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i | * R ances Qfixfnfiffitmcs. pJBLLISHED-ON WEDNESDAYS BY J. B. GALPIN, Propribtor. TERMS.-The \ i ; c subscribers 9T #C rel“?! or i! paid within tha year, Officd gu scribaLs suppl 50 within the year. J o'g‘libargl discount made \k’fl'lbhp'aid in advance, ent oy mail, or taken at the offiég..,. f, No flaps: discont uueMunlggéa the: Foroprictor) until all arrearages aJ J, ; (ike! Advertlsumbflfigmverted al kg ] joB PRINTING neatly »x® té A Ttanksgiving Song: Hark! 'tis the glad, inviting call- Come to the feast of Treanis ogain, That wide is spread, and free to all, As sunshine and the rain ! Come rich and poor, come bigh and lows Here meet as one, all names, all rankey Come every one that fxin would k now The laxury of thanks. No rumors now of bloody wats Intrudo upon our festive scene; But dove-eged Prac®, in place of Mans; Here waves her oliva green. And smiling Vesa stands beride - © Bhe, who domestic. peace inspires - Who o'er the household doth preside, And at the hearth-stane fires ; While Gennes with her yellow locks, And bounteons smiles in waiting stands; With poppies wreathed afid golden shocks Of corn within her hands. To deck the feast, sweet Fuon a atrings Her Antumn flowers in garland» fair ; And rnddy cheeks Postona brings Of fraits a desert rare. Came to the fast of Trrawice' and here, 'The fucense of the heart vield up [year | 'To Hraven, whose love hath crowned our And overflowed our cup. O a Thanksgiving Scene. A THRILLING TALE, PAomatee Tarsort was benotiful and love- bin her youth, dearly loved by ail but beit those of her own fireside circle Bre. indeed the rtcheet gem in thar cirele, - [hen the tong lishes were hfied Trom her fer changing thevk. you could lqok into the fry soo! of the high-minded, eanny-héarted Fi. Six years belore she had stood tn her, Aher's low partar on 'Ebsnksgiving eve=she Rd stead HCCC C_ A that Author | ~4 mother to fuses shoe {Med het # LX., , btide oC un hour. And as the good ther's rnepberry wine, carefully botiled tor occasion, went ronod, she dreamed not tin that ep lurked a detion thit should erthrow the uttar Just erected. Caleb Rey: Woide was - now a drunkard Sand a deserter \ ¥ fom ine home. He had enlisted, it wis in an hour of fotoxieation= but his Bite was left to learn it from other lips. He Went without one - word of farewell to the Bolidns of Mesxico-and never ative had «he eurd from him. - Poor Adelsfde curried her ruxhed heirt back to her lsther's houae long: | fng ouly to Iny In the grave. Have you ever Freen a tree In our Western Poreats blighted y girdling,\ ns the woodamen call it-cut if from ite connection with the lifegiving fearth, and - then left to wither for years ? 1 Enever puse such n tree without thinking of the slow denth of the heurt, to which some writer has -atcikiogly corpured It, [t was thus that - Adelaide stood umong the other plants of her fither'a muure, - Have you ever ween from: such n girdled tree n young «hoot Timxs* will be delivered to sont by mail, at suggin ad. ied at $1 25 She | * vou. 18. the way.. Bo, not to be cheated out of our Thankegiving, we footed it through the drifts. <| We've lost Parson Wood's sermon, but we've in time for mother's inner ; nnd 1 dasure you a walk of elght miles has given us d good pair of appetites? Bo they sat down to dimwg‘al laat, will the loving and the iterry oned> Grandfather hushed them for a moment. while he lifted his bronzed hands over the huge platter, and invoked bountifel Heaven in a lengthy but fervent 'blessing.' 'Then followed the usual all-you see {t as well as I do. The 'wish bone? (a gréat prize that.) fell to the, share ol the shyest one. little blue eyed Nelly, who carefully wrapped it in her white apron an a sacred treasure. Cok, may l break with you?\ ecrenmed her cousin Harry, from the 'other end of the ; table. *No; I nm going to break © With whom 'I should like to know ?\ 'With auot Susie, then, said the dove, tunidly to her side. © Aunt-SBusie - ha 7 aunt Suste would look tule 'foely breaking a wish bone.' 