The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1854-02-09
MAS.-ln a recent discourse by Henry Ware

MAS.-ln a recent discourse by Henry Ward
Bccchcr, find the following eloquent passage:
"Within the range Of human ken, there is nothing
that God has done grandly as Man. 1t was his
last and his best work. The heaven and the earth,
the waters and the mountains, the armament and
armies of clouds ins ignGcant matters IN COMPARE
with the mcanest lottcntot that stupd'y
gazed upon them. All the force OF Gods heavenly
army, the bright procession of giterng stars heel
ny III space, and novinG n silence along their APP
pointed ways, upon paths which none can sec, but
from which through ages they never wander nor
stumble therein; the pomp of this stellar host, ban
ncred with light is tiansCen6ent, but every globe is
but huge deadness. They ueithcr drink choose,
JOY sorrow puseesS. l;a soniess, they swing
through the circuits stuck hy the hand Of God, for
the that the shuttle daIts, or the ball
from the unconscious bat, the shuttlecoCk between
two iat;le,ores Bu, within the neancst man. there
lives Il nature on which all eternity may work with
out fully developing IT, The intellect, the SOUL the
aticct'ons--hey are something ot God. All the uni
hut their cradle and these elements in their
lowest state in their rudest hie yet in vainc be-
You'd all the fabric Of the Garth.
PECULIARLY FRENCHY.-Thc French papers
speak OF a new Invention called musical bed. II is
iucted that the pressure OF the body causes
tho per formance OF operas, according to
the length of the sunbcr. dial is placed at the
head Of the bed, with nutehand TO lie set to the
hour when he sleeper wishes TO awake; and when
the hour grand taie executed irom Nerdi,
| with limitations of trombones, and kettle drum suffi-
ccntly loud only TO waken, but TO inspire lively
disposition to get up!
AUSTRALIAN ESrERPRIsE. - The interior OF
Australia, barren and sandy desert has been found
he ably lower than the level of the
Il is now proposed to employ British convcts in cut
ting a narrow canal from the ocean TO the DESERT
distance Of about $50 miles when it is expected that
the rush Of water would be so great a. widen the
canal, and cause the formation OF an inland sea nj
most as large AS the Mediterranean, to the ncacula-
BILE benefit of vast extent of Territory, present
wholly useless.
! AFEM.LE UsBtSD.--Previous 10 the sailing
or one Of the last from London goodlook
ing elderly woman, solicited the assistance Of Pc
lice Magistrate in the case of her daughter, girl o.
seventeen, who she said, had gone through the
,nonv Of marriage without being blessed 18th hus
band. The couple had gcnc New York to spenc
the honeymoon; but It had turned out that the fai
daughter, whc the time Of the nup,ia's, supposed
she was heing united Of the other sex, had dis
covered 10 her great surprise. that she had been
rcd to A woman male attire, and the mother q
three children What action will oe had in this ex
traordinary case, is yet to be seen.-IW Worces'e
Transcript.
CoMfoRF FOR GIN DRIxKEns.-A medical ger
teman in Londcn met an old woman, who aske
him whether he liked gin, rum, brandy best
, He replied he IN the habit Of TAX m
either. What" said the astoni>hed querist.-
What, MT take gin. ! like GIN best OF Az,
thing for have been in the hospital and ! kno
all about it. Gin only eats off the skin Of the liver
rum ellis il up like sponge; but hfaudy sats hoL
n,o it that could put my finger IN.