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Come to Jesus.
Who it Jesus ?
This is a most important inquiry, be
cause no one can rightly comply with
the invitation, “Come to Jesns,” with
out a correct knowledge of who ho is.
Much depends on the answer we give
to the question, “What think ye of
Christ?”
JESUS IS GOD.
, Before he appeared on earth; he had
from eternily possessed all the perfec
tions of Deity. As the Father is God,
so also Jesus is (Jod. This is a great
mystery, but it is a great truth. The
Bible clearly declares it. lie is call
ed “The Word;” and St. John tells us.
“In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God, and the Word
was God. All things were made by
him, and without him was not any thing
made that was made.” And, “The
Word was made flesh, and dwelt among
us.” Speaking ofhinaself, Jesus said,
“Before Abraham was, I am.” He
referred to the “glory which he had,
with the Father before the world be- j
gan;” and declared, “I and the Father
are one.” We are told that he is “the
brightness of the Father’s glory,” “the
image of the invisible God,” “God man
ifest in the flesh,” that “he is the sane
yesterday, to-day, and for ever;” and
that “in him dweleth all the fulness of
the Godhead bodily.”
Jesus, therefore, is God; and is per- j
feet in power, and wisdom, and good- j
ness. There is nothing he cannot do; j
and as lie never can change, he will i
never be unfaithful to his promises. l
Now, poor sinner, this is just such a
Saviour as you want. If you needed
a protector from some great danger,
yotf would go to someone who was
mighty. Who so mighty as Jesus?
All that God can do, he can do. There
are rio difficulties, dangers, or foes he
is unable to conquer tor you. What
ever your weakness, iris strength must
be all-sufficient. It is not some frail
fellow.man, it is not even an angel you
are to trust in. It is one infinitely
higher than all created beings—even
the great God, mighty to save We
should have cause to fear, if any one
inferior were our Saviour. But we
may feel quite safe when he undertakes
to save, who is the Lord ofheaven and
earth. Who can harm us, if he pro
mises to help us ? “If God be for us,
who can be against us?” His power,
wisdom holiness, and goodness are all
employed on our behalf, as soon as we
corne to Jesus. With such a Saviour
we cannot perish. “II ■is able to s; i .u
to the UTTERMOST.”
See John 1 ; 1-3, 14; 8 : 58; 10 . 30;
17 -V5; Col. 1 ; 14-20; 3 : 0; 1 Tim.
3 : Heb. 1 : 33-28; 23 : “j.
Jesus is Man.
Imsis as true us that lie is God. 1
“God so loved the world, that he sent
his only begotten Son.” And Jesus,
though “equal with God,” “took upon
him the form of a servunt, and was made
in the likeness of ;nea, and was found
fashion as a 7/iva.” He wns pfedic-’
ted as “a man of sorrows,” and frequent-)
ly styled himself “the Son of man.”
He became man in order to obey the
law we had broken and to suffer the
punishment we had merited. Because
no one can see God, he lived among us
as a man, that from his spirit arid con
duct we might have a clearer idea of
what God is. Thus he said, “lie that
hath seen me, hath seen the Father.”
And he became a man that, suffering
what we suffer, might feel sure that lie
can sympathize with us. Thus we
read, “In that lie himself hath suffered,
being tempted, he is able ‘o succor them
that are tempted;*’ and, “We have not a j
high priest which cannot bo touched !
with the feeling of our infirmities,’ hut 1
was in all points tempted like as we
are.”
Think, then, of Jesns as a man.
Yonder is a funeral. It is a widow’s
only son, and she follows the corpse
v. hh a broken heart. Who is the man
that sees her afar off', pities her, goes up
to the dead body, restores it to life, ami
di livers tite soil to his mother? That
loviuij but man is Jesus. Who
is this standing amid a crowd of little
children-, and taking them so kindly in
iiis arms to bless them? it is Jesus.
Who is that mourner weeping at the
i grave of Lazarus? It is Jesus. Who
I is it that all the sick, and the poor, and
j the sorrowful run after, and who heals
and comforts them all, refusing none?