'And did your wish ever come to pass-did they ever, aunt Susie ?' erfed three volces at once. < 'Yes. did they ever, aunt Susie? chimed in Edward. éasting up from his plate a side» long. demure glance, that brought blushes and dimples to her cheek«. Buse had seen eome quiet little flirtations. Suddenly her face grew serious. She caught Adelaide's expression of countenance, as the Intter quleity rose from the table, aid made same excuse for withdrawing. The xiv-”hope was broken to a charm- #s pthisMfinympamidq-g‘ to the infinite anfusemeot . of the' s, Amres\ who had tert making bets on the resulC - The babies' went to steep at the right hour precisely, and were packed into their snog cradles with blunkets and pillows. | 'The elders of the juvenile com: pany were ensconced in a corner lo play button g' and the brothers and sisters clus- rered in quiew litle knois. - William and Susan set by the window, not to sentimenia: lige over the moonlight that came Bickering through the Reery clouds, bot to gather ap the threads of confidential tefe.a-fries-to chat of college scrapes, and-euve the mark- school ma'am's rogueries. Graudmatinimna had her knitting of course ~-bless the dear old fingers that had kept so many feet warr j and Susie, the modest substiiute a crotchet purse to net. | 'William ,' said Susie, lowering her voice at a prose in the converention. and giuncing up furtively, 'what do you think of Addie to- day T' M William stole a glance around. 'Much as usual, is she nol, poor thing ?\ 'Bee how she site there with her fingers Baprinyg out, and down ite fibres from ! ‘ ing nwn i118 \\* - moving through Bobby's curls, and her eyes u feeble connection with the bark below, and | . 1 fixed on vuemnty, sustain a @urs though sickly life in the tree 7 I1 wae thus that lutle Robert came, to bind i | few broken fibers from her early hopee and dreame on enrth, But we nre forgetiing our Thankagiving-- none of the nunties furgot it howaver. or the cousins -and by | the time farmer Talbot's big sleigh bad | emptied twire upon the old sultaprinkled stone sieps. all were brought | home from church and all were there. i” high continued to bo called - who were co [J vating the sciences in i college vet many MB miles niway. - And why were they not there 7 86 questioned overy one. und geandaminems did not anewer-only wiped her apeciarles evary few inates on her npron. and out of her southwert window. Meanwhile the new comers were all clas ; frered in the 'viving room. making a merry ose of the interInde between eerviee and din- or. - Thega was Robert, the eldest I All-except two. unneesontable stragglers, | 'the boys,! as two striptinge nearly «ix feet | ltl -a | avill i i | all ware quire: eilent won, wirh The te romping family and anzioue looking: wile ' [Phere was Charlotte-no, nobody knew het By that name-Lotti hlooming is her prima d managing her littfo ones to a charm.- erg waa Philip, 'the old bachelor,\ thoogh By no memne a erorty one. Next to him ant ip pale-et.f looking enusin from the nearest favtoty village. Last, but not lefat, though p roth she was a fittle one. wae the «chool am-the youngest | of her father's flock, | ke Inoghing, foo-loving Sosic. She wns ' beautifol, as Addie had been, but there a world of god anture in her fow. ad forehead and dimpling cheeks that you r @i Arsi sight. 1 will not atterapt ® rain, for I do not know hint she ever Alfangenongh to have it taken, except \This day she was bere and eve- Wink? children, kissing one. thst, d. mto up é terror of its mamma 'This wie her wedding night, you know.' L tell - you Withe, | that Addie loves Rey: nolde with iif her whole heart yet, ns truly na sheorer did on thntovening. She has never apoken his name, even to me, ance the day \her Inther forbade it ever to be mentioned In lue presence but there is something in this statue like grief of here' \A sharp. quick bark under the window ar- i reated the conversation. Be quiet. Qrowler, old fellow, you about ?' shouted Wiliam, and he was Dear, silent Adslaide naw brought rround the tray of nute nnd apples, and every one tried to make her amile as he took a share bat her emiles was os faint as moonlight on un iey lake. Harry and - Nelly had called aunt Susie aver to the corner to name their apples, and for a lew moments. - quick bork came again from the dog followed by n fow, protracted growl. Edward jumped up to investigate matters, bot belore he reached the door it was opened slowly bat firmly anda tall pale figure stepped with in it, and stood -silently. - The sudden para- lysis of suprise bound every voice. A mo- ment more, and with a faint, deeperate ery Adelaide dropped