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in broken German. Hans Christoph made
a gesture of repulsion. But the Jew stood
his ground.
•’ ‘ I have very fine things in my knap
sack. such as one does not see every day,’
he persisted.
“‘I want nothing. Get away.’
“ ‘Oh, everybody wants something; and
I have everything that heart can wish.—
Now, if you have e'er a young wife, who
gives vou trouble, have 1 not here my Red
Cap?’ So saying and opening his knap
sack, the Jew drew out several things, and
among them, a parcel in a number of
wrappings. Taking these off, one after
another, he produced a cap of red leather,
which he drew on his hand and exhibited
to the bailiff.
“‘Well: and what is the use of this
leather eap, the like of which, or better, I
can get in the town anywhere for a couple
of groschen ?’ demanded Hans Christoph.
“The Jew shook his head, and smiled
with an air of mystery. ‘Oh, yes! you
can get plenty of caps,’ he cried, ‘ black,
white, grey, yellow, or blue: silver, gold,
or diamond caps—for aught I know ; but
this Red Cap of mine, master, is worth
more than all.’
“‘Eh, fellow ! and how can that be ?’
“ ‘ Because,’ answered the pcdler, solemn
ly— ‘ because my Red Cap is the true cov
ering for his head, worn by the prophet
Elijah, which he dropped on the ground
when he went up to heaven in the chariot
o? fire.’
“‘Der Tausend ! is that true?’ exclaim
the bailiff, with open eyes.
“‘And it has this virtue,’ continued
the Jew, ‘ that to the one who has on the
cap, everybody must tell exactly what he
thinks or purposes.’
“ ‘ You are not jesting ?’
“ 1 And if an old man, who has a young
wife, wears the cap, she will always re
main true as steel to him, and will regard
him as the handsomest man in the world.’
“ ‘Ha! can that be true, pedlar ?’
“ * Weil, master you can make the
trial.’
“ ‘And what is the price of the cap ?’
“ ‘ Three ducats; neither more nor less ?’
“ ‘That is too much, Jew.’
“■Too little, far too little, for such a
wonderful cap as this.’
“‘I will try it.’ Therewith Hans Chris
toph put on the cap, and then called his
wife out of the house. Eva came accord
ingly. As soon as she saw her husband
she exclaimed, in apparent amazement:
“ ‘Oh, Hans, why have you put on such
a strange cap ?’
“* It is a cure for the headache ,’ answer
ed the bailiff. ‘I bought it just now of
the Jew.’
“ Eva deignded not to look at the ped
ler, but fixing her eyes more earnestly up
on her husband : ‘Do you know, dear
Hans,’ she cried, 1 that the cap is wonder
fully becoming to you. You are very
handsome in it!’
*“ Indeed!’ asked the bailiff. ‘lt is be
coming, is it, eh V
“ ‘ You look at least twenty years
younger,’ answered Eva; ‘and if I had
not admired you before, you are certainly
now irresistible!’
“ The astonishment of Hans Christoph
knew no bounds. But there lingered a
shadow of doubt at the bottom of his mind.
To satisfy it he took the cap slowly from
his head and put it on that of the Jew r .—
Eva turned instantly, as noticing the ped
lar for the first time, and exclaimed : ‘But
how comes this handsome young man
here ! I)o not be angry, Hans, but I must
give him a kiss.’ Therewith she ran up
to the Jew; but Hans Christoph rushed
between, snatched the cap from the ped
lar's head, and placed it on his his own,
receiving ins wile s embrace. She took
tio further notice of the Jew.
“ ! lt is really wonderful!’ muttered the
bailiff. ‘Well 1 will nevermore lay aside
the Hed Cap, and will take care, moreover,
that no one else puts it on. liere, Jew,
are your three ducats, and a piece of silver
besides, fur a treat. Now, pack yourself
out of the village, and never let me sec
you again, or you may chance to by burnt
as a conjurer.’
‘• The pedlar took the money’, bowed his
thanks, and went his way.
“ Hans Christoph embraced bis wife and
promised never to torment her again with
his jealousy. She had full liberty thence
forward to sit at the window or the door,
as often and as long as she pleased.”
