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Is Friday an Unlucky Day 1 From time immemoral, Friday Las been frowned upon asa day of ill omen. though this prejudice is less prevalent now than it has been of yore, when superstition had general sway, yet there are many even in this matter of fact age of ours, who would hesitate on a day so inauspicious, to begin an undertaking of momentous import. And how many brave mariners whose hearts uuquailing could meet the wildest fury of their ocean home, would bleach to even bend their on Friday. But to show with how much reason this feeling is indulged, let us examine the following important facts in connection with our new settlement and greatness as a nation, aud we will see how little cause Americans, have to dread that fatal day: On Friday, August 31, 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed ou his great voyage of discovery. On Friday, October 12th, 1492, he first discovered land.

On Friday, January 4th, 1493, lie sailed in his return to Spain, which, if he had not reached in safety, the happy result wonld never have been known, which led to the settlement of this Vast continent. On Friday, March 16th, 1493, he arrived at Calais in safety. On Friday, November 22d, 1503, he arrived at Hispaniola on his second voyage to America. On Friday, June 13th, 1494, he though unknown to himself, discovered the continent of America. On Friday, March 5th, 1496, Henry VII, of England, gave to John Cabot his commission, which led to the discovery of North America.

This is the first American State paper in Kngland. On Friday, September 7th, 1565, Melendez founded St. Augustine, the oldest settlement in the United States, by more than forty years. Ou Friday, November 10th, the May Flower, with the Pilgrims, made the harbor of I'rovincetown. And on same day they signed that august compact, the forerunner of our present glorious Constitution On Friday, February 22d, 1732, George Washington, the Father of American Freedom was born.

On Friday, June ICth, Bunker Hill waB seized and fortified. On Friday, October 7th, 1777, the surrender of Saratoga was made, which had such power and influence in inducing France to declare for our cause. On Friday, September 22d, 1780, the treason of Arnold was laid bare which saved us from destruction. On Friday, October 19th, 1781, the surrender at Yorktown, the crowning glory of the American arms, occurred. Ou Friday, July 4th, 1776, the motion in Congress was made by John Adams, seconded by Richard Henry Lee, that the United Colonies were, of right ought to be, free ancl independent.

Thus, by numerous examples, we see that however it may be with other nations, Americans need never dread to begin on Friday any undertaking, however momentous it may be. Curious Pbediction Swisshelm furnishes the following Six years ago we heard Rev. Dr. Wilson, then of Allegheny City, and Professor of Theology in the Reformed Presbyterian Church, say that in less than ten years a war would break out in Europe between Russia and the Western Powers war which would be one of the most terrible over recorded in the annals of history, and which by its wholesale slaughters would carry the name of Christendom with a thrill of wonder to the most remote and barbarous nations, awaken a curiosity about civilization that would prepare the way for the introduction of the Bible and Christianity into those benighted lands, whose people would be taught by the rumors of this war, to respect and fear the arts of civilization. This declaration was made again and again in public from the pulpit, and was the result of a life-time study of the prophecies of the Bible.

The war, then unthought of, is now begun, and the aged preacher always said the Western Powers would be victorious that the teeth of the great Bear would be forever broken, and with them the powers of the Pope. We heard this same man predict the Mexican war years before it begun, and tell what its end would be. lie also predicted the great fire of 1845 in Pittsburgh and we incline to think his gift of second-sight was more reliable than that of the maker of this old statue, and that the Russians will not bo masters of Constantinople. From the first word about proposed hostilities between Russia and Turkey, we have in the habit of telling our friends to buy their flour, for it would be fifteen or twenty dollars per barrel before it would be five again, and so we still think it will be, for we are of opinion our preacher saw far into the prophecies already written. lie said this war would take would be very terrible and general, and that it was the last war before the universal peace of the Millennium.

Hoehobs of the Plague an Italian whom dependence can be placed, says that during the plague at Florence other animals besides man were capable of being affected by this disease a fact of no little interest in the history of the plague. He mentions that he himself saw two hogs on the rags of a person who had died of the plague, after staggering about for a short time, fell down dead, as if they had taken poison. A multitude of dogs, cats, fowls and other domestic animals he tells us, fellow-sufferers with man. In Germany the mortality was not so great as in Italy, but the disease assumed the same character. In France, it is said, many were struck as if by lightning, and died on the spot and this more frequently among the young and strong than the old.

