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f.UAL INSTANCE OF THE DANGER OF CIKCL'M.
STANTIAt. EVIDENCE.
(’fiance, nnd that spirit of inquiry which
Paul I’ry excuses in himself by ending it the
characteristic of the age, once lei iis to v.sit
tlic lunatic'asylum at Charenton. Ami and t lie
many saJ and afflicting instances ol debased
and degraded humanity we met with, one man
struck us most particularly, lie was ainm!
five and thirty years of age. tall and well built,
with a lofty forehead ami dec > set |*:nctra‘iiig
eve. Tite whole character of his head was
highly iotcl'ectua! ; hut the express i of his
features was melancholy and depressing l>e
vo:id anything words r.li give any idea of.
Tne f'ice was deadly pale, ami marked by small
blue veins ; and ihe dragged uuiitli ami down
cast look bespoke utter despair, lie never
noticed liie persons alront him, but slarc'J
fixedly at vacancy, ami mattered constantly '
in a broken and supplicating roice, as if en
treating forgiveness of roaic great and heinous
crinr.'.
“ Will It' recover 7” said we, as vve turned
to leave tire >jiot.
“ Never,” said the keeper ; “ his is a mad
ness never curable.”
On our return to Paris, M. E , thecele
h,atirJ physician, who liad nceompaircd us to
C.i a restart, gaveus the following brief account
of this man’s ease.
Monsieur Eugene S liad so brilliantly
distinguished himself in his career at the
French,bar, that at the early vge of twenty
eight, lie Was named Proctireur du Roi, an
office, in many respects similar to tiiat of our
attorney-General. To a great knowledge oi
his profession, rarely attainable at so early a
|lei .o iof Ifo, he united the gift of a most con
vincing eloquence ; and, stranger still, a
thorough acquaintance with human nature in
all its shapes and ihnses, which seemed abso
lutely incompatible with his habits of close
study and seclusion. There was no art nor
‘ metier’ with the details of which he was un
acquainted ; no rank or walk in life, whose
feelings and prejudices he could not dip into,
and identify himself with. The very dialect
of the lowest classes he made his study, and
from tlic patois of Normandy, to the outlandish
jargon of the Gascogne, he was familiar with
all. Talents like these weie not long in es
tablishing the fame of their possessor, and be
fore he had been four years at the bar, it was
difficult to say whether he was more feared ns
a rival by bis colleagues, or dreaded as an ac
cuser by the criminal. This to a French
Advocate was the pinnacle of professional
fame.
As his practice extended, his labor at home
became much greater; frequently he did not
leave his study till daybreak, and always ap
peared each morning at tlic opening of tire
court. The effect upon his health was evident
in his palid look, and his figure, formerly erect
and firm, becoming stooped and bent; the life,
of excitement his career presented left neither
time nor inclination for society or amusement;
and his existence was one great mental strug
gie.
All who understand the nature of a trial for
life and death in France, arc aware that it is
neither more nor less than u drama, in which
the Procureur du Roi plays the principal
character ; and whoae success is estimated by
hut one test—die conviction of the accused.
Tnere is no preparation too severe, no artifice
ton deep, no plot too subtle, for the advocate,
upon occasions like this; he sets himself
patiently to learn the character of the pri -oner,
his Imbits, Iris feelings, his prejudices, his fears ;
and by the time that the trial comes on is
thoioughly familiar with every leading trait and
feature of the man.
In combats like this our advocate’s tile was
passed ; and so complete a mastery had the
demoniacal passion gained over him, that!
whenever, by the acquittal of a “prevenu,” he
seemed to Ire defrauded in his rightful tribute
of admiration and applause, the effect on his
•spirits became evident; his head dropjied ;
and for several days lie would scarcely speak..
Tne beaten candidate for collegiate honors
never suffered from defeat as he did ; and at
last to such a height had this infatuation reach
cd, tint his own life seemed actually to hang
in the scale upon every trial for a capital of
fence ; and upon the issue, threatened death
to the advocate or the accused. “ L:\vuel do
deaux,” said an old barrister, at the opening of
a case, and the words became a proverb con
cerning Monsieur S .
l’iiis mama was ai its height when the
government directed him to proceed to Bor
deaux to take the direction of a trial, which, at
that period, was exciting tlic greatest interest in
France. I lie case was this:—A gentleman
travelling for pleasure, accompanied by a single
servant, hud taken up his residence on the
hanks oflhe Garonne. Here the mild urbanity
of his manners and prepossessing address had
soon won for him tiio attention and good-will
oi the in habitants, who were much taken with
him. and in an equal degree prejudiced against
the servant, whose Bretagne stupidity and
rudeness were ill calculated to make friends
lor him. In the little village where thev so
jour.ieJ two new arrivals were sure to attract
their share ol attention, and thev were most
rigidly canvassed, but always with the same
j idgemct.
