San Andreas independent., 1856-11-08
ORIGINAL DEFECTNE

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/ PARADISE murmurinoriver rms
j its course by banks garlanded with roses.
The murmuring river revels in its spark
ling depths the shadows of trees that lift
their wealth of foliage to the air Imag
ination fits into the endless reaches of the
forests, where musical birds swing on
boughs whose leaves bear the odors of
heaven. Through long, winding avenues,
glimpses are cau.ht of the blue noun
tain barrier that, in tone and sentiment,
holds companionship with the armament.
Here and there the broad-winged light
falls on the velvet turf, and spreads the
shadows Of stars upon ambrosial spaces; !;
shadows, soft and dim as the dreams of
love, creep pleasantly beneath vine-clad,
over-hanging rocks. The river murmur-
ingly flows on, and blossoms of the per-
petual spring, fallen from the profuse
shores and the clustering trees, dapple its
surface with their varied tints, and speak
the first bright thought of mingled color
tits not enough, all this; notquite enough.
Beauty pervades the scene. It is stepped
in the very mightiness of perfection, and
yet it is not perfect; for that which is to
esteem this perfection is not here. The
Almighty is here; but even that it, seems,
is not enoug; and SO, when the moon is
bathing this wilderness Of inconceivable
natural glory, form appears, all compact
and divine. Man is in a Paradise, and
soon through those dim woods, where
shadows wander, another form is seem
'Tis painted air that glides into our senses.
IT'S Woman!
why do we find all these natural beau
ties there They are before us, and, being
there, they are essential, else they never
would haze been there. Their birth is be-
fore the Scriptures and the Fall. They
were made to be the companions Of man; to
be his felloW-dwellers, and he was not sim
ply to draw his sustenance from them, not
simply to plough the land, and plant the
crop, and reap it, Gas social verdicts now-a-
days reap the beard, bnt to lie down upon
It's breast, and from it and with it, and with
them, look up to their mutual COP, and
understand each other.-H j. Brent.
To DESTROY CocKRoAcHEs. = Mr..
Tewsbury, of Nottingham, England, in a
letter to the Maux Sun, says II forward
an esay, clean, and certain method Of
eradicating these insects from dwelling
houses. A few years ago my house was
infested with cockroaches Cor clocks, as
they are called here, and [ was recon-
mended to try cucumber peelings as a
remedy. | accordingly Immediately be-
fore bed time, strewed the floor of those
parts OF the house most infested with the
vermin with the green peel, cut not very
thin from the cucumber, and sat up half
an hour later than usual to watch the effect
Before the expiration of that time the
floor where the peel lay was completely
covered with cockroaches, 50 much so that
the vegetable could not be seen, so vorac-
iously were they engaged in sucking the
poisonous moisture from it, [ adopted
the same plan the following, night, but
my visitors were not so numercus-I
should think not more than fourth of
the previous night.
"On the third night did not discover
one; but anxious to ascertain whether the
house was quite clear Of them, I examined
the peef after | had laid it down about
half an hour and perceived that it was
covered with myriads Of minute cock
reaches about the size Of flea. there
fore allowed the peel to lie till morning,
and from that moment [ have not seen a
cockroach in the house. It is very old
building; and | am certain that the above
remedy only requires to be persevered in
for three or four nights, to completely
eradicate the pest. OF course it should
be fresh cucumber peel every night
Another infalible way to destroy cock
reaches and beetles is to strew the roots of
black helebore on the floor at night Next
morning they will be found in vast guam
titles dead or dying, for they never fail to
eat the poisonous plant when they can get
at it. Black helebore can be had at any
herb shop, and care should be taken while
it is used, as it is deadly poison. Yes
tern Agraculturalist.
CONVERSATIONAL INTERCOURSE WITH
THE Sexes. makes those men who
associate habitually with women superior to
others? Why are the women Of France
so universally admired and loved for their
eolloquial powers? Solely because they are
in the habit Of free graceful and contin-
ual conversation with the other sex. Wo-
n