Throughout England the disease spread with great rapidity, men dying in some cases immediately, in'others within twelve hours, or at the latest in two days. Here, as elsewhere, the inflammatory boils and buboes were recognized at once as prognosticating a fatal issne. It first broke out in the county of Dorset. Few places seem to have escaped and the mortality was so, great that cotemporary annalists have reported, with what degree of accuracy we can not say, throughout the whole land not more than a tenth part of the inhabitants had survived. The North of Europe did not escape, nor did all the snows of Russia protect her from this invasion.

In Norway the disease broke out in a frightful manner. Nor was the sea a refuge. Sailors found no safety in their ships; vessels were seen driving about on the ocean, and drifting on the shores, whose crews had perished to the Blackwood. It a ScBMEBGED A DDX OB NEW METHOD OF Propelling Vessels following has been communicated to the Boston Journal by a Polish Engineer, who has invented the method in question: There are at present two methods of propelling vessels in water, the wheel-paddles and the screw. However, ia the natural movement of living aquatic animals we see a third kind of propulsion, which by alternate and continual contraction and extension of limbs constitutes a system of propelling which may be called submerged Based on ground I form, under water on eaeh side of the vessel, two series of paddles, affixed by two shafts to the axle, which is plaeed and turns in the same manner as in tho present wheel-paddles.

At the outside extremities of the axle ks affixed strong prependicular lever, turning with the axle and connected with the shafts of the paddles. The other cords of the shafts are attached one to the ship's side forward, the other to the ship's side backward, in such a way that perform a oscillatory movement. rotation of the axle one of the extremities of the lever goes forward while the other wickward, it follows, then, that by spontaneous action, these paddles going forward must be contracted, while those going backward must be extended, and by their resistance hi wafer the po wer of propulsion." A Woman's Curiosity. Week before last, the brethren of the! Lodge of the Odd Fellows determined to have their hall swept out and cleaned, when it was unanimously resolved that Mrs. Keepsecret should be called upon to do the job.

After meeting had adjourned, the lamplighter, who well knew the inquisitive char-j a0ler o( and procured a monI st rous 'y and placed him in the hlch ls kept as a reservoir for all secret thmgs. He then proceeded to the i domicil of the good lady and informed her that the Lodge had determined to give her the job of cleaning and sweeping their hall, and requested her to come early next morning. as he would be at leisure to show her what was and what was not to de done. The morning came and with it appeared Madam Keepsecret, according to promise, with her brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, prepared and armed for the job, and found Mr. Doorkeeper in waiting for her.

'Now, said the mischievous doorkeeper, 'I will tell you what we want done, and how we came to employ you. One of the brethren said it would be a dfficult thing to get anybody to do the job who would not be meddling with secrets iri that closet because we've lost the key and can't find it. I asured them that you could be depended Depended upon says madam, I guess I can: my poor dead and gone husband, who belonged to the Free Masons or Anti-Masons, I don't know which, nsed to tell me all the secrets of the concern, and when he showed me the marks of the gridiron made when he was initiated, and told me all how they fixed poor Morgan, I never told a li vin' soul to this day, and if nobody tronbles your closet to find out secrets till I do, they'll ail lay there till they 4 1 thought said the door-keeper, 'and now I want you to commnce in thai pointing to a place where some undignified and indecent brother had thrown out quids of tobacco, 'and give the whole room a decent cleaning, and as I have pledged my 'l for 1 fidelity to pormise, don't go the and then left our lady to herself. No sooner had she heard the sound of his feet upon the last step of the stairs then she closet! what on airth can be there? I'll warrant there is a gridiron, or some nonsense just like the anti-masons, for all the world, I'll be bound. I'll just take a peep on, and no body'll be anywiser but me, and I can keep it all to my Suiting the action to the word she stepped softly to the door of the forbidden closetturned the was no sooner Bah-ah-a went the Billy Goat, with a spring to regain his liberty, which came nigh upsetting her ladyship.

Both started for the door, which was filled with her im plements of house cleaning, when all were swept clear from their position down to the bottom of the stairs. The noise and confu sion occasioned by such unceremonious coming down stairs, drew half the town to witness Mrs. Keepsecret's effort to get from under the Goat, and the pile of pails, tubs, brooms and brushes. Who should be first on the spot but that rascally door-keeper, who after releasing the goat, which was made a cripple for life, and uplifted the other rubbish, which bound the good lady to the floor, anxiously inquired if she had been taking the Taking the degrees exclaimed our lady, if you call tumbling from the top to the bottom of the stairs with a tarnal goat to jump on ye as ye go, taking things by degrees, I have; and if ye frighten folks as bad as ye have me, and hurt 'em too, to boot, I'll warrant ye they'll make as much noise as I hope yon did not open the closet madsaid the door-keeper. Open the closet and sure did not Eve eat the apple when forbidden If you want a woman to do anything tell her not to do it, and she'll do it sartain.

