Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-08-26

bers OF this I" family group" at whose
shrine he once poured out his hearts
idoatry, have in the mutations Of few
brief years, severed themselves from their
kindred and connections, and glided si-
lently away thus partially verifying
the exclamation Of one Of the classics
rempora mautantur, nos matamnt."
st. LaW. Rep.
THE MEcHANIc.-If there is any man
in society upon whom we look with es.
TEEN and admiration, it is the honest and
industrious mechanic, who by his own
unaided exertion has established for him.
self respectable station in socletv---
who commencing in poverty, by ma skill
and assiduity, surmounts every obstacle,
overcomes every prejudice, and succeeds
in establishing for himself repnfa-
ton whose value is enhanced for thoss
who come after him. Such man we
prize as the noblest work Of which hu-
man nature is capable-the highest pro.
duclon she can boast. And ever lei il
be borne in mind by the young meciau.
ic just entering upon the stage of active
lfe-let it ever lie at the foundatiori,"
be the moving spring to all his efforis
that this situation he must strive to at.
tain. 1t can be attained by all. Untir.
ing industry, and virtuous ambition,
never fail of their reward. They never
yet were exerted in vain, and never will
be while honesty and justice are left in
the human heart. 1t was well remarked,
by an eloquent writer, that the mechan.f
ic who had no inheritance but health nd
riches but virtue, is the sole king amons
men. and the only man among kings.
How ropRorEcr ORcHARDs.--The o old
minister had an orchard of most particu.
lar good fruit; for he was a great hand
at buddin, graitin, and what not, and the
orchard stretched right up to the road.
w ell, there were some trees Hung over
the fence; never see such bearers, the
apples hung in ropes, for all the world
like strings Of onions, and the minister's
apples, and when other folks lost thelrn,
by the boys, hisn always hung there likeI
bait to hook, but there never was So
much as a nibble at EN-. So said to
him one day, Minister, said I, how on
alrth do you manage TO keep your fruit
that's so exposed, when no one else cant
do it nohow?- Why says he, they arc
dreadful pretty fruit, ainttheyl Iguess,
said |, there ant the like on EN- in ali Con.
necticut.-Well, says he, Iii tell you the
secret, but you needn't let on to no one
about it, That are row next the fence.
grated it myself; | took great pains
to get the right kind; sent clean up to
Roxbury, and away down 70 Squaw
Neck Creek. They are beautiful, but
so eternal sour that no hnmane soul can
eat them. Well, the boys think the
whole ministers graftin has succeeded
about as well as that row, and they sarch
no farther.-They snicker at my graf.
tin, and laugh in my sleeve, guess, a,
their'penetration.--Me Clockmaker.
CURE FOR SwEARINe.-A schooImas.
ter, as punishment to one Of his pupils,
for using profane language, ordered him
to take pair of tongs and watch at q
hole in one corner of the floor, ,lIl no
caught mouse. Obed!ent to the com.
mand, the boy took the tongs, and de.
murely waited for the expected vlslter.
Directly he saw a mouse peeping slyly
out OF the hole, to observe if danger was
near. Cautiously placing a leg of the
tongs on each side of the hole, he grasp.
ed the mouse, and exclaimed with a
lulck air of triumph, I've got him by
God"
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