The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-01-31
Varieties.

Many knock at random on tue wall
with the hammer, and fancy they bit the
nail GU the head every time.
Come, Bill it's ten o'clock and |
think we had better be going, for il is
time honest men were at home" Well.
yes" was the answer, al must be of, but
you needn't hurry on that account
Is my wife out Of spirits 2" said John with
sigh,
As her voice of a tempest gave warning
"Quite out, sir, indeed" said the maid in
reply,
"For she finished the bottle this moiningI'
A LADY LAWYER Emma Il. Coo
has been entered as student at law in
the District Court at Philadelphia. The
Ledger says hers will be good name to
20 into partnership with, after she is ad-
mitted to practice.-But who would like
such partnor2
The Chinese claim to have invented
almost everything before the western ma
tons. Their last claim is to the pattern
ity Of the spirit-rappings, which they say
have been common there for more than
twenty years, although now rather out
Of date.
Law OF COMPENSATION Human labor,
through all its forms, says Ralph Waldo
Emerson, in his Essay on Compensation
from the sharpening of a stake to the
construction of city or an epic, is one
immense illustration Of the perfect com.
pensation of the universe Everywhere
and always this law is sublime. The alb
solute balance of give and take, the doc
trinc that every thng has its price, and
if that price is not paid, not that thing
but something else is 10 be obtained, and
that it is impossible to get anything
without its prico-,this doctrine is not
less sublime in the columns Of a ledger
than in the budgets of States, in the
laws Of light aud darkness, in all the ac-
ton and reaction Of nature.
B0ssucls coffin lat Parisl has been
opened by superior order ; and thcatri.
cal ceremony has been performed over
the ashes of the dead bishop On rails
ing the lid. the head was found wrapped
in linen folds these were cut away, and
the face, 50 to speak, was dug out OF its
inner grave, Considering THAT Bossuct
had been dead 100 years, the features
were in good preservation, and the re-
sembance oftbo countcuance to Rieaud' 5
portrait is said to have struck the by.
stanlcr. An artist made sketch Of the
face
Shakespeare is dangerous reading to
budding talent.--he compels it to re
produce him while it fancics it is pro.
ddcing itself
The smallest hair casts its shadow
\ biography of Robespierre publish
ed in late Irish paper, concludes with
the following remarkable sentence :
This extraordinary man left no children
ehind him except his brother, who was
killed at the same time
ANrcDorr. is often made n sub,
ject OF complaint that ministers of the
Gospel participate in political matters
An anocdote Of Rev. Mr.. Field, who liv-
ed in Vermont several years o,contains
good reply. As the reverend gentleman
went, on time to deposit his vote, the
officer who received it, beirg u friend
and rarishioner but Of opposite politics
remarked: am sorry. Mr.. Field to
rec you here" Why ?" asked Mr.. f.
Because" said the officer, Christ said
that his kingdom was not of this woill 1"
Has no Que right to vote" asked Mr.
T., unless he belongs to tho Kingdom
of Saian}'
MADAME TA,LEYnANp AID DLNoH-
Il is said Of Madame Talleyrund that
one day, her husband having told her
that Demon was coming + dinner. bid
her read li,.le book OF his upon Egypt,
Just published, ia order that she might
he enabled to say something civil urOn
Trading that be would leave the vol
umc for her on his study table lie for
got this, however, and Madame. upon 60
ing into the study. found volume of
+" Robinson Crusoe' on the table instead,
which, having read very attentively, she
was not long on opening upon Demon at
dinner. about the desert island, his man
ner ofliying. etc, to the great astonish-
ment of poor Demon, who could not make
out head or tail of what she meant. At
last, upon her saying All, that dear
Friday r. he perceived she took him for
no less person than Robinson Crusoe
-Mo3re's Diayy,
Think before you speak, and consider
before you promise. Take time to deli
berate, and advise but lose no time in
executing your resolutions.
Always laugh when you can't is a
cheap medicine. Mirthfulness is phil
osophy not well understood. 1t is the
sunny sidO of existehce.
Pleasure is sometimes only o change
Of pain A man who has had the govt
thinks he feels first rate when he gets
down to rheumatism again.
Sebastopol is like dose of salts
hard to take.
PRoGREss OF WoMAN's RIGuTs We
learn from the American Law Register
for December, that the Court of the
Sixth Judicial District in Pennsylvania
has decided 8" that no indictment can
now be sustained in that State against
female as a common scold" Thus are
woman's rights advancing. They haze al.
ready invaded the Legislature and are
now melting the Judges
George Sand chose the pseudonym Of
Sand because it is the first syllable of
Sandcau so was called her lover, wor-
thy author, who did not make himself so
celebrated with his whole lame as his