Mediterranean Wheat.—A correspon
dent of the Winchester, (Va.) Republican,
states that in that part of Virginia, the
Mediterraean wheat escaped rust fetter
than any other variety.
The wheat crop of Washington county,
Pa, it is said, was not Jr ore than half an
average yield this year, in consequence
of rust. A good deal of the Mediterranean
was sown the past season in that county,
and notwithstanding the damage to the
other varieties, the Washington Reporter
pays that “all of this” so far as it can
learn, “has turned out well.”
Secrets foe the Ladies. —As you are
fond of having flowers in the room, you
will, perhaps, be glad to know that about
as much nitrate of soda as can be easily
taken up between the forefinger and thumb,
put into the glass every time the water is
changed, will preserve cut flowers, in all
their beauty, for above a fortnight. Ni
trate of potash, (that is, common saltpetre, 1
in powder, lias dearly the same effect, but
is not quite so efficacious.—Mrs. Loudon's
Lady's Country Companion.
Liquid Style. —A paper in speaking of
a temperance address, says it abounded
with oceans of sentiment, rivers of love, tor
rents of feeling, and a perfect deluge of
sense.
The Proper State.—A chaplain at
one of our state prisons was asked by a
friend how his paiishiouers were. “All
tinder conviction ?” was the answer.
If SHE £!& J “i 1 Q£,
For Richards’ Weekly Gazette.
CHAMBERS’ EDUCATIONAL
COURSE.
Besides the intrinsic value of these works,
as very clear and modern treatises upon
all matters necessary to be learned, they
possess the very great advantage of being
prepared with equal uniformity of plan
both in respect to language and arrange
ment. Thev are the results of the ex
perience and labor of two exceedingly
worthy friends of knowledge, Messrs.
William & Robert Chambers, both of whom
have long devoted themselves to the busi
ness of imparting information ; and whose
efforts have been characterised not more by
industry than good faith. One of the er
rors of Educational Systems in the United
States, which instructors of youth have
cause lament is, thecourseof defer
ring, until a late period in the plan of in
struction, an acquaintance with ‘he more
common and scientific things. Our school
books are framed for words, less than for
principles; and the consequence is that
children leave school utterly ignorant of
all which, as every day people, they are
destined to practice. In other words, they
graduate with minds full of memorised les
sons in Grammar, the rules of Latin and
Greek prosody, an imperfect knowledge of
the principles of Mathematics, some little
smattering of drawing, ignorant of Science
and History, writing badly and spelling
worse, and go forth with those foundations
to discharge their obligations to society, as
men and women. As for a knowledge of
the most common affairs around them, such
as the structure of a Butterfly, the ma
terial and manufacture of the grain which
forms their food, or of the vegetable fibre
of which is made their clothing; these are
regarded as beneath the notice of the stu
dent, while in respect to the more noble
sciences, such as Physiology, Anatomy,
Geology, &c., these if learned at all, must
be acquired late in life, and through facts
rather than as rudiments in schools, The
impropriety of such a method of Education,
appears to have struck the intelligent gen
tlemen, who originated the “Chambers’
Educational Course;” and certainly they
have in the books submitted to us, display
ed a degree of sagacity and faithfulness in
the selection and arrangement, the simplify-
ing, and comprehensiveness, of the several
classes of knowledge, which place them
at the head of all the friends of Education,
ft isnot more than justice to say, that these
gentlemen have not confined their efforts
to the instruction of children : but by a
series of cheap publications, and particu
larly by this Journal, they have imparted to
the working men, and others who have not
had the advantage of Schools, a mass of
information, which has tended greatly to
the amelioration of the human family.—
The writer of this article takes pleasure in
declaring gratefully, that from the Edin
burgh Journal, he has derived more agree
able reading and more solid improvement,
than from his whole Library, itself not a
small one. The articles of their periodica!
