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WHE1T LOVE IK MYRTLE SHADES.
bt ccouge r. norms.
When Love in myrtle shades reposed,
His bow and darts behind hiin slung;
As dewy twilight round him closed,
Lisctto these uumberssung:
"O Lovo! thy sylvan bower
I'll fly while I've tho power;
Thy primrose way leads maids where they
Lore, honor, and obej-1"
"Escape," tbe boy-god said, "is vnin,"
And shook the diamonds from his wings :
"I'll bind thee captive in tny train,
Fairest of earthly things 1"
"Go, saucy archer, go I
I freedom's value know :
Begone?awaj*?to none I'll say
Love, hoDor, and obey I " '
"Speed, arrow, to thy mark 1" he cried?
Swift as a ray of light it flew I
Love spread his purple pinioriB widw,
And faded from her view!
Joy filled that maiden's eyes?
Twin load stars from the skies !?
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"Love honor* and obey 1"
THE VOLUNTEER COUNSEL?A TALE OP
JOHN TAYLOR.
At an early hour, tbe 9th of April, 1840
the Court lloiisc in Clarksviile, Texas, was
crowded to overflowing. Save in the war
| iirne past, tuere Lad Lever been witnessed
uch a gathering in lied River County
vhilo the strong feeling, apparent in every
flushed face throughout tho assembly betokened
some great occasiou. A conoid
narrative of facts will sufficiently explain
the matter.
About tho close of 1830, Gcoge Hopkins
one of tho wealthiest planters aud most
inflllolltiul mon nf T ? - *
UI iiuuuciu ic.xttb, OliUlCU a
gross insult to Mary Elision, the young
and beautiful wife of his overseer. The
husband threatened to chastise him for the
outrage, whereupon Hopkins loaded his
gun, went to Eliston's house and shot him
in his own door. The murderer was arrested,
nnd bailed to answer the charge.
Tho occurrence produced immense excitement;
and Hopkins, in order to turn the
tide of popular opinion, or at least to mitirmta
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the general wrath, which at first were violent
against him, circulated reports infamously
prejudicial to the character of the woman
who had already suffered such cruel wrong
at his bands. She brought Iter suit for
blander. And thus two causes, one criminal
and the other civil, and both out of the
same tragedy, were pending in April Circuit
Court for 1840.
The interest naturally felt by the community
as to the issues, became far deeper
when it was known that Ashley and Pike
of Arkansas, and the celebrated S.S. Prentiss
of New Orleans, each with enormons fees,
had been retained by Hopkins, in his defence.
The trial, on the indictment of murder
ended on the 6th day of April with acquittal
of Hopkins. Such a result might
well have been foreseen bv coinoarinrr tho
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talents of the counsel engaged on either side.
Tbe Texas lawyers were utterly overwhelmed 1
by the argument and eloquence of their
opponents.
The slander suit was set for the Oth of
April, and the throng of spectators grew in
number as well as excitement, what may 1
seem strange, the current of public sentiment
now ran flf.AulnJI.r it?1~? 1
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money had procured witnesses, by whom '
be could provo anything, and with the aid 1
of those powerful advocntes no one doubted 1
bis success. Mary Eliston's lawyers bad <
deserted ber and withdrawn :?the p igmy
pettifoggers dare not brave the 6harp wit of 1
Pike or the scathing thunder of Prentiss. '
"Ilave you no counsel V enquired Judge 1
Mills, looking kindly at the plaintiff. (
"No; sir, they have all deserted roe, and 1
I am too poor to employ anymore." replied J
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IUU ueauuiui Mary, bursting into tears. 8
"In eucb a case, will not some chivalrous ^
member of the profession volunteer ?n asked ?
the Judge glancing around the bar. t
The thirty lawyers were as ailent as t
death. - I
Judge Mills repeated the question. J
MI will, your honor," said a voice from
the thickest part of tha^rowd Bituated be- a
hind the bart- At the tones of that voice j
many started half way frota their seats; and t
perhaps tbete was in the immense throng (1
no heart which did not beat somethi ng quick- b
er?it was so unearthly?sweet, clear, ring- t
ing and mournful.
