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M^-BBHWBPNBSBMHS?skshb" .,.sxu,sg.fc? a n^wiUf '^ ' i'"' 1 *-r <r^j ' **'^ ??^' ww LINES BY KUKNK4KK KLLIOT. *.-. v. - > x. %$'-. .- ; ' What hi^Utt ptUe hath woman won. k In stieima, ot in a?v? What mightiest. wink, l?v tvumnn done. BotMa ?1.V, tield, or tn?r; ? Rbe hiul. no Raphael !' Painting saith: 'No Newton T Learning cries; *8how us her steam ship! her Macbeth ! ller thought-won victories P* !L Wait, boastful Man ! Though worthy are Thy deeds, when thou art true. Things wh: thier, slid, and holier far, Our sister yit ?iU do; For this the wintIt of woman shows. On eveiy peopled shore. That still as man in wisdom grows, lie honors her the more. via Oh, not for w??Uh, or fame, or power, Hut!) iohiiV nn-ek angel striven, But, hU lit n* the growing flower, Tv make of onitli a lien\'n! And in her garden of the ?uii Heaven'* hiigiiteat r??e hIihII bloom ; For wonmu'h !?est in unln-gun ! Her advent yet to come !"' erracjMm?'s]?MO. Love Scono Mr. Porrs paid his two hundred and BixtV'bevrnth visit to Miss Clarissa Cooler the other evening ile lound her in a rocker, alone in the put lor; stole his arm around her alabaster neck, and sip|>ed the nucter of her cherry lips?a proceeding there was not the least hurtii itt considering that they had come to an agreement, and were generally rejmrted to be on the high road to matrimony, 'ilie lady took it ali quietly?even indifferently, to judge from the lassitude ot her attitude in the n?cker, her lazy use of her fan, and her exclamation ot something between a heigh ho and a ya-hum. ' ' -?? ' > ? .1 ?? ??.?0 <1 (CIO kCAi] _ V^lllinviipaovvo nvi w VJ vi. Then lull owed a silence, broken only by Mr. Pupl* slapping at the uiusqui toes, and M.ss Ciarisbataun.ng heixe.t unceasingly. At length P pps propped a promenade, tuid ice cream. Clarissa declined both, adding: kI wish to s ay at home, for I have ?ometh>ng particular to tell you." "Indeed!" said Pop|ie; "what is it dear jf" "You ex|>ect our wedding to take place in three weeks, don't you I" "To be sure I do!" "Well, I am sorry todisapjioint you, but 1 must do it. X cannot marry"? "Good heavens, Clarissa! what are you saving I" "Don't interrupt tne. I mean I can't marry just yet awhile?not for months to come." "Why, Clarissa, what's the meaning of all ihis 1 You gave mo your positive promise, and said nothing stood in the way. I am all ready, and wor ried with wailing. Why do }ou put it oft', dear V "That you will have to excuse ray telling you. I have a good reason for it?Iliave thought the matter over well ?and my ntind is made up. Will ...... v> iiitU WiUDIr1 J\'M * Popps mused a while. Clarissa kept I ler fan going. Finally, Poppa poke. "No, Clarissa, it wont satisfy me.? Yon oohtp? ne our wedding, and retnac to tell me why. If you have a reoaon for it you ought to let ine know it, and maybe it would satisfy me. But I won't Iks satisfied without the reason.'* "Well, then, you have a reason, and a g?x?d one?what more do you want?" "I see how it is?I've courted v?u too h?ng?I didn't strike while the iron was hot?you are tired of me, and wish to get rid of me. Well, if that is your wish, go ahead.*' "Mr. Poppa, you're a dunce?you're a fool r? "Maybe I am, and maybe I ain't," aid Poppa, rising with hit? temper, "but this I'll say. Miss ClarisAn?it yon don't tell me why you )>o*ti>ofte the wedding for a few months, v? rf may j>ost-| pone It forever so far as I am concerned. Tbll me, C;arissa; else I swear that when I leave this house to-night, j will never set foot in it aguin !" W^iiUT.J1 * Oi oiM rmit "n en, imvii, j"?i ? t jg "Very well. Good night, Miss Cool*' " er." Pappb reached the door. Clarissa followed nitti, and seeing tlnit he was in earnest, cried to hint to stay. Popps canto back. Clarissa put her hood on his sh?adder and cried. Popps melted. P"pps spoke first. "Well, dear, what's the matter ?" "Oh, I think you're so unreasonable and cruel! Indeed, indeed, I have a good cause tor putting off our marriage ?hut I cannot, I must not tell you what it is. Oh ! dear Mr. Poppa, do excuse rue!" And she cried a little more. "Well. Clarissa, tell me this. Dyou-,put it off to please your father or shy <iyou* relation.