are so well adapted to the wants of life,
they are so lucidly, and at the same time,
so elegantly written ; if tales, they are so
well calculated to teach the individual and
social duties of men, so productive of the
emmulation of virtue; if essays, they are
such beautiful applications of the truths of
science and philosophy, to the business of
this world—that morals and manners must
long he deeply indebted to them for much
of their advancement. I* rom a country
but lately brought into civilization, where
the school house has ju>t been reared over
smoKlug fi.es of the ViigVl am , from
the vales of the Cherokee, this tribute rises
to the names of those noble friends and
patrons of Education. May they be bless
ed with a fame as enduring as their reflec
tions of having performed so much good,
are delightful. May the youth of every
;ountry, in their progress to knowledge,
remember with gratitude these benefactors
of the human mind who in the pursuits of
their profession, have not had in view so
much individual profit, as the intellectual
and moral reformation of their fellow men.
The collection of books which have is
sued, as an Educational Course, embraces
every department of knowledge, from di
rections for infant treatment, to the classics.
They are extremely cheap, and cover in
struction in Reading, Composition, Gram
mar Elocution, History, Mathematics the
Sciences, Geography, Writing, and Draw
ing. They form in fine, a complete Libra
ry, and the head of a family with these
books, may instruct his children, at a very
small expense, in every thing necessary to
render them the supports and ornaments of
society. Teachers cannot possess a system
more perfect, or one which would more
readily relieve them of the labors of their
vocations. And in these qualities they are
the beau ideal of a means of education ;
uniting, as we have said, simplicity in ex
planation, with uniformity of style; com
prehensiveness of subjects, with concise
ness of preparation; furnishing the latest
knowledge ol the discoveries and adapta
tions of the Sciences ; combining facility
of arrangement with ease of diction; not
less equal to the relief of the teacher, than
suitable foi the understanding of the pupil.
Not too abstruse for the mind of the infant,
nor yet unworthy the investigation of the
learned man.
The American edition is beautifully
printed, and we hope this effort to supply
the people of the United States with such
valuable publications, will he rewarded by
extensive patronage. B. F. P.
Jfcy* Published by A. S. Barnes & Cos.,
New York,
The Doctor's Friends. —John Aberne
thy, the eminent surgeon, used to tell his
scholars,that all human maladies arose from
two causes —stuffing and fretting.
io©oaii©° wiiiai ©fisaiiic
SPECIMEN ENGRAVING FROM ‘THE SCHOOLFELLOW,’
HAII R Y TWIGGS.
THE SCIENCE OF QUACKERY.
There are few callings in which a great
er amount of cash capital and perverted j
human ingenuity are expended than inthp j
making, puffing, vending, and lying into j
use, of quack nostrums. The following
extract from a speech by Mr. Sanborn, in j
the N. H. Legislature, “gives the devil his j
due” pretty pungently:
“It is pietended that nobody is deceived
by the professions of quacks. Everyday’s
experience contradicts thisassertion. The
rich and the poor, the wise and the simple,
are all occasionally deluded by these cheat- j
ing impostors. The human mind is so j
constituted that we must confide in others.
We are made to trust each other; to he- \
lieve the solemn declarations of our fel- j
lows. Without this mutual confidence so- j
ciety could not exist. Hence the abuse of
It becomes the more odious. None are so
credulous as the sick. They listen readily
to the advice and suggestions of others.—
Fearing the ravages of disease, they eager
ly lay hold of any hope, however delusive,
which empirics may hold out to them.—
The extensive sale of vegetable medicines
proves this. A few years ago, when Mor
rison’s vegetable life pill’s were so popular
in this country, a suit was commenced in
a court in Massachusetts, by Morrison and
and Moat, against John K. Palmer, for
selling a spurious article. It appeared
there in evidence, that the proprietors had
been so successful in England asto he able
to establish the ‘British College of Health.’
at an expense of $250,000, from which
agents were sent into all the principal
cities of Europe and America. The de
mand for these pills became so great in this
country that the sale amounted to $250,-
000 in a single year; and the seller of
spurious pills had disposed of 1 CO,OOO boxes
before he was arrested by the patentee. —
It appeared, furthermore, that this ‘British
College of Health,’ with its high-sounding
name, had neither charter, professors, nor
students, but consisted of an immense build
ing in the suburbs of London, with appro
priate apparatus for the manufacture of
‘Hygeian pills;’ and that the proprietor
was neither surgeon, physician, nor man
of science, but an arch quack. What has
become of his vaunted remedy in the brief
space of ten years'! Gone, like thousands
of its predecessors, to the shades of Erebus
and old Night.
