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PICKKTT <Jk R AM8AUU*
attorneys at law,
j VO VST A, ARKANSAS.
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Attorneys at Law,
SOLICITOUS IN CHANCERY,
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND
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The Engineer's Story-How he Got
up Steam.
A LESSON FOR DRINKER8.
I am an engineer. Ever since
road was laid, I’ve travelled over it every
day, or nearly evvy day, of my life.
For a good while I’ve had the same en
gine in charge—the prettiest engine upon
the road, and as well managed, if I say it,
as the best.
It was a South-western road, running,
so we say, frein A to Z. At A my good
old mother lived ; at Z I had the sweetest
little wife under tho sun, and baby ; and
I always had a dollar or two put away for
a rainy day. I was an odd kind of a man.
Being shut up in an engine, watching with
al) your eyes, and heart, and soul, inside
and out, don't make a man very talka
tive.
My wife’s name was Josephine, and I
called her Jo. Sometimes people called
me unsociable and couldn’t understand
how a man co*ld feel friendly without say
ing ten words an hour. So, though I had
a lew friends—dear ones, too—I did not
have so many acquaintances as other peo
ple, I did not care to hjve. The house
which held my wife and baby was the
dearest spot on earth to me, except the
old house that held my mother, up at A.
I never belonged to a club, or mixed
myself up with strangers in any such way,
and never should, if it hadn’t been for
Granby, You see Granby was one of the
shareholders, a handsome, showy fellow.
I liked to talk with him, and we were fine
friends, lie often rode with me, and once
lie said:
‘You ought to belong to the Scientific
Club, (iucldon.’
‘I never heard of it,’I said.
‘I am a member,’ said lie. ‘We meet
once a fortnight, and have a jolly good
time. \Ye want thinking men like you.
We have some among ns now. I will pro
pose you if you like.’
I was fond of such things, and I fancied
might lie Wurth something. Hut an engi
lieer don’t have days or.nights to himself,
and the chib would have ono evening a
fortnight front Jo.
‘I will ask her. If site likes it. yes,’ I
said.
‘Ask who?’ said he.
‘Jo,’ said 1.
OVIOI»y lunn n. lsio rrifej evory oiia
would ltave said, ‘Cannot spare you, my
dear,’ and we should have no club,’ said
Granby. *
llut I made no answer. At home l told
Jo.
‘I’ll mis? you, Ned; but you love such
things, and if Granby belongs they must
be superior men.’
‘No doubt,’ said I
‘It is isn’t everyone who could be made
a member,’ said Jo. ‘Why, of course you
must.’
So I said yes, and Granby proposed me,
Thursday fortnight I went with him tc
the rooms. The real business of the
evening was the supper, and so it was ev.
ery evening.
1 had always been a temperate man. ]
actually did not know what effect wine
would have upon mo ; but coming now tc
drink more of it than I ever had before. 1
found it put steam on. Alter so many
glasses I wanted to talk—after so 'many
more I did.
I seemed like somebody else, the words
were so ready. My little ideas cumc out
and were listened to. I made sharp hits
I indulged in repartee ; I told stories; 1
even came to puus. I heard somebody say
to Graifby:
‘By George, that man is a man worth
knowing. I thought that he was dull ni
first’
Yet I knew it was better to be the ijuici
Ned Gueldon, with his ten words au houi
than the wine-made wit I was.
I was sifre of it when three months aftci
1 stumbled up stairs to hml Jo waiting toi
me with her baby on her breast.
‘You have been deceiving me,’ said Jo
‘I suspected it, but I was not sure. A
Scientific Club couldn’t smell like a bar
room.’
‘Which means I do,’ said I, waving ii
the middle of the room like a signal fia;
at a station, and seeing two Joes.
‘And look like one,’ said Jo, and wen'
and locked herself and baby in tlio span
bed-room.
Cine Club night ns I was drftssed to go
Jo stood before me.
‘Ned,’ said she, ‘I never had a fault h
find with you before. You've been kind
and good, and loving always; but I ehouh
be sorry wc ever met if yo« arc going 01
in this way. llou't ask me whut I mean
Von know.’
‘Jo, it's only one Club night,’ said I
carelessly.