her boy from her lap, and eprang across the room to- -her hasband. Ks his arma closed around her, and her head sank Hike a broken lily on his shoul der, farmer Talbot started as if stung by a biter memory. - His arm was raised, and his white locks Aoated back- 'Father © I1 was Susan's voirs choked with burning agony as she sprang to caich the hand of the old man, . The oplitted band fell, and all was hushed lor ae en es ' Come you as a reformed man, Caleb Rey- nolds7 and fermer Talbot's tone was firm. ' though qoiet. | dle on his Feat y+ | - 'Then, my s 'I do. by the help of Gad, my father,\ the stranger eclemaly answered. Farmer Talbot threw the glara of the can- ures. - 'Caleh Reynolda never apake Aise.bar' sod the old man modotated each word, as if to sigady his trembling voice. 'Have you sigoed the iemperance pledge P ‘lbimg signed it aod 1 have keps ir fors n,/--the old man's band was bo;.his voice.. was choked. He {{ Bowel himee'f down, and wepi like a child. arms hung loosely ervond Caleb y the cerprine: Wad tres tho gestion Addie bed- fainted. Re: th the arms of [t they bai. won bee abé Dla rice to ber cg 3 tilnttering, and-but I need not describe it what are | ford the litle round forehead of the elseper. - She only replied by her teats. No question further was asked ; but Ca- leb soon - spoke of his wanderings. - Wound- ed in batile, and brought to the angel Ré- flection. | But with reflection and good reso- lutions came also remorse and despair. Who should win back to him. the forfeited affet- tlons of his devoted wife ? Tt was then thit the lesson learned on his mother's knee catbe equandered in dissipation, | He went to the Fountain of peote and drank of the 'living waters' | Huving fixed and finished his terin of probatfon, he sought again bis home. 'I knew,' said he, 'you would be nestm bled here to-night ; and [ lingered, shivering. long i before 1 could mun my heart to come in a- mong you.' ' Brother,\ exclaimed more voices than one. 'The clock in the corner struck nine-it was the hour of pruyer. | Farmer Talbot laid his [ | gineses. 'Come. my children, let no give thanks to the angels to-night, for this my son was dead and is alive ogain-was lost and 's found.! fons... A5. Omoin of Taarxksaivino Day.-When New England war firmt planted, the settlers met with many difficulties and hardships. as is neccessarily the case when a civilized peo- ple attempt to establish themselves in a wil deroess country. - Being piously disposed. they songht relief from Heaven, by laying their - wants before the Lord in Fervent set days of fasting aod prayer, Constant medi- tation, and distourse on the subject of their -diffieulifes, kepg their thinds gloomy and dis- gontented, and like the children of Israel, there were many disposed tusPeturn to the pereecutton- Te o cereramncs N to mbandou, At length, when it was pro posed in the assembly to proclaim another fmet, a {armer of plain sease. rose, and te- marked, that the inconveniences they suffer- ed, and concerning whith they had sa often wearied Henven with their complaints, were not so great as might have been expected and were dimimishing every day as the tolony strengthened ; that the earth began to reward their labore, and to furnish liberally Tor their sustenance; that the sea and rivers Were fall of fish, the uir sweet, the ellmate wholesome; above all, they were in full enjoyment of lib- eriy, civil and | religious. - He therefore thought, that reflecting and conversing on these subjects would be more comfortuble, ne tending to make them more contented with | their struation ; and that it would be more becoming the gratitude they owed to the Di- vine Being. if, instead of <a fast, they should proclaim | thankogiving. | His advite was ta- ken ; and, from that day to thle, they have in every year observed circumstances of pub lic happine«s -| sufficient to furnish employ mont for a thankegiving day. Far amb Lean -Dr. Thomas Chanbers, Feliow of the Royal College of Phy sicians London, line. published a volume on Corpu lency or excess of fat in the human body. In [ it he atates | that thowe who atinin to grea! age are. generally thin and spare, with con- siderable fat about the heart-a prominent abdomen being as unevinmon among nonn genariana as It fa Inyouth.* The fat sleet head ed mon only - lives np to a certain age those who top (our store: ynare being rarely of the | podgy order.