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Repairing done with neatness and despatch. {ea Feet measured on anotomical principles. £9 | 8 Torouto, March Isth, 1854. 2 ais sie . sail iD RU a oe NINN OND NNN NINA SINS DN gf Nel NPD NY OE From the National Era. THE LOFTY. AND LOWLY. The loftiest things on earth are linked To the lowliest underneath them lying; And human might is always brinked By feeble birth and feebler dying ; _| Ay, birth and dying. "Tis dust that clogs the spirit's ken, And intercepts its heavenward flying ; And holiest, happiest thoughts of men, Still throb to life through sin and sighing. j Ay, sin and sighing. Bound each to each, by common blood, The nations are a household scattered, Though some sit clothed in purple garb, And others lie all shorn and shattered ; Ay, shorn and chattered. Yet all have loved, as all have sinned ; To one great God are all appealing ; ' And so mankind are so man-kinned By blood and need, if not by feeling; Alas, the feeling! The Lazarus of nations sits, All covered o'er with wounds and bruises, At Dives's door, and, weeping, waits The boon his haughty lord refuses ; And still refuses, But, e'er with peril, pride ignores A brother in his low condition ; Fraternal bonds, forgot on earth, Will meet elsewhere their recognition ; Such recognition ! To work His purpose, God makes still The weakly one His strongest lever; Men strive to govern, but His will, To its fulfilment, slow, but ever, Ay, slow, but ever, Is working; and while men make haste To bind, to blot, to crush, to sever, 'She mighty God, who takes no rest, Their schemes o'erruling, thwarts forever-- Oh, yes, forever ! Miscellaneous. DDD LI OO From Punch. The Protocol of Private Life. The unfortunate differences which have arisen between various members of the Tom- kins family were taken into consideration at the recent Conference in Finsbury. The original dispute arose in the summer of 1854, about eleven months after the marriage of Mr. Thomas Tomkins with Miss Maria, the beautiful and amiable daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chowderby, of the City Road. Mr. Chowderby, a year before a coal-agent in apparantly affluent circumstances, became in June, 1754, from circumstances over which he had no control, unable to meet his finan- cial engagements. Previous recourse (especially upon an oc- casion when an infuriate milkman urged his demand with some precipitancy) had been had to the Loan system, and Mr. Tomkins, who is engaged in the pickle trade, had dis- counted a series of (dishonourable) bills for his father-in-law. Deeming it necessary to restrict his cash operations, Mr. 'Tomkins had lately declined this course; and to his son-in-law refused him money, Mr. Chow- derby, with some plausibility, attributes his being withoutany. Differences arose, which were rather suspended than settled by a visit which, at Maria Tomkins's desire, her hus- band requested from Mrs. Chowderby. It is here necessary to mention that, about December last, a baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. Tomkins. Mrs. Chowderby accepted the invitation, bringing with her two younger brothers of Maria, and they remained as guests until Easter, at which period the un- solicited supretendence of the elder lady with the management of the infant, the continual disarrangement of the pickle pots by the younger Chowderbys, the incessant demands of the elder Chowderbys, for money, and a final proposition that the whole Chowderby family should come and live with the Tom- kins's brought matters to a crisis, which ter- minated in the expulsion of the Chowderbys, and a total estrangement. Mr. Tomkins felt no discontent at this; but his wife and various members of the family considered it objectionable, it was agreed that a-conference should--be_hold at. Miss Tiddles's (a maiden aunt of Mr. Tom- kins,) in order to endeavour to arrange matters. The conference took place at the abov locality on Wednesday afternoon. Every- body attended on his and her own behalf. There were present, therefore, Mr. Silas Chowderby, Miss Tiddles, Mrs. 8. Chow- derby, Mr. T. Tomkins, Maria Tomkins, Baby Tomkins (provisionally registered Thos. Augustus Pickles) Sarah Carter (nurse of the latter,) Master Peter Chowderby, Mas- ter Jack Chowderby, Miss Louisa 'Tomkins (Mr. T. T.'s sister,) and Mr. Frederic Binkle (keeping company with the latter.) Miss. Tiddles could not understand why relatives could not live in peace and harmony. She hated to see family disturbances, and thought the' shortest way was to forget and forgive, and try to bear with one another better for the