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The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15

Michael Angelo dedicated himself, from
his childhood to his death, to a toilscme
observation Of nature. The first aIlec-
dote recorded of him shows him to be al
ready on the right road. Granacci, pliin-
ter's apprentice. having lent him, whe, a
boy, print Of st. Anthony beaten by dew
lis, together with some colors and pencils,
he went to the fsh-market to observe the
form and color OF fins and of the eye, Of
Ash. Cardinal Farnese one day found him,
when an old man, walking alone in the
Coliseum, and expressed his surprise at find.
ing him solitary amidst the ruins; to which
he replied, g" go yet to school that / may
continue TO learn" And one of the last
drawings in his portfolio is a sublime hint
Of his own feeling: for it is a sketch Of an
old man with long beard. in go-cart, with
an hour-glass before him; and the motto,
Anoora imparo, al still learn Charac
teristics Of Men of Genius.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15

il is hardly necessary }, specify his amuse-
ments, as we believe they are already re-
corded in popular soag, which can be bad
Of all nlusic-sellers.
Running our eye over the different amuse-
ments Of the sovereigns who grace the
thrones Of the present day, they are great
improvement, we must confess, on the
amusements OF Kings "as used to was. -
Shooting stays is manly sport compared to
that OF firing from balcony on populace;
and playing on the big drum is child's play
by the side OF bluff old king, whose prin-
cipal amusement was to take off his wile's
head as soon as he had married her. All |!
those were the days for amusements. What
merry monarch thai Charles the Second
was Why, there is net a king Of the
present day who would go into the Chesh-
ire Cheese, and order Welsh rabbit and a
pint Of stout, and when he found he had no
money to pay for it, knight the landlord on
the spot in lieu Of payment!
By the bye, talking of royal smusements,
we hear thar the Due fAumale (the King
Of Algeria that is to be- has BEEN invited to
a ball by the native Arabs Of Algiers. We
suppose this is in return for the many balls
the French have given the Arabs; but as re-
CARDS the choice OF The two smusements,
dancing and fighting, we think the Algeri-
ans beat the French hollow. Besides. the
novelty of party Of dancing Arabs must
afford immense amusement 10 the poor
transported Parisians, who have no balls
mqsques, no Chaumives or Chateaur Ro1l-
gss to beguile them at uncivilized Algers.
Punch.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15
A Trial OF ueussry.

A person was boasting in Foote's pres
ence Of the extraordinary facility with which
he could commit any thing to memory,
when the modern Aristophanes said he would
write down dozen lines in prose, which he
would not be able to repeat from memory
in as many minutes. A wager was in
stantly laid, and Foote produced the fol-
lowing:
so she went into the garden to cut a
cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at
the same time great she bear coming up
the street pops its head into the shop. What,
no soap? So he died, and she very impru-
IDENTIFY married the barber; and there were
present the Pickiminnies, and the Jobillies,
and the Garyulias and the Grand Panian-
drum himself, with the little round button at
the top; and they all fall 10 playing the
game Of Catch as Catch Can, till the gun
powder ran out at the heels Of their boots. ("
Such mass Of unconnected nonsense
de6ed memory, and the wit won his wager.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15
Wsmsaa's Hili-.ion.