‘It will grow,’ said she.
The# she put her arms around uiy nock
tenderly. •
‘Ned,’ said she, ‘do you think anythin;
so much like a bottled and strapped dowi
down dernun as steam is, is fit to lie put in
to the hands of a drunken man ? Am
some day, mark my words, thu time wil
come when not only Thursday night, bit
all days in the week will be the same.—
I've often heard yoti wonder what must hi
the feelings of an engineer who nasabou
the .unic as murdered traiufull of people
and you’ll know if you do not stop whore
yon are. A steady hand and a clear head
have been your blessings all these years.
Don’t throw them away. Ned, if you do
not care for my love, don’t ruin yourself.’
My little Jo. She spoke from her heart
and I bent over and kissed her. ‘Don’t
be afraid my child. I will never pain you
ngaiw.’
And I meant it, but at twelve o’clock
that night I felt that I had forgotten my
promise.
I couldn’t get home to J®. I made up
my mind to sleep on the Club sofa and to
leave the plaoo for good tho ncit day.—
■ Already I fe’.t my brain reel as it never
bad before. In an hour I was in a kind
of stupor.
Morning came. A waiter stood ready
j to brush my coat. I saw a grin on his
face. My Vead seemed ready to burst; I
looked at my watch; I had just five min
! utes to reach the depot.
Joe's words came to my mind. IVas 1
fit to take charge of an engine ? I was
not fit to answer. I ought to havo asked
1 some sober man.
As it was, I only caught my hat and
rushed away. I was just in time.
Tlie San Francisco glittered in the
morning sun. The cars were filling rap
' idly. From my post I could hear the
people talking, bidding each other good
by—promising to write and come again.
Among them was an old gentleman I knew
by sight—one of the share-holders. He
was bidding two timid girls adieu.
‘Good by, Kitty—good by J.ue,’ I
i heard him say; ‘don’t bo nervous. The
San Francisco is the safest engiue on the
! line, end Ned Qucldeu the most careful
engineer.
I would not bo afraid to trust every
mortal I love to their keeping. Nothing
could hardly happen wrong with the two
together.’
I said I will get through it somehow,
.....I T.» nonne t-ilb tllil UlVUtll A f
ter all, it was easy enough. I reeled as I
spoke. I heard the signal. We wore off.
! Five hours from L to D; five hours back.
On the last I should be myself again, I
knew now. I saw a red flutter nud never
guessed what it was until we passed the
' down train at the wrong place—two min
utes more and wo should have had a col
lision. Somebody told me. I laughed.—
lie said respectfullv :
‘Of course, Mr. Guelden, you know what
1 you are about.’
Then 1 was alone, and wondered wheth
j er / should go faster or slower. 1 did
something, and the cars hounded forward
at a fearful rate.
j The same man who had spoken to me
before was standing near uio. 1 heard
| some questions:
How many miles an hour were we go
ing? / didn't know.
Hattie, rattle, rattle 1 / was trying now
. to slacken the speed of the San Francisco.
[ I could not remember what 1 should do—
1 was it this or that ? Faster or slower ? /
was playing with the engine just like a
j child.
Suddenly there was a horrible roar—a
crash ! 1 was flung somewhere. 1 was
in the water. By a miracle 1 was sobered,
not hurt, /gained the shore, and stood
I upon the ground between the track and
! tho river’s edge, and there gated at my
work.
The onginc was in fragments, the cars
1 iu splinters, dead, dying, and wounded
1 were scattered around—men, women and
j children, old age and tender youth. There
were groans and shrieks of despair. The
■ maimed cried out in pain ; the uninjured
bewailed tbeir dead; and a voice unheard
by any other was in my ear whispering,
j ‘Murder!’
The news bad gone to A., and pooplc
came thronging down to find their friends.
The dead were stretched ou the grass /
went with some of the distracted to find
Inst ones Rivirphim* for nn old loan's
danghter, wo came to a place under the
trees aud found five bodies lying there in
; all their horror—an old woman, a young
one, a baby and two tiny children. Jt is
■ my fancy—it was pure fancy, born of my
anguish—they looked like—oh ! heavens !
they were iny mother, wife aud children,
all cold and dead.
