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Naiure.

A nobler want Of man is served BY ma
tme-namely, the love Of beauty. Such IS
the constitution Of all things, or such the
plastic power Of the human eye, that the
primary form, as the sky, the mountain. The
tree, the animal, give us delight in and
for themselves pleasure arising from out.
line, color, motion, and grouping. And as
the eye is the best composer, 50 light is the
first Of painters. There is no object so
foul that intense light WiH not make beam
ttul. And the stimulus it affords to the
sinse, and sort Of infnitude which it hath
like space and time, will make all matter
gay. But besides this general grace diffused
over nature, almost all the individual forms
are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our
endless limitations Of some Of them; as the
acorn, the grape, the pine-cons, the wheat.
ear, the egg, the wings and forms of most
birds, the lions claw, the serpent, the but
terfy, sea-shells, flames, clouds, buds, leave.
and the forms OF many trees, as the palm.
"The influence Of the forms and actions
in nature is so need(ul to man that, in its
lowest functions, it seems to lie on the con.
fines Of Commodity and Beauty. To the
body and mind which have been cramped
by noxious work or company, nature is
medicinal and restores their tone. The
tradesman, the attorney, comes out of the
din and craft Of the street, and sees the sky
and the woods, and is a man again. In
their eternal calm he finds himself The
health Of the eye seems to demand a hori-
zon. We are never tired so long as we can
see far enough.
But in other hours nature satisfies the
soul purely by its lovolness, and without
any mixture OF corporal benefit. have
seen the spectacle Of the morning from the
hilltop over against my house, from day.
break to sunrise, with emotions which an
angel might share. The long slender bars
Of cloud float like fishes in the sea of GRIM
son light. From the earth, as a shore, I
look out into that silent sea. seem to par.
take its rapid transformations the active
enchantment reaches my dust, and dlate
and conspire with the morning wind. How
does nature deity us with few and cheap
elements Gire me health and a dav.
and ! ,ciu make the pomp of emperors
ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria. the
sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unima-
ginable realms Of ferie. "-Emerson.
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ynnfrimony.

Meantime, Is life wears on, it proves a
game Of Formulation and combination of all
possible positions Of the parties to extort all
the resources OF each, and acquaint each with
the whole strength and weakness of the
other. For, it is the nature and end at this
relation, that they should represent the hu-
man race 10 each other.
"At last they discover that all which at
first drew them together-those once sacred
features, that magical play Of charms, was
deciduous, had a prospective end, like the
scaffolding by which the house was built ;
and the publication Of the intellect and the
heart, from year u year, is the real marriage
loreseen and prepared from the first, and
wholly above their consciousness. Look
ing at these aims with which two persons,
a man and woman, so variously and COL
relatively gifted, are shut up in one house
to spend in the nuptial society forty or fifty
years, do not wonder at the emphasis with
which the heart Prophesies this crisis from
early infancy-at the profuse beauty with
which the instincts deck the nuptal bower,
and nature and intellect and art emulate
each other in the gifts and the melody they
bring to the epilhalamium. Thus are we
put in training for love which knows not
sex nor person, nor Partially, but which
sceketh virtue and wisdom everywhere. TO
the end Of increasing virtue and wisdom. -
Emerson
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Tobacco plays a more important part in
this country as to the habits Of the people
However used-whether smoked, chewed
or used as snuf-its action on the system is
but little different. 1t is essentially mar.
cotic; and as such, il is detrimental TO the
power and healthiness of the nervous sys
tem-as such it stimulates at the expense oil
subsequent depression and eventual loss OF
tone-as such, it interfeIes with the iunc-
tons of assimilation, and exPenditure-and
as such, is injurious to the health Of the sys-
tenn. Tobacco exerts more marked and in.
furious effects when chewed, less Of these
when smoked, and is least deleterious when
used in the form of snuff. This is only.
however, question of degree; and in the
temperate climates, the use OF tobacco in
any way can only be justifable when, from
poverty Of diet, and consequent vital depres-
sion, the effects Of a habitually-used narcot.
ic may not be undesirable. --Robe7tson on
Diet and Regimen.
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Wine of Australia

