The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-12-13


When sweet perfume from shrub ana hover
Upon the zephyrs float,
We wander from our fairy bower
And row your bonny boat.
When gauze-like clouds of purple hue
Are pi1lowcd far on high,
And myriad stars gitterlng through
Weird -warders of the sky;
And when the raven from her tower
Lifts to the owl her note,
We wander from our fairy bower
And row our bonny boat.
When plaintive notes from Philomel
Are wavering Ger the hill,
And when complains In gleby dell
The lonely whip poor-wlll;
When birds, that sing in daylight hour,
Have closed the tiny throat,
We wander from our fairy bower
And row our bonny boat.
A bridegroom requested has wife to accom-
pany him into the garden day Or two aftel
the wedding. He then threw line over the
roof of their cottage. Giving his wife one
end Of it, he retreated to the other side, and
exclaimed, "Pull the line!'' She pulled it al
his request, as far as she could. lie cried
sPull it Overt" II can't she replied. And
in vain were all the efforts Of the bride topull
over the line, SO long as the husband held on
to the opposite end. But when he came round
and they both pulled at one end, it came over
with great ease. "There, said he, 'Fyou see
how hard and Intellectual was our labor when
we pulled in opposition to each other; but no"
easy and pleasant it is when we pull together
If we oppose each other it will be hard work
if we act together, it will be pleasant to live
Let us, therefore always pull together"
AS an instance Of the benefit which practical
men may derive from scientific research, we
may mention fact interesting to gardeners
and seeds merchants, in connection with color
ed light Recent discovery has shows thatre-
markable effects could be produced on plants
by interposing colored glass between them and
the sun Blue glass accelerates growth; and
Messrs. Lawson, Of Edinburgh, have built a
stove house glazed with blue glass, IN which
they test the value of seeds for sale or export.
The practice is to SOW hundred seeds, and to
Judge of the quality by the number that ger
inmate; the more, of course, the better For
merly, ten days or fortnight elapsed while
waiting for the termination of the seeds; but
in the blue stove-house, two or three days sui
fce-a saving of time worth, SO say the firm,
f3500 a year.
A foreign paper says, there lisa place in N.
Hampshire where they never have any Old
maids When girl reaches the age OF 26,
and is still on the ladder of expectation, the
young fellows club together and draw lots for
her. Those who escape pay bonus to the
one who gets her.
Senator Houston was once asked, at large
party given by Mr.. speaker Winthrop, why
he did not attend the usual places OF amuse-
ment as he had been accustomed to do. His
reply was this-let it be read and remembered
by the mothers and daughters Of America.
II make it a point" said the honorable sem
ator, s'neyer to visit place where my lady, if
she were with me, would be unwilling to 60.
l know it would give her pain, as christian
to attend such places, and | will not go myself
where | could not take my wife,
A member of congress present alluded to
his own wife, and added that there was mu-
tual understanding between him and her, that
they should each follow the bent of their own
inclinations In such matters.
'sThat may do for you" responded Mr..
Houston, t.but with me it is different from what
it is with many men. My wife has been the
making ofme. She took me when was vic
tim Of slavish appetites; she has redeemed and
regenerated me, and will not do that in her
absence which | know would give her pain if
she were present"
Mrs. Houston is member of a baptist
church, and is native of Alabama.
The editor of the Edgefeld Is. c. Adver-
tiser talks large about the bouncing girls of
that district-one in particular. He says, we
have good many big, fat fine looking girls in
Edgefeld, and no unprecedented person will de-
ny the fact. But we know of one not eight
miles from our town who takes the rag off the
BUSH for size, so completely, that the rest of
our pretty ones must all sing low for the fu'
ture. She IS only fourteen years old and is
six feet high nearly, and wears No. Is shoes.
We are permitted to make this statement by
those who have the best right to grant that
permission. Talk no more of woman's de-
generacy while we can raise such Amazons in
old Edgefeld.
Southey says, in one Of his letters, i have
told you Of the Spaniard who always puton
his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that
they might look bigger and more tempting
In like manner | make the most of my enjoy
mants; and though | do not cast my cards
/ pack them as conveniently as can for my
oClls duu hCfCi iCu eiCAl aiiLSJ CthCi
The reply to a whopper now is, you are Sc
bastopolizing.'
1t is thought the next new fashion in the
wearing Of bonnets, will be to turn them just
half round on the head.
Little by little, as we travel through life, do
our whims increase and become more trouble
some-just like woman's language on a jour
ney.
When you hear man ostentiously lament
ing his defective education, it is a sign that
he thinks himself "a devil Of fellow for all
of that.
When you hear a woman saying, It's
pity Sally Brown is so homely, it's sign that.
she thinks her own daughter, is on the con-
trary, quite its reverse.
When you hear a man declaring that party
lines are not drawn SO tight sthey used to be,
it is sign that man 'bolted' the last regular
nomination.
When you hear man often complaining
that his newspaper is horrible stupid, and not
at all edited as it ought to be, it's sign ten
to one that he is considerably in arrears on the
subscription.
When you hear woman inyeighing public
ly against the married state it is, it's sign
she never tried it, or, if she has, married
man whose wife probably was as much in fault