How did theycomo on the train ? What
! chance has brought this about? No "one
i could answer, /groaned, screamed, tore
ray hair, clasped my hands. I gased in
the good old fuce of her who gave mo
birth, on the lovely features of my wife,
on my innocent children. I called them
by name—there wes no answer. There
never could be. Anil as 7 comprehended
this, onward up the track thundered anoth
er train. Its red eye glared on me, aud 1
flung myself before it; I felt it crush me
• to atoms!
- . ■ --- »
‘llig head is extremely hot,’ said suuio
; body.
I opened my eyes and saw uiy wife
' standing by me.
i ‘lluw do you feel?" said she, ‘a little bet
j ter ?’
I was so rejoiced and so astonished at
the sight of her, that / could‘not speak at
first. She repeated the question.
‘7 must be crushed to pieces, for the
train went over me/ said /, 'but 7 feel no
pniu.
‘There he goes about that train again.’
said my wife. ‘Why Ned !’
I tried to move, there was nothing the
matter with me.
‘Jo,’ I cried, ‘do tell me what has hap
pened !’
‘/t is nine o'clock,' said Jo. ‘You came
home in such a dreadful state from the
Club that /couldu't wake you. You were
not fit to manage steam and risk people’s
lives. The San Francisco is half way to
A., and you have been scaring me to death
with yoHr dreadful talk.’
And Jo began to Qry.
It was a dream, an awful dream. But 1
bad lived through it as though it were a
reality.
‘la tlioro a bible in the house ?’ 1 in
quired.
‘Are we heathens?’
‘Give it to me, Jo.’
She brought, and I took a solemn oath
that what had happened should never oc
cur again. It novor has. And if the
San Francisco over oomos to grief, the ver
dict will not be, at it liss been sometimes.
‘The Engineer was DrunkP
The Eyes. *
There Is ft popular notion. sanctioned
even by medical men, who ought to
know better, that the eyes are preserved
by opening them every morning in a
basin of cold water. Some of the very
worst cases of pertergium, or film on
thc.surfnoc of the eye, have been wit
nessed in those who have boasted of
this practice. When water gets into
the windpipe, the nostrils, or the car.
irritation is produced; and when the
eves are opened under water, the son
flftiou is anything hut agreeable. The
,iyc is lubricated by a secretion admi
rably adapted io facilitate the motions
of the lid over the surface, and as this
secretion is partially soluble in water,
it is as Inconsistent to wash it away as
it is (o remove the oils from your ma
chinery-.
It is unquestionably Important that
I>I1V uiiuiuusoq «* mv
tained; yet this may lip accomplished
in tho usual manner, without opening
the lubricating surfaces. When the se
cretion is vitiated by cold or oilier
cause, quince seed tea or milk water i
preferable, 1 think, for ablution, to wa
ter alone.
Avoid eye-waters, many of which
contain lead, and there are ten chances
to one that they will prorWo **•• insura
ble film. To make this clear, dissolve
a little sugar of lead in water, and pour
tho transparent solution in a wine-gla
coiitaiiiiug a water solution of common
salt.
When the fluids are mixed, a white
precipitate of chloral of lead falls to
the bottormof tho glass. When eye
waters containing lead are permitted to
pass to the surface of the eye, the tears
furnish salt and the load is precipitated.
The transparent portion of the eye is
sometimes extensively tattooed with
this wliitc leaden powder, and vision
frequently becomes indistinct, even de
stroyed.
When the general health is robust, it
is astonishing what an amount of la
bor the organs of vision will endure:
yet whcn»it is depressed, .especially by
mental disturbance during a periodical
function, they are easily deranged by
too closo application to business.—
When they have become weak, much
of their preservation depends upon the
proper management of light to which
they are exposed. When the light is
in excess it should he diminished, and
when It is deficient, labor should he
discontinued. The light blue of the
sky and the verdure of the, fields are
the colors to which the organ of vision
is naturally adapteel, and which it will
endure with most ease.