“The fact that now nostrums remain
popular for only a brief period, proves that
their healing virtues, like the disease they
profess to cure, are imaginary. Each
remedy has its brief day of glory, and is
succeeded by a rival candidate for the
popular applause. Each new invention
has a twofold office. It coines to bury the
dead and herald anew race. Every fresh
adventurer denounces all rivals as deceiv
ers and impostors. These makers and
venders of nostrums abuse each other like
pickpockets. They wage upon every fel
low quack an internecine war. Every
member of the fraternity is an Ishinaelitc
to every other. On all sides it is war to
the knife, and the knife to the hilt. The
dead lie prostrate on many a hard fought
field ; hut it is the patients who die, not the
quacks! But are we not bound to believe
what these impostors say of each other!
Who should know the tricks of the trade
better than they ! If we can trust their
promises, we certainly are bound to credit
their assertions concerning the fraternity.
They warn us, ‘as we value health,’ to
shut) all prescriptions of quacks except
their own ; and this is done by every in
ventor of anew medicine. Look at the
flaming advertisements of the rival Doctors
Townsend, which stare us in the face from
every paper printed in Concord, together
with a beautiful wood-cut, representing old
Dr. Jacob Townsend himself. They both
offer for sale a syrup of sarsaparilla. The
old doctor says he has paid $200,000 within
the last eight years for advertising ; and
whence came this immense sum ! We
cannot suppose that any man would devote
more than a tithe of his income to advertis
ing; therefore, the doctor must have been
j doing an excellent business in the sarsapa
rilla line far eight years.”
A Reason for Cleanliness. —Mahomet
j knew that he should never get good Mus-
I sulmen unless he kept their bodies in a fit
‘condition, and therefore, his Koran rccom’
mends water, copiously, and tersely de
clares to his followers, “God loveth the
clean.” It is difficult to believe in a dirty
Christian. To convert a filthy sinner, it
is necessary to begin by washing him.
THE TURN OF LIFE.
From forty to sixty, a man who has
properly regulated himself may be consid
ered in the prime of life. His matured
strength of constitution renders him almost
impervious to attacks of disease, and ex
perience has given his judgment almost
infallibility. Ilis mind is resolute, firm
and equal; all his functions are in the
highest order; he assumes the mastery
over business; builds up a competence on
the foundation he has laid in early child
hood, and passes through a life attended by
man} - gratifications. Having gone a year
or two past sixty, he arrives at a critical
period in the road of existence: the river
of death flows before him, and he remains
at a stand still. But athwart this river is
a viaduct called “The Turn of Life,’
: which if crossed in safety, leads to the val-
I ly of “old age,” round which the river
j winds, and then flows beyond without boat
! or causeway to effect its passage. The
j bridge is, however, constructed of fragile
! materials, and it depends upon how it is
J trodden whether it bend or break. Gout,
apoplexy, and other bad characters also are
in the vicinity to waylay the traveler, and
thrust him from the pass ; but let him gird
up his loins, aid provide himself with a
fitting staff, and he may trudge on in safe
ty with perfect composure. To quit
metaphor, the “Turn of Life” is a turn
either into a prolonged walk or into the
grave. The* system and powers having
reached theinutmost expansion, now begin
either to ctyse like flowers at sunset, or
\ break down at once. One injudicious
j stimulant—l single fatal excitement, may
force it beyqnd its strength—whilst a care
ful supply >f props, and the withdrawal of
all that tents to force a plant, will sustain
it in beauty and in vigor until night has
entirely set— Tne Science of Life.
POPULAR RHYMES AND NURSERY
TALES OF ENGLAND.