It is Jesus. He is stiff the same; a lov
j ing, tender, compassionate man. You
need not be afraid of ii m; he is a
man, your brother. Ii is he who says
|tu you, “Conte unto me.” Listen to
j IwiiT, sinner. He is the mighty God,
and able to save you; but be is also
I “the man of sorrows,” and full of sym
pathy and love. He knows, feels, and
i pi,h s all your weakness, frailties, and
tears, lie bids you not bo afraid. As
j a brother-man, tie stands with looks o!
unutterable kindness, and says, “Come
umo me; come unto me.” O treat not
with indifference so loving a Friend.
Listen to him. Let your heart be
touched by his tenderness. Trust in
his promises. Come to Jesus at once.
Rely on him as your Saviour, and obey
him ss your King, and he will be to you
the “Friend that sticketh closer than a
brother.”
Read Isaiah 53; Matt. 26, 27; Luke
7: 11-15; John 3: 10.17, 9; Phil. 2:
5-11; lleb. 2: 17, 18.
Nature. —ls there be a scene to stir
in our souls all our thankfulness to God,
and all our love for man, it is that of Na
ture. When we behold the beautiful
pgogresion of the Seasons—when we see
how leaves and flowers burst forth and
spread themselves over the earth by
myriads in spring,—how summer and
autumn fill the world with loveliness
and fragrance, with corn and fruits, it is
impossible not to feel our hearts‘breathe
perpetual benediction’s to the great
Founder and Provider of the world, and
warm with sympathetic affection to
wards onr own race, for whom he has
thought fit to prepare all this happiness, j
| There is no time in which i feel these |
| sentiments more strongly than when 1 |
| uehold the moon rising over a solitary !
J landscape. The repose of all creatures
lon the earth makes more sensibly felt
I the incessant care of him who thus
| sends us ‘his great light to rule the
. night,’ and to shine softly and silently
Hoove millions of sleeping creatures,
‘.that take no thought for themselves.!
Richard Howit.
“Whose Sen is this Youth “
Last Sabbaih was a day fraught
j with deeply solemn interest to the
j Brothers of Bethel Division, Sons of
i Temperance, and will doubtless long
|be remembered by the surrounding j
j community. It was the day upon
| which the funeral sermon of twd of its I
members was preached, under circum- 1
| stances that will rarely, if ever, again j
| occur. The one was a young man full
of hope and but just verging into man-
I hood’s prime; the other an aged man
j who had outlived the deceitful promises
j of hope, and well nigh passed through
man’s allotted time on earth. The one 1
died far from his native land, away ‘
: from the loved ottos of his heart, sur-
I rounded hv st.angers, with no relative
by to close his eyes in death and re
ceive his dying messages. The other
died in the bosom of his family at home
attended by kind friends and sympathi
zing neighbors, who vied with each
‘other in discharging ihe last offices of
iin iiilship, and smoothing iiis pathway :
to. I ho tomb.
That day had been appointed by the’
Div ision some weeks helure the funeral ,
services of the young than, and a broth-;
er from a distant Division invited to j
preach tlie sermon. On the Saturday j
before the “grim monster,’ who is ever
busily engaged in cutting down the liv
ing, entered the folds of the Order and
summoned the old man to take up his
journey to that ‘undiscovered country
from whose bourne no traveller returns.’
When the Sabbath crime, the Diyisionj
in addition to the funeral services ap- !
PENFIELD, GA. APRIL 24, 1852.
pointed previous to that time for the
young man, had to perform the melan
choly duty of committing to the dust the
mortal regains of the old man. It was
a striking coincidence, well calculated
to lead the minds of the vast multitude
assembled there to profitable meditation
upon the ways of that in sc affable l’ro
vidence which overrules and . governs
all things.
The preacher, the Rev. Mr. Root, of
Tuskegee, selected as his text the inter,
rogation at tne head of this article, and
after an interesting exposition of th,
circumstances under which the qmes. |
j tion was asked, applied it to the young (
lii/an whose funeral sermon he was
‘preaching. Born on the other side of:
the broad Atlantic, lie came to this!
, ‘land of the free’ to seek a home among
strangers. But little was known of liis
natural parents or of his early life.—
lie was a ‘Son of Temperance’—and
consequently an heir of the blessings
which pertain to the household of tem
perance.—Here the preacher expatia
ted upon the blessings of this household
in a manner which riviied tho attention!
| of iiis congregation for some time, and a j
strong appeal to all present so to con-i
! duct themselves, that when this ques-1
lion should he asked concerning their!
children, the answer should not he]
I ‘they arc the children of tliaTuntbriu- j
mate man who, a for bringing them to:
poverty and wretchedness, and entail
ing upon them an inheritance of infa
my, tilled the drunkard’s grave and
the drunkard's hell.’ Oh! the great
; responsibility resting upon parents!
