The weekly Placer herald., 1853-10-01
Cheap Felicity.

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er above price, which are free to all.
Some men have money, and can find
no better use for it than buying head
aches and sore consciences. Others,
by simply keeping their eyes and
minds open to the impressions of the
beautif |, find joys on their path thick
as flowers on western prairie.
s'ro such last evenings sunset and
this mornings dawn were luxurles
richer than any that money can pro-
cure. They get as much pleasure
from their neigh boris trees and flow
ers as he who planted them. They
have ownership in the blue sky, the
towering white clouds and the leap
ing waves. The sunshine is leg
acy to them. They fill their hearts
with it, and it beams upon their coun-
stenances. They have the happy art
of gathering happiness by the hand
.ful all along the dusty pathway of
life.
s Some, whose horny hands feel
nothing less than a dollars weight,
may think these pleasures very near
akin to MooNsHINE. But, my dear
skinflint, you are mistaken! The
actual benefit we extract from beau-
tiful painting or other work of art, is
as real, as substantial, as if the kind
shop-keeper had stepped from his
door and put hard and shining coin
into our hands.
y And then the refining, elevating in
,tluence of all these beautiful objects
scattered so thick along our path!-
Why, painting, statuary, or flowers
ought to form part of the furniture Of
every school-room-certainly ofevery
home. If we lock at all the beauti-
ful we meet, and as little as possible
at the disgusting and distorted, we
shall not only be happier but purer.
Some one has well said, the sor-
rows of life come at intervals, and in
masses; the pleasures we gather day
by day from little things. Let us
not despise and neglect the little joys
of life in q vain pursuit of some
imaginary happiness, never to be
reached Portland Trans.
,, OCEAN FLowERs.-How wonder
ful is nature, and what worlds appear
to open before us, as we contemplate
the variety Of existences that she
presents for our admiration and study.
Would it be imagined by any but
1 the enthusiast or student acquainted
with the fact, that the apparently
barren sea beach is strown with crea-
lures having life, and perception of
pain or enjoyment; and that in sea
weed there exists multitudes of little
creatures endowed with the most
wonderful organs, and provided by
the simplest means with instruments
by which they are enabled to procure
the sustenance necessary to their ex-
istence? That they not only have
beautiful bodily adaptation to then
different situations and modes of life.
but that they possess remarkable
symmetry and elegance of appear
ance? Earth has its sun flowers and
blossoms, and the ocean, too, is the
. birthplace of beautifully formed
plants and creatures, resembling he
creations of earth and sky, and vie
ing with them in loveliness, in the
admiration that they excite, and in
the feelings of love and reverence
with which they cause lis to regard
our Maker, who has surrounded us
with such evidence of His goodness
and love.
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.-Infoma-
ton has been received by the Rus
sian government that several of what
are called glass balls, probably bot
ties, have been found at the mouth of
the river Obi, which falls into the
Arctic basin at the SEVENTEEN paral-
lei of East longitude. This locality
; is where such articles would be found,
if they had been thrown from Frank
Inns ship, in case they had attained a
high. northern latitude. The British
government has requested that some
& Of the balls be transmitted to the fol
eign office.