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MORNING INVITATION
Let us go to the dewy mountain, love, 'TIB the ljpe of the maying weather: The lark up on the blue above,
The thrush in the briery heather From the cottage elm the robin calls—List, love, to the gentle warning— We'll away to the mountain waterfalls,
And drink the dew of the morning.
Let in go to the tangled greenwood fair. The scented buds invite us The young rod deer will gambol there,
And a thousand songs delight us. Thv hand in mine* and mine in thine, In the wood-path we will linger. Where the dew is bright on the eglantine,
As the jewel on thy finger.
Let us go to the moor and the virgin lakts—' I hear the call of the plover And the fisherman's song comes over the brake,
With the perfume of the clover. A bonny boat with a pennon gay, Like a nymph on the blue is sleeping— To the fairy lake, oh, let us away,
While the sun Irom the hills is peeping.
Let tis go to the upland airy lea, Where the silent flocks are browsing We'll pass the dale where the honey-bee
His early store is housing. Our path shall lead through the meadow lane, Its daisy blooms will meet us And the reed-pipe strain on the distant plain,
With the herd-boys song will greet us.
Let us go abroad at the early dawn. With the blue sky bending o'er us While the mingltsi music of grove and lawn
Goes up in a grateful chorus For aweet i8 the breath of the morning, love, And aweet are ihe opening flowers And sweet shall our communion prove.
In the fields and woodland bowers.
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go while Nature's holy strain, O'er the joyous earth is pealing My pulse has caught its youth again,
And throbs with the rural feeling. Kach bird, and brook, and dripping bud, Invites with a gentle warning Then let us away to the field nnd the'wood,
And drink the health of the tnnrniug.
THY NAME
It comes to me when the health goes round, And o'er the wine their garlands wreathing The (lowers of wit with music wound,
Are freely from the goblet breathing From the sparkling song and sally gay It comes to steal the heart away,And fill my soul, 'mid festal glee. With sad, sweet, silent thoughts of thee.
It comes to me upon the mart, Whero Care in jostling crowds is rife Where Avarice goads the sordid heart,
Or cold Ambition prompts the strife It comes to whisper if I'm there, Tis but with thee each prize to shale, For Fame were not success to me. Nor riches wealth, unshared with thee.
It comes to me when smiles are bright On gentle Hps that murmur round me, And kindling glances flash delight [me,
In eyes whose spell would once h^ve bound It cornea—but cotnee to bring alone, Remembrance of some look or tons, Dearer than aught I hear or see, Bocause 'twas worn and breathed by thee.
It comes to me where cloistered boughs Their shadows oust upon the sod {, Awhile in Nature's fane ray vows
Are lifted from her face to God. It comes to tell that all of worth 1 dream in heaven or know on Earth, However bright or dear it be, Is blended with my thoughts of thee.
RELIGION.
BY WILLIAM LUOOETT.
1 jke snow that falls where waters glide, Earth's pleasures fade away "They melt is Time's destroying tide,
And cold are while they stay "But jeys that from religion (low. Like stars that gild the night, Amidst the darkest gloom of wo.
Smile forth with sweetest light.
Religion's ray nocloudsobecara, But o'er the Christian's soal "It sends its radiasce calm and pure,
Though tenyiesis round it roll His heart may break with •arrow's stroke, But to its latest thrill,
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Like diamonds shinirtg when theyVe broke, Religion Hsrhts i* still
MISCELLANEOUS,
HEWnu~-Thttast hedge ta the United Stales,
the Genesee Farmer, extead* sbost a aiW along thelaghway o« plantation «tf three tkw saadamsAsat AugvM. G*of|pa. is the Gte. rokee Roso, which is now io full Wjem, preeentk* a magnificent flortl speclscle, and filling the atmoaphcre with delicious perfume. Ho animal without wings can get over, or through it. Hating stood forty or fifty years it still promisee a good fex», for a eantoty oome. The owner and occupant of this splendid estate, Mr. D'Uigle, was a St. Domiago planter at the dreadful massacre by the blacks, and was so fortunate as to e»c«ps so the Unite* Fwte*
From tkeJSpirh. of ike Time*.
