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11 A A Ay 7y Ay Ay Ay --AN" INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO MATTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST. TO THE .COMMUNITY AT LARGE. volume L . BKOWNVILLE, NEMAHA COUNTY, N. T., SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1856. NUMBER 8. . V A3 HA t iv A' ill 7TI ! - v - I i 1 . i. c i . . i.. ar i f ". ' -t. A K ; ri ,b : t I ;-T- h t i i1 ! ( Ecbrasfct-Wiser- ... 3 EDITED A.ND riELISHEO-EVEKT SATCRDAY BY . W.FURN AS, Sccdni Street, bet. Eain and Vater, (Lak'e Block,) ' OWNVILLE, N. T. TOTEMS: rorcvD6yciir(iurtiriaWy in advance), - $2,00 u ' bil liionlbs, - " " " - . ; EATUS OF ADVERTISING: ?o V;unre, (12 lines or less,) ose insertion, 'jh adliijonal insertion, e square, one month 1 " . throe months, . . ' " 1 six fcionths, . " one year, ' i.icss Cards'of sixKne? o: lets ore year, 1 .00 0,50 2,50 4,00 6,00 10,00 j.00 . 60,00 35,00 8 Column, oc year, t-lialf Column, one year, fouYlh 4 ' " eijrhlh .. " " Column, 6ix months, half Column, six months, fourth eighth ' l " Cold run, three ir.pnths, Lalf Column, thsce mouths. 20,00 10,00 35,00 20,00 10,00 8,00 20,00 n,oo 10,00 6,00 5.00 c-slith " lonnffin? candidates for oC!ee. ni-h in rtdi'an'-e will lcrejurrd for all advertiso ;s excei where -actual responsibility is known. . -a per cent for each'" change bo added to the re rates! . .andins Business Cards of live lines or less, for o advertisements will be considered by the year, Fjocic'd. on the manuscript, or previously Tear. Sd.OO od ujton between Uie parties. J.yeriiscuicnls not marKca on inecopy ior a irpeci nmuW of i user! ions, will be continued until or ed out, nud tipped accordingly. . . All "advertisement from strangers or transient per Vto.be pail.' n adi ance. . '. leprivjlee of yearly advertisers wjll be confined i!y to tlieir pwa business ; and all advertisements ; Txrtainn?-Uicrcto. to bo paid for extra. AH Ipajcd a4 v'ci Liemcnta chared double the above ivVrtipcineais on tao inside exclusively .will be rci extra. 002T MB FAliCY: 013 PRINTING! jste'rs, . tfTH . Blanks, ; ' '-'-4-' 3W.Rlls.if- Bill Heads Ifecks, ' fefeP Labels, latacs rrrr Circulars, l ' J u Lading. liPPItia BILLS, BALL TICKETS, I every other kind "of vork that may be called for. laving jturdiAsed, in connection with the "Iteflec " USitfc an extensive, Knd excellent viiicty of the latcst'stjlcs, we are prepared to do any kind of k mcnVooe'd in the above Catalogue, with ncat s and dispatuh. ." .'he 1'roprictor, who, having had nn exlcnsive c x ienec, wilrgi whis personal attention to this branch business, and h0!"03 in D'3 endeavors to please, i in the excellence al his wotk, and reasonable -es, to rejieivc n share of the puilic patronage. ."BUSINESS " CARDS. THOMPSON-& BUXTON, MTTOBHEVS AT LAW, OTATIT 2?TJ3Xj20, LOT .AND 'LAND AGENTS; iiROWNULLE, -N. T, " Till attend the.Conrts of orthcrn Missouri, Ne- ka l-.ni eslcrn low. OSCAR F. LAKE CO., GENEIIAL. IND'-fflD ' L0T: OFFICE Llaia, b?t. 1st ajsd2dSta -ErovTiiville, II. T. - A.. S: HOLLAD AY, M. D. OKGEN, PHYSICIAN -a-ixcl OTostotrician. ERONVLLLE, N. T.; olicits a share, of public paWonage, in the various aches of "his profession, from the citizens of Bwn e and viciniiv. .B. c J D. XT. THOMPSON, Vholesale aud detail dealers is ; QrOOdS ..ardttwe, Qdceusware, Groceries, and ' " tqqntrr Produce. . , BUOWNVILLE, N. T.I Wy HOBUTZELL &. CO., VDOLESAL AND UETA1L DEALERS IK lY.G'O'ODS; GROCERIES, Quccnsware, Hiirdwarc, . . OUNTRY PRODUCE. D 11Q WN V.j L LE, N. ,T. HARDING.- G. T.-KIMBOTGn K. F. TOOMEK. ARD1JJG, KlMBOUGH & CO., Hikijirtvrcr and Wkolctale Dcalcrt i TS, CAPS STRAW .GOODS; To 492Iain'EtreeVbet. OliTe and Pine, " ' ST. LOUIS, Up.