Such was the state of matters, when one
morning the village was thrown into comma
lion by the report Unit the stranger had hcen
murdered in the night, and that the servant was
gone, no one knew whither. On ogicning the
•lour of the little cottage a strange and sad
mg it presented itself; the floor was covered
w lh packing erws and chests, corded and
fastened as if for a journey : the little plate and
lew books of the deceased were carefully pack
c l, and everything betokc I the preparation (br
departure. In tlie bedroom the spectacle was
still mote strange; the bcd-cloallies lay in a
ho ip upon the floor, covered with blood, and a
broken razor, a twisted mid lorn | toil ion of a
dressing gown lay liesidc them ; there were
noveinl foot-tracks in l!u: blood upon I lie. floor ;
and t’le-sc wane traced through a small dressing
MMim which led out upon a garden were tiiey
disappeared m tlie grass; tin. l servant was
iiowiieie to Is- foond, neither could any trace
of tlie body lie discovered. Such Here, in a
jew words llw chief cirouirMances which indi
cated Is- cumuli'-ion of t'w dreadful crime,
and in the state ut public (is’l.ng towtirds I lie
Iwo partH *. were *'* * mm I suffi-u oily strong to
nirpLafe fl»»- servant, who, it was now db
covered, had been some leagues up on the
: road to Bordeaux early that morning.
The cnimnissair of |io:ice set out immediate
ly in pursuit ; and before night the man was
arrested. \t first, his usual stupid and sullen
manner was assumed ; bill, on hearing that
the dentil of iiis master was now proved he
burst into tears, and never spoke more.
T.ic most dilhgtut seaiclt was now made
to discover the liodv, but without success.
It was nowhere to lie found. A hat belonging
to the deceased was taken up near the river,
and the genera! lielicf was that the corpse had
been thrown into the river and carried down
by tlic current which was here very rapid.
The indignation of all parties, who were never
kindly disposed to the servant, rose to the 1
greatest height, that he would nevei acknowl
edge what had been done with the body, al
though now no doubt remained upon their
mind as to his guilt.
Ill's trial at length came on ; and Monsieur
S— 7 arrived “special” in Lyons to conduct
it. ’I iie great principle in English criminal
law, that « conviction cannot he held for mur
der until the body lie found, exists not in
France; but in lieu of it, they require a chain
of circumstantial evidence of the strongest and
most convincing nature.
To discover this where it c.xhisted, to fashion
it where it did not, were easy to the practised
advocate; and the poor prisoner, whose reason
ing powers were evidently of the weakest or
der, and whose intelligence was most limited,
offered an easy victim to every subtle question
of the lawyer ; lie fell deeper and deeper into
the snare laid for him; lie was made to say
that though upon the road to Bordeaux, he
knew net why he was there ; that the watch
and keys in his possession where his master’s
he acknowledged ; but why they were in his
keeping lie could not tell; every hesitation of
his manner, every momentary indication of
trouble and confusion were turned against
him ; and even when a fitful gleam of intelli
gence would shoot across his clouded brain,
it wu anticipated by his torturer nnd converted
to his injury. The result may he easily
guessed ; he was condemned to death ; nnd
the following morning, as the advocate receiv
ed at his levee the congratulations of the an
thorities upon his success and ability, the
prisoner was led to the guillotine amid the exe
cration often thousand people.
1 wo years after tins tr-al took place our
advocate was passing through Amiens on his
way to Perouno. There was considerah'e
bustle nnd confusion in the hotel, from an inci
dent which had just occuued, and which
shocked all the inmates. A gentleman who
had arrived the evening before, having attempt
ed to commit suicide by cutting his throat, and
was found two mile- from the town upon the
high road, where it appeared he hud fallen
from loss of blood, having walked tints furuftei
his intended crime.
“His name is Lenioinc,” said someone in
the crowd, as they carried him bleeding, and
nearly 1 feless into the house.
“Lemoine?”said .Monsieur,S , musing.