The flame of a good oil-lamp is more
regular than that of gas or candles, and
is therefore to be preferred. The in
termitting flickering of gas is particu
larly injurious, as it produces coustanl
contraction and dilation of the pupil
and undue exercise of the whole organ
By placing a shade of light blue pnpei
Ut Cl uic iuuij* me ii^in n amuiui.ut u
for artificial light contains a supers
biuulaucc of tho yellow anil veil rays
hut it is deficient in the violet.
lty allowing it to pass through tin
bluish medium, it approaches nearer tc
the light of day, and is better adapted
I for continued application of the organ
I of vision.
--— - --
Side Winds.—1 have heard that ful
wind behind the ship drives her not sc
fast forward as much against her ai
with her; and tho reason, they soy, i;
because full wind fills but seme of hei
sails, which keep il from the rest, thai
they are*ompty; when a side wind tilh
all her sails, and sets her speedily for
ward. Whichever way wo go in tlii:
world, our affections are our sails: am
according as they spread and fill, si
1 we puss on swifter or slower, " hit hoi
we are steering. Now. if the I nn
-lioiMl give us full wind and contiuucc
gale of mercies, it would till hut some
of our a flections—joy, delight and tin
like. But when he ionics with a siib
wind—a dispensation that seems al
most as much against us ns for us—
. then he fills our sails—takes up all oui
affections, making his works wide am
broad enough to entertain them even
one—then we are carried fully am
freely towards the Heaven where \y<
tv mild be.—[Owen.
*«*♦- - -
►jjfKvefy man desires to live long
but no man would be old*
The Art of Not Hearing.
The art of not hearing should be
taught in every well regulated family. I
It is full as important to domestic hap-I
pipcss as a cultivated ear. to develep
which so much money nndtlmc are ex
pended, There arc so many things
which It is painful to hear, very many
which if heard will disturb tlic temper,:
| corrupt simplicity and modesty, detract
from contentment and happiness, that
every one should he educated to take ifl
i or shut out sounds according 'to their
pleasure.
f If a man falls into a violent passion
( and calls me all manner of names, the
first word shuts my cars, and X hear no
I more.
If, in my quiet voyage of life, I find
myself canglit in one of those domestic i
whirlwinds of scoldings, I shut my
| ears, as a sailor would furl his sails,
and making all tight, scud quietly be
fore the gale.
If a hot and restless man begins to
inflame my feelings, I consider what
mischief these fiery sparks may do in
(lie magazine below where my temper
j is kept, and immediately close the
[ door.
Does a gadding, mischief-making fel
low begin to inform mo what people
are saying about me, down drops the
portcullis of my car, and he cannot gel
' in any further. Does the collector of
a neighborhood's scandal ask in year as
a warehouse, it Instinctively shuts up.
Some people seem anxious to hear ev
erything that will nnuoy and vex them.
If it is hinted that any one has spoken
I evil of them, they set about searching
the matter and finding out. If all the
petty things said of one by heedless and
ill-natured idlers, were to bo brought
home to him, he would become a mere
walking piu-cushiou, stuck full of re
marks. I should as soon thank a man
lor emptying upon my bed a bushel of
nettles, or setting loose (•swarm of ants
in my chamber, or raising a pungent
dust 111 my nou.sc generally, us to uting
' in upon me r’1 the tattle ot careless or
spiteful people.
If you w ould be happy, when among
good men. open your cars; and when
among bad, shut them. And as the
throat has a muscular arrangement by
which it takes care of the air passages
of Its own accord, so the ears should
he trained to automatic dullness of
- hearing.
It is not worth while to hoar what
mm* cr'n-tMh tvlioti tl»«v ai*o mad ;
what your children say after they have
slammed the door; what your neigh
bors say about your children ; what
your rivals say about your business or
your dress,
This art of not hearing, though un
taught in the schools, is by no means
unknown, or unpracticed in society.—
I have noticed that a well-bred woman
never hears an impertinent or a vulgar
remark.
i A kind of discreet deafness saves us
from many insults, from blame, and
and not a little apparent connivance in
dishonorable conversation.
i There are two doors inside my ears
—a right-hand door leading to the
hear}, and a left-hand door, with a
i broad and steep passago out into the
1 open air. This last door receives all
the ugliness, profanity, vulgarity, mis
1 chief-making, which suddenly find
themselves outside of me. Judicious
teachers and indulgent parents save
young urchins a world of trouble by a
convenient deafness. Bankers arc hard
of hearing, when unsafe borrowers are
! importunate.
