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co jj wea ther. * * The Isabel made her last
trip from Havana to this city in fifty hours. *
* The New-York Picayune is a small humour
. mnpr * * Mr. Dickens is said to he the
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author of the Child’s History of England in
Household Worlds. It is clever enough to be his.
* * Eugene Sue is a State prisoner in Paris.
* * The Rev. Orville Dewey, is now pastor of
the Unitarian Church at Washington. * * The
Lantern says that Governor Brigham Young, of
Utah, “has forty wives spiritual, and all the forty
are under twenty-five.” * * A trumpet-flower
vine at Cambridge, Mass., recently exhibited at
one time 14000 blossoms. * * The Kossuth
hat is very graceful, and is making a sensation.
It will be felt all over the country. * * The
Amber Witch —or rather the author of it—died
recently in Charlottenburg. * * Mr. Dickens
has become the purchaser of the celebrated Tavis
tock House, in the vicinity of St. Pancras, Lon
don.
[From the Literary World.]
SLEEP.
BY CAROLINE HOWARD.
Oh,faithful friend, whose white, pure eyelids close
O’er thy pale cheeks with sad and calm repose,
Whose .sweet lips tremble with the thought of
dreams,
My fancy paints thee golden-haired, with gleams
Os strange intelligence upon thy face,
Like the blue heavens ere yet the moon doth trace
Her path of light upon the waiting skies ;
A vision bright thou seemest to mine eyes.
Clothed round with cloud-like haze I see thee
stand,
Afar, yet near, like spirit, yet with hand
So soft, so warm, laid gently on my breast,
And voice like more than music, that I rest
As thou dcst bid me, and to thee I give
Hands, hope, heart, love, aye, life itself, to live
1 lie hours ot night’neath thy protecting care, —
Ihou that dost all my tears and trials share.
I had a grief, thou earnest to me then
berene and firm. Sweet sleep did greet me,
when
All human aid and tenderness were naught,
And as her arms my crushed form silent sought,
breathed o’er weeping eye delightful calm,
And poured in sorrowing heart most holy balm,
And, patient waiting, with her quiet smile
She led me to forgetfulness the while.
Has Pain strong-handed smit with heavy blow
i he quivering nerve, and ruthlessly laid low
, Ihe precious gift of Health] Great God ! how
drear
as life, till Sleep, with accents clear
ul s P°ke “/ come,” then like a lurid star
‘ n d visions ol celestial peace were seen,
r blest oblivion reigned where pain had been.
lj' ou stirrest with thy softly waving wing
‘e tealm of dreams, a thousand voices sing
mein the breast dear memories arise,—
1011 bringest back lost friends, lost hope, lost
A a love ’
n'V * wilight i ma ges of hours above,
vicious Sleep, faint shadow of that rest
ut meets the longing soul in regions blest.
Tt iends seem sincere—oh, show me love like
thine,
q? cons °l er > tender, true, divine,
ee P, Sleep, oh, where on earth, or air, or sky,
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE.
Is cadence like thy name ? Serene they die
About whose couch thou lingerest with thy breath,
No partings dread disturb their silent death,
They lade like flowers, who from thy blest repose,
Pass to that “ sleep in Christ” an angel knows.
Charleston, S. C.
PROPRIETY OF SPEECH.
1. You should be quite as anxious to
talk with propriety as you are to think,
work, sing, paint or write, according to
the most correct rules.
2. Always select words calculated to
convey an exact impression of your
meaning.
3. Let your articulation be easy, clear,
correct in accent, and suited in tone and
emphasis to your discourse.
4. Avoid a muttering, mouthing, stut
tering, droning, guttural, nasal, or lisping
pronunciation.
5. Let your speech be neither too loud
nor too low; but adjusted to the ear of
your companion. Try to prevent the
necessity of any person crying “what?”
“ what ?”
6. Avoid a loquacious propensity ; you
should never occupy more than your
share of the time, or more than is agree
able to others.
7. Beware of such vulgar interpolations
as “ You know,” “ You see,” “ I’ll tell you
what.
8. Learn when to use and when to omit
the aspirate h. This is an indispensable
mark of a good education.
9. Pay a strict regard to the rules of
grammar even in private conversation. —
If you do not understand these rules,
learn them, whatever may be your age
or station.
10. Though you should always speak
pleasantly, do not mix your conversation
with loud bursts of laughter.
11. Never indulge in uncommon words,
or in Latin or French phrases, but choose
the best understood terms to express your
meaning.
12. Above all, let your conversation be
intellectual, graceful, chase, discreet, edi
fying and profitable.
RANDOM READINGS.
—“I should think these omnibus wheels
would he fatigued, after running all day,”
observed John. “ Well, yes,” replied
Tommy, taking a squint at them, “they
do appear to he tired ”
—Burke once mentioned to Fox that
he had written a tragedy. “Did you let
Garrick see it?” inquired his friend.
“No,” replied Burke; “I indeed had the
folly to write it, but the wit to keep it to
myself.”
—“That motion is out of order,” as
the chairman of a political meeting said
when he saw a rowdy raising his arm to
throw an egg.
—A person observed to a friend who
was learning to take snuff, that it was
wrong to teach one’s nose a had habit, as
a man generally followed his nose.
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Did you ever see a woman that had
to he told of her beauty before she was
aware of it herself?
—The man who thought he could coax
a lawyer to take a “dollar less,” is now
trying to set fire to an iceburg with a
cigar.
—Jean Paul says love may slumber
in a lady’s heart, hut it always dreams.
—Modesty is to the female character
what saltpetre is to beef—while it pre
serves its purity, it imparts a blush.
—Among the advertisements in the
London Times, is one for a nurse in “a
small gentleman’s family.”
—ls you weie binding an Indian with
a cord, what single word in the English
language would you use to express to
him what you were about? Ingenuity.
(Indian you 1 tie.)
—An Irishman complained of his phy
cian that he kept so stuffing him with
drugs, that he was sick for a week after
he was quite well.
—An editor in Vermont, having re
ceived two gold dollars, in advance, in
pay for his paper, says “that he allows
his child to play with other children as
usual.”
—Louis Napoleon, in respect to age,
begins where his uncle left off. His age
is 44; his uncle was just 44 when he
abdicated the throne at Fontainbleau,
and thus virtually ended his career of
usurpation and glory.
—How to make Mineral Water.
Drain rain water through a barrel of
rusty nails, then cork it in stone bottles
and label it.
Lesson for Sunday, Jan. 25.
BEHOLDING THE LAMB OF GOD.
“Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of
the work —John i. 29.
Let us prooeed to contemplate the Sa
viour in
His ALL-SUFFICIENT ATONEMENT. And
here we have
Its cause. It is sin. The very idea of
atonement supposes this. Sin is of such
a nature, that no efforts of ours can re
move it. Its stain is too deep to be
washed away, could we even shed tears
of blood.
les efficacy. Sin is taken away. r lhe
sacrifice of Christ does not alter the na
ture of sin, but delivers the sinner from
its power, ransoms him from its guilt,
and saves him from its awful conse
quences. Here is an allusion to the
scape-goat, on whom the priest laid his
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