- . ' ticular ttentwn paid to manufacturing our Mole Hats. " " MISS MARY W. TURNER, " t Street, -betweea llain s.nd Water, 35ilOWNVJL.LB,.N. T. r-eti aTxl'lrimmhiTjs always on hand. C W. "WHEELER, HUM. AHD "' BUILDER. :!?EIITER MD JOINER Nr.HiU.SKA TEKKITOKV. . JAMES W. GIDSON, BLACKS MIT II, . Second Street, between Main aud Nebraska, BROWN VILLE, N. T. A. L. COATE, COUNTY SURVEYOR, BROWNVILLE, NEMAHA CO. . ' Nebraska Territory. PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND OBSTETRICIAN, Two Miles from Brown ville. on claim near Mr. Cmstsics: Teudc'-s his prorc?ionnl set vices to the citizens of Jcmana county. NUCKOLLS & WHITE, Hocls.port, Moa "WHOLES ALB AD ECTJU. DEALERS IN DRY B. WEE, HARDWARE AND CUTLERY, Medicines, Dye Stufis, Saddlery, -Boots & Shoes, Hats & Caps, QUEENS WAKE, STOlTEwAEE, TUTwAxLE, IKON, NAITiS, STO VESj PLOWS &a. Also rurnitore of all tLids, Window Sash, &o N. B. AVE WILL NOT EE UNDERSOLD. C. V. SNOW, PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, Accouclieui', KOCKPOET, MO, Ol.WER E EX X ET. JAUE3 P. FI.KE. T7M: B. CAEKr'. ' ACGCTSTCS KMCHT, OLIVER BENNETT & CO., Manuractui-ers and Wholesale Dealei1? in BOOTS AND SHOES, NO. 87 MAIN STREET, (FOKMEKLT, NO. 101, CoKXEB OF MAIN AKD LOCCST.) ST. LOUIS, MO. A. D. KIRK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Land Agent and Notary Public, Archer, Richardson connty , N. T. Will practice in tho Courts of Nebraska, assisted by Harding and Bennett, Nebraska City. - SPRIG MAN & BROWN, RAILROAD AND STEAMBOAT AGENTS. And Ceueval Commission Merchants. No. 4G, Public Landing. CINCINNATI, OHIO. J. HART &. SON S1I1E & MPJJESS Oregon, Holt Couuty, Missouri. Keep constantly on hand all description of Harness, Saddles, Bridies, &c, Ac. N. B. Every article in our shop is manufactured fcy ourselves, nd warranted to gi ve satisfaction. R. W. FURNAS, 111 Ml M IGHT, INSURANCE AGENT. AND AGENT FOR AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. BKOWNVILLE, N. T. E. ESTABROOK, UiriTED STATES District Attorney, OMAHA CITY, N. T. riEQUlRKD to bo in adeudan o oCBcially upon all XV the terms of the District and Supreme Court of tue lerruory, tenders gia fiofc.-t-iooal services to such as heed them. Ho flatters himself that his facilities for gaining a knowledge of tuo practice in eaoh Dis trict, will enable him to give satisfastion to such as entrust their. business to hi3 care. Omalia City, J'no 7, 1S36. C. P. EACJ.Y. X!. P. BAN KIN." BAILY & RANKIN, iudb k ffl mm OMAHA CITY, N. T. RENNET, MORTON & HARDING. Attorneys at Law, Nebraska City, N. T., and Cleuwooil, la. WILL praetico in all the Courts of Nebraska and Western Iowa. Particular attention paid to obtaining, locating Land Warrants, and collection of ucuts. . EEFEREXCE: Hoj. Iicwis Cass, Deiroit. I y,- , Julius D. Morton, - MPJ Gov. Joel A. Mattesoa, Springfield, 111; Gov. J. W. Grimes, Iowa City, Iowa; B. 1. Fifilcd, St. Louis, Mo.; Hon. Daniel O. Morton, Toledo, Ohioj 1 A . Sarpy, Bel levue, Nebraska: " Sedgewich & Walker, Chicago, 111: .Green, Weare li Benton, Council Bluffs, Iowa. H. WDITTEMOKE. B. B. WUITTEXOBE. J. F. CABTIB . II. & R. B. WIIITTEMORE & CO:, Wholesale Deafen in BONNETS AND STRAW GOODS. NO. 143 MAIN STREET, (First door above the Bank of Missouri.) St. XjoixIbj, TWTo. tCash paid for Furs and Deer Skins. IMS ill I TAINTS, . OILS, VARNISHES, French and Atnsrican Window Gla & Clattwar Sjuces, Indigo, Jfadder, Perfumeries, dc SPRINGSTOCK! CHARLES 3, BLOW & CO. IMPORTERS WHOLESALE PEALERS. . 3To. 65 and C7 llain streot, St. louis, Ko. Are now in receipt of their new Stock, embracing everything in their line. liF'.Mcrchante visiting our City are requested to gi us a c;i,i, as we arc determined m sell lor uan r Prompt Time Paiicr, as low as any Houso in tlx United States. . - - . . THE EOIHl OP PRAYER. 11 j God! is any hour so sweet, " From idush of morn to evening star, As that which calls me to thy feet, The hour of prayer? , Blest is that tranquil hour of morn, And blest that hour of solemn eve, .w,JKhei.?8jhejr.iriss of grayer njbtfrne Tho world I leavol For then a day spring shinea on me, Brighter than morn's ethereal glow; And richer dews descend from thee Than earth can know. ' Then is my strength by thee renewed: Then are my sini by thee forgiven; Then dost thou cheer my solitude With hope of heaven. - No words can tell what sweet relief, There for my every want I find, What strength for warfare, balm for grief, What peace of mind! Hushed isjcach'doubt; gone every fearj My spirit soeias in heaven to stay; And e'en the penitential tear . ' Is wiped away. Lord! "till I reach yon blissful shore, No privilege so dear Bhall be, As thus my inmost soul to pour : In prayer to tteo.. AN EVENING REVERIE. One rainy eve I sat me down, beneath the murky skies, Whore Ekepy hogs weregrunting and tobacco sheds arise; .