How many scores and hundreds disre
gard it altogether.’
This young man, like thousands of
others, was induced by the hope of bet
tering liiscondition pecuniarily to try liis
fortune in California—hut unlike thou
sands of others who go there, lie did not
leave liis fledge behind him. He car
ried it with him and kept it inviolate.
And when upon the crowded vessel,
surrounded by strangers, the fatal dis
ease seized upon him and laid the
strong man low, a brother of the ‘mys
tic tie’—though a stranger, yet a broth
er—ministered to his wants, closed his
eyes in death, and returned his car l
and Church letters to his brethren, with
the assurance that he died in peace and
great tranquility. But he was also a
Son of God through Christ, and an
heir of the Kingdom. 4’he preacher
. dilated at large upon the blessings in
reserve for those who through faith in
Ciirist Jesus became ncirs of the king
dom, and earnestly entreated his con
gregation to seek an interest in that
kingdom while it could be secured.
it was a peculiarly interesting ser
mon and cannot fail to be productive
of much good. The funeral Ceremony
of our Order is beautiful and impres
sive. The lust salutation ‘Brother!!
Farewell !’ falls solemnly upon the ear
and impresses a melancholy lesson up
on the heart of each brother reminding j
him of the time soon to come when his
biethren, after having discharged the!
| last sacred duties due the dead from the !
j living, shall pass in slow, solemn tread
i by his grave and say, ‘Brother farewell.
RICHARD H. POWELL.
Chronic Bronchitis.
We conceive the an (Kneed remarks,
of Dr. Cooper of sufficient weight to
recommend them to the consideration 1
jof those who labor under this direful’
’ disease; They are taken from the
New.York Advertiser.
The lute lamented death of L)r. Rush !
from that form ol consumption known j
as chronic bronchitis, painfully reminds I
| of ii duty the subscriber owes to liis pro
, Cession- and to society, of making known ]
ja simple form of treatment that has]
never failed him in curing this form of,
! consumption, so destructive to the cleri
cal and literary professions; thistrcat-l
• mam is nearly of equal efficacy in ca- j
j tarrhal phthisic, and as a valuable reme-1
Iffy lor consumption in all its for fas ]
■ when in its chronic slages, and free!
from any fall iminatory symptoms.— .
liiis treatment is based on the patfiolo- \
! ly of consumption, us the generic name
lor diseases.
Under the natue of consumption are
included that vat'iety of'disease of tiio
lungs attended with expectoration of
| purulent matter from the breathing sur
face of ihe Lungs, connected with ema
ciation, hectic fever, and as concomi
tants, night sweats, colliquative diar
rhoea, &c. All the forms of consump
tion act on the general health from one I
common cuuse, the presence of matter
acting on absorbing surfaces, and thus
producing those symptoms known as
iiectic (ever. It is the presence and
violence of this sympton of consump
tion, that prostrates tiie patient, until it
more or less slowly ends in death. It
is the consequence of this hectic fever,
and not the immediate disease of the
lungs causing it, that forms the source
of fatality from consumption.
The treatment 1 now with reluctant
diffidence submit, 1 have successfully |
used for mare than twelve years,. and !
during that period of medical practice, |
I am no: awareof having lost more th <n I
four or five patients from all the vttri
aus forms of consumption, and these
were mostly passed to that stage of dis
ease where the structure of the lungs
had become so extensively diseased as
to preclude the use of more than pallia
tive treatment. Cases ofchronic bron
chitis were in every instance cured by
it; even when tire purulent expectora
tion amounted to pints daily, with hec
tic fever, diarrhcoa. and entire physical
prostration.