^ANGEI^ OF "TALL WALKING.' Mr. Editor:—Asyduarethe aeknowl edged -'High Priest of Time," send you the following ofeting,confident that you will be lenient with the defects of a first attempt. Should it meet the hospitali ty of getting into the "Spirit," shall perhaps try my hand again, when by making less haste I may probably comamore speed.
I am not a beauty by upwards of considerable, and I take some credit to myself for being aware of that fact for I have known fellows much better entitled to "the knife" than I am, give unmistakable signs that in the matter of personal charms, they considered that they were not to be sneezed at. I have been silly enough to regret that nature had thought proper to treat my case Homcepathically in dealing out beauty, but I always become reconciled to my lot on perceiv ing what consummate donkeys pretty men are. Well, though no lady killer, I am on excellent terms with a number of A. No. 1 young ladies of our town. Not being vain enough to impute their favour to mental qualities, I have been puzzled to account for it. I can get up a smile that is hard to beat, and I flatter myself my style of walking is somewhat excruciating. but 1 finally concluded it was the latter that did the business.
Several of my lady friends last summer became acquainted with a young lady named Miss Droon. and they gave glowing descriptions of her beauty and amiability,—now I hold that ladies only have thorough insight into each others character, for the shrewdest of men are constantly proving themselves perfect noodless in their estimate of women.— I was, of course, eager to become acquainted, and Helen T., a frolicsome little fairy, nnd an intimate friend of Miss D., agreed to introduce me. A press of business—and perhaps a theory, I hold, that a slight indication of indifference in these things don't "set a man back any" —delayed the introduction.
I learned, meantime, that she resided in a retired street, hut a short distance beyond my boarding house. To make an impression beforehand, I thought, might be good policy, and I determined she should see and of course admire my style of locomotion. For this purpose I took a roundabout way to supper, which brought me along her street, tho' on the other side. I had to turn down an alley which commenced opposite her door, and was thus enabled to give her a full view of my style of performance. She was, however, invisible-, though all else were luxuriating in the balmy evening breeze out of doors.
By the grading of the street a house on the corner of the alley opposite had become decidedly subterranean, and it was at this particular time undergoing the process of a screwing up. A ridge of clay surrounded the house, and that encumbrance, combined with the invisibility of Miss D., determined me to take the more direct route to tea in future.— I was passing the propped up house for perhaps the last time, when 1 espied a lady opposite who I knew must be Miss Droon. 1 had copious descriptions of her, and I could not be mistaken in that tall elegant figure and classic head. Her left arm was linked in the right of my mischievous friend Helen T., and they were sauntering back and forth on the pavement now thought I, is the time to steal a march on her predilections, as I caught the eye of Miss T., and she nodded. With a light bound I stepped on top of the ridge of clay that skirted the '•house on stilts," and as I sprang I mentally resolved that if Miss D. could resist such a combination of grace and agility she must be more than mortal.— Alas, well has it been said, "ye that rejotce in the perpendicular take heed lest ye achieve the horizontal." As I alighted on the hitherto substantial ridge I felt it yield beneath my feet one moment I flung my arms wildly about in the air. and the next I was shot into the very cellar of the building with a velocity compared to which the advent of the Yankee into tho coal screen, might have been termed subsiding. The workmen —may Jove confound them—had
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cellar way, and thus undermined the embankment, forming as perfect a mantrap as it had ever been my destiny to tost the efficacy of. My feet first touched tho ground, but my body described an angle of about 54 40 which being too much to overcome, I was pitched into a bed of mortar which stood near. Great Jerusalem, wasn't I in a pickle! I fell forward and the whole fore part of my person and my arms up to my elbows were immersed. My whiskers did not even escape. The first sound that greeted mv ears as I roso, was she rich, ttnrestraiftfed laugh of two femala voices.— To add to my taxation, my only place of exit was in the direction from where those confounded sounds of merriment proceeded. Among my many defects my weakest point probably is a sensitivness to ridicule. I was dreadfully perplexed. 1 felt it impossible to encounter the sight erf" those unfeeling ladies, and made up mv mind to locate where I was until dark.