Mr. Halliwell has been encouraged, by
the success of his collection of nursery
rhymes, to form a more comprehensive col
lection, aspiring to contain the popular
rhymes of England, on the model of the
Scottish collection of Mr. B. Chambers.—
Wbile regretting that, from defective op
portunity ot want of time on the part of
the editor, it is a less extensive or perfect
assemblage than might be wished, we re
ceive it with pleasure, as at least tending
to supply a desideratum which we bad
long had in view, and as being, in itself,
and as far as it goes, a most agreeable con
tribution to our literature. Mr. Halliwell
gives, like Mr. Chambers, a collection of
rhymes, generally of a proverbial character,
on places and families; also rhymes on
natural objectsand on popular superstitions,
lie puts on record the snatches of quaint
verse employed in the nursery for the
solacement of infants, and amongst child
ren themselves in their amusements; like
wise the prose recitals which pass current
by cottage firesides through all ages, and
all over the land. He gives a serious in
terest to many of these things by tracing
their antiquity and their connection with
similar examples of what Mr. Chambers
originally, we believe, called natural litera
ture, in other countries.
It is curious to learn that variations of
the familiar song on the ladybird belongs
to the vernacular literature of England,
Germany, Denmark, and Sweden ; and that
the riddle, Humpty, Dumpty, sat on a wall,
is, in one form or another, a favorite
throughout Europe. The following is the
Danish version of that ingenious enig
ma :
“ Lille Trille
Laae pae Hylde ;
l.ittle Trille
FuUlt ned af Hylde
Ingon Mand
1 hele Land
Lille Trillo curere kan.”
Which may be thus translated :
“ Lille Trillo
Lay on a shelf;
Little Trille
Thence pitched himself;
Not all the men
In our luuu, l kep,
• an ] ut little Trillt- right again ”
Equally curious is it to learn that an old
woman intrusted with an infant in Jutland
will amuse it, exactly as her remote Eng
lish cousin will do, by touching its features
in sucsession, with a facetious play upon
the name of each—thus :
“ Pamlebcen,
OUteen,
Niosbecn,
Mundelip,
Magotip,
Dikke, kikke, dik.”
That is—
“ Brow-lione,
Eve-stone,
Nose-bone,
Mouth-lip,
Chin-tip,
Dikke. dikke, dik!”
a ticklemenl under the chin following the
last line. Or to find that, while the English
mamma apostrophises the fingers of her
babe, as —
“ Tom Thumbkin,
Pess Bumpkin,
Bill Wilkin,
Long Linkin.
And Little Dick.”
the Danish dame is equally prone to the
following mysterious allusions; —
“ Tommeltot,
Slikkepot,
Lang mand,
Guldobrand,
Lille Peer iSpillemun ’
running over the several digits in succes
sion as she speaks. The last line means
“ Little Peter the Fiddler,” which Mr.
Halliwell justly remarks is not a bad name
for the little finger. The community of
such things to northern Europe and a
country which stands towards it in nearly
the same colonial character as Massachu
setts to Great Britain, seems a sufficient
proof of their great antiquity.
In Favor of Marriage.— Powers, the
sculptor, writing to a friend on what peo
ple call the folly of marrying without the
means to support a family, expresses frank
ly his own fears when he found himself
in this very position. “To tell the truth,
however, family and poverty have done
more to support me than I have to sup
port them. They have compelled me to
make exertions that I hardly thought my
self capable of; and often, when on the
eve of despairing, they have forced me,
like a coward in a corner, to fight like a
hero, not for myself, but for my wife and
little ones. I have now as much work to
do as I can execute, unless I can find some
more assistance in the marble, and I have
a prospect of further commissions.’
The truth, as expressed above by the
sculptor, is like a similar remark we beard
not long since, by a gentleman from Bos
ton, who tried matrimony in the same way,
and found afterwards that the loose change
in his pocket, which he had before squan
dered in ‘foolish notions’—young men’s
whims, as he called them—was enough to
support a prudent wife, who, by well reg
ulated economy, has proved a fortune in
herself, and has saved a snug sum of mo
ney for her once careless husband. ‘A
wife to direct a man towards a proper am
bition, and to a general economy,’ he said,
‘ was like timely succor at sea, to save
him from destruction on a perilous voyage.’
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THOU ART, Oil GOD!
BY THOMAS MOORE.