The treatment isUhe administration of |
sulphate of copper, nauseating doses, j
j combined with gum ammoniac, given !
iso as to nauseate, but not ordinarily to j
produce full vomiting; the usual dose’
! for this purpose is about half a grain of
i sulphate; of copper, anil five grains of
i gum ammoniac, in a teaspoon ful of.wa
iter, to be taken at first twice, and in,
. the convalescent stages once a day. ’ j
In cases of chronic bronchitis, a gar-!
gle the sulphate of copper alone is su-l
peraddod. lu-liiis latter form of con- \
! sumption this treatment almost invaria
bly suspends the hectic symptoms in a
| few days, and the disease rapidly ad:
vancqs to its final cure,
i In cases of the more proper forms of
| consumption, the treatment must ho in
termitted frequently and again returp
jed to; and whenever soreness of the
j chest er other symptoms ofinflamma
| tory action exist, the treatment should,
be suspended, as it is ir. the chronic
state alone that the remedy is indicated !
or useful ; that state in which the gen-1
era!’system, as sympathetically involv-j
ed, becomes the more prominent symp
tom, and the success of the treatment
depends chiefly on the breaking up tne!
sympathetic action of the diseased lung
on the more healthy tone of the stdm
ach, and increasing its digestive power,
and likewise causing, during nauseate!
action, a more active and healthy eir-;
culatioipof blood through the lungs. Its
curative powers are more immediately
Rtrributable to these effects of its action.
But theory apart, the treatment is based
on more than ten years’ experience of
its curative advantages, in the proper:
treatment of mucupuruleat and puru
lent expectoration.
Having left a profession that more
nearly than any other approaches the
pure duties of humanity, but which has,
nearly ceased in this country to be hon- i
orable or profitable, I have little motive
in exposing myself to that certain ridi
cule that follows the annunciation that
j consumption may be cured, but the as
jsurance of practical experience, and
the desire of making public a means of
saving life in one of its most frequent
and unwelcome exits.
Ed. C. Cooper, M. D.
Electro-Phygiolo^y.
Electic Shocks produced by Cats and
{ Cotes. The fact that certain species of
| fishes possess tho power of producing;
| benumbing sensations and shocks was!
j noticed very early, as appears by the
writings of Pliny and Aristotle. Ttiis
j power has been found by modern sci
! ence to bn identical with that of elec
! tricity. Several different species of
! fishes are known in our time, as produ
| cing electricity at will; among them
! tbe Silurns, tho Gymnotus anil the
! Torpedo are pre-eminent. Humbolt,
! traveling in South America, had the op-!
! port unity of seeing horses knocked
] down by the Gytnuotus, and experien
ced severe pain in his knees during the
| whole day. from having unconsciously
; trodden on one just drawn out of the wit
! ter. The source of this magnetic pow
!er has been traced by learned men to
; vesicular organs, filled with a Ynucous
, substance, subserving tiie purpose” of j
| a galvanic Battery. In one organ Mr. |
I Hunter counted 1,182 different cells,!
i all connected by nerves. In studying
these facts, Prof, Becjceinsteiner, olj
Lyons, was struck by the analogy of
tiie cells ofelectric fishes with certain |
minute vessels, united by nerves and
moistened by mucous, which exist’in’
neurlj all kinds of animals, and are]
found most dev'el >ped in man at the pe
riod of the greatest strength, but col-’
lapsed and up in old age. lie began
a series of experiments, and alter three’
years’ investigation has lately publish- !
ed the following result: When the j
temperature is below 32deg. the wind I
north and the sky clear, expose a oat’
to the cold until his fur hos close to the 1
skin and appears greasy; expose your
bands to make them equally cold; then
take the animal on your knees, apply j
the fingers of your left hand on its;
breast, and pass your right hand down
its buck, pressing moderately; at the j
fifth or sixth pavs, yon will receive u
slight electric “hock. At. first the cat
appears pleased, but as soon as it seres!
the shock it jumps away, and will not
stand a repetition of the experiment du
ring the san>e day. After the experi
ment, the animal looks tired, some!’
days afterward it loses its appetite,’
seeks solitude, drinks water at rare in
tervitls and dies in a fori night. The : ’
same experiment has st; ‘deeded wlfli:
rabbits; they die the sum ■ day, It o ‘
with* dogs, opec only it’ 1
has been made on a cow, she was tied!
to an Iron ring; the ‘ground was froxeii; j
one Band was placed on the breasTand j
the other passed down the back, when j
sucdi an electric shock oecured that Mr.
B. was thrown to the ground. The
cow appeared very much irritated, but
it. Was impossible to “know it she suf
tere i from it, since she was killed by a
butcher three days afterward.
A Siltarlan Winter
The traveler in Siberia, during the I
winter, is enveloped in furs that he can ■
;scarcely inov n , and under the. thick i
fur hood, which is fastened to tho bear ;
.skin collar, and covers the whole.faq<\ i
one can only, draw in, as it w, re by
stealth, a linlc of tbo external air, i
whioh is so keen that it causes a very ;
peculiar feeling to the throat and lungs.