I could not stand the temptation. There was the wanted to know opened the door and out popped the tarnal critter right in my face. I thought to be sure it was the devil, and I run for the stairs with it at my heels, when I fell over the tubs and we all landed at the bottom as you found us, in a heap 'But, said the door-keeper, 'you are in possession of the great secret of the Order, and must go up and be sworn, and ride the goat in the regular way. 'Regular exclaimed the lady, 'and do you suppose I am going near the tarnal critter again, and without a bridle or lady's saddle? No, don't want nothin' to be with it, or a man that rides look nice perched on a Goat, wouldn't I I'll never go nigh-it again, nor your hall, nuther; and if I can prevent it, no lady shall ever join the Odd Fellows. Why, I'd sooner be a Free Mason, and broiled on a gridiron as long as fire could be kept under it, and pulled from garret to cellar with a halter, in a pair of old breeches, and slippers, just as my poor dead and gone husband used to tell me they served him, and he lived over it too, but I never could live over such another ride as I took with the Goat to-day.

You may rest assured that I shall never see a Goat but what I shall think of the Odd Fellows and the Properties of Glass has properties peculiarly its own; one of which is that it is of no greater bulk when hot, or in the melted state, than when cold. Some writers state that it is (contrary to the analogy of other metals,) of greater bulk when cold thau when hot. It is transparent in itself; but the materials of which it is composed are opaque. It is not malleable, but its ductility ranks next to gold. Its flexibility also is so great that when hot it can be drawn out like elastic thread miles in length, in a moment, and to a minuteness to that of the silk I worm.

Brittle, also, to a proverb, it is so elastic that it can be blown to a gauze-like thinness, so as easily to float upon the air. Its elasticity is also shown by the fact that a globe, hermetically seared, if dropped upon a polished anvil, will recoil two-thirds the distance of its fall, and will remain entire until the second or third rebound. (The force with whkth solid balls strike each other may be estimated at ten, and the reaction by reason of the elastic property at at nine.) Vessels, called bursting-glasses, are made of sufficient strength to be about a floor a bullet may be dropped into one without ifracture of the glass even the stroke of a mallet sufficiently to drive a nail has failed to break such glasses, fn a word, ordinary blows fail to produce an impression upon articles of this kind. If, however, a piece of flint, cornelian, diamond, or other hard stone, fail into one of these glasses, or be shaken therein a few moments, the vessel will fly into a myriad of pieces. The most confirmed cases of the most distressing diseases, oftimes arises from indigestion.

All of us, more or less, are troubled with this aanoyiug symptom, still as it is a general thing, we do not' attempt to medicate lintti something serious intervenes. We woald as a public monitor warn all oar readers against the sin of neglect, and at tBe same to their Dr. Hoofland's German Bitters, the original preparation as prepared by Dr. C. M.

Jackson, No. Areb street, Philadelphia, We bave seen effected through its Weekly. The Snake Bit Irishman. A party of gentlemen having gone on a deer hunt, was greatly annoyed by an Irish Jeremy Diddler, who quartered himself upon their camp, and bored them by his idle boasts and abuse of every thing American, and a particular horror of all kinds of snakes, and one 01 the party determined to take advantage of his prejudice with a view of getting rid of his company. Accordingly, one night when he was sound a perhaps dreaming ofsnakes.

