Litchfield enquirer., 1841-02-25

A~SNS w.
rvs College.
"a student, so runs the story, ordered
white female servant to take a pitcher OF
water to his room, which she refused, as the
room did not come under her supervision.
Thrreupon the student broke the pitcher
over her head. For this most diSgracetul
and diShonorable act the President of the
College Immediately expelled him. Some
of the other students undertook to resent
his quarrel, and whilst they were at the
next meal, they simultaneously rose, upset
the tables, breaking the dishes, and threat
ening further outrages. The police was
the ringleaders dismissed in disgrace from
the College. ..
Mothers after Gu.-Col. Ethan Allen was
hold officer in the American Rcvolution-
He could face the enemies of his country
with the most undaunted bravery, and In
the field of battle he never shrunk from dan
ger. But he was an opposer to Christianity,
and gloried i'm the character of am infldeI.-
His wife, however, was pOus woman, and
taught her children in the way of piety,
while he told them it was deluSion. But
there was an hour coming when Col. Aliens
confidence in his own sentiments would be
closely tried.
| A beloved daughter was taken sick-hc
received message that she was dying; he
fastened TO her bedside, anxious to hear her
| dying words.
Father" said she, "I am about 10 die 5:
shall believe in the principles which you
have taught me, or shall believe what my
mother has taught me!"
This was an affecting scene. The intre-
pid Colonel became extremely agilated, his
chin quivered, his whole frame shook, and
| after waiting a few moments, he replied,
Believe as your mother has taught you"
| Caught in has own 7rap.-The Portland
| Argus relates an amusing case, in which
beggar in that city received what he asked
for, but not what he wished for:
ga few days ago, full grown able bod
led man, presented himself at the door of
one of our citizens, and solicited the lady of
the house to give him two cents. She re-
marked that she had none, and inquired
what he wanted of them. ITO buy dose
of castor oil marin, (was the reply0 for I'm
dreadful sick"
| The lady had no cents, but she had plenty
! of oil and she prepared him a stiff DOSE
He tried hard to get excused from taking it {;
but she was firm, he was sick man, and it
must 20 down. The loafer found he was
caught i'm his own trap and, where he
meant to have glass ofliquor, he got dose
of physic but, making virtue of necessi.
~, and with sundry wry faces, he gulphed
It down and cleared. He'd not coll at that
house again, we dare say.
Natural History of the Honey Bee.-This
bee, when collecting the pollen of flowers.
which constitutes the "bee bread" never
passes from one Kind of flower to another,
as has been supposed. If it first light upon
honeysuckle, it continues to collect the
pollen from this flower until it has loaded
its little thighs with as much as it can car
ry away,
The bee is governed in this by an in
stinct, that makes him co-laborer In the
ordinary work of natural re-productiveness.
The pollen or fructifying dust, Is carried
from flower to flower of the same Species
and thus the boo aids the operations OF ma
ture by distributing the pollen, necessary
to the frnitfulness of plants. If the bee
the pollen adhering to his body, and light
upon honeysuckle, the fructifying dust of
the clover blossom applied to the honey
suckle, would produce hybrid, or mon
grel species of flower. How wonderful are
the orderly operations Of nature--and GER
tainly, among the most wonderful, is this
peculiar instinct of the honey bee.
Examples of Young Men.--For several
years we have been intimately acquainted
with most of the young men Of - and
vicinity. and we are loath to own that a
large portion of wealthy mems sons, who
have been educated for the popular profess
sions and public trusts, have not "turned
out" very we'll. Some have become drunk
ards, others gamblers, and not a few idle
street walkers, and the windy and vain pc.
liticul takers. What is the reason of this
Answer. Their whole training has been
wrong; they have been taught to think
there was better plan to live than by earn
ing support by the "sweat of the brow"
Agricsl.srist.
In the correspondence from Algiers, the
Toulomnais, the following singular story is
related: Er0 t~
"During the Marshal's last expedition.
one of our chasseurS found, near the tents of
q tribe we were r0vaging, a sack of conside.
rable magnitude. Without seeking to know
its contents he fastened it on the back Of his
saddle. Ere long, to his utter astonishment,
he heard human voice issue from his bur-
then, and dismounted to solve the mystery.
On opening the sack, he discovered beau
titul female between Is and ~ years of age,
and valise containing about 10000 francs.
It appears that the young woman was the
wife of an Arab, who had thus packed her
up with his money as his two greatest valua.
blcs, but in his terror had abandoned them
both The soldier placed his living prize on
one Of the ammunition wagons, aud divided
iha money with his comrades"
Harrisburg nauer giycs a case of alb.