The Bret sensation, however, was changed c
!?i? 4SO i-Jt - -
IUIU KcuerM iaagoter, when a tall, gaunt | g
spectr^) 4???V *hat nobody present' ever t
remembered to have seen before, elbowed x
his way through the crowd, and placed ?
himself within the bar. His appearance n
Was a problem to puzzle the sphinx her* ?
self. His high pale bjow, and small, n$r- fa
vovljp t^jtatf&gTjice Itemed'MWeflgth die tl
consecrated e*sSnce and cream of gfenins; a
but then hi* infinite Woe eyes, hardly risi- g
ble beneat^^their massiye arches, looked
flim?atid?tfreamy, almd^frUBCobsdottt; and a
his clothing was so exceedipg|y shabby ,]
(bat the eourt^e^tate^l^^ thV*use pro- j,
' ^Hrs ytUr nHfiB been entered on the ^
^n,ind?<J Jud8e i
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"It is immaterial about my namo being
upon your rolls," answered the stranger,
bis tbin bloodless lips curling up into a sort
of fiendish sneer. "I may bo allowed to
appear oncc by tho courtesy of tho court
and bar. Hero is my license from tho
highest tribunal in America," and lie handed
Judge Mills a broad parchment. Tho
trial immediately went on.
In the examination of tho witnesses the
stranger evinced but littlo ingenuity, as was
commonly thought. IIo suffered each
one to tell his own story without interruption,
though he contrived to make oacb ono
tell it over two or three times. He put
a few cross questions, which with keen
witnesses, only serve to corrcct mistakes;
and ho made 110 notes, which in mighty
memories, always tend to embarrass. The
examination being ended, as counsel for
the plaintift", ho had a right to tlio opening
as well as the closc, but to the astonishment
of every ono he declined tlio former,
and allowed the defence to lead off. Then
a shadow might have been observed to flit
across the fine features of Pike a'd to
darken the bright eyes of Prentiss. They
saw that they had caught a Tartar; but
who it was, or how it hannened. was im
possible to guess.
Col. Ashley spoKe first. Ho dealt the
jury u dish of that close, dry logic, which
years afterwards, rendered him famous in
the Senate of iho Union.
The Poet, Albert Pike, followed, with a
rich raiu of wit, and a hail torrent of caustic
ridicule, in which you mny be sure
neither the plaintiff nor the plaintiff's ragged
attorney was either forgotten or spared.
Tbe great Prentiss concluded for the
defendant, with a glow of gorgeous words,
brilliant as showers of falling stars, and
with a final burst of oratory that brought
the house down in cheers, in which tho
sworn jury, themselves joined, notwithstanding
the stern "order!" of the bench.
Thus wonderfully susceptible are tbe south
western people to the charm of impassioned 1
eloquence.
It was then the stranger's turn, llo had !
remained apparently abstracted during all
the previous speeches. Still, and straight
and motionless in his seat bis pale, smooth
forehead shooting up high like a mountain
cone of snow ; but for that eternal twitch 1
that came and went perpetually in his
sallow cheeks, you would havo taken him 1
for a mere man of marble, or a human
form carved in ico. Even his dim, dreamy
eyes were invisible beneath those gray,
Bhnggy eye-brows.
Hut now at last he rises?beforo the bar 1
railing, not behind it?and so near to the
wondering jury that he might touch the
foreman with his long, bony finger. With '
his eyes still half shut, and standing rigid
as a pillar of iron, his thin lips curl as if in
measureless scorn, slightly part, and the 1
voice comes forth. At first it is low and 1
Bweet, insinuating itself therefore tie brain
as an artlewrtufip wAnrlinnr iitnou !nf?
deepest heart like the melody of a magic <
incantation, while the speaker proceeds i
without a gesture or the leaslsigtiof ex- l
citement to tear in pieces the arguments of i
Ansley,' wlifcfi" fill away at his touch as t
frost before the sunbeam. Every one i
looks surprised. His logic was at once so t
brief and so luminously clear tliat the I
rudest peasant could comprehend without <
jffort. t
Anon, bo came to the dazzling wit of tbo \
poet lawyer, Pike. Then tlie curl of his l
ip grew sharper, his sallow face kindled t
jp; and hiB eyes began to open, dim aud i
Irenmy no longer, but vivid as lightning, t
ed as fire, and glaring liko twin meteors, t
Hie wbole soul was in the eye?full heart
itreamed out in the face. In five min-utes t
dike's wit seemed the foam of folly, and his t
ineat satire horrible profanity, when con- a
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i iwivu nuu buc luutjliuuiu Dnui^O UIIU CX* I
erminating sarcasm of the stranger, inter- I
>ersed with jest and anecdote ibat filled tbo s
"orum with the roar of laughter.