1 never hear a man who runs after
me in the street bawling my name at
the top of his voice ; nor persons who
talk evil of those who are absent; nor
those who give me unusked advice
about my own affairs; nor those who
talk largely of tilings of which they arc
ignorant.
If there are sounds of kindness, of
mirth, of love, open fly my cars! But
temper, vulgarity, or flattery will shut
them.
If you keep your garden gate shut,
. is*
you keep your door closed, no thief
will run oil'with your clothes, and if
i you keep your ears shut, your heart
| will loose neither its flowers or treas
J lives.
Them's em.—"Wo often hear of re
markable ousos of "absence of mind.”
lloro is one equal to anything' wo have
seen lately. The mutt was evidently a
very interesting head of the family:
‘•I say, Cap'll," said a little keen eyed
man as he landed Irom the steamer Po
tomac, nt Natchez. “1 say, Cap'u, this
j here ain't all.”
“That’s all the baggage yon brought
on hoard, sir," replied the Captain.
"Well, sec now, l grant it's all O. K.
according to list—four boxes, three
chests, a port manty, two hams—one
part cut—three ropes of ingous, and a
tea-kettle; hut you see, Cap'll, Cm bur
densuni: I feel there's sutuUilng short.
Though I’ve counted ’em nine times I
know there’s sum.lhin' not right, some
how."
"Well, stranger, the time is up; there
is all I know of; so bring your vv ife
and live children out of the cabin, anil
wo arc oil'.”
“Them's ’em, darn it, them's 'em. I
kuow'd I'd forgot sumthing.”
#®~Tlie late Uev. Sidney Smith ob
i served that a railway whistle seems to
i him to be something like the scream
an attorney would give when fust the
devil caught hold of him.
For the Dcs Arc Citizen.]
APRIL,
The loveliest mouth of the year to
those living iu Southern lamia or tem
perate latitudes. It is the connecting
link between the sterile ley season of
Horens and winter, and the fragrant
season of Flora and the luxuries of
Poma. To the ancients, April was a
time of rejoieing and gladness, l'he
"Xonis Aprllibusf’ were celebrated
with great pomp and parapliarnalia
among the ancient Greeks and Homans,
and under the name of Isis, the Egyp
tians held sacred feasts and worship
ed Aprilis by the same rites and cere
monies under the name of Isis, os did
the Greeks and Itomans Aprilis or
April, l’roscrpine, the daughter of
Ceres, Qtioen of April, after having
been rudely carried away by Pluto
down to the Infernal regions, (or un
der the surface of the earth) made her
appearance above the earth's surface in
April, lienee the mild and gentle at
mosphere of this month; the soft
showers, balmy zephyrs, fructifying
influences of the spring sun; budding
of trees, green, tender carpeting of
of Earth, and sweet laughing flowers
that peep up from every garden, field
and forest, like the starry gemmed
heavens that unfold in matchless gran
deur and sublimity over our heads,
rendering night uot less lovely than
day.
Throughout the Pagan world there
has ever prevailed a sacred veneration
for the month of April, by what name
soever it was known to them. It was
ill this mouth that the Klcusinian Mys
teries were instituted, over which Ce
res, tlie goddess of corn, wine and hon
ey first presided and directed those
mystic ceremonies, the key to which
none can claim. Eleusis, a town in
Attica, was celebrated among the an
cient classics as having been tlie place
where those festivals and ceremonies
originated. Flowers were worn by
iim ........
mcnt and entrance to the shrine and
temple were strewn with the richest
offerings of Flora, while the virgins
and priestesses were decked, crowned,
and adorned with the richest selections
of flowers, and a rainbow of garlands
richly festooned arched the entrance to
the sanctum sanctorum.