Woman mission is domestic-she is the
true home missionary-there she shines with
the purest lustre, there her warm affections
have their truest sphere of action, and there
the innumerable phases Of her innate love
illness and goodness are most appreciated
and NOS; observed The domesticities Of
life are her peculiar charge; over them she
presidss with more queenly grace; and it is
hers, by touching everything within doors
with the magic OF wife's love, to convert
the plainest, scantiest food into sumptuous
fare, and the homeliest dwelling into a para
disc Of bliss, an Eden Of unslloysd happi-
ness.
To his first purpose ought all female edu-
cation TO have prominent reference. Young
ladies should not be taught that to perform
domestic labor is beneath their dignity or
their position in society; but they should be
taught that nothing Is undgni6ed, nothing
unbecoming, which tends to augment the
happiness and promote the comfort Of each
member Of the domestic circle--which se-
cures to the young wile'or mother the res
pect and confidence Of those under her
charge, and gives her husband to feel, while
be is oiling TO provide for his family, that
his chosen companion is quite competent
either 10 secure from those she employs an
economical and comfortable use OF the
means al her disposal, or to do it herself it
need be.
II matters not now wealthy or how ele-
waited in worldly position female may be,
a just knowledge Of domestic matters will
always add to her true dignity and give her
an additional charm in the eyes of the wise
and good--for we repeat, to make home
happy liz woman's true mission---while the
absence Of such knowledge deprives her Of
much Of her influence by materially dimin-
ishing the respect in which she ought to be
held.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15
Golden Theughs..

! never yet found pride in noble nature,
nor humility in an unworthy mind. OF all
trees, observe that God hath chosen the
vine-a low plant that creeps upon the
helpful wall: OF all beasts, the soft and pa.
tent lamb: Of all fowls, the mild and guile
less dove. When God appeared to Moses,
it was not in the lofty cedar. nor the spread
ing palm; but bush. an humble, slender,
abject bush. As If he would by these Sc
lections check the conceited arrogance oil
man. Nothing produceth love like humility;
nothing hate, like pride.-Felthdm.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15
Low Of GrsmbIInz.

"To a thorough indigenous independent
Briton, the word misery does by no means
convey an idea of extreme discomfort. he
feels the satisfaction Of grumbling over his
misfortunes to be, on many occasions, 50 much
greater than the pain Of enduring them, thath
will beg, borrow, steal, or even manufacture
caIamities, sooner than suffer under any unu-
sual scarcity Of discomfort. He knows. in
deed, that miseries are indeed necessary TO his
happiness, and though perhaps not quite so
pleasant at the moment as his other indis-
pensible enjoyments, roast beef and beer,
would, il taken away, leave Just as great a
craving in his appetites as would be occas-
toned by the privation Of these national dam
ties. The Englishman alone, we think,
occupies himself seriously in this manufac-
ture Of unhappiness; and seems to possess.
almost as exclusively, the power Of after
wards laughing at his own misfortunes;
which, however, during their immediate ex-
istence, gave him as much torment as ever
the crushing Of an ear-wig, or beating jack
ass, inflicted on the sensibility of a lachry-
NOSE German. Sir Walter Scott.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15

(TEE CASE or MANY ASN HUNr.-h having
been satisfactorily sscertained, after a proper
medical examination, that there is every reason
10 believe that this wretched woman is quick
with child, her execution is stayed, by order Of
TIE sheriffs Of London and Middlesex.-7imes.)
Two prisoners in a cell
Where felons, doomed 10 die
Are gaTner'd for the gibbet, dwell;
The time Of each is nigh:
murderess and q babe unborn within that dun
geon lie.
Ere this the wretch had died,
But that the law abstains
From taxing human life, whose tide
Doth Tow in guiltless veins,
The hangmzn therefore waits till she hath pass
her trayails pains.
Prepare the bed, and see
The woman that We tend;
And then prepare the gsllows tree,
TIE be the felon's end,
Seen as a mothers anguish shall have ceased her
frame 10 rend.
Prepare the swarthing- bands,
The hempen cord prepare
Alike ye need the hangmsn's hands,
The nurses tender care
Q The infant to the cradle-tO the drop the mother
bear.
on weary cay on day,
For this unhappy soul.
To count the hours that pass away,
To watch the moments roll
And view through childbirth's agOnies the scat
fold as her goal.
Her crime though nOught can screen,
Yet, ere her course be run,
Think whsther suffering will have been
For all that she hath done;
Surely Deaths bitterness is past with that most
wretched one.
Think on the anguish dread
That hath avenged her deed
Think how that woman heart hath bled,
IL " blood for blood" YOU need,
An0 eve for eye, and tooth fer tooth,n be still
your law and creed.
Punch.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15
Physic for IlI-HHunssr.