-?*' rtNo?thpy know nothing of my de it or St amVunt^nnJ thing cnice* ni irme!" you want to go anywhere, or lo tiny tiling particular, that will,keep \ mi from marrying ln ' ?% ' "No." "lu Clod's name then Clarissa, what do you want!" Why keep me in this suspense !" ? ? "Oh, Mr. Poppe, vouVo bo cruel !-Maybe 1 ought to tell you the obstacle ?hut I can't, indeed I can't!" "Just as you please Miss Cooler."? Ami Popps again picked up liis lmt "Oh, Mr. Pop)?, uray don't go? don't g?? yet a wuile! "Then, Miss Clarissa, tell metheob Steele." Popjw was evidently determined.? Clarissa put iter bead on his shoulder ...? Of?ij ufii Ol 'UUUrlll^ llliucr il niicin^v a^iinnw... Several times she essayed to speak.? At length t-lie breathed into his ea these fearful words: "7 he weather's too hot /" Pop}** wilted. When oar 6prit left, he was advocating a trip to th Allegany Mountains. 1^1 Bob Crandell's Swimming. Our friend Bob Crandell visits England last summer. While stoj ping in the metropolis, he happened to drop into a coffeehouse, where i lot of cockneys were speaking a la mi the swimuimg powers of different in dividauls. One gentleman said hi friend William could 6wim five mile in forty minutes. Another alio we that 'libbers could do no inoro thu this?Tibhets, hi some fifty-three mil utos, having swam forty miles an scten-eighlhs. Just here Bob asked be might k*offer u renin: k." 'I lie ai swer was, "yes, certainly." On this Ik ing decided, Bob opened : "Your triend Tibbcts is sonic swim uier, genilciiie.ii, but his peif>riuauc would be considered nothing in Aurbr en. Ou the Mississippi men swii with such rapidity, thai they go uheu< and pilot sieaiubouts." "-Nonsense." ''iN? nonsense at all. To show voi that I'm not joking in this matter, I'n .. .ik..... tr. .....L-.. .. ifltli ...... v?iiiiii? iw uhiiw; u u^i u iui win | ?i;i qui present." " \V liar is it V "That I can outawim any man ii England, and give liini an hour' start." "For what sum, sir?" "Anything?from titty pounds to; California go d mine.'' "We'll tuke that bet, air, and put ii] a hundred pounds that you cumin beat Mr. Muliins and give liiui tint aunt." "Very " good, I take that bct.There'stwenty sovereigns to bind t:. bargain." " W hell will the swim come ott'f" ".Now?this instant.*' "lluu is preposterous. The day i already too tar spent." "Day ( Why, my dear sir, I intern ?o swim a whole week, in fhuL'nitei States a week's swnn is considerec nothing." "Possible T "Yes, sir. Harry Slocivn, of Nev I Orleans, once swam from Cliarlesuu j t<> Cuba. But this is waisting time.? I Let us proceed to business." "Where do you wish to start troni ? "Land's End." "Why there f" "Because I intend to swiin ronni the inland, and wislj lota of sen room. The idea of swimming round th island of Great Britan, was somcthin< the CocknevdtHn had never heard of. "Such a jMill would kill a Vrse, said Mullina, but Bob wild listed to sue! ! thing.-. Mullii.s persisted, however ii his refusal to undertake anything s< alisnrd ; in consequence of which, Mul liiis' friends had coine out with u forfeit i in the shu}>e ot a basket ofchampagne During the remainder <?f Bob's stay ii England, he was l< oked tqion as tin '.M ericas pi ?*iigy?the man who talk ed of swimming from Luunun to Novi Scotia.' An old cynic, at a concert the othei night, read in the programme the nth of a song, viz: "Oil give mo a cot it the valley I love." ltcading it over at I tirnf tt i.K' tl.A iil/l 4olliitL- 4in?ll/ ??... !.o mv Vl'? IVII"? f^l "? ICJ ?UW?H, it I had my choice, I shotih oik for a bcdstecuW Skrkndiadtsii.?"8am, wnt fish it the sal; water weighs the least ?" 