the mischivous gentleman got his hunting-knife, and going to where the offal of a large deer had been thrown, cutoff about seven feet of the intestines, and securing the end with twine to retain the contents, tied one end of them fast and tight to a corner of Paddy's linen, that had wandered through a rent in his oh-no-we-never-mention-'ems. coiling it up smoothly by his side, snake like and true. All things thus arranged, the conspirators lay down again, and at the conclusion of one of the stage-horn stores, one of the gentlemen roared out at thetop of his voice; "Hu-wee! hu-wee! a big black snake, eleven feet long, has crawled up my trowsers, and is tying himself in a double bowknot around my body!" At the first shout, he gave the Irishman a furious dig in the side with his elbow, and kept up a running accompaniment on his shiris with his heels! Of course, the noise and hurling awoke him quick and wide in the first movement he laid his hand on the nice cold coil at his side, and he hissed out: Jasus Making one bound, that carried him some ten feet clear of the camp, and with a force that straitened out the coil, and it cracked like a whip. Casting oue wild, blazing look behind, he tore off with the rapidity of lightning around the camp in a circle of forty feet across, and at every bound, yelling: Saze him saze him by the tail! Och, Howly Vargin, stop him! Och, St. Patrick, tare him till jiblets! A-wha, a-wha, he got me fast howld, och, and he has! By the Howly Saint he's mendin his howl on to mo Och, Jasns, gentlemen, take howl on him catch him! Shoot him in the tail-end, moind During this scene, one stood hugging a sappling with both arms and legs, his head thrown back, screaming with laughter; another lay on the ground, rolling in fits of laughter: another, "Fat Jim," stood with his legs about a yard apart, his hands holding his hips, shouting at intervals of five seconds, "snake! snake! snake!" and the echo seemed to mock him with the return of snake snake snake as Paddy made the circle of the camp.

After circling about thirty times, the poor fellow flew off at a tangent into the dark woods, and the mingled sounds of "Snake! Murder! Howly Virgin! Fire! Help!" died away in the distance, and the hunters were alone. "Umph," said one, "I thought that snake would stop his snoring in this camp at any rate." The next evening Paddy was seen going at mighty rate through Knoxville, with a bundle on his arm, and a shillaly in the other hand, poking out his head in a half defensive, half exploring attitude. He was hailed with which way Paddy?" "Strate to owld Ireland, by Jasus! where there are no snakes growled out Paddy without stopping an instant. 4k the th had in vain sought to get five shillings per the indicated he profit of the sale on vesting and velvet Selling Dry People generally think that it is a very easy matter to stand behind a counter and retail dry goods; but a week's experience in the business would convince the cleverest man that it is much more difficult and laborious than the task of turning a grindstone twelve hours per diem. The office of salesman embodies, in its duties, necessity for the shrewdness of a politician, the persuation of a lover, the politeness of a Chesterfield, the patience of Job, and the impudence of a pickpocket.

There are salesman who make point never to lose a customer. One of the gentlemen who is in a store in Chatham street, not long since was called to show a very fastidious and fashionable lady, who dropped in while going to Stewart's," some rich silk cloaking. Every article of the kind was exposed to her whole store was suited. The costly was stigmatized as was common and not fit for a lady. She guessed she would go to Stewart's.

The salesman pretended to be indignant. "Madam," said he in a tone of injured innocence, "I have a very beautiful and rare piece of case which I divided with Mr. Stewart, who is my brother-in-law, but it would be useless to show it to it is the only piece in the city." "Oh. allow me to see it." she asked, in an anxious tone, and continued, I had no intention of annoying you, or of disparaging the merits of your wares." The salesman, who was now watched in breathless silence by his fellow clerks, proceeded, as if with much reluctance, and with expressions of fear that it would be njured by getting tumbled, to display an ancient piece of vesting, which had been lying in the store for five years, and was considered to be unsalable. The lady examined and liked it much.

That was a piece of goods that was worthy to be worn, flow much was it a yard? "Twenty-two shillings." that is very high." There," exclaimed he, beginning to fold it up, "I knew yon would say that." "Stay! stay! don't be in a hurry!" she give you twenty shillings." Madam, you insult me again." "Cut me off yards, and you can make up the deduction on some velvet which I require for trimmings," almost entreated the fair shopper. The salesman, after much persuation, amounted to out of which the clerks were permitted to pay for a supper of oysters. The best of this brief tale of dry goods is to be told. The lady had her cloak made, and one dr two of her friends, delighted with it, bought the rest of the vesting at the same price. There is a moral to this anecdote, which we leave to be discovered by the ingenuity of our lady readers who occasionally go a Noah's Messenger.

Rev T. P. Hunt have heard many good things that have emanated from the keen wit of this Reverend Gentleman, but the last one threw us down entirely. A man recently passing Mr. Hunt, was accompanied by a small dog, and the little scoundrel took a sudden fancy to stick his teeth in the old gentleman's legs.