In the meantime I picked tip a fragment of boop, and began scraping myself down. While thos engaged I heard juvenile voiees*pproaching An old cask was the only screen of any kind in the cellar, and in this 1 enseonsed myself.—1 The little rascals stooped down and peered in, but did not discover me. "Biil," said one, "didn't you see that follow pitehin in here?" "Yes," said Bill, "I did, and he flung bis arms about like he wanted to
Kit some
body." With childish tb(Rightfulness, instead
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of looking further they sat down and did me the honor to discuss me* Said one, "It's that feller what has a hoss what goes like a old cow," (I pride myself on my roan.)
I felt desperate, and as I approached mv boarding-house I saw a knot«of fellows at the door picking their teeth and I made a rush. A single glance at my extra coating scattered them right and left. My landlady's dignified daughter Alice, was approaching the door on her way out in all the glory of anew rigging, and, as I belted in at a gait half walk, half trot, she and I just walked into each other's armsl
Shade of Pluto! thou mightest have presided over that scene! How I got to my room I know not. I do know, however, that besides the damage done to my own clothing, I shelled out a round sum to pay the damage done by the lime to the incredible number of items that constituted Miss Alice's gearing.
I have scarcely yet achieved that platform of morality on which, previous to that dire catastrophe, I stood, for the ladies resolved unanimously that I was on that eventful evening drunk as Bacchus.
For a long time I dared not encounter the two ladies who witnessed my subterranean exit. I was lately introduced to Miss Droon, and I felt grateful for the serious manner in which she greeted me, the more so as I saw it cost her an effort. I have recorded an immutable resolve never again to attempt to walk into the affections of a lady.
THOMAS, THE PROSER.
CUTTING TIMBER FOR FENCING. Our system of pasturing stock necessarily requires a heavy outlay for fencing material hence the proper time for cutting the timber to insure the greatest durability, is an object of importance at the present time, when, from the increasing scarcity of suitable timber, it is probable that before many years enclosing our fields with rail fence will be a very expensive operation. There is much diversity of opinion on the subject, even among those who ought to have a fund of practical knowledge.— Many prefer cutting in the winter—a practice founded probably on the fact that there is more leisure to attend to it, than during other parts of the year others prefer cutting in the spring, when the bark will RUN, and making the fence therefrom immediately.
I have cut timber for posts at both periods, and as a rule have found that those cut in t,he spring and barked, lasted the longest. I cut a large chestnut tree about tho beginning of May, made the body into posts immediately and planted them green they lasted on an average twenty years, some of them thirty-four years: and when taken up were not rotted off. Again I cut a large white oak in May, stripped off the bark, and made the body and such of the limbs as were large enough, into posts during the ensuing winter, and planted them in the spring they lasted on an average, seventeen years and I observed that contrary to the common opinion, those made from the limbs and tops lasted longer than those made from the butt.
Posts made from timber cut in February, I have rarely found to last on an average more than twelve or fourteen years. Rail timber should always be cut when the bark will run, the bark stripped off, and split into rails immediately. Rails prepared in this manner will last longer and make a neater fence than those made with the bark left on, to rot off by piecemeal.
Gemantoic* Telegraph.
Philadelphia County, April 27,1648.
TUB RULING PASSION.—Matthews' attendant in his last illness, intended to give his patient some medicine, but a few moments after, it was discovered that the medicine was nothing but ink which had been taken from the vial by mistake and his friend exclaimed— "Good heavens! Mathews,,I have given you ink!" **Nevermind—-myboy—nevermind, said Matthews faintly, "111 swallow a bit of blotting paper."
This was the last joke Matthews ever made.
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"Oh, yes," said another, '-him what that watchman wanted to take up 'case he thought he was drunk, 'case he walk ed so funny."