!y ; “the name of the man murdered at Lyons
bv Jean Lnburto.”
“ And what is most strange.” said another,
not hearing the muttered obsci rations of Mon
sieur S ,“he is now pcifectly sensible and
most penitent for his attempt, which lie ascribes
to a passing insanity tiiat tie has been liable to
from a hoy ; the impulse is first to destroy
nnd then to conceal himself.”
“ That is indeed singular.” said Monsieur
S , “ but there is no combating a mono*
mania.”
“So the poor man feels, for he has already
essayed tlic same several times—in the last lie
nearly succeeded when living on the Garonne.”
“ 'File Garonne—Lemoine—” screamed
rather than spoke the advocate—“ when—
where—the name of the village?”
“ La IJulpe,” said the stranger.
“ I am a murderer!” said S , as lie fell
upon the pavement, the blood streaming from
bis mouth and nose ; they lifted him up at once
and carried him into the house ; hut the shock
had been too much. The f ice of the murdered
Jean Labarte, as with stupid look, and heavy
inexpressible gaze he stared up from the dock,
never left hi n niter ; and lie passed his remain
ing days in Charenton, a despairing, broken
hearted maniac.
It subsequently came out, that poor Labart,
knowing that his master was threatened with an
attack, had packed up all he possessed, and set
oat for Bordeaux to procure a physician irus
ting, 'hat from his precaution, no mischief
could accrue in the meanwhile—otic razor
was unfortunately forgotton, end gave rise to
all the’circumstances we have mentioned.
Dublin University Magazine.
A LIFE-PRESERVER AY WAYS AT HAND,
in many eases of apparent danger upon the !
water, safety appears attainable by the proper
use of a man’s iiat and pocket-handkerchief,
w hich, being all tiie apparatus necessary, is to
he used thus : spread tlie handkerchief on tlie
ground or deck, and place a hat, with the
brim downwards, on tiie middle of it; then
tie the handkerchief round the lint, like a bun
dle, keeping the knots as near the centre of
the crown as possible. Now, by seizing the
knots in one hand, and keeping the opening
of the hat. upwards, a per-on, without
how to sw in, may fearlessly plunge into the
I water.
NOT THE WORST.
‘•Will you take a pear, sir ?” said a lady ns
she presented a couple of luscious .specimens,
made doubly tempting by the whiteness of the
hand in which th y reposed; Sir, will von
accept a pear ?” Not (01 the world miss,”
replied the happy fellow whom she had chosen
to honor. -And why not, sir?” “Because
if I take the pi/r, fair lady, 1 slud! leave you
i none.” I Jo, however, took one as he spoke,
lest the pun should literally cost him the /*//>.
C.FSAft.
When Caesar was advised by his friends to
I lx: more cam oils of the security of his person,
and no! to walk among the people without
I arms or any one to defend lam, he always re
j plied to li«' ndmonitions, “lie that liiea in
(cat or death, evt iy moment feels its turtui^is;
I I will die but oiu'e. '*
A In a (or KN-outly dad in the irt rev's of
Cincinnati, f«*r mi other apparent reason loan
1 ho w iis too I ,/v to breathe.
THE SOUTHERN POST.
THE WALTZING BEAR.
In the end of the year 1837, a scene took
I place at Czerny, in Bohemia, which might Ire
I remembered with advantage at this particular
j period in Britain, where there is a growing
passion lor the exhibition of wild beasts on
public stages. A Bohemian manager of n
theatre having heard of the immense success
attending representations were real dogs, e e
pliants, monkeys, etc. were introduced, be
thought himself of trying to turn a bear to ac
count in his own dramatic temple. Accor
ding Iv, he got his literaly assistant to com
pose a little meledrame, in which all was
made subservient to the operations of a trained
hear, which the manager liad got hold of.
The plot run thus :—A dethroned king having
[fled to the mountains, fell in with a hear that
had been wounded bv the hunters. Androcles
like, the monarch relieved the near of its pain,
and thus acquired its warmest gratitude. The
feats of agility performed by ihe hear, several
dances by him and bv savages, or rather pea
sanis, with a due allowance of thunder and
particoloured flames, formed the leading
attractions of the piece. It was beyond mea
sure successful. Everylrody admired the
docility of Bruin, his agility in climbing, and
his grace in a closing waltz with a young
jieasant-girl. After a run of several nights,
however, the hear seemed on one evening dis
inclined to his work. The Slar of the night
—l T rsa Major—appeared to withdraw its light.
