtiers, applied to him
self the morality which the gone
so strongly exhibited, and
ing his conduct, his people s
the history of the English c:,mc prosperous and happy.
Then the monarch,
lent will be also ol glass. Il wc
now examine a paper weight con
taining a watch or barometer, under
the lower pait of the bail will be
lournl a piece ol g ecu cloth, the use
ot which is to keep m place he <m-
ject w hich, instead ot only forming
one body with the covering ol glass
which surround them, are onlv pi
ced in a cavity made hefoiehand in
the center td'the half sphetical ball.
In a woid, to take out the giass
ornaments il would be necessary to
break ihe paper weight, whilst to
lake out the others il w< uld suffice
to take of ihe cloth. As for the
paper weights iu winch are placed
ways fur the laamg good of ihe ap
prentice. Gene-ally it in-uitd to
ind filled ber rainbow
H13
lands faultless Form;
Ijiitaling Sound
• life is warm.
P T iVi'S
the dil-
iVM
COUHil Hi
: ieving the dir
caun and ple^i
Adored Madonna of a million homes,
Her silver tongue links land to land;
With sudden splendorour lost Eden blooms
ltouud us if .-he command.
Our 1 if..-
And ^
lt jlis Ik
And i
consecrates with cradle song,
us wi-.ii wedding minstrelsy,
aptures o’er the -abbath throng,
-.vs ihose who die
The Icelandic throws a flood of
light upoi
language. In their early stages, so
nearly connected were the two
longues, that we can very well ima
gine an intelligent Anglo Saxon and
j an intelligent Icelander making them
selves mutually understood, wilh
j some little slowness and difficulty,
perhaps. At a later period the Ice
landic greatly influenced the English,
especially in iis northern dialects, so
that most ol the dialectic words used
by Burns were at once comprehen
sible to the student of the insular
language. Yet, notwithstanding its
importance to the English scholar,
Tth<- Icelandic has hitherto been, lo
m '
or
ef the EX
have nuiiter-
, almost iu-
ippeared al-
Cienr metal,
string,
And the bii
With fresh dt
mellow wood, and vibrant
; breath of whispering air
rice and curious fashioning
M<*;
Lit
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requires prompt action; as
■ -c, hollow cough is heard, apply
11 H is easily subdued;
:, AV IS UAiHiLUOl'S !
■T'T'ies of the EXPECTORANT
' v e. balsamic, soothing and
■o • : in-- nervous sj’stem and pro-
•oid refreshing sleep.
A KATES AND II ELI EVES
v ESS AND DEPRESSION.
qualities in a convenient
i- it has proven to be the
foil
CALLABLE lung balsam
p r , . "oln-rers from Pulmonary diseases
H- TUTf & LAND.
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i uni2 2IS | S
VlHDUtr j ei Jj-y
42 lim
About her minister.
And master fingers with inspired thrill
Make always sweeter tones to rise,
Voice our young hopes and wilh new pas
sions fill
Orchestral symphonies.
Dawn, glittering Herald of harmonious day.
Divine Interpreter of life!
Rise, Scarlet Star, and burn in balm away
Our dread and pain and strife!
Fast Traveling.—Under the
new schedules of the GuW, and Mu-
con and Western roads, which went
into operation Monday last, passen
gers now leave Atlanta and Savan
nah al six o’clock A. M-, and arrive
at either place "at ten o'clock I. M.
ofthe same day. The Cential wiH
doubtless offer the
very soon.
same facilities
pile codes of law. The colonization!
of the island furnished a parallel in ._ i , , r,
. . . . > . | to the great mass ot students of Lnfr-
tne ninth century to the colonization i- _ „ , , , , t,r, ?
.. ,, . .- T . , . Its. lineage, a sealed book. While
of INew Lng and in the seventeenth, , ■ „ , t ^ i-
55 ... , , * the philologists of Scandinavia were
its pioneers seeking its barren shmes: .. , • . . , • , ..
