The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-10-25

.stH{ w nedt IS Ho" uSiHS ulOuShI h0"'
England and sold in New York at u fine
profit. 10000 bushels arrived yesterday
and was sold to-day at high price. This
is quite change in the course of wheat
transportation.
OIL have lived to know, says Adam
Clark that the greatest secret of human hap
piness is this-never suffer your energies to
stagnate The old adage of too many irons
in the fire, conveys an untruth. You can
not have too many-poker, tongs and all
keep them all going.
HONEY IN THE CUP.-The Boston Post
says: "There are thirteen thousand mar
riageable girls now in the factories at Lo-
we'll. 1t is pleasant to knew, in this world
of misery, that there are thirteen thousand
men yet to he made happy"
> OF A rough Kentuckian hearing a child
squall very loud and furiously, remarked
"How wickedly that small sample of man.
kind is swearing now, in the infantile YER
nacular! What will it come to when it is
educated!
-IteT We had rather do anything than &C.
knowledge the merit of another, if we can
help it. We cannot bear a superior or an
equal. Hence rdicule is sure to prevail ov-
er truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown
into the scale, gives the casting weight
HaaliH.
2 OF We make the world, and then the
world makes US. We dress the world in
the drapery of our own thought and feel
ings, and then the light from the world comes
back to us transmitted and colored through
that drapery, so that after while the world
is only reflection of ourselves.
rs0HsT Moss will grow upon grave stones,
the ivy will cling to the mouldering pile;
the misletoe springs from the dying branch;
an God be praised, something green, some
fair to the sight and grateful to the heart,
will yet twine around and grow out of the
seams and cracks of the desolate temple OF
the human heart.
sGJ A Yankee, who went over to the
mother country, some time ago, and who
was asked on coming back, how he liked
Great Britain. said, "Well, England was n
very nice country, exceedingly fertile, we'll
cultivated, very healthy; but said the Yam
kee, 81 never liked to take morning walk
after breakfast, because the country is so
small that was always afraid of walking
off the edge"
GT When General Lafayette was in
this country two young men were introduc-
ed to him. He said TO one, care you mar
riedr' eyes, sir, was the reply. "Happy
man." quoth the general. He then put the
same question to the other, who replied, 81
am bachelor" Lucky dog" said the
General. This is the best essay on matri-
rnony extant.
BANK OF ENGLAND NoTEs.-The notes
of the Bank of England, under a new
process not long since adopted, are signed
by machinery. The engraving Of the
whole is complete. Formerly the bank en-
ployed twenty clerks, at salary each off
$500 per annum, who did nothing else but
sign their names to notes. The new mode
of signing, it is supposed, will prevent coun
terfeiting.
Or English Traveller. "Hi say, sir, ham
l on the right road to- Artfordp'
Jonathan. "Well you be-"
Traveller SOW far shall ave to 90 be-
fore I get there?"
Jonathan. "Well, if yeou turn reound
and go tother way, may be yeou have to
travel abeout ten mile. But if yeou keep
on the way you are going, yeou'll have to
gosabeout eight thousand, reckon"
WOMAN, DEAR WoMAN!-tIt's quite too
bad Of ye, Darby, to say that your wife's
worse than the Devil!'
fan please your Reverence, can prove
it by the Holy Scrpture--I can, be the pow
efs! Din't your Reverence, yesterday in
your sarmon, tell us that if we resist the
Devil, he'll flee from us! Now, if resist
my wife, she fees at me!''
HoARDrND AND ENJoYING.-An old man
WIS toiling through the burden and heat of
the day in cultivating his field with his own
hand, and depositing the promising seeds in
1.-The fruitful lap of the yielding EARTH
'iaadenly there stood before him under the
aade Of huge linden tree, divine vision.
fhe old man was struck with amazement
81 am, Solomon" spoke the phantom, in
friendly voice. "What are you doing
here, old man!' ..es.
"Ifvou are Solomon" replied "a ,ener
able laborer, show can you ask thisl In
my youth you sent me to the ant; I saw its
occupation, and learned from that insect to
be industrious and to gather What then
learned have followed out to this hour"
sYou have only learned baif y Dur lesson ?,
resumed the spirit $50 again to the ant,
and learn from that insect to rest in the
winter Of your life, and to enjoy what you
have gathered up.n-1 German AUe9org. 'lae~h
Msfsi -sli1sa6si 20 at i'Ns' 2-I