future. She would express no opinion on any subject, except that Thomas Augustus Pickles was the loveliest little licksywicksy that ever was, so he was, and a duck of diamonds, anda treasure of the Indian seas, and the gold mines of America, chick, chick, chick, chick, chick. The initiative was then, at her own desire, conceded to Mrs. Chowderby, who expressed a conviction that things had come to a pret- ty pass when a child forgot her duty to the mother that had weaned her ; that the mean- ness of Mr. Tomkins did not surprise her, for it was well known that he came of a mean stock ; but that Maria should go against her was indeed a blow, which, when she was laid in silent extramural cemetery, that undutiful irl would remember in saeking and hashes. 'To suppose that a woman at her time of life ; , See for Mister Tomkins to get rid of his duty to his wife's parents. They happened not to be so well off in worldly things as he was, perhaps because they had not stooped to the same low means of turning cash--some people, respectable people, too, had spoken of half: pennies boiled in pickles to give them a colour, but that was neither here nor there. Mr. Tomkins ought to be ashamed of himself, and as for his wife --(here Mrs. CHowDERBY wept.) arah Carter had no right to speak, being only a poor servant; but sooner than see that blessed baby (article produced) physick- ed with the messes Mrs. Chowderby guy it when it's mamma's back was turned, she would break stones on the high rodes. Mrs. Chowderby insisted on that slut's withdrawal from the conference ; but, after some discussion, this proposal was overruled. Mr. Tomkins had deuced little to say. He had married Maria, and not the whole family; but he was a good natured fellow, and so long as her relations behaved with any sort of decency, he had been glad to do his best for them. But there was sucha thing as cutting it too f (here Mrs. Tom- kins gently suggested that her husband should vary his illustrations.) Well, he meant as riding a willing horse to death. He appeal- ed to Maria if he had not been a kind hus- band to her, in spite of her relatives. (Jdrs. Tomkins here threw herself on his bosom and sobbed.) Mr. Cowderby said that it was keener than a toothache to have a thankless serpant in- stead of a child. Mr. Tomkins was willing to admit that proposition in all its fullness, but did not see the applicability. Miss Louisa Tomkins was sure that her brother would do everything that was right, and suggested that he should give them a day on the water, anda dinner at Richmond, and everybody be friends. | Mr. Frederic Binkle cordially concurred in the last suggestion ; and if the word cham- pagne were not deemed inadmigsable, he would venture to offer, on his own account, that addition to the proposed festivity. (Miss L. Tomkins touched his hand, and said " Duck.) Mr. Chowderby regarded all that as trash. If Mr. Tomkins would give him the money such a piece of foolery would cost, it would enable him to remove his silver tea-pot from the house of a supposed relative, where, to the infinite disgrace of the family, it had long been deposited. Masters Peter and Jack Chowderby ex- pressed an opinion that the party would be more jolly, and bother the old tea-pot; besides, papa never took tea, but gin-and- water. (The extrusion of these members of the Conference occupied the next half minut.) Mrs. Maria Tomkins cried for some time, and then stated, that except her husband, her blessed baby was the only comfort she had on earth. Her papa and mamma were very unkind, she was sure, and Thomas had a great deal to complain of. She had tried to make peace, but she hoped she knew her duty as a wife. Baby Tomkins (hearing his mammas voice) signified that she owed a duty asa mother, which he called upon her to perform without delay. (Zhe.proceedings became in- audible until his demand was complied with.) Mrs. Chowderby hoped that what the un- married young lady had seen and heard that day would be a warning to her in case she ever had the misfortune of having children. No girl could have been better brought up than Maria, and now let them look at her. Mrs. Tomkins begged, laughing, that they would do nothing of the kind. Mr. Chowderby conceived that if they were going to have nothing but nonsense, they had better go. He wasa man of busi- ness, and would make a business-like propo- sition. Would Tomkins pay all his debts, and advance him £100 to buy him a milk- walk, taking the advance out--for he was a man of busmess--in milk on week days and cream on Sundays? Mr. Tomkins, in justice to his adored wife, -to that innocent baho, and to mind that--must decline doing anything of the sort. But a £20 note was heartily at Mr. Chowderby's service, and theré it was. Mr. Chowderby would accept it but with- out prejudice to his other claims. Mrs. Chowderby would forgive her Maria, | if Maria could forgive herself. Mrs, Tomkins signified that she was de- cidedly equal to this latter conciliatory effort, there was much mutual embracing, and tea at the expense of Miss Tiddles. et MisappREHENSION.