The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-12-20

On such lost tones, 50 dear to bliss,
What soul butllngers with regret?
Nor asks those sounds of happiness, te
To charm with all their witchery yet?
And now while fancy hovers near;
Lays that my cares did oft dispel--~
Must pronounce the words severe,
That mournfnl sound, farewell-farewell.
When Bulstrode Whiteock was embarked
as Cromwel's envoy to Sweden, in 1868, he
was much disturbed in mind, as he rested in
Harwich on the preceding night, which was
very stormy, while he reflected on the Distracted
state Of the nation. 1t happened that con-
fdential servant slept in an adjacent bed, who
finding that his master could not sleep, said
''Pray, sir, will you give me leave to askeyou
a question:
"Certainly."
"Pray, sir, don't you think God governed
the .y world very well before va came into it. !"
''And pray, sir, don't you think that he wifi
govern it quite as well when you are gone out
Of it?''
"Certainly."
*Then, sir, pray excuse me, but don't you
think you may as well trust him to govern It
as long as you live.'
reply; but, turning about, soon fell asleep, till
he was summoned to embark.
When your wife begins to scold let her have
iS4ut Put your feet up cody over the fire
place, loll back in your chair, ght one of your
best cigars, and let the storm rage on: say
nothing, make no answers to any thing Hav-
ing placed yourself in that enya5le, position
reflect whether you deserve the storm about
your Years, and if so (as is pababy the case
put your feet gently down, cease your lolling,
put out your cigar. acknowledge the error, kiss
your little wife, and endeavor to be a better
husband
Sir Isaac Newton is said to have worn a
magnet in a ring, which was capable of lifting.
two hundred and fifty times its own weight -
We have seen a lover who, when he got his
magnet in ring-a wedding ring-was lifted
to the seventh heaven.
Some one says, that the disposition of per-
son is known by his handwriting. The hand
writing of the great prince of Conde perfectly
agreed with the Hnpetuosity of bis character
Segrais says Of him, that he used to write with
out stopping, so that those who read his let
ters were obliged to take breath occasionally,
and that he only added point only when he
changed his subject. He wrote without put
ting strokes Or dots to his letters
'What is the meanihg hg of backbiter?" ask
ed reverend gentleman, during an examina-
ton at parochial school. This was puzzler.
It went down the class till it came To a simple
little urchin, who said, "P'r'aps it be aea''
An invention, which must become popular,
consists in a small paddock, with the owners
name engraved upon it, which is affixed to an
umbrella in sucbs a way that it cannot be ia
ken off, nor the umbrella openeds This, it is
supposed, will guard against the stealing of
and in this light will, if successful
be by some considered an infringement of ma
tural rights. e,
1t is stated in recent work that the manu-
facture of chemical matches occupies at Paris
ten thousand workmen. Two preparers of
wood for matches cut each day, by machinery,
one eight steres of wood, and the other four
One establishment consumes annually 1900
of Phosphorus; and according
% M. Payen, that is scarcely the twentieth part
of the production of phosphorus in France, |
and which is chiefly used for the same pur-
ooss.
The Albany n. Y. Argus says that the fol-
owing notice appears in newspaper of that
,ity:
AS my husband, Joseph Rentz, has left me
without any provocaton, and as / have seen Or
leard nothing of him this lSst year past, I
hereby declare unless he returns in three days
rom this date I shall take itas divorce, and
hall marry again Immediately. Jane Rentz.
The man who is too poor to take paper,
las bought a slap-sided dog, an old shot gun
nd a twenty shilling gold watch He edu-
ates his children in the streets, and boards
is shannghais on his neighbors~
A very absent minded gentleman being up
ct BY boat into the river sunk twice before
e remembered he could swim.
a pretty girl six feet high gives one good
lea Of linked sweetness long drawn out
An indignant oysterman, in New York, is
epresented to have encouraged the failing ap-
elite of his customers by saying, eff any
ian can prove as he died in consequence of
ating my, oysters, III pay his expenses in
treenwood."
If mans inhumanity to man makes count
ess thousands mourn, what is the effect of
lan's inhumanity to woman?
DipioHlacy Is Tue aTt OF saying something
hen you have got nothing to say-as much
it is the art of saying nothing, when you real
! have got something to say.
4 book is about to be issued and which re-
ices in the singular name Of Won Have Heard
Them
a small family could live under the great
ell of Vienna 1t has aclapper of fourteen
undred pounds in weight, and requires eight
len to ringit.
When bank suspends in Australia, they :
Ike the president to a neghboring tree and :
rye him in the same manner A simple re-
edy. but very efficacious.
A brother editor tells us that when he was =,
prison for libelling justice of the peace, he :
as requested by the jailor to give the prison
puff. $
Here are few questions which want answer /
g: Can head gardener be acquainted with
e mysteries of hair cutting? May dispo-
ton for going to sea be defined as an organ ,
r sale2 If man thirsts for knowledge, ]
,ould he be harrassed with dry reading? !