Then without so much as bestowing an 1
illusion on Prentiss, be turned-short on the c
ferjured witnesses of Hopkins-, tore their ^
cstimony into atoms, and burled in their r
nces such terrible invectives that all trem- 0
iled aa with an ague, and two ofthera ac- '
ually fled dismayed from the Court House. 8
The excitement of the crowd was be- a
oming tremendous. Their united life and 8
ool appeared to hang in the burning l'
ongueof the stranger.. . He inspired them
nth tbo powers of bis dwat,passion. He 8
nturated them with the poison of his own
lalioi ous feeliij??. He seemed to bave 11
tolen nature's long bidden ?ecret of at- P
raction. He was the sno of tbe sea' of all n
bought and emotion, which rose and fell v
nd boiled in billows as be cbose. But tbe ^
reatest triumph was to eorae. * ' 0
His eyes began tottlare furtlvoj^at tbe E
uauin, Hopkins, as his lean, taper finger
lowly assameg, the aaroedireotion. He tl
emmed the wretch around with a circom- r<
aliation bf strong eridenoe ?ud impregu- a
ble argument,,putting of all hope of escape, m
[e. piled np large bastions of inrarmount- b
bli (aota. He dug beneath tbe rabrderer |i
and slanderer's feet ditches .of dilemmas,
such as no sophistry. could overleap and
no stretch of ingenuity evade:?and
having thus, as ono might say, impounded
tho victim, and girt him about like a scorpion
in a circle of fire, he stripped himself to
the work of massacro !
Oh! then, hut it was Ja vision both
glorious and dreadful to behold the orator.
His action, before graceful as the wave of a
golden willow in the breeze, impetuous ns
the motion of an oak in th e hurricane. His
voice became a trumpet filled with wild
whirlwinds, deafening the ear with crashes
of power, and yet intermingled all the
while with a sweet under song of the softest
cadcncc. llis face was as red as a drunkard's?his
forehead glowed like a heated
furnace?his countenance looked haggard
t:v _r _ *
mm unit ui a maniac, ana ever anil anon
lie flung his long bony arms on liigli, as if
grasping after thunderbolts! lie drew a
picture of n murderer in such appalling
colors, that ill comparison, hell itself might
bo considered beautiful. IIo painted the
slanderer so black, that the sun seemed
dark at noonday, when shining on such an
accursed monster, and then he fixed both
of Hopkins, and he nailed them',tliero forever.
The agitation of the audience nearly
amounted to madness.
All at once llic speaker descended from
his perilous height. His voico wailed out
for the murdered dead, and described the
sorrows of tho widowed living?the beantiful
Mary raore beautiful every moment, as
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ui=i ivma uuweu uiaier?uii men wept, and
lonely women sobbed liko children.
lie closed by a strange exhortation lo
the jury and through them to the bystanders.
Lie entreated the pannel, after they should
bring in their verdict for the plaintiff, not
to offer violence to the defendant, however
richly ho might deserve it; in other words,
'oot lynch the villain Ilopkius, but leave
llic punishment to God !' This was the most
artful trick of all, and best calculated to insure
vengeance.
The.jury rendered a verdict of $50,000,
and the night afterwards, Hopkins was
taken out of his bed by the lynchers, and
beaten almost to death.
As the court adjourned, the stranger
made known his name,and called attention
of the people to the announcement?'John
Taylor will preach here this evening at early
candlelight!'
The crowd, of course turned out, and
Taylor's sermon equalled, if it did not surpass,
the splendor of the forensic effort.
This is no exaggeration. I have listened to
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w.of, v^miiviui, miu II CL'Sllir, lO JL'eWCV,
Tyng, and Bascomb, but have never heard
anything in the form of sublime words even
remotely approximating the eloquence of
John Taylor?massive as a mountain, and
wildly rusbing as a cataract of fire. And
this is the opinion of all wbo beard that
marvelous mat.