• ... ° . tii I making broad reputations f>v th?ir
Or the self-same reason that led the .i
„ . , . . . j mvesligtiio.is in the Ud-North-
ruritans to ifie rock-bouud coasts of
Massachusetts and Connecticut, li-
sturdy sons helped to delay the fall
ofthe Eastern Empire by enlisting
m the body-guard of the Byzantine
monarchs; look part under Hunk
ill the foundation of I fie Hussein
monarchy ; took frart under Hollo
in the establishment of I ha t Norman
dynasty which subsequently con
quered England ; set up kingdoms,
anti left traces of their speech in Ire
land and Scotland ; built churches
and towns in Greenland ; and pre
ceded Columbus, by five hundred
years, on the dreary, watery path,
which led lo the mainland of Airier-
ern domain, while the philologists of
Germany were cleverly availing
themselves of this field, the English
knew so little ol tiie harvest that was
awaiting the reaper, that the num
ber ol men in England and Ameri
ca who had ever paid any attention
lo Icelandic might almost, until with
in the last decade, have been r^t Iv
on t d upon the fingers of a single
man. But in England a nrw era
has dawned. The labors of Laing
and Dasont and Thorpe in Icelandic
lileratuie are beginning to excite in
terest m ihe Icelandic language,and
a gieut impulse has latterly been
given to the new movement by the
publication of Ihe first part of an ex
cellent Icelatidic-English lexicon,
t rough the agency of the Universi
ty ol Oxford.
But through it all, through the
scripts in the public libraries of Eu-| present days when its speech opens
rope, is at least equally great. Nor upu mine of wealth to the linguist of
is '.his literature, as is the case with j ef every Germanic tiibe, as through
many minor nationalities, and with j those past days when its writers
most colonial communities, made up j u ere ilic chroniclers ol all the m igii-
of translations, but is almost wholly i boring German nations, the venera-
composed of original works. With be Gland floats upon the gray \\a-
ihe exception ofthe Bible and a leva' | K- j rs <>! the distant northern sea, the
theological works, Homer and one I wonder ulove
No nation so small os Iceland, has
so large a literature. The number
of printed books amounts lo many
thousands, and tiie number ol im
printed wotks, preserved as manu-
eager to re
compense the biamin for the great
good derived from his ingenuity; re
quired hiin to demand what he
thought competent. The bramin
asked only a gift ofcorn, the amount
of which should he regulated by
ihe number ol houses, or squares,
on the chess-board; putting one
grain on the first house, two on the
second, tour on the third, and so on
in dnnble permutation to the sixty-
lorth house.
The apparent moderation
demand astonished the king, and he
unhesi'al ugly granted it. But when
the treasurers had calculated the
amount ol the donation, they found
to their consternation that the king’s
revenues w°re not sufficient to dis
charge it. For the corn of" sixteen
thousand th'ee hundred and eighty-
four towns, each containing o e
thousand and twenty-dour granaries,
ot one hundred and seventy-three
thou-and seven hundred and sixtv-
ivvo measures each, and each meas
ure to consist of ihirty-iwo thousand
seven hundred and sixtv-eight grains
could alone answer the demand.
The wise Sissa then took the op
portunity of pointing out to ihe
youthful pr nee how necessary it
was, especially f'*r king, to be guar
tied against ihe arts of th >.-e who
surrounded them; how much they
owed their sul jeefs, and how cau
tious they should he ol incons der-
ately bestowing their goods waste
ful I v.
One of the re.-ults ot the German
Arctic exploring expedition is the dis
covery ot immense cod-beds in the
north of Greenland. Mountains ex
ceeduig Mont Blanc in height were dis
covered, and the botanical specimens
f. und indicate that Greenland must
have been covered at one time with a
■ ich vegetation.
the : portraits usually of a yellowish col- i E'har
or, these profiles are made of relrac I nothin
lory earth and may thus bear well I wa>3 ’
a heat which only softens glass.
Manufactured successively at Venice
under the name of miitefiori, and
then iu Bohemia, these paper
weights have been carried to per
fection only by French ariists. The
sole difficulty in their manufacture
is in avoiding internal air hubbies,
which would the more deform the
is any defect would be
much more increased by the thick
ness ot the less.— Wonders of Glass
Muhin".
ielorm- , object,
oon be-
Oi.e of two sisters, who for many
years have sung pleasant strains
ol love, and beauty, and duty, has,
in the fulness of fame, but with
him a good irade . nd a w'h<>>esome
discipline that lilted turn u»r suc< e.-s
in business.
