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[From the Sunday Magazine J
WRIGHTS AXD tlEASTRES.
Very few people seem to have noticed
how much there is in the Bible about
“Weights and Measures.” When the
Tabernacle was erected, all the parts of
the building and its sacred furniture were
constructed according to “specifications”
curiously exact aud minute We are told
the precise length of the wings of the
cherubim in Solomon’s Temple, an<> how
much water the “molten se.n” would hold.
What is more remarkable still, we know
the “length” and the “breadth” and the
“height” of “the house of the forest of
Lebanon,” and the shape of its windows
and doors, and the number of its cedar
pillars.
It is probable that standard weights and
standard measures were deposited by Mo
ses in the Tabernacle itself, and were
transferred by Solomon to the Temple.
In doing this the Jews would only follow
the example of other ancient nations. In
the old world, the sanctity of religion was
added to the authority of public law, to
check dishonesty, and to prevent, as far
as possible, any accidental changes in the
authorized measures of length, weight and
capacity. The care with which this part
of the duty of the State was attended to
in Egypt, may perhaps soon receive a new
and most remarkable illustration; investi-
Ordinnry (or leave to sell Land, &c.,must be publish
ed for two months. . , )
CUatwns for letters of Administration Guardianship, )
See., must be published 30 days-for distnis.-ion from
Administration, monthly six mouths—for dismission |
from Guardianship, 10 days. i
Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be published j
monthly for four months—U* establishing lost papers,
for the full spore of ihrre months—f->r couipelhng titles
from Executors or administrators, where bond lias ;
been given by the deceased, the full space of three j
months. . •
Publications will always be continued according to
these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or
dered.
Book .and Job work, of all kinds, |
PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
at tiiir
the Bible
are hand-
all the year
gations are being carried on which many
Guardians, are required oy mw to op nem «m me urs, , think will result in proving that the great
Tuesday in the month; between the hours of U) in the i p ram ;d— t ] ie WO nder and the riddle of
forenoon mid three in the atteruoon, at the Court house 1 9 . ...... . •
ic the county in which the property is situated j so many centimes—was built tocontaiu
Notice of these sale* must ue given in a public ga- j ^ bp siandaid weights and measures.
P-r'' 1 / ">»'">« ! v «7 <■' ‘to reader, of the Sis-
given in like manner 10 days previous to sale day. ! DAY MAGAZINE are engagediutrp.de; It
" Notices to the debtors and creditors of an estate m b(J we j] tbat they should see. for once,
"'Nothie'tliat application will be made to the Court of' some of the tilings which ‘ u-i i-
‘ i ■* gays about things which they
ling every day in the week
round.
I Leviticus six. 3G, God says. “Just
balances, just weights .... shall ye
have: I am the Lord your God, which
brought yon out of the land of Egypt.”
In Deuteronomy xxv. 13, the Jews is
told “Thou shalt not have in thy bag di
vers weights, a great and small [great,
that is, to purchase with, and small to sell ■
by.J But thou shalt have a perfect and j
just weight, a perfect and just measure J
shalt thou have: that thy days may be ,
lengthened in the land which the Lord thy j
God giveth thee. For all that do such \
orvicc
ry When a subscriber finds a cross mark on
ed'if he wishes the paper continued. •
«y iy e do not send receipts to new
hi- paper he will know that his subscription Iirs things, and all that do unrighteously, are
ired. or is about to expire, and must be renew-1 a „ abomination unto the Lord thy God.”
1 In the book of proverbs there are such
snoscr i' 1 savings as this :—“ a false balance is an
bers. If thev receive the paper they may uow | ab J om f nation t othe Lord : but a just
that we have received the money. j we ; ht ; s fa ; 8 dc light” (ch. xi. 1.)
name of the nost-office irom which thoy wish it j W e find very much on this unromantic and
changed.
himself has been cheated in buying, au<:
that in self-protection he has a right to
cheat in selling; he got short measure him
self, so he gives it to his customer,--" which
excase,” to use the language of Dr. Paley,
in reference to passing bad money, “is
much the same as if one who had been
robbed upon the highway, should allege
that he had a right to reimburse himself
out of the pocket of the first traveler he
met; the justice of which reasoning the
traveller may not comprehend.”
