The Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1852-1872, 1853-03-19
BY THE EDITOR OF THE KNIcKERBocKER MAGA-


ZINE
Some two miles up the river from St. Johns
bury, Vermont, is primitive little village called
The Centre" Here, not long since the rustic
youth OF the vicinity congregated for a dance,
a. and dance they did," said our informant
with an JUNCTION unknown to your city bellies
and beanx." One interesting young man, hav-
ing imbibed rather too freely, became fatgued
in the course of the evening, and wisely conclud-
ed to retire for short rest. door jar near the
dancing hall revealed, invitingly, glimpse of
comfortable bed, of which he took possession,
with the prospect of an undisturbed snooze. 1t
so happened howbeit, that this was the ladies'
withdrawing room, and no sooner had he closed
his eyes, than pair of blooming damsels came
in from the halls, and began adjusting their dis
ordered ringets, the dim light of the tallow cam
die not disclosing the tenant of the bed. The
girls had tongues (ike most of their "seck")
which ran on in this wise:
What nice dance we're havingi Have
you heard anybody say anything about me,
janet"
"La, yes, Sally! Jim Brown says he never
see you look so handsome you do toni ht.
Have you heard anybody say anything about
me?
about you why. sartin: heard Joe Flint
tell Sam Jones that you We're the prettiest dress
ed girl in the room.''
Whereupon the dear things chuckled, " fixed
up little more, and made off towards the ball
room. They had hardly reached the door when
our half-conscious friend raised himself upon his
elbow, and quite intelligiby, though slowly, in
CURED:
"Ha' you heard arg body sag anything about Me,
'Phansy their pheelinks" at that juncture!
They fled with an explosive scream.
"Style," says the learned Linkum Fidelius,
lis STYLE" The fact is illustrated in the follow
ing f1orid extract from a country journal, which
shall be nameless:
"FrOst.-On last Sunday night there was a
large white Frost which not only left its sign upon
the house-tops and fences, but the beautiful
shrubs, aye, even the tall and stately oak of the
forest plainly indicates that their day of beauty
and grandeur is closed, at least for season.
And as we gaze upon the once beautiful and
lovely rose, which, but few mornings ago. as
the Larke sent forth has shrW notes of joy raised
its tender bud and kissed the golden rays of the
oriental sun, and see each lovely leaf whitening
into nothingness, are led to believe and ex-
claim SIC transit gloria mundi Yes, gentle
reader, but yesterday we beheld you, as it We're
in the full prime of manhood; bold, vigorous
and resolute, unlike the gentle flower the cold
and writing winds of adversely had not access
to your heart. Old age had wrought no burrows
on thy placid and manly brow; no silre7y locks
convivialty But oh remember that you. too
must pass away. And ere the close of 1852
perhaps the autumn of your life may have come,
and the cold and chilling frost of death may mp
your tender bud"
This editor may improve in fact he cannot
avoid it. The next move he makes must be up.
The following we are assured upon undoubt-
ed authority, is a veritable prayer, made by a
student of the Lane Theological Seminary,
when called upon to close 90 monthly concert"
as it is called. He arose and etfectually closed
it thus:
40 Lord we thank Thee that though we can
not read the Bible in the original tongues, yet
we have a translation, which is as good as could
be expected under the circumstances. And we
also thank Thee, that though Thou hast made
the world very large, and hast stationed mission
aries all over it, and hast made it revolve with
very great velocity, yet Thou hast so caused the
centripetai force TO overcome the centrifugal,
that they don't fly off,
An odd old fellow thus describes, by two
styles of definition, the thing known - Trans
readentolism -
Ye see, have tew defnitions-one vulgar
f'other refined. The refined definition is this,
and I've gin 1t afore Transcendentalsm is
attsmpt 70 penetrate the Unknown; to measure,
ana sound, and define that which has neither
depth nor size, nor form; to analyze the soul,
and TO make It's relations to another world part
OF the universal chaos which covers everything.
My vulgar definition is this Transcendentalism
is an attempt by philosophers to measure the AL
mighty In quart pot!'
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