--We recollect once being much amused at the relation of the following anecdote, from the lips of a very amiable, and withal a modest widow lady of New Jersey: Soon after her husband paid the debt of nature, leaving her sole legatee, a claim was brought against the estate by his brother, and a process was served upon her by the sheriff of the county, who hap- pened to be a widower, of middle age. Being unused, at that time, to the forms of law, though in the protracted law suit that followed, she had ample opportunity of ac- quiring experience, she was much alarmed, and meeting, just after the departure of the sheriff, with a female friend, she exclaimed, with much agitation, What do you think ? Sheriff Perine has been after me!" " Well," said the considerate lady, with perfect cool- ness, "he is a very fine man." " But he says he has an attachment for me," replied the widow. ' Well, I have long suspected he was attached to you, my dear." "But you don't understand--he says I must go to court." "Oh, that's quite another affair, his place to come and court you." my child; don't you go so far as that; it is} When the lover wishe to break the ice, he comes to her father's tent, uninvited, and sits on the corner of the mat for a considera- ble time, and then goes away without speak- ing. 'This is a preliminary step, answering, perhaps to the first genile pressure of. the hand--the first bluching Besitation in address --the first mutual glance of understanding. After a few days the young man reutrns, wearing his buffalo robe with the hair out- ward, and again sits down silent in the cor- ner of the tent. 'This is a proposal--a regu- lar " popping the question." If the father is determined to reject him, nothing is placed for him to sit on, and no meat is offered; but if he approve of the match, these rights of hospitality are observed. Feasts are then given by the respective parties, in order to obtain the consent of their relatives. Ifboth feasts terminate favourably in this respect, before his bride, at the door of her tent, and then turns round and-walks slowly off towards his own--she raises and follows him--the marriage is then complete. If she remain sitting it is a sign that her family decline the match. All this is done without a word passing between the intended bride and the husband that is to be. But the most extra- ordinary part of the affair, is that having married an elder sister, he has the right to marry all the 'younger ones, as they succes- sively attain the age of womanhood. The author adds: "I have seen chiefs who have in this manner married a whole family ; the eldest wife being the greatest drudge, and the youngest being generally the favourite Sultana, and consequently doing the least." -- Charles Augustus Murray. ee Phrenology in the Pulpit. TESTIMONY OF REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER. It is very hard for a minister of the gos- pel, standing before a promiscuous audience, to deal with the facts of their minds, and their inward lives. It is a melancholy fact, that men know less about that which is the very element of their being, than about any- thing else in the world. J suppose if I were to go among the intelligent men in my con- eregation, I could get every variety of infor- mation on subjects connected with the daily business affairs of lite--upon questions of poli- tical economy, upon various questions of commerce, facts concerning the structure of ships, steam-engines--I could collect any amount of information on all these, and a thousand other kindred subjects. But when I ask them what is inside of themselves, they can tell me of a great manufactory, and ex- plain to me the operation and of all the ma- chinery init; but upon the question of the machinery of their own minds, they cannot say a word. In regard to commercial mat- ters, they know all about them; they have examined them, they have compared their ideas on these subjects, and have classified them. They believe themselves to be immor- tal creatures, that they have throbbing with- in them a soul that shall live as long as God himself shall live; yet, when I ask them any questions in regard to their inward nature, their only reply is, "I don't know, I don't know." They do not know what their reason is; they do not know what is the na- ture of their moral powers; they do not defi- nitely understand the nature or operation of any one faculty: of their minds! They understand the nature of the soil of the earth ; they know what it is capable of producing ; they know the use of the plough, and all the implements of agriculture ; they know what to do witha plant that is not thriving, they are skilful to impart to it fresh life, and make it flourish. But if any plant that ought to grow in the mind is stunted and does not thrive, they cannot tell how to make that. grow. 