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lowly, so secluded, the clay might willingly i
wait its re-union with the spirit.
Before the corpse walked the young men
of the village, bearing instruments of music.
They paused at the gate of the place of buri
al. Then a strain from voice and flute rose,
subdued and tremulous, like the strings of
the wind-harp. It seemed as if a timid, yet
prevailing suppliant sought admission to the
ancient city of the dead.
The gate unclosed. A $ they slowly wound
around the gentle ascent to the open grave,
the pastor, with solemn intonation, repeated
passages from the Book of God. Thrilling,
beyond expression, amid the silence of the
living, and the slumber of the dead, where
the blessed words of our Saviour —“ I am the
resurrection and the life.’’
He ceased, and all gathered round the
brink of the pit. The little ones drew near,
and looked downwards into its depths, sadly
but without fear. Then came a burst of mu
sic, swelling higher and higher, till it seemed
no longer of earth. Metnought it was the
welcome in heaven, to the innocent spirit,
the joy of angels over anew immortal, that
had never sinned. Wrapped, as it were, in
that glorious melody, the little body was let
down into its narrow cell. And all grief —
even the parent’s grief—was swallowed up
in that high triumphant strain. Devotion
was there, giving back what it loved, to the
God of love, not with tears, but with music.
Faith was there, standing among flowers, and
restoring a bud to the Giver, that it might
bloom in a garden which could never fade.—
Mrs. Sigourney.
THE NORMAN FACE.
The beauty of the Normans is a proverb
all over the world. Nor has the universal
admiration which has been bestowed upon it
in the slightest degree exaggerated its lofty
an 1 exquisite character. The men, in their
way, are as handsome as the woman. They
have the fine oval face, sedate bright eyes,
and clear complexions of the old race. You
look in vain for evidence of their Teutonic
decent in these sculptured features; the skin
and hair alone suggesting a reminiscence of
their Saxon ancestry. The women are re
markable for the natural dignity of their car
riage, which harmonizes strikingly with their
la.ll and commanding figures, and the gravity
and reserve of their expression. Like the
men. their faces are oval, with the slightly
aquiline nose, large flashing eyes, and curv
ed lips. Their complexions are peculiarly
transparens, the cheeks mantling over with a
blush, rich in color, but delicate in its diffu
sion. A smile sits in their eyes, but the most
inquisitive observer cannot detect in their
looks or manner the remotest indication of*
levity. A sweet seriousness is their predom
inant characteristic. It is strange enough to
an Englishman to meet groups of these peo
ple, men and woman, reproducing before our
eyes that famous Norman head with which
we are all so familiar. It carries us back at
once to the eleventh century. Wherever we
turn, we see, as in a magic glass, William
the Conqueror moving up the streets and high
ways. — Wayside Pictures in Bentley s Mis
cellany.
CAMOMILE. *
This plant is one already too familiarly
known to most of your readers to require any
description. It possesses a pleasant odor,
and is much used by many, not only as a
medicine, but as an article of perfumery to
impart a pleasant odor to clothes, books, and
other articles.
In a recent number of the “Irish Garden
ers Magazine.” it is stated that a decoction
of the leaves of this plant will effectually de
stroy insects, and that it is likewise highly
promotive of the health of garden vegetables
when growing in their vicinity. “No green
house, or hot-house,” observes the writer,
“ should ever he without camomile, either in
a green or dried state. Either the stalks or
leaves will answer.” It is a fact of which I
presume many of our practical gardeners are
not cognizant, that when a plant is observed
to fail, without, perhaps, any cause being
obvious, it may suddenly be re-invigorated,
and brought again to its pristine vigor, simply
by placing a camomile plant near it. A
warm, dry soil, not excessively rich, but yet
rather strong, is best adapted to the develop
ment of this plant. It is of remarkably easy
culture, and should be rolled frequently, or
pressed forcibly by the hand, especially in
.the spring.. A few plants in the cucumber
*or melon yard would, 1 have no doubt, be a
meansof protecting the vines from the ravages
of the striped bug. J presume that the strong
and rather pungent odor it evolves, would he
rather too powerful for their acute olfactories,
although it might not cause them to die im
mediately of “aromatic pain;” they would
2©® u 1 a[3 iff lid a, hit &iaa a v is inns*
doubtless vamoose , or at least, cease to depre
date extensively upon the plants. The dis
covery of an effectual and reliable remedy for
the “ long evil,” is a
“ Consummation devoutly to be wished ”
a desideratum in horticultural science which
it has hitherto been impossible to achieve,
and the nature'of which, even few have ven
tured to guess.