A sensible woman Of the Doctors &C
quaintance Qhe mother Of young family
entered so far into his views on this sub
ject. that she taught her children, from their
earliest childhood, to consider ill-humor as
disorder to be cured by physic. Accor.
dinghy, she had always small doses ready ;
and the little patients, whenever it was
thought needful, took rhubarb for the cross
ness. No punishment was required. Peev-
ishness or ill-temper and rhubarb were as
ISOLATED in their minds always as cause and
effect.-Ihe Doctor.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15
BY n. P. WILLS.

BY " p. WILLIS
Mr.. Willis says, in the Home Journal Of De-
IL, that he =" never wrote but one hymn" u /.
The following, and glorious hymn 1t is
The perfect world by Adam trod,
Was the first temPle-built By Cod
His FIAT laid the corner stone,
And heav'd its pillars, one BY one.
BE hung its starry roof on high
The broad illimitable sky;
Tie spread its pavement, green and bright
And curtain'd il with morning light.
The mountains in their places stool
The sea-the sky-and {" all was gooc
And, when its first pure praises rang.
The "mOrning stars together sang
Lord tits not ours to make the sea,
And earth and sky a house for thee,
But in thy sight our offering siands--
An humber temple "madr with hands
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15

ny T. D. READ.

All within and all without me
Feel melancholy thrill;
And the darkness hangs about me,
Oh, how still
To my feet, the river glideth
Through the shadow, sullens dark;
On the streamthe white moon rideth,
Like barque--
And the linden leans above me,
Till think some things there be
In this drearY world that love me,
Even me.
Gentle flowers are springing near me,
Shielding sweetest breath around;
Countless voices rise, 10 cheer me,
From the ground;
And the lone bird comes--I hear II
In the tall and windy pine
Peur the sadness of its spirit
Into mine;
There II swings and sings above me,
Till j think some things there DO
In this dreary world that love me,
Even me
Now the moon hath fioated TO me,
On the stream see II away,
Swinging, boat-like, as 'twould WOO me
Far away
And the stars bend from the azure,
| could reach them where l lie,
And they whisper all the pleasure
Ofthe sky.
There they hang and smile above me,
Till think some things there be
In the very heavens that love me,
Even me
Now when comes the tide Of even,
Like a solemn river, slow,
Gentle eyes akin to heaven
On me glow
Loving eyes that tell their story,
Speaking TO my heart Of hearts;
But | sigh, " a thing Of glory
Soon departs 20
Yet when Mary fades above me,
/ must think that there will be
One thing more in heaven 10 love me,
Even me
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15
DsacsIty Aavantageeu-.

Difficulty is severe instructor, set over
US by the Supreme ordinance Of a parental
guardian and legislator, who knows us bet
ter than we know ourselves, as he loves us
better too. He that wrestles with us
strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill
Our antagonist is our helper. This ami
cable conflict with difficulty obliges US to an
intimate acquaintance with our object, and
compels us to consider it in all its relations.
1t will not suffer US to be super6cial.--
Burke.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15
a Cure for Islander.

Mr.. Rowland Hill, on being told that il
was expected he should take notice Of some
unhandsome things which had been public
ly said Of him, said that he did not consider
it necessary to enter into any yindication Of
himself; and, he added, 81 have now lived
a great many years in the world, and have
passed through much Of evil report and good
report, and have arrived at this conclu.
sion, that no man can possibly do noe any
harm except myself
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15
New, .e Avoid Q.nrrrI..