'They don't know what to do to bring it forth. It is difficult for a minister of the gospel to set forth the truth intelligibly in respect to its relation to the human mind. I think it is partly because men have not been cwrzous an respect to themselves, and partly on account |-of the many bewildering systems of mental philosophy that are in vogue in our day. For if there were none of these systems ex- cept the old schools of metaphysical philoso- phy, I would defy any man to obtain by means of them any clear idea about the soul, for of best they are of but little more value than so many cobwebs. Men may study them, if they have a taste for them ; ifa man loves logic and discussion, let him take one of the old mataphysical mental philosophies, and he will have means of busying his mind until he grows tired of such business. But if a man wishes to know practically what he is made up of, if a man wishes a knowledge of human nature for definite practical purposes, there is no system which will aid him in ac- quiring that knowledge like the system of PHRENOLOGY ; not interpreted too narrowly or technically, but in its relations to physi- ology and the structure of the whole body. And I may say here what I have never said before in the pulpit, that the views of the human mind as they are revealed by Purgn- oLoGy, are those views which have under- layed my whole ministry; and if I have had any success in bringing the truths of the gos- pel to bear practically upon the minds of men, any success in the vigorous application of truths to the wants of the human soul, where they are most needed, I owe it to the clear- ness which I have gained from this science. And I could not ask for the members of my family, nor of a church, any better prepara- tion for religious indoctrination, than to put them in possession of such a practical knowledge of the human soul as is given by PHRENOLOGY. I have avoided the use of the nomencla- ture of PHRENOLOGY in the pulpit as far as the young man presents himself once more. while I was aeminister of the truth as it is in Christ ; but Ihave now been so long with you, that I am justified in making this state- 'ment. I may say, in regard to the objections sometimes urged against PurmNo1oey, its tendency to materialism and fatalism, that the same objections may be made to any other system of mental philosophy. I do not think that such objections belong to PurENoLOGY any more than to any other system of intel- lectual science which you can possibly con- struct. Men's mere logical and speculative reason will always strand them upon the sands of fatalism or materialism ; and it is the prac- tical sense, the conscientiousness of actual liberty, that redeems us from a belief of the one or the other. Such doctrines dwell in the head, but never in the HANDS. evanaeet secs a Gogo Hints for Summer, We give the following condensation of an interesting article in Buchanan's " Journal of Man." The hygiene' of summer differs mate- rially from that of winter. Jn winter the waste of material is great, and nourishing food necessary ; in summer stimulus is less needed, but larger quantities of fluid are re- quired. Cold exerts an antiseptic influence, while warmth promotes putrefaction. Care should be taken, in summer, to remove decay- ine vegetable and animal matter. Jromgut- ters should be provided, into which the filth might rua, and from which every shower would thoroughly remove it. Asa means of purification, to guard against the feverish at- tacks of summer, lime is not to be relied on, having little more antiseptic power than com- mon clay. Chloride of lime has some value, but is too expensive. 