There is another form of dishonesty
very near akin to giving bad measure and
short weight, which Paley has also expo
sed with his usual clearness and felicity. I
mean putting an unfair price on what is
sold. He says, “Whoever opens a shop,
or in any mauner exposes goods to public
sale, virtually engages to deal with his
customers at a market price, because it is
npon the foith and opinion of such an en
gagement, that any one comes within his
shop doors or offers to treat with him.
This is expected by the buyer, is known to
be expected by the seller.” And so Paley
argues, that when more than the market
price is charged, there is a breach of an
implied contract, and therefore an act of
dishonesty. I know that there may be
some difficulty in always determining how
this principle is to be applied, but the
principle itself is obviously just. You can
not reduce a moral law to the form of an
equation.
Men sometimes ask how they are to
make their business a part of their religion.
This is one way—to remember that “a
false balance is an abomination to the
Lord,” and to set it right if you have one;
to remember that “ajust weight is his de
light,” and to find satisfaction and joy in
thinking that God himself is pleased when
you sell as good an article as your custo
mer has a right to expect, give full meas
ure, and charge a fair price. There is a
very remarkable sentence in the Book of
Proverbs—"Ajust weight and balance are
the Lord's; and the weights of the bag ar*
his work.” It is equally true that an uu-
just balance is the devil’s, and that if the
weights are not true, they bear the devil’s
stamp and name.
Some persons may think, perhaps, that
this is a very unspiritual article; but
then the Bible is a very “unspiritual”
book. God forbid that I should depreci
ate those lofty acts of the soul in which it
holds communion with the invisible God,
meditates on the infinite love of Christ,
strives to penetrate more deeply into the
mysterious glory of his atonement for sin,
and lays open every channel through which
those streams of spiritual life and power
minded that God has his eye upon us at
all times; and that to please Him we must
“do justly,” as well as “love mercy, and
walk humbly with our God.
There are some persons who plead, in
excuse for their own irreligion, that in se
cular affairs religious men are no better
than other people. If they are not they
ought to be- I believe that as a rule, they
are. If not, how is it that when a relig
ious banker has been guilty of using se
curities entrusted to his keeping, the
whole country rings with his crime, and
there is so much sneering and triumph at
the expense of religion itself t We do not
make such a stir when a man who makes
no profession of faith in Christ is guilty of
the same thing. We do not put articles
in our religious newspapers, headed in
large capitals, “Doings of an irreligious
banker.” How is it that if a minister is be
trayed into grievous sin, the scandal of his
fall is kept alive for years/ If another
man commits the same offence it is soon
forgotten.
There has been many bank failures du
ring the la6t twenty years; but the failure
of Sir John Dean Paul is likely to be re
membered after all the rest are forgotten.
There were hundreds of men bung for for
gery in the last century; I doubt whether
ten readers of the Sunday Magazine
could tell me the name of any one of them
except Dr. Dodd. Of the people that fill
our gaols, that are sent to our penal colo
nies, that are brought up before the mag
istrates for drunkenness and disorder, I
wonder whether one in a thousand is a
communicant of any Christian church.
However this may be, it is plain that if
people who profess to be Christians give
short weight and bad measure it is not the
fault of the biblo. If a shopman whoVobs
the till on Saturday night goes to church
on Sunday morning, he hears nothing at
church to make him think that his crime
against man is no sin against God. If a
father who professes to be religious, gives
way to a bad tomper and •“provokes his
children to wrath,” it is not from the Bible
he learns to do it; if he read, his Bible
properly he would know better. If a mas
ter professes to be a ‘Christian, and is
guilty of using harsh and violent language
to the people he employs, do not blame
his Christian faith; that teaches him to
“forbear threatening,” reminds him that
he has a “Master in heaven.” and that
“there is no respect of persons with Him.”