Death. —Death comes equally to us all,
and makes us all equal when it comes. The
ashes of an oak in the chimney are no epitaph
of that oak, to tell me how high, or how
large it was : it tells me not what flocks it
sheltered while it stood, nor what men it hurt
when it fell. The dust of great persons’
graves is speechless too y it Says nothing, it
distinguishes nothing. As soon the dust
of a wretch whom thou wouldst not look up
on, will trouble thine eyes if the wind blow
it thither: and when a whirl-wind hath
blown the dust of the church-yard into the
church, and the man sweeps out the dust into
the chuichyard, who will undertake to sift
those dusts again, and to pronounce: This is
the patrician, this is the noble flow’er, and
this the yeoman..this the plehean bran ?
[Donne.
The Rights of Women. —We have heard
(says the Knickerbocker) a great deal about
“ The Rights of Women,” from many an “Old
Social Reformer,” hut we never saw them
more felicitously set forth than in the follow
ing lines, by one of “the sex,” Mrs. E.
Little :
“ The rights of women,” what are they 1
The right to labor and to ]>ray:
The right to watcli while others sleep,
The right o’er others’ woes to weep;
The right to succor in distress,
The right while others curse to bless ;
The right to love whom others scorn,
The right to comfort all that mourn :
The right to shed new joy on earth,
The right to feel the soul's high worth,
The right to lead the soul to God
Along the path her Savior trod ;
The patli of meekness and of love,
The path of faith that leads above ;
The path of patience under wrong,
The path in which the weak grow strong:
Such woman’s rights, and God will bless,
And crown their champions with success.
JHjUosopljji for tl)c People.
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WHAT IS LIFE ?
There is elegance of thought as well as of
language, in the following paragraph from
Arnott’s Elements of Physics :
“The functions by'which the animal body
assumes foreign matters from around, and
converts them into its own substance, is little
inviting in some of its details ; hut taken al
together, is one of the most wonderful at
tractions which can engage the human atten
| tion. It points directly to the curious and
yet unanswered question—‘What is life V
The student of nature may analyse with all
his art those minute portions of matter called
seeds, within which he knows to he the rudi
ments of future creatures, and thc links by
which endless generations of living creatures
hang to existence, but lie cannot disentangle
and display apart their mysterious life I that
something under the influence of which de
termines its forms and proportions. One
such substance thus becomes a beauteous
rose-bush, another a noble oak, a third an
eagle, a fourth an elephant—yea, in the same
1 way out from the rudest materials of broken
seeds, and leaves of plants, and pits of animal
flesh, is built up the human frame itself,
whether of the active male, combining grace
fulness and strength, or of the gentler woman,
with beauty around her as light. How pass
ing strange that such should be the origin of
the bright human eye, whose glance pierces
as if the invisible soul were shot with it—of
the lips which pour sweelest eloquence—of
the lalynx, which, by vibrating, fills the sur
rounding air with music ; and more wonder
ful than all, of that mass shut up within the
bony fortress of the skill', whose delicate
texture is the abode of the soul, with its rea
son which contemplates, and its sensibility
which delights, is these and endless other
miracles of creation!”
EFFECTS OF POISONS,
It is not perhaps generally known that
substances which are highly deleterious, and
even immediately fatal to one species of an
imals, are frequently not so toothers.
In certain cases, in fact, articles that are
extremely beneficial in their effects upon one
kind of animals, a medicinal to others, and
to some even nutritive.
