Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-04-12


| ofH2-you get along if you are industrious and
frugal, and the most fortunate do no more. Be-
sides light heart will not break your fortune
nor heavy one make it, so you may as well
have one as the other
1t is your misfortune to have one OF those
pests Of society, slanderous neighbor, who
speaks i'll of you, and delights to do you every
secret, backhanded injury he can, who never
fails secretly 10 traduce your character, misre'
present your conduct and motives, and ever
tries to excite preiudices against you? And
does this discompose and trouble you? echafs
the use Of ill., Keep the windward OF the fellow;
let your actions give the lie to has accusations
and you need not employ words tor the purpose
Wait the issue, and you VIII see the MAXIM
verified in this case, that "he who sPltteth a
gainst the wind, spitteth in his own lace
And here, too, it may oe remembered that
heavy heart is no answer TO an accusation
though it be afalse one; and that light heart
is not the heart that.pleads guilty before men;
YOU had better therefore have the last than the
first on all accounts.
Are men dishonest? will long face and sad
heart reform them? are you sometimes decelv-
ed, wronged, cheated? will being discouraged
-mend the matter, or melancholy make you
sharper in your future dealing? not whit -
Losses are lessons; all men buy their expert
ence at the same market, though all may not
nav the same price for the commodity. The
only way is TO make much Of what comes dear:
and YOU can do this with light heart better
than with heavy one. A heavy heart, what's
the useofH0
But it may be, things don't go on right at
home: that YOU have scoIding wife, cross chill
dren, and withal an extravagant family; that
there's bad management in the wigwam. We'll
| this is very sad; but will fretting make it bet
! ter? will sad heart make sunshine in cloudy
house? No-then What's the use Of HS You are
not the first one in the world who might sing
"First when Maggy was my care,
Heaven, thought, was in her air
Now we're married. spier maer."
And every hen pecked husband may as we'll add
the conclusion
Whistle DER the lave OFT"
I see no profit in being miserable in this case
light heart is stlll better than heavy heart.
Perhaps all this while some loyesick body has
been running over line after line, to see if had
aught 10 say why he should not be unhappy.
An unkind mistress, bad heart, an indefatiga
BILE rival, coque,ry; ah! these is Pandoras' box!
Thou hath gotten myself into pretty pic
kle-but
'Pray, iflooking well can't move her,
Will looking ill prevail"
What think you Of that, now-1 know 1t is
useless TO tell meditating, moonloving, me-
lancholy lover, that there are whole flocks OF
pretty girls in the world, that if unsuccessful
this time, he may easily fall in love again, and
again, or that his mistress is not altogether the
paragon of perfection-these are all cold water
compliments, and are marvelously insipid
to such a taste as his He must cen 60 his
way, sorrowing- marriage only will make him
wise.
have DONE Those who are merry will be
merry STILL and those who are unhappy will
re main so after all, yet it is good and pleas
ant thing occasionally to have talk with the
world, about its folles.
Noies of Miscellaneous Readings of Modern Books.
At Constantinople, amongst the stroing
Snowman, trees are exhibited bearing pretty
girls instead of fruits. These according to the
information Of the owners of these personifca-
tons, grow in the kingdom Of Janee Cevania, i.
e. the new word-America.
Ia England, the earliest patent for acting
comedies is dated l574; in the next century,
nIteen HCtnStu WHY op'HCu HI i-oi'-
DON A flag waved at the front OF the theatre.
The price of admission 10 the best places was a
shilling, TO the inferior ones penny or two
pence The critics sat on the stage, and were
furnished with pipes and tobacco.s The cur
tain was drawn back on each side. Before
1879. PLAYS were acted on Saturdays only.
Black Paint will facilitate the ripening Of
WILL fruit; yet not one wall in 10000 is so
painted
The walnut tree, if grated, produces ten
fold, yet this process is seldom or never used
! From 1900 to $40, seamen's pay on board
vessels Of the u S. varied from 10 10 II dolls.
month, the smallest of these sums is one
third more than the pay Of an able seaman OF
the British navy, and the largest more than
| double.
London bricks of the present day are as un-
substantial as London fashions. AS much
sand as possible and as little clay as possible,
with great proportion Of coal ashes. Thus,
when heated in the kiln, the coaly matter burns
out, and leaves the brick sponge, an object
much facilitated by the gas disengaged The
bricks are sandy sponges; and the mortar E
made Of chalk and water.
In the neighborhood of New Segovia, is FL
Corpus, which was the richest, mine in the
kingdom Of Guatemala. 1t produced gold in
so great quantity as to excite suspicion as
to the reality Of the metal; and a treasury was
ehaJ -, ,l,. emf for the sole DurDose nj