It is the shallowest and weakest reas
oning in the world to argue against relig-
| ion because some religions people do
wrong; their religion condemns their
wrongdoing as heavily as human censure
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commonplace and unspiritual subject
Those inspired men were not always speak
ing of the coming of Christ, or forecas
ting the dark destiny of great Pagan em
pires; they were in the habit of denoun
cing very resolutely dishonesty in the mat
ter of weights and measures. Ezekiel
says, “Ye shall have just balances” (ch.
xix 10.) Hosea says of Epbriam, “He is a ,
merchant, the balances of deceit are in his
hand; he loveth to oppress (ch. xii. 7.) i
Micah asks, “Arc there yet the treasures j
of wickedness in the house of the wicked,
12 3
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25 26 27 28 , j
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Mar. 4 5 6 7 8 9 1<> S*r T K
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18 19 20 21 22 23 24,
25 26 27,28 29,30,31
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8 9 10 11
April ] 2 3 4 5| 6
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Mat. 1 2 3; 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Novn.
13 14 15 16 17 IS 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26:
27 28 29 30 31
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I ■ ! Mill
7OCTOB R 1 *j join
7 8 91011 12 13' rae asure they sold the corn by,—“and the
14 , fhekd great”—the shekei was the weight
2s29,5031 ! by which they weighed the money of
12 3 those that bought it; so that they cheated
5 6 7 8 9 >0 b
17 both ways, giving short measure and ta-
,1 12.13 14 15 16 17 botti ways, giving snort iuh* 8 u.
jg 19 20 21 22 23 24 king too much money in return.
,25 26 27 28 29 30j ^ Qf coursCf the plain lesson these texts
n a- a u • 0 1 are meant to teach is, that all cheating in
2,.*.1.2.0 ,a .* | . bate f„l to God.
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To-nonsow.
IIow sweet to the heart is the thought of to-mor-
When Hope’, lovely pictures bright colours
display! from futurity borrow
"TtatatoTt pi A afflict, a. t0.d„ !
WbeB woatiaom. .iek»w ” 10 U "'
ForlS. •»<>«“ !t b “ r ” '‘ U
We ca*trust that oar Sa.ior willle..™ the ««
Tba’tmem- new proef, of hi. nerc, .hall
bring.
Thatat W homeTen, with care sympathetic atten-
We may rest unmolested and slumber in peace
Or when from’.he friend, of our heart long divi-
The fond expectation '? lth p7 0 V=dence gui-
That from far distant regions, by Uiov.ae g
cau How which have their springs in the can condemn it. If they are earnestly
living God. Let thote who are content , religious, they will gradually become bet-
with morality and uprightness of conduct, : ter. .
and are indifferent to religious duty, be! I cannot close this paper without rccal-
assured that there is an unearthly peace, ling the solemn truth, that God s “ ws or
a heavenly joy. a blepsedness like that of | our conduct to each other are a revelation
the angels, for every one who has learnt of his own character, and are in strict
the happy secret of dwelling in the light • anaology to the laws which determine his
of the Divine presence. When the heart own action towards his creatures, lbe
glows with devout affection, and the spirit time is coming when He will judge every
sinks in prostrate worship, and the eye , man; and He will use no false balance, He
gazes on the glory of Christ, Heaven ' will put into the scales no light weights,
comes down to earth, and the promises of He is merciful as well as just; but »ow is
immortal bliss begin to be fulfilled. the time for mercy. When He judges He
But I repeat, that in the sense in which will judge righteously. He will “weigh
. , . , , fi!'r,'T B ahoTTiinahle’ ' some good people use the word “spiritual,” ’• the reasons and motives which led men to
and he scan T^ U ‘f n . 1 ' b * t i b th e wTcked the B?ble is in many parts extremely un- neglect public worship and private prayer
Shall I count them pure with the wicked , itaal Tfa J ^ eIMelve8 tbat .they He will “weigh” the temptations which
must “spiritualize” many passages in the betray ns into sin against the considera-
Old Testament, and some in the New, to I tions which should have led us to do right
find any such instruction and profit as | He will “weigh” our love for Himself, and
they are always asking for. They forget | our obedience to hi. law against his infi-
tbat the words of inspired men were not j nite grace; onr trust in his goodness and
written to be read only on Sundays; that 1 submission to his hand in times of trouble,
they were not written for persons who
have nothing to do but to pray. The first
lesson that Holy Scripture teaches is un
learnt, if we have not discovered that
God is interested in all the affairs of our
daily life, and judges us not merely by our
prayers and religious affections but by our
works.