This physicial manifestation not proving satisfactory to the clerical victim, he determined "to victimize the dog in turn, and drawing the big end of his cane, soon added another subject to the dog tombs. This began the dramatic tragic comedy Stranger Why did you kill my dog Hunt "Because be was going to bite me Stranger Why didn't you use the small end of your stick you could have frightened him and not killed him?" Runt (excited) "Why didn't your dog come at tail first, then A Humbugged That sapient Paris correspondent of the New York Times, Dick Iinto, swallowed the Sebastopo! hoax hook, line and sinker. Hear him There beyond a doubt, the deepest sat i a ction at the capture, but I must say there js nQ ent iusi a sm The reason is ev ent -the fortress seems to have surrendered ignominiously without dignity t0 ilself and without to the conquerors, wiH becom a te or a sell or a swindle. Try to hoax a man, and he will reply, Sebastopo! Offer a thing for more than it is worth, and you will be endeavoring to do the Sebastopol Sebastopol is an ass; there isn't any such thing as Sebastopol. I heard a man say, too, this morning, that Nicholas was a humbug.

Sebastopol and the Sea Serpent are the two grand impostures of the age. Nicholas is no better than old Pickwick. He has been mistaken for some body else. He has reigned more than twenty.five years, and every body knows that's against the law. He is the Barnum of all the Russias.

He is not a real Barnum he is a Bogus Barnum; a Brummagen Barnum. Menschikoff is an old woman, and Gortschakoff an old fool. Silistria was nothing but a mud-bank, and it held out for two months. Sebastopol, famous as Shakspeare, is vapid as Snooks. The word coward will evidently fall into disuse.

There is an excellent term, in four syllables, that will take its place, and if pronounced Sewastopol, as the natives pronounce it, why so much the better. I shall speak seriously of this affair in my next. For the present, iet us change the subject." of of a An Eccentric Mr. Railing, of New Hampshire, England, was among the victims of the late railroad accident between Brighton and London. His heirs, after having paid him the funeral honors, did what all heirs do in similar cases, opened the will of the deceased, to ascertain what share each was to have in his posthumous liberalities.

As he had never given a penny to either of his relatives, during his life-time, they expected to be the richer, now that he was no more. One may imagine the surprise caused by the first line of the will "This is my testament. I give and bequeath all my goods, present or future, movable or immovable, in England or on the continent, to that Railroad Company on whose road I have had the happiness to meet with death, that blessed deliverance from my terrestial prison." Further on, the testator gives his reasons for his bequest. The idea had taken firm possession of his mind that he was destined to die a violent death, and the most desirable one in his view was that caused by the explosion of a locomotive. He traveled, therefore, constantly on the railroads in Kngland, Belgium and France.

There was nota station where he was not known. All the conductors were familiar with his peculiar costume. He had narrowly escaped death several times. Once he was shut up in a car under water; another time he was in the next car to the one that was shattered, and he described with the greatest enthusiasm those terrible accidents, when he saw death so near, without being able to obtain it. Disappointed in Europe, he went to the United States.

He made frequent excursions on the Ohio, the Mississippi, the Ontario, the Niagara, but notwithstanding their frequent explosions, he returned with a whole skin. He was destined to be crushed under a car of the mother country. It is said that the relatives will attempt to break the will, on the ground of insanity, but it is probable that the Railroad will win the suit, in spite of the proverb that the murderer never inherits from is hvictim. of a of Extraordinary Superstition in An instance of the intense feeling of superstition which pervades the ignorant among our rural population in the West of England occured at Northlew last week. Some gipsies having encamped in the neighborhood, one of the female members of the tribe ascertained from the wife of a farm-laborer that she had a daughter in the last stage of consumption.

The gipsey represented that the child had been "bewitched." and that she could rule the spell, which would affect a cure, foi two sovereigns. The mother of the child cheerfully paid the money, but next day the wild gipsey returned it, saying it was not sufficient, but £20 more in gold would do it. The cottager's wife, in her native simplicity, went and borrowed £10 from a neighbor, and with another ten sovereigns which she had in the house, saved from her husband's earnings, added the £20 to the £2 already in the gipsy's hands. Soon as the money was paid, the affrighted woman was bound over to secresy by the gipsy, who mumbled over a few disjointed texts of Scripture, and left, with the promise that the child would be cured on the following Friday, when an angle would appear and return the money. Since that time, however, it is needless to add, neither gipsey nor money have turned up, although the impoverished husband and the police have been daily on the look out for the gipsy imposter.