Tho Druids, too, in the middle ages,
gathered themselves in April under
their oaks or “Arbor sacra,” unit wor
shipped with songs, dancing and re
joicing. April to all people in all
ages, has unfolded the emblems of
youth, vitality and beauty, with Us
tender buddings, variegated tints and
beautiful panorama. The Cyprian
bard thus describes April or Ceres:
To Ceres blim.l tier annual rites be paid,
On t h egret u turf, beneath thefragrant shade,
When winter ends and spring serenely shines,
Theu fat the lantbs, then mellow are the wines,
Then sweet nre slumbers ou the flowery
ground,
Then with thick shades arc lofty mountains
crowned.
Thrice load the victim, the new fruits around,
And Ceres call, and coral hymns resound.
Presume not swains the ripened grain to reap.
Till crowned with oak iu antic dance you
leap.”
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How Mr. Davis Passes His Time.
A Fortress Monroe dispatch, dated
April Oth, contains tho following:
Professor Thomas Chcnoweth, of Bal
timore, has been giving lessons in paint
ing to Mr. Davis, and his sistcr-in-hnv,
Miss Howell, in Fortress Monroe. Du
ring tho progress of his lessons Prof.
Chcnoweth hud un excellent opportu
nity of conversing with the ex-Prcsi
ilent. In the conversation Mr. Davis
remarked that he had no reason for
complaint in what appeared to he the
unjustly strict measures adopted by the
Government to prevent his escape front
confinement, and that ho entertained
toward the officers of the fort the kind
est feelings of respect. They had been
ever ready and willing to promote his
comfort, and had always exhibited due
sympathy for himself and family. As
to It is trial ho expressed no opinion ;
lie was in the hands of the Government
and patiently awaited that decision
which would either place hiiinu release
or before the court of justice.
His continued imprisonment lie char
acterized as unjust and brutal, and a
I stain outlie Northern Government, in
thus singling out from so many others
'equally as guilty, a man who, by the
| will of the Southern people, liad been
i elected to the chief office of the C'onfcd
1 eracy. The Connecticut election was
, one, ho said, which that State could be
well lU'oud of, as it appeared to him to
j he tli* turning point in that political
i struggle which was causing so much
suffering in the laud. It would have a
great effect on the political balance of
1 power and on succeeding elections; its
influence would dotfctless he energeti
cally exercised and proportionately rc
! ceived.
He appeared in good spirits and
i health, and evinced a keen perception
and Interest in 1‘rofessor Clienowcth’s
’ instructions and improvements in oil
and water color painting. Mr. Davis
conversed on various ether topics, and
showed a perfect acquaintance with all
the great questions which are agitating
the different portions of the globe.
Although he considered the immediate
prospects of Ids release or trial not
definitely settled, yet he was #ot with
out hope that his counsel w ould he able
to force the Government to use definite
measures when the uext term ot the
District tourt was held iu May.
Sympathy.
Joy and sorrow are the beautiful
forms of sympathy, In which she ap
pears ns a gracious angel, trending the
sad regions of the earth, with feet of
feeling and eye of light. Joy and sor
row make up the lot of our mortal es
tate ; and by our sympathy with these,
we seem to acknowledge a brotherhood
witli our species. But wo do more;
for by the fdrbc Of litis principle, those
on whom the happier lot <ff humanity
has fallen, communicate the b'ounty
tiiat has been showered on their heads
and the wretched is not left alone witli
the burden of his misery. Theytrength
that is uutasked lends itsclfxo divide
the load with which another is bowed ;
and the calamity that lies on the heads
of men is enlightened, while those who
arc not called to hear are yet willing to
involve themselves in the sorrow of a
brother.
There are, indeed, states of mind in
whicii we dare not look even on its
smiling countenance ; that glad light af
fordlngso strong a contrast to the dark
ness' of our own spirits. When we
leave the chamber wherein lie the cold
remains of one in life tenderly beloved,
we start back in anguish from the sun
shine, and the sky so serenely and hap
pily beautiful.
And so it often is, in the common in
tercourse Of life, when without such a
deep sense of sorrow, perhaps, we arc
sometime assailed witli the expression
of a joy which has no place in our heart.
But this proves How dear is happiness
to the human heart. And it is wonder
ful, even to the sufferer himself, to feel
how his soul, which at first sullenly re
pelled the sight of glaflness, soon ad
mits it unconsciously into all its depths
: and is beguiled into a blessed forget
1 fulness of trouble.