The Rev. J. Clark, Of Frome, was asked
by friend how he always kept himself
from being involved in quarrels. in which he
replied. "By letting the angry person have
all the quarrel to HIMSELF This after
wards became proyerb in the town. When
quarrel was rising, they would say, "Conne
let US remember old Mr.. Clark, and leave
the angry man to quarrel BY himself. II
the reader will always follow this rule he
will save himself great desl of trouble,
and perhaps many hard knocks. Remenl-
Der i always takes two to quarrel.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15

There IS an article mech used in vs,o...
Why's. though not as an aineni, The 49,
fious effects OF which on the assimila,iDrs-'
CANS require TO be briefly noticed man,, u
tobacco. Although coniessedly one n 4
most virulent poisons in nature, vet snsb - !
the lacinaiing influence Of this noxious 49,
that mankind resort to il in everv NJ
they can devise to ensure its stupifying-as~o55
pemicious agency. Tobacco disoTdp7, n
assimilating functions in general, ban ,a a''
ticularly. as believe; the assimilation of ~
saccharine principle. have never ipJ. -
been able TO trseeihe development Of oTsTt
acid to the use OF tobacco, but thai -
analogous and equally poisonous rrioeinis
probably Of an acid nature) is gep,,s,s5 "A, !.
Certain individuals by its abuse IS evd...
from their cachetctie looks. and from n.
dark and often geenish yellow tint Of 4.
blood. The severe and peculiar dysUenfs
symptoms sometimes produced by inveTa,o
snuff-taking are well known; and I b.v.
more than once seen such cases term;n...
fatally with malignant disease Of the sio0,
ach and LIVER. Great smokers, also. So
cially those who employ short pipes and :.
CARS, are said TO be liable TO cameron, r
fections Of the lips. But it happens with :
baoco, as with deleterious articles Of AZ,
the strong and healthy suffer compara,ivslS
little. while the weak and predisposeJ y
disease fall victims to its poisonous one.
tons. Surely, if the dictates Of reason vs'.
allowed to prevail, an article 50 iniurior, -
the health and SO offensive in ali rs 6Tm'
and mode Of employment, would sDeeFIr
be banishsd from common use.-P,oy, ~
Stomach Diseases.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15
Tse NlxhsInxale.

The nocturnal song Of the Nightingale is
to me what it is, the veriest outpouring OF
gladness: it is not complaint, but proud, un-
governable exultation; it is the flowing over
and above Of delight, that is 50 abundant as
not to be quite containable even in the large
measurement Of summers day.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15
Nature as it Was and Is.

ST may appear a triAing and Puerile re-
mark; but | must confess myself much int
rested by the identity Of human nature in It's
more familiar working at very distant periods
ofthe world. Rachel ran to tell her father, o.
12)--Laban ran to meet Jacob, %. 49,
Rebekah ran to tell her mother, (xxIv. PSI
1t is a minute, some would say, a ridicu-
lousy triAing thing to single out; but | like
to contemplate human nature in the stabili.
ty even of its lesser evolutions-the same
now as thousands of years back. When a
child is filled with any strong emotion by a
surprising event or intelligence, it runs to
discharge it on others, impatient of their
sympathy; ard it marks, l can fancy, the
and greater naturalness Of that
period-that the grown-up men and women
give unreserved way to their first impulses,
even as children did."-DR. CHALMERs'
Daily Scripttrdl Readings.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15
The SONG Of lle.e..

"This noble poem is ascribed to Moses him
self and whileits poetry speaks the inspiration
Of high genius, its sacredness speaks the direct
inspiration OF Heaven. Such recognition
Of poetry and song tells us that in the ser
vice Of God there should be the exercise,
The consecrated exercise, Of all the powers
which he has given to US; and tells US that
in religion the enjoyment might be as vari-
Gus as are the capacities Of our nature. And
there is that Of sentiment in it which adapts
it to the use Of church delivered from her
enemies in all ages-nay, which fits and
80 makes it to be actually adopted for one
Of the triumphant songs of eternity, = =
have often felt, as in reading Milton or
Thomson, a strong pOetical effect in the
bare enumeration OF different countries, and
this strongly enhanced by the statement Of
some common and pervading emotion which
passed from one to another og their respec-
tive people. This is set forth with great
beauty and power in verses l4th and 18th. I"
DR. CHALMERS Daily Seriptural Read
inTS.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15