At tiie present lime, va ry many
young men undertake io acquiie a
trade and alter a bri« t iriai abandon
it. because there are unpieasa a Uu-
j w „ j ties to be perferiii 1 d and obstacles
to be oven ome. Tney eonsiuer
themselves accountable to no one
and go ami come at the bidding ot
caprice, or an unsettled, uneasy
mind. The result of this is lo send
out mio the world young men who
have ro. half learned then tnub s, of
unst b'e cnaracter, who drdt from
post, and who succeed in
’.roiling along the high -
He o-i ncholy w rc 'k^.
We woubi earnestly entreat e e-
ry young man, after he has chosen
his vocation, to stick to it; ao.i’l
leave it because hard blows are to
be struck or disagreeable work per
formed. The men who have work
ed their way up to wealth and use
fulness do noi belong to the shiftless
and unstable class, but may be reck
oned among those who took off their
coats, rolled up their sleeves, con
quered their prejudices against la
bor, and manfully bore ihe heat and
burden ofthe day.
Whether upon the old, worn-out
farm where our fathers toiled, dili
gently striving to bring back the soil
to productiveness; in the machine
years too few, passed into a land ! shop or factory, or in the thousand
v hich she believed closely border
ed this. Alice Cary is dead! Per
haps of all the poets of America
other business places that invite hon
est toil a id skill, let the motto ever
be: Perseverance and industry.
whose rank has not been quite of the j The baby training ol the nurseiy was
highest, Alice Cary has enjoyed the good in its place, but il won’t answer
largest appreciation and ihe widest | all the demands of an active life.
This is not a baby world. We
must expect lo be jostled and knock
ed about in stern conflict, and get
run over, if we are not on the look-
sweetened, they have refined, they I out and prepared to meet the duties
() f || )e I fame. Tier poems have been, in
the best sense of a term now be
come common, household words.
They have cheered, they have
have touched with quirt and subtile
power, the hearts of thousand liv
ing in humble cottages, in the oo-
seure by-w. ys of life. She proba
bly came nearer to ihe sentiments
and sympathies of the multitude
ihan many of greater fame. She
understood the level ot the heart—
the emotions, and tastes, and aspira
tions, and desires, and pleasures of
the pure and simple—even it she
did not always itach the heights of
art. Not that tier skill was inferior to
her power; the measure ot her perfor
mance was always equal to the
_ I measure of her conception. Very
few have the highest flight, hut then
very tew have the gaze lo follow
the n. The average appreciation is
kindled quick by the grace simplic
ity, and naturalness of a [>oet like
Alice Cary, than by the more am
bitious strains of others. It is a
mistake, however, to make compari
sons or this character. in Art as in
Nature interiority is in execution,
not in measure; the violet is as ad
mirable as theoak, the dove as the
eagle- Alice Cary was a a native
of Ohio, the daughter ot a farmer
living near Cincinnati and with slen
der advantages of education, began
or two other classics, Milton, Klop
of the naturalist and
the philosopher. The former sees! d et f during the ^resent ?/ar.
As many as twelve French dukes, of ' earl N m li,e t<> contribute to the news
the oldest and most distinguished fin- papers and magazines essays sketch
eage, have been killed or seriously worn- es, and poi-ms. In 1S50 a volume
of poems, the joint work ot herself
of life with a purpose not to shirk
them, hut to fulfil them.
A young man with a good trade
or honorable profession, as Ik goes
forth into the world with his mind
made up to stick to his trade or pro
fession is not obliged to ask for ma
ny favors. He will hew his way to
success, while the unstable ami shift
less will grow tired, despair and
tail.— Standard.
A suit was commenced on
in the District Court at St. Paul,
Minn., against Governor Austin and
the Still water and St. Paul Uadroad
Company, to restrain the Governor
from executing and the company
from receiving a deed of land inur
ing to the company. Judge Wilkins
granted an order requiring ihe
Governor and company to show
cause why an injunction shu J not
issue. The suit is concerning bonds
in excess of the land granted tor the
building <>fa railroad to Slillw aier,
only a portion of which has been
earned, in consequence ot the road
being built only from white Bear
Lake, a station on Lake Superior,
instead of from St Paul, aud tfie
parlies who bring the suit desire to
have the excess of lands used in
building a road to &ullwater direct
from St. Paid and io connect with
the west Wisconsin Radway.