There IS every reason to believe III.
Western Australia will one day becom.
great wine country. It's vineyards are -
coming more numerous and extensive sv.--
year. and the wine produced in them !.
quality TO lead US to believe that. when =.
art of preparing il Is better underxooJ ).
will be found Of very superior ouar,v =
will, however, be a new kind Of wine al
therefore, before it will be priced in E1,on.'
Prejudices in favor Of older wines bavsr :
be overcome. Soil and climate comb;D.J
give 10 different wines their peculiar Hav0H
The vines, which in Madeira produce -.
wine OF that name. when brought to sno,ba.
country, even in a corresponding la,itpd.
and planted in soil that chemically so
Proaches as closely as possible to thar VIII
they have left, will produce wine ms,s.;
ally different from that called Mader;a =
with the vines Of Here's and Oporto Of Ts0
eriffe or Constantia. Different copn,r;..
produce wines peculiar to themselves and
the wines Of Western Australia will bs counS
to be entirely saigenehs. All that | have ~,
ed, though made from the poorest of graDas
the common sweet water, have one pecuE
arity: good draught, instead of s6ec,;ns
the head or flushing the face, causes q mos
delightful glow to Pervade the stomach. and
it is Of 50 comforting nature, that the /,
borers in harvest prefer the homemade 80
lonial wine to any other beverage. Ever
farm-settler is now adding vineyard 70 b,
estate.--Ldndor's BuShman.
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Defence against Dogs.

"Homer informs US, Odyssey B. 1t,
that the fury Of dog in attacking an aP-
preaching stranger is appeased by the mans
sitting down
Soon as Ulysses near the enclosure drew;
With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew:
Down sat the Sage, and cautious to withstand,
Let fall the ofeasips trHReheoa from his hand.
PoFk-
That this, even al the present day, is well
understood mode Of defence, appears from a
paragraph in Mure's journal OF a Tour in
Greece and the lonian islands AT Argos,
one evening, at the table of General Cor
don, then commanding in chief in the Mo
rea, the conversation happened to turn on
the number and herceness of the Greek
dogs; when one Of the company remarked,
that he knew very simple exPedient for
appeasing their fury. Happening, on
journey, to miss his road, and being over
taken by darkness, he sought REFUGEE for the
night at pastoral settlement by the way
side. As he approached, the dogs rushed
out upon him; and the consequences might
have been serious, had he not been rescued
by an old shepherd, the Eumeus OF the
fold, who sailed forth, and finding that the
intruder was but benighted traveller, after
pelting off his assailants, gave him hospi-
table reception in his hut. His guest made
some remark on the watchfulness and zeal
of his dogs, and on the danger to which he
had been exposed in their attack. The old
man replied that it was his own fault, for
not taking the customary precaution in such
an emergency that he ought to have stop
ped, and sat dozen, until some person
whom the animals knew came to protect
him. As this eIpedient was new to the
traveller, he made some further enquiries
and was assured, that if any person in such
a predicament will simply seat himself on
the ground, laying aside his weapons Of de-
fence, the dogs will also squat in a circle
round him that as long as he remains
quiet, they will follow his example; but as
soon as he rises and moves forward, they
will renew the assault. '"-Couchs Illus
trations of Instinct.
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Rock Court.

"The rock refuses to build its nest in pri-
vacy, OF any where but in the neighboIhood
Of some dignifed mansion and as the nests
Of this bird require repair in the spring, it
often happens that the new materials are
not to be obtained near at hand, and they
arc compelled to search for twigs at a dis
lance, or else to break them off nearer home
while in a growing condition, which is a
work OF much labor. To the younger men,
bers Of the community, not learned in the
laws of meum and team, this is an irksome
task and they are not long in coming to the
conclusion that much trouble may be saved
by watching their opportunity, and helping
themselves from the growing structures Of
older builders around them in their absence;
little imagining, we dare say, that their pro-
prietors will detect the loss Of here one, and
there another Of the twigs inserted in the
walls Of their edi6ces. The discovering
that they have been robbed is, indeed, no
small proof Of observation and reasoning /:
for the actual carrying off Of their goods is
never, or but rarely seen by the owners, as
the Togues take care not to be caught in the
fact; and we know that an egg may be Ia
ken away, and the parent bird be none the
wiser. Birds are more alive to the least
change in the external look Of the nest
than to the eggs within. But the rascals
among rocks have little calculated on the
power Of observation Of their older neigh
bors, and how well they, from experience,
can compare the work done, and compute
the time it ought to have taken if they had
worked honestly, and found their own ma
terials. The wrong doors being discovered,
the punishment is appropriate to the offence:
by the destruction of their dishonest work
they are taught that they who, build must find
their own bricks or sticks, not their neigh
boris; and that il they wish to live in the
enjoyment Of the advantages Of the social
condition, they must endeavor to conform
their actions to the principles Of the rookery
of which they have been made members. -
COuch'S illustrations of Instinct.
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"Hn ti,e Hsgisning."