On Sunday last, another specimen of deep-rooted superstiton was presented within the porch of the western door at Exeter Cathedral. As the congregation leaving the church, a decrepid old woman took up a position within the porch, bearing a begging petition, setting forth that she had been attacked by a paralytic seizure, and had been recommended by the wise woman" to get a penny each from forty single men, on leaving the church, and her infirmity would, by this charm, be banished forever. Mrs. Partington Every body has Iqprd of the gentleman who described his country seat as having a "lemonade" in front, a "porto-rico" to each wing, a "pizarro" in the rear, with an "anecdote" by which the water was conveyed into a ressurrection in the "erie." If we had ever heard of that gentleman's having taken up his residence south of Mason and Dixon's line, we have no doubt he was identical with the one who, as a Louisiana correspondent narrates, thus announced some contemplated architectural improvements I contend, said he, among other pusillanimous things, to put a disclosure around that field, plant a harbor in the middle, and cut a revenue up to the door. And then, when I have built a perdition to my house, I shall be able to receive my friends in a hostile manner.

Hebrew Movement Sunday last the Israelites, of this city, held a meeting, Henry Mack, in the chair. The subject is declared in the preamble to the resolutions, which declares that the spirit of the age, the interest of Judaism, and the sentiment of the generality of the Jewish community of this city, and of the whole Union, require that a seat of learning be established, in order to promulgate science, enlightenment, and true religion amongst our fellow citizens." One hundred and thirty men formed themselves, on the spot, into a society called the Zion Collegiate Association," the objects of which are to cultivate the Jewish Theology, and have literary essaye, lectures, etc. Dr. Wise was appointed Chairman of the Executive Committee, and F. Millus, Treasui'er, TrOinclnnaU Columbian, A Singular The Albany JourI na! gives the particulars a singular affair 1 which occured in Scoharie county.

A few mol)t ls since a family in that county hired at an intelligence otnee in Albany a female 'jhelp," who proved so smart and capable as to give the most entire satisfaction. She was at work early and late, descended the cellar stairs at a single bound, jumped over tables with the dishes on, and gave other evidence of uncommon sprightliness anil agiliiy. She also contracted a marriage with one "Patrick." Meantime one or two of the servant girls left their situations without assigning any reasons. Finally a girl, upon leaving informed the family that the Albany was stealing every thing that she could lay her hands on. Upon searching her trunks this was found to be the case, and she was arrested, tried before the Scoharie courts, and sentenced to three mounths in Albany penitentiary.

Arrived at the jail there was a most curious denouement: the stout and hearty female help" turned out to be a fullgrown and athletic young man. During the whole time that he had been doing housework in Scoharie connty he had kept np the illusion in regard to his sex, deceiving the family, constables, lawyers, judge, jury, and jailors by a semidaily application of the razor to his face. Too Quiet, by "What a quiet man your husband is, Mrs. Smith." Quiet a snail is an express train to him. If the top of a house should blow off he'd just sit still and spread his umbrella' He's a regular pussy cut.

Comes to the front door as though the entry was paved with eggs, and sits down in his chair as if there was a nest of kittens under the cusion. He'll be the death of me yet! I read him all the horrid accidents, dreadful collisions, murders and explosions, and he takes it just as easy as if I was saying the ten commandments. He's never astonished, or delighted. If 1 should make the voyage of the world and return some fine day, he'd take off his spectacles, put them in the case, fold up the newspapers and settle his dickey, before he would be ready to say good morning, Mrs Smith. If he had been born of a poppy, he could not be more soporific.

I wonder if all the Smiths are like him? When Adam got tired of naming his numerous descendant he said, Let all the rest be called Smiths Well 1 don't care for that, but he ought to have known better than to call my husband Abel Smith. Do you suppose if I were a man, I'd let a woman support me? Where do you think that Abel's coat and cravats, and canes and cigars come from? Ou: of my brain. Quiet! it's perfectly refreshin to me to hear a comet, or see a locomotive, or look at a streak of chain lightning. I tell you he's the expressed essence of chloroform" Fern. Both Ways The city of Oswego last year voted "no license," and.

so far as was practicable, closed up her grogshops. This year a majority voted license again, and one hundred and twenty groggeries of all sorts aie now in full are assured that the effects on the legitimate trade of the city are probably disastrous. The sellers of shoes, hats, clothes, dry goods, provisions, find rheir trade seriously diminished and profits reduceil to zero, because the laboring class, who last year bought freely at their counters, now spend their diminished earnings to a sorrowful ex tent in rum. The children who had caps and shoes last year, and went decently to school, now skulk bareheaded and barefooted into the groggeries with scarcely rags enough to hide the rum bottle which is stripping their homes of comforts and depriving them of hapiness. All but the tipplers, and a part even of them, have had enough of license, and Oswego will, it is thought, in November, give a rousing majority for the Maine law.