In this complimentary strain did they argue my identity until it became diark, when they left,7 ... 1 5
The ladies, meantime, from the extreme of mirth,began to feel some anxiety at my non-appearance. Miss D/s father was informed of my descent, and he forthwith procured a light and—accompanied by the two ladies—proceeded to my den. He cautiously descended, and held his light all round. Supposing I must have made my exit somehow, he was about returning, when he espied the bed of mortar. The impression I had made was not yet effaced, and I heard a low chuckle as he tracked me to my lair and discovered me. I surrendered at discretion, and as I slowly elevated myself in my Diogenic tenement, I was again greeted by the mirth of the ladies as they peeped down. I sprang out ol the cask, and bowing to Mr. D., who was also indulging in a very audible smile at my expense, I clambered up the trap door. Assuming my most dignified look, I enquired of Miss T. if she was aware that a horse-laugh is vulgar. Perhaps my appearance was nqj just then suggestive of dignity. At arty rate instead of offending, as in my vexation I designed to, they fairly screamed with laughter. With an ejaculation that sounded very much like a blessing inverted, I rushed from the spot.
TERRE HAUTE, INB„ JUNE 10,1848.
VALUABLE RECIPES.
^To MAKE FURNITURE PAST?.—Scrape four ounces of beeswax into a pot or basin, then add as much spirits of turpentine as will moisten it through, at the same time powder one ounce of rosin, and add to it when it is dissolved to the consistency of paste, as much Indian red as will bring it to a deep mahogany color^ jStir it up and it is fit for use.
fo MAKE HUDWAISSOFT.—"While the water is heating, take two quarts of wheat bran, put this in a bag, place it in the water, and when hot enough to use it will be soft. This is enough for a common washing. Another method is to use soda, a few ounces of this will soften a hogshead of water. It will give a delicate whiteness to the linen, without the slightest injury, and will not affect the hands. It costs but little, and is a great relief to those who cannot procure rain, or other soft water.
FRENCH'POLISH FOR BOOTS, &-C.—Logwood chip, half a pound glue, quarter of a pound indigo, pounded very fine, quarter of an ounce isinglass, quarter of an ounce. Boil these ingredients in two pints of vinegar and one of water, during ten minutes. After ebulltiion, strain the liquid. When cold it is fit for use. To apply the French polish, the dirt must be washed from the boots or shoes when these are quite dry, the liquid polish should be put on with a bit of sponge.
Tootfr POWDER.—Burn common hazel nuts in the fire till the flame is gone and they are red hot. Take them out and throw away the shell and crush the kernel, which will then form an exceedingly fine charcoal tooth powder.
To MAKE CLOTH. &c. WATERPROOF.— Mix equal quantities of alum and sugar of lead, (acetate of lead) and dissolve the mixture in a gallon and a half of boiling water., ^When the mixture has cooled, remove the superfluous liquids from the sediment, which consists of sulphate of lead, and it is ready for use. Any article of dress, no matter how slight tho fabric, when well saturated with this liquid, and allowing to dry slowly, bears action of boiling water, and does not admit it to pass through, although steain and air penetrate it freely. This discovery was made by an Irishman named Irwin.
A genial and happy disposition finds materials of enjoyment everywhere. In the city, or the country—in society, or in solitude—in the theatre, or the forest—in the hum of the multitude, or in the'8i!enceof the mountains, are alike materials of reflection and elements of pleasure. It is one mode of pleasure to listen to the music of Don Giovani, in a theatre glittering with light, and crowded with elegance anil beauty it is another to glide at sunset over the bosom of a lonely lake, where no sound disturbs the silence but the motion of the boat through the water. A happy disposition derives pleasure from both, a discontented temper from neither, but is always busy detecting deficiency, and feeding dissatisfaction with comparisons. The one gathers all the flowers, the other all. the nettles, in hid path. The one has the faculty of enjoying everything, and the other of enjoying nothing. The one realizes all the pleasure or the present good the other converts it into pain, by pining after something better, which is only better because it is not present, and if it were present would not be enjoyed.
STABILITY OF THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT. A French editor thus gives a reasorf why the English Government cannot be overthrown for at least ten years to come "We have yet ten years of existence," said the English Minister, Lord Palmerston, to his much cherished, but fallen friend, Prince Mettcrnich.