“ The day ia thine ; the night also is thine ;
thou hast prepared the light and the sun
“ Thou hast set all tho borders of the earth ;
thou hast made summer and winter.
[Psalms lxxiv. 16, 17.
Thou art, oh God! the life and light
Os all this wondrous world we see;
Its slow by day, its smile by night,
Are but reflections caught from Thee.
Where’er wc turn thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are Thine !
When Day, with farewell beam delays
Among the opening clouds of Kven,
And wcean almost think we gazo
Through golden vistas into Heaven—
Those hues, that make the sun’s decline
So soft, so radiant, Lord! are Thine.
When Night, with wings of starry gloom
O’ershadows&ll the earth and skies,
Like some dark, beauteous bird, whose plume
Is sparkling with unnumbered eyes—
That sacred gloom, those tires divine.
So grand, so countless, Lord ! are Thine.
When youthful spring around us breathes
Thy Spirit warms her fragrant sigh ;
And every flower the Summer wreathes
is born beneath that kindling eye.
Where’er we turn, thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are Thine !
SUNDAY READINGS, For Dec. 16.
HEARING THE VOICE OF GOD.
*• I will hear what God the Lord will speak.”—
Psalm Ixxxv. 8.
The whole verse from w hich this pas
sage is selected, presents us with three
things—a wise resolution, “ I will hear
what God the Lord will speak”—a pleas
ing assurance, “foi he will speak peace un
to his people, and to his saints”—and a sea
sonable admonition ; “ but let them not
turn again to folly.” We inquire
What does God speak ?
lie speaks in creation , and see should ad
mire. The grass of the field, the trees of
the forest, the flowers of the garden, hills
and valleys, rocks and mountains, the
mighty cataract, the flowing river, and the
running stream, earth, air, and sea,
“ Tho spacious firmament on high.
With all the blue, ethereal sky,’*
sun, moon, and stars, those glorious orbs
of light, are vocal with Jehovah's praise.
lie speaks in providence , and we should
adore. How delightful is the truth, “Our
times are in his hands” ! and how desira
ble the feeling, “Let him do with ine as
seemeth him good” ! Christians, we are on
the mighty waters, tossed with wave upon
wave, but our Father is at the helm ; we
have a wise pilot, who will land us.safe on
Canaan’s peaceful shores.
fit peaks in the Gospel, and we should
hear. How few r visit the house of God with
this impression fixed on the mind ! But
what does he speak I Peace to his people,
terror to his enemies, and encouragement to
the penitent.
How .should we hear ? It is God that
speaks, and therefore we should hear with
attention. God speaks to us, therefore we
should hear with self-application. We are
too prone to hear for others instead of our
selves. I recollect the remark of a Welsh
preacher, now in glory, It is a good thing
when the sermon makes the hearer go home
quarreling with himself. God speaks to us
for our benefit, therefore we should hear
without delay. God speaks once, yea, even
twice ; we have line upon line, and precept
upon precept. The fire is not always
brought out of the flint the first time it is
struck; nor are spiritual affections kindled
under the first entreaties of the Gospel.
Defer not the consideration of divine things
to a future season.
“ElBiLAiaC" 1 ”
“ Typograhic.al Feat. —Mr. Jas. H.
Baker, a compositor in the Virginian office,
set up on one day, in long primer, thirteen
thousand six hundred ‘ems.’ The working
time wasbut a few 7 minutesovernine hours.
In the hour necessarily lost, he could have
put up fourteen hundred more, thusaccom
plishing fifteen thousand ems per day. If
any brethren of the craft can beat this, we
should like to hear from them.”
So says the Winchester Virginian. Our
compositorsexpress an ardent desire to give
this remarkable compositor a trial; for they
think that they could spell beyond “Ba
ker” in their “long-primer” here.— Tele
graph.
How a Lady can Marry and yet Re
main Single. —By the Reville, we find that
Miss Jane Bosswell, of St. Louis, was mar
ried on the 23rd of August, at Bell Falls,
Wisconsin, to Mr. Benjamin Single. Thus
though the young lady was married, she
enjoy? “ Single blessedness.”