There is no occupation in which man
can be lawfully engaged, in which he may
not see God. The tens of thousands of
rough fellows who are working under
ground in South Staffordshire, are getting
out of the earth the iron God himself put
there. The tens of thousands of men, wo
men, and children in the workshops of
Birmingham are melting, moulding, ham
mering, and stamping the metals God
himself made. It was God who created the
coUon plant out of which the Lancashire
people manufacture their calicoes. It was
with* 7 - God who created the silk-worm that spins
’! the cocoon for all workers in silk. The
0 „ . balances, and with the bag of deceitful
12 13 14 weights V (ch. vi. 10,11.) Amos exclaims,
a627 28 29 30 31 : “Hear this, O ye that swallow up the
1 1 1 needy, even to make the poor of the land
3 ,2 ,1 n 13 ll 15 to fail, saying, When will tbe now moon
J6 17 18 19 20.21 22 be gone, that we may sell corn f and tbe
23-24 25 26 27 28 29 gabba t b , that we may set forth wheat, ma-
' - king the ephah small”—the epbah was the
ded,
To-morrow shall see us
most happily meet.
days o f labor, each other succeeding,
aud toil have our
or re,..
shadows of Time are reti-
fleeting, and death is in
And when the vain
ring, , .
When life is fast
of the
W. G.
Hartford
tZ A w":: P w. d « e ”ra.b.r -prisedIt.
Hartford the other day a soldier
meet » « - ™ „ nd „. d the bori.1
whom he helped b , ^ ^ faU of 1863
service over in Vi g he wa8
The fellow was in a tranc his ye
buried, partly d ng a ‘ m di . c ov e red by the
shallow grave, a8 a prisoner
rebels, helped out, and Geor-
to Richmond for a year and then to ue
gia until tbe war elided*
weights and measures is
Those who are guilty of it commit an in
justice against man, and they provoke
God’s auger. We have got into a bad
habit of being amused by the dishonest
tricks to which many tradesmen resmt in
their haste to get rich. These texts teach
that every trick of this kind is observed
by God’s eye, is recorded in God’s book,
and will bo punished by God’s band.
I fear there is not a solitary ttade in
which these dishonesties are not largely
practiced. Scales are tampered
measures have false bottoms. Boxes of
nails are sent to every part of the world
‘warranted to contain a thousand and,
containing only seven hundred and fifty
Bottles have gradually degenerated in
6ize, until nobody now expects a quart bot
tle to hold a quart, or a pint bottle to hold
a pint. Reels of cotton marked “120
yards” measure only eighty. Tbe four-
pound loaf is said to weigh less than four
pounds—eleven ounces less, sometimes—if *
delivered at the bouse instead of being
sold over the counter. You can have your
meat full weight if you carry your basket
on your arm to the butcher s; but it is said
to be often very much under weight when j
sent to customers whose accounts are book
ed. I have heard of several yards more
trimming being found in a dress maker s
bill than could possibly have been used in
the lady’s dress. 1 have heard of a mas
ter painter, who charged his customers ac
cording to his men’s time, telling a man
who was working at tbe decoration of a
drawing-room that he was going on too
fast* and the work that would have been
done in four or live days was made to
stretch over tenor twelve, the man spend
ing three or four hours every day in read
ing quietly by tbe fire. _
All these things are neither more nor
less than an “abomination to the Lord ,
thev are not to be laughed at; they are n
to be tolerated; they are to bo stern y con
demned. .
For some of these dishonest practic
the excuse is often made, that the seller
were not j nite grace; onr trust in his
to his hand in til .
against his “exceeding great and precious
promises ;” our religious earnestness, our
loyalty to Christ, our triumphs over sin,
against the sanctifying power of Christian
truth and grace of the Holy Ghost. We
might well tremble in the anticipation of
the hour when, one by one, we shall wait
for the divine sentence on onr deeds; but
our rest and hope are fixed in this, that
the critical act of the soul, in God’s judg
ment, is its acceptance or rejection of the
mercy of the Lord Jesos; and that if we
trust in Him we shall not only be justified
by faith in this world, but shall be so
strengthened for all good works that God
himself, when he looks at our deeds, will
be able to say, “Well done, good and
faithful servants; enter ye into -the joy of
your Lord.” W. K. Dale.
A Wonderfol Story.