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HOT AT HOME.
I never,'said a lady, 'sent tbat message
lo the door but once, and for tbat once I
ball never forgive myself. It was more
:ban tbree years ago, and when I told my
w.iii, kuai iijurmug 10 say, \l\oi at, iiomo
;o whosoever might call, cxceptsbe knew it
.vas some intimate friend, I felt my cheeks
ingle, and the girl's look of surprise mortiicd
me exceedingly. She went about her
lutiesand I about mine, sometimes pleased
hat I had adopted a convenient fashion by
vhich I could secure lime to myself, somo.imes
painfully smitten with the reproaches
>f conscience. Thus the day wore away,
ind when Mr. Lee, came home he startled
ne with the news that a very dear and inimate
friend was dead.
It cannot be,' was my reply,'for she extcted
of me a solemn promise that I would
done sit by her dying pillow,as she had
omethinnr nf irroof imMrfonM
0 ?- J/VI vuuwu fcvr IOTCUI IU
nc. You roust bo misinformed; no one has
>een for me.' Hero suddenly a horrible
uspicion crossed my mind.
'She sent for you, but you were not at
iome,' Bftid Mr. Lee innocently ; then ho
ontiuued : 'I am sorry for Charles, her hus and
; he thinks her distress muoh aggravaed
by your absence, from the fact tfafet she
ailed your namo piteously. He would
iava sought for you, but your servant said
be did not know where you had gone. I
m sorry. You .must have been out loner
than usual as he sent a servant over here '
bree times. . '
'Never in all my life'did I experience '
uch loathing of myself, such otter humilia- '
on. My servant had gone further than I '
1 adding falsehdbd to falsehood, and I had I
laced it out of my power to reprove her by '
>y own equivocation. I felt humbled to the (
cry dust, and the next day 1 resolved over 1
ie cold clay of jpy friend tbst I would 1
ever again, under any circumstances, say lot
at home.' 1
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He is baseband that is the onebase d
ling in the universe, to receive.favors and |
mdernone. In the order of natpre we
innot render benefits to thoce from whom
e receive them, or only seldom ; bnt the ?
snefit we reoieve mast be rende??dr .kgftio, t
ne, for lino, deed tordeed, to somebody. . 1
MADAME LEVEBT.
One of the editors of the New Orleaus
Catholic Standard, in a letter addressed to
a Pensacola journal, tluis speaks of a visit
to Madatrio Le Veiit, of Mobile:?"I must
say a word respecting that genial hearted
and gifted lady, Madame Le Vert. Everybody
(as the phrase goes) is expected to
know the author of "Souvenirs of Travels;"
and an admission of ignorance in this regard
would bo sufficient to convict a crowned
prince of rusticity. As I did not escape
Ihc infection of attraction, bo I must add
one more to the list of those who have
written about her. A beautiful woman,
possessing brilliant literary talents, and no
less wonderful conversational eloquence, is
a somewhat difficult subject to talk about;
and yet I must bear testimony to the generous
impulses and wise feelings which are
hers; to the noble words which flow at her
bidding ; and to the spirit of the buoyant
child surviving in the woman which, being
hers, is also one of the finest characteristics
of genius. I defy anybody to spend an
hour in her company without rising up a
wiser and better man, having a sense of
musical joyance in his heart, because of
her words which
Did nil burst forth in cliornl minstrelsy,
As if some sudden gnlc Itnd swept nt oncc
a 1....... >>
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I do not know how to express mysely better
than to say that Madame Le Veiit is a
sohr woman, drawing afler her a firmament
of planets. You feel a power in her
and going from her, which attracts you in
spite of yourself. There is to mo a contioual
mystery in this power of one perron
over another. We find it acting everwhere
with the simplicity and ceasclessness of
gravitation, and when we meet a solar being,
a person of largo nature?soul, body
and spirit?when we find such a one moving
among the people like a queen, and
moving them whether they will or no, this
feelinrr of irivstnrv in jlrtenflnp.rl nri/1 ivn (oa\
more limn in other cases ihe truth that it is
the inspiration of the Creator. Such is
Madame Le Yekt. There is a "presence
about her whole air and manner, which
holds you before you are aware, and that
communities to the beholder at once, and
without fail, something of indwelling power;
and this I take to be tho Becret of the
wonderful charm which she exercises over
all with whom 6he comes in contact. But
as a stranger may not meddle with the
sacred privacies of character, I will cut
short my discursive gossip by saying of
Madaroe Le Vekt tbat the nearer you get
to her affections, the belter and more beautiful
does she appear."