Tiie Sioux Treaty. —The Minesota
Register states that the United States com
missioners, Governors Ramsey and Cham
bers, had had a meeting with about 3000
of the Sioux Indians, but were unable to
make a treaty with them for the purchase
of their lands. An attempt was made to
purchase of the half-breeds a tract of land
they own, which lies on the west side of
the Mississippi, opposite Lake Pepin, 35
miles on ‘he river, and extending back a
distance of 15 miles. A council was to be
held on the 15th instant with three bands
of Sioux for the purpose of negotiation.
Tiie Ciierokef.s. —The Cherokee Na
tional Council, or Legislature, met on the
Ist inst. at Tahlequah, the national capital
The message of the principal Chief was re
ceived and read, hut its contents have not
yet been made known through the Advo
cate. That paper thus pictures the pros
perity of the Cherokees : “The nation is
now blessed with peace and harmony, and
the greater portion of the farmers are rais
ing a competency of the stall of life, and
other produce necessary for the sustenance
of nature. Our common schools are in suc
cessful operation throughout the nation, so
lhat many of our children are now in acon
| dition to enterthe seminaries for farther ad-
I vancement in their education —whilst oth
ers of our citizens have been improving the
| country with the erection of machinery of
i one kind or other—such as saw and grist
! mills, &c. And to compare our condition
i now r with what it was some twenty or thir
; ty years ago, one would suppose that we
| were not the same people, but we are Cher
okees yet.”
Frank Courtship. An old Count paid
paid his addresses to one of the richest heir
esses of Paris. In asking herhand in mar
riage, he frankly said to her: “ Miss 8., I
am very old, and you are very young; will
you do tne the honor to become my wid
ow r
Ladies for California. —A young la
dy of Boston has accepted an offer of S4OO
per month to act as book-keeper in a mer
cantile house in San Francisco. We also
learn that several young ladies are about
leaving Boston for California.
More female Physicians. —Among the
pupils attending the lectures of the Medical
College, recently opened at Syracuse, N.
Y., are Mrs. Gleason, of the Glen Haven
Water Cure; Mrs. Davis, of Mt. Morris;
and Miss Mary RI. Taylor, of Buffalo.
Self Reliance. —lnfancy conforms to
nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe
commonly makes four or five out of the
adults who prattle and play to it. So God
has armed youth and puberty and manhood
no less with its own piquancy and charm,
and made it enviable and gracious, arid its
claims not to be put by, if it will stand by
itself. Do not think the youth has no
force because he cannot speak to you and
me. Hark ! in the next room, who spoke
so clear and emphatic I Good Heaven !it
is he; it is that very lump of bashfulness
and phlegm which for weeks has done
nothing but eat when you were by, that
now rolls out these words like bell-strokes.
It seems he knows how to speak to his
contemporaries. Bashful or bold, then, he
will know how to make us seniors very
unnecessary.— Emerson.
Love. —Love never contracts its circles;
they widen by as fixed and sure n law as
those around a pebble cast into still water.
The angel of love, when, full of sorrow he
followed the first exiles, behind whom the
gates of Paradise shut with that mournful
clang, (of which some faint echo has
lingered in the hearts of all their offspring,)
unwittingly, snapped off'and brought away
in his hand the seed-pod of one of the
never failing flowers which grew there.—
Into all dreary and desolate places fell
some of its blessed kernels ; they asked
but little soil to root themselves in, and in
this narrow patch of our poor clay they
sprang most quickly and sturdily. Gladly
j they grew, and from them all time has been
sown with whatever gives a higher hope
to the soul, or made life nobler and more
godlike ; while from the over-arching sky
| of posey sweet dew forever falls, to nurse
and keep them green and fresh from the
| world’s dust.
f-iagWililpislaC
A TRUE STORY.
While on a visit to the North in the
year 1841, I was invited to a party one
evening in a country town, a place cele
brated for making boots and shoes, near
the city of Boston. During the evening
the old man and wife, and some ten or fif
teen others, got seated in one corner of the
room, and I among the rest. After hearing
a number of good stories told, I was called
upon for one, when I begged to be excused,
not being in the habit of telling stories.
