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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.”