\ The ductor his not told ue how ione gels fut and another gets lean-but it | seeime that it is not owing to the amount of fa0d consumed, for some men will get Tat il they eat very aparingly, while othere will not | get fat though they consume | like a horse leach-the thin man throws off his fat as soon | na he makes it, the obeee man. Inys it up in | deposit-the fiery breath of the lion keepe him spare, the less restless graving animal ! gote feshy. - Fat has important duties to por- - ht acts as u bed to allow the muscles to move freely, and to protert thein from , blows, falls &c. It nleo mnewers the pur © pose of retaining warm h. | It in n stare house lor earbon for the use of the lings. . The fat man will live longer whhout food than the lean man. - Liebeg was not the first to dis- rover this. Qalen, quoung from and older Greek philosopher. says. (lal in the homan irame is - osed | the same way as oil eupplies the flame of a lamp- when the flame is less powerfal, less fat is required and it is laid by in a treasure house, An over developement of fat, however, is infurioos, . for alight acci- den'« to fat persons en«ily produces erysipe \ Jag lew inflamation, gragrene \ {n respect to consumption, leanness wa «ytmprom al the disease, and in many cases of this disease. Dr Chambers believes that cod liver orl is a remedy, ut least to projong tife, if netso-effect. a cure. The man who has the best chance for a long life is not the very lean, and not the very corpalent ; but the man with so erect form, with a good a- mout of flesh on his bone, and whose tront exhibits bot a small regard for aldermatic disunctions. a Assaramoa.- This article o - obtained from a large ombelliferoos plant growing in Persia. - The root resembles a large parship externally. . af ta bisck color; on cutting irdneversely, the asvafgtida exclodes in form of a white, thick joice, Era éream, which. from ex to the air, becomes yeltower, sedut of a dark brown esisa | It ts agrto ron into ian 3 add beccerfinse} in eurefolly\ defedd it from The son. 'The fresh joe R% ai\ mgmmmwmwm cpew keating; a sirgle tfike Tress beaming up through the gloom of yeats. [hand on - the family Bible, and wiped his | 'T:awmaof the impossibility of doing so at: a iter. - . OXFORD, CHENANGD CO,, N. Y., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1850, A Yanltee at the Adamg House. Bome weeks ago, a very long. brown, down Enater, attired In one of those costumes which are nowhere to be thet with except on the j stage-a tall, bell crowned, white hat, short waisted coat. with Enormous pewter buttons. a vest as ' yaller' as a barberry blossom, a I pair of corduroys, whose highest ambition seemed to itirlntain their astendency over a pair of enotthoge cowhides that had trod» deo many a hundred thiles of log: ging-pathe. \ might have been seen,\ jack knife and shin- f gle in hand, wending his way up Long- Wharf io the realization of hls life-long anticipations | of 'seein' Boston! At the torner of Mer- chants' Row, his progress was arrested by | the rumbling transit of a two-story house on | wheels, drawn by half a dogen yoke of oxen, with the people inside pursuing their usual voeatione. What on earth is that ere ? he asked of a ; : bystander. Ohl hothing. replied the 'towney.' them folke are only moving-that's all. When we move down hare, we do it, house and all. Je rusalatm | Wall, that beats all natur. Wall. cap'n, what's that ere big stun house ! over to the left? That's the new Custom House, It's a mighty bad location, but they are going to move it next week. ~ Thooder and molasses! it'll take all the oxen in creation for 10 atari her. Oh! they use glephants for moviog such | large buildings. | And elephants 'I it take ? | Upwards qf a hundred. The Yankee cut a deep gash in his shingle and walked on. He next Inguired for the Adams House. fop i {hearg tell' of that, and wa« de- erminga «- b; wy -J jovemniity. i more advanced age.' He soon (ound the ' tavern,' and the ! dea- con.' and ordered accommodations, liberally * darning the expense. - Having ' slicked up' a littl, he witnessed, with some amagemetiL. the operations of a servant on the gong, elim- ply remarking that 'he know'd what sheet- lightning was, but this was the furt time he'd ever heard of sheet-thuoder. - He followed the crowd into the