The beginning spoken Of here has been
variOusly estimated. My own opinion, as
published in 1914, is, that it forms no part
Of the first day, but refers to period Of in
definite antiquity, when God created the
worlds out Of nothing. The commence
ment OF the first days work | hold to be
the moving Of Gods Spirit on the face Of
the waters. We can allow geology the
amplest time for its various revolutions with
out infringing even on the literalities of the
Mosaic record, while nature herself bears
witness to the need OF creative interposi-
ton, more especially for the latter part Of
the work Of the third day, even though
BIOLOGISTS should be able to assign a COM
petent natural process for the former part Of
that days work. IL the one could be exc
cuted by the old laws OF matter, the other
requires new dispositions, these incontesti.
BILE evidences of directing wisdom in the
formation Of the actual economy Of things.
The sixteenth verse is perhaps retrospective,
as the first and part Of the second are. AT
all events the language admits Of being 50
rendered as to signify that on this fourth
day the lights were not made first to exist,
but made to be for signs and the division Of
time, which they could only be by the dis
persion OF those dark and heavy vapors
which might have altogether obscured the
armament from the view OF the earth. This
solution is strengthened by the pathological
arguments oil Rosenmuller; and even Gran
vile Penn, the greatest of all our recent
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lust as well have kept his money in his peck
Ell and never sent you TO school at all, l0I
the good it seems TO have done you. :
"Why," | replied, quite innocently. 1
thought that, as al speIt al, and all awi,
so, OF spelt OF, and off owl. "And' dare
say" she answered, g-l-s-s glas, and glass
gIarce. Bot you'll please to think other
wise in future, miss; and remember that III
polite society, when we Join quadrille We
daunce, when we are pleased We LAT, (though
smiling is more genteel, my dear.) when we
have a cold we c0f and when we take
prominade we walk; no, I'm wrong, there
VIC do wawk, yes wawk like other people
So don't let me hear any more OF such vul-
garism from you in future. And now, may
have the pleasure Of sending you another
cup of coffee p THANK you, lreplied,
"you are very kind % "Keyind, keyind
if you love me, child, she answered. throw
ing her hands up, "keyind unless you wish
to split your poor dear mothers ears IN two.
Pray do be more attentive TO your pronuncL
alton, my dear! for really il sets my teeth quite
on edge to hear you" Well, mamma,
| answered, al will try and have more re.
gard for the future" Re, what is that 2
she exclaimed. drawing in her breath, as il
in great bodily pain. Gard, did hear you
say, child! Oh! you would not see your
poor dear mother fall senseless at your feet,
do, do remember to call it re gheard for the
future. Whom 10 marry and hotc 10 get
Married.
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Cruelty 80 Animals.

Cruelty to dumb animals is one Of the
Distinguishing vices Of the lowest and bases
Of the people. Wherever it is found, it is e
certain mark Of ignorance and meanness;
an intrinsic mark, which all he external
advantages Of wealth, splendor, and nobili-
ty cannot obliterate. 1t will consist neither
with true learning nor true civility; and re-
ligion disclaims and detests it as an insult
upon the majesty and the goodness of God,
who, having made the instincts of brute beasts
minister to the improvement Of the mind, as
well as to the convenience Of the body, hath
furnished US with motive to mercy and CON-
passion toward them very strong and pow
erfuI, but too refined to have any influence
on the illiterste or irreligious.-Jones Of
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Royal society for Ladies.