I congratulate you sincerely, my dear/riend, but will you favor me by explaining—" "Oh! that's a State Secret," said the discreet Palmertson. "Ah! but you can count on my discretion." "Well, you must know then, in England there is a law that forbids the execution of a woman who is you understand Our Queen is yet young, only thirty, and very often a mother.— There are ten good years yet." "Ah true,1' replied the profound Prince,, '.'Albert j^ill be carefgl^pf that,"
MARRIED IN SPlTE OF THfiftt TEETH. ,.s erhor Sal tons tall of Connecticut, who flourished some forty years since, was a man of some humor, as well as perseverance, in effecting the ends lie desired. Among other anecdotes tola of him by the New London people, the place where he resides, is the following
Of the various sects which have flourished for their day, and then ceased to exist, was one known as the Kogerites so called from their founder, a John, or Tom or some other Rogers, who Bettled near the goodly town aforesaid.
The distinguishing tenet of the sect was their denial of the propriety and scripturalitv of form of marriage. "It is not good for man to be alone." This they believed, and that one wife should only "cleave to her husband," but then this should be a matter ofngreement merely, and the couple should come together and live as man and wife, dispensing with all forms of marriage covenant. The old governor used frequently to call upon Rogers and talk the matter over with him, and endeavor 0 convince him of the impropriety of living with Sarah as he did. But they would not give up the argument.
It was a matter of conscience with them—they were ray
happy together a? they were—of what
use then could a mere form be Suppose tbey would thereby escape scandal were they not bound "to take up the eross," and live according to the rules they professed* The gqjrernor logie was powerless.
He was in the neighborhood of John's one day, and meeting with him, accepted an invitation to dine with him. The conversation as usual turned upon the old subject. "Now, John, says the governer, after a debate of the point, "why will you not msrnr Sarah I Have you not taken her to be vour lawful wife. "Yes, certainly," replied John, "but my conscience will not permit me to many her in the form of the world's people." ,A. "Very well But you lo« her?"
"Yes."? &
mA PERIPATETIC SUCKER We were standing in our office dooir, on Sunday, basking in the rays of the sun and of the reporterial friend, when an in? dividual passed, who strongly reminded us of the Athenian Sages, who were »vont to wander through the groves of the Academy, in deep meditation upon the sublime truths of philosophy. It was the favorite doctrine of the Peripatetics, that the exercise of walking promoted activity and vigor of the mental and sensual organs, and therefore render them more capable of comprehending and enjoying the truths and beauties of nature. The individual who attracted our notice on Sunday, had derived his philosophy from the old Athenian source. He had just landed in um&ffrom a long and dreary pilgrimage in a land which, though blooming with every flower, and fragrant with every fruit, that springs suddenly into the warm embraces of the sun of the tropics, was yet a howling wilderness in regard to that great essential to human enjoyment, that sine qua non of •vernal existence—mint—our hero felt like Midas of old, poor amid untold treasures, and thirsty too. His thoughts by day and dreams by night, in that distant and inhospitable land,were redolent of juleps. The large cut-glass tumbler assumed, to his excited imagination, gigantic colossal proportions, from which rose, in majestic grandeur, like a vast glacier or iceberg, the snowy cap, which,^like that of Vesuvius, covered the fiery elements,and was delightfully relieved by a verdant grove that girded its base, whilst from its side protruded a vast pipe, a thousand times larger than that of Avon. At the sight of these stupendous objects, our hero rushed forward with ferocious thirst, stretching out his hand to grasp the monster pipe. Pshaw! he held a tin-cup containing some greenish, putrid-smelling liquid. With sickening horror, he exclaimed, "Here, take away this infernal stuff—your rascally tile hay-—its only fit to go into yellow-bellies."
