The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1839-08-22

/ The Lottery Itcket.-Mr. TAYLOR, The
celebrated sailor preacher Of Boston, once
related the following anecd6te. A poor
woman, who had once seen better DAYS,
was finally compelled. by the intemperance
OF her husband, to resort to the wash tub
to earn scanty subsistence for herself aud
children. Atlength, however, heartbrokea
and destitute, she determined to purchase
lottery ticket, with the hope that, If she
should be successful, her husband might
once more enter into business and become
steady man. To her unspeakablejoy, the
ticket came up prize of $4,000! Fran.
TIC, she ran TO her husband, and throwing
her arms about his neck, said, "Oh nv
husband, now We shall be happy; now We
shall live as we once liveG-I have drawn
a prize in the lottery !"
| Don't be too sure Of that, woman, said
the wretch, looking into her face with The
utmost composure, Don't be too sure of
that; for found the ticket in your drawer,
and gave II 10 Mr.. - for glass Of run I"
The transition from sudden joy to sudden
grief was so great that, no sooner had he
concluded than The unhappy woman drop.
ped at his feet, ileless corpse Alas
these stories, touching as they are, are
! nevertheless stern realities.
HumboIt assures US, that several volca.
noes in the Andes throw up muddy sub.
stance, mixed with large quantities OF fresh
water, and with large quantity of fish,
which do not appear 10 be injured, nor 10
have been exposed to SO great heat. They
are sometimes elected from the crater Of
the volcano, and sometimes from the latte.
raj apPerures; but they always come from
the height Of from twelve 10 fourteen hun.
dred toses above the level plains. Humbolt
Is OF opinion that these fish are bred IN
lakes in The interior of the crater.
CurionS.-As a train Of railway cars
was passing along an inclined plane on the
railroad from Bolton 10 Kenyon, 10 England,
moving at the rate of thirty or forty miles
an hour, man who was standing on the
side Of the railway, threw a stone about
The size OF hens egg, in a horizontal di.
reclon, and with considerable violence. at
the tram. The stone was distinctly seen
By gentleman who was seated In the last
car, with his back to the engine, and he re.
marked that when II had attained ITS maxi.
mum OF velocity, 1t appeared like Mahom.
cts coffin, suspended in the air few Sc.
conds within a foot oflhe geutlemep's head
lie seized at il and described the sensation
as similar TO that Of grasplng a stone in a
state OF rest, suspended BY thread. Thus
Il seems that the train and s.ona had both
attained the same velocity.
Jeremy Taylor on Calumny-" There
IS no worse devil" said Jeremy TAYLOR,
. than deyilIsh tongue. Were | a eais.
IaIor, | weuld enact a law, that every one
who spoke evil of his fellow creature, should
be condemned TO iue, could he not fulv
Su6StantiGte his charge aud that the au.
hor of every SANDER and falsehood should
ose his tongue. Then, there might be
'eace IN Israel. But in the present blessed
,tate Of society, 1t is really fearful and
leart sckening 20 think how entirely one
: IN The power Of these said tongues
|" hat may not be propagated 10 ones dis.
during absence, and how many
equations have been ylctimlzed during
lie babbIiug moments Of a morning visit"
A Dsfaitioa.-W won't quarrel with
he following definition -" Gentlllty is
eTther 10 birth, manner, or fashion but
n lnIud. A high sense of honor, a deter.
anatou never TO take mean advantage
+ another, an adherence TO truth, delicacy
nd poIteness towards those with whom
GU have dealings, are the essential and dis.
nguIsh'ng characteristics ola gentleman"
heep Horiag. have lived" said the
ldetatlgab'e Dr. Clarke. ito know that
lie great secret of human happiness is this:
lever suffer your energies to stagnate.-
he old adage of too many irons in the
re- conveys an abomnabIe falsehood.--
gu cannot haye too many--poker, tonss,
nd all. Keep them all seing,"
never shun grave ard--the thought.
i melancholy which ii inspires is grateful
ther than dIsagreeabIe to me-it gives
e no pain to tread on the green roof of
at dark mansion, whose chambers must
'cupy so scotland often wander from
loIce TO place, where there Is neither
htude nor socle,y-somethlng human 10
ere-but the folly, the hustle, the vnnlucs,
e pretenuons, the competitions, the pride
humanity are gone-men are there, but