There ought, to be al British ASso.
citation for the advancement Of dress, and
Congress des Modes would be quite as
interesting as the Congress Penitentiairc
lately sitting at Brussels. Surely the re-
straints to be placed on the female form for
its improvement or reformation must be OF
nearly as much importance as the restraints
to be put upon young criminals. The in
fluence Of the stay or corset as an instrument
Of control, is a subject worthy of the utmost
consideration and the importance Of train
ing up waist in the way it shoulder
should not-go, must always offer to the fe-
male lover Of science a most delightful sub
ect Of discussion. Crinoline, in all its am
plitude, offers a wide field; and the unrolling
Of modern figure, dressed a la mode, would
furnish much more material for converse
lion than the very dry business Of unfolding
n mummy"
at is proposed, therefore, to establish
Royal Society for Ladies, in opposition to
that for Gentlemen. The new society is
designed for the encouragement Of those in
genious inventions that afford most employ
Inent to the female mind, and are supposed
to be best adapted to the improvement OF
the female figure. The society will have its
sections and its groups after the manner OF
cur old friend the British Association, and
the members will be invited TO contribute
specimens. Among the attractions design
ed for the first meeting, will be the reading
Of paper 'On the Ancient Furbelow, its
Relation to the Modern Flounce, and Hints
for its Restoration Section A. will devote
itself chiefly 10 the consideration Of the
means Of furnishing the statues of antiquity
with becoming millinery, and Lady Stare
cap will deliver her ideas on the applica-
bility Of the cottage bonnet to the head Of
the Venus de Medicis. Section B. will try
experiment on the strength Of materials as
e1empli6ed by the practice Of tightlacing;
and an humble attempt will be made to show
the fallacy of Harvey's theory Of the ciIcu-
lation of the blood, by reference to living
instances in which the said circulation
would appear to be impossible. Section c.
will conhne its researches to the subject of
female antiquities, and will investigate the
geology Of the human countenance, from
the upper strata of rouge and pearl-white
down TO the tertiary deposit Of natural parch-
ment. Several elderly young ladies of IF
ty-eight have, in the handsomest manner of
which they are capable, determined to H.
lustrate by ocular demonstration the adhe
sive properties Of gum in relation to the eye
brow, and the possibility of elongating the
eye by means OF Indian ink or black lead
pencil. All the wondrous inventions Of
Art, which fall peculiarly within the scope
of female study, will be discussed, explain
ed, and improved upon at the meetings of
the Royal Society of Ladies for the Ad-
vancement Of Fashion. Zoology will not
be lost sight Of in the reunions about to
lake place, for there will be an occasional
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Time he extricated himself with so much
Judgment from the difficult position in which
he was placed. The two lieutenants he left
behind with Girunda proceeded 10 arm the
peasantIy; they reused the whole province
of Ouanto and that Of Bari, and thus estab-
llshed the insurreclion in Puglia. They
were, however, defeated by the French at
Casalnassima, when one Of the leaders was
taken prisoner; but the other, named De Ce-
sare, escaped into Basilicata, where he join
ed the Calabrian instruction, led by Card-
nal Ruffo.-Popuiar TMmults.
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none more than myself,) is reverenced next 10
worship-the President is wrong in that particu-
lar instance, and went too far TO deny the power
Of the House; and TO his reasons, never
thought they were sufficient in that case. And
have always been Of the opinion, and most as
suredly that has been the opinion Of the Demo-
cratic party, to which do not profess TO belong,
"a laugh,) they have unanimously disapproved
of that act Of President Washington, as inter
fering with the rights Of this House, and Of their
constituents, the people Of the United States.
] say | cannot enter into an argument upon
this subject but ] consider it Of such mpor-
lance that am certainly indisposed 10 lay this
message upon the table. desire IL may be prin
ted, that il may 90 TO the whole country, that it
may be decided upon by the people as well as by
this House. | think this House ought TO sus-
tain, in the strongest manner, their right TO cal
for information upon questions in which. war
and peace are concerned. They ought TO main.
tain their right, and maintain il in a very dis.
tinct manner, against this assertion on tho part
Of the President of the United States. Now,
should be perfectly satisfied to refer the message
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, whatever
my feelings may be in respect TO their firnness
ia resisting this Claim set up on the part Of the
President Of the United states. Ii the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations will take il, and will
examine the constitution Of the United States,
lis principles, the history of the administration
of the Government from that time to the pre-
sent, and will make a report upon it, shall be
satisfied. AS TO a select committee, shall be
perfectly satisfied that select committee should
be appointed by the Speaker, instead Of refer
ring it TO the Committee On Foreign Affairs.
And, as mark Of respect to the President Of
United States, should 90 for select COMMITTEES,
provided / am not TO be a member Of il myself.
| therefore,. myself in the frs Dlace. hone
that select committee, Of which shall not be
a member, will be appointed and if that is not
in conformity with the opinion Of a majority Of
this House, that it shall be referred to the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs. All the messages Of
Of the President are usually referred.
should say much more, sir, if had the pow
er.
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The Ckarnie.