The New Hampton, Iowa, Courier,
makes tbe following relation of a father
aud daughter being lost on a prairie du’ iug
the storm of Tuesday alfll Wednesday
of last week :
“On Tuesday afternoon, tho 13th in
stant Mr. E. T. Ruunion, of this town,
visited Jacksonville, eight miles distant,
on business, and on returning, called at
the residence of W. E. Reack, one mile
this side, to see his daughter. Mrs. P. B.
Weed. After supper, Mrs. W. resolved
to accompany her father home, and hastily
clad herself for the purpose. Leaving
Mr. Weed in the house, the father and
daughter proceeded to where the horses
were tied, and found them gone, but yet
in sight. Pursuing the team for some
distance, and finding it impossible to over
take it Mr. Runuiou implored his daughter
to return home, while lie' would make his
way home alone. This she would not
consent to do unless he should accom
pany her and remain for the night. This
was between seven and eight o’clock.—
The weather was then comparatively
mild. They pursued their journey for a
time without difficulty, but the night be
ing quite dark and the snow having oblit
erated the track, they lost the road.—
Both were conscious they were lost, yet
neither breathed it to the other, during the
loug hours from the departure from Mr.
Beach’s house until 12 o’clock. The
storm which had been gathering now
burst forth in fearful fury. Benumbed,
lost upon tbe trackless waste, their steps
followed by a pack of prairie wolves,
whose quick sharp bark frequently rose
above the howling wind, each was con
scious of their peril, yet encouraged the
other. At last, exhausted nature could
do no more, both were tired out, and lay
down beneath a drift of snow to watch for
daylight. Mrs Weed w ore a beaver hood,
a scaif about her ueck, a shawl, and
blanket which she had thrown on her arm
when leaving the house.
The dawn came, and vflMi it the fury
of the storm increased. Mr. Ruunion
knew himself to be on Plumb creek, and
resolved to strike lor the nearest hon*e,
some two miles distant, but Mrs. Weed
was so chilled that she could not walk,aud
after being carried some thirty or forty
rods she begged her father to leave her
and seek assistance. They sat down and
calmly talked the matter over, she freezing
all the while ! To leave his child thus
was a bitter thought. Knowing that she
must perish unless succor came, he sought
a place to leave her; breaking the ice as
he supposed of a little bayou, from which
the water had receded, and making a cavi
ty of some two feet in depth and sufficient
length, he laid her in it, wrapped the blan
ket and shawl around her and the scarf
about her face. They kissed and parted.
Then covering her with snow, marking
the spot with willow twigs as best
he could, he made his way to the
house of Mr. Utley, about a mile from
town, arriving there near 8 o’clock, a. m.,
(Wednesday), exhausted, with hands and
face frozen, and nearly frantic. His story
was soon told ; and although the storm
was raging fearfully, and the hope of find
ing the poor girl, some three miles distant
on the black prairie, seemed like hoping
against hope, a team was harnessed and
Mr. Gilbeit Vincent and Mr. M. M- Utley
with Mr. Runnion, started for the rescue.
Finding the place where tbe party had
lain beneath tbe drift during the night,
they searched in vain until about 3 p m.,
passing almost directiy over the spot where
she lay. Finding the search vain, aud
Mr. Runnion fast fainting from exposure
and exhaustion, with heavy hearts the
party returned at evening. Mr. Rnnnion
was taken to the house of Mr. Utley,
where both Mr. and Mrs. Utley w ere assi
duous in administering to his comfort.
Thursday morning the storm had aba
ted ; the sun shone clear and bright over
the driven snow ; the mercury had fallen
ing above and around her, but was too
weak to appraise them of her whereabouts,
and when found had been using all her
remaining strength in endeavoring to dig
to the surface, and had succeeded in re
moving the snow several inches from
beneath the spot upon which the person
finding her had providentially stepped.
Mrs. Weed has been married but a few
weeks. Her miraculous escape from death,
and her present unhappy condition, have
caused a most profound sympathy in her
behalf.
The Haiaf&elBre of Shoes.