But. bv dint ofcnerge'ic remonstrances at the
side scenes, lie was got to move on till the ap
pointed time for the waltz. He stood up with
his fair partner, and began to advance and re
treat very elegantly. The audience were in
raptures. They stood up on the seats to see
more perfectly. All at once a shriek burst
from the stage. All who were upon it fled,
and the first to be off was the partner of lire
bear. The spectators were not alarmed at
first at this, thinking it a part oflhe usual per
formance ; hut they speedily saw their error
when the hear turned round and moved for
ward to the front of the stage, with the muzzle.
which formed the wonted protection against
liis freaks, hanging loose from Lis neck ! Off’
went the musicians in one instant, and off’the
shrieking audience tried to go a'so. The
crash was terrible. Many we e trampled
down and seriously hurt. At length nil the
lower part of the theatre was cleared without
any injury being inflicted by Bruin, who con
tinued, meanwhile, to the unspeakable horror
of those who were hindmost in the crush, to
cross from the stage to the pit benches.
There lie lav quietly down to sleep, m l there
he was quietly muzzled, some time afterwards,
by his keepers.
On account of the alarm and confusion re
ceived on this occasion, the authority s inter
fered, nnd tiie great hear never starred it agim.
in the theatre of Czerny.
ANECDOTE OF A FARMEtt’s DAUGHTER.
A few years ago, a farmer living a few
miles from Easton, sent liis daughter on horse
back to that town to procure from the Bank
smaller notes jn exchange for one of one hun
dred dollars. When she arrived there the
Bank was shut, and she endeavored to effect
her object by offering it at several stores, hut
could not get her note changed. She had not
gone far on her return, when a stranger rode
up to the side of Iter horse, and accosted her
with such politeness tiiat she had not the
| slightest suspicion of any "vil intention on his
part. Altera ride of a mile or two, employed
jin very social conversation, thev came to a
retired part of the road, and the gentleman
commanded her to give him the Bank note.
It.was with 'otne difficulty that she could be
made to believe him in earnest, ns his demec
nor had been so very friendly—hut the pre
sentation of a pistol placed the matter beyond
a doubt, and she yielded to necessity. Just
as she held the note to him, a sudden puff of
wind blew it into the road, and carried it
gently several yards from them. The dis
courteous knight alighted to overtake it, and
'the lady whipped her horse to get oat of ids
j power, and the other horse who had been
j standing by her side started off with her.
His owner fired a pistol, w licit only tended to
increase the speed of all parties, nnd the young
lady arrived safely at home with the horse of
the rubber, on which was a pair of saddle
hags. When these were opened, they were
found to contain, besides a quantity ofcounler
foit hank notes, fifteen hundred dollars in
good money ! The horse was a good one, and
when saddled and bridled was thought to he
worth ?*t least as much as the hank note that
was stolen.
THE RULING PASSION.
A gambler, on his death-bed, having seri
ously taken !ea\e of hs physician, who told
him that he could not live beyond eight o’clock
next morning, exerted the small strength he
had left to call the doctor back, winch having
accomplished with difficulty, for lie could
hardly exceed a whisper—" Doctor,” said he,
* I’ll bet you five guineas 1 live till nine.”
MARCH OF INTELLECT.
A beggar some time ago applied for alms
at the door of a partisan of the Anti-begging
j Society. After in vain detailing his manifold
isorrows, the inexorable gentleman pcrempio
j rily dismissed him. ‘.Go awav,” said he, “go,
weeanna g,c ye nacthing.” “You might at
least,” replied the mendicant, with an air of
:aich dignity, “have refused me giammaLi
-1 cully.”
thT: reason why.
A youth asked permission of his mother to
goto a ball. She told him it was a had place
| tor little boys : “Whv mother didn’t you mid
my father use to go m halls when you were
young ?” “Yes, hat we have seen tiie folly of
lit.” “Well mother,” exclaimed the son. “I
w ant to see due folly of it too.”
ALL KIGgT.
Dr. B. , who-e figure was much under
the common size, was ouo day accosted in a
entice-room by an Irish baronet of colossal
statute, with “May I pass to my seat, Ui
giant' w 'ii the doctor politely making w'a
replied, “Bass, O pi; tty “Ob ir,” saiil '
•lie haioiif “mv extuess.on , -fbried to ‘lie
j»z<- of -.our ink-fleet. M •• ukl my i KptcKMion. 1
'ST, said tlie doctor, “to the si/, of vuur*.''