Thus the sus scrofa , or common swine, are
destroyed by pepper seeds, while the same
substance is highly prized by man as a grate
l’ul and salutary spice. On the contrary the
roots of the common henbane, which operate
as a verulent and fatal poison to the human
species, are a serviceable and salutary food
for swine.
Aloes, also, which constitute so valuable
an article in the meteria medicaof our physi
cians, and which is so beneficially applied in
many diseases incident to the human system,
proves a rank poison to the canine race—a +
least to ihe fox and dog. The horse, which
is almost immediately destroyed by the phe
landium aquaticum , or common water hem
lock. and by corrosive sublimate, even when
administered in small quantities, will never
theless take a drachm of arsenic daily, and
improve in consequence, both in his flesh
and coat.
Such are some of the wonders of nature,
the vast volume of which is continually open
for our contemplation and improvement.—
Science is daily rendering its passages more
plain to our perceptions, and explaining the
wonderful ahdcomplicated phenomena which,
veiled anciently in mystery, afforded the most
potent agencies by which the designing, who
comprehended their action, effected their am
bitious ends in subjecting to their inanuduc
tion the minds of credulous and weak.—
Germantown Telegraph.
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Manufacture of Paper Pulp of Straw.
—The straw or other vegetable fibrous mate
rial, is heated or boiled with milk of lime 12
hours, in a suitable boiler,, and the lime and
coloring matter washed out in a suitable tub.
The fibrous matter is then transferred to mill
stones, so arranged as to crush it, and at the
end of this operation the pulpy matter is again
transferred to another tub for further wash
| ing out the coloring matter. The pulpy mat
ter is next removed to a second set of boilers,
where fresh lime-water and an alkaline solu
tion of the strength of two to four degrees of
the hydrometer is supplied, and the heat con
tinued for six hours.
j At the end of this time the whole liquor
i and pulp are forced up by steam pressure in
to a third washing tub, where it is washed
and sulphuric or muriatic acid of the ordinary
: strength used for bleaching purposes, - is sup
plied, and the contents kept in agitation for
two hours, and the acid is then entirely wash
ed out. The pulp is next returned to the
| second set of boilers, where it is mixed with
alkali of the strength of two or four degrees
of the hydrometer, and boiled four hours, or
until the alkali is spent.
The pulp and liquor are again forced up
into the third washing tub. and all soluble
| matters washed out of it. Chloride of lime
of the ordinary bleaching strength is now ad
ed, and agitation kept up some two hours
longer: when steam is let on and the boiling
continued until the salt is spent, when the
whole is discharged into the fourth tub, where
the spent chloride of lime is washed out. The
pulp is now subjected to the operation of
I souring, which consistsof submitting it to the
action of acid and water of the usual strength
used for bleaching, and keeping the whole
in agitation for four hours. It is now ready
to he discharged into a fifth tub or set of
tubs, when the process is considered as com
pleted.
Fragrant odor for sick rooms.— A few
drops of oil of sandal-wood, which, though
not in general use, may he easily obtained,
when dropped in a hot shovel, will diffuse a
most agreeable balsamic perfume throughout
the atmosphere of sick rooms, or other con
fined apartments.
Cochineal. —The editors of the Savannah
Republican have been shown veritable speci
mens of the cochineal insects taken from a
cactus glowing on one of the sea islands not
far from that city. They exactly resemble
those of commerce, while the beautiful color
is precisely of the same intensity and color.
Tlie cochineal insects have hitherto heen
found principally in Mexico and New Spain.
To Cook a Ham.— Boil a common sized
ham four or five hours then skin the whole
and fit it for the table ; then set in an oven
for half an hour : then cover it.thickly with
pounded rusk or bread crumbs and set it back
for half an hour. Boiled ham is always im
proved by setting it into an oven for near an
hour, till much of the fat dries out. and this
also makes it more tender.
Hammering Brass. —A magnetic property
is given to brass by hammering, supposed to
he occasioned by the minute particles of iron
separated from the hammer and the anvil du
ring the process, and forced into its surface.