There are a thousand other cures that
nature graciously provides for grief;
and supreme among these is that con
i tagiou of happiness which is breathed
from the gentle voice, the sparkling
i V * i , huh tuv nimimip oiuuu-wuu n litv.il
so touches the breast with a cheerful
sympathy, that the wretch almost up
braids himself for his inward gladness,
us if false to the sorrow which lie thinks
he ought to have cherished moro sa
; credly within his miserable lieart.
Where our Vegetables and Fruits
Come From.
Garlic rame from Sicily, where for
f my part, t wish It hud stayed, Items
blossomed first within sight of embryo
mummies, in the laud of the Spliynx ;
and tl>c egg-plant first laid its glossy
treasures under nil African sun, while
: Southern Europe gave us the artichoke
I and beet. To Persia we stand indebt
: ed for peaches, walnuts, mulberries and
! a score of everyday luxuries and neces
sities ; to Arabia we owo the cultiva
tion of spinach; and to southern Eu
rope we must bow in tearful gratitude
i for the horse-radish. At Siberia the
j victims of modern intemperance may
i shake their gory locks forever—for
I from that cold, unsocial land came rye,
, the father of that great fire-water river
i which has floated so many jolly souls
on its treacherous tides, and engulfed
so much of humanity's treasure. The
chestnut, dear to squirrels and young
America, first dropped its burrs on the
soil of Italy. 'Whoever dreams while
enjoying his “Bergamotte,” his ‘‘Flem
ish beauty,” or his “Jargonelle,” that
the first pear blossoms opened within
sight of the pyramids? and what fair
girl of the pickle eating tribe dreams
of thanking the East Indies for iter cu
1 cumbers ? Onions arc only naturalized
foreigners in America. I had hoped
that in poetic research would prove
tliis pathetic bulb to have sprung from
the land of Xiobc; but no—Egypt
1 stretches forth her withered hand ami
| claims the onion as her own! Maize
and potatoes, tlmuk heaven, can mock
us with no foreign pedigrees. They
1 are ours—ours to command, to have
! and to hold, from time’s beginning to
1 its ending, though England blusters
over corn and “praties” until she is
hoarse.
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Functuation Poiuts.
a.iic puiuis now used m puiiciuauuii,
I were introduced in writing gradually,
some time after the invention of print
ing. The Creeks had none, and there
was no spare between their words,
i The Romans put a kind of division be
tween their words, thus, Publieo.Scip
; 10. Al'rieanus. Up to the cud of tiic
fifteenth century, only the period, col
1 on, and comma had been introduced.
The latter came into use the latest, and
I was only a perpendicular figure or line
proportionate to the size of the letter.
To Aldus Mauutius, an eminent
' printer, in 171*0, we are indebted for
] the semi-colon, and also for the pres
ent form of the comma, lie also laid
i down rules now observed in regard to
their use. The notes of interrogation
and exclamation were not added till
some years later, aud it is not known
j by whom.
Inverted commas (*•) were first Used
by Monsieur Oiltcment, a French
' printer, and were intended by him to
supersede the use of italic letters; and
the French printers now call them by
that name, lint they have lately been
' used by English printers to denote
quoted matter. In a Loudon book
, ("Tlio Art of English Poetry"), printed
in IK07. it appears that the present
mode of denoting quoted matter is
therein denoted by being set in Italic.
It is not known by whom the apostro
phe anl da.di were invented,
SALMAGUNDI,
•©“An curious man repines at his
neighbor's life as much as if he
ported him.
JOy-It has been said that any lawyer
who writes so clearly as to he intelli
gible is au enemy to the profession.
tege-There is one tiling a burglar can't
do. lie cant stand on tho ground and
rob a balloon a mile high.
IfcgrSwoct to the sweet—Woman is a
beautiful flower, that can be told, iu tho
dark, cVcrt by its (s) talk.
•apAViiy is a watch dog larger at
night than lie is in the morning? lie
cause lie is let out at night and taken in,
in the morning.
A sensible darkey, freed by Sher
man's bummers, lias returned to Geor
gia, because “de sentiment North was
so noxious to Southern genimeu.”