dining hall and was ush> ered to a seat where he - encoucel! himeri(. tucking the towel under his chin with a sort of desperation, as ihe was going lo be shav- , ed nr senlped. The sight of the covered dishes added to | his amazement. - Dod darn it! he exclaimed ' if { ever heard of cookin' on the table! but | here shey'ye got tin kitchens all over the lot. | Whar's the fire to come from, that's what 1'd like to know ! He got nlong with the soup very well, and was pruging for breath, betore he Anished it when a waiter snatched his plate away and was running of with in Hellow ! you sir! vociferated the -1 see you-fetch that ere back quicker'n lightnin', or else you'll hev your head puoch ed. His plate was returned. and he finished his ( soup with dignity. | After waiting a maiment. . he raised his voice again and summoned the offending walter sternly Kelkelate to starve me ? No, sir. Wall, why don't you feish on some fresh fodder, darn ye ? , 'There's the carte. air, | Where's the cart 7 - And what in thonder ; am | to do with the cart when I've got it - Look out you pesky sarpint, or you'll caich , 1. The hill of fare. I don't pay my bill of fare till I've had my . lodder. The waster then humbly explained his meaning. What's all these ernck joy names mean 7 Give me somethin' plain aad hearty ; hiled corn-beef, and fetch it abouc the quickest while [ look over this paper and see what else ['ll hev. 1 he meat was then brought to him. Hold on ! was the uext order. What is thie hare} M a-c-o-a -read It, won't you, air ? Macesront, mr. All right, cap'n, horry it up. The dish was brooght. 'The eternal fool! roared the Down Easter ef I haint s great a mind ge ever 1 had ta kerwhullop yer and make an example of yer ! on the spot. - What do yer mean by | runoin' - yer mg# on me just becau«e I'm a stranger in ; these parta 1 Take away yoor darn'd biled | prpe stems, and fetch on some csbbage -' | That's right - Asod now then equire, some vmegar. ¥ apgar's inthe castor, replied the wares, +and mada good his retreat. ! In the castor. in it, hey ! soliloquised the | Yankee; aud where in thumier is the castor? | 'The young genileman opposite pushed it E towards him. | He looked at t=-tooh avi the | stopper of the vinegar, and takimg op the cas- | tor by the. battom, turned A up, Bot all ibe cruets mant a desire to Mostrate the irws of gravity and feap from their beationa, and the Yankee was compelled to sit it dows 1 | Yankee , i | 1 I I again. Jereselom! ha exclaimed. This is cari ots contrivance, and no mistake. How op earth cin I git at the taste) | NMD try it toes twofe -- Again be canted the castor, bol this cae the coppers manbled ock | . 0. . ha reared, here's a prety wives © Dabu Pongo! tha Cara'd Darguke stike) I Baek. - juz tlie f | know -unususl place-very. Nn sir, none heve dried she experiment and woold advise ; sun taker. 'The Farmer. . A Beautiful Picture.-The man whostands upon his own soil, who feels that by the fsws of the land in which he lives-by the laws of civilized nations-he is the rightful 'and\ ex- closive owner of the land which he tills, is by the eonstitotion of puynathfe. under;a whole- some influence. not easily imbibed\ from any other source. - He feels-other things being equaL—{nore strongly than finalher.‘_zh9 ah!\- scter of 3 man as the lord of the inanirgate | world. - Of this greatand wongelfu‘ sphere, which, fashioned by \the hand of God, and unhelfed by his power, is rolling ‘hro'u'gfi | the Reavens a partis his-his from the gen- ok ter to the why. It is the space on which the Country School Exercises. generstion before hin moved in its round of . We have very smart boys in this town. On€ | gories. and he feéle hifiecf connected by a in particular, who was eatled up the other dry l vi«ible link with those who follow him. and by the pedagogue, to give some account 9\ / to whom he is to transmit 'a home. - Perhaps himself for his absente, and to give some evi- | his tarn hns. coe down to him. from his fa- dence. if possible. of progress in his studies: | thers. - 'They have gone to their list home ; ' Where were you yesterday, you rase8! T\ ; but he can trace their footsteps over the 'I was out in the field alone, {snene of his daily labors. The roof\ which .' What were you doing In th6 field, sit- , yhetrers waereared hy those to whom he owes picking berries 1' ‘ lis being. - Some interesting domesiic tradi- * No sir. I was out in the field along.