I’lic distance From one halting place to
j another takes about ten hours, during
which time tite traveler must always
remain on horseback, as the fcumbrous
j dress makes it unsuportublo to wade
through tiie snow. The poor horses
suffer at least us much as their fillers,
for besides ihe general effect of the cold,
they art’ tormented by ice firming in
their nostrils, and sloping their breath
ing. VVhen they intimate this.by a dis
tressed snort and convulsive shake of
head, tho drivers relieve them by ta
king out the pieces of ice, to save them
j from being suffocated. When the icy
: ground is not covered with snow, their
hoofs often burst from tiie effects of the
odd. The caravan is. always sur
rounded Dy a thick cloud, of vapour;
]it is no"t Duly living bodies which pro.
jduee this effect, but even snow smokes.
! These evaporations are instantly
! changed into millions of ice, which till i
(the air, and cause a constant slight]
I noise, resembling the sound of torn sa- ■
! tin or thick silk. Evert the reindeer!
; setks the forest to protect himself from ‘
- ihe intensity of the cold. In the tundras]
where there is no shelter to he found,
the whole herd crowd together as close
as possible to get a .little wanning from
each other, and may lie seen standing
i this way, quite motionless, - only the
dark bird of winter, the raven, still
cleaves the icy air with a slow and
heavy wing, leaving behind him a long
Ihtn line of vapour, making the track
j of his solitary flight.
The influence of tho extends to inan
] inflate, natilre. The thickest trunks of
trees are rent asunder with a loud
sound, winch, in these deserts, foils on
the ear like a signal shot at sea: large-i
masses ol rocks are torn from their an
cient cites, the ground in tundras and
in the rocky valleys crack, forming!
wide yawning fissures from which the j
waters which wore beneath tiie sur
face rise, giving off” a cloud of vapor; !
and becoming immediately changed in- 1
to ice. The effect of tins degree of;
cold extends even beyond the earth. |
The beauty of the deep polar mar, ho !
often and justly praised, disappears in 1
the denge atmosphere which tho inten-!
sity of the cold produces. The stars i
will glisten in tiie firmament, hut their
brilliancy is dimmed.— Travels in the.
Nerlh.
Height and Weight of Men. —The
average height of Europeans at birth i
generally 16 inches; female children
! being of less size in the proportion of j
480 to 460. In. each of the twelve:
years after birth, one-twelfth is added i
to the statutre each year; between tlu-j
ages of 12 artd 20, the growth of thej
body-proceeds milch more slowly, and !
| between the ages of 20 and 25, when
; the height of the body usually attains;
; its maximum, it is still further dimin-j
foiled. This point being reached, it is;
j found'that tiie increase is about three;
; and one quarter times greater than at i
! the period of birth. In old age, the!
i height of the old body decreases on the
; average about three inches. In gener
al ihe heigut varies less, in’ women ol
! different countries than men.
i There is difference in the weight of
s xi-s both at biriii and mfancy. The
j average weight ol a male child at blrlhl
i is about 7 lbs, and of a female child on
;ly about 6 1-2 lbs. The weight of u
! new born infant decreases for the first
throe or four days after birth, aud it!
|.does not xensibiy commence to gain
: vveiglit-untilpt is a week old. At the
;end ol the first your, the child is near-!
|ly 3 times as heavy as when it was
born. At the age ot’ seven years it is
i vvice as heavy us at the end of the first!
year, ‘ and at fourteen years old its
a eight is quadrupled. The average
weight ol each sex is nearly the sane'!
at me age ot 12, but nftor that period, ‘■
taking individuals of the same age,
the loinale will lie found to weigh less!
n • r
than males, U lieu tiie weight of the;
boy lias reached is average maximum,
it is aOout utr.et mi times heavier than
at the time ot birth. The aveiuge’
weight of men is about 139 pounds,’
and of women about tl2 pound , of’
aduiis, without distinction ot sex,about’
129 pounds. In case of individuals pt;
bom sexes who are under the ueieht o!