But our hero was not destined lo% to pine in unrequited love. Some happy event, it is not material to inquire what, at last threw him on our levee. True to his'first and only love, and without waiting to see about his baggage, to change his clothes, or to attend to any of the other cares incident to a great man's return to his home, he rushes to our friend, Capt. IJic-hajc-hoc, at the Commercial, and in the voice of a long-famished traveller, exclaims, "Give me a brandy julep—large—fresh mint—and a straw in it." With telegraphic rapidity.— for which the gallant Captain is famed—the julep is prepared, and the philosopher eagerly grasps it. "What's to pay "One dime, sir, and nothing, shorter," remarked Hic-hasc-hoc. "There's the tin!" exclaimed the thirsty gentleman, taking up the tumbler in his hand, and walking away with it. "Hello, stranger! where are you going with that firstrate French cut-glass?" "Didn't I pay you for it?" quoth he of the dry throat. "Yes, for the julep, not the tumbler."— "Well, what's for the tumbler, julep, straw and all?" "Well, I reckon about a dollar will cover all." "There's the casting," said the stranger, and clutching his purchase, he went forth into the street, and taking the side of the banquette farthest from gutter, and sticking the straw in^iis mouth, and thus slowly and moderately imbibing the delicious compound, he proceeded in a meandering course, along our principal streets, to the great wonderment of strangers who had not read the Greek classics* and ditfh't know what a Peripatetic philosopher was.—Delta.
QUEER FANCIES.
There is no subject, however grave, that some eccentric genius would not treat facetiously. A late writer, discoursing quite fancifully on the subject of wood for coffins, makes the following queer and comical arrangement: "In the exercise of a rare regard for the fitness of things, married people should be buried in pear-tree coffins, chronologists in date-tree, bricklayers and plasterers in lime-tree, pugilists in box-wood, schoolmasters in birch, old bachelors in elder-tree, cowards in trembling aspen, the honest tar in sturdy oak. The list may be extended in this country by adding: misers in chestnut, disconsolate maidens in pine, democrats in hickory, whigs in ash, politicians in slippery elm, authors in poplar, millionaires in plum, old soakers in cherry, pretty women in sugar-maple, handsome folks in dog-wood, clam-catchers in beech, soldiers in lance-wood and hardhack, dairy-maids in butternut, dandies in spruce, fishermen in bass-wood, poets in laurel, horse-jockeys in horse-chest-nut, hatters in fir-trees, shoemakers in their own tree, blacksmiths in iron-wood,
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"And cherish her, as "bme of your Bone and flesh of your flesh." "Yes, certainly I do."
Turning to her the governor said: "And you love him, and obey him, and respect him, and cherish himt" '•Certainly I do." ^*Then.^ cried the governor, rising, "in the name of Qod, and of tfis commonwealth of Connecticut, I pronouoce you to be husband and wife!"
The ravings and rage of John and Sarah were of no avail—the knot was tied by the highest authority of the State.
in boards, lovers in two-lip
and sigh-press,coquettes in witch-hazel, travellers in sandal-wood, gardeners in rose-wood, landscape painters in birdseye maple, carpenters in plane-tree, misanthropes in crab-apple, odd-fellows in palm-trees.
The following may also be considered appropriate plants for decorating the graves of different craftsmen, professional men, &c. Watchmakers the four o'clock and thyme, sextons of churches, canterbury-bell* surgeons, bone-set, astronomers, night-shade, upholsterers, fringe-tree, dry-goodsmen, calico-plant, fortune-hunters,mary-gold, spendthrifts the bilberry, scribblers the jonquil, cooks the pansy or buuer-cup, and traitors the iT snake-roou
A company
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of Fourientes, & from
France, have bought four millions of acres in Texas^They are called the Ic&rian Colony^
GREEK MARRIAGE OF CONVE .N1ENCE. There is a regular Importation to Athens every year of young Waliachian la dies, who have arrived at a marriageable age, apd ample means are thus afforded us of an insight into their manners and customs. Tnc city of Bucharest, large and prosperous, is, perhaps, of all the towns which have been rendered by fash ionable vices the very nest of corruption, the most utterly detestable, from the extent of depravation to which society has there attained. The mania of the upper classes of its inhabitants, who are extrem^v wealthy, is to imitate Paris and the Pgfisians in every thing, which they attempt by exaggerating even the vices of that corrupt city and its gay inhabitants. They resort to every species of luxury and dissipation, and are constantly making a display of their riches in the worst possible taste, disdaining to drive with less than four horses to their gaudy carriages, along the streets soaked with mud, and laid with beams of wood and rough stones. Gambling, and similar propensities, absorb all the young men so completely, that even the most improvident parents could not venture to consign a daughter to their hands, and they are therefore obliged to seek husbands for thern elsew&ere, which aecounts for the yearly cargo that arrives at Athens.