-' Whero bull-frogs sing the loudest, and the lurid vapor shoots A thought was running through my mind, and water through my boots; . And as a sudden thunder-clap fax in the distance sunk," Once morel roused. up my ideas, and this was the . thought I thunk : Oh, is there not some happy land a land beyond the teas Where pot-pie smokes in boundlesi lakes, and dump- liutf grow. on trees? Can gingerbread be .found hi stacks, and smearkase by. the ton? ' And when you do a job of work, you got the "ready John?" Where Nature's lesson may be read in every babbling brooli? Whero .bumble-bees don't sting a chap, and muley . . bulls don't hook? Do people there get milk from cows, as much as from the pumps? Docs cholic ever come about, the measles or the mumps? ' . Do lovers fear for rival swans, to "run them off the track?" " And do they find the girls at home, and never' get the "sack?" - Do husoands bear upon their snouts the mark of finger nails? Do lambs skip o'er the yerdant hills, and wag their woolly tails? And in that land that's far away, do mad dogs ever bite? Can "green ones" see tho 'Elephant" at fifty cents a sight? Do scents of -oysters reach one's noso, upon each passing breczei Do peoplo fear for bed-bugs there, or ever dream of .- ( fleas? Do trousers rip without a cause, or brogans ever . pinch your corns? . And does the whisky make you "yorked" at half a dozen "horns?" As If that land were nigh, there came a strange and pleasing smell; And then upon my list'ning ear the sound of foot stens fell: At length I heard a decp-toned voice, which seemed to;mutter -Ayc!" I looked around it "was a goat it " only hollered ' .- ' "Bah!" My tpin of thought was broken off my happy . vision fled I quickly hustled to my feet, and scampered off to bed. - PRINTERS PROVERBS. Never inquire thou of the editor the nes, for behold it his duty at the ap pointed time to give it unto thee for five cents. When thou dost write for his paper, never' say unto him'.' What thinkest thou of my piece?" for it may be that the truth would offend thee. . It is hot fit' that thoushoulds ask him who is the author of an article,' for his duty requires him to keep such things to himself. . When thou dost enter into his office, take heed unto thyself that thou dost not look at what niav be lvincr otren. 1 X m X for it is not meet in the sight of good breeding. Neither examine the proof- sheet, far it is not ready to meet thine eyes, that thou mayest understand it. Prefer thine own county paper to any other, and subscribe immediately for it and pay in advance, and it will be well with thee and thy little ones. Leap Year Dialogue. 'Miss-.will you take my arm?' . . .'Yes, sir, and you too." Can't spare but the. arm replied the old bachelor. 'Then replied she, 'I shan't take it, as ray motto is, go the whole hog or nothing? If this world is a free show, what's the price of admittance? Sin, sorrow, a small trifling of sunshine, and a good deal of shadow. A tailor, in skating, fell through the ice, and declared he would never again leave a hot goose for. a cold duck. A SPEECH BY A DRUNKARD. . We learn from the London (Canada) Empire, that a hapless slave of intem perance lately found his way into a temperance meeting, while one of the speakers was expatiating upon the effects of moral suasion on drunkards. The-poor inebriate-bruke in upon the speaker, and delivered himselt of the following outburst of feeling. Of course we do not cite his words to prove the absolute . inutility of moral suasion, for that agency has called even pro hibition into existence; but to -show that mere moral suasion is of itself inadequate. The inebriate spoke out abruptly, as follows: . Moral suasion to drunkards: its no use, ana its worse tnan no use. know it. I tell vou. I'm one of 'em. I am, I am, and I know. - The whole room was startled into perfect silence. . In the pause, the very fire seemed to hold its breath. I've