Jg^-Hrs. Partington says that when
she was young, “gals were innocent,
unconfiscated creatures; now they nro
what flic French call ‘blazes.’ ”
S6S““I say, Hick, what sort of pota
toes arc those you are planting?”
“Haw ones, to be sure; your honor
Wouldn't he thinking I would plant
boiled ones ?” *
#QP“'Ekcuso me, madam, but I would
like to know why you look at mo so
savagely;” said a gentleman to a lady
stranger. Oh! I beg - pardon, sir; I
look you for my husband," was the re
ply.
8®“An Irishman, the other day bid
an extraordinary price for an alarm
clock and gave as a reason, “Hint as lie
loved to rise cnrlV, now had nothing to
do hut to pull tho String, and he could
wake himself.”
Jigg’-A married lady found her two
sons quarreling, and, in hopes of put
iiiii; tin ruu iu wivii uiiiiii/iivi.'j uuvi > u
the following:
‘■You yonng rasrals, if you don't de
sist directly, I’ll tell both vour fathers,*
For Corks.—Scrape a piece of com
mon chalk, put a small portion of 11
upon the corn and bind it with a linen
rag. llepeat the .application for a few
days, and you will find the corn come
off like a shell, and perfectly cured.
The cure is simple and efficacious.
Stay-Aunt F.- was trying to per
suade little Eddie to retire at sundown.
"You see, my dear, ho\s little chickens
go to roost at that time.” ‘‘ Yes, aunty,”
replied Eddie, "but the old lien always
l goes with them Aunty tried no nioro
arguments with him I.
tet?*“Do you know sir, what, you
swallow c\cry day of your life? Are
you aware that your food resolves into
twelve divisions—aqueous mucilagin
ous saccharine, amylaceous, ligneous,
pectiuaccous, acidulous, alcoholic,
oleaginous proteinaceous and saline?"
f“J-Thev tell of an old farmer, who
j while in town one day asked the best
time to put in rye. “It's about the
best time now” said the fellow, looking
at his watch, “and if you’ve got any
postal currency about yon I’ll go and
show you how it is done.”
teS”"'My brudders,” said a Waggish
negro preacher 'to his congregation,
“In all affection, in all ob your troubles,
dar is one place where you can find
sympathy.” “AA’har? wliar ?” cried sev
eral, “in do dictionary,” he replied
rolling his eyes upward.
Tiif. Oki.y Way.—“Sammy, Sammy,
my »oii, don't stand there scratching
| your head—stir your stumps, or you
will make no progress in life.”
“Why, fhtlier,” replied the hopeful,
j “I've often heard you say that the only
way to get on in this world was to
scratch a head.”
g^yWalcnt is power. Tact is skill.
| Talent kpows what to do,—tact knows
; how to do it. Talent is wealth,—tact
i is ready money. Talent toils for those
i who will never repay it,—tact wastes
no trouble, but gets its recompense
i from the passing; generation. Talent
' builds for eternity,—tact for a short
j lease hut gets good interest.
j {tsfA little lady friend of ours of
man say* ill conversation With tier fatli
j cr down town, that wo were no longer
a State but a territory, went home and
| very gravely informed tier mot her that
|wc were “not in a State now, hut ill
! purgatory!” The little girt got poli->
lies ami the catechism slightly confused,
but did not missthe truth very far
juftwr *
JiaTAn exchange tells the following t
As one of the trains of the Wilmington
land Weldon road flying at full speed
towards the first named oil)’, ft negro
appeared on the track, jumping and
making extravagant gestures for the
train to stop. With all breaks on the
engineer brought up and inquired ;
“What's the matter?”
The darkey replied1 “Massa here’s a
five cent shin-plaster, an l wants you
to fotch me dat wort' of fish-hooks.”
•
jtaf’lJob that is a line horse von have
; there ; how miich’is he wortli ?”
“Three hundred and fifty dollars.”
“Not so much as that ?”
“Yes, every cent Of it—another fifty
on to top of it.”
“Arc you sure?”
“Yus, I'll swear torit.”
"All right.”
“What arc Von so iuquisitivefor?"
“Merely for assessing purposes. 1
am assessor of this ward, and only
wanted to know .what you rated your
! nag at.”