'Why, Julius, what ignoramus que* tion yen ax vcr colored brcden !? Minims weighs rle least, of course." "No, no, salt dat's wrong now; it ait do porpus, sail; do porpus weight nothing?coa, wy, he got no scales /" Pocahontas.? A sailor passing on< of tlie street auctioneers, a short tinu since, stopped awhile to hear whai was going on. "Going, one and sixpence?going g-?;.c. It is yours, sir," said tho auc tioneer, handing the lvn>k In the tar. "Mine, sir 1" exclaimed Jack, with I r? of unetTacted surprise, "what ii "Pocahontas." "No you don't poks it on to tts.n I II II "P ?|i III 1)1:1' ' ||| I. An&oatj?.?A.v pt*>r labotw. in a <*ftub#%Hlaffr- dt*1,-*ff& a hi* ill- | n?*A,anrilmving es*aj>ed tire turmoils <j of existence. presented himself at the urates of lleuvyu, where ho found lie t had been proceeded by a vioir man ??f s the Ranw locaHtY*%lio had just died, r and having previously knocked, had been admitted by the Apostle Peter, t t Hie laborer, who stood without, was e enchanted by the ravishing sounds of < sinking, rejoicing, and sweet music < i which appeared to hail the entrance of the Divese; and having knocked in his < turn, was also admitted. But what . was his astonishment at finding silence, - where seraphic sounds had so lately t lieen joyously uttered 1 "How is j -.this!" he demanded of Peter; '*when the rich uiau entered, I heard music ; < - and singing; is there then, the same , distinction between rich and poor in - Heaven as on earth!" "Not at all," - replied the Aixwtle, "but the poor r come to Heaven every day, whereas it is scarcely once in ? hundred years that a rich man gains admission.' e ?? > j e Trying to the Baste.? A Iliber tiian, fresh fiom the Green Isle, Itftvi ing sufficient means to provide him! self u tit u ho se Mid cart, (the latter! ^ ft kind he probably had not seyii be-, * l'v re.) went to work on a public road. | I Being directed by the overseer to J move a piieot stones near uy, and '?* j |t posit them in a gully at the side of the road, he forthwith loaded his car',1 b drove up to the place, nnd had nearly | tinished throwing out his h ad ubv' tj hand," when the "boss" told linn that was not the way?must tilt or \luiitp, ( his load all at once. (l Puddv replied that he would know jj "bet her" next time. After loading again, lie drove to the | side of the cluism, put his shoulder tin- j dcr the hub wheel, upset cart, horse, I t and all into gully. Scratching his. ^ j head, and looking doubtfully at bis j. j struggling horse below him, lie olwerv; ed that it was u mighty exjieditious j i w ay, but, "In-gora, it must l>e very try: i g to the b c." [Philadelphia American Courier , | Sarah, dear," said a waggish bus, | baud to his wife, "it I were in your I place, I wouldn't keep the babe so full ot butter as you do." , "Butter, my dear V] I never give it s any butter." "No. but you iK>urcd alxmt a quart| of milk down it this afternoon, and I u ! then trotted it on your knee for nearly two hours. If it doesn't contain a p quantity of hutter by tins time, it isn't lt for the want ot churning." j A lady was walking on Broadway a _ short time ago, when a gentleman's u coat 1 utton caught in the fringe of her shawl. Some moments elapsed before the parties were separated. "1 am attached to you, madam." s said the gentleman, good humored]y. i while he was industriously trying to| 1 get h >ose. ] i "The attachment is mutual,sir," was i | j the equally good humored reply. | In the New York lndej>endent we > i find the following from a mother: it | 'But did 1 tell yon what a time 1 - had with my little joe!" | "No ; what was it 4Why, I was showing him the pic-j I tare of the martyrs thrown to lions. I and was talking very solemnly t?? liini, l1 trying to make him feel what a terri" hie thing it was. 