been a drunkard these ten years. You know it. You've seen me loafing aboutyour streets ten years, and you. ve had a chance to try your moral suasion. And I an t the only chance, God knows. Yes, and you've tried it, too. You kiiow I used to want to knock you off. You haven't failed to say kind words, and try your suasion. You all try' it. The very man that sella me rum, says, when he pours out a glass "Come, come, Jerry, yu'd better not drink any more. . His. profanity was terrible; but the equally , terrible earnestness of his speech suffered not even the chairman to reprove him. "You think a clrunketrd ndla per suading. There's not a drunkard in the country that's worth saving,' who doesn't wish, two .hours out of three, every day his life, that he could knock off. They've got moral suasion. "What they Want is help, help, God, God, help, force, force to back it up. "You've seen me y ou see me every day sitting around loafing. You've thought I've been asleep, thinking of nothing. Uutside I ve been dead as a heap of ashesinside I've been a-fire. When a man's a-going to sell himself to the devil, cool and easy money down and wants to drive a sharp bargain, like your rum-sellers, it may do to talk of moral suasion to him. But when the devil's caught a careless fellow ands got him tight in. his clutches as he holds us, and we writhing and squirming, then when you come along and tnink we need moral suasion to get us away, you're fools. And with some of you it's worse than that. Some of you know. better, and when you say so, and quote Scripture to it, you're fools. I can see you're making devil's speeches, and I believe the Lord's sharper sighted than I am. If he pays attention to what goes on in a temperance meeting, he'll settle your arguments one of these days. If vxou uver lets any ining into nen, n will be rum selling.' There 11 be no law again' that business there, I tell you. The devil knows what'll pay for licensing as well as you. Jiut you go on selling liquor, and talking about moral suasion. - vjood uoa, n any body needs it, it is you ministers, who darent preach rum down, and your deacons, who quote Scripture like a devil s concordance. Can it be possible that professed friends of temperance, but opponents of prohibition, can read this powerful appeal from the drunkard himself, and not deduce tne moral: CRADLE AND' ARM CHAIR. In his Thanksgiving sermon sketch ed in the Tribune, Henry Ward Beecher said, "No houso . is complete without two pieces of furniture the cradle and the old arm chair. !No house is full that hath not in it a babe and a grand father or a grandmother. Life becomes more radiant and perfect when its two extrrmcs keep along with it. The two loves who watch the cradle and serve the chair are one. But how different in all their openings and actions. To the child the heart turns with more tenderness of love. To the aged parent, love is borne upon a series of reverence. Through the child you look forward- through the parent backward. In the child you see hopes, joys to come brave ambition, and a life yet to be drawn forth in all its many-sided ex perience. Through the silver haired parent you behold the past, life done, its scene enacted, its histories register ed. If God calk you to follow your child, you send it to heaven that God may rear it for you, saying? take it, oh, Father, too soon snatched away, and keep it; and keep me till the weariness of life is ended, and 1 go too. But. when the parent goes, ripe in ycar3, his life blameless, his fruit gathered and garnered, we give his form to earth saying with gratitude, God bs thanked that he ha3 so long lived and so well; and God be thanked that he hath now. departed, Go my mother to thy rest, and be sure that I will follow hard after thee, and soon overtake thee. A "BULLY" CHARGE, The Knickerbocker is responsible for the following "charge" criven bv a C3 . a o Justice of tho Peace, in a certain Re plevin case. The "Charge of the Light Brigado" was a "circumstance," in comparison: . ' "GenUe7nen of the Jury. This is an action of replevin, brought by against , for the purpose of ob taining the canal boat Ocean Wave, No. Two, levied on by said as shall the property of said . 