Bisnop Hebeu, upou departing for India,
said in his farewell sermon :?"Life
bears us on like the stream of a mighty
river. Our boat at first glides down the
nairow channel?through the playful murmuring
of the little brook, and windows of
its glassy borders. The trees shed their
blossoms over our vnuncr HoaiIr th? linwom
of the brink seem to offer themselves to
our young hands; we are happy in hope,
and we grasp eagerly at the beauties around
us, but the stream hurries on, and still our
hands are empty. Our course in youth
and manhood is along a wider, deeper flood,
amid objects more striking and magnificent.
We are animate! by the moving picture
of oujoyment and industry passing us ; we
are excited by short-lived disappointment.
The stream bears us on, and our joys and
griefs are left behind us. We may be shipwrecked,
but we cannot be delayed?
whether rough or smooth, the river hastens 1
i 1 _ I ?:n ?i._ -r .?
u'naius iu iiuiuo liii mo roar 01 uie ocean
is in our enrB and the wave is beneath our ^
feet, and the land lessens from our eye9, j
and the floods are lifted up around us,< and i
we take our leave of earth and its inhabitants
until to our farther voyage there is <
no witness save the Infinite and Eternal." I
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Advice to the btaok struck.?In November,
1858,1 had the honor to be ad- <
m it tod to practice at the bar, io this country "
Perhaps my recent assumption of this charac- ;
ter will be sufficient to authorise, and ex- <
uuso, my final summing-up of the result of i
my experience of theatrical life, with a few '
wprds of gratuitous advtce "to all whom 1
these presents my concern." To any ingen- *
uous youth, then, who may be now medita- t
ting a plunge into that uncertain, or rather i
rertain,"sea of troubles"that shines and c
glitters io the seductive dazzle of the footlight*?to
such a one I say J*-Go to tea,
n reality; go to law, go t{> chdrch, go to g
physic; go to Italy and strike a blow for t
iberty, (if cause and opportunity again t
>ffer;) go to anything, or anywhere, that 0
nrili give you an bonest atfei decent livelihood
atber than go a pott tbe stage! To any ?
roung lady with a jjpPar proclivity, I p
irp&ld say: Buy a seWMMJMfcbine, and take. 0
n plain w?rk, fim fQpfipfep ***? your-, t,
elf much sorrow, btjKer disappointment e
Tt T-r c
nan: but tbe fair^jto would hare oe heyWe \
bat bo ia gallant fWUgh to wait for the ?
mU$t , b
ENGLISH MARRIAGE PR0VERB8.
Of ibo English adage, 'Better wed over
the mixcn than over the moor,' wo have the
following explanation ;?'The mixcn is the
heap of manure in tho farmyard. The proverb
means that it is better not to go far from
homo in search of a wife?advice as old as
tho Greek poet Hesiod, who has a line to
this effect ; ?'Marry, in preference to all
other women, one who dwells near thee.'
But a more specific meaning has been
assigned to tho English proverb by Fuller,
and after him by Uay and Disraeli. They
explain it as being a maxim peculiar to
Cheshire, and intended to dissuade candidates
for matrimony from taking tho road
to Loudon, which lies over the moorland
of Staffordshire. 'This local proverb,
says Disraeli, 'is a curious instance of provincial
pride, perhaps of wisdom, to induce
the gentry of that county to form intermarriages,
to prolong their own ancient friendship
between them.' This is a mistake, for
the proverb is not peculiar to Cheshire, or
to any part of England. Scotland has it
in this shape:?1Belter woo o'er midden
nor o'er moss.' And in Germany they give
the same advice, and also assign a reason
for it, saying, 'Marry over the mixen, and
you will know who and what she is.'
The same principle is expressed in different
1
uii?a in uuier languages, e.ff.C?'Your
wife and your nag get from a neighbo r.'?
(Italian.) 'lie that goes far to marry,!
does to be deceived or to deceive.'?(Spanish.)