An A Cincinnati paper states! that three years ago, a poor orphan giri applied and was admitted to set type for that paper. She worked two years, during which time she earned, besides her board, about $200 and availing herself of the facilities which the printing office afforded, acquired a good education. She is now an associate editress of a popular paper, and is engaged to bs married to one of the smartest lawyers in Ohio. Such a girl is bound to shine and eclipse tens of thousands who are educated in the lap of luxury, and taught all the "accomplishments" of the boarding school. Such a wife will be a jewel to her husband, and an ornament to society, and an honor to her sex and her country.

AVer's Cherry Amongst the many nostrums that are daily heralded forth to the public as panaceas for nearly all the ills which afflict humanity, there are, no doubt, many entirely worthless, and others that possess all the merit which is claimed for them. Among this latter class stands foremost the invaluable family medicine, the name of which heads this paragraph. This is no idle puff. We speak knowingly, having tested its efficacy on several occasions within the last year, in our family. At this season, when colds and influenza are so prevalent, we confidently recommend the free use of this preparation.

It will be found equally efficacious in diseases of the throat, and all pulmonary Virginia Recorder, Buchanan, Va. Holloway's Ointment and The most efficadious Remedies in the Union, for the Cure of Erysipelas. Emma Henderson, of Fourth-street Philadelphia, was a very severe sufferer for two years with Erysipelas, she became almost blind, and deaf with the severity of the disease, so bad was the attack she consulted several of the Doctors in her neighborhood, but they did her no good. She finally determined to have recourse to Holloway's Ointment and Pills, and by the joint use o( these two remedies, she was cured in six weeks, after every other treatment had failed. A Rich The following rich scene recently occured in one of our courts of justice between the judge and a Dutch witness all the way from Rotterdam Judge your native language? Witness pp no navive; I'sa Dootchman.

Judge your mother's tongue? Witness fader say she pe all tongue. Judge an irritable language did you speak at the cradle? Witness tid not speak no language in de cradle at all; I only cried in Dooch. Arkansas A citizen of Arkansas, while on board of a steamer on the Mississippi, was asked by a gentleman, whether the raising of stock in Arkansas was attended by much difficulty or expense." "Oh, yes, stranger- they suffer much from insects." "Inseets! What kind of insects, pray?" Why, bears, catmounts, wolves, and sich like insects." When a devout mussulman found himself in the midst of a terrible tempest at sea, he recollected that he had violated Mohammedan law by indulgiog in swine's flesh on a particular occasion. Having made a due confession, and prayed for a cessation of the storm in vain, he pettishly exclaimed, what a fuss about a little pork!" Trans-Atlantic- Telegraph New York Post states that the progress of trans-atlantic telegraph there lias been interrupted by the discovery that it was impossible to construct a battery that would serve a line of more than five or sis hundred miles in length. The Tost is not advised of what the precise difficulty was, but it was of an insurmountable character, and hence the negotiations entered into by Mr.

ShaflTuer, the agent of the Company, with tho respective governments for a right to lay wires from the coast of Norway, by way of the Faroe Islands and Iceland, to tho coast of Labrador, by which they escape the necessity of using any cable of more than five hundred miles uninterrupted length. This will greatly increase tho aggregate length of the cable and the cost of constructing it, but the company will not be discouraged by that circumstance from prosecuting an enterprise, the importance of which, in its consequences, cannot be exaggerated. Tekrible Ravages of Choaera in The Philadelphia Inquirer, of the 14th, has translated the following letter from tho Italian journal, Opinione, published at Genoa: Messina, Sept. city has been afflicted in the most awful manner 5008 persons died from the 28d to 28th of August. On the 29th, there was a complete slaughter the general terror increased the number of victims.

Of the 5000 persons composing the peri.shell, and almost all the police. It is impossible to describe the desolate appearance of the city. Entire families have been destroyed. Of the family of Mr. Rnggleri, Sardinian Consul, composed of twelve persons, not one survives.

The shops are all closed, and their occupants have either fled, or shut themselves up. There were not vehicles enough to carry the dead to the cemeteries, and tho police were obliged to seek ox-wagons in the country. In a few days 13,000 persons have died. The sick were left without food, medical aid, or the solace of clerical attendance in their dying moments. The physicians, as well as the druggists and priests all shamefully took to flight.