1 charge you as to the mode of constru- lg . evidence, . namely: If you have reason to believe that any witness in this case has wilfully, maliciously, de liberately and contrary, to the peace and dignity of the State of Ohio, sworn to that which is false in a single in stance you are bound to believe that he has lied throughout." Mr, B- , for plantiff, inquired "What if he be corroborated?" The Court with much dignity re plied: "wait till. I am done!" '.'Andif you should find the afore mentioned witness is corroborated. or sustained in any ' particular by any other witness you are bound to believe that said last named witness lied also, in every particular of his statement! I am also requested to charge you that you find in your verdict the value of the property at issue. "After some deliberation I havfi con cluded not to do that but will simply say: if you find, in your finding, what ever at. that time you may find; on the other hand, gentlemen, if you find, in your finding, that you. have not. found yoir will not have found in your finding what you ought to have found. Now gentlemen, you have . heard the testimony of the witnesses, the argu ments of counsels and my cJiarge. Take the case." : Ancient Structures. Nineveh was fifteen miles long, nine wide, and forty milc3 round, with a wall 100 feet high, and thick enough for three chariots abreast. Babylon was sixty miles within the walls, which were -75 feet thick and 300 feet high, with 100 brazen gates. The Temple of Diana at Ephesus,: according to. Pliny, required 220 years to complete it, and yrds sup ported by 127' pillars, 60 feet high, having been raised by as many kings. The largest of the pyramids is 481 feet high, and. 653 on the sides." t Its base covers eleven acres. The stones arc about. 30 feet in length, and there arc 208 layers. It employed 300,000 men in building it. The Labyrinth of Egypt contained 300 chambers and twelve halls. Thebes, in Egypt, contains ruins 27 miles in circumference, and had 100 gates. Carthage was 25 miles around. Athens was 25 miles round, and contained 250,000 citizens and 400,000 slaves. The Temple of Dcl phos was so rich in donations 'that it was plundered of 100,000, and Nero carried 200 statues away from it; The walls of Rome were 13 miles round. . JonN Btjnyan's Flute. The 'flute with which John Bunyan beguiled the tediousness of his captive hours, is now in the possession of Mr. Howells, tailor, Gainsborough. In appearance it does not look unlike the leg. of a stool out of which it is said that Bun yan, while, in prison manufactured it. When the turnkey, attracted by the sound of music, entered his cell to as certain, if possible, the. cause of the harmony, the flute was replaced in the stool, and by this means detection was avoided. Lincolnshire (Lng.) Times Bound to Run Him. -A young man was well nigh being ruined by a legacy left him a few years since bv his . . father. It was 25,000 dollars, and the career ho ran in Chicago, the fastest town in America, made him a pauper, and a miserable broken down loafer, who was, . from ' a liberal sowing of wild oats, reaping a most abundant crop of repentance. In this mood and tense it was . announced to him that a deceased uncle had just left him 30,000 dollars. "Oh dear," was his exclamation, "have I got to go through all this again? It'll kill me, just as sure as shooting. It's no use to fight n fTfllTlcf -To fa .ill A vr'vr Tirmrwl frv nnr mo''5 The fellow who dammed ud the Mississippi with a chip, has been sent tor to cure tne cancer at tnc tropic. The Parsimmon county debating club out west, are debating the ques tion: Which i3 the proudest a girl with her first beau, or a woman with her first baby? ; THE BOY OP THE TTHES. . We like an active boy, says tho Southren Organ, one who has the im pulse of the age the steam-engine in him; A lazy, plodding, snail-paced chap might hate got along in tho world fifty years ago, but he won't-do for these times. We live in. an ago of quick ideas: men think quickly, speak quickly, cat, sleep, court, marry, die, quickly, and slow coaches aro not tole- ratcd.Go ahead