This circumstance makes it necessary to em
ploy unhammered brass for compass boxes
and similar apparatus.
A Column Crtctci) to jTun.
A Finger Acquaintance.— ‘Georgina Ho
house ?’° W y ° Ung fe "° W in thc
‘ No, mi, 1 never spoke to him in my life ■
he is merely a linger acquaintance—that’s
ail.
‘A- what!—a finger acquaintance! Whv
what sortoi an acquaintance is that?’
‘Oh. we only talk to each other across the
street with our fingers—nothing more.’
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Typographical Mistakes. —We snm P
times find laughable mistakes in our ex
changes. One of them gives as an item of
news that “a cow was lately cut into
by the locomotiveand an Illinois paner
states that “ a Nail-road in that state is near
ly completed. The best, however, is in a
citv paper, which states that thousands of
dogs are being brought in to be made into
sausages. The typo, no doubt, put a d for
an At, but there may he more truth than fiction
in the mistake.
How to Catch Rats— A Yankee has j us t
invented a method to catch rats. He says*
locate your bed in a room much infested bv
these animals, and on retiring put out the
hght. j Then strew over your pillow some
strong smelling cheese, three or four red her
ring, some barley meal or new malt, and a
sprinkling of dried codfish. Keep awake
till you find the rats at work, and then make
a grab.
Consoling Sentence.— An individual hav
ing been convicted upon rather slight evidence
the judge proceeded to pass judgment as fol
lows :
“ Prisoner at the Bar! You have been
iound guilty by a jury of your countrymen
oi a crime which subjects you to the penalty
of death; you say you are innocent; the
truth of that assertion is only known to your
self and God. It is my duty to leave you for
execution. Ii guilty, you richly deserve the
iate which awaits you—if innocent, it will
he a great gratification to feel that you were
hanged without such a crime on ‘your con
science. In either case you will he delivered
from a world of care.”
An Irish Drama. —A drama was present
ed to Sheridan, in which the characters amoun
ted to no Jess than fifty-six. “ What’s this V’
said Sheridan, “ this army list ?” “ Nothing
of the kind, sir,” said the introducer; “it is
an Irish story, and by an Irishman.” Sheri
dan glanced over a lew leaves, and saw it
was altogether inadmissible. “Tell my
countryman,*’ said he, “that as a drama,
there can be no hope of its success, partlv
owing to the reduced population of London ;
but it might turn into a history of the Rebel
lion, and the list at the beginning would do
for the muster at the levy cn masse.
A Wit Discomfitted. —“ We remember
witnessing the complete discomfiture of a wit
ol no inferioff order, by a message, politely
delivered, at a supper party, by a little girl:
—‘H you please, Air. B , mamma sends
her compliments, and would be much obliged
if you would begin to be funny.' 1 ' 1 ’
Pleasures of Imagination. —To dream of
finding heaps of gold, not knowing nextmorn
ing where to find a breakfast. To fancy
yourselt the particular object of admiration
when you are walking about with a dish rag
pinned to your coat-tails. To open a credi
tor’s note, threatening proceedings, fancying
it an invitation to dinner. Flattering your
selt with the hope of assistance from a rich
relation. ‘
A Dry Rejoinder.—“ How Louis Napole
on seems to thirst for notoriety 1” “Ah. and
you'd thirst, too, friend Stubbs if you had
been as long confined to Ham as he was.”
“Gone to Mill.” We notice the marriage
Mr. Joseph Gone to Miss Amander A. Mill-
Employment. —“ My dear Tom.” -said an
exquisite to a brother idler, “how do you
spend the four-and-tWenty hours !”
“In charity!” replied his friend.
“In charity ?•”
“ Yes,” continued Tom. “Firstly, 1 gj ve
twelve hours to sleep, and of the remaining
twelve, 1 give two to dress, four to eating
and drinking, four to the play or the opera
anil two to smoking and building !”
“ Building ?”
“ Yes—castles in the air, and I do assure
you it is a most agreeable pastime.”