A correspondent of the Boston Post,
writing from one of the Massachusetts
towns, where the souls of citizens are
solely intent on making shoes and shoe
soles, nays :
Down to a recent period, the modes of
manufacture were slow, and carried on
wholly by the hand, without tbe aid of
machinery. Formerly one man did all
the work, cutting, fitting and putting to
gether, » nd ranked as a shoemaker.—
Next came a division of labor, in which
one man cut the upper leather and another
made up the shoes. In all cases women
bound and stitched the uppers, and the
boy apprentices drove the pegs, and did
the sewing of the bottoms of the coarser
articles. Next comes the aid of machinery
— first for splitting thick leather so aa to
furnish imitation calf-skin, and cheapen
the cost of material—then came patterns
for cutting, arranged according to sizes,
to facilitate the Work—anu then came ma
chines for cutting the soles and heels.—
At this point, ordinary observers thought
improvement must stop. There certain
ly could be no machine for sewing and
pegging. But it was done nevertheless.
The invention of the sewing machine,
about twenty years ago stirred up the in
ventors of shoe machinery, to apply the
same principles of sewing on the bottoms
or shoes. A few years of trial followed,
and the idea became realized in actual
faci, and a machine for pegging, and an
other for sewing on the soles, became an
accomplished reality. The revolution in
the shoe business was now complete. In
one shop the whole system of operations
can be carried on. In the basement tbe
sole leather is cut, where the leather can
be easily dampened. Ou the next higher
floor are the stitching machines, operated
by females, except on some of the more
difficult apd heavy work. In tbe apart
ment underneath the stitchers, or perhaps
on the first fkor, are tbe peggers and sole
stitchers The manufactory probably has
a small Roper engine of two or three
horse power, or else its power is hired of
a neighboring establishment, in which is a
large steam engine. Clustered around
a working bench is a “gang” of five or
six men engaged in finishing the shoes.—
Attached to a sewing machine a “gang”
of nine men find employment, and are
kept pretty busy, too, in completing the
work.
The result of this is, that the shoe busi
ness is undergoing a complete revolution
in its mode of operations. Instead of
one man cutting and the work being taken
home for finishing, by which it was scat
tered over a wide extent of country,
workmen often coming twenty miles for
♦he shoes, taking their press and stock
home, and returning tbe shoes finished
and ready for the box, which consumed
generally two days in going for and return
ing with the work, now the system brings
all. or most of the workmen into the same
building, and all departments of the manu
facture are carried on under the eye of the
proprietor.
first part of the process in every form of
manufacturing industry is done by God.
He always finds the material; and tbat ma
terial has been produced by most compli
cated methods, and by methods which in
many cases have taken thousands of
years to complete and perfect their results.
It is plain that He meant us to employ
our hands in honest labor, as well as our
lips in thankful praise; that He meant our
brains to be active in planning, inventing,
and scheming, in relation to this worid,. as
well as our hearts in longing and hoping
for the next. He made our bodies of the
dust which belongs to tbe earth, though
He breathed into us a higher life, which
unites us to Himself. And so the Bible
hftS very much in it ftbout common ^ork.»
as well as about religious duty. In tbe
“book of remembrance,” there are pages
not only for our Sundays, but for every
day in the week besides. “The prayer of
the wicked is an abomination to the Lord;
“and a false balance” is «n abomination
to Him too. The religion is worthless
which has to do only with books of devo
tion, and not with day-books and ledgers;
with pews and churches, and not with
counting-hoases and workshops; with pray
ers and sermons, and not with weig lti
and measures.”
In the Ten Commandments there are
only four which refer to duties we owe di
rectly to God; there are six which refer
to duties we owe to our fellow men. All
through the Bible we ere repeatedly re-
A Lusus Natures.—An exchange says :
In 1791, a child was born at Lubeck, na
med Henry Heinnecken, whose precocity
was miraculous. At ten months of age,
ho spoke distinctly, at twelve learnt the
Pentateuch by rote, anil at fourteen
months was perfectly acquainted with the
Old and New Testaments. At two years
he was familiar with ancient history, as
the most erudite authors of antiquity.
Sanson and Danville only could compete
with him in geographical knowledge. In
the ancient and modern languages he was
proficient. This wonderful child
unfortunately carried off
year.