O l
4 loot 4 iucims, females are ,oiticwi*at l
heavier tliun men; but it’ above tiltsi
l
| height men Weigh more than women,
j Men attain their maximum weight a
] bout the age of fol ly, and women at or
nearly the age ot fit’y. At tho age off
sixty both the one and the other usual,
ly comment e losing tin ir weight ard
the average weight of old persons of
either sex is nearly tho same as at nitte
to-n years of age.
Great Results from Small Begin
nings.—Bert hold Shwartz, according to
common report, having in some of liis
in aloherny, put into a
common mortar a mixture of saltpetre
| ami other combustible materials ucci
: dentally dropped in a spark, when ho
j was astonished to soe the pestle fly oil”
! iiitotho air. Tins incident furnished two
| ideas—that of the increased power of
jguup >wder. where confined, and that of
i its a; piicabi iiy to the propulsion of
j heavy bodies. These two simple ideas,
! carried out into practice, produced guns,,
large and small, and revolutioned tho
entire system of war.
The vibrations of the lid of an iron
tea kettle gave the first hint of the ex
pansive of steam. The hint, fol.
lowed out through innumerable experi
menls, finally ended in the modern
steam engine, which is fast revolution
izing the mode of both land and water
carriage.
The first idea of our modern rail
ways—am! it is a very simple idea—
came fram a mine near Newcastle,
England. The plan occurred to some
one of “laying rails of timber exactly
straight, and parallel;; and bulky earta
were made with tour rollers fitting those
rails, whereby the carriage was made
| so easy that one horse would draw four
| or live chaldrons of coal.”
Thus coal was conveyed from the
i mines to the bunk of the river Tyne.
This mode was in practice in 1676 ;
j how much earlier, is not known to us,
probably to no one ; for, though a gieal
! idea, it was like most other great ideas,
! thought of little account at the time of
its rcioin. Like Columbus’s method
of making an egg stand on the big end
By jarring it so as to break the yolk, it
was thought to he too simple to deservo
any praise. Nevertheless out of this
siinple iden sprang one hundred and
fifty years afterward the modern rail
way.
It had been noticed by chemists, that
flame cannot he made to pass through
a tube of small tiiinater. In the hand*
jof.'ir Humphrey Davy, this fact grew
1 into the miner’s safety lamp, which ha
’ saved the lives of thousands.
The magnet had been for centuries a
i plaything in Europe. At last its prop
; ertv, when freely.suspended, ol taking
’ a North and South position was noticed,
1 and applied to navigation. This resul
ted in the discovery of America,
i The power of the sun s rays to dis
| color certain substances, had long boen
‘known. In the hands of Daguerre,
ibis great fact grew into a most beauti
! ful and perfect method of taking minia
tures.
From Volta’s simple pile, to Morse’s
; magnetic telegraph, what a stride, yet
| this stride is only the carrying out into
! practice of certain-vqry simple proper
’ ties of gal variism an ! megneiisnrp.
j So we might go on to enumerate the
! instances in which a very simple idea
! bus ended in mighty results.— Ohio.
, Observer.
’ Water. Melon Butter. —A Corres
pondent of tlm Praric Farmer, presents
the following ,m2l had of using water
melons; .
“ I endeavor every year to raiso
a good wiit -r-mellon patch. Filey are
! a healthy and delightful fruit, 1 think,
I cultivate tiie ice rind variety; j lant
early in May, and again towards tho
close of the month, so that they may
] come in succession. When they com
mence eating, and use them freely du
ring th- hot weather. When the weath
er becomes cool in September, wc haul
a quantity of tlicm open with a spoon,
scrape'out pulps into a cullender, and
strain the water info vessels. We boil
it in an iron vessel down to syrup, then
put in apples or peaches, like malting
j apple butter, boil slowly, until the fruit
; is well cooked then spice to taste, and
; you have something that most ol people
i will prefer to apple butter, or any kind
!of preserves. Ortho syrup may bA
boiled without fruit down to molasses
which will he found to lie as line as tho
best sugar house molasses. Wo have
iruuluof a fall us much us ten gallons
of the apple butter, if l may so call it,
and molasses, whiehdius kept until May
in a fine condition.”
A witness in a court of justice, be
ing asked what find of oar-marks the
hug in question had, replied that “ha
had no par icnlar ear-triarks, except a
very short tail.”
“Hans, w here is yoijr father?”
“I lev’s gone olios!to ffer street across
dor blacksmidst shoo, mil the sorrel
wagon and the green horse ”
“When do you expect him hack?”
“Yaw.”
NO. 17.