Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1847-05-06
MisrfllaMe0u9.
From the n. o. Delta.
The Two Valentines.
Or, Dulcetta Browne and Sally Brown.

A single grain Of sand may decide the fate of an
empire, tiny gnat drive an elephant TO madness,
and little, Insignificant letter cause that sIaem
winch never did run SMOOTH 10 boil, splurps,
and spulter, like Norwegian maelsroom We
read oil Persian conqueror, who, Just on the eve
Of battle, Rad grain Of sand blown into his eye
he rubbed The optic, irritation cnsucd, fever took
place, and he died. His successor, who couldn'
hold candle 10 him, and being witla very
wicked man, lost the confidence Of The soldiers
was ingloriously defeated, taken prisoner, and
woke up one morning minus his head. fly gets
into the ear Of an elephant the sensation at first
is very pleasant, and he flaps his huge ears in the
same manner that a blacksmith dusls his lealherl
apron. Anon he finds that there may be even too
much of a good thing, and by gentle snort init
mates desire that the hy should keep quiet
Finding himself not obeyed, he gets into terrible
rage, and in futile attempt 10 tear up u large
Tree, breaks orc of his ivolies-,he lock- jaw en-
sues, and he dies. Three thousand years after
wards, his skeleton is found in Alabama, with one
lusk here and the other there. In the course OF
time city springs up, and from the fact of two
loose tnsks being found on the original site, men
christen il Tuscaloosa.
| Cadmus, like other distinguished men, was
much addicted TO potatoes and Pyerrian springs
Horace Greeley sort of parsonage, who lived
entirely on lenlils and learning, Like Silas
Fright, he was seldom UrOng; and one day.
while amusing himself in his garden, with a sword
fol spade he planted a crop of letters, merely
by way of experiment, What was his surprise,
one fine morning, 10 find himself saluted by we'll
drilled volunteer regiment! It's positive fact
There they were, dressed in a marshal costume
somewhat between that Of the Phonician archers
and the EuniskilIen dragons. We hope the
powers that be at Washington will study horti-
culture, and plant some oil the same kind Of seed ,
as II will be very useful in raising The ten regl-
ment bill. Cadmus, however, has nothing TO do
with the dumpy Miss Brown with the ~ nor the
elegant Miss Browne with the e.
The sweet Dulceua Browne has Just turned
eighteen years and nineteen sulors-nway. One
OF heavens CanOvas must have moulded her ey-
Quise form, and the roses of Eden lent their
crimson bushes TO her cheeks. Her hair, dark as
night, woven into a million of glossy threads falls
in rich clusters from her queenIy brow; butter flies
mistake her lips for carmine nowere,s, and the
very moths are attracted by the brightness that
flashes from her diamond eyes. When she goes
to church, the bricks kiss her little feet with their
broad, red mouths, and grey flag stones rise up to
bless her. 1t was at church that Gabriel Grotius,
Esq. saw her. and on the first glance he was wlll>
ly in love- To the responses in The Litany he re.
piled by gasps, and accompanied The closing hymn
with
'S, so gently DER me stealing
Arriving at his legal den, he cutched an odd
volume OF Shelly's poems, and read until his eyes
became red, and then he fell asleep aud dreamed
o. angels, otto Of roses seats in Congress, thirty
thousand dollars, and the enchanting lady whose
name he did not know When he awokc a bright
idea struck him, and he resolved TO express his
passion by writing his adored one Valentine. -