'The best absorbent of | noxious gases is charcoal, fresh from the kiln. The carcasses of domestic animals will not contaminate the atmosphere, if covered with a layer of charcoal. To purify air in unwhole- some apartments,burn grains of coffee in a red-hot shovel, and allow the fumes to dis- seminate through the appartments. If the doors or windows can be opened, always do so ; if not, ventilation may be caused by kin- dling{a blaze in the fireplace or flue, thus crea- ting an ascending current. A slow ventilation may be produced by placing a lighted lamp or candle in the fireplace. 'The consumption of animal food in summer should be diminished, and ripe fruits liberally partaken of. Salt, vinegar and pepper, which make our best an- tiseptics for the preservation of oysters, beef, ham, &c., are equally applicable to animal food when taken into our bodies. Salt mate- rially enriches the blood, and promotes the general vigor of the constitution. If its con- sumption were diminished, there would be a ereat increase of mortality from consumption and fever. In malarious districts, salt meat and coffee are considered more wholesome than fresh meat and milk. The proper use of salt, vinegar and pepper would entirely pre- vent or cure the majority of the attacks of diarrhcea and cholera. A teaspoonful of salt, another of black pepper, witha tablespoonful of vinegar, diluted to suit the taste, is an al- most infallible remedy in cases of deranged or inactive digestive organs. The com- position of the Neutralizing Cordial, so often prescribed by Eclectic physicians for irri- tations and disorders of the bowels, is as fol- lows: Equal parts of rhubarb, saleratus and peppermint plant pulverized together, with the addition of loaf sugar and brandy. Dose from one-sixteenth of an ounce tg one-eighth of an ounce repeated, if necessary, two or three times a day. Hot seasons are especially apt to produce disorders of the liver. These arise from two causes--either too high living, producing congestion or fulness of the liver; or too great abstemiousness, producing a contract- ed and inactive condition. In the former case, alcoholic drinks must be laid aside, fruits and vegetables freely used, and habits of activity adopted. In the latter, the ap- petite should be cultivated, and rest and quietness sought. If we cannot escape the malarious atmosphere of a fever district, and have reason to believe an attack probable, a moderate use of the tonic bitters such as hy- drastis, columbo and quassia, will do much to fortify the constitution. '*The true hygienic principle is, that we should never be cured of diseases, but should always meet them by prevention instead of cure. " The time may come," says the author, in conclusion, " when a well educated man will be ashamed to ac- knowledge that he was ever sick." PAPA APP PPD III III I RECIPES, &o. Wholesome Beverages Take of the best white Jamaica ginger root (bruised) 2 ounces ; cream of tarter 1 ounce; water, 6 quarts; to be boiled for about five minutes, then strained; to the strained liquor add one pound of the best white sugar, and again put on the fire and keep stirred until the sugar is perfectly dis- solved; then pour into an earthen vessel into which has been previously put two drachms of tartaric acid and the rind of one lemon, and let it remain until the heat is re- duced to lukewarm temperature; then adda tablespoonful of yeast, stirring them well together, and bottle for use, the corks of which aust be well tied,down. It will be in high perfection in a few days.--Lachange Paper. Preservative against Moths, A small piece of paper or linen moistened with spirits of turpentine, and put into a wardrobe or bureau for a single day, two or three times a year, is sufficient preservative against moths. Advertiser, speaks of a plan invented by a baker of that city, to reduce the cost of bread. He puts in one part of rice to five of-wheat flour, and the economy effected reaches the very considerable figure of one sou in the two pound loaf. 'The Govern- ment has had the bread examined by com- petent persons, and has authorized the sale of it, at a less rate than fixed by the police. The demand is such that the baker cannot supply it. Neither the nutriment nor the taste of the bread would appear to be affected by the presence of the new ingredient. To Restore Color in Prints, A little alum dissolved in the rinse water will restore green or black. A little vinegar added to the rinse water will restore red.