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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.’ a£iJ® j ® u 3 ♦ 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.’ - ‘ 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.