From the Milledgevilfe Journal.
SINGULAR INCIDENT.
THE TENNESSEE MOTHER.
Some few years ago, a young man left nis
home in the State of Tennessee, with a horse
drover, for the purpose of assisting in driving
a lot ol horses into the “ Georgia Market.”
The Tennesseean, meeting with a sale fc. nil
his horses, and not wishing to retain one to
carry the young man home, advised him to
remain in Georgia, and seek employment as a
laborer on one of our rail roads, stating that it
was a profitable business, by j ursuing which,
he could not fail to make money. Naturally
a simpleton, the young man followed the ad.
.vice oflhe individual who should have protec
ted him, and who had enticed him from his
: home, and sought employment on the Monroe
Rail Road. Here he was most unfortunately
j thrown into had company, and was induced
to forge an order, amounting to about forty
dollars, on a s ore for goods. The forgery
discovered, he was indited, tried, convicted,
and sentenced to the Penitentiary sot five
years. His t rial too? place at the March
term of the Superior Court in Moinoe.county,
1338, nice which time lie has been confined
to hard labor in the Penitentiary.
liis mother, an old lady of sixty years, re
siding 450 miles from Milledgevillc, hearing of
the unfortunate condition in which her son was
placed, and knowing tire imbecility of his
mind, with all a mother’s affection, determined
to proceed at once to this place, an I to make
his true situation known to the proper nuthori
ties. But alas! how was a poor and lonely
woman, without money or friends, having no
conveyance of her own to get to Milledgeville ?
With a resolution truly heroic, this old lady
detei mined to travel on foot the whole dis
tance, and accompanied by a si.-ter ten years
younger than hr reself, she actually started,
and over mountain, stream and valley*, she
walked the extraordinary distance of four
hundred and fifty miles, to petition the Gover
nor to pardon iier unfortunate son. An in
vestigation of the ease induced the Governor
to extend to the unfortunate youth a remission!
of liis sentence, and we liad the melancholy j
[Pleasure of seeing the old lady and her sister,
toge ner with the son, lowly wending then-'
way back to their home in Tennessee. What
wil ' no! a mol he’s atlecDoi's in '*ompl h ?
The incident, in tne “ Heart of Mid-Lothiat
of Jennie Dean’s trip to Lm on, for the pur
pose of piocuring a paid in for her sistei
he U's ro comparison to this j roof oi filial f
foction on the part of a mot net to an unfortu
nate son. May Kiev .all reach t; m- homi sin
;safety, and may the young man, under the
| ;■ a nrdianship of ins aged mother, he restrained
;n future, from the commission of crime!
Flie drovei who enticed him from home, and
left him to suffer in a land of strangers, know
ing iiis imbecility, should supply his place in
the Pe initentiarv.
AN UNNATURAL MOTHER.
The maintenance of nuhtary fidelity and
l discipline seems to the present emperor of
Russia an object fo>' which all human ties may
well he sacritied. In March, i337, a woman
i named Maria Nikofbroconn. the widow of a
1 peasant, received a iotter from her son Novik,
a soldier in the stationary battalion of Tan
I bow. Jn this letter the son -tated that the
j barbarous treatment winch lie a . ! others en
! dured at the hands of the regimental officers,
| bad driven him to the resolution of deserting
from a sendee into which he had been forced
l at the first, and that, in a few days after the
date of his communication, he hoped to see
and embrace liis mother. The first thing
done by the mother on receipt of tnis letter
was to carry it to the governor of tin* province,
wi, i, astonished at the unnatural character or
the action, sent the woman away without tak
ing any steps in consequence of his disclo
ure. Some days later, the deserter arrived
iat the dwelling of his mother. But she took
an opportunity immediately afterwards to go
to the police-officers, to whom she delivered
up the child to whom she Fad given birth, and
whom she had nursed at her breasts. Com.
polled hv his duty, the governor addressed a
detailed report of the case to the emperor.