The politic Lord I3urleign seems to
have regarded this 'going far to deceive as
a very proper thing to be done for the
advancment of a man's fortune. In his
'Advice to his Son,' he says, ,If thy estate
be good, match near home and at leisure ;
if weak, far oft'and quickly.' There is an
ugly cunning in that word quickly. Burleigh's
advice is quite in the epitit of the
French fortune-hunters adage, 4In marriage
cheat who can.?Proverbs of all Nations.
A Kino made a conronAL.?At a
Zouave banquet, after the battle, several of
the men spoko of the gallant manner in
which tho king had behaved at I'alestro,
aud expressed, in their picturesque language,
interspersed with Arabic expressions,
their admiration of the Piedmontese sovereign.
Some proposed to send him an address
of congratulation.?'What is it yon
determined to do?' asked one of tbem.?
'What!5 replied an old sergeant, 'is there
any 'nan, however high his rank, who
would not be proud to bo called brave bv
the Zouaves, who aro, as the Emperor ba3
6aid, the first soldiers in tho world !'?'That
is true,' was the answer from all present,?
'All,' exclaimed a bugleman, 4I have an
idea; lot us nominate him to the rank of
corporal!'?This proposition was unanimously
approved of, and tho nomination was
accordingly mado with great formality, the
oldest sergeant standing up, and with a
loud voice solemnly declaring, 'lu the
nnmo of the Third Zouaves, Victor Emmanuel,
King of Sardinia, is named to the
rank of corporal in the said regiment.'
And it was decided that a document
signed by the whole of the party present
should be sent to the king to acquaint him
with his promotion. This was done the
next day, and the king conceives tho whole
proceeding to be the highest honor thatcould
be conferred on him.
The 'Cool of the Evening'.?Sidney
Smith was couipUiniug of a young gentle*
t- - _l.t- ...
lunu wuo, uuuougD many years ins junior,
was in tho habit of addressing him by his |
Christian name, a privilege which as Sid- i
ney Smith remarked, he only allc wed his <
intimate friends. Shortly after, the
gentleman in question entered the room, ,
nnd familiarly addrossing Smith as'Sidney,' ,
inquired how he thought of passing the <
day. 'For my part,' lie added/ the Archbishop
of Canterbury (the then Dr. IIowley)
has often iuvited me to pay a visit at
Aldington Park, and I think I shall drive 1
iown and return in the cool of the evening.' '
?'Ah,' returned Smith, 'then let'me give '
pou a word of advice } I know something
>f the Archbishop,; he is a yery excellent I
nan, but rathef> proud ; don't call bim I
TtTMM ? ' - * ~
wiiiiam;- ue might not like it.' A roar of *
augbter followed tbis significant speech
ind an tbe discomfited youth led the room, j
Sidney Smith turned round and qirigUj5 8
emarted. 'I think.I have sattlod the '*woi t
>f the evening* atlMf.' ^ . ?
Cheesk not aw Americanism.?A 1
gentleman, who has just returned from ?
our ib Europe, telle us that the steward, pf
be Ounaad Steamer, in * which, be came
ver, mentioned it to him
tutUfiVn of l.i? ?11.-* A * A
v. mm luvojuy .i^iuuricvin u
at ^comparatively totf ;n
aaeag* from Lireipool liiWel^VorJ^ the
rdhrtry Wwiptiojfc ;;te ^be caWit, w? ?
iro Stilton cbeeaeaaW^i large Cheshire, 8
ssasstssisaisi
o? -ohee* in tbreeor farikjy m*>
m W U>? baring of *
ia|e for ch&ke, (?*ep*rat?oi?%f etflk ?
.iej.O wWWS?*.?r;o^U4&4& "
J* ^ J' '' ^ ^
33 3TO flRP 1*0.
A high rknt.??. hole in tho crown of v.
your bad bat. \
t Tho quickest way to m^ke "eye-water" is
' to run your nose against a lamp-post.
J May the person who makes one potiod
I two a day bo said to -double his capital 1
It is a shame, if any person poorer than
you is inoro contented than you.
Fools are ruled by their humot* J but wise *
men by their interest.