'Ma !' Haiti he all at 0 once, 'Oh! ma, just look at that j?oor r; little lion away behind there, he won't ! get any.' 1 Not Paktictlak.?It is related that j i an ohl negro who generally hiiedj i? to ditTurent masters was once ask-! ed by a gentleman to what church he ! , liehuiged. To which he thus replied?I >. ''When I is hired out to a mussudatj ii 1 is a Presberian?I is a Presberian too.! a When 1 is hired out to a tnassa dat is - a Met'odist?well, I is a Mefodist, you fi see. When I is hired out to a massa dat is a Unite Hredd.cn?den I is Unite Hrcddren. Do fuk is, whatebber r | 'ligion .onssa is?I is dat too." i An ignorant, hut well-meaning man, having been placed on the commission J of the peace in a rural district in Kugl land, uechtrcd. mi taking his seat us a ! magistrate, "that it would indeed be I llin llK.At MUX MIIIA MlflnilVll* la.l.. ... ?.?w |llol,VV i without fear, favor, or affection. **Iii short," said ho, emphatically. "I wiil - take eare tiiat on this bench I will - never be cither or partial impartial/* i A Beautiful Path or AB.iRtaivKsit. ?While the agent was paying off the Indians at Syracuse, N. Y., last week. ? an old 'native* presented himself ami ? squaw and seventeen children, litis t share, at, $3 ahead, was$&>, and as he received his portion he roiuurkcd, 'Me , get hundred dollar* next year.' A Sensible Emperor.?TheEmperv or of China, instead of )?yingtlie dt? , \ tor a* we do when we are unwell, the < instant he is taken ill titops the paj J of hi* phy scions, and duos not renew it , until lie it quite well again. tertaMe yWuidav V uFi*^bwul* su|d the rt^i/W^wm " ho Tarnjtfrfc*' tviiBitddi'e^c'd, gicatl\ utrprised, l'why,"responded ?inr ?'k)i?a. '* jonvincing hiniselfthat tlie coats was g dear, Hhov finished eating # A pass was made at him, bat.he lodged it. A mail praising porter, said it Ayaj it> excellent a b^vera _je that taken' |ii " i;reat quantities it always made him j fat. U1 have seen the time," said an- t ether, "whet it made you lean.".? | "When?'' a*toed the-eulogist. '"Lost night ?against the walk" ' Josh, I say, I was going down street J t'other day, and I seed a tree bark."? ' l'Gwllv, Sam, I seed it hollar." "1 seed the same one leave" 4*Did it take ' its tmnk with itP j "O, it lett it for board" "Mind, John," said a father to his 1 son, "If on go out into the yard yun j will wish you had staved in the house, | k.w.ai :*-'i ?i? i i _i...n H VII, II 1 BIIIV III I III IHMISV. JL bYlltll wish I whh unit in the yard; so where , is the great difference, dad?" i New w \y to Dnobvics Mubdkrs.? 1 W. D, Porter writes to the N. Y. ' Jferald lliat the following will, in in "ny cases, <leteet the |ierpetratorsof aimir- 1 der: l,It is well known that all objects are actually painted or impressed on the retina of the eye. Should a person oie by a violentdoath, theohjects before the eye at the time, remain iinpressel on the retina. If the covering of the eye is scraped down thin, ami a powerful magnifying glass applied, this image will be distinctly seen. Tliis was the first discovery of the daguerreotype. Any scientific phyiscian can do tiiis. Why is a man up stairs whipping his wife', like an honorable man ? Because he is above doing a mean action. Traits of character which yon seek to conceal, you luut better seek to reform. THiiiisir5' Book and Job Printing <S\-$T A3U$HNtE KT/c? * HAVING A FINE SELECTION OF WE ARE PREPARED TO DO WOBK AY! CIRCULARS, CATALOGUES, HAND-BILLS, WAY1HLLH, UA1.L TICKKI'S, PROOIt AMMES, AC. PRINTED WITII DESPATCH. CHINA, SATIN KXAJIF.L, SAVIN SURFACE AND PLAIN AND COLOHKU CAUDS, D(.on the Most liflbolrRble Jerips.! (Q)i S7J8 \E7i3 /& Q JaFljuiTs"UELlflMf,"lWSTrtUcfTKr&r I How and Where to Procure them. 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