Large numbers of galley prisoner's, condemned to chains for life, for capital crimes, were pardoned, on condition of burying the dead. Such, spectacle has not been seen in any Italian city sinco the plagues of the Middle Ages." From a subsequent letter of September 10, we see that the Government had sent a steamboat with physicians, druggists and priests, provisions, and that the disease had begun to decline. Insurhectionaky Movement at curious insurrectionary movement has taken place at Rio Janeiro, growing out of tlie passage of a law by tho Chamber of Deputies depriving th(3 officers of the army below Colonel, and the corresponding officers in the navy of the right of marriage without the consent of Government This caused a defection among some of the troops and ten of the officers were arrested and imprisoned. The women were active in getting up the excitement by the reproaches with which they assailed the officers whenever they appeared in public. The member who introduced the obnoxious bill would have been mobbed but for the protection afforded by the police.

The Brazilian government was considering bill for the opening of the Amazon to all nations, and it has bought back the exclusive right to navigate it, which it granted some years ago to some of its citizens. It pays $55,000 per year for 29 years to get it back. It is cow thought it will pass before the session closes. American. To Check Diarrhea following simple method of checking diarrhea, after it has proved obstinate, is recommended by a writer in the 1 Morning Chronicle, ho has often seen its efficacy tested The readiest means of relief in cases of diarrhea, known to me by experience, is that of toasting well two pieces of crumb of stale bread very brown, without burning, the size of two fingers, and breaking the toast very small into a wine-glass, pour thereon sufficient brandy to saturate the toast in the glass, mashing it up with the liquid, making it like pudding in substance, and eating it leisurely by means of the tea-spoon.

Should the first attempt not succeed, repeat the same after an hour, but usually (if timely applied) relief from pain and abatement' of the diarrhea is the result of the first adoption of this simple at every public house, and probably at any chemist's shop. Mutton-chops and Whiskers London Quarterly attributes the origin of the national English whisker to the Netional English muttonchop. Thus the reviewer connects them A mutton-chop suggested the form of a substantial British whisker. Out of this simple countless varieties have arisen one has turned into the corners of his mouth, as il he was holding them up with his teeth the second has wandered into the middle of the cheek, and there stopped, as though it did not know where to go, like a youth who has ventured out into the middle of a ballroom, with all eyes fipoiv him another twists the contrary way, under the owner's ears; another, with a vast Pacific of a face, has little whiskers, which to have stopped sliart after two inches of a voyage, as though aghast at the prospect of leaving to tarn such a Cape Horn of a chin. We perceive coming a tremendous pair, running over his shirt-collar in luxuriant profusion yet we secy as the colonel or genera! takes off his hat to a lady, that he is quite bald; those whiskers are, in fact, nothing but a tremendous landslide from the veteran's head." The way the Sqattbrs do it communication in the St.

Louw Republican, from Minnesota, gives the following description of a sceno at the Land Office Early on Monday mofniffg squatters assembled in meeting Major Sibley was appointed "bidderin." Clubs, pistols, were plenty, and it is a reasonable calculation to say, that, there were one hundred men with short bludgeons. At 9 o'clock the Land Office opened and the sale commenced. In forty minutes thousand acres of land, situated between St. Paul and St. Anthony, on the east side of tho Mississippi river, were sold for $1 25 per acre, there being no bidder but Major Sibley, the squatter bidder, and land valaed at from $30 to $100 per acre, was sold, under intinwdfition, for $1 25.

These scjuatters settled on this land in opposition to the express wishes of the Government bat as the squatter interest is very large and gives a large vote, the prominent men of the Territory are mum for fear of losing support. Hollowaifs Pills a certain cure for derangements of the Stomach and Bowels, Liver Complaints, Loss of Appetite ami Bilious Pills have a wonderful effect upon a disorganized system, acting immediately upon the fluids, thus the most blood becomes totally changed. Persons who use them for a few weeks cannot fail to meet with a cure of any of the above cases, and those who may be unfortunately affected with disagreeable or offensive, breath, cannot do better than avail themselves of these invaluable Pills. A Family of Opium The Elmira (N. Republican says that six months ago a person visited that town, asking for money to purchase medicines for his mother who was sick.

Recently the same solicitor has been around on the same errand for other members of the family. The entire family, it is said, subsists for the most part on opium or its and soporific influences, and this fearful habit has beenso long indulged as to have grown into second nature..