Nicholas viewed the matter differently from
the governor. The autocrat issued an ukase.
decreeing a silver medal to Maria Nikoforo
cona, with those words engraved on it, “De
votion to the Throne.” This medal was to
he suspended from her neck by t tie riband of
the Order of St. Ann, and the woman was
further secured, for the rest of tier life, against!
the chances of want. It was moreover de
cree and that the circumstances of the case l
should be published in all the journals of the,
empire, that its subjects might imitate this
example of fidelity and devotion to the throne, j
'I he young soldier, in accordance with thej
military regulations of Russia, was .subjected j
to the knout, and died under the blows. The
unnatural parent wears the decoration assign
ed to her, with as much pride as if she had
won it by the most virtuous action.
PRINTING.
A cuiious legend exliists relative to tlie dis
covery of printing. One even ingof the fifteenth
century, Faust was travelling towards to
wards a town in Germany; just before him
rode a traveller on horseback : the shoos of
his horse left on the even soft ground, distinct
and regular impressions, repeated with exact
ness each step. Faust observed this ; the
next day printing was invented. There is a
similar account given of the discover',' of
lithography, which took place only forty years
ago. Cut night. Aloys Senefelder, chorist of
the Munich Theatre, elite eo Ids small room
w ith thice things in hi hand— a hone for razors
an order to draw his month’s nay, mid prin
ter’s ball, charged with printing ,nk—o it was
lie who made, on tl t lieu ire check . the "m
mark, changed each t me. op c' cnt
Scarce had he laid the order on t ie n 1;; ,
wlcn it was blown ofT. and fell into .i basin of
water. A.<>y.s snatched up tlie precious |iu
per, wiped it, and, replacing it on the mantle.
piece, put on it to prevent its being blown awav,
the ra w razor hone, which, on the way, had
rubbed against the ball; the black maiks*
nil. ie by tl is contust were observed tiie ]
day, transferred will) udmimhJc precision, to I
I* •d* p paper. Tb< cl in* ,t, Aloy* Mein-lei-,
'ti r obscivcd tins i.iio lithography wn* tnveii.j
ted.
FROM THE PERSIAN.
“ Tell me, gentle trav'Brr, thou
Who hast wander’d far and wide,
Seen the sweetest roses blow.
And the brightest rivers glide—
Say, of ail thine eyes have seen.
Which the fairest land has bsen 7”
“ Lady, shall I tell thee where
Nature seems most blest and fair,
Far above all climes beside ?
'Tis where those we love abide—
And that little spot is best
Which the loved one’s foot hath press’d.
Though it be a fairy space,
W’ide and spreading is the place:
Though ’iwere hut a barren mound,
’Twould become enenanted ground,
With thee, yon sandy waste would seem
The margin of Al Cawthar’s stream ;
And though couldst make a dungeon’s gloom
A lower where new-born roses bloom.”
DESCRIPTION OF THE SEA.
“ Thou hast never been on the sea,” said the
ludv to her waiting-maid, “and kno west noth
ing of tiiat dread loneliness which settles on
the spirit, when the Inst headlands have disap
peared, and one wide waste of tumultuous
water ai heaving mound, bounded only by
the dull and evening sky- Thou hast not felt
that mighty dread, which overwhelms the
timid wayfarer on the ocean, wl.o watches the
little ship stagger from wave to wave, or heard
the shrill wind singing through her cordage,
until the masts bend like a reed in the storm.
Thou hast not looked on the pathless waters,
were nothing moved hut the black hull on
which we stood, and the rolling mountains of
waves, 'he smallest of which might close over
the barb forever, and leave not a vestige to tell
tnat ought living ever glided above those depths.
But more, thou never liadst one whom thou
didst love dearer than thine own life, journey
ing over those perilous paths, and thou far
away, dreaming of the death to which he is
exposed, or pining to be a part tker ofhis dan.
gets.”
A FAITHFUL WIFE.
An emperot of Japan had secretly put to
death a meritorious officer, who had a very
fine wife. Lome days afterwards, the prince
v site.; the l.idy, amt wished to compel her to
live tlic palace “ I ought to rejoice and
“esteem u \ self happy,” sad she, “that you
h ive judged iie wo the of our friendship. 1
rivene thi- favor as (ought; hut I venture
to take and ■ lnicrty of asking an interval of
iriirtdays, to mourn the death of mv liu ;•
hand. Permit me this; and after the delay.
I shall he ; hlcto assemble his patents, aid to
feast them in one of the towers of your cas
tle." The emperor acceded to her prayers.
The day of the feast arrived, and it was givi n
with the greatest sumptuousness. The em
peror drank to excess. The lady profited
by the moment: and saying she would take
the air on one of the balconies of the tower, she,
rather than dishonor the memory of her hus
band, precipitated herself from the top to the
bottom.