-- Ohio Cultivator. nme ely > sane An Excellent Disinfectant. A mixture of soda-ash with stone lime, is said, by a correspondent of the Ledger, to be amuch more reliable purifying agent than lime or chloride of lime. The proper pro- portions, for an ordinary sized cess-pool, are twenty-five pounds of soda-ash, dissolved by itself with boiling water, and one peck of stone lime, slaked by itself. The two when mixed together, will make about a barrel in quantity. ' Fine Blacking for 'Dress Sheess Beat up two eggs, add a teaspoonful of alcohol, a lump ef sugar, and ivory black to thicken; it should be Jaid on and polished like other blacking, and left a day to harden before it is used. C= Agricultural, &c. Hilling Corn. Hilling corn is an attempted subsitute for deep ploughing. If corn land is ploughed deep, there is no need of hilling. 'The roots will strike down, instead of stopping at a hard- pan, and waiting for mellow earth, in the form of hilling, to put over them. By deep ploughing you give the roots a chance to go as deep as nature requires without having the earth piled over them. Never disturb the roots by ploughing after the 10th of July. If weeds, or grass are getting up, cut them off, but itis better to "let the wheat and the tares" grow together, lest while ye dig up the tares ye pluck up also the corn with them."---Ohio Farmer. ninth att, @- Cabbage with Corn. Mr. Brooks, of Princeton, at the last Legislative Agricultural meeting in Boston, alluded to the practice of planting cabbage among Indian corn. He knew an instance where cabbage were planted in alternate rows with corn, and the cabbage sold for $150 per acre. -- eee Change of Feed for Horses. The kind of food for animals should be changed frequently. A horse, long kept on shorts, will be affected by a fever in bis legs and feet, producing a result similar to foun- der. Shorts, corn meal, or cob meal, should never he given except in a mixed state with cut hay, or straw. This will require them to eat slower, and the food is better prepared for digestion. If given alone, it ferments rapidly in the stomach, produces a general fever, injures the digestive powers, and finally produces a stiffness throughout the limbs. When these results are discovered, the remedy is a change of food. Continued feeding on oats, alone, will produce the same results as shorts, or meal ; and many a foun- der is caused by it, as well as by feeding, or drinking when the horse is warm. If neces- sity compels a person to feed a horse, on shorts, corn meal, oat meal, or cob meal, a supply of salt should be added to prevent fermentation in the stomach.-- Oo Farmer. Blanketing Cows. A correspondent of the Rural Intelligencer has been travelling through Holland and says: " Great care is taken of their cows, both in the winter and in the summer; and in a lowery wet day, you will see the cows in the field covered with blankets ; ay, even more commonly thana horse is blanketed here in the winter. This care is well repaid by a greater flow of milk and a less consumption |' of forage." dE Rn A New Spring for Gates. Dr. Peck mentioned an experiment he had tried successfully, inapplying a cheap spring to iron gates, that is far preferable to any other, or to a chain and weight. Take a piece of India-rubber, eight inches long, two inches wide, and one inch thick, and fasten it by staples to the back of the gate and post, and when the gate opens, it bends up, but the disposition to straighten is so great, that it Will push the gate to, and never fails to wot, summer or winter, Newly Invented Horse Shoe, A patent has recently been granted to a mechanic of Philadelphia, for an improvement in the method of fastening horse-shoes. invention consists in the construction of in- cluded flangs or lips rising frem the front and sides of the hoof against which they are made to bear, separate, and fastened by slid-: ing into a recess in the sides of the shoe, and secured by means of a serew, thus entirely dispensing with the use of nails, and avoiding all liability to injure by pricking. re 8 Oe Be Ieeping Eggs Having seen so many eggs that were Jaid down last fall come out bad, [am induced to send you my way of preserving them. Grease them lightly with a little lard or fried meat fat. Pack them little end down in bran or dry saw-dust, and, they will come out in the spring, right, and no mistake.--Mary Wood, Waukesha, Wisconsin. | Keep dark! 'The: Naw nw BLACK JOKE. fate The appended negro story, copied fro a southern cottespondent of the Bost aa Journal is net bad: tice General C=- gave bis black man, Swaney funds and permission to get a quarte worth of zoology at a menagerie, at the : same time hintine to him the strikin allinity hg -\ dl as haa between the Simia and neta races. Our hero soon found himself under the canvass, -- - and breught 'to in front of a sedate looking -baboon, and eying the b be qtadruped closes ly, soliloquised thus: {¥ x4 "Folks, sure's yer born, feet, hands, proper bad lookin countenance, just like a nigger gettting old, I reckon." 