The following stanzas, by young American
artist, are full Of poetry. There is gentle mel
ancholy flow in them that comes upon the soul
like the low, half-happy sigh of the autumn
wind
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15

With the birth of their frs child the pa
rents 60 over to an older generation; az we
grow up they grow old; our wisdom is de-
rived from their experience Of hardshipsi it is
through their vacant places that we emerge
into business; and over the graves Of the
dead that we walk to marriage.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15

There IS no more melancholy 6rswan.
ing to be learned from past ages than tts,
of human liability to retrogression.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15

In the eternity Of God, there is Do,b;D,
so past, as TO have quite ceased to be prssrrt'
and nothing 50 completely future, as tbop55
it did not already exist.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15
A lelellrnls,A alnIle.

Byron appears 10 have felt a little awk-
wardness after committing himself to
admiration Of Henry Kirke White, by his
magnificent allusion TO the young poets
fate in English Bards and Scotch Review
ers.' In bis letter on the subject to MIR.
Dallas, he still insists, though family, that
Kirke White had in him 'poesy and genius
but Immediately qualities this by saying that
he was at any rate beyond all the Bloom
fields and Blscketts and their collateral
cobblefs, whom Loft, and Pratt have or
may kidnap from their calling into the SER
vice of the trade
Whatever may be thought, however. Of
ByTon's criticism, or Of his righteousness in
its defence, the versea will retain their place
among the most elegant in the language,
even after they have been deprived OF the
faint claims to originality they have hitheE-
TO possessed
"Unhappy White while life was in its spring,
And thy young muse Just waved herjoyous wing,
The spOiler swept that soaring Tyre away,
Which else had sounded an Immortal lay.
Oh, what noble heart was here undone,
When Science self destroyed her favourite son !!
Yes, she too much INDUCED thy fond pursuit.
She sowed the seeds, but death has reaped the
fruit
Twas thine own genius gave the final blow,
And helped to plant the wound that laid thee
low:
SO the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart,
And winged the shaft that quiyered in his heart !,
Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel,
He nursed the pinion which imPeIled the steel !;
While the same plumage that had warmed his
nest
Drank the last life-drop Of his bleeding breast.
This fine smile we traced on former
occasion to Waller; but correspondent
goes two thousand years farther back, and
finds it in Eschylus, repeated by him from
still more ancient authorities
---"Thus Of old,
In Lybian fables is the story told,
That when the eagle, stricken af the heart.
Saw his own feather on the fatal dart,
The royal bird appraised with naughty pride,
'Unconquersd vet we die exulting cried
Ours was the deed. ourselves impelled tho blow
We fall no triumph to presumptuous foe ="
The difference in the turn given by the
ancient and modern poets to the reflections
OF the wounded bird would form fine sub
ject for the critic. The eagle Of the ancient
Greek exhibits the proud and masculine
spirit Of his age: he congratalates himself
on having received the mortal blow from no
meaner implement than that furnished by
his own wing, and dies exulting and un-
conquered. In the modern version, ON the
other hand, produced when poetry had lost
in fire what il had gained in refinement,
this heroical burst is transformed into senti-
ment, and the dying bird lanlents his fate
the more from having been accessory to it
himself. Chambers Journal
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15

The Greeks carved the butterfly ,on..
times in marble, as an emblem Of hon &.
the dead.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15

1t is very curious, how the roots Of On.
mans prosperity interlace with the cans,
of another mans misfortunes.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15

Prayer that is pure piercsth heaven, and
returns not empty. tg -
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15
a Dedication Hymn.

When is a chickens neck like bel.
When it is rltng for dinner.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-15

Hope is virtue, as well as faith and
charity.
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-04-11
CLIO DRESSING.

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