\ [ tion is connected with every enclosure, The : Weil. WM“. was you dolog P favorite fruit treee was planted by his fathers I was meditating, hand. - He sported In lls boyhood beside the 'Meditating. you raséal yoo, pon Whit? | prook which still winds through the meadow. (1 was ineditaring what ['d be when 1 $01 Through the field lies the parh of the village to be grown up-printer, Doctor, Iawyer, or [gehool of earlier days. | He still henre from schoolmaster, and 1 rouk the field lor i/ | bie window the voire of the Sabbath bell, Brave boy ! What wus your conclosion ? | which called his fathers to the house of God ; 'Thought se how I'd be -a schoolmadter- ang near it hand Is the spot where his pa- they lives easy -likes to give lickine, ani to \rents lInfdown to rest. and where. when the teach the young idea what to shoot ar? 'time is come. he shallbe laid by his children. 'Precious boy. How do you progress In' These are the [eelings of the owners of the yout “my\? ;ootl. - Words cannot paint: them-gold can- * Well. {hot buy thei ; they flow out of the deepest 'Let me see; how many mille makes & fountain ot the heurt, they are Hfe-eprings of ceni ? ia Ireeh. bealthy, and generous national char- -* Don't know ; but guess it takes A #004 gores --Hon. Ediard Everett. many cents to make a mill, if they am buil | -- uf stone.! | Quite a Miscalte. 'The school-mastef fainted and we came Robert Steam,a resident of Middletown. io away . Ohio, was among the passenffers of the ill fa - {red Wayne. when she blew up on Lake Erie. ICY® Porter. the Kentucky glant, called at: A body. to his description, was the Louisville Post Office tor letrers - Find- ! found floating on the Luke. It was buried ing n rmpossible to inquire at the ordinary < at Sanduéky. and a monument erected to his window of delivery, without bending his knees , memory by Iriends, . A few days since, the he very narurully peeped over the top, where ' aluresaid Rubert visited the grave yard and the transom was opened, with j read sacred to his memory. &c., and immedi- 'la the Louisville anil in. sir ?' ately possed ufl to his friends, and after some The clerk at some distance off, first looked | fiule argument us«ured them that he \wis astonishet|, then angry. and finally burst out | not dead, but actually alive and kicking, el- withe 5 90 ® covered with peare. - It appears that 'What are you doing there, boy 1 Get the was picked up in ine lake by n bout. aod down from there. directly , ! conveyed to Detroit. where he received med- * {s the Logieville Mull in ?\ again inquired ical treatment. and was enabled once more down from: there. directly.\ 'to return. Orders were immediately dis- 'Ia the Lomsville Mail in ?\ again inquired , paiched to Sandugky. to have the monument Porter meekly. removed from over his supposed remuins.~* 'Don't &e climbing up there. Hell yon air' | Cin. Enguirer. replied thénetiled clerk. ' get down, and take | your ruro at the window.\ © Porter tried agnia. © Are there any letters for James Porter ? 'Oh. ah ' gawped the worthy clerk frintly, for he had seen in the papers that Porter wae in town. | beg pardon. really did not NO. 13. 6 The Findale Mogument: 'The New Yorker publishes an engraving of . : the Monument which will be erected over thn grave of the brave young martyr of the explosion. | It represents him sus- tnined in the arn.s of Rel gion, as he hea «ur- rounded ny the wreck of the building and machinery. The monoment is to be cut in white murble, the whole to be about eizigen Eprreor or a Loco Foco Una tom -I wan feet in height. 'The statues nre to rest on @t pedestal presenting inblets, upon which are some man to go dewn into our district and make a demoeratie speech, enid a good hon: ] to be engraved the litle _heroe's name and, H brother, Willinm Merrett, who eet furmer. as he bid good nrurning re a cou- | tht urtis ha ple of young loco foco Inwyers who . flourish | perished in the same awful dienster. mgelizel‘ in the viciony of Spalding's Exchange. Cant! with those most prominent in rescuing niet you go. from his terrible sttuations. | Also. appropri- 'No I can't really. - I've some business on 8! designs for fire apparnius. with the name band that cau't be delayed. of the Mnyor, Chief of Police, Chief of Fire Well I'm sorry for