There is a regular system of negotiation for the arrangement of these marriages^ which is carried on and terminated by some intermediate person, without the parties ever meeting at all. Pecuniary considerations are of course the basis of the whole affair. Some shrewd and obliging old lady in Greece proposes the young girl, or rather her portion, to various eligible persons, and consigns her to the highest bider. The settlements are made, the trosseau ordered, the marriage announced nnd then the bride arrives from Wallachia, and he sees his fiance for the first time.
Strange to say, this hateful mode of bargaining, generally produces very happy matches.* It is extremely rare that the persons most interested make any objection to each other when they meet.— The only instance which came to my knowledge, was the case of a couple who are now a perfect picture of conjugal felicity. A marriage had been negotiated in the manner described, between a Greek high in office, and a Waliachian lady of considerable wealth the whole affair had been concluded, and they were to meet tor the first time at Syria, where the bride had to perform her quarantine.
Now it so chanced that the gentleman was without exception the plainest man in Athens, and the young lady noted in all Bucharest for her deficiency in good looks. The first meeting took place in the lazeretto, and they approached the rails which divided them, with the anxious look of scrutiny with which they could not fail to examine the future husband and wife bnt they no sooner caught aglimpse at each other, than both started back wtth a cry of horror, and fled, exclaiming 'Jamais, Jamais!' The first demonstration of natural feeling did not, however, in the slightest degree, interfere with the ultimate arrangements,the lady's father was not at all disposed to give the gentleman back his word, and the gentleman himself reflected that the lady's portion was all the higher for her personal deficiencies, and the bride was consoled by the promise of a wedding dress from Paris at that the match was concluded, and they are now the happiest couple I know.— Wayfaring Sketches.
r,. 0i if'i-) IMPORTANT SALE. The provisional government of France is about to offer at public sale, the palaces of its former kings, those costly monuments of pomp and grandeur which have so long been the admiration of the world, with all their rich and varied contents. Versailles, Louvre, the Tuilleries, St. Germains, &.c., will all be brought to the hammer, and the proceeds appropriated to charitable purposes, and to the education and moral culture of the people. What mines of Kingly and useless wealth will thus be resolved, as it were, into its original element. and made to contribute in elevating the impoverished masses of Paris, and preparing them to dispense with kings and become their own governors In these royal palaces are some of the rarest works of art tne world has ever produced, and from their sale jan immense sum must be rea*
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ELECTRICITY UNIVERSAL, Electricity is diffused throughout the' entire mass of this globe and of the atmosphere which surrounds it? and it may be regarded as one of the most active elemen win all the works of creation. In every chemical change with which we are acquainted—in the various processes of organic life—in the mechanical movements of particles of matter—in^iny alteration of state, under the influences of heat or splar radiation, it is by mere contact with solid bodies electricity is developed. We marvel at its influence in directing the needle of the mariner, and we are astonished at the rapidity pf its flight.
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ANECDOTE.—-When Dick Aimx first crossed into York State from the Canada side he took lodgings at an inn 1n Canandaigua. A waiting-maid sat at the table with them, and Dick spoke of her as tho servant, to the no small scandal of mine host, who told him that in his house a forvant was called a help. Very well next morning, the whole house was alarmed by a loud shouting from Dick of "Help! Help! water! water! help!" In an instant every person in the inn equal to the task, rushed into Dick's room with a pail of water, "I'm much obliged to ye, to be sure," said Dick, "but here is more than I want to shave with "Shave with!" quoth mine host, "you called'help!' and 'water!' and we thought the house was on fire." "Ye told me to call the servant 'help' and do you think I would cry water when I meant fire?" "Give it up," said the landlord, as he led off the line of
§AM"WTCH OUTDONE.—A most extraordinary leap was performed lately by a tabby-cat at the West end of the good city of Boston. Having taken advantage of the absence of the family .during the time of public worship, pussy made her way into a gentleman's room, attracted thither by the music of a favorite bird. As she was meditating a more intimate acquaintance with the feathered songster, the occupant suddenly made his appearance. Conscious that she was guilty of malice prepense, though no avert act had been committed, puss, without attempting apology or explanation, mode a bound through an open window (in the fourth story) landed safely on the sidewalk below,ran off without crutch or cane as nimble as ever.