if yoa I ... A yc -.. boiler," is the motto of the age; and be succeeds the best in everyline of business who has the most of do or die in him. Strive, boys to catch the spirit of tho times; be up and dressed always, not gapmg and rubbing your eyes as if you were naif asleep, but wide awake, whatever may turn utj and you may be somebody before you die. Think, plan, reflect as much as you please, before you act; but think quickly and closely, and when you have fixed your eyes upon an object, spring to the mark" at once. But above all things be honest. If you intend to be an artist, carve it in the wood, chisel it in the marble; if a merchant, write it ' in your day-book and spread it in capitals in your ledger. Let honesty of purpose be your guid ing star. . . , OCEANIC MOUNTAINS. The "portion of our globe that is covered with water is now just begin ning to be made familiar to U3.' The persons who- have been foremost and most instrumental in searching out the causes of thex various phenomena of the sea, that are so well known and so little understood, are our countrymen, ProfessorBache and Lieutenant Maury. The former, in a lecture which he lately delivered upon the subject, says that the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean is traversed by. a: range of mountains, similar to. the chain running some distance back from, the coast, and the Gulf Stream pursues its way over the tops . .of these ridges, and evidently bears; some intimate relation to them. In the. gorges of these mountains are found strips of cold water, from the north, and water is found even so far down as latitude 29 degrees south only 30 degrees of temperature. These cold streams run in exactly an opposite direction to the warmer currents, which prevail in the Gulf Stream, that is to say, they run from north-east to south west. Professor Bache could not pretend to say in what manner this knowledge of the differences in tem perature may be made ' available for commercial or other purposes. ' ONE THAT NEVER THANKED GOD. In the days when German rational ism began to send its floods of ruinous infidelity over the old German land, one of those humanly illuminated wor shippers of reason instead of God in Christ, came in his journeyings to the humble house - of an old-fashioned, sturdy German farmer, who, with a firm devotion, held- fast to the faith and piety of hl3 ancestors. The con ceited, unbelieving illuminalus had, every-wbcre among the. villagers, met the ancient, child-like faith and religi ous devotion. . As usual, he had been talking glibly to 'his grave host, of the folly of the old Bible faith, the ' non sense of prayer, and a thousand simi lar topics of the Infidel philosophers of the hour. "When they sat down to their evening meal, the host reverently returned thanks to God, the giver of all good,- tor the food before them. hen they began to eat, the guest re marked: "You are very' pious still, in' this region; I believe every body hero yet prays?" "By no means," said the good old Christian, "all do not pray and give thanks; I know of an exception; I have ia pig In my sty that never thanks I Viod before eating. Angels in Petticoats. A funny correspondent of the Portland Tran script, says: . . "I have recently gin up all Idea of women tolks, and come back to parliti kal life. I am more at home in this line than in huntin' the fair sects. Aingills . in petticots an' "kiss me quicks" 13 pretty to look at, 1 gin in, but darn 'em, they are slippery as cch, and when you fish for 'em and get a bite, you some how or other find your self at the wrong end of the line, they've cotched you! An' when you've stuficd 'em with peanuts, candy, and dogger types, they will throw you away as they would a cold tatcr. Leastwise, that's bin my experience. But I've done with 'em now. The Queen of Sheber, the sleepin' beauty, Kleopatxy's needle, . Pompey's piller, an' Lot's wife, with a steam engine to help 'em' couldn't tempt me. : Tho very sight of a bonnet riles me all over." ' NOT HIS "OTHER. There was a pine coffin borne through tho drifting snows. At the grave's verge the lid was thrown back, and tho face of the sleeper was revealed. 