Tho man who was hemmed in by d
crowd has been troubled with a stitch in his
side ever since. v
Wo suppose that a man who nevef
snonlra mm l"> *" 1
? uvi d.?iv? uiway# to Keep 1118
word.
i
A fashionable proverb.?Heavensent
us woman, and France?crinoline.
Tiik value of silence.?A woman bus
often committed herself by talking?'neve^
by holding her tongue.'
' J
Why is Chauncey Burr a very goodtempered
man *?Because be always keeps
his collar (choler) down.
M ' f ! * "%
A lecturer asserted that allhjtter things
were hot. "No" suggested Brown, "riot H
bitter cold day." *
Whose best works are most trampled
upon ? A shoemaker's?because good shoes
last longef thafj bad ones.
A TERRIBLE REVERsi. No cLiMrcri
now-a-days. All our children are men arid
all our men are chiMish;
A frenchman, wishing to 6peafc of^thA
cream of the English poets, forgot the word,'
and said "de butter of poets."
The poor tailor who tried to cure hia
Wife's temper has given it up as a bad job;
H& foiifid tbo experittiefit wa? dot "Worth'
the salt."
"Do you kuow who built tkis bridge!"
said a p'erson to Ilook. "No," replied
Hook, "but if. you go over you'll bo tolled?"
"Will you bo r second," said a gentle-'
roan,-who proposed to 6gbt a duel. "No/
indeed, for you wouldn't stand U second
yourself."
There is a man in town so knowing, thai
people who don't know their own rainde/
come to hitfi folr iftforrtfatiofc on the aubject.
The tain man idolizes his own person, and
here he is frtong; bit he cahnot bear hfe
own company, and here he is right.
A secret is my slave as long as I keep it
tinder; a 3ecret is my m'aster the moment ii
escapes from me.
Love is better than a pair of spectacles trf
make everything seem greater which is seed
through it.
What is the difference betweett a matt
? L - 1 -1 * *
v*uij Kueps ooga, ana one wbo has nine
walkiugsticks ? One ovtna c'a;nines and tb6'
other nine canesi
Bautru presented a poet to M. de llemery
saying, "Sir, I present you with an indi<
vidual who wilJgite you immortality ; but
you must* meanwhile, girebim something t<?
live upon."
"Well,- fartoe/j yon told tfs your plafcel
was a good place fof hftfrting ; now tfe bar#
tramped it for three hours and found not
game."?"Just so. I calculate, as a genera)
thing, the less gafirfe tbefe is, the mora hno-'
ting you have." v
"All the ^torLd's a stage."?The lift/
of a miser is a bad drama; the only piint of
which is in tbe eftd. All the effects ard
crammed into the "tag."
The top O# his profession.?If w#
& .
were asked .what physician stood .at thef
top of bis profeMion, We should say it
the gentleman wbo was in the b|ibH of kiJ
tending patients Mi a thonament.
A OAniUman in. flltw. * >? jua?w-iiji
D v/ u rV| miw UIVUrlTCCUUJ f
jcqueftthed to Lift #ife a hnn^fcome suio,* '*
Providing in his will tbftt in dial* sbo . yaar~r~
icd again it sBoald be' dou1>)ei). , ',
Bgau ffrifcds the
bo trfljp, m;16 tlio crng the mow patcbTdot# "
o clinWfay constant w?ul'tq tfceetl thVowty '*
ny beautiful?/?iy fc>att/r " J ff
Ifyoawould irtjoy fbtif .
be sa4A> time t be society of tb ef tad ies, ypa
bonld invito nono but widow*, for the/" '
rill bring ttetr pton icteds.
Ajoung My, food ofJanodsg,^^;
. toe course 01 a wum;
red miles. Yet no I?<J$ *ot*fd (hfott ef
^kit>g-tbat4k?w* HO* OK*
Wr;h ; (' . ^'' : *, ?T? V*(tj <?
"Gentferaen," ?tM a fcrmt* keepe* tobfe
riesta, atnridflfclKfVl d*n?t
&u b*fe UlMd' eDOiigb f*
"r>---sj'i*-rpvxiiii " # -;? ? iJ-i .^c> aaaaid
?w# (fl tm, * Jww3pSr? *pp{
An Irish concbWaft, driting ^a4;v?|^^
&wrab, roe darling, t vUk I