F{ IhW THE CURCUUO.- In a recent letter of Mr. Longworth, to one of the daily papers in Cincinnati, he says he has had but two crops of plums in thirty years, where his "trees weere hot set in brick pavement, and that where this protection against the curculio has been adopted, he has not lost a crop by the ravages of this insect for eighteen years past. His plum trees are planted close to the house where persons are constantly passing at the very, time these insects are most destructive, and the brick pavements around the trees extend some distance beyond the branches. Salt has had a fair trial in this vicinity, and has failed entirely.1
NEW USE OF THE TOMATO.—The
We have not conversed with a single officer of high or low rank, who has recently returned from Mexicd, who is not opposed to a renewal of hostilities in the interior, [in case of rejection of the treaty,] which could only be done by an extended system of operations over the surface of the country, attended with great risk, with a certain and heavy loss of life, and with enormous expense, and more than doubtful as to producing any favorable result
We cannot belifeve that !Vfr. Polk favors and plan of this kind but, should it unfortunately be oiherwise, we hope5 Congress will decidedly oppose it, as we are perfectly willing to go before the people in November, not only on the question as to the objects of this war, but klso as to the mode on which it shall in future be prosecutcd.—New Orleans Delta, n* n*
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Of Villa Rica-Vera Cruz, An ze plundare I forzook! I lizzen zu dat dam Yankee gun,
Zo famil iare zu mine ear— An I stan opon mi vuddon leg,
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raw Gazette states that in addition to the advantages of tomato for table use, the vine is of great value as food for cattle, especially cows. It is said that a cow fed on tomato vines, will give more milk, and yield butter of a finer flavor, and in greater abundance than any other long feed ever tried. It is thought, too, that more good food for cattle, and at less expense, can be raised for cattle from a given quantity of ground plan'ed in tomatoes than from any other vegetable known in the Southern country Farmers, look out for this in the coming season.,
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PRESERVING CURRANTS.—It is not, perhaps, generally known that currants and gooseberries may be preserved the year round, as fresh and sweet as when taken from the bush. The fruit should be plucked while green, or before the berries assume the red color which precedes and heralds maturity, and put into dry glass bottles, which should be corked and sealed tight, and placed in the cellar, or some other cool place, as most convenient.
As the sun in splendor, was peeping over the eastern hills, & newly marriedman exclaimed, ft*, vil If ii "The glory of the world is rising!" |r
His wife, who happened to be getting up at that moment, taking the compliment to herself,—simpered, "What would you say my dear if I had my silk go^^?" r——
SHARP.—A little boy, not over ten years of age, was seen theoiherday cramming his mouth full of "fine cut," when a gentleman, standing by, somewhat amused at the spectacle, asked him what he chewed tobacco for. "What do I chew tobacco for?" replied the boy, "why to get the strength out of it to be sure: what d'ye think I chew itfor?"s toll
The lungs of a common sized man, when inflated, contain 300 cubic inches of air 16 cubic inches of air are thrown from the lungs at each expiration. "TV, -ifH*—m—rrffhrff
An honest Hibernian recently invented a teapot with two spouts, the one exactly opposite to the other, for tlie convenience of pouring out two cups of tea at the same time. ...
,In France the peasants train the, carbine vine by their door to serve as a barometer. Its open flowers indicate clear weather, but closed, an abundance of ram. .mrm
Since the 1st of March it is stated that silver plate to the value of fifty millions, has been coined into five franc pieces in Paris. 0) vMil ai»ta 10
Chaplain at one of our State prisons, was asked by a friend how his parishioners were. "All under conviction"—was the answer.
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Why is a solar eclipse like a woman beating her male child? .te ffwBecause it is a hiding of the sun.
Somebody suggests thdt birch rods make the best baby-jumpers.