Maximilian's European Home.—A wri
ter in Blackwood thus describes Miramar,
Maximilian’s palace ou the Adriatic :
“On a grand, bold bluff over the Adri
atic stands one of the most picturesque
chateaux I ever beheld, almost covering
the plateau, save where a little space is sto
len from between projecting arms of the
from 14 the day before to 28 below zero, j bnililiug for a flower knot or a fouatain.
Mr. Runnion was brought home by Mr. i^ displays all that can be accomplished by
Utley, and his fearful story flew from i i rre gular outline and varied color. Tow-
house to house ; brave hearts and willing j er aud minaret and buttress, projecting
hearts were not wanting. Several sleigh 1 window and a deep shadowing cornice,
roads of men, accompanied by Dr. Mixer | w jth ornamented architraves and stained
wbu was careful to have restoratives— glass, have done their very best,and made
were swiftly on the search. The party one 0 f tbe most delightful houses to live
bis
was
fourth
A Rich Boy.—The richest individual in
Massachusetts is a boy, the son of the late
Joshua Sears, a Boston merchant, who
died—leaving his son as his sole heir; his
property was appraised at about SI,800.-
000. J he trustees under his will invested
the most of it in real estate in Franklin
Street; the dwelling houses of which they
demolished almost entirely to make room
for the finest block of stores in Boston.
The investment proved highly judicious;
the property has more than doubled on
their hands, and now reaches an aggregate
of over $5,000,000 in value. The lad
who is to own this, is now being brought
up in the family of Hon. Alphens Hardy,
one of the trustees, and leading merchant*
of Boston.
.cached the supposed locality where Mrs.
Weed was left by her father, and the
search commenced. Passing on either
side of the creek, noting every track and
mark and twig—with only the vague cer
tainty that they might be near her, they
persevered, guided alone by such instruc
tions as Mr. Runnion in his enfebled and
bewildered state was able to give. At
about 11 o’clock, one of the party, step
ping directly over, fell through the snow
into the cavity where she lay. She was
found! and—alive! A joyous shout
rang out—overcoats and shawls were
spread upon the snow, shovels procured
from and sleigh, and she was raised, in
sensible, from the snowy bed, where she
had lain thirty hours ! Placed in a sleigh,
the parfy drove with all speed to the
nearest house—that of Mr. Jolly where
the skill and unremitting efforts of Dr.
Mixer were crowned with success.
We foimd that she had moved but little
from where her father had placed her.—
The ice upon which she had been laid
had melted from her bodily heat, and
when found she lay in tbe bed of tbe
creek, nearly every part of her clothing
being saturated with water. Her feet
were doubtless frozen in the morning be
fore her father left her, and to the provi
dential fact of their coming in contact
with the water may be ascribed, not mere
ly the safety of her limbs, but the pre
servation of her life. . ,
Mrs. Weed was conscious while in her
snowy prison boose of day and night;
heard the bleak winds as they moaned
above her, her greatest fear being lest her
father had perished ; but hope never once
forsook her; she heard her rescuers tramp-
in aad one of the most handsomo to look
at in Europe. Splendid gardens lie to
tho rear, backed by a noble forest, stretch
ing away to the foot of a mountain.
“This elegant establishment was built
by Maximillian, who lavished upon it all
the resources which wealth and refined
taste could command, to make it an earth
ly paradise, yet he has left this 6cene of
peaceful enjoyment for the cares aud dan
gers of imperial life among a hostile peo
ple. It is ouly another illustration of the
restlessness of man, who ‘never is, but al
ways to be, blest,’ and no matter vrhat his
condition or achievements, continually
longs for something beyond present pos
session.”
Illinois Cotton.—Illinois cotton com
mands a premium of five cents per pound
in this city, and this fact is producing a de
cided effect in the culture of the staple iu
that State. Jefferson county produced a
half million pounds tbe past year, which,
at western prices (forty-five cents per
pound) is worth $225,000, while some of
the more southern counties have raised
four times that amount.
pyA clergyman lately addressed his
female auditory as follows; “Be not proud
that our blessed Lord paid your sect the
distinguished honor of appearing first, to
a female after the resurrection, for it was
only done that the glad tidings might be
spread the sooner.”
Irishman, by way of illustrating
tbe horrors of solitary confinement, stated
that oat of one hundred persons sentenced
to endnre this punishment for lifo only-fif
teen survived it.