1 was a faco marked with time and caro there wa3 not a line of beauty In it; .. it was the countenance of a poor, plain, old woman. And yet I heard bitttt sobs and choking sighs not far from my elbow, and looking up I saw tho en . rcn oi tne deceased approaching to take the last look at a face which was dear and beautiful to them. Tho affections never yet clung to an object without investing it with a degree of loveliness, and was there ever a kind, gentle mother, who was not beautiful in her children's' estimation! The hair which is tucked away under the muslin cap, may be thickly thread ed with silver the forehead may bo furrowed, and the eye lustreless, still it i3 associated in -the mind of tho child, With a love which never slumber- . ed, and "a gentleness which nothing could ruffle. How carelessly the sexton tramped, around the grave, treading the fresh . earth in among the, new fallen snow! It was not his mother ho was hurrying; you could sec. that at a glance it wa3 a poor, plain old woman; almost a pauper. The cord3 r.attlpd, and tho clods afterward rumbled. Heaven com- ' fort tho motherless, in such an hour as that! ' , A TOUCHING INCIDENT. The saddest story that we ever read' was that of a little child in Switzerland, a pet boy, just as yours is, reader, whom his mother, one bright morning, rigged out in a beautiful jacket all shining with gilt and buttons, and gay as a mother's lovo could make it, and then permitted him to go out to play. ,; He had scarcely stepped from the door of the "Swiss Cottage," when an en ormous eagle scooped him from tho earth and' bore him to its nest, high up among the mountains, and yet in sight of the 'houso '.of which he was the joy., There he wa3 killed and dcroured, the eyrie being at a point which was literal- ly inaccessible to man, so that no relief could be afforded. In tearing the . child to pieces, the eagle so placed his gay jacket in the nest that it became a fixture there, and whenever the'wlnd" , blew it would flutter, and tho sun would shino upon its lovely trimmings and ornaments. .For years it was visible . from the low lands, long after the ; eagles had abandoned the nest. "What " a sight it. must have been to the parents ; of the victim. A friend Of ours thus eulogizes his" musical attainments: "I know two tunes " . . the one i3 Auld Lang Sync, the other ."' isn't; I always sing the latter." . Voltaire defined a physlslan as an unfortunate gentleman, expected every . day to perform a miracle; namely, to reconcile health with intemperance. . Old Joe Bartlett honestly says . "To sec an old man with one foot ." the grave and the other quivering oil " .. tho brink, laughing at morals and rldl cullng religion, is the most detcstablb . " picture of human depravity which tho . heart can conceive, or the imagination " pomt. It Is the distinguishing characteristic ...'" of merit, to be ever active in laudable pcrsufts. There i3 a meaning in all. tilings. . Even virtue itself hath its limit, beyond which it ceases to be virtue, T .If men wish to be held in esteem, . they must associate with those only.. who are estimable, ' If you would have a thing kept secret' " ' never tell it to any one; and if you would not have, a thing known of you. : never do it The happiest man in the world i s.tho man with j us t'wealth enough to keep' him in spirits and just children enough to make, him industrious. . '.. . When you get into a fit of. pa3sion : just walk out into the air, you may speak your mind to the w ind3 without . . hurting any one or proclaiming your- . . self a simpleton. . . .:" Punch, sometime since, said a lady's bonnet was a "pretender to the crown." ' . . It is "pretty much the same" yet only . it has ah addition, this Spring, of a V pigeon tail attached, widely spread out over tho neck and shoulders. . . . Justice may be defined as that virtue -. which impels us to give every person s what is his due. Goldsmith, A public office i3 a guest which re ceives the best usage from them who - never invited it. Thomas Fuller. . No degree of knowledge attainable by man i3 able to set him above the want of hourly assistance. Er. Johnson. . .