‘ Well ; ’ said the old man, ‘ can’t you tell
something about New Orleans, and how
the people there make money so fast and
get rich V
‘ VV’ by,’ said 1, ‘ if that is all you want
to know I can tell you very soon. Now,
for instance, suppose you go out to New
Orleans with a stock of boots and shoes
amounting to some thirty thousand dollars,
and I am already there with the same
1 amount you open your stock and set up
trade next door to me; the store is so con
structed that only a hoard partitiou divides
our two stocks of goods. Well, the Yel
low Fever sets in, and you die; whilst
they are burying you I hire a carpenter to
| come to my store and take down the board
j partition as quick as possible; you see,
| now, that the store is all in one, and the
! stock in trade is all mine ! If any of your
friends should by chance call on me to
j know if I knew anything about your ef
j sects, I would promptly answer in the
! negative, and state that you were only act
ing for me when alive !’
Says the old man and wife, 1 La, is it
j possible!’
I M> conscience!’ exclaimed another,
| • what sort of folks have you down in that
j Orleans!’
Said I, ‘ every body minds their own
business; that’s one way we get rich.’
J ‘By jings!’ said Ben, ‘l’m going to try
my luck there next fall.’
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‘ But,’ said I, ‘ there is one other way to
j get rich—by getting up very early in the
: morning, which the Yankees out there are
! very apt to do. The mercantile houses
j that are doing business on a large scale re
ceive a gieat deal of gold in kegs, and in
the hurry of business, while rolling them
; into the store, some of the doubloons often
j roll out of the keg either on the floor or
i sidewalk ; the clerk sweeps them into the
i gutter, and the Yankees pick them up ear
: 1} in the morning.’
j ‘ Oh, golly !’ said a tall Yankee, juinp-
I ing up from his chair and running his hands
j into his breeches pockets, 1 Let’s go and get
j a mug of Flip!'— N. O. Picayune.
KNOWLEDGE FOR TIIE PEOPLE.
the vegetable kingdom.
Annual flowering plants resemble whales,
| as they come up to blow,
i Flowers are very warlike in their dispo
j sitions, and well provided with pistils.
. As with the human family, the lower
! portion of all plants are radicles.
Trees are migratory in their habits, for
wherever they may winter, they are sure
j to leave in the spring; most of them are
extremely polite and full of boughs.
The external coating of many trees is
I the most valuable part. Cork trees and
boot-trees for instance.
Grain and seeds are not considered dan
gerous except when about to shoot.
Some trees are like watch dogs, princi
pally valuable on account of their bark.
A small quantity of bark will make a
rope, but it requires a large pile of wood
to make a cord.
Although there are no vegetable dan
dies, yet there are a great many spruce
trees.
Most trees are respectable. A number,
j however, of locusses are found among
them.
It is considered to be proper to ax trees
before you fell them.
All fruit trees have military propensi
ties. When young they are well-trained;
they produce many kernels, and their
shoots are very straight.
Grain is treated like infants. When tho
head becomes heavy it is cradled; and
generally well threshed to render it tit for
use.
Tares are found among the small grains
only, which is the reason that they alone
require sewing.— Knickerbocker.
Bfzif” “ Beautiful weather, sir,” said a
I minister to a codger from New Algiers,
awhile since. “ Yecs, Yees,” replied the
fisherman, “ sich weather as we reads of.
“ I don’t recollect the passage, my dear
j sir,” returned the parson. “ VVal, b)
thunder, that ’ere’s a gude ’un,” retorted
the man of ichthyology, “don’t you neve
read your almanac 1”
The American Cabinet tells a stor)
iof a dog in North Attleboro’, who chc^
! tobacco continually. What a nasty brute
BS3t5“- “In virtue of my office, I R |rr '’
you,” said a Sheriff to a wild chap ‘h c
other day.
“ Virtue! —now Mr. Sheriff! you don t
pretend there is any virtue either in ) oU
or your office, surely. I could tell thin?
about you to prove there’s no virtue 111
you.”
CfeS"” Wed- nesday is the proper time to
get married.
fiaT - Many women complain of not be
ing loved, who would be loved more •
‘they complained less.