that, for the neighbore Department, with the names of engines pres- tuld me that you were the beat man that 1 eut and their foiemen. On the last pungl could get. will be found n description of the manner in -Sorry I can't go ; bot so it is. i which the structure was raised. and by who. Look here my friend, emd the other law- | yer. -| sometimes make democratic rpesches my sell. Do you ; suppose then you go. Well 1 dow't know nbout that. I1 might not do very well. In '44 I made a eprech, one night at a democratic meeting. and it 100k me ull midnight to get through with it, The folke seemed to like it well enough for three or four hours. but when it got into the big houre. every man of 'em lett bat one Web, that man was a gooo democrat, | kno w. (Oh, yes !-certainly but he etaid to dun me. to-day.! Snesrexin Mars -Take a spoonfoll of alum and two of sait peire. pulverize and mix well together ; afer sprinkling the powder on the esh side of the skin, lay the two flesh sides iogether, [leaving the wool outaide] and fold up ss tight as you can and hang in a dry place. - In two or three days, as soon as it in dry, take it down nod scrape it with a blant krife ull clean and supple ; this completes the process. Other skine which you desire to cure with tur or hair on, may be treated in the aame way. - To dye them buff colors wash the woo! thoroughly with soap and water :- tinee out all the soap and then let them soak fur some days unui the dyne imparted. in a goo! I quor made by boiling one pound ol log- wood chips and madder in each gallon of wa- ter. Demrrars aso Linetiate.-Scene, on li- brary-a gentleman deeply engaged in atndy and a lady pretending lo kuit, is perpleaing him with her questions. Lady (in che damlling affectionate atyle) Wa deah' correctly speaking what is a den het ! Gent (short. sharp. mnd rather cross)- Dentist is derived from dent French thre teeth. - A Denust ima man who pulls teeth out. Lady (after knitting once ronad - in order 10 give the Geni. time in hecome immersed in his book again) Ma deah ! yuu said this morning that Professor Mowiy was a grea' linguist | le not linguist derived from thei Latm lingua. a tongse ! ' ! Gent. ( turtly} yes Well then, rm a Degmat a man who pulls tongues: out ! Genot, (very Madam, but I wish to Heaven he eid f;» If dace al you wants TH sthart her for [Exn lady in a BUEL‘Nx ¥. Bpirt f R8\ you ' eici -imed a broad backed man. apply- f - .ing his sh-ubler to the wheel, and giving the f a ri wh for s Dev Fert -We will give out readers a :?:‘,H.::fz%§:h:;:‘rgy grizlgge 1:2 recipe for making boots w iter proof Which 19 \ gutten soc meer mgninrdi'tfi fees, the mag worth more than our enbscripitem 19) poy pored +oo. - any person wha will try i. The moistore , generally pesetrates the «ales of boots -the} upper leather is pot easily wet and is easily , dried. - To render the sole imperzions so the; water, order your boot maker to cat preces , of canvass the proper shape. dip them in me} ; ted pirch or tar, and lay them open the inter | When be asked bef aga she wisde sotes before porting on the outer sole of the j got to grmaily him by hing bin terreffiy, boots. - This simple process will insure dry , and therefore eaid sha was filly feet without making the boot elommey - We ' *Good gracivin bard Pind the pels ~ why 1 ence nlak 58 THH { so modified ber wrath shits | amana apne os , {rate *coue cf e Wm & ‘mmwm’n mens BJ the iran ® eyzn by the : Kew Cuirern Coi« --The New York Tribuna makes an excellent anggestion m relation 1d clipped cein which ro exienmively circulated. [t « shat merchants and others reluse io whe them ai sheir nominal velae | The Tri- , bune calenlates that about one-eighth of the Spanish pieces have been either clipped, bunred or sweated. - The American miver bos ebrared a similar fate: to a certaim exient. = 4 JCG» < Grve me a bid one start the cart-do gite os a bul, il you please -any thing to start the catt ' Ced an excited anctionegr | pho stood in the cart he tras endeavoring to sell Aap hing to start the can.) K3* An old maid of our neqiifintanien think! the censors taker is a very impadest Relfow' to be rouning ground. asking j eople't ages. ahd thinks onmarried ladies: sBgdldn® enrsbrific soch effemnterp by answering his all «hose svigs are nffceréd withrcld or damp» mare than. (twenty five \\ pres to do the came- Forkee Made,