Some of Erebus and Nighte!
Hye away, and Anne thy fiighte,
Where consorte none other fowle
Than the bate and sulleu owles
Where, upon the lymber gras,
Poppy and mandragoras,
With like simples not fewe,
Hange forever droppes of dewe:
Where fiowes Lethe, without coyls,
Softly like a stream Of oyle.
Hye thee thither, gentle sleepe!
With this Greeke no longer keepe.
Thrice charge thee by my wand,
Thrice. with molly from my hand
Doe | touch Ulysses eyes,
And with tn iaspis. Then arise,
Sagest Greeke.
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Fnshienn bic Prenun Gin lion.

But the worst Of it all was, mamma was
always taking me up SO about my mode Of
talking; now don't sound this word right
ly, and then it wasn't considered elegant TO
pronounce that word the way did. | re-
collect one morning, at breakfast, asking
her for another cup Of coffee, with rather a
broad accent on the word. "Ka,cfee, Char
lotte, she replied, sand pray what may
that mean, miss never recollect hearing
the term used before but perhaps you may
mean coffee, for that's the only name | ever
heard given to- it. Really, your father might
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We transcribe the following exquisite lines
from the "Inner Temple kasQus," written about
the year 1920, by William Brown. 1t is sung
by Gree to drive away sleep from Ulysses. IS
not the reader reminded by it of some favorite
touches in Millions Comusl
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LITERARY EXAMINER.
Hepe On.
Our friend, Mrs. j.. will accept our thanks for
the following beautiful lines

Our friend, Mrs. j.. will accept our thanks for
he following beautiful lines
Wherefore sit ye mourning
For the years departed,
Wherefore for the future,
Doubling and faint-hearted.
Nought in nature but obeys,
Laws that frs: its course impelled;
Backward flows the streamlet never
To the source from which II weld.
Wherefore like miser covet,
What the past hath taken;
Hopes like spring-time buds and blossoms
From the green boughs shaken.
Summer wears nc shade of sadness,
For the faded flowers Of spring,
Autumn decks with colors golden,
Summers fast receding wing.
And through branches stripped and sere,
Palmer in the distance lie;
Worlds on worlds, the soul TO cheer,
Wandering through immensely.
Send not back with fruitless signs,
Longings for the hopes so bright,
Which the angels of thy childhood.
We've with beams of rainbow light.
Though the world has since deceived thee,
FRIENDS been false and love betrayed;
Lose not faith in truth and goodness,
Hope, and be no more dsmayed.
Not in vain thy spirits yearnings,
For life, far nobler-higher;
Labor still with cheerful patience,
Thou shalt find thy souls desire.
But the hours are worse than wasted,
Spent in retrospective tears;
Signing DER the mouldering embers
Of long buried years.
Onward-upward press with vigor,
Brightly in the distance lies,
The blessed land Of hope and promise,
Far beyond life's boundaries.
Start not at the lengthening shadows,
Closing round thy mortal wing,
Fearless climb the mount Of vision
Gazing on a brighter day.
All! no more sit mourning
For the years departed,
Nomore for the future,
Doubling and faint hearted.
Onward, upward-hopsless never,
Life no backward current knows;
Onward TO the shoreless ocean,
Ofeternal good it flows.
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alamists. has theory by which to di,D,-
Of the imagination that the heavenly ~ -
were formed on the fourth day. If gsoI
gy can make good periods Of solar o SsrS
ness, it were in further harmony with a.
vlews.-1he Rer- DR.. Chalmers' MI
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