AN HONEST CURATE.
Arnold and rich clergyman, who had long
been tiie iticuui! ent of a valuable rectory in
the vale of Evesham, in Worcestershire, dv
i'.g, most of liis household furniture was sold
by auction. Fhe curate who had performed
the whole duty ofthe living for a salary that
was very inadequate to the maintenance of his
family, purchased an old oaken bookcase.
When he had got it home, and was tenanting,
with loose scraps of paper and old sermons,
those drawers which had formerly been the
depository of accumulating wealth, he found
a drawer which lie could not return to its
(dace ; in ascertaining the cause, he discover
c-d two bags of gold, of two hundred guineas
each. Luch a sum would have made the
curate happy for life; for it would have pur
chased an annuity of double the amount of his
salary; but the good man considered it not
his own, and instantly went hack to the par
son.age, and returned it to the administrators,
who were contended with exoressing their
surprise at so great and unexpected a proof of
integrity.
COUNTRY EXCURSIONS.
There is much truth and good sense in the
following extract from Curtis on good Health:
—“ A short trip into the country, even for a
smgie day. is exceedingly beneficial, by divert
ing the mind from the ordinary objects ofcon
tcrnpiatioii, and removing from it, for a time,
that load of anxious cares which, if suflered
too long to remain, destroys its elasticity. At
least once a year, a jaunt of a week or two
should, if possible, be taken by every one :
the communications by land and water to
every part of the country, are now so abun
dant and economical, that there are few, in
deed, who could not afford it if they wished ;
in li e end, such expenditure would, probably,
l»e the means of saving a iarger sum, by im
proving the health, and enabling men to en
gage in the various occupations of life with
greater energy.”
THE MUSICAL EAR.
J he formation of the musical car depends on
eyr.y impressions. Infants who arc placed
within the constant hearing of musical sounds,
soon lenrn to appreciate them, and nurses have
the merit of giving the first lessons in melody;
for we learn from the lives of eminent compo
st that their early fondness for the art may \
be traced to the ditties of the nursery.
Children brought up in musical families,
°'tcr et 'ertaine I by the sound of musical in
struments, so soon acquire a musical sense as,
■ some a,stances, to tie regarded as prodiges. I
Mozart begun to c itiposc at the age of four;
'in ii i pujiei end before the I'oyal Society |
D ■ mi Bur: cy, it i, dimmed that Crotch i
I 1 .nr ol ' Let ambition fire thy mind' !
*vlii u o ily two years old.
CHANGE DEPRECATED.
It is lit politics as in horses ; when a man
lias a beast that’s near übout up to the notch,
he'd lietler not swap him; if lie does, he’s!
< veil almost sure to gi-i one not so good as
Im- owii. My rule is, I'd rather keep a rrittrr
whose. Jautis / do know, thou change, him for a
hmnt whose faut'i / don't know.
A GERMAN WIFE.
“The most extraordinary suicide
world s record.” it is said, has lately occurred
at Jena. It seems that a Doctor H o -
whose name is suppressed from dolfon ’~~
taken ill with a singular
chondnasm, which plunged him inm;„
low spirits, nnd baffled in all the
Doctors. His wife, a lovely and ' °( , lc
cd vo,mg lady of high connections at I?
bemg informed that nothing hut a real and?*’
tmg grief would cure l-is malady, t ,!
Ins thoughts info another chain el J ,u ™ ,B g
hcWlf a sacrifice fo,l°
r Sl » ““rdingly, one „eou e
the professor was absent, stabbed herself wuh
a dagger to the heart. On forcing J
! ; ra,l . ce ' hov fou " d f*r <!end. The unfortunate
msb ind arrived at this moment. The folio,
mg letter, written with a firm hand' upon a
sheet of common paper, lay upon the table*
“ Mc,re , ha PPy *han thou hast been tliou
icanst not he. my most beloved ; happiest thou
mnxost become with real misfortune. These
is often a wonderful blessing in misfortune
you will surely find it so. \Ve suffer ,1 to-eth’
cr one sorrow : thou knowest how I suffered
m silence : no reproach ever cu.m- from V ou
--much hast thou loTed me. It will he better
for thee. Why ? I fed. but have not words
to express what I feel. We shall meet bereaf
1 ter free and unfettered. But thou wilt live out
thv time upon earth. Fulfil, then, thy destiny
and act with energy. Salute all whom 1 loved’
and who love me in return, till in all eternity
we meet. Thy “Charlotte.”