'Then, as if | seized with a bright idea, he extended his hand with afgenuine southern " How d'yedo, uncle?" The ape grasped the negro's hand -- and shook itlong and cordially. fish Swaney then plied his new acquaintanee RAAAAARWRAAA AN ARAL AAA PS. wea with interrogations as to his name, age, na= ~ tivity, and former occupation, but eliciting -- no replies beyond a knowing shake of the head, or a merry twinkling of the eye, he concluded the ape was bound to keep non« committal, and looking cautiously around, chuckled: PO ee " He, he, ye too sharp for them, old feller, English, white man would have a hoe in yer hand in lesa than two minutes." ees a5 28 LSE A Fate Fring ar Hin. --A tedetion 'ond neighboring Sunday-school was examining @ class of little boys from a Scripture cate , chism. 29% The first question was---"' Who stouad : Stephen 7" rr... Answer--" The Jews." : doth Second question Where did they stone him 1" a Answet--* Beyond the limits of the city." The third question--*"Why did they take him to the limits to the city 7" was not in- the book, and proved a poser to the whole -- class; it passed from head to foot without an answet being attempted. mens" At length a little fellow, who bad been If ye'd just speak one word of © scratching his head all the while, looked up boi AES, and said, 5 a esac 4) OO. "Well, I don't know, unless it was to get @ far fling at him!" nas c Se We have heard of cool things, but never anything cooler than the followings The landlord of a hotel at Whitehall called a boarder to him one day, and said: « Look ohere! [ want you to pay your board-bill, and you must. I've heard enough; and £ tell you now, that you don't leave my house. till you pay it!" " Good !" said his lodger: "just put that in writing; make a regular. agreement of it; I'll stay with you as long as I live!" fh " You are from the country, are you not?" said a know nothing clerk in a certain book store, to a plain dressed individual who had given him some trouble---" Yes."-- "Well, here's an essay on the rearing of calyes."'--" That," said the man, as he slow-. ly turned to leave the store, " you had bet- ter present to your mother." "a (4 A lady residing in New England, had a number of female servants in her family, and to whom she, on one occasion, gave to each a pair of her cast-off, half-worn shoes, found the following impromptu on her chamber mantel, the succeeding morning: _ *¢ How careful should our mistress be * The narrow path to choose, se ares When all the maids within her house. + Are walking in her shoes," : Fren Trapt--One day at a farm-house, a wag saw an old gobbler trying to eat the: strings of some night-caps that lay on the: grass to bleach. "That," said he, 'is what' I call introducing cotton into Turkey." jez" "TI don't like to patronize this line," said a culprit to a hangman. "Oh, never. mind this once," was the reply, " it will soon. suspend its operation." e c= Why would ladies make better traders and pedlars than men ?--Because they never. get shaved. a ie" The city editor says that a man ip New York got himself into trouble m mar rying two wives. A western editor replies, by assuring his cotemporary thata g rd. many men in Michigan have done the same by marrying only one. AN Inctoant.+-Faxon, of The Cairo. ro same Times, relates the fgllowing among the 'inci- : dents of the late fite at that place, and is: personally responsible for them During the. heat of the fire on shore, a man was met com= ing out of Arter's store with his arms. full. of canisters of powder, He stopped at the. door and very coolly remarked, " Here,d--m it, some body take and throw this powder -- in the river, my hat's on fare!" and sure. enough his hat was burning briskly. One. more: Jim started from the store with a pretty good-sized box, contained dry-goods. hat was powder, his, hair raised straight up, he which he supposed When told that it -- dropped the box, sat down and spread bis. -- coat tail over it, and commenced yellin lustily for a bucket of water. He got oo and poured it on the box, assuring: the by- standers that it was more than half burned up*, and that if the'Water bad arrived a moment. later, he couldn't have saved a bit of te eee é To Loot Dentcats.--* What do you do to make you look delicate?" said one young woman, with an eruption on her face, r looked like one of the departed. ' Why," she, "sometimes I eat slate. pencils and ch and then, for a change, I drink vinegar and chev green tea. When those fail, T Jace tighter, am wear the thinnest soled shves Ican buy." Siapionatoeainisteal pate en ae ee es Se ee to another who ~