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house regular stopping place; but a
close observer could see a kind of queer
expression in the corner of his eve.
when he heard the neighbors extoliinn
Squire Leeland's Devonshire Bull.
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Oetn'tion Of f'aste--Taste is the SEN
slbility of our nature TO the various
forms OF beauty which the Creator hath
spread with such profusion around us.
lie who made the mind for beauty.
made beauty also for the mind. He hath
pencllled it upon the spangled meadow
and on the Furnished cloud. He hath
chiselled it in the gigantic majesty of
the cedar of Lebanon, and in the tremb-
hing loneliness of the tendril which
twines around its branches. In ODE
dlence to It's laws, he hath taught the
llnnet to flutter in the grove, and the
| planets to revolve in their pathway
through the heavens. We hear it in
the purling brook and in the thunder
ing cataract, and we perceive it vet more
Ieglbly inscribed upon all those social
and moral qualities in the exercise of
winch our Maker hath intended, that
we should be forever approaching near
er and nearer to the exhaustless source
OF unreached excellence. These are
the models which nature presents for the
contemplation of the artist; and, Just in
proportion this power of detecting a.
nong her complicated forms the simple
elements OF loneliness, and of combining
them according to the examples which
enc .i, herself has set before him, will he
HI the vacant canvas with images of
beauty, and animate the dull cold mar
bic with breathing intelligence. It is
TINS communion with nature which con-
iers upon the artist what Lord Chatham
has SO well denominated the prophetic
eye OF taste, and which has left the Bel
vIdere Apollo and the Medicean Venus
the temple on the Ilyssus, and the tenn
PIE OF Minerva, to illustrate to all COM
ing generations what genius can accom-
p,llsh. We see thus, that in taste, as in
al! the original operations of the human
mind, 1T is the sublimest attribute of in
telilgence to see things as they are.
President Wayland.
ropes first wife was Miss Young. ofCo-
vent Garden Theatre. On the morning af-
Ter her marriage, she received the following
episue from Mrs. Martyr, of the same thea
ire - 'ii@"
:, Dear Madam-Permit me TO be one of
me first in offering my CONGRATULATIONS I
nave no doubt of your happiness; for must
confess that if his Holiness had attacked me-
SoIu protestant as am, | should not have
ha "a Inc resolution to die--H. Hartvr.
ing answer - wv '0i'0"
Dear Madam-Accept my best thanks
ior your congratulations This is NOT time
i0r cllliclsm, but may safely say that Pope's
essays are in perfect keeping with Young,s
Night Thoughts"
F0rg!cenesS.-' have killed your hus-
nand, Madame" said the late Mr.. A.. not
ieSS celebrated for his eccentricities than his
lneuical skill must confess that nv mode
vi treatment has been the death of him; did
oertallliy mistake his case" The new made
"iuow shed proiusion oftears, but the Doc
WI received next morning pleasing testi
shape OF fine haunch of yenison, " VIZ
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AhS Inherent meaning that
may De gwen TO sentences by emphasis. is
slown IN i1ord Edward Fitzgerald's apoI0gy
10 t"e lrlSh House OF Commons. in a mo-
i iiiSnt OF great excitement, Lord Edward said.
oir 40 THINK the Lord Lieutenant and the
majority OF this House are the worst subjects
inc N ing has. This was followed by loId
cries OF 10 the bar, and ''take down the
words and three hours were spent in inef-
iectual attempts TO induce him TO apologize
Al last he IS reported TO have said, with some
humor-"l am accused of having declared
That L think the Lord Lieutenant and the ma
Jorlty of this House the worst subjects tbe
King has said So TITS TRUE, and I am
sOrTyJ0T IT."
-~sSs.--
BoSsiGna.-"What is buggy :" said
a lady who was reading an account Of
the new vehicle lately brought out at
Philadelphia. 81 can't say, Madam"
replied Bass'-'Probably bedstead."
sefo-
Dutch wives generally assist their bus-
bands in their business, often taking the
most active share in it and it is a com
mon remark in Holland, that where the
women have the direction of the nrrse
and trade, the husbands seldom become
bankrupts.
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a gentleman in New York. whose family
has made sad inroads upon his fortune by CoI-
loving the rapid changes of the style of1rrss
has requested the editors of the Courier and
Enquirer TO suggest The expediencv of hold.
ing Convention twice year, TO regulate