“Do not betry weakness,-be firm, stronc
and resolute.” b
Marvellous to say the Doctor has recovered
entirely sine , the trigic and awful sacrifice has
I een made lor his happiness. The physicians
; declare with truely German nonchalance, that
j” 1,0 medicine could have worked witn half so
much potency either on mirth |>otenrv either
on mind’or body.” There is something pain
s ully interesting in this magnanimous error of
a noble nature; yet notwithstanding thenbun
dant love and Itetoic self-devotion which it cx
i hibits. there is in such conduct something so
unnatural.—such an utter want of all religious
feeling that we cannot repel a sensation of
Inn ,or at tin- mystic enthusiasm which could
cause such a deed.
ANECDOTE OF AN AUT.’ST.
It was a usual custom with the English
j painters at Rome, to meet ia the evenings for
! conversation, and frequently to make littTe ex
curs,ons together ia the country. On one of
i ’hose occdb.otls, on a snmmer afternoon, when
he season was particularly hot, the whole
j company threw oi”their coats, as being an in
j ciuiihrauce to them, except poor Ast’cy, who
j alone showed great reluctance to take off his.
Fiiis seemed very unaccountable to his com
jpanioiis, when some jokes made on his singu.
: larity at ast obliged him to Dike off liis com
: also. Fhe mystery was then immediately ex
plan cd • fin- it appeared that the hinder pun of
liis waistcoat was made, hv way of tiiriftiness,
out of one of fas own pictures, and thus dis
played a tremendous waterfall on his back, to
the great diversion of all the spectators.
WAITING FOR THE TRESS.
I nr* Pittsburg Advocate recommends to
those who write for the [.less the observance
of the following rules. We copy them lie
cause they are alike applicable in this quarter.
Disregard of them often imposes a deal ol tin
necessary l rouble on publishers and their work
men. nnd it occasionally happens that manu
scripts are .-eat in a shape mi totally unfit for
the printer’s hands that they are, for that rea
son alone, throw n under the table :
Every word the sense of winch is not per
fectly obvious, should he so w ritten that every
letter will show for itself. This should be
pnrticulai Iy observed in writing proper names.
An observance o! this rule will secure the
author against the vexation of having liis arti
cle incorrectly copied, nnd vvliat to a con
scientious loan will ho an equally strong in
ducement, it will save the c ompositor a "rent
deal of lime and trouble—the first of which is
money to him, and of the second lie has plenty,
w itliout finding it in decyphct ing hierogly
phics.
2. W rite only on one side of the paper, so
.that it can he divided if foil id necessary.
S. l’unctuat on ought to be either correct,
or not attempted; the villainous habit some
i writers have of dashing their productions is a
great b.ne to a printer. If the writer cannot
do it as it ought to be done, he had better leave
it altogether to the compositor.
4. Abrevintions ought to be avoided, as
some compositors are very apt to “ follow
copy,” as it is technically called. This is
more particularly applicable to advertisements.
An observance of these rules will enable us
all, contributors and printers, to get along
more pleasantly.
A CATCH.
The following description of a catch by Dr.
C’alcott, is given in the musical world; the
words run thus:
“ Ah ! how, Sophia can you leave
Your lover, and of hope bereave!
Go, fetch the Indian's borrowed plume,
Yet, richer far, than that, your bloom ;
I'm but a lodger in your hert,
And more than one, I fear, have part.”
Now, in reading the above, there is nothing
particular to be seen ; but when the w ords are
sung ns by Dr. Calcott intended they should
lie, there is much, to hear; for one singer
seems to render the first three words thus
“A house on fire," repeating phia, pliia, with a,
little admixture of cockneyism, fire! re ■
Another voice calls out, lustily, “ Go fetch the
engines t , fetch the engines;" while the third
coollv says, “ I’m but a lodger,” &c.; conic
queutly, lie does not care whether the house be
burned down or not. Tins elucidation win
give a pretty good idea oftlie real meaning and
character of a musical catch.
A gentlemen, who at breakfast the other
morning broke nn egg, and disturbed the r ®*
[»ose ofu sentimental - lo* 'king biddy